Beginning with several hours of shaking hands and soapboxing in downtown Brownsville, supporters discussed politics with workers from that town and from Matamoros, Mexico, many of whom regularly cross the international bridge to shop for hard-to-get items. Several workers stopped to listen to Warshell and others who took the megaphone to condemn the role of U.S. imperialism.

One worker commented on the high unemployment in the region on both sides of the border and thanked the candidate for making available Pathfinder books with its extensive selection of working-class titles. A farm worker stopped to talk for more than an hour and left with a copy of Nueva Internacional no. 1. One young worker from a store across the street visited the table after asking her employer’s permission. She then returned after work to buy the pamphlet We Represent the Immense Majority of Humanity by Fidel Castro.

The following morning campaigners brought a sign supporting the West Coast dockworkers’ fight to the Port of Brownsville where they introduced Perspectiva Mundal, the Militant to a number of workers there, most of whom speak Spanish. The supporters also gave out flyers explaining the political program put forward by the socialist candidates. Later that morning at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost, supporters set up a campaign table that became a center for discussion and debate, as students and professors on both sides of the issue of support for the U.S. war in the Middle East talked with Warshell, who was one of the speakers at a rally at noon that day calling for "Hands Off Iraq."  
 
 
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