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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

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Take action to halt this injustice...

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I just talked with Senator Amy Klobuchar's Administrative Director, Michael Hill, in her Washington D.C. Senate office. He said he had n...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Minnesotans woke up today to find gas prices have risen from $3.89 a gallon to $4.19 a gallon! Thank you Democrats! A thirty cent a gallon...

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Tim Carpenter and Progressive Democrats of America announced they are going to "educate" 200 members of Congress? Get real!

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Tim Carpenter needs to seek more than $5 and $10 donations if he intends to "educate" 200 members of Congress on health care refor...

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Did you learn about the history of Mother's Day in school?

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History of Mother's Day Given the following possibilities, how many of us could pick the right answer? Mother's Day began: ...

Friday, May 10, 2013

What is Manitoba's New Democratic Party thinking in raising the regressive Provincial Sales Tax?

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One has to wonder what the Manitoba NDP is thinking in proposing to raise the most regressive tax of all... the Provincial Sales Tax. The ND...

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Dane Smith of Growth & Justice responds...

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An exchange of views with the head of the foundation funded outfit bringing Van Jones to Minnesota: I initially sent out this e-mail which...

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Van Jones is on his way to Minnesota thanks to the foundations.

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Van Jones is coming to Minnesota--- a former protester converted to the politics of pragmatism touted by Barack Obama and his Wall Street c...

Obama's advice to students...

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Obama advises students to patiently work in silence as Wall Street profits from wars and the rest of our problems... President Barack Oba...

Monday, April 29, 2013

Minnesota State Legislators have decided to give themselves a pay increase as the rest of us suffer the austerity measures these politicians impose on us.

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So; Minnesota State Legislators are going to raise their own pay... hmmmm. And what have they done to deserve a pay increase? I assume oth...

Monday, April 22, 2013

Stalin, Herbert Romerstein and the Chechens.

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Given all the publicity around the Boston Marathon bombing it seems one spin-off has been the creation of sympathy for "the poor abus...

Kate Middleton shows off baby bump

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Well, the Brits are going to have another parasite to support: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10008761/Kate-Middlet...

Saturday, April 20, 2013

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The FBI could infiltrate Occupy Wall Street to destroy the voice of the people and while they were wasting resources trampling on the United...

Friday, April 19, 2013

Earth Day 2013

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I remember the first Earth Day. I spoke at four rallies in four different cities in Michigan on the same day. In each speech I pointed out t...

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Looks like the "ladder out of poverty" Obama handed to the poor is missing a few rungs.

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Looks like the "ladder out of poverty" being provided to the poor by Obama and the Democrats is missing a few rungs: http...

The time is now for the creation of a National Public Bank.

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The Obama-loving foundation flower Amy B. Dean is claiming the "far left" and the "far right" agree that the big banks s...

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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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