NEW YORK—Harry D’Agostino (right), Socialist Workers candidate for New York lieutenant governor, and Ruth Robinett (center), SWP candidate for U.S. Senate, joined demonstrators here September 11 who were protesting calls for the government to prevent the building of an Islamic center near the site of the World Trade Center. “We need to have a real choice,” said one participant Azreal Morales, “because those elected don’t answer to us.”

—HARRY D’AGOSTINO