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Vol. 74/No. 34      September 6, 2010

 
Socialist files for
ballot in Washington
 
BY SUSAN LAMONT  
WASHINGTON—Omari Musa, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of the District of Columbia, filed nominating petitions August 17 at the Board of Elections to gain a place on the November 2 ballot. Supporters of the socialist candidate gathered 5,142 signatures—well over the 3,000 required—from working people throughout the city in late July.

The visit to the Board of Elections capped a busy week of campaigning by Musa, Paul Pederson, and Glova Scott. Pederson and Scott are the socialist candidates for D.C. City Council chair and D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, respectively. Along with supporters, they campaigned at a candidates’ forum at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and participated in a picket line protesting the closure of an elementary school.

The candidates also joined a union rally of fired school employees and attended a community picnic held by the Reentry Network for Returning Citizens. The organizer of the picnic met Musa and Pederson at the candidates’ forum earlier in the week and invited the socialists to set up a literature table at the picnic. Most of the 40 people present either had family members currently in prison or had been incarcerated themselves.

On August 18 Musa appeared on the WPFW radio’s Latino Media Collective program, speaking on the case of the Cuban Five, who are unjustly jailed in U.S. prisons on frame-up charges. They were arrested in 1998 while in Florida monitoring the activities of right-wing Cuban groups that launch violent attacks on Cuba.
 
 
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