timothy connolly wrote:
> Come to think of it I wonder how many local DFLers
> have experience as laborers?!
Let's see: 14 years as a stage hand, building scenery,
making paint, hanging lights, flying Peter Pan--all that
stuff.
Seven years a bus driver--union work. Whoopie! Better
wages, better working conditions, better benefits.
De-beaking chickens--one of my all time favs.
Painting the guides on fishing rods--stoned every day on
shellac, ugh!
Picking burnt potato chips off the conveyor belt at Old
Dutch.
Making nut rolls at an ice cream plant.
Planting flowers at an amusement park newly built.
Tending bar.
However, none of this really makes a difference when the
position I'm running for is the library board. More to the
point is: does the library have an adequate collection of
labor history and theory and etc. Can laborers come to their
public library and find books about themselves or people
like them. Yes they can.
Also important, do laborers at the library get a fair shake.
That's debatable.
As to farming, I come from a section of the country where
farming is very different from Minnesota. Truck farms were
numerous. Small tobacco farms along the rivers growing
Kentucky burley. Nasty crop, tobacco. Picking was a hot,
dirty job--I did some of that. Preparing it for the barns
to cure.
Does the library carry books about farming? Yes, but
probably not the books and other materials farmers
themselves might need, but the ones that tell the story of
farming and farming issues, there being no working farms
inside the city limits so far as I know. The library tends
to carry more books about gardening when it comes to the how
to of working the soil.
The issue for me is, does the library provide books and
materials in an accessable way for the people who live here
and are people using the library as a way to make their
lives a little bit better.
Wizard Marks, Central
Candidate for Library Board
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