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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

Sunday, November 12, 2017

One of my blog posts hits an all time high for The Podunk Blog

My blog post on health care hit an all time high for my blog posts. People continue to read and share this post: http://thepodunk...

Compare the speech by Xi Jinping to Trump’s “America First” speech delivered in Vietnam

Compare this speech by Xi Jinping to Trump’s “America First” speech delivered in Vietnam: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-11/12/...

Monday, November 6, 2017

It is almost impossible for most people to understand people actually sit around figuring these things out.

You have to read this to believe it: https://lieu.house.gov/sites/lieu.house.gov/files/Response%20to%20TWL-RG%20Letter%20on%20NK.pdf

North Korea: Trump condems "strategic patience;" Jimmy Carter offers to negotiate the peace. Others calculate the costs of war.

Here we go, again, with Trump's attacks--- from threatening war to sanctioning the people to death--- on North Korea claiming "...

Friday, November 3, 2017

"What about China?"

Please do not reply to the listserv. To correspond with the author, write immanuel.wallerstein@yale.edu . To correspond with us ab...

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Trump taps Jerome Powell, a Wall Street investment banker and Bush/Obama appointee, to head up the Federal Reserve... its a rocky, dangerous road ahead for you and me.

At a time when we are on the verge of a major recession as capitalism remains on a rocky road to oblivion. Powell is tasked with the job o...

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Dennis Banks passes and the racists in power insist on having the last word about his life.

The New York Times ran this very sleazy obituary... but had to take note of the struggles he led. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/obituar...

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

All politics is local... the price we pay for Wall Street's imperialist agenda

One thing we can always count on from Democrats and Republicans: They will always increase funding for militarism and wars at the...

Monday, October 23, 2017

Are you considering voting “YES” on any bond proposals?

Are you considering voting “YES” on any bond proposals? If so, you might want to check this out before you vote: https://www.facebook.c...

Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa

Not one single member of Congress knows how many U.S. troops are in Niger although these same politicians are making the ridiculous and...

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Here we are... it is that time of year when voters are having "bond proposals" thrown at them for everything from garbge collection to education...

By the same politicians who are intent on squandering our Nation's wealth created by our labor on militarism and senseless, illegal, unc...

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Trump just loves the Puerto Rican people... as only an imperialist could love a colonized people

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/13/us/puerto-rico-superfund-water/index.html Desperate Puerto Ricans are drinking water from a hazardous-waste...

Monday, October 9, 2017

Don't just vote for Dumb Donkeys, engage them...

Here we go, again; with Democrats telling us we must vote for them in 2018 in order to protect ourselves from Trump even though these Demo...

Sunday, October 8, 2017

A "fucking moron" sits in the Oval Office according to his own selected Secretary of State

There is no question Donald Trump is a moron. The question is : What are we going to do about it? At some point we need to be united i...

Saturday, August 26, 2017

The working class struggle

The class struggle does not begin or end at the ballot box for the working class. We need to learn to initiate united, militant mass strug...

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Racism and corruption go hand-in-hand

Racist discrimination is raising its ugly head all across this country and it is usually combined with corruption and a complete contempt fo...

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Impeach Trump now

Trump is mentally, morally, ethically and politically unfit to hold any public office. The ruling class has assigned three thoroughly reac...

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Trump must be removed from office now

Democrats are responsible for Trump being in office because they ran a thoroughly corrupt politician like Hillary Clinton against him. ...

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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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