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So this Tuesday, WSGW's Art Lewis had one of his "open phones" segments where disinformation runs rife. Toward the end of the second hour, he decided to mention an article titled "Noncitizen voting proposal stalls in LA", mentioning California as if it is a State issue and not a local issue and then questions if it's happening in New York (see a pattern there?).
Actually, there are only two cities in California that allow non-citizen voting for local issues (not federal) but the other states are Maryland and Vermont and the "non-state" District of Columbia. And, considering it can take up to 7 year to become a naturalized citizen, after the 2-3 years to be considered a lawful permanent resident, it is not unreasonable to want the non-citizen who is working on naturalization to feel invested in the community, one way which is to vote on local issues.

I'm a producer at More Perfect Union and am working on a video with Abdul El-Sayed. We'll be filming a roundtable discussion with him on July 8th in Detroit from 1pm - 5pm and I'm looking for folks who would be down to talk with him on camera about a variety of issues. I'm primarily looking for people who are on the fence about whether they would vote for him or even disagree with some of his stances, but would like to have a genuinely engaging conversation.

Please comment here if you're interested or you can reach me at mae@perfectunion.us

Hey yall! I can tell the edm community is either really small or we just don’t get together.. if yall are edm heads let me know so I can add yall to events we plan on bringing to the city! EDIT: PLEASE DROP YOUR INSTAGRAMS! THATS WHERE WE ARE MOST ACTIVE!!

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as per Saginaw Forward on Facebook, parking can be done on Delaware subdivision.

Hey yall,

Im a new resident here in Saginaw and I was wondering if yall know any good running tracks, preferably oval tracks.

I want to improve my mile time so I’d like to run on an actual track, and if it’s outdoors that would be even cooler.

I tried the high school/middle school method but the tracks are all fenced off 🥀.

Do yall have any good suggestions?

Just curious..

I assume you cannot shoot off fireworks in the city in the middle of a residential street less than 30ft from people’s houses?

Figured I would check with other people who live in the city.

Thanks!

When a detective asked a Saginaw caregiver why she seemingly kept her sister-in-law confined to a basement, with buckets to use as latrines, she replied she did so out of concern for the older woman.

“She always referred to being her caretaker and she didn’t want her to get out because it was dangerous out there, or didn’t want her to walk the streets alone,” the investigator testified. “She always said if she got bit by a dog, how would that look as a caretaker?”

The detective testified during the June 25 preliminary examination of Tasha T. Beamon, 48, who is charged with first-degree vulnerable adult abuse and unlawful imprisonment. Both charges are 15-year felonies.

>On June 25-26, the United Auto Workers union is holding a ratification vote on a fourth tentative agreement for 1,700 workers at the Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan after workers voted down three previous pro-company deals. Instead of holding the vote at the union hall, this time the UAW International and Local 699 officials are forcing workers to vote inside the plant, in a scheme widely seen by workers to suppress opposition and ram through the agreement.

>Earlier this month, Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years, was fired when he criticized a UAW International Servicing Rep who was pushing the deal at a contract rollout meeting also held inside the plant. Workers report that members of the union’s bargaining committee called a supervisor to fire Sanders after he left the meeting and went to a breakroom.

>The fourth deal differs little from the three previous ones workers voted down. It includes a starting wage of $19.50 an hour and for current workers tops out at $27 an hour in 2030. The is the same workers at the former General Motors Saginaw Steering Plant made in 2005—even though the cost of living has risen by more than 70 percent over the last two decades. 

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>But the more immediate issue, [UAW presidential candidate Will] Lehman argues, is the corrupt process being used to force through the vote. He draws a sharp historical parallel: “Throughout history we have seen such travesties of democratic rights—poll taxes and literacy tests in the Jim Crow South used to deprive African Americans and poor whites of the right to vote; Trump’s threats to deploy ICE agents to polling stations during this year’s election.” The in-plant vote, he argues, belongs in the same category—aimed not at restricting who can vote, but at press-ganging workers into voting yes under conditions of direct management surveillance.

>The scheme, Lehman explains, was engineered in the wake of the third contract rejection on May 29 by Local 699 and plant management with the backing of outgoing UAW Region 1D Director Steve Dawes and International Servicing Representative Jason Tuck. Union officials then held contract rollout meetings inside the plant as a trial run. When Antwiane Sanders publicly called Tuck a “bum,” he was fired.

>Moving the vote into the plant eliminates the limited protections that have existed in previous ratification votes. “In previous ratification votes,” Lehman writes, “rank-and-file workers were able to distribute flyers opposing the TA and openly campaign for its defeat.” Now, “any worker who campaigns openly against the deal on Thursday or Friday risks the same fate as Brother Sanders.” Lehman also notes that newly hired workers—”some fresh from management orientation sessions”— may be voting on the contract, calling it “a cynical exploitation of workers” who have no job security whatsoever.

>UAW President Shawn Fain, Dawes and the Local 699 bargaining committee have all sanctioned the arrangement. Invoking Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Lehman writes: “Something is rotten in Saginaw.” He notes that the UAW convention in Detroit last week laid bare the chasm between the bureaucracy and the membership it claims to represent. Convention delegates voted to give International Executive Board members raises of $10,000 to $30,000 while reneging on promises to lower union dues. Fain then presided over a retirement ceremony for Dawes—who earned $229,813 last year—praising him for demonstrating “solidarity that inspires us,” even as Dawes oversaw the sellouts at both American Axle and Nexteer.

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>He closes with a historical appeal: as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Lehman calls on workers to draw lessons from the insurgent committees that organized in every town and village to root out defenders of the British monarchy. “Today, to fight the modern kings and oligarchs, workers must build that same kind of powerful, self-organized movement in every workplace—and link our struggles against the global corporations with our class brothers and sisters around the world.”

>Whatever the outcome of the upcoming vote, Lehman warns, the underlying conflict will not be resolved. “There is going to be a struggle at Nexteer over job cuts, speedup and working conditions regardless of what happens this week.” He calls on workers to expand the rank-and-file committee they have built, so that—in the words of a Nexteer worker he quotes—“authority can be transferred from the UAW apparatus to you yourselves.”

>His message ends simply: “Vote NO. Expand the committee. The fight is yours to win.”

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Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks!