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Vol. 71/No. 21      May 28, 2007

 
'Militant' supporters raise sub drive quotas
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BY RÓGER CALERO  
NEW YORK, May 15—With two more weeks to go in the Militant's spring subscription drive, supporters of the paper are gearing up to meet or surpass local quotas. Distributors in four cities—Birmingham, Alabama; Miami; San Francisco; and Twin Cities—increased their quotas last week.

To meet the international goal, 221 subscriptions per week are needed the remaining two weeks of the circulation campaign—about the same number that came in last week.

Many workers helping to get the Militant around on the job and elsewhere across the United States report that the paper's coverage of the fight for legalization of undocumented immigrants is finding broad interest among working people of all nationalities.

“The chart on the May Day actions in last week's issue was especially attractive on the job," Dan Fein, a garment worker in the Bronx here, told the Militant. “Altogether last week, nine coworkers bought copies—some of them first-time readers—and another got an introductory subscription. Many had seen the coverage on Spanish TV of the attack by L.A. cops against the May Day march there, and wanted to read the Militant's coverage.”

Last weekend 25 people bought copies of the paper and two subscribed at a literature table in Harlem, most of them African Americans. These workers were particularly interested in the paper's coverage of the May Day actions and the police riot in Los Angeles, said Paul Pederson, a Militant supporter here.

Such experiences highlight the opportunities to expand the paper's readership and surpass the international goal of the subscription drive by the May 27 deadline.

Click here to see the subscription drive chart

 
 
 
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