Vol. 71/No. 23      June 11, 2007

Among supporters who took goals in 26 cities around the world, 24 made or surpassed their quotas. In many places workers and youth who are new to the paper got involved in the circulation effort for the first time.

The May Day mobilizations across the United States to demand legalization of undocumented immigrants were the turning point of the drive. More than 300 people signed up on May 1, making that week the best of the eight-week effort.

A number of people who signed up then, or at other immigrant rights actions, have been helping to sign up others.

In Belle Glade, Florida, for example, said Maggie Trowe, a garment worker in Miami, “We asked a subscriber if she knew anyone who might be interested in the paper, and she said, ‘Everyone here.’ We went together to nine houses and sold subscriptions in eight of them to sugar and other farm workers.”

“We got a good response wherever we went in the upper Midwest,” said Frank Forrestal, a packinghouse worker in Des Moines, Iowa. Many described the conditions they are confronting at their own work sites. “These are people we will definitely keep in touch with,” said Forrestal.

Supporters of the paper in Toronto, Canada, made an appeal at a Militant Labor Forum for help in the campaign. One worker, said Beverly Bernardo, a meat packer there, renewed his subscription and took several sub blanks. “Three weeks later he came back with two subscriptions,” she said. “Now we want to meet and get to know these new readers.”

That can be emulated everywhere.

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