Vol.61/No.40           November 17, 1997 
 
 
Houston Socialist Campaign In The News  
"Mayoral candidates speak at UH," read the headline from the University of Houston student newspaper, The Daily Cougar October 16 over an article about a campus debate that included Socialist Workers candidate for mayor Patti Iiyama. The article quoted Iiyama extensively about education, affirmative action, taxes, employment, and racism. "Affirmative action is important to all workers, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, citizen, immigrant, whatever, because there can be no unity with discrimination," the student newspaper quoted Iiyama as saying. The article ran with the picture above.  
 
 
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