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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

Monday, February 4, 2013

Liberal Democrats in Minnesota have a super majority; it can't get any better for Democrats.

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Democrats in Minnesota have a super majority; Republicans have no say about anything. Why isn't organized labor insisting the Democrats ...

Sunday, February 3, 2013

No money for a not-for-profit health care system; but...

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Minnesota Democrats who have refused to support single-payer universal health care or a public health care system are now going to invest ov...

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Mark Froemke is crying because he doesn't think i have a right to be commenting on the American Crystal Sugar lockout.

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I have received a lot of private messages and e-mails suggesting I shouldn't be talking about the "internal problems" of the l...

Friday, February 1, 2013

Will members of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party's State Central Committee sip coffee and tea loaded with scab American Crystal Sugar?

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Here is an article from Minnesota's leading labor newspaper. Not so much as a mention concerning the need to have legislation banning ...

Awwwwww, shucks; the Minneapolis Star Tribune doesn't like me.

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Several people have asked me what kind of things Minneapolis Star Tribune writer Jane Friedmann sends out about me. Well, it only took abo...

Democrats and labor.

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Why labor needs to dump the Democrats and build its own progressive working class based people's political party: The Minneapolis Star...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

What needs to be done to break free from this two-party trap?

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I think the left has confused "a labor based" party with a labor "leadership" party so I use the term "working clas...

Monday, January 28, 2013

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Complaint filed in support of Affirmative Action and for honest and open government... please share widely:

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January 28, 2013 James Nobel, Legislative Auditor Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor Room 140 658 Cedar Street Saint Paul, Mi...

War

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Is capitalism working?

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[Please note: I added the links to the original leaflet in order to make this a study guide for workers and a guide for promoting cr...

Rocky Anderson carries on... this is my response to his most recent insult to working people.

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I awoke this morning to find another missive directed at me, working people, the working class and unions from Rocky Anderson in my e-mail:...

Friday, January 25, 2013

Rocky Anderson writes me a letter and I respond.

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I just received an e-mail from Rocky Anderson that I would like to share along with my response: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Rocky A...

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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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