Last updated on 2020-05-06
UPDATE 2020.05.06: May 8 Program: Dan Ahlers, Candidate for United States Senate.
Dan will discuss his campaign and the issues he’ll be addressing in the months leading up to the November election
UPDATE 2020.04.30: May 1 program: Transition to College During the Virus Crisis. Presenters: Shawn Helmbolt, Director of Admissions at SDSU; Mandy Frey, Director of Admissions at Southeast Tech, and Thomas Elness, Asst. Director of Admissions at Augustana University. They will discuss how the virus has influenced the way they have been working with high school students preparing for their planned enrollment in higher education next fall.
UPDATE 2020.04.23 12:23 CDT: Sioux Falls Democratic Forum is Zooming another meeting! This week’s (April 24) speaker will be Marcie Priestley, Development & Community Relations Director for the Sioux Falls Salvation Army. Priestley will discuss the Centralized Food Distribution program being undertaken jointly by several community organizations. She will also share how COVID19 has changed the way The Salvation Army is providing basic needs assistance to the vulnerable in our community.
As of April 16 2,853 households had signed up for the distribution program and 1,034 households picked up boxes, representing 3,253 people.The distributions are taking place at the Fairgrounds. Anyone needing to register can visit https://helplinecenter.org/foodsf/ or call 211.
SF Democratic Forum is offering the Zoom link to members only (a sensible precaution to avoid Zoombombing). To join future Friday Zoom-Forums, join the Forum! Send a $35 annual membership fee to Sioux Falls Democratic Forum, 1737 South Cleveland, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57103. For more information, contact Forum chairman Tom Cool at coolsd2012 at gmail dot com or call 271-7258.
Original April 16 post:
Blog sponsor Sioux Falls Democratic Forum will resume its weekly gatherings Friday at noon, offering its first ever online meeting. Forum members can tune in via Zoom for a briefing from Cooper Karaway, president of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO, on the coronavirus outbreak and shutdown at Smithfield Foods. The company’s failure to protect its employees from contagion has led to 644 confirmed cases of covid-19 and one death, making the Sioux Falls slaughterhouse the biggest source of coronavirus infections in the nation. The plant employs 3,700 people.
SF Democratic Forum is offering the Zoom link to members only (a sensible precaution to avoid Zoombombing). To join future Friday Zoom-Forums, join the Forum! Send a $35 annual membership fee to Sioux Falls Democratic Forum, 1737 South Cleveland, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57103. For more information, contact Forum chairman Tom Cool at coolsd2012 at gmail dot com or call 271-7258.
I would like to know when the union first learned of a COVID-19 case at Smithfield. What was the date of the first protest to Smithfield from the union concerning COVID-19, and whether, and when, they ever reached out to Ten Haken and or Noem due to this concern in lieu of Smithfield before this crisis became public?
You know, it wasn’t that long ago that Ten Haken was telling the public to talk to their bosess and not him about what employers were not doing in response to COVID-19. So maybe one of my questions has already been answered by the mayor?
Smithfield is a textbook example of allowing the private sector to deal with a health crisis, and then failing. But some of our political leaders failed too, if they were ignoring complaints from private sector employees concerning COVID-19 as well.
I would like to know when the union first learned of a COVID-19 case at Smithfield. What was the date of the first protest to Smithfield from the union concerning COVID-19, and whether, and when, they ever reached out to Ten Haken and or Noem due to this concern in lieu of Smithfield before this crisis became public?
You know, it wasn’t that long ago that Ten Haken was telling the public to talk to their bosess and not him about what employers were not doing in response to COVID-19. So maybe one of my questions has already been answered by the mayor?
Smithfield is a textbook example of allowing the private sector to deal with a health crisis, and then failing. But some of our political leaders failed too, if they were ignoring complaints from private sector employees concerning COVID-19 as well.
Cooper should be our rep in congress he gets more done that slick Mike photo op and the half dusty.
This will go down as Noem doing nothing and mayor ten coming late to the party.