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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 10, 2014

How big of a carbon footprint is left by Wall Street's Military-Industrial Complex? Might peace be the main solution to climate change?

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Signs displayed by Coleen Rowley at a recent demonstration in Minnesota against the Keystone Pipeline. http://canadiandi...

Let's agree not to cause the wealthy to suffer severe anxiety and depression by raising the Minimum Wage to a real living wage all at one time; the billionaires couldn't survive shock therapy.

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Median income in Minnesota and in the United States according to the U.S. Census Bureau: Median household income, 2008-...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

How movements can be initiated.

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Working people can initiate movements and have greater say in existing movements. Here is what we often do: 1. Write a Letter to the Edi...

My thoughts on the struggle against sulfide mining.

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My thoughts on the fight against this hideous sulfide mining they want to bring to Minnesota: When former DNR Commissioner under Pawlenty, G...

From Earth Day 2014 to May Day 2014... ten days of mass mobilizations and actions; but, will this connection be made?

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Check out this article I wrote published by Canadian Dimension Magazine on their web site: http://canadiandimension.com/articles/5890/ ...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

An "inflation" those pushing the miserly poverty $9.50 an hour Minimum Wage have refused to consider.

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Dishonest and corrupt politicians, the foundation-funded outfits like Take Action Minnesota where employers and millionaire labor leaders ...
Friday, February 7, 2014

President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law

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Obama has so much compassion for the poor: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-signs-food-stamp-cut I don't recall Obama mentioning in ...

How pathetic that Minnesota's wealthy Democratic big city mayors would support keeping hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans in poverty with another poverty Minimum Wage.

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Note: Discussion of each point follows this article which was posted to the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party's fro...

Look at these goddamn Democrats...

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Democratic Senator Mark Pryor, whose home state of Arkansas is headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), says he will oppose raising the m...

Millionaire labor "leader" Richard Trumka promoting a poverty Minimum Wage to speak in Minnesota

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Attention Minnesota workers... Come and bring leaflets, petitions, signs letting Richard Trumka know what rank-and-file workers expect fro...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

What hapened with the Millennium Declaration and the pledge to end poverty by the year 2020?

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World "leaders" met in 2000 and issued a Millennium Statement declaring their intent to end poverty. Now we get this excuse: ...
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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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