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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, December 28, 2012

Movement building key to real change.

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Majority of Canadians support protests, demonstrations and movement building in order to achieve real change: http://www.leaderpost.com/busi...

Letter I sent to the Frances Perkins Center

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This is a letter I sent to the Frances Perkins Center in response to a newsletter I received from them: Season's Greetings; A couple poi...

Monday, December 24, 2012

Northwest grain terminal lockout would pit longshoremen against strikebreakers

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From Michael Munk: The article suggests the Lesser Evil, just re-elected with massive union support, may follow Bush’s 2002 example and in...

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Social Security

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This is the labor "leader" who led 1,300 American Crystal Company workers in the Red River Valley into a dead-end losing lock...

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

APOLOGY TO NATIVE AMERICANS READ

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http://www.crcna.org/news-and- views/apology-native- americans-read?utm_source=CRC+ News&utm_campaign=35e4e21623- CRC+News+%7C+December+...

Monday, December 17, 2012

Violence and guns.

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Judging by the conversations and discussions taking place about this tragedy of all these little kids being killed what I am going to writ...

"Austerity - At Whose Cost?"

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From: Becky Dunlop < dunlop@binghamton.edu > Date: Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM Subject: Immanuel Wallerstein's Commentary No....

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Under the guise of "liberalism" and "progressivism" we are being fed massive doses of ideological poison.

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Under the guise of "liberalism" and "progressivism" we are being fed massive doses of ideological poison. All the mor...

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Coast Guard, Northwest grain terminals gear up as lockout appears imminent for longshore workers

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1,300 American Crystal Sugar Company workers locked out for over a year now in the Red River Valley. And here comes another lockout on the ...

Friday, December 14, 2012

Did Angela Davis address the question she was invited to speak about?

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What the hell is going on; hundreds of leftists turned out to hear Angela Davis talk about this: ANGELA DAVIS DECEMBER 10! "After th...

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Lyle Dotzert, rank-and-file union leader passes.

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I just got news that my good friend Lyle Dotzert passed away peacefully at home after a lifetime of committed working class struggle yesterd...

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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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