The Militant - October 29, 2007 -- 250 ‘Militant’ subscriptions sold in week 2

Vol. 71/No. 40 October 29, 2007

250 ‘Militant’ subscriptions sold in week 2
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BY PAUL PEDERSON
During week two of the international subscription drive 251 people signed up to get the socialist newsweekly in the mail. This puts the seven-week effort to win 2,300 subscribers to the paper at 41 percent. Almost all areas remain ahead of schedule (see page 4 chart).

This week’s top seller is Jules Cortez of Des Moines, Iowa, with 11 subscriptions. Here are reports on last week’s subscription campaigning from Des Moines and Washington, D.C.

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BY JOE SWANSON
DES MOINES, Iowa—Supporters of the Militant here sold 41 subscriptions over 11 days in Iowa and Minnesota.

Two teams from Des Moines traveled to Albert Lea, Minnesota, and Waterloo, Iowa, on October 13. Jules Cortez alone netted 11 of the 15 subs sold going door to door in trailer courts in Albert Lea. Most were sold to meatpacking workers.

A Latina worker who recently moved from Detroit said she was taken for $10,000 by a crooked lawyer offering to get her legal papers. “We are workers, not criminals, and these lawyers are criminals,” she told Cortez as she filled out the subscription blank. The team also sold three Pathfinder books.

A team to Waterloo, Iowa, sold two subs and 21 copies of the Militant outside a Tyson meatpacking plant during shift change. They held a sign reading, “No deportations—Legalization now!” That stopped one worker who bought a sub and waved down others to stop and buy the paper.

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BY JANICE LYNN
WOODBRIDGE, Virginia—Twenty immigrant workers and others bought subscriptions to the Militant at an October 16 protest of nearly 2,000 people outside a hearing by the Prince William County Board of Supervisors. Another 41 demonstrators bought copies of the paper.

Abel Ramírez, a bricklayer, was one of the first to sign up for an introductory subscription. He came with 20 coworkers who took the day off “to get rid of this dumb law,” he said. “We’re here to work. Racism should not exist.”

Many had taken time off their jobs to show up for the hearing. The subscribers included construction workers, warehouse workers, landscapers, truck drivers, waitresses, and baby sitters.

Three students also got subscriptions.

The protesters also Pathfinder books. Ulíses Climaco bought The First and Second Declarations of Havana in Spanish and sat on the grass for an hour reading it. “The ideas in this book are the same as my ideas,” he said.

Click here to see the 'Militant' subscription drive chart

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