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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

Friday, February 12, 2016

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

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A very informative and interesting article raising the need for a new political party but still very weak on the question of peace. It is...

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Why Our Government Isn't Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US Suffering

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This is an interesting article; but what is not mentioned is militarism and wars--- imperialism. http://www.truth-out.org/news/ite...

Here we go with "hope" and "change;" AGAIN...

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Ever heard of talk about "change" before? Ever heard of a guy named "Obama" and the "Progressives for Oba...

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

John Dewy and his phony democratic socialism of pragmatism

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What is "democratic socialism" and who conjured up this phony socialism? John Dewey created an entire ideology around "dem...

Bernie, A Lifelong Crusade Against Wall Street & Wealth

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Some questions for Darcy Richardson: About your book on Bernie Sanders, Bernie, A Lifelong Crusade Against Wall Street & Wealth Did you...

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

The Trouble with Iowa Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses

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Food for thought: http://harpers.org/archive/2016/02/the-trouble-with-iowa/?single=1 Big agri-businesses like Archer-Daniels-Midlan...

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Surprise, surprise... the New York Times has been telling us lie after lie for decades...

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Is anyone surprised? America's "Paper of Record" admits past pro-Israel bias and will move to correct that. (raise your h...

Tune in... spread the word. please share widely.

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http://tobtr.com/8258131 Wednesday, 3 Feb. ---6 p.m. Eastern ---5 p.m. Central ---3 p.m. Pacific "Campaign 2016 w/ Stewart Alexand...

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Austin Chronicle publishes my review of: Trumbo... a fantastic movie that helps put anti-Communism and McCarthyism in perspective.

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Get Talking RECEIVED Thu., Jan. 14, 2016 See: http://www.austinchronicle.com/feedback/2016-01-14/1810252/ Dear Editor, I am vi...

Viewing health care, child care and full employment as Human Rights.

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Health care like Wall Street's warfare is a major issue in this campaign even though most politicians do everything possible to sow con...

The establishment left out

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By Mike Krauss Washington just got clobbered by a gigantic winter storm. There is another one on the way. It’s going to hit Iowa and...

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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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