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Vol. 72/No. 19      May 12, 2008

 
YS builds May Day actions
on campuses, at protests
(Young Socialists in Action column)
 
This column is written and edited by members of the Young Socialists, a revolutionary socialist youth organization. For more information contact the YS at 306 W. 37th St., 10th floor, New York, NY 10018; tel. (212) 629-6649; e-mail: youngsocialists@mac.com.

BY EDDIE BECK  
CARROLLTON, Georgia—Young socialists are campaigning on campuses and in working-class neighborhoods to build actions in Georgia demanding amnesty and legalization now for all undocumented workers.

“We’ve met students who are planning to join the march on May 1,” said Loretta Van Pelt, 27, a YS member and the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Georgia’s 3rd District. “I’ve been explaining that when elected I will put legislation forward for amnesty and immediate legal status for all.”

“I’m not going to school on May Day,” said Wesley Lewis, a student at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia. Lewis, a member of the Young Socialists, has been encouraging fellow students to come out and join the May 1 action in Atlanta. “Several organizations got together this year to make sure a May 1 demonstration happened.”

YS members also set up a campaign table near the Lawrence Mobile Home Park here in Carrollton, where last June immigration cops raided several workers’ homes and a nearby congregating point for day laborers. One worker immediately picked up the new Pathfinder pamphlet Is Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible? and decided to buy it with an introductory subscription to the Militant.

Nationwide, Young Socialists are explaining to youth attracted to working-class struggles why the fight for legalization is the central question facing the working class today, and they are encouraging other young people to get involved. In New York, Young Socialists promoted the May Day march at street actions protesting the acquittal of three cops on trial for killing Sean Bell, a 23-year-old African American. “One young woman who was holding up a sign representing the number of bullets cops unloaded on Bell asked to have her picture taken with the May 1st flyer after receiving it from YS members,” said Maura DeLuca, a YS member in New York.
 
 
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