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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

Thursday, June 12, 2014

More questions about the Minimum Wage.

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The highest legislated Minimum Wage right now here in the United States is $10.25 an hour. This is the present Minimum Wage on the Leech Lak...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Why no discussion about the relationship between wages and cost-of-living?

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Once again, the AFL-CIO and their think-tank, the Economic Policy Institute, are "leading" the struggle to increase wages. Read ...
Monday, June 9, 2014

CounterPunch provides a feeble analysis of the struggle for $15.00 in Seattle.

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What kind of "analysis" do you call this? http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/06/anatomy-of-a-minimum-wage-victory/ There is no ob...

Do we want education to be turned into a fiasco and a racket like health care?

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The dismantling of public education is taking place. As a result, education is turning into one big fiasco and racket just like the for-pr...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Minnesota Green Party takes stand for rights of workers employed in the Indian Gaming Industry...

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The Green Party of Minnesota has made history by being the very first political party in the United States to recognize the plight of work...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Where is the "victory" for working people in Seattle... or Michigan or Minnesota with these so-called "Minimum Wage increases?"

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Where is the "victory" here? Is this something we want for every city, every state and federally? The New York Times ignores...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Anishinaabeg are an economic force in Bemidji

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From Bemidji Pioneer... Anishinaabeg are an economic force in Bemidji By Curtis and Nicole Buckanaga on May 31, 2014 at 11:16 p.m. Bemidji i...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Michigan workers get a better Minimum Wage out of Republicans than what they get from Democrats.

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The Michigan Republican super-majority approved a Minimum Wage, signed into law by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, far higher than most sta...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

David Barron

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David Barron... Obama's (and the Democrat's [and the Republican's]) choice for an important federal 1st Circuit Court of Appea...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

A letter to Wade Hudson, for Left Forum panelists and participants.

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Mr. Wade Hudson, First of all, allow me to thank you for your invitation to participate in this important discussion. As you are aware,...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Casino workers stabbed in the back by the Michigan AFL-CIO and their Democratic Party partners

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I can't help but wonder what Mother Jones would have thought about a group of unions in West Michigan raising funds for "Labor Fe...
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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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