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   Vol. 70/No. 11           March 20, 2006  
 
 
‘You’re only as safe as union is strong’
Best week in ‘Militant’ sales
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BY ARGIRIS MALAPANIS  
“While in Kearny, Arizona, last weekend we talked with Kelly Hunt, the safety committee chairman of the United Steelworkers local there,” said Wendy Lyons from Los Angeles in a March 7 note to the Militant. “He started out saying, ‘You’re only as safe as the union is strong.’ He praised the miners in Mexico who walked out last week over this question, as he subscribed to the Militant.” Grupo Mexico, which owns the mines and smelter plants workers struck in Mexico, also owns Asarco, the copper giant that forced Steelworkers on strike last year in Arizona and Texas.

There was a similar response by working people to the Militant across the United States and other countries last week, resulting in 243 new and repeat subscribers—the best week yet in the seven-week effort to increase the paper’s long-term readership.

Des Moines had a bang-up week, selling 21 subs, including five renewals, said Joe Swanson from that Midwest city. New and repeat readers included a number of meat packers and members of the United Food and Commercial Workers in Perry and Marshalltown, Iowa, he said. “One UFCW member from Omaha, Nebraska, renewed his sub for a year at a special Militant Labor Forum here March 4 that featured Bill Estrada, a coal miner from Utah” (see ad).

Similar forums took place in Miami, Houston, and Philadelphia that weekend. Those present at the four events donated more than $4,000 to the Militant, bringing the amount raised at such events in the last three weeks to over $12,500.

“We sold 23 papers and 10 subscriptions to the 200 miners and others participating in the March 7 demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama, called by the UMWA,” reported Maurice Williams from Birmingham. “Over the last five days we sold 160 copies and 19 subscriptions to the Militant here, including a number of subscriptions people bought at coal mine portals, working-class neighborhoods, and at the yearly festival in Selma celebrating the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.”

Three readers of the paper sold 25 subscriptions and nearly 250 copies of the Militant to workers attending the March 7 labor rally in Frankfort, Kentucky, said Dan Fein from New York.

These results bode well for meeting the international quota of 1,350 renewals and new subs by March 13, when the current circulation campaign ends. You can be part of the effort into the homestretch! Contact the Militant to order a bundle or distributors nearest you to join teams they organize (see directory)
 
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