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    Vol.60/No.19           May 13, 1996 
 
 
`Militant' Announces New Staff Member  

BY NAOMI CRAINE

With this issue, the Militant announces the addition of Megan Arney to the editorial staff. Before joining the staff Arney, 26, was a member of the United Steelworkers of America, working as a plater at Advanced Circuits, a computer parts factory in Roseville, MN. She was well known as a socialist among co-workers, selling three copies of Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, as well as other Pathfinder books and the Militant, on the job over the last few months.

Arney is a leader of the Young Socialists. She took major responsibilities as a member of the YS steering committee in organizing the group's first convention April 6-7 in Minneapolis.

Before joining the YS in November 1994, Arney was active at the University of Minnesota in defense of women's rights. She traveled to Cuba on an international youth brigade in January 1995. As a leader of the Twin Cities Cuba Network she helped organize and participated with other young people to go to Cuba for an international youth festival last summer. She was also involved in building demonstrations in the United States to oppose Washington's policy of aggression against the Caribbean island.

Arney wrote about the strike by United Auto Workers members at Caterpillar after visiting the picket lines as part of a Militant sales and reporting team in February 1995. She has since written for the Militant on activities of the Young Socialists, from the organization's work in support of the Cuban revolution to defending framed-up socialist Mark Curtis.

In February she provided coverage of the congress of the Movement of Young Communists of France, which she attended as part of a YS delegation from the United States.  
 
 
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