I thought I would try using all the dirtiest words in the dictionary in one FaceBook post.
Did you ever notice the words frowned upon, distorted, maligned and given bad connotations?
Lots of words are given "bad" connotations by those in power.
"Peace" is one much maligned word by those on Wall Street who profit
from militarism and wars but it doesn't stop us from talking about it.
"Imperialism" is another very maligned word even though it describes to a "t" what is taking place in the world.
One very maligned word is "socialism;" the official highly paid Wall
Street pundits never stop maligning this word which embodies the hope of
all humanity for a better world.
Probably the dirtiest word in
the English language is "workingclass;" the class which creates all
wealth with quite a little help from Mother Nature--- the only class
with the power to bring about real change if it militantly adheres to a
progressive anti-imperialist peace agenda placing us on the road to
challenging our Wall Street enemies for political and economic power on
the road to replacing capitalism with socialism.
"Capitalism"
is another word the officially sanctioned pundits really don't like to
use; choosing instead to call it "free enterprise" or "the free market
system" which sound nicer and deflects criticism from the very system
which thrives on exploitation, racism and wars leaving behind people
mired in debt and poverty.
There... it really isn't that hard to use all of the dirtiest words in the English language.
Try "cussing" a little... it might make you feel good and make our Wall Street enemies cringe :)
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Author laments the absense of Reds in the labor movement.
I
found this interview very interesting although I don't care for
Alternet as a source of information. But, what I find most interesting
is that neither the person doing the interview nor the author bring
forward what is probably the most important question to ask given the author's comment:
"McAlevey sat down with AlterNet to talk about organizing in so-called “right-to-work” states, the too-close relationship between unions and Democrats who leave them high and dry, the brutality of fighting the boss, and why the worst thing to happen to labor in the U.S. might just have been purging the Communists from the movement."
A comment which begs the question:
If we are going to strengthen the labor movement, organize working class communities and organize the un-organized; don't we need to re-build the Communist Party U.S.A. along the class struggle, anti-imperialist line suggested by one of the greatest union organizers of all time--- William Z. Foster?
Phil Raymond (a leader of the Communist Party who is widely recognized as the founder of the UAW told me the way he and Nadia Barkan (who headed up the Young Communist League in Michigan) built up the organization that led to organizing the United Auto Workers was by first building Communist Party Clubs in each plant and each community the auto plants were in.
The same thing was done on the Iron Range in Minnesota according to John Bernard who became the primary organizer for the socialist Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and who was eventually elected to Congress.
For all practical purposes the success of labor today hinges on the working class having a strong Communist Party--- after all, without a Communist Party we never would have had these Communist union organizers in the steel, auto, electrical, chemical, transportation, forestry, mining and communication industries that Jane McAlevey who wrote this book is talking about.
Even Jimmy Hoffa acknowledged that the historic breakthrough in organizing the Teamster's Union could not have taken place had Gus Hall and Minneapolis' Communists not laid the groundwork for organizing the historic Minneapolis Teamster Strike.
At one time in this country almost every single CIO labor council was headed up by Communists.
I haven't read this book yet; but, the insinuation here that few seem prepared to discuss is that we need to re-build a strong Communist Party U.S.A. because strengthening and organizing unions is what we need and it is Communists who can get this work done.
http://www.alternet.org/labor/how-organizing-change-very-different-winning-elections?akid=9719.52132.nPDb7W&rd=1&src=newsletter749897&t=2&paging=off
"McAlevey sat down with AlterNet to talk about organizing in so-called “right-to-work” states, the too-close relationship between unions and Democrats who leave them high and dry, the brutality of fighting the boss, and why the worst thing to happen to labor in the U.S. might just have been purging the Communists from the movement."
A comment which begs the question:
If we are going to strengthen the labor movement, organize working class communities and organize the un-organized; don't we need to re-build the Communist Party U.S.A. along the class struggle, anti-imperialist line suggested by one of the greatest union organizers of all time--- William Z. Foster?
Phil Raymond (a leader of the Communist Party who is widely recognized as the founder of the UAW told me the way he and Nadia Barkan (who headed up the Young Communist League in Michigan) built up the organization that led to organizing the United Auto Workers was by first building Communist Party Clubs in each plant and each community the auto plants were in.
The same thing was done on the Iron Range in Minnesota according to John Bernard who became the primary organizer for the socialist Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and who was eventually elected to Congress.
For all practical purposes the success of labor today hinges on the working class having a strong Communist Party--- after all, without a Communist Party we never would have had these Communist union organizers in the steel, auto, electrical, chemical, transportation, forestry, mining and communication industries that Jane McAlevey who wrote this book is talking about.
Even Jimmy Hoffa acknowledged that the historic breakthrough in organizing the Teamster's Union could not have taken place had Gus Hall and Minneapolis' Communists not laid the groundwork for organizing the historic Minneapolis Teamster Strike.
At one time in this country almost every single CIO labor council was headed up by Communists.
I haven't read this book yet; but, the insinuation here that few seem prepared to discuss is that we need to re-build a strong Communist Party U.S.A. because strengthening and organizing unions is what we need and it is Communists who can get this work done.
http://www.alternet.org/labor/how-organizing-change-very-different-winning-elections?akid=9719.52132.nPDb7W&rd=1&src=newsletter749897&t=2&paging=off
How Organizing for Change Is Very Different Than Winning Elections
www.alternet.org
Jane McAlevey talks about her new book "Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)," how to organize the right way, and big
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Funding the Israeli killing machine is helping to push us off the "fiscal cliff."
Barack Obama can continue funding the murderous and barbaric Israeli killing machine engaged in genocidal pogroms against the Palestinian people forced to live in what amounts to a concentration camp every bit as evil and pernicious as the Warsaw Ghetto was yet there isn't enough money to fund a national public health care program, quality public schools or adequate child care nor create the kind
"Let's understand what the precipitating event here that's causing the current crisis and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles that were landing not just in Israeli territory but in areas that are populated, and there's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders,” at the start of a three-nation tour in Asia.
With Obama just weeks after the election we got:
* A sleazy sex scandal involving the head of the CIA and a four-star general.
* Notice we are about to fall off the "fiscal cliff."
of huge job creating programs required like WPA and CCC.
While squandering our tax dollars on this barbarity in Gaza Strip these same politicians hypocritically talk about preventing our Nation from taking a dive off this "fiscal cliff" when their immoral policies are shoving our Nation crashing onto the sharp, jagged rocks below the "cliff."
How much more of this senseless, cruel, insanity paid for with our tax-dollars are the American people going to take from these Wall Street bribed politicians like Obama and their puppets in Israel before saying "ENOUGH!"
Does anyone really believe Obama and the Democrats were not aware Israel was going to go on this rampage and murderous killing spree in Gaza Strip? How goddamn stupid do these barbaric and demonic monsters in power think we are?
Militarism and wars are what is shoving our Nation off the "fiscal cliff."
While squandering our tax dollars on this barbarity in Gaza Strip these same politicians hypocritically talk about preventing our Nation from taking a dive off this "fiscal cliff" when their immoral policies are shoving our Nation crashing onto the sharp, jagged rocks below the "cliff."
How much more of this senseless, cruel, insanity paid for with our tax-dollars are the American people going to take from these Wall Street bribed politicians like Obama and their puppets in Israel before saying "ENOUGH!"
Does anyone really believe Obama and the Democrats were not aware Israel was going to go on this rampage and murderous killing spree in Gaza Strip? How goddamn stupid do these barbaric and demonic monsters in power think we are?
Militarism and wars are what is shoving our Nation off the "fiscal cliff."
And then we get this from Obama--- at press conference in Thailand; this from the man who is engaged in killing sprees and drone attacks across the globe:
"Let's understand what the precipitating event here that's causing the current crisis and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles that were landing not just in Israeli territory but in areas that are populated, and there's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders,” at the start of a three-nation tour in Asia.
With Obama just weeks after the election we got:
* A sleazy sex scandal involving the head of the CIA and a four-star general.
* Notice we are about to fall off the "fiscal cliff."
* And now this genocidal carnage in Gaza.
We are off to a fine post-election beginning; one can only surmise and wonder what the next four years of Obama holds in store--- another scandal and war every week as foreclosures and unemployment continue with more working class families being shoved off the "fiscal cliff" crashing onto the rocks of poverty?
Alan L. Maki
We are off to a fine post-election beginning; one can only surmise and wonder what the next four years of Obama holds in store--- another scandal and war every week as foreclosures and unemployment continue with more working class families being shoved off the "fiscal cliff" crashing onto the rocks of poverty?
Alan L. Maki
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Election 2012; the six-billion dollar presidential election… a perversion of democracy: Where do we go from here?
Election 2012; the six-billion dollar presidential election… a perversion of democracy: Where do we go from here? By: Alan L. Maki
I'm not as disheartened by the election results as many
people are.
Jill Stein- Green Party, Rocky Anderson- Justice Party and Stewart Alexander- Socialist Party didn't get as many votes as we hoped they would but they have set something in motion--- political independence from the two Wall Street parties--- for which all liberals, progressives and leftists should be appreciative.
Never before, since 1948 and the onslaught of McCarthyism, have progressive alternatives had their voices heard as in this election. This has been an important victory we can build on--- if we seize the initiative in a united way. We have a base to work from.
Jill Stein- Green Party, Rocky Anderson- Justice Party and Stewart Alexander- Socialist Party didn't get as many votes as we hoped they would but they have set something in motion--- political independence from the two Wall Street parties--- for which all liberals, progressives and leftists should be appreciative.
Never before, since 1948 and the onslaught of McCarthyism, have progressive alternatives had their voices heard as in this election. This has been an important victory we can build on--- if we seize the initiative in a united way. We have a base to work from.
The American people were faced with two
"choices," Obama and Romney, both with the same Wall Street agenda
wrapped in different words by Madison Avenue.
I think these alternative campaigns will have
impact far beyond the votes these candidates (Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein and
Stewart Alexander) received.
What would be disheartening is if Stein,
Anderson and Alexander were to withdraw from their next responsibility---
helping to build movements to fight Obama and the Democrats and Republicans
explaining that Wall Street is our enemy. I don't think Stein, Anderson and
Alexander intend to shirk their responsibility; others appear ready to join
with us.
New Progressive Alliance (NPA) should ask Stein, Anderson and Alexander to announce they are coming together to put people to work through pressuring Obama to re-establish the WPA and CCC to assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
This could have the potential of forging the kind of people's unity capable of bringing together a grassroots response and alternative to Wall Street's agenda. Finance it all through a special temporary emergency "tax on the rich."
As part of this letter supporting this initiative we could ask the backers of these three parties to sign on to the letter, too. The candidates and their backers working together supporting and organizing around a short concise statement which should conclude the appeal explaining why this special temporary tax on the rich is needed because the Democrats and Republicans continue to squander the wealth of our Nation on wars in the same destructive way to our country as Hurricane Sandy.
New Progressive Alliance (NPA) should ask Stein, Anderson and Alexander to announce they are coming together to put people to work through pressuring Obama to re-establish the WPA and CCC to assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
This could have the potential of forging the kind of people's unity capable of bringing together a grassroots response and alternative to Wall Street's agenda. Finance it all through a special temporary emergency "tax on the rich."
As part of this letter supporting this initiative we could ask the backers of these three parties to sign on to the letter, too. The candidates and their backers working together supporting and organizing around a short concise statement which should conclude the appeal explaining why this special temporary tax on the rich is needed because the Democrats and Republicans continue to squander the wealth of our Nation on wars in the same destructive way to our country as Hurricane Sandy.
Poor people are the hardest hit victims of
Hurricane Sandy; people without jobs are going to be poor. Doesn't it make
sense to employ the poorest victims of Hurricane Sandy in the rebuilding of
their lives and their working class communities?
I still think we can't afford the luxury of
multiple progressive/left parties until we break free from the two-party trap.
Would the vote have been much better for these alternative parties had they
joined efforts and put forward one progressive alternative? Yes.
If we built committees in every congressional
district to back an initiative to bring back the WPA and CCC we would have a
good base to work from in future elections, too.
Press conferences, petitions, letters, demonstrations... kick it off with a letter jointly signed by Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein, Stewart Alexander and their running mates.
Press conferences, petitions, letters, demonstrations... kick it off with a letter jointly signed by Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein, Stewart Alexander and their running mates.
A big part of the problem we face is all the
confusion being spun through the mainstream media by the over-paid political
hacks and Obama apologists.
Keep it simple: re-establish WPA/CCC to help
the victims of Hurricane Sandy financed with a special temporary tax on the
rich.
Ask everyone who signs the letter to host
meetings of a few people in their homes using a conference call with Rocky,
Jill and Stewart as the catalyst to discuss how we move forward.
All this crap about how liberals, progressives
and the left are weak and feeble is not true. It is just as bad to put forward
the view that we are weak and feeble as those who used their liberal,
progressive and left views to promote Obama.
Barack Obama should be pushed to use his
Executive Order privilege to re-establish the WPA and CCC--- then daring
Congress to refuse the funding.
Now is no time to withdraw from struggle...
now is the time to kick our struggles up a notch.
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891
County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota
56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell: 651-587-5541
Primary E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net
E-mail: alan.maki1951mn@gmail.com
A progressive program for real change...
* Peace--- end the wars and
occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan & Libya;
shutdown the 800 U.S.
military bases on foreign soil. No new Wall Street imperialist wars. End drone
attacks.
* A National Public Health Care System - ten million new jobs.
* A National Public Child Care System - three to five million new jobs.
* Re-establish the Works Progress Administration (WPA) - three million new jobs.
* Re-establish the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - two million new jobs.
* Tax the hell out of the rich and cut the military budget by ending the wars to pay for it all which will create full employment.
* Enforce Affirmative Action; end discrimination.
* Raise the minimum wage to a real living wage based on all cost of living factors & indexed to inflation.
* What tax-payers subsidize in the way of businesses, tax-payers should own and reap the profits from.
* Moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions.
* Defend democracy by defending workers' rights including the right to collective bargaining for improving the lives and livelihoods of working people. Rescind “At-will” employment the main impediment to union organizing.
* Roll-back and freeze the price of food, electricity, gas and heating fuels; not wages, benefits or pensions; no more concessions.
*Defend and expand Social Security,
Medicaid and Medicare; repeal Obamacare which is nothing more than the “Health
Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry Bailout and Profit Maximization Act of
2010.”
Wall Street is our common enemy.
Let's talk about the politics and economics of livelihood for a real change.
Friday, November 9, 2012
What is to be done?
Where do we go from here?
Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson and Stewart Alexander didn't get as many votes as we hoped they would but they have set something in motion--- political independence from the two parties--- for which all liberals, progressives and leftists should be appreciative.
Never before, since 1948 and the onslaught of McCarthyism have progressive alternatives had their voices heard as in this election. This has been an important victory we can build on--- if we seize the initiative in a united way.
The American people were faced with two "choices" both with the same Wall Street agenda wrapped in different words.
I think these alternative campaigns will have impact far beyond the
votes these candidates (Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein and Stewart
Alexander) received.
What would be disheartening is if Stein, Anderson and Alexander were to
withdraw from their next responsibility--- helping to build movements to
fight Obama and the Democrats and Republicans explaining that Wall
Street is our enemy. I don't think they intend to shirk their
responsibility.
New Progressive Alliance (NPA) should ask Stein, Anderson and Alexander to announce they are coming together to put people to work through pressuring Obama to re-establish the WPA and CCC to assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
This could have the potential of forging the kind of people's unity capable of bringing together a grassroots response and alternative to Wall Street's agenda. Finance it all through a special temporary emergency "tax on the rich."
As part of this letter supporting this initiative we could ask the backers of these three parties to sign on to the letter, too. The candidates and their backers working together. A short, concise statement should conclude the appeal explaining why this special temporary tax on the rich is needed because the Democrats and Republicans continue to squander the wealth of our Nation on wars in the same destructive way to our country as Hurricane Sandy.
New Progressive Alliance (NPA) should ask Stein, Anderson and Alexander to announce they are coming together to put people to work through pressuring Obama to re-establish the WPA and CCC to assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
This could have the potential of forging the kind of people's unity capable of bringing together a grassroots response and alternative to Wall Street's agenda. Finance it all through a special temporary emergency "tax on the rich."
As part of this letter supporting this initiative we could ask the backers of these three parties to sign on to the letter, too. The candidates and their backers working together. A short, concise statement should conclude the appeal explaining why this special temporary tax on the rich is needed because the Democrats and Republicans continue to squander the wealth of our Nation on wars in the same destructive way to our country as Hurricane Sandy.
Poor people are the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Sandy; people
without jobs are going to be poor. Doesn't it make sense to employ the
poorest victims of Hurricane Sandy in the rebuilding of their lives and
communities?
I still think we can't afford the luxury of multiple progressive/left
parties until we break free from the two-party trap. Would the vote had
been much better for these alternative parties had they joined efforts
and put forward one progressive alternative?
If we built committees in every congressional district to back an
initiative to bring back the WPA and CCC we would have a good base to
work from in future elections, too.
Press conferences, petitions, letters, demonstrations... kick it off with a letter jointly signed by Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein, Stewart Alexander.and their running mates.
Press conferences, petitions, letters, demonstrations... kick it off with a letter jointly signed by Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein, Stewart Alexander.and their running mates.
A big part of the problem we face is all the confusion being spun
through the mainstream media by the over-paid political hacks and Obama
apologists.
Keep it simple: re-establish WPA/CCC to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy financed with a special temporary tax on the rich.
Ask everyone who signs the letter to host meetings of a few people in
their homes using a conference call with Rocky, Jill and Stewart as the
catalyst to discuss how we move forward.
All this crap about how we are weak and feeble is not true. It is just
as bad to put forward the view that we are weak and feeble as those who
used their liberal, progressive and left views to promote Obama.
Now is no time to withdraw from struggle... now is the time to kick it up a notch.
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell: 651-587-5541
Primary E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net
E-mail: alan.maki1951mn@gmail.com
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Newaygo County, Michigan: Burial ground for democracy
I appreciate all the responses from people concerning my
recent arrest on warrants that are over 21 years old.
In Michigan,
the statute of limitations--- according to the law is:
The statute of limitations for a misdemeanor, as expressed
in the Michigan Code of Criminal Procedure section 767.24, is six years.
But, this didn't deter the Grand Rapids Police Department
from arresting me on twenty-one year old bogus misdemeanor warrants carrying a
maximum fine of $500.00/6 months in jail and turning me over to Newaygo County
authorities who then established an outrageous TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR bond who
then went so far as to place restrictions on this bond that I couldn't enter
anyplace serving alcoholic beverages--- meaning I can't meet with casino
workers in their places of employment--- and prohibits me from participating in
demonstrations.
This is obviously unconstitutional and criminal harassment
on the part of the Grand Rapids Police Department and the Newaygo County Sheriff,
Newaygo County Prosecutor and Newaygo County District Court Judge.
It is assumed that any police officer should have the basic
knowledge of the laws when it comes to such warrants and the common sense and
human decency to question the validity of a twenty-one year old warrant for
which he was so well informed he advised me of what the charges consisted of.
The arresting Grand Rapids Police officer "joked"
that "we finally got our man after over twenty years."
He directed his "jokes" to me and those he was
communicating with via his radio.
We have now learned that no less than 17 people, including
the judge and prosecutor and the Chief of Police in Grand Rapids, Michigan were
all aware of my arrest, the charges involved, and when the warrant was issued
over twenty-one years ago while I was still sitting handcuffed in the back of
the Grand Rapids police cruiser on the corner of Alpine and Leonard Streets---
they all made the “complex” and “complicated” decision to carry out this
arrest.
This is an outright abuse by public officials and police who
engaged in harassment for political persecution in carrying out this dirty deed
under "color of law."
The irony in all of this is that these very same public officials and police who knowingly arrested me knowing the warrants were bogus from the time they were issued and then executed these warrants knowing full well they well past the statute of limitations will now go marching into federal court with expensive, high-powered attorneys who will be charging tax-payers an arm-and-a-leg claiming their positions make provide them with immunity from civil actions.
The irony in all of this is that these very same public officials and police who knowingly arrested me knowing the warrants were bogus from the time they were issued and then executed these warrants knowing full well they well past the statute of limitations will now go marching into federal court with expensive, high-powered attorneys who will be charging tax-payers an arm-and-a-leg claiming their positions make provide them with immunity from civil actions.
And then they pass this entire repressive, rotten and
corrupt system off to the rest of the world as the United States being “the world’s
greatest bastion of democracy.”
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell is even aware of these dirty deeds and has remained shamefully silent.
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell is even aware of these dirty deeds and has remained shamefully silent.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
About my arrest on Thursday evening November 1
By now many of you have heard about my arrest on Thursday
evening November 1 and the outrageous, unconstitutional $10,000.00 bond that
was placed on me by corrupt Newaygo County officials in Michigan who executed a
TWENTY-ONE YEAR OLD warrant to
arrest me for “using the telephone to threaten” a right-wing, racist bigot who
punched and shoved my ten-year old son Jeremy because Jeremy was “fishing from
his dock.” This vicious attack by an
adult on my son, a child at the time, left his lip bleeding and swollen with a
black eye and scraped bleeding knees and a badly bruised chest--- all of which
was photographed by the police I called.
The Newaygo County Sheriff and Michigan State Police refused to arrest Scott Plants for this vicious and brutal attack on my ten year old son which he carried out against my son in retaliation for my political views. As Scott Plants viciously attacked my ten-year old son as he kicked our beagle dog who had tagged along on Jeremy’s fishing adventure, Scott Plants shouted for all neighbors within hearing distance--- “go fish in Russia.”
The Newaygo County Sheriff and Michigan State Police refused to arrest Scott Plants for this vicious and brutal attack on my ten year old son which he carried out against my son in retaliation for my political views. As Scott Plants viciously attacked my ten-year old son as he kicked our beagle dog who had tagged along on Jeremy’s fishing adventure, Scott Plants shouted for all neighbors within hearing distance--- “go fish in Russia.”
This was one of several vicious attacks on my children in
which right-wing bigots attacked my children in retaliation for my political
views expressed through speeches and writings with my two children having been
targeted by shot-gun toting members of the right-wing hate group Michigan
Militia whose members shot at them as they waited for their school bus--- with
the Michigan State Police capturing these vile culprits only to let them go
with the explanation that “they were only dick hunting.” Duck hunting in the
off-season hunting of spring.
The State Police of the Newaygo Post who laughed this vile
attack on my children off as “right-wing versus left-wing violence” even
thought there was no violence at all from the “left.” A few years later one of
the Michigan State co[ps who thought it was so funny my kids were shot at ended
up getting killed in a shoot-out with one of the very same men they apprehended
for shooting at my kids… this wasn’t so funny anymore as these bigoted cops
mourned the death of one of their own ilk.
Grand Rapids, Michigan police arrested me on this bogus twenty-one year old warrant and I was immediately transferred to the hands and jail of the Newaygo County Sheriff in White Cloud, Michigan.
Newaygo County is home to some of the worst poverty in the United States while being a “wilderness” playground for the extremely wealthy many of whom own poverty wage-paying sweatshops in Newaygo County and around the Midwest.
Grand Rapids, Michigan police arrested me on this bogus twenty-one year old warrant and I was immediately transferred to the hands and jail of the Newaygo County Sheriff in White Cloud, Michigan.
Newaygo County is home to some of the worst poverty in the United States while being a “wilderness” playground for the extremely wealthy many of whom own poverty wage-paying sweatshops in Newaygo County and around the Midwest.
At the present time a national defense committee is being
established to try to prevent my imprisonment on these bogus charges.
This kind of political repression is on the increase all across the United States and is sure to intensify no matter if Obama is re-elected or Romney is elected.
We have no national committee against political repression which is directed against those of us fighting for peace, social and economic injustice.
This kind of political repression is on the increase all across the United States and is sure to intensify no matter if Obama is re-elected or Romney is elected.
We have no national committee against political repression which is directed against those of us fighting for peace, social and economic injustice.
We have agreed to establish a “National Committee to defend
Alan Maki and All Victims of Political Repression.”
We will mount not only a legal but educational campaign intended to expose how political repression is carried out by the police, the courts, the political establishment and employers seeking to maintain poverty wages while driving down the standard of living of all working people.
For many years, every since its creation, the FBI has been used to spin a web of political repression--- attacking those who dare to struggle against racist and for the rights of working people.
Politicians created the legislation and “special committees” to enable the FBI working through its “Red Squads”--- special units led by FBI “Special Agents” consisting of city, county and state police and now including private “detective agencies” like Altegrity/USIS and all kinds of union-busting outfits--- to carry out this political repression.
I, along with tens of thousands of other activists have been targeted by the FBI and their “Red Squads,” so called because the FBI continues to use the Communist Control Act to carry out these dirty deeds.
As my 50,000 plus page FBI dossier clearly shows, the perverted Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned the FBI to attack me--- an attack that has been dutifully carried out by the police and the courts with the permission of both the Democrats and Republicans with the malicious attack from Minnesota State Representative Tony Cornish--- who admits to amassing his own personal file on me--- being the latest and most recent where he designated me in an e-mail he sent to thousands of politicians across the Midwest, including each and every state legislator in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan which obviously emboldened the FBI, Grand Rapids Police Department, Newaygo County Sheriff, a corrupt prosecutor and judge to execute this twenty-one year old warrant which was bogus from its very creation with no other intent than to use the “color of law” to carry out this political repression which is the government’s response to my outspoken views and activities for peace, against racism and for social and economic justice.
The terms of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond being used to enforce these fabricated bogus charges against me, restrict me to having to remain in the State of Michigan--- an obvious attempt to thwart our union organizing campaign in the Indian Gaming Industry--- which seeks to empower workers employed in the Indian Gaming Industry at poverty wages forced to work in unhealthy smoke-filled casinos--- and very conveniently under the terms of the racist “Compacts”--- intended to use racism to maintain the poverty on Indian Reservations creating huge pools of cheap labor.
The Indian Gaming Industry created by these “Compacts” arranged by corrupt tribal politicians, local, state and federal politicians and the mobsters who own the slot machines and table games and every other profitable venture associated with the Indian Gaming Industry, is every bosses dream come true: legislatively created poverty wages imposed on workers who have NO RIGHTS under state or federal labor laws.
These racist and anti-labor “Compacts” created by the Democrats with Republicans looking on smiling with bi-partisan approval are now being enforced by the private and quasi-governmental detective agency which hires a bunch of thugs which include former FBI and CIA agents as well as state, county and local police with the FBI and other police agencies sharing their “information and files” with Altegrity/USIS.
We will mount not only a legal but educational campaign intended to expose how political repression is carried out by the police, the courts, the political establishment and employers seeking to maintain poverty wages while driving down the standard of living of all working people.
For many years, every since its creation, the FBI has been used to spin a web of political repression--- attacking those who dare to struggle against racist and for the rights of working people.
Politicians created the legislation and “special committees” to enable the FBI working through its “Red Squads”--- special units led by FBI “Special Agents” consisting of city, county and state police and now including private “detective agencies” like Altegrity/USIS and all kinds of union-busting outfits--- to carry out this political repression.
I, along with tens of thousands of other activists have been targeted by the FBI and their “Red Squads,” so called because the FBI continues to use the Communist Control Act to carry out these dirty deeds.
As my 50,000 plus page FBI dossier clearly shows, the perverted Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned the FBI to attack me--- an attack that has been dutifully carried out by the police and the courts with the permission of both the Democrats and Republicans with the malicious attack from Minnesota State Representative Tony Cornish--- who admits to amassing his own personal file on me--- being the latest and most recent where he designated me in an e-mail he sent to thousands of politicians across the Midwest, including each and every state legislator in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan which obviously emboldened the FBI, Grand Rapids Police Department, Newaygo County Sheriff, a corrupt prosecutor and judge to execute this twenty-one year old warrant which was bogus from its very creation with no other intent than to use the “color of law” to carry out this political repression which is the government’s response to my outspoken views and activities for peace, against racism and for social and economic justice.
The terms of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond being used to enforce these fabricated bogus charges against me, restrict me to having to remain in the State of Michigan--- an obvious attempt to thwart our union organizing campaign in the Indian Gaming Industry--- which seeks to empower workers employed in the Indian Gaming Industry at poverty wages forced to work in unhealthy smoke-filled casinos--- and very conveniently under the terms of the racist “Compacts”--- intended to use racism to maintain the poverty on Indian Reservations creating huge pools of cheap labor.
The Indian Gaming Industry created by these “Compacts” arranged by corrupt tribal politicians, local, state and federal politicians and the mobsters who own the slot machines and table games and every other profitable venture associated with the Indian Gaming Industry, is every bosses dream come true: legislatively created poverty wages imposed on workers who have NO RIGHTS under state or federal labor laws.
These racist and anti-labor “Compacts” created by the Democrats with Republicans looking on smiling with bi-partisan approval are now being enforced by the private and quasi-governmental detective agency which hires a bunch of thugs which include former FBI and CIA agents as well as state, county and local police with the FBI and other police agencies sharing their “information and files” with Altegrity/USIS.
Why did these corrupt Newaygo County
officials acting in collusion with the FBI and Grand Rapids Police Department
decide to execute this twenty-one year old fabricated bogus warrant based on
outright lies after twenty-one years?
Because the complainant whose story two Newaygo County Sheriff Deputies and the Newaygo County Prosecutor prompted by the FBI testimony could not have been held up in court. Only weeks after the death of the complainant are these law-enforcement officials fully backed by the prosecutor and judge now executing these warrant claiming I used the telephone to intimidate these violent bigots.
How convenient, the police will now have free reign to further fabricate more lies without there being a complainant or “witness” to these bogus charges--- another dream come true; this time for the FBI led “Red Squads”, and quite conveniently for the managements of the Indian Gaming Industry.
The terms and conditions of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond include prohibiting me from participating in demonstrations or entering any establishment serving alcoholic beverages which means I am prohibited from entering any casino.
I hope all of you will consider participating in getting involved in our efforts defending me from these fabricated bogus charges based on lies in twenty-one year old warrants.
Think about this:
Why would any Judge establish a ten-thousand dollar bond for charges which carry a maximum penalty of six-months in prison and a $500.00 fine?
Why would any Judge even consider enforcing such twenty-one year old warrants which could have been served at any time on me?
Something to think about:
Newaygo County Judge Drake was the very the very prosecutor who authorized these bogus warrants faced on charges he helped to fabricate twenty-one years.
Does anyone think the execution of these warrants with a ten-thousand dollar bond being imposed with the undemocratic restrictions imposed by the terms of the bond has anything to do with “justice?”
Plain and simple: This is harassment and political repression taken to the extreme. But this is what political repression in this country has spun. Like a snowball rolling down a steep long hill on a warm spring day the campaign of hate and harassment just keeps getting bigger and bigger--- the intent being to destroy the lives of living, breathing human beings as was demonstrated by the violent death of my good friend and fellow activist, Native American trade unionist and human rights activist, Greg Paquin, last spring. Greg’s death was the direct result of where these campaigns of hate generated by the FBI’s “Red Squads” ultimately lead. The FBI and local law enforcement working together with the judiciary and reactionary politicians collaborated to make Greg Paquin’s life a living hell as they fabricated charges based on outright lies against him, too.
There is no legitimate reason why human beings should be subjected to these kinds of vicious hate campaigns instigated by the FBI and we are going to see what we can do to put an end to these kinds of politically motivated campaigns of hate.
I would also note that right-wing bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife has put his billions of dollars to work in creating several public front groups--- including KeyWiki staffed by a known pedophile working out of a cave in New Zealand and Accuracy In Media staffed by a pervert in an expensive suit--- being used to “expose” “Communists” and it is not coincidental that I have been singled out along with Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie whose “crime” is participating in meetings with Communists--- for outrageous and vicious attacks by both of these right-wing outfits funded by the nefarious right-wing bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife. Attacks that just happen to coincide with these recent attacks by politicians like Minnesota State Representative Tony Cornish who (retired from law enforcement), instead of apologizing to me for calling me “a very dangerous person” because I use my constitutionally protected rights to speak out, write and act in defense of worker’s rights which are human rights; Cornish has now proceeded to calling me “one of the most dangerous men in the world.”
Please consider joining with us to put an end to this officially promoted bigotry where corrupt politicians working in league with law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary are trying to stifle and smother our struggles for peace, social and economic justice.
Today, Newaygo County is a burial ground for democracy but as we have seen, this could be, and is, anyplace U.S.A.--- a country these reactionary sleaze-balls hiding their wicked reactionary agenda under the “color of law” proclaim to people everywhere to be “the world’s greatest bastion of democracy.”
Because the complainant whose story two Newaygo County Sheriff Deputies and the Newaygo County Prosecutor prompted by the FBI testimony could not have been held up in court. Only weeks after the death of the complainant are these law-enforcement officials fully backed by the prosecutor and judge now executing these warrant claiming I used the telephone to intimidate these violent bigots.
How convenient, the police will now have free reign to further fabricate more lies without there being a complainant or “witness” to these bogus charges--- another dream come true; this time for the FBI led “Red Squads”, and quite conveniently for the managements of the Indian Gaming Industry.
The terms and conditions of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond include prohibiting me from participating in demonstrations or entering any establishment serving alcoholic beverages which means I am prohibited from entering any casino.
I hope all of you will consider participating in getting involved in our efforts defending me from these fabricated bogus charges based on lies in twenty-one year old warrants.
Think about this:
Why would any Judge establish a ten-thousand dollar bond for charges which carry a maximum penalty of six-months in prison and a $500.00 fine?
Why would any Judge even consider enforcing such twenty-one year old warrants which could have been served at any time on me?
Something to think about:
Newaygo County Judge Drake was the very the very prosecutor who authorized these bogus warrants faced on charges he helped to fabricate twenty-one years.
Does anyone think the execution of these warrants with a ten-thousand dollar bond being imposed with the undemocratic restrictions imposed by the terms of the bond has anything to do with “justice?”
Plain and simple: This is harassment and political repression taken to the extreme. But this is what political repression in this country has spun. Like a snowball rolling down a steep long hill on a warm spring day the campaign of hate and harassment just keeps getting bigger and bigger--- the intent being to destroy the lives of living, breathing human beings as was demonstrated by the violent death of my good friend and fellow activist, Native American trade unionist and human rights activist, Greg Paquin, last spring. Greg’s death was the direct result of where these campaigns of hate generated by the FBI’s “Red Squads” ultimately lead. The FBI and local law enforcement working together with the judiciary and reactionary politicians collaborated to make Greg Paquin’s life a living hell as they fabricated charges based on outright lies against him, too.
There is no legitimate reason why human beings should be subjected to these kinds of vicious hate campaigns instigated by the FBI and we are going to see what we can do to put an end to these kinds of politically motivated campaigns of hate.
I would also note that right-wing bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife has put his billions of dollars to work in creating several public front groups--- including KeyWiki staffed by a known pedophile working out of a cave in New Zealand and Accuracy In Media staffed by a pervert in an expensive suit--- being used to “expose” “Communists” and it is not coincidental that I have been singled out along with Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie whose “crime” is participating in meetings with Communists--- for outrageous and vicious attacks by both of these right-wing outfits funded by the nefarious right-wing bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife. Attacks that just happen to coincide with these recent attacks by politicians like Minnesota State Representative Tony Cornish who (retired from law enforcement), instead of apologizing to me for calling me “a very dangerous person” because I use my constitutionally protected rights to speak out, write and act in defense of worker’s rights which are human rights; Cornish has now proceeded to calling me “one of the most dangerous men in the world.”
Please consider joining with us to put an end to this officially promoted bigotry where corrupt politicians working in league with law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary are trying to stifle and smother our struggles for peace, social and economic justice.
Today, Newaygo County is a burial ground for democracy but as we have seen, this could be, and is, anyplace U.S.A.--- a country these reactionary sleaze-balls hiding their wicked reactionary agenda under the “color of law” proclaim to people everywhere to be “the world’s greatest bastion of democracy.”
A law suit against, and to halt, these ghastly charges and
undemocratic, unconstitutional behavior is being prepared for the federal
courts.
My next court appearance has been scheduled for November 12, 2012 at 8:30 A.M. in Newaygo County District Court with Judge Drake presiding.
At the arraignment on November 12 I will be asking these charges be dropped based on the facts:
1.) The complaining witness is now dead;
My next court appearance has been scheduled for November 12, 2012 at 8:30 A.M. in Newaygo County District Court with Judge Drake presiding.
At the arraignment on November 12 I will be asking these charges be dropped based on the facts:
1.) The complaining witness is now dead;
2.) These warrants should have been dismissed long ago under
statute of limitations;
3.) These warrants were knowingly bogus at the time based on
lies fabricated by Drake, the police and Karen Plants, Scott Plants husband at
the time, from the very time they were issued twenty-one years ago;
4.) The bond is reduced to personal recognizance with no
draconian stipulations;
5.) Judge Drake removes himself from this case for obvious
conflict of interest;
6.) All charges are dropped;
7.) I am fully and completely compensated for this injustice
I am being subjected to.
The Michigan Supreme Court will be asked to intervene by investigating the judicial misconduct, malfeasance and misfeasance in this case of Judge Drake with the request that Judge Drake be permanently removed from “the bench” for participating in this wholly egregious, outrageous judicial misconduct intentionally carried out to deprive me of my most fundamental and basic constitutionally protected democratic and human rights.
Anyone who has ever read the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights along with the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then considering these bogus warrants can recognize the injustice in progress in this case.
My Defense Committee will make this case a focus of the upcoming December 10 Anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The foundation-funded outfits whose finances are derived from the donations of the very “philanthropists” who profit from the injustices of working people refuse to take on these cases so grassroots efforts like ours are required.
Many people have called to ask me what they can do. As a first step, please circulate and distribute this as widely as possible since education and informing a wide circle of friends is the first step.
Your suggestions are encouraged and welcome.
The Michigan Supreme Court will be asked to intervene by investigating the judicial misconduct, malfeasance and misfeasance in this case of Judge Drake with the request that Judge Drake be permanently removed from “the bench” for participating in this wholly egregious, outrageous judicial misconduct intentionally carried out to deprive me of my most fundamental and basic constitutionally protected democratic and human rights.
Anyone who has ever read the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights along with the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then considering these bogus warrants can recognize the injustice in progress in this case.
My Defense Committee will make this case a focus of the upcoming December 10 Anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The foundation-funded outfits whose finances are derived from the donations of the very “philanthropists” who profit from the injustices of working people refuse to take on these cases so grassroots efforts like ours are required.
Many people have called to ask me what they can do. As a first step, please circulate and distribute this as widely as possible since education and informing a wide circle of friends is the first step.
Your suggestions are encouraged and welcome.
We realize everyone is very busy on a variety of issues but
we request you find a way to fit this into your busy schedule.
Thanking you in advance for you involvement and participation.
I appreciate the concern from everyone--- the calls, visits and e-mails.
Yours in the struggle,
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Thanking you in advance for you involvement and participation.
I appreciate the concern from everyone--- the calls, visits and e-mails.
Yours in the struggle,
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
Friday, October 5, 2012
Will you cast or burn your ballot?
Many people are so repulsed--- and justifiably repulsed--- by the
domination of Wall Street over the political process that they are
calling for boycotts and burning presidential ballots.
Most people in this country are repulsed by Obama who can't defend his record and Romney's arrogance and lies with both being nothing but mouthpieces for Wall Street's dirty imperialist wars and austerity measures here at home to pay for these barbaric wars.
This is my response to those who would withdraw from electoral participation which is an important part of the struggles for peace, social and economic justice:
While I join you in your disgust over Obama who deserves to be defeated and Romney who should not be elected, in my opinion burning your ballots or boycotting the election instead of casting your ballots for one of our fellow activists for peace, social and economic justice--- Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein or Stewart Alexander--- is counter-productive.
There is time to re-think your decision and I hope you do.
How would you feel if Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein or Stewart Alexander were to shit on a struggle you initiated?
Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein and Stewart Alexander are trying their hardest to raise our concerns and we should support them, not abandon them; because their voices bring unity to our causes.
I would be interested in hearing a response to my concerns.
I offer my opposition and opinion to "burning ballots" and "boycott" on the friendliest of terms.
I would note that because some liberals, progressives and leftists have betrayed us (examples: Progressives for Obama/Progressive America Rising, Campaign for America's Future, Progressive Democrats of America, etc.) in supporting Obama there is no reason we should jump without thinking to the opposite extreme; thereby adding more confusion to the mix when we--- as liberals, progressives and leftists--- should be contributing leadership and clear thinking to the issues, problems, movements and struggles for peace, social and economic justice; constructive participation in the electoral process in defense of democracy as part of our struggles is part of our responsibility.
Between Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein and Stewart Alexander, certainly there is an alternative any liberal, progressive or leftist can support.
My preference, voiced a number of times, would have been that these three candidates should have united with one voice in a single united ticket but this did not come to be. BUT, these three candidates have agreed to sign on to the "Unified Platform" < http://newprogs.org/unified-progressive-platform-ratified > which all of us should be able to unite around.
Again, I welcome discussion.
I don't voice my concerns as an attack but rather to stimulate discussion, dialog and debate with the understanding that in the short and long terms we are going to have to find a way to work together if we are going to defeat our common Wall Street enemy in achieving peace and justice.
When all is said and done, we are going to have to wrest political and economic power from Wall Street if we are going to get real change so let's seek ways to struggle which bring us closer together.
Most people in this country are repulsed by Obama who can't defend his record and Romney's arrogance and lies with both being nothing but mouthpieces for Wall Street's dirty imperialist wars and austerity measures here at home to pay for these barbaric wars.
This is my response to those who would withdraw from electoral participation which is an important part of the struggles for peace, social and economic justice:
While I join you in your disgust over Obama who deserves to be defeated and Romney who should not be elected, in my opinion burning your ballots or boycotting the election instead of casting your ballots for one of our fellow activists for peace, social and economic justice--- Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein or Stewart Alexander--- is counter-productive.
There is time to re-think your decision and I hope you do.
How would you feel if Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein or Stewart Alexander were to shit on a struggle you initiated?
Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein and Stewart Alexander are trying their hardest to raise our concerns and we should support them, not abandon them; because their voices bring unity to our causes.
I would be interested in hearing a response to my concerns.
I offer my opposition and opinion to "burning ballots" and "boycott" on the friendliest of terms.
I would note that because some liberals, progressives and leftists have betrayed us (examples: Progressives for Obama/Progressive America Rising, Campaign for America's Future, Progressive Democrats of America, etc.) in supporting Obama there is no reason we should jump without thinking to the opposite extreme; thereby adding more confusion to the mix when we--- as liberals, progressives and leftists--- should be contributing leadership and clear thinking to the issues, problems, movements and struggles for peace, social and economic justice; constructive participation in the electoral process in defense of democracy as part of our struggles is part of our responsibility.
Between Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein and Stewart Alexander, certainly there is an alternative any liberal, progressive or leftist can support.
My preference, voiced a number of times, would have been that these three candidates should have united with one voice in a single united ticket but this did not come to be. BUT, these three candidates have agreed to sign on to the "Unified Platform" < http://newprogs.org/unified-progressive-platform-ratified > which all of us should be able to unite around.
Again, I welcome discussion.
I don't voice my concerns as an attack but rather to stimulate discussion, dialog and debate with the understanding that in the short and long terms we are going to have to find a way to work together if we are going to defeat our common Wall Street enemy in achieving peace and justice.
When all is said and done, we are going to have to wrest political and economic power from Wall Street if we are going to get real change so let's seek ways to struggle which bring us closer together.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
George Lakoff, the trickster using linguistics
George Lakoff, the well-heeled, muddle-headed, middle class intellectual has provided a "guide" for tonight's debate.
Here's the link to Lakoff's shallow thoughts masquerading as "progressive thinking" on what to watch for in the Presiden
Here's the link to Lakoff's shallow thoughts masquerading as "progressive thinking" on what to watch for in the Presiden
tial Debates starting this Wed evening:
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13764-what-to-watch-for-in-the-presidential-debates
Re: George Lakoff
Lakoff is NOT a progressive; he supports the warmonger Obama.
In his book "Don't Think Of An Elephant" Lakoff declares that progressives should offer "progressive policy directives" but never bring forward specific progressive solutions to problems.
His current book links being progressive to supporting Democrats: "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic."
What Lakoff has taught these neo-liberal thoroughly reactionary Democrats is how to peddle their reactionary neo-liberal Wall Street agenda as "progressive;" thereby tricking the American people to continue getting caught in this "two-party trap."
Lakoff is responsible for "packaging" Barack Obama to be acceptable to liberals, progressives and the left by confusing them that rhetoric is the same as policies, legislation and solutions.
After all, Lakoff is a master LINGUIST, a trickster with words; it is his job to suck people into supporting candidates who sound like they will do what is right while knowing full well they are going to do Wall Street's dirty work and give us the shaft.
Obama is carrying out Wall Street's agenda of dirty imperialist wars abroad paid for with austerity measures forced down our throats here at home; and it is George Lakoff's job for which he is paid extremely well to make this sound good.
I notice in this article by George Lakoff, there is no mention of the fact that alternative REAL progressive candidates like Rocky Anderson--- Justice Party, Jill Stein--- Green Party and Stewart Alexander--- Socialist Party will not be allowed in the debates although people can see and listen to candidates Anderson and Stein as part of tonight's debate here on Democracy Now!:
http://www.democracynow.org/events/2012/10/third_party_candidates_to_join_in_real_time_on_democracy_now’s_live_coverage_of_first_pres_debate__1121
And for what real progressive politics is all about; check out the New Progressive Alliance:
http://newprogs.org/
The New Progressive Alliance is on FaceBook, too; just search "New Progressive Alliance" and join real progressives in discussion, dialog and debate.
All this crap about "safe states" has to go; no politician ever deserved to be punished at the polls more than this Wall Street warmonger, Barack Obama.
The central question of this entire campaign is one based on class that everyone is afraid to ask:
How is Barack Obama's Wall Street war economy working for you?
There is no question more important than this question yet it is not being asked of the American people because the very question has to do with a dirty word the corporate serving MainStreamMedia and all the muddle-headed, well-heeled and over-paid capitalist sooth-Sayers like George Lakoff assigned to give all of this a progressive connotation and twist wants to pretend doesn't exist: imperialism, the last and final stage of capitalism now in its most barbaric and cannibalistic form.
Barack Obama has been designated to oversee Wall Street's imperialist interests; capitalism in its twilight and dying days dragging us all down a dark, dangerous bumpy road with hidden curves headed straight to perdition with no stops for a breather in purgatory.
Mark Twain understood the barbaric and cannibalistic nature of U.S. imperialism as he gave considerable thought to the Spanish-American War--- a war still going on in the Philippines--- to which Obama has added more troops and the occupations of the Philippines and Puerto Rico we are still paying for but no one in government can tell us how much we have paid.
Like poverty, independence for Puerto Rico is not an issue in this presidential campaign--- after all, Wall Street reaps huge profits from cheap labor which breeds poverty in Puerto Rico.
And, like Puerto Rico, Indian Reservations mired in racist poverty are not being discussed.
How come George Lakoff is afraid to grapple with this very forthright and accurate question every voter should be asking herself or himself---
How is Barack Obama's Wall Street war economy working for you?
Poverty, its cause and solution, has yet to be addressed during this campaign even though any school child knows that working people without jobs and working people with jobs paying poverty wages are going to be poor.
And the contribution of squandering our Nation's wealth--- all created by workers--- on these dirty wars is, also, making working people poor as the Wall Street merchants of death and destruction grow richer. We might as well be dumping the wealth of our Nation into the deepest depths of the oceans.
Will there be any discussion of how Obamacare (which is the same as Romneycare) is really the "Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry Bailout and Profit Maximization Act of 2010?" One more question going without asking.
George Lakoff's ideas of what is progressive do not include the need to end these dirty imperialist wars so we can reap "peace dividends" to finance human needs.
George Lakoff's ideas of what is progressive do not include the need for a minimum wage that is a real living wage that is legislatively tied to all cost of living factors and indexed to inflation.
George Lakoff's ideas of what is progressive do not include the need for a National Public Health Care System and a National Public Child Care System which combined would put over 15-million unemployed Americans to work in decent, good-paying jobs while providing the American people with free health care and free child care.
Progressives--- real progressives--- are not afraid to raise these kinds of questions while bringing forward these very specific solutions to our most pressing problems.
Barack Obama deserves to be defeated at the polls; Mitt Romney does not deserve to be elected.
No matter which one wins the American people along with the peoples of the rest of the world--- we all lose.
Democracy is at the crossroads.
We have a real mess that is left up to us, We the People, to resolve through grassroots organizing and united, militant activism.
I find it interesting George Lakoff would have us focus on "patriotism" while leaving out any discussion of peace and poverty.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13764-what-to-watch-for-in-the-presidential-debates
Re: George Lakoff
Lakoff is NOT a progressive; he supports the warmonger Obama.
In his book "Don't Think Of An Elephant" Lakoff declares that progressives should offer "progressive policy directives" but never bring forward specific progressive solutions to problems.
His current book links being progressive to supporting Democrats: "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic."
What Lakoff has taught these neo-liberal thoroughly reactionary Democrats is how to peddle their reactionary neo-liberal Wall Street agenda as "progressive;" thereby tricking the American people to continue getting caught in this "two-party trap."
Lakoff is responsible for "packaging" Barack Obama to be acceptable to liberals, progressives and the left by confusing them that rhetoric is the same as policies, legislation and solutions.
After all, Lakoff is a master LINGUIST, a trickster with words; it is his job to suck people into supporting candidates who sound like they will do what is right while knowing full well they are going to do Wall Street's dirty work and give us the shaft.
Obama is carrying out Wall Street's agenda of dirty imperialist wars abroad paid for with austerity measures forced down our throats here at home; and it is George Lakoff's job for which he is paid extremely well to make this sound good.
I notice in this article by George Lakoff, there is no mention of the fact that alternative REAL progressive candidates like Rocky Anderson--- Justice Party, Jill Stein--- Green Party and Stewart Alexander--- Socialist Party will not be allowed in the debates although people can see and listen to candidates Anderson and Stein as part of tonight's debate here on Democracy Now!:
http://www.democracynow.org/events/2012/10/third_party_candidates_to_join_in_real_time_on_democracy_now’s_live_coverage_of_first_pres_debate__1121
And for what real progressive politics is all about; check out the New Progressive Alliance:
http://newprogs.org/
The New Progressive Alliance is on FaceBook, too; just search "New Progressive Alliance" and join real progressives in discussion, dialog and debate.
All this crap about "safe states" has to go; no politician ever deserved to be punished at the polls more than this Wall Street warmonger, Barack Obama.
The central question of this entire campaign is one based on class that everyone is afraid to ask:
How is Barack Obama's Wall Street war economy working for you?
There is no question more important than this question yet it is not being asked of the American people because the very question has to do with a dirty word the corporate serving MainStreamMedia and all the muddle-headed, well-heeled and over-paid capitalist sooth-Sayers like George Lakoff assigned to give all of this a progressive connotation and twist wants to pretend doesn't exist: imperialism, the last and final stage of capitalism now in its most barbaric and cannibalistic form.
Barack Obama has been designated to oversee Wall Street's imperialist interests; capitalism in its twilight and dying days dragging us all down a dark, dangerous bumpy road with hidden curves headed straight to perdition with no stops for a breather in purgatory.
Mark Twain understood the barbaric and cannibalistic nature of U.S. imperialism as he gave considerable thought to the Spanish-American War--- a war still going on in the Philippines--- to which Obama has added more troops and the occupations of the Philippines and Puerto Rico we are still paying for but no one in government can tell us how much we have paid.
Like poverty, independence for Puerto Rico is not an issue in this presidential campaign--- after all, Wall Street reaps huge profits from cheap labor which breeds poverty in Puerto Rico.
And, like Puerto Rico, Indian Reservations mired in racist poverty are not being discussed.
How come George Lakoff is afraid to grapple with this very forthright and accurate question every voter should be asking herself or himself---
How is Barack Obama's Wall Street war economy working for you?
Poverty, its cause and solution, has yet to be addressed during this campaign even though any school child knows that working people without jobs and working people with jobs paying poverty wages are going to be poor.
And the contribution of squandering our Nation's wealth--- all created by workers--- on these dirty wars is, also, making working people poor as the Wall Street merchants of death and destruction grow richer. We might as well be dumping the wealth of our Nation into the deepest depths of the oceans.
Will there be any discussion of how Obamacare (which is the same as Romneycare) is really the "Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry Bailout and Profit Maximization Act of 2010?" One more question going without asking.
George Lakoff's ideas of what is progressive do not include the need to end these dirty imperialist wars so we can reap "peace dividends" to finance human needs.
George Lakoff's ideas of what is progressive do not include the need for a minimum wage that is a real living wage that is legislatively tied to all cost of living factors and indexed to inflation.
George Lakoff's ideas of what is progressive do not include the need for a National Public Health Care System and a National Public Child Care System which combined would put over 15-million unemployed Americans to work in decent, good-paying jobs while providing the American people with free health care and free child care.
Progressives--- real progressives--- are not afraid to raise these kinds of questions while bringing forward these very specific solutions to our most pressing problems.
Barack Obama deserves to be defeated at the polls; Mitt Romney does not deserve to be elected.
No matter which one wins the American people along with the peoples of the rest of the world--- we all lose.
Democracy is at the crossroads.
We have a real mess that is left up to us, We the People, to resolve through grassroots organizing and united, militant activism.
I find it interesting George Lakoff would have us focus on "patriotism" while leaving out any discussion of peace and poverty.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
AFL-CIO Endorses Nationwide Consumer Boycott of American Crystal Sugar in Response to Crystal Sugar’s 14-Month Lockout
The national AFL-CIO is calling for a boycott
of American Crystal Sugar after management has kept workers locked out
for over a year here in the Red River Valley.
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/37077-afl-cio-endorses-nationwide-consumer-boycott-of-
I find it very interesting that local, state and national AFL-CIO leaders were opposed to American Crystal Workers occupying the plants when faced with a lockout but now claim they will organize a boycott of American Crystal Sugar.
Does anyone really believe that this boycott will consist of anything more than a another press conference?
Richard Trumka has given American Crystal Sugar's management the ultimatum:
Negotiate a contract in good faith or face a boycott.
Given the fact that Trumka was opposed to workers taking over the plants when management first threatened the lockout; and for over a year Trumka has made no effort to stop replacement workers from entering the ACS plants and operating them at maximum capacity... I bet American Crystal Sugar's management are just shaking in their boots at the threat of the AFL-CIO threatening a consumer boycott as many consumers already "boycott" sugar simply because they can't afford its high price as a result of the AFL-CIO working with ACS management and politicians (Democrats and Republicans) to keep the price (and profits from) beet derived sugar artificially high.
Let's get real here.
The union has already agreed to most of ACS management's concessions and ASC management refuses to negotiate in good faith.
Do you suppose ACS management wants to shed itself from the union altogether?
In fact, the owners/shareholders of American Crystal Sugar stated long before the lockout that it was their intent to get rid of the union and Richard Trumka and the corrupt local and national "leaders" of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) used intimidation tactics against their own members who dared to so much as mention that a worker take-over of the plants be considered.
Here is a list of sugar companies from all over the world:
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/companies/sugar/
How many of these companies' products do U.S. consumers see on the shelves when it comes to beet derived sugar that they can choose from as an alternative to American Crystal Sugar?
Union leaders are subjecting American Crystal Sugar workers to a losing "battle" behind all kinds of militant sounding talk that amounts to nothing but more betrayal from which workers will continue to suffer because they were not encouraged to do the right thing in the first place when ACS management threatened a lock-out.
The correct response should have been a take-over of the plants by the workers until the contract was settled.
There is a lesson in this for other workers.
For American Crystal Sugar workers this is now a done deal. They have lost; if the AFL-CIO union "leaders" have their way these workers will not only lose out on what they should have won in a new contract; they will end up losing their union--- and their jobs... the ultimate in concessions.
U.S. workers are paying a terrible price for class collaboration trade unionism.
What is required is a return to class struggle trade unionism with a good heavy dose of anti-imperialist education.
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/37077-afl-cio-endorses-nationwide-consumer-boycott-of-
I find it very interesting that local, state and national AFL-CIO leaders were opposed to American Crystal Workers occupying the plants when faced with a lockout but now claim they will organize a boycott of American Crystal Sugar.
Does anyone really believe that this boycott will consist of anything more than a another press conference?
Richard Trumka has given American Crystal Sugar's management the ultimatum:
Negotiate a contract in good faith or face a boycott.
Given the fact that Trumka was opposed to workers taking over the plants when management first threatened the lockout; and for over a year Trumka has made no effort to stop replacement workers from entering the ACS plants and operating them at maximum capacity... I bet American Crystal Sugar's management are just shaking in their boots at the threat of the AFL-CIO threatening a consumer boycott as many consumers already "boycott" sugar simply because they can't afford its high price as a result of the AFL-CIO working with ACS management and politicians (Democrats and Republicans) to keep the price (and profits from) beet derived sugar artificially high.
Let's get real here.
The union has already agreed to most of ACS management's concessions and ASC management refuses to negotiate in good faith.
Do you suppose ACS management wants to shed itself from the union altogether?
In fact, the owners/shareholders of American Crystal Sugar stated long before the lockout that it was their intent to get rid of the union and Richard Trumka and the corrupt local and national "leaders" of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) used intimidation tactics against their own members who dared to so much as mention that a worker take-over of the plants be considered.
Here is a list of sugar companies from all over the world:
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/companies/sugar/
How many of these companies' products do U.S. consumers see on the shelves when it comes to beet derived sugar that they can choose from as an alternative to American Crystal Sugar?
Union leaders are subjecting American Crystal Sugar workers to a losing "battle" behind all kinds of militant sounding talk that amounts to nothing but more betrayal from which workers will continue to suffer because they were not encouraged to do the right thing in the first place when ACS management threatened a lock-out.
The correct response should have been a take-over of the plants by the workers until the contract was settled.
There is a lesson in this for other workers.
For American Crystal Sugar workers this is now a done deal. They have lost; if the AFL-CIO union "leaders" have their way these workers will not only lose out on what they should have won in a new contract; they will end up losing their union--- and their jobs... the ultimate in concessions.
U.S. workers are paying a terrible price for class collaboration trade unionism.
What is required is a return to class struggle trade unionism with a good heavy dose of anti-imperialist education.
Monday, October 1, 2012
The connections we learn about...
Do you ever wonder how some people are connected? The personal and the political connections?
People are always wondering how someone like Barbara Ehrenreich can be such a big Barack Obama booster.
Well, check out who her daughter is. A big-shot in the Obama Administration.
I think we need to learn a whole lot more about what the pay-offs have been for this group "Progressives for Obama" of which Barbara Erhrenreich and Tom Hayden are the primary founding members. Tom Hayden was a poster boy for the Israeli killing machine.
Just how "progressive" some of these people supporting Obama really are is open to a lot of questions... read on.
"The daughter of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and psychologist John Ehrenreich, Brooks currently lives in Virginia with her family. She has two children and is married to Joseph Mouer, who is an Army officer:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks
People are always wondering how someone like Barbara Ehrenreich can be such a big Barack Obama booster.
Well, check out who her daughter is. A big-shot in the Obama Administration.
I think we need to learn a whole lot more about what the pay-offs have been for this group "Progressives for Obama" of which Barbara Erhrenreich and Tom Hayden are the primary founding members. Tom Hayden was a poster boy for the Israeli killing machine.
Just how "progressive" some of these people supporting Obama really are is open to a lot of questions... read on.
"The daughter of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and psychologist John Ehrenreich, Brooks currently lives in Virginia with her family. She has two children and is married to Joseph Mouer, who is an Army officer:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Here we go again--- into another war.
Here we go again into another war---
U. S. Senate Joint Resolution 41, while its authors, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman (whose worthless political butt Obama saved to do this dirty work when a real voice for peace could have been elected) claim this resolution is "not authorization for war" but it sure as heck is part of the ever-expanding and deafening drum-beat for war with Iran.
All these phony liberals, progressives and leftists telling us we must get Obama and these Democrats elected then after the election we should act when these warmongers don't stop their dirty deeds make me sick.
Now is when all who believe in peace should be declaring loud and clear---
No peace, no votes.
Why would anyone with a conscience cast a vote for any of the 90 U.S. Senators who are engaged in a campaign to drum up a war with Iran?
This vote, like all past votes in defense of the Israeli killing machine, should cause people to see how useless this so-called "Progressive Caucus" is in Congress.
Ironically, this resolution, U.S. Senate Joint Resolution 41,
( http://legiscan.com/gaits/
Here is how they voted--- which was a foregone conclusion because the resolution had 83 co-sponsors:
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Not Voting
Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Not Voting
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heller (R-NV), Not Voting
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Not Voting
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Not Voting
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Not Voting
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Not Voting
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Not Voting
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
U. S. Senate Joint Resolution 41, while its authors, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman (whose worthless political butt Obama saved to do this dirty work when a real voice for peace could have been elected) claim this resolution is "not authorization for war" but it sure as heck is part of the ever-expanding and deafening drum-beat for war with Iran.
All these phony liberals, progressives and leftists telling us we must get Obama and these Democrats elected then after the election we should act when these warmongers don't stop their dirty deeds make me sick.
Now is when all who believe in peace should be declaring loud and clear---
No peace, no votes.
Why would anyone with a conscience cast a vote for any of the 90 U.S. Senators who are engaged in a campaign to drum up a war with Iran?
This vote, like all past votes in defense of the Israeli killing machine, should cause people to see how useless this so-called "Progressive Caucus" is in Congress.
Ironically, this resolution, U.S. Senate Joint Resolution 41,
( http://legiscan.com/gaits/
Here is how they voted--- which was a foregone conclusion because the resolution had 83 co-sponsors:
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Not Voting
Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Not Voting
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heller (R-NV), Not Voting
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Not Voting
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Not Voting
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Not Voting
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Not Voting
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Not Voting
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
NAYs ---1
Paul (R-KY)
Not Voting - 9
Boozman (R-AR)
Boxer (D-CA)
Burr (R-NC)
Heller (R-NV)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kirk (R-IL)
Murray (D-WA)
Rubio (R-FL)
Vitter (R-LA)
What does this tell us?
That we have a U.S. Senate full of Wall Street bribed warmongers... and we are supposed to be silent "until after the election?"
Through "Letters to the Editor," demonstrations and picket-lines--- let these warmongers know right now that they are not going to get your vote; and why not.
Here in Minnesota we have the opportunity to vote for Michael Cavlan for United States Senate and Rocky Anderson for President.
Tell the warmongering Democrats and Republicans working for Wall Street's masters of war to go to hell.
http://www.youtube.com/
How is Barack Obama's Wall Street war economy working for you?
Paul (R-KY)
Not Voting - 9
Boozman (R-AR)
Boxer (D-CA)
Burr (R-NC)
Heller (R-NV)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kirk (R-IL)
Murray (D-WA)
Rubio (R-FL)
Vitter (R-LA)
What does this tell us?
That we have a U.S. Senate full of Wall Street bribed warmongers... and we are supposed to be silent "until after the election?"
Through "Letters to the Editor," demonstrations and picket-lines--- let these warmongers know right now that they are not going to get your vote; and why not.
Here in Minnesota we have the opportunity to vote for Michael Cavlan for United States Senate and Rocky Anderson for President.
Tell the warmongering Democrats and Republicans working for Wall Street's masters of war to go to hell.
http://www.youtube.com/
How is Barack Obama's Wall Street war economy working for you?
Monday, September 24, 2012
Can Obama make in until Election Day?
Can Obama hold things together until after the election as wars and economic collapse will turn Romney's gaffes into nothing?
All these worthless Obama supporters are talking about "after election day and Obama's victory being the time to think about initiating struggles.
I don't think there will be any breathing room "after Election Day."
My hunch is that these people start moving very quickly towards 2016 because they know so many people are on to their two-party game.
I'm also guessing the foundation-funded outfits, the AFL-CIO, PDA, "Progressives for Obama" are now looking at how they are going to have to start playing their game quite a bit differently.
We are going to have to consider engaging these people like Joe Stiglitz, George Lakoff, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Robert Borosage, MoveOn, etc. in a more timely manner like how Rocky Anderson took on Tom Hayden.
Plus, the likelihood of wars with Syria and Iran is growing by the day with the "peace movement" taking the position they are going to demonstrate on the day the wars start when people should be moving into activities trying to stop the wars now as part of this election.
What is with this drivel, "We are going to act after Election Day?"
Do wars, racism, poverty and unemployment take some kind of mystical and magical break?
I think we need to reach out with a message about how this "waiting for war to start" and "acting after Election Day" is all part of the two-party trap... it is allowing Wall Street to dictate the terms of its opposition--- like when the Democrats just want to provide some "helpful advice" that "you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar;" which, when translated, means, "don't bad-mouth us or we won't help you"... like Obama and the Democrats ever intend on doing anything for us in the first place.
First of all they don't care about us.
Second, they are too busy trying to save this rotten capitalist system that is collapsing all around them like a 150 year old barn after years of disrepair in the state of complete deterioration that might not be able to withstand the storm.
Have you ever driven by these unpainted old barns with sagging and collapsing roofs and leaning sides that look so nice in a colorful sunset? Than the next time you drive by the barn is laying on the ground nothing but a pile of rubble.
My message to all you Obama lovers:
Never mind worrying about Romney; Obama has to try to manage the storm--- trying to hold off the wars all his sabre rattling has set in motion and economic collapse in Europe and China; until after the election.
Obama and the Democrats will be bringing out Rosy Scenario in a tighter sweater and shorter skirt than ever to do a song and dance about how things are improving when these lying bastards know full well their platitudes and pontifications have left us vulnerable to the dangerous storm brewing.
All these worthless Obama supporters are talking about "after election day and Obama's victory being the time to think about initiating struggles.
I don't think there will be any breathing room "after Election Day."
My hunch is that these people start moving very quickly towards 2016 because they know so many people are on to their two-party game.
I'm also guessing the foundation-funded outfits, the AFL-CIO, PDA, "Progressives for Obama" are now looking at how they are going to have to start playing their game quite a bit differently.
We are going to have to consider engaging these people like Joe Stiglitz, George Lakoff, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Robert Borosage, MoveOn, etc. in a more timely manner like how Rocky Anderson took on Tom Hayden.
Plus, the likelihood of wars with Syria and Iran is growing by the day with the "peace movement" taking the position they are going to demonstrate on the day the wars start when people should be moving into activities trying to stop the wars now as part of this election.
What is with this drivel, "We are going to act after Election Day?"
Do wars, racism, poverty and unemployment take some kind of mystical and magical break?
I think we need to reach out with a message about how this "waiting for war to start" and "acting after Election Day" is all part of the two-party trap... it is allowing Wall Street to dictate the terms of its opposition--- like when the Democrats just want to provide some "helpful advice" that "you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar;" which, when translated, means, "don't bad-mouth us or we won't help you"... like Obama and the Democrats ever intend on doing anything for us in the first place.
First of all they don't care about us.
Second, they are too busy trying to save this rotten capitalist system that is collapsing all around them like a 150 year old barn after years of disrepair in the state of complete deterioration that might not be able to withstand the storm.
Have you ever driven by these unpainted old barns with sagging and collapsing roofs and leaning sides that look so nice in a colorful sunset? Than the next time you drive by the barn is laying on the ground nothing but a pile of rubble.
My message to all you Obama lovers:
Never mind worrying about Romney; Obama has to try to manage the storm--- trying to hold off the wars all his sabre rattling has set in motion and economic collapse in Europe and China; until after the election.
Obama and the Democrats will be bringing out Rosy Scenario in a tighter sweater and shorter skirt than ever to do a song and dance about how things are improving when these lying bastards know full well their platitudes and pontifications have left us vulnerable to the dangerous storm brewing.
Friday, September 21, 2012
The U.S. working class is paying the price that created 60,000 Chinese billionaires as Wall Street absconds with Quadrillions.
I found this statistic interesting:
There are 60,000 billionaires in China.
http://china-wire.org/?p=22137
There are 60,000 billionaires in China.
http://china-wire.org/?p=22137
Is creating selfish, greedy, money-grubbing billionaires what socialism is about?
At whose expense are these 60,000 billionaires accumulating this kind of wealth?
And, what isn't stated is this:
How many billions/trillions of dollars has the Chinese government allowed the parasitical Wall Street coupon clippers--- venture/vulture capitalists and financiers--- and the other finance capitals of the world like Bay Street and The Square Mile to abscond with as workers who have created this tremendous wealth are forced to live in disgraceful poverty?
The main foreign exploiters always are willing to "share" the wealth with a few of the puppets they use in order to get away with stealing a lot more so we have to ask how much, in addition to these "home-grown billionaires," the foreign financial centers have stolen from the Chinese people through the exploitation of their labor.
Considering there are 60,000 billionaires in China it is logical to assume that the actual robbery taking place far exceeds even trillions of dollars--- we are probably looking at an enormous figure running beyond the Quadrillion range. I don't even know what there is beyond Quadrillion but the thing to keep in perspective is that the Chinese government continues to peddle this bullshit about "socialism with Chinese characteristics---" market socialism--- as an excuse for forcing workers to endure poverty.
The Chinese government collaborates with these foreign financial centers in all kinds of elaborate schemes most people can't even understand or comprehend in order to facilitate this gigantic swindle and theft of an entire nation's wealth.
And to think that one of the primary objectives of Barack Obama's very secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] (NAFTA on major steroids) will move more production to China where this exploitation will be expanded, enlarged and intensified--- again at the expense of Chinese workers and the American working class which has already suffered the closing of over 55,000 mines, mills and factories in order to create these Chinese and foreign billionaires with Quadrillions in profits for the few.
At whose expense are these 60,000 billionaires accumulating this kind of wealth?
And, what isn't stated is this:
How many billions/trillions of dollars has the Chinese government allowed the parasitical Wall Street coupon clippers--- venture/vulture capitalists and financiers--- and the other finance capitals of the world like Bay Street and The Square Mile to abscond with as workers who have created this tremendous wealth are forced to live in disgraceful poverty?
The main foreign exploiters always are willing to "share" the wealth with a few of the puppets they use in order to get away with stealing a lot more so we have to ask how much, in addition to these "home-grown billionaires," the foreign financial centers have stolen from the Chinese people through the exploitation of their labor.
Considering there are 60,000 billionaires in China it is logical to assume that the actual robbery taking place far exceeds even trillions of dollars--- we are probably looking at an enormous figure running beyond the Quadrillion range. I don't even know what there is beyond Quadrillion but the thing to keep in perspective is that the Chinese government continues to peddle this bullshit about "socialism with Chinese characteristics---" market socialism--- as an excuse for forcing workers to endure poverty.
The Chinese government collaborates with these foreign financial centers in all kinds of elaborate schemes most people can't even understand or comprehend in order to facilitate this gigantic swindle and theft of an entire nation's wealth.
And to think that one of the primary objectives of Barack Obama's very secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] (NAFTA on major steroids) will move more production to China where this exploitation will be expanded, enlarged and intensified--- again at the expense of Chinese workers and the American working class which has already suffered the closing of over 55,000 mines, mills and factories in order to create these Chinese and foreign billionaires with Quadrillions in profits for the few.
Of course Romney supports the TPP, too.
Obama or Romney--- Democrats or Republicans; the two-party trap is once again set; workers are going to lose.
Capital from the major financial centers around the globe led by Wall Street has united to reap super-profits from the exploitation of workers while workers haven't caught on to "workers and all oppressed peoples of the world unite."
And these politicians and foundation-funded outfits can't figure out what causes poverty? More like they are hiding what causes poverty because tremendous wealth, and what is done with this wealth, what is at stake.
Come on, really; is there any reason any child should be forced to go to bed hungry or any person should be homeless or without health care amidst this kind of wealth being created?
And, what is with workers being paid poverty wages instead of real living wages when there is this kind of wealth?
To think that so many billions of people have to suffer because these billionaires are "entitled" to profit.
There is no better time than now for workers and oppressed people to demand real change:
People before profits!
Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism--- barbaric and cannibalistic.
What the hell are working people going to have to endure as capitalism lives out its twilight years of severe and super-exploitation, wars, inequality, hate and poverty?
Kind of obvious why no Wall Street politicians like Obama or Romney want to address the truth about poverty as an election issue.
Obama or Romney--- Democrats or Republicans; the two-party trap is once again set; workers are going to lose.
Capital from the major financial centers around the globe led by Wall Street has united to reap super-profits from the exploitation of workers while workers haven't caught on to "workers and all oppressed peoples of the world unite."
And these politicians and foundation-funded outfits can't figure out what causes poverty? More like they are hiding what causes poverty because tremendous wealth, and what is done with this wealth, what is at stake.
Come on, really; is there any reason any child should be forced to go to bed hungry or any person should be homeless or without health care amidst this kind of wealth being created?
And, what is with workers being paid poverty wages instead of real living wages when there is this kind of wealth?
To think that so many billions of people have to suffer because these billionaires are "entitled" to profit.
There is no better time than now for workers and oppressed people to demand real change:
People before profits!
Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism--- barbaric and cannibalistic.
What the hell are working people going to have to endure as capitalism lives out its twilight years of severe and super-exploitation, wars, inequality, hate and poverty?
Kind of obvious why no Wall Street politicians like Obama or Romney want to address the truth about poverty as an election issue.
And Minnesota Mark Dayton has gone to China on a "trade mission" while he did nothing to halt the closing of the St. Paul Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant. One would think with 60,000 billionaires in China Dayton could have found a joint partner to keep the Ford Plant operating--- but, wait; the idea is to bludgeon the U.S. working class until it is willing to compete with Chinese workers in the "race to the bottom" and closing these plants is what it is all about.
The U.S. working class is paying the price that created 60,000 Chinese billionaires as Wall Street absconds with Quadrillions.
Completely and totally disgusting.
Completely and totally disgusting.
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell: 651-587-5541
Primary E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net
E-mail: alan.maki1951mn@gmail.com
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
How can the leading voice for Wall Street's imperialist agenda be a "friend" to working people?
What is going on with this presidential campaign? Is Romney just another "ringer" like McCain tossed into the race?
I think there is a lot more to what is going on.
Since Wall Street owns both the Democrats and Republicans these coupon clipping parasites are using this campaign to push the country to the right.
The role of Romney and Ryan is to clear the way for Obama and the Democrats to move
I think there is a lot more to what is going on.
Since Wall Street owns both the Democrats and Republicans these coupon clipping parasites are using this campaign to push the country to the right.
The role of Romney and Ryan is to clear the way for Obama and the Democrats to move
to the right.
Contrary to all the claims that Wall Street has shifted its support to Romney, Wall Street remains solidly behind Obama but if Romney should happen to win Wall Street will be satisfied with the victory but what Wall Street really needs is for Obama to remain at the helm hoodwinking working people into thinking he is "on their side" as he beats them over the head.
Wall Street has invested in Obama as a means to suppress and control the anger of people fed up with having austerity measures shoved down their throats to pay for these dirty wars which are all about regional and world domination, securing cheap resources by raping the lands of others using their cheap labor along with shifting production to countries with two-bit, half-assed fascist dictators installed and maintained in power by the U.S. military who assure a ready supply of cheap labor.
That it is Barack Obama now engaged in secretly negotiating this new Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) demonstrates very clearly for anyone willing to open their eyes and look that we are being had by Wall Street playing a game with us--- the problem is, the game isn't very fun for working people because Wall Street creates all the rules and as soon as working people figure out how the game is being played Wall Street simply creates new rules.
Until the working class figures out what imperialism is all about the game will continue.
Imperialism is the last and final stage of capitalism; this imperialist stage is barbaric and cannibalistic.
We need to be raising the question of challenging Wall Street for political and economic power.
The Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) initiated by, and being promoted by, Obama on behalf of Wall Street should provide us the opportunity to explain the nature of imperialism.
William Z. Foster, the great working class leader who understood the nature of this rotten capitalist system was once asked as the Korean War was being pushed by Wall Street, "What is the most important task at this moment?" Foster responded, "The U.S. working class needs a good strong dose of anti-imperialist education."
Today, the U.S. working class needs an even stronger dose of anti-imperialist education explaining what is going on. About how we are having austerity measures shoved down our throats to pay for these dirty imperialist wars so these Wall Street vultures and parasites can dominate the entire world for their own selfish, greedy interests.
If anyone considers this claim to be outlandish, I would simply ask, "Why are there over 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil (and the U.S. Naval Fleet dominating every ocean) dotting the the globe?
Wall Street has Obama bringing forward the Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) at the same time Romney is attacking working class "free-loaders." Is this a coincidence? I don't think so because Wall Street's intent in pushing the country to the right is to use both Obama and Romney to attack the working class.
We need to popularize the word "imperialism" while explaining what it is. There is the tendency of well-heeled middle class intellectuals to talk about "empire" and "globalization" with many of these muddle-headed intellectuals then making the case for some kind of "people's capitalism" which is "kinder" and "gentler." Some union leaders have taken to talking against "casino capitalism" but they, too, end up bringing forward the stupid idea that a few regulations can be put in place to "reform" the capitalist system.
How does one "reform" a system that is thoroughly reactionary--- and conservative--- in any form?
The purpose of the working class fighting for reforms is to make life a little better and more bearable for working people as we figure out how to get rid of these Wall Street parasites and their rotten capitalist system now in its highest and final stage: imperialism.
The imperialist stage of capitalism is our primary problem and make no mistake: Barack Obama is carrying out Wall Street's imperialist agenda--- wars abroad paid for with austerity measures here at home.
Obama secretly promoting the Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) while demagogically appealing to working people as a "friend" proves he is Wall Street's candidate; imperialism's primary voice which means he is no friend of working people.
Contrary to all the claims that Wall Street has shifted its support to Romney, Wall Street remains solidly behind Obama but if Romney should happen to win Wall Street will be satisfied with the victory but what Wall Street really needs is for Obama to remain at the helm hoodwinking working people into thinking he is "on their side" as he beats them over the head.
Wall Street has invested in Obama as a means to suppress and control the anger of people fed up with having austerity measures shoved down their throats to pay for these dirty wars which are all about regional and world domination, securing cheap resources by raping the lands of others using their cheap labor along with shifting production to countries with two-bit, half-assed fascist dictators installed and maintained in power by the U.S. military who assure a ready supply of cheap labor.
That it is Barack Obama now engaged in secretly negotiating this new Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) demonstrates very clearly for anyone willing to open their eyes and look that we are being had by Wall Street playing a game with us--- the problem is, the game isn't very fun for working people because Wall Street creates all the rules and as soon as working people figure out how the game is being played Wall Street simply creates new rules.
Until the working class figures out what imperialism is all about the game will continue.
Imperialism is the last and final stage of capitalism; this imperialist stage is barbaric and cannibalistic.
We need to be raising the question of challenging Wall Street for political and economic power.
The Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) initiated by, and being promoted by, Obama on behalf of Wall Street should provide us the opportunity to explain the nature of imperialism.
William Z. Foster, the great working class leader who understood the nature of this rotten capitalist system was once asked as the Korean War was being pushed by Wall Street, "What is the most important task at this moment?" Foster responded, "The U.S. working class needs a good strong dose of anti-imperialist education."
Today, the U.S. working class needs an even stronger dose of anti-imperialist education explaining what is going on. About how we are having austerity measures shoved down our throats to pay for these dirty imperialist wars so these Wall Street vultures and parasites can dominate the entire world for their own selfish, greedy interests.
If anyone considers this claim to be outlandish, I would simply ask, "Why are there over 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil (and the U.S. Naval Fleet dominating every ocean) dotting the the globe?
Wall Street has Obama bringing forward the Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) at the same time Romney is attacking working class "free-loaders." Is this a coincidence? I don't think so because Wall Street's intent in pushing the country to the right is to use both Obama and Romney to attack the working class.
We need to popularize the word "imperialism" while explaining what it is. There is the tendency of well-heeled middle class intellectuals to talk about "empire" and "globalization" with many of these muddle-headed intellectuals then making the case for some kind of "people's capitalism" which is "kinder" and "gentler." Some union leaders have taken to talking against "casino capitalism" but they, too, end up bringing forward the stupid idea that a few regulations can be put in place to "reform" the capitalist system.
How does one "reform" a system that is thoroughly reactionary--- and conservative--- in any form?
The purpose of the working class fighting for reforms is to make life a little better and more bearable for working people as we figure out how to get rid of these Wall Street parasites and their rotten capitalist system now in its highest and final stage: imperialism.
The imperialist stage of capitalism is our primary problem and make no mistake: Barack Obama is carrying out Wall Street's imperialist agenda--- wars abroad paid for with austerity measures here at home.
Obama secretly promoting the Trans-Pacific Pact (TPP) while demagogically appealing to working people as a "friend" proves he is Wall Street's candidate; imperialism's primary voice which means he is no friend of working people.
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