Special sales efforts that began last weekend as part of an extended target week that goes through the November 8 election day in the U.S. should help put the drive ahead of schedule again by next week.

Here are some examples:

In Livingston, California, the Militant was warmly received at the picket lines and rally at the Foster Farms poultry plant. Among those bringing the paper there were Socialist Workers Party candidates for local offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. At the October 29 rally of 1,500 in front of the plant and subsequent sales in surrounding communities 90 workers bought copies of the paper and 14 subscribed.

Two SWP candidates from Atlanta—Eleanor García and Lisa Potash—campaigned at the October 28-29 South Atlantic Global Women’s conference (see article on page 8), where 14 people subscribed to the Militant.

“I’m sending in the subs we sold the last few days,” wrote Joe Swanson from Des Moines October 30. “All but a few are workers. The majority are meat packers. The subs sold in Norfolk, Nebraska, after the fourth trip bring the total sold there to 34. We also sold 10 Pathfinder titles as we campaigned door-to-door with the Militant this weekend.” In Norfolk, Militant readers have reached out to meat packers who walked out in September to protest 10 firings and the denial by the bosses of prayer breaks for workers who are Muslim, most of them Somalis.

Campaigning at factory gates where socialists sell the paper regularly is netting subs in other countries too. Militant readers in Canada sold a subscription November 1 outside the Maple Leaf slaughterhouse in Toronto, bringing their total to 83 and boosting their confidence to meet their new quota of 150—double their initial goal.

Every reader can help. Please contact the Militant directly to order a bundle at 70 cents per copy to sell subs to friends, relatives, co-workers, or fellow students. Or you can join others in subbing teams (see directory on page 10).  

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