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    Vol.59/No.38           October 16, 1995 
 
 
YS Joins In `Militant' Sub Drive  

BY DIANA NEWBERRY

This column is written and edited by the Young Socialists, an international organization of young workers, students, and other youth fighting for socialism. For more information about the YS or to join, write P.O. Box 2396, New York, NY 10009. Tel: (212) 475-6482, Fax: (212) 388- 1659.

BY DIANA NEWBERRY

BROOKLYN, New York - Young Socialists, along with other supporters of the Militant, are taking to the streets around the country to get subscriptions of the Militant newspaper into the hands of as many young people, students, and workers as possible. Young Socialists are jumping into this drive wholeheartedly.

In San Francisco, YS members attended a reunion held for people who went to the Cuba Lives festival this summer. At the event two subscriptions were sold to young activists who attended the festival through Global Exchange and are now involved in building the October 14 action to end the embargo against Cuba.

Young Socialist member Sylvia Villacis, from Miami, went on a Militant subscription team to Gainsville, Florida, where she gave a reportback from the Cuba Lives festival. The team she participated in sold a subscription to a student at the University of Florida.

They also met up with a couple young people, Josh Utley and Ian Schleiffer, who are interested in building a Young Socialists chapter in Gainsville. Utley recently returned from a trip to Ireland, where he bought a Militant at a Sinn Fein demonstration.

Seven people at the university also signed up for the August 1996 youth brigade to Cuba, which is a project being organized by a task force of the National Network on Cuba.

Vannessa Knapton, a Young Socialist member in Los Angeles will be going to visit newspaper strikers in Detroit, Michigan, on October 7. Knapton, a high school student from East Los Angeles, and Mark Friedman, a member of the International Association of Machinists, plan to participate in Militant sales teams to the picket lines. They will also visit universities, and go door to door to workers' homes to introduce them to the socialist press.

YS members in Los Angeles will also be participating in a statewide mobilization to defend affirmative action on October 12, called by Four Winds Student Movement.

The mobilization will include rallies and teach-ins at college campuses and universities throughout the state. This will be a special target day for all Young Socialists in California to get Militant subscriptions into the hands of young fighters. YS members will also use that day to sell subscriptions to the Militant and La Gaceta de Cuba at Glendale Community College and California State Los Angeles. Norberto Codina, a Cuban poet and editor of the magazine La Gaceta, will be speaking at both campuses.

In Seattle, Washington, YS members are planning a regional team to sell subscriptions to the Militant in Portland, Oregon, on November 4-5.

Through making an extra effort to get out to working- class communities, speaking to students at the universities, and participating in political events, Young Socialists are meeting youth who are interested in joining the fight for socialism.

Diana Newberry is a member of the Young Socialists in Brooklyn, New York.

 
 
 
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