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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 25, 2013

Business as usual for Minnesota mining

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Reader's view:   http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/259710/ Business as usual for Minnesota mining The latest report from...

Public Banking

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Public Banking End-run the 1 percent and the 'Grand Bargain' By Mike Krauss Bucks County Courier Times The great streng...

Peace, employment cure many ills

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Published in the Bemidji Pioneer Press http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/peace-employment-cure-many-ills Peace, employment cure many ill...

An exchange with the Editorial Page Editor of the Duluth News Tribune

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An exchange with an editor: February 25, 2013 Mr. Chuck Frederick Editorial Page Editor, Duluth News Tribune Dear Editor Frederick, When I d...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Breaking free from the two-party trap. We have some excellent examples.

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We have quite few successful examples of socialist politics we can build on here in the United States as we break free from this two-party t...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Here is a thought for the day.

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"If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people." Tony Benn
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Green energy and "jobs, jobs, jobs;" not so fast because your electric bill may go up quicker than unemployment will go down.

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Haha... we have people on the left trying to package and sell us on green energy as the solution to our problems in the same deceitful way t...

The kind of progressive movement we need.

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My Letter to the Editor gets published in the International Falls Daily Journal, the largest circulation newspaper in northeast Minnesota wh...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Great Grey Owl from my living room window.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

I'm snowbound already and more is on the way.

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Dean Baker makes the case for a just minimum wage then creates a lie to explain why it isn't possible.

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This is an interesting article by Dean Baker (see link at the very bottom) on the minimum wage; however, his conclusion is based on myth and...

My letter to Justin Amash, 3rd Congressisional District, Michigan on House Resolution 65.

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Congressman Justin Amash, I support your "No" vote on the non-binding resolution; however you say other action is required. What ...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Where are the jobs?

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I sent this "Letter to the Editor" to the newspaper... please consider sending a similar letter of your own. Let's take thes...

Rebuilding the Communist Party Club by Club by Club.

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These pieces of information will help you better understand the problems we are having in the Communist Party USA. In May I will be travelin...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Should the NDP support CETA?

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A battle within the New Democratic Party in Canada is shaping up over the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the Europea...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

For the Wall Street crowd the United States Postal Service is too public to save.

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The United States Postal Service is being set up to fail as a public institution so an excuse can be found to privatize it. If we had pol...
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Alan Maki
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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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