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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

Saturday, March 8, 2014

How Is Frederick Douglass Relevant Today? by Stewart Alexander

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Published on March 7th, 2014 | ...

Friday, March 7, 2014

Who purged "cost-of-living" from our working-class vocabulary?

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" Cost-of-living " has been purged from our working-class vocabulary right along with the purging of Communists from the labor mov...

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

My comment on the thoughts published by Mike Cavlan in the Twin Cities Daily Planet.

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First is Mike Cavlan's excellent thought-provoking commentary followed by my own commentary. ...

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Red Lake Gaming Enterprises hires Rat contractors and Scabs to build another casino to exploit labor and rape Mother Nature.

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Red Lake Gaming Enterprises hires rat contractors and scabs to build a new multi-million dollar casino in Warroad, Minnes...

Monday, March 3, 2014

Two exceptionally good articles in my opinion: "The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals" and "Losing Our Way."

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I thought I would post them together because they both seem to compliment one another even though the last one doesn't mention the first...

Lee Lorch passes.

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It was with great sadness that I read of the death of Lee Lorch in the New York Times. Lee Lorch was a heroic civil rights activist, good fr...

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Testimony of Green Party activist Liane Gale before the Minnesota Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs.

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I gave testimony yesterday at the H.F. 92 (Minimum Wage Increase) Conference Committee: "I would like to remind those members of the...

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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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