thoughts from podunk

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, March 1, 2020

One of the big solutions to climate change and global warming...

Fare-free public transportation ... bus and rail: city, state and nationally.

Wages and Poverty

A wage study from the Social Security Administration no one wants to talk about... people work so they aren't poor... yet, here are the ...

Poverty and Wages

Low-Wage Workers: Poverty and Use of Selected Federal Social Safety Net Programs Persist among Working Families GAO-17-677...

Trump takes the wrong approach to the coronavirus

Trump and Pence are approaching this coronavirus in almost the exact same way Eisenhower, the American Medical Association and the pharma...

Do we need paid sick-leave for all workers?

From friend Liane Gale: What a socially un-caring country this is. "Employees in the service industry especially, like food worker...

A "great economy?"

I wonder why Trump has stopped boasting about how well the stock market and 401k’s are doing?

Something to think about... U.S. military spending compared

A thought to ponder as the economy goes to hell...

Here is a thought you may want to ponder: Even when the economy is in economic recession or depression, the economy remains booming for...

Capitalist selfishness; can we cure this disease? Working class consciousness is the anti-dote.

Capitalist selfishness permeates our society and even infects the working class. We see this with Obamacare. Some workers praise it becaus...

Thoughts about the coronavirus.

What the coronavirus is proving are two things: 1. The failure of the scientific and medical community to work together in cooperation ...

Looking forward to meeting with Tulsi Gabbard tomorrow...

I will be discussing some things on my mind with Tulsi Gabbard tomorrow.

Will Trump try to stop the Election?

Will Trump use the nation under threat of the spread of the coronavirus to “suspend” the 2020 Elections?

Mayor Pete has dropped out...

Let's have some openness conducive to a democratic society.

We have never seen the full “Church Commission” report that included the joint FBI-CIA report known as “The Family Jewels” that remains mo...

Friday, February 7, 2020

For a just solution to the problems in the Middle East there needs to be a peaceful and just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Trump’s Peace Plan for the Middle East” On its face Trump’s “Peace Plan” is nothing but the epitome of imperialist arrogance since i...

Thursday, February 6, 2020

A concerned citizen/activist organizing package to help build the movement to free Rodney Reed

A concerned citizen/activist organizing package to help build the movement to free Rodney Reed Everyone is asking me: “What is with ...

Stealing from the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for wars.

Why do politicians now talk about Social Security as being part of the federal budget? Because it is; it shouldn’t be; it was never intend...

The case for socialized health care.

The private, for-profit health industry can’t meet the needs when it comes to emerging diseases... one more reason for socialized health c...

A thought about reforms.

I constantly get apologists for the Democrats lecturing me about how we can’t enact broad sweeping universal reforms, or even very modestly...

What is "philanthropy?"

From Diane Gee; how true: Philanthropy (n): The act of throwing crumbs at the poor to hide the fact that you are the cause of their pov...

A profound thought from a Canadian worker about democracy...

Thoughts, very thoughtful and concise, on capitalist democracy from Glen Wreggitt... 'Democracy' is the shell hiding the game; t...

Everything Trump... 1

The politics and economics of livelihood.

Trump’s “State of the Union” speech was nothing but a litany of lies with the Democrats rising with the Republicans to cheer his imperialis...

Nancy Pelosi was right to tear up Trump's State of the Union Speech... it was a litany of lies and racism.

Nancy Pelosi tore up Trump’s speech and this has irked some people; however, Trump has shredded the Constitution and Bill of Rights and th...

Defend public education.

Trump has a complete disdain for public education. In his State of the Union speech he said: “For too long, countless American children...

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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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