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Leave a twig for the birds to perch on... don't let the capitalists do your thinking for you... if you are in the neighborhood, stop on in; the coffee is always hot and the cookie jar is full... looking forward to the day when the real decisions in America are made by working class families gathered around the kitchen table... new postings daily...Yours in the struggle...Alan L. Maki

Sunday, January 6, 2013

The "conscience of a liberal" or Obama apologist?

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Here we go again; more confusion created using words and confusing "class." Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/th...

Saturday, January 5, 2013

"Jobs, jobs, jobs" is all the talk but what happened to the idea the government is responsible for maintaining "full employment?"

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How come the words "full employment" never appear in what Robert Reich is writing? Check this out; seems to me Robert Reich...

Friday, January 4, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

CWA’s Cohen: Can Labor and Allies Create an ‘American Spring?’

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This was the comment I added to an article which appeared in In These Times that was an interview with Larry Cohen, the President of the CWA...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Dialog with Wallerstein

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Some important observations here but I think Wallerstein is wrong in stating this (See Wallerstein's "Commentary" at the end b...

In solidarity with Idle No More.

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Taking my own advice that we need to intensify our struggles for peace, social and economic justice in the New Year, I sent out the followin...

Monday, December 31, 2012

Conventions of labour; Movement or paralysis?

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http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/conventions-of-labour Conventions of labour Movement or paralysis? by Dav...

Hope springs eternal: A New Year's worker's message

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Hope springs eternal: A New Year's worker's message http://rabble.ca/news/2012/12/hope-springs-eternal-new-ye...

Friday, December 28, 2012

Movement building key to real change.

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Majority of Canadians support protests, demonstrations and movement building in order to achieve real change: http://www.leaderpost.com/busi...

Letter I sent to the Frances Perkins Center

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This is a letter I sent to the Frances Perkins Center in response to a newsletter I received from them: Season's Greetings; A couple poi...

Monday, December 24, 2012

Northwest grain terminal lockout would pit longshoremen against strikebreakers

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From Michael Munk: The article suggests the Lesser Evil, just re-elected with massive union support, may follow Bush’s 2002 example and in...

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Social Security

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This is the labor "leader" who led 1,300 American Crystal Company workers in the Red River Valley into a dead-end losing lock...

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Alan Maki: United States; I have been involved in the peace, labor, civil rights, and environmental movements for over 30 years, and I am a socialist. I would encourage everyone to get involved in promoting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which came into existence on December 10, 1948; we should strive to use the yearly anniversary of this document to popularize it. We need to struggle to create a more progressive, socially just society where all working people receive real living wages and have a voice at work, and in their communities. I have worked with casino workers across Minnesota who are trying to organize a union. I have worked with people in northern Minnesota struggling to save the Big Bog, the primary freshwater aquifer--- this bog is being mined for peat. In my spare time during the spring and fall you can find me fly fishing on the Dark River, a pristine designated trout stream;in the winter ice fishing on Lake-of-the-Woods. I look forward to hearing from you. Nothing human is alien to me.

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