BY STU SINGER
ENFIELD, North Carolina - The 100 Black farmers, landowners, workers, students, and others who participated in the Second National Black Land Loss Summit showed a great deal of interest in the Militant and Pathfinder books and pamphlets. Nine subscriptions to the newspaper were sold, one of them a one-year sub and two for six months. Another five single copies were sold, along with 37 Pathfinder titles.

The Militants were sold primarily around the issue of the war in Iraq. Black farmers leader Eddie Slaughter from Buena Vista, Georgia, renewed his subscription for six months and said it was a war for oil and against the Arab peoples. An environmental activist from Durham, North Carolina, bought a single copy of the paper but disagreed with the Militant, saying he thought war was unlikely but that the U.S. government would be doing the right thing if they decided to attack Iraq.

Sam Jackson, a young Black farmer who grows cotton in South Carolina, bought a one-year subscription and was interested in the Militant's reporting about Cuba. "The Bay of Pigs was where the Cubans kicked the U.S.'s butt," he commented. "I want to find out more about Cuba. I think it's probably different than what they tell you all the time." David Singletary, who bought a six-month subscription, is from a North Carolina farm family that lost their land. He was interested in the coverage of the labor movement as well as the international scope of the Militant.

The Pathfinder books and pamphlets sold covered a wide- range of issues. They included seven copies of Farmers Face the Crisis of the 1990s by Doug Jenness; one each of The Changing Face of U.S. Politics by Jack Barnes, Problems of Women's Liberation by Evelyn Reed, and Pombo: A Man of Che's `guerrilla' by Harry Villegas; and three copies of How Far We Slaves Have Come by Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro.  
 
 
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