There are a number of examples of how socialist workers and young socialists are working with people who purchased one of the periodicals or Pathfinder books to get them to come to the local Pathfinder bookstore, a Militant Labor Forum, or protest action. This is exactly what the subscription drive is for: to meet new workers and youth who are attracted to the revolutionary perspectives put forward by the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial and to introduce them to the Socialist Workers Party, Communist League, or Young Socialists in the area.

Through six weeks of the subscription drive, partisans of the socialist press have sold 502 Militant subscriptions, 215 PM subscriptions, and 265 copies of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution. While the campaign has fallen behind schedule, sales reports from a number of places indicate socialists workers and young socialists are building up steam for the target week.
 

Good start to western coal team

BY ALYSON KENNEDY  
CRAIG, Colorado--"We sold 45 copies of the Militant to miners at the McKinley Mine in Tse Bonito, New Mexico, during our two visits there," reported Jeff Powers, who joined with two others for a three-day sales team to the coalfields in Arizona and New Mexico. One of the miners purchased a subscription to the Militant.

Powers, other socialist workers, and young socialists met here to map out plans for a week of selling the Militant, Perspectiva Mundial, and Pathfinder titles to working people in the coalfields of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. The team included participants from Los Angeles; San Francisco; Seattle; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Atlanta; Brownsville, Texas; and Colorado.

On May 25, the first day of the regional sales effort, one team went to the Twenty Mile Coal Mine, in Hayden, Colorado, where they sold several copies of the Militant. The sales team that traveled to New Mexico sold a Militant subscription and five papers at a flea market and a number of Militants as they went door-to-door in working-class neighborhoods. They are planning a visit to the coalfields on the Navajo Nation to meet with miners employed by the Peabody coal company, as well as Native American ranchers and farmers who are locked in a struggle with the coal bosses over water rights.

Several team members went to Wyoming where they sold 17 papers, including seven at the coal portal of the Kemmerer mine and nine copies plus a subscription to the Militant while talking to workers at their homes in Diamondville. They also went to the Union Pacific railyard in Green River, Wyoming, where they sold a Militant.

One team went to Rifle, Colorado, and sold six copies of Perspectiva Mundial, five copies of the Militant, along with two subscriptions. About a year ago, 2,000 people marched in Rifle to protest the racist murders of four Mexican workers. Another team sold a Militant subscription, five papers, and a copy of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution while going door-to-door in Meeker, Colorado.
 

18 subscriptions sold at Vancouver protest

BY BEVERLY BERNARDO  
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--As at least 20,000 working people marched in Vancouver to protest massive cuts to health care and education and sweeping attacks on workers’ rights, a team of Young Socialists and socialist workers from Vancouver and Seattle got good results selling the Militant and Pathfinder books. We set up three tables at assembly points for the march and the main rally site. We sold 18 Militant subscriptions as well as 116 copies of the Militant, and eight people signed up to be called back about taking advantage of the paper’s introductory subscription offer. One young person we met at the demonstration came to the Pathfinder bookstore here the next day to talk politics with us. She left with a subscription to the Militant and a copy of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution.

Protesters also bought three copies of Cuba and the Coming American Revolution and five other Pathfinder titles. Many who bought the Militant were seeing the paper for the first time, but others commented that they had seen the paper at previous protest actions against the British Columbia government. One person who had purchased the Militant at the February 23 rally of 30,000 people in Victoria came to the table looking for the paper, and ended up getting a subscription.
 

‘Militant’ campaigners join rally against killer cops in New Jersey

BY DON HAMMOND  
NEWARK, New Jersey--Supporters of the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial here recently joined a protest at the Bloomfield, New Jersey, police station. The demonstrators were demanding justice for Santiago Villanueva, a Dominican garment worker killed on the job in April by Bloomfield cops while he was having an epileptic seizure. His wife Lisa Ann Villanueva, who attended the protest, said, "My husband will not rest peacefully until there is justice."

One person participating in the demonstration bought a subscription to Perspectiva Mundial. Another protest action is planned for May 31.

Before joining the rally partisans of the circulation drive visited homes of workers in Bloomfield where they sold one subscription to PM and one to the Militant. Socialist workers also sold a PM subscription in the working-class district of North Newark where the Pathfinder bookstore is being relocated. Some workers who live in this area work at the nonunion Nebraska Meat Corp. where socialists sell the paper at the plant gate every week. "We’re trying to get the union in here," said one of the meat packers who recently purchased a copy of the Militant at the plant gate.  
 
 
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