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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, January 20, 2014

Minnesota AFL-CIO President sells out unorganized workers the same way she has betrayed those workers paying dues.

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Shar Knutson, in issuing this statement knowing nothing could be further from the truth in order to prop up the line pushed by Democratic ...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Talk I delivered in Thief River Falls on Saturday, January 18.

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Thank you for inviting me to Thief River Falls. Last Saturday I was speaking at a fantastic event in Duluth. The Uniting Progressives Foru...

Speaking at the Duluth "Uniting Progressives Forum" on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at the Copper Top Church

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An open letter to Bernie Sanders...

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Bernie, Thanks for the invitation to join you on this conference call. I do intend to join you. Don't you think that it is time tha...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Albert Lea Tribune publishes my "Letter to the Editor:" Where is the real minimum wage?

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Where is the real minimum wage? Published 9:00am Wednesday, December 25, 2013 http://www.albertleatribune.com/2013/12/where-is-the-real-...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Hearing tonight in Duluth...

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Hearing tonite... I don't really see what the big deal is. So some mining companies want to dig a couple more holes in the ground. Big...

Does "cost-of-living" have anything to do with what the Minimum Wage should be?

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This article below says organized labor is pushing for this $15.37 Minimum Wage in Los Angeles. But, I wonder how many members of these unio...
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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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