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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

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

On FaceBook I discuss the possibility of Bernie Sanders getting the Democratic Party nomination with a UAW porkchopper

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Kelly Sparks The only way Bernie can win is by winning the Democratic Primary,Alan,Bernie understands t...

Monday, August 3, 2015

We need to strike while the iron is hot

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This is my response to an e-mail I received about how to proceed with electoral change citing the need to influence more prominent people an...

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Barack Obama was allowed to suck the aspirations for real change back into the Democratic Party where democracy was suffocated; will we allow and enable Bernie Sanders to do the same thing? Do we want Hillary Clinton?

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Decision time is upon us; what will we do? What needs to be done? What can we do? A decision is going to have to be made by Bernie Sanders a...

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Sandra Bland

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Was Sandra Bland murdered by the police in Texas before they took her mugshot? Is her jailhouse "mugshot" the photo of a dead c...

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Living Wage

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Politicians, media pundits and just about everyone is talking about a "living wage." But, what is a living wage? How is a li...

Friday, July 17, 2015

Liberal. Progressive, Left electoral unity

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Liberals, progressives and leftists can only win in the electoral arena and break free from the two-party trap working together in a coop...

Greece: Debt cancellation not repayment

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Regarding Greece, Robert Reich has chimed in, pretending he is opposed to the austerity measures; yet he writes: "Debt restructuring ...

Friday, June 12, 2015

For all those raising their glasses hailing and toasting the defeat of the TPP...

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First of all fast track and the TPP have not been defeated; just delayed. Wall Street will be back. Second; the Democrats have to distance t...

Friday, May 15, 2015

REAL PROGRESSIVES TALK ABOUT MILITARISM, WAR AND MILITARY SPENDING!

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Fellow Activists, With your help, on Day 1, we passed the 200 mark in signers on the petition "Real progressives talk about militari...

DEADLY AMTRAK CRASH, DETERIORATING TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE WAKE-UP CALL TO CONGRESS

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Transit Union calls for Long-Term Investment in Transportation Washington, DC – “Our national priorities as set by Congress and the Whi...

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

A "debate" between Warren and Obama over the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

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Some people are pushing for Obama to debate Elizabeth Warren over the TPP. But, has Warren even challenged Obama to debate the TPP; or, has ...

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About Me

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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