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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

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Extend Federal Unemployment Benefits NOW!!!!!!!!

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Federal Unemployment Extension Benefits are necessary and needed by millions of workers as this rotten capitalist system continues to crumbl...

Monday, January 6, 2014

How can anyone paid a poverty wage be "lifted out of poverty?"

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How dumb do these people think we are? Question: How will a poverty wage of $10.10 an hour lift anyone out of poverty? This defies all c...

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Saturday, January 4, 2014

The never-ending war in Iraq.

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First Bush told us the war in Iraq was won and then Obama told us the war in Iraq was over. Will U.S. troops be taking on more casualties,...

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Elected public official responds to my Letter to the Editor in the Bemidji Pioneer.

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An exchange with an elected public official in response to a recent Letter to the Editor of mine published in the Bemidji Pioneer. Th...

The great pension fund and Social Security Trust Fund swindles and robberies--- from Detroit to Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range.

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Thanks for getting this out about the Detroit pensions. In fact, workers' pensions are under attack all over the country in both th...

Monday, December 30, 2013

In state after state, Republican Party super-majorities have enthusiastically used their power to pummel the rights and livelihoods of working people... the question:

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Why haven't the Democrats with their super-majorities wielded their power to defend and expand the rights of working people with the sa...

Sunday, December 29, 2013

More on the Minimum Wage.

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I am hearing more and more from those who think we need to "compromise" on the Minimum Wage issue. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton ...

Connecting the dots.

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About "connecting the dots:" There is massive unemployment, so many people forced to live on poverty wages--- and then people wond...

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Reader's view: Forum to explore building progressive power

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Forum to be held in... Duluth, Minnesota on January 11, 2014 From the Duluth News-Tribune: Published December 24, 2013, 12:00 AM ...

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Mondragon: An alternative to capitalism or part of the capitalist scheme of things?

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Of course, the Wall Street Journal (See article below) is going to paint the picture for cooperatives in the gloomiest ways; but, the fact r...

Christmas Day and hundreds die in South Sudan--- for what?

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What a Christmas Day; hundreds of people have died in South Sudan, today; and for what? Because the Wall Street crowd inflamed this ethnic...

Guest Blog: South Sudan's Most Vulnerable Face Hard Struggles In World's Youngest Country

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Brian McAfee 2838 Mason Blvd. Muskegon Hts., Michigan USA 49444 (231) 737-8726 brimac6@hotmail.com Sou...

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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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