Vol. 75/No. 39      October 31, 2011

David Rosenfeld writes that $303 was collected at a Party-Building Fund meeting in Des Moines. Among the participants were Jessica Garraway and David Pope, students from University of Northern Iowa and leaders of Occupy Cedar Valley and the Feminist Action League.

Frank Forrestal from the Socialist Workers Party, who has written for the Militant about the fight of locked-out sugar beet workers in the Upper Midwest, was the main speaker. Garraway also spoke. She described how she and Pope concluded they were socialists and sought out members of the Socialist Workers Party. “Reading the Militant pushed me to want to get involved,” she said. “I talked to the sugar workers in Minnesota and was inspired to see people who were going about their daily lives months earlier and were now organizing picket lines.”

A sanitation worker from Austin, Texas; a retired carpenter; and a teacher came to a fund meeting of 20 people in Houston where $1,300 was collected. Paul Mailhot, who organized the team of communist workers to bring the Militant and books on revolutionary working-class politics to the Tahrir Book Fair in Cairo, Egypt, earlier this year, spoke on “Israel and the Class Struggle in the Middle East Today.”

In Chicago Keenan Boyd, a Columbia College student who has been part of the Occupy Chicago demonstrations, brought greetings to a fund meeting there; $2,540 was collected.
 
 
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