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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, February 17, 2013

Where are the jobs?

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I sent this "Letter to the Editor" to the newspaper... please consider sending a similar letter of your own. Let's take thes...

Rebuilding the Communist Party Club by Club by Club.

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These pieces of information will help you better understand the problems we are having in the Communist Party USA. In May I will be travelin...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Should the NDP support CETA?

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A battle within the New Democratic Party in Canada is shaping up over the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the Europea...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

For the Wall Street crowd the United States Postal Service is too public to save.

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The United States Postal Service is being set up to fail as a public institution so an excuse can be found to privatize it. If we had pol...

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Letter to Minnesota State Representative Erin Murphy.

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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Alan Maki wrote: Minnesota State Representative and Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party House Majority ...

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Why does the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party with it super majority continue to do nothing for workers?

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Why does the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party with it super majority continue to do nothing: http://www.startribune.com/entertainmen...

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

A burlesque entertainer comes in for scathing criticism while the Indian Gaming Industry gets no comment

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There is no lack of hypocrisy on the part of those who recently criticized a young burlesque entertainer who has been an activist in the Occ...

Monday, February 4, 2013

Liberal Democrats in Minnesota have a super majority; it can't get any better for Democrats.

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Democrats in Minnesota have a super majority; Republicans have no say about anything. Why isn't organized labor insisting the Democrats ...

Sunday, February 3, 2013

No money for a not-for-profit health care system; but...

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Minnesota Democrats who have refused to support single-payer universal health care or a public health care system are now going to invest ov...

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Mark Froemke is crying because he doesn't think i have a right to be commenting on the American Crystal Sugar lockout.

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I have received a lot of private messages and e-mails suggesting I shouldn't be talking about the "internal problems" of the l...

Friday, February 1, 2013

Will members of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party's State Central Committee sip coffee and tea loaded with scab American Crystal Sugar?

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Here is an article from Minnesota's leading labor newspaper. Not so much as a mention concerning the need to have legislation banning ...

Awwwwww, shucks; the Minneapolis Star Tribune doesn't like me.

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Several people have asked me what kind of things Minneapolis Star Tribune writer Jane Friedmann sends out about me. Well, it only took abo...

Democrats and labor.

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Why labor needs to dump the Democrats and build its own progressive working class based people's political party: The Minneapolis Star...

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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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