After reading this article I am glad I voted early and I voted for Cynthia McKinney.
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alanmaki
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The American left has ignored the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Day of Action Against Poverty as well as international activities promoting the right to decent jobs with decent pay. Organizing activities around the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights coming up on December 10, and the International Day of Action Against Poverty are some specific suggestions for correcting these deficiencies which have isolated the American left--- and the entire working class--- from movements around the world. It would seem to me that the struggles for socialized health care and ending the …
Posted to Internationalism and the Progressive Movement
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McCain is not only a warmonger; he is a war criminal. To evade discussing this only plays into the hands of the neoliberal, conservative agenda. Dropping bombs on the innocent Vietnamese people who never harmed anyone as they scurried for cover hardly is an action one can describe as "heroic;" it certainly needs to be decribed adequately. Refusing to acknowledge that we have a war criminal running for the highest office in this country certainly needs to be stated. "Heroic" is the term for those who shot down McCain and the invaders trying to occupy their country. To try to coerce …
Posted to Earth to Ken Brociner
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What we need to learn from Obama is not to be tricked and dragged into his campaign which lacks any progressive, or even liberal, substance. When will Obama spell out the specifics of what he means by "Unite for Change"? What kind of "change" is Obama seeking? So far, he hasn't said; chances are he won't say because he has so many people mesmerized with his illusionary and delussionary vision of "hope." Alan L. Maki Warroad, Minnesota
Posted to What Progressives Can Learn from Obama
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We have a rotten capitalist system on the skids to oblivion and a combined force of some 5,000 "leftists" in two conferences from across the country can't find a way to deal with the real problems the working class is experiencing. The Take Back America Conference is stuck in the rut of trying to properly "frame issues" without considering real solutions. There is something drastically wrong with the "left" when it can't come up with real solutions to the problems working people are experiencing like losing their jobs to plant closings; coming together to build a powerful movement for single-payer universal …
Posted to A Tale of Two Conferences
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The casino industry in Minnesota now employees some 30,000 workers in these smoke-filled casinos. Doesn't the American Cancer Society and the Heart and Lung Association see anything wrong with sending som many people to work in these smoke-filled casinos? Many casino workers are young women of child-bearing age, who these health organizations have identified as being at greatest risk. The racism and anti-labor agenda of politicians, many of whom are backed big-time by "organized labor," is sickening. That these casinos would find so many patrons, including many union members, to continue sticking their pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters into the one-armed …
Posted to Labor Hits Jackpot
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Our rank and file initiated Organizing Committee, the Red Lake Casino Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union Organizing Committee made the first attempts to organize workers in the Indian Gaming Industry. Over 80% of the workers signed cards and the NLRB refused to do anything as did politicians here ion Minnesota. The UAW has bungled several attempts to organize casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry and they are on their way to bungling this one. We, the Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council, at present have ongoing union organizing campaigns at all casinos in Minnesota, two casinos in Wisconsin, two in Iowa and …
Posted to Labor Hits Jackpot
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Read the bottom of these two posts below first... sorry about the inconvenience
Posted to Labor Hits Jackpot
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"Working together" on the local level in politics might have created some victories for individual Democratic Candidates; however, even if the U.S. House and Senate was filled completely with such worthless candidates working people wouldn't win anything. Here in Minnesota, a State Senate Legislative Committee, comprised by a majority of Democrats, all elected with the full support of both the AFL-CIO and Change to Win couldn't even muster enough votes to get a piece of legislation out of committee that would have helped save the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant along with two-thousand jobs. The Republicans took one of …
Posted to Has the Change Led to Wins?
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We should all do everything possible to make sure that the CIA doesn't intervene in Venezuela like was done in Chile with Salvador Allende. Check out my blog: http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/
Posted to Chávez Consolidates Power
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This is an excellent article as many others have pointed out. However, I think there is much more to discuss than Lamont losing this election and why, lest we lose a very important opportunity to continue to push our country in a progressive direction. Grasroots action is required now. Now is the time for real non-sectarian unity of liberals, progressives, socialists, and communists to put together a real vibrant coalition for ending this dirty war for occupation in Iraq and to win real single-payer, universal health care. We cannot rely on the Democratic Party to automatically carry forward this agenda because …
Posted to Learning From Lamont
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Up here in northern Minnesota, the Roseau County Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party county convention passed a resolution supporting single-payer, universal healthcare that is publicly funded, and publicly administered. The Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition has been pushing hard for single-payer, universal healthcare. Recently, the most progressive candidate in the race for governor, Becky Lourey, came up with a hare-brained scheme for healthcare that she can't even explain to the people, after which her campaign is now floundering because Minnesotans want real single-payer, universal healthcare. Having lived in Manitoba, Canada for ten years, I found out first hand just how fantastic the …
Posted to Careless Industry
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American universities, colleges, and schools are afraid to broach the subject of socialism... and we are paying a terrible price for this. All this crap about "markets," "market socialism," and what not, is sidetracking people from real issues. People are even afraid to talk about socialized healthcare... and by the way, very few activists are even involved in the healthcare debate, which would move us back onto a very progressive track in this country, just as it has done in Canada... just let any two-bit, half-assed reactionary politician try to take universal healthcare away from Canadians and they get booted right …
Posted to The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
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Isn't it great that Bill Gates gets to choose who he will help and who he won't; such a great philanthropist--- kind of like a rich little god who makes the decisions of who will live and who will die.... a better alternative would be to bring Microsoft under public ownership, and use the profits to fund a publicly owned, publicly financed, and publicly administered socialized health care system... ditto for the rest of the capitalist enterprises... it is time to place human needs, and the protection of nature, before corporate profits. By the way, Native people in northern Manitoba, Canada …
Posted to The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
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Marxism is what we need more of. That's why the capitalists hate it so much.
Posted to The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
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Up here in northern Minnesota these multi-national corporations are also destyroying everything in sight that they can get their greedy hands on... the paper companies like the Finnish multi-national Sappi, mining companies like United States Steel, and the huge Canadian multi-national Berger out of Quebec Canada are all a part of the scheme. The Minnesota Commissioner of Natural Resources, Gene Merriam--- a long-time Democrat turned Republican who was always a servant for these big corporations--- has granted a permit to mine peat in the Big Bog, which is the last and largest of the bogs in the lower forty-eight ; bogs …
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