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Vol. 72/No. 16      April 21, 2008

 
Uptick in protests aids Militant Fund
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BY CINDY JAQUITH  
Each week brings news of more demonstrations being planned on May Day to demand legalization for undocumented workers. Our lead story this week is a report on new developments with the Chicago march, which has won significant support from that city’s labor movement.

On page two we feature a report by Alyson Kennedy from inside the cab of one of the trucks in a Georgia convoy during the truckers’ strike April 1 to protest the high cost of fuel, insurance, and vehicle maintenance.

Kennedy also joined sanitation workers who turned out April 4 in Memphis to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

These all point to an upswing in political resistance by working people that is good news for our efforts to win new subscribers to the Militant and more donors to the Militant Fund.

We remain behind in gathering funds for the paper. As of this week, we have received $15,756, but we needed $25,000 to be on schedule. A few areas still have not sent in any contributions.

Our goal is to raise $100,000 by May 18. There is a gap of $3,240 between that goal and the goals local areas have set thus far.

An important opportunity to raise funds and talk with new subscribers will be the fund meetings planned in local areas. These benefits for the Militant will focus on world politics today—the tightening squeeze on working people with the spreading capitalist economic crisis; the increase in resistance by workers, documented and undocumented, in the United States; the U.S. presidential race; and the place of the Cuban Revolution.

Joining the platforms will be Militant readers who are part of the vanguard of the working-class resistance who can explain why the paper is important to them.

In Newark, New Jersey, an April 25 meeting to benefit the fund will feature Ben O’Shaughnessy, spokesman for Young Socialists for Calero and Kennedy.

$100,000 'Militant' Fund Drive chart (week 2 of 8)

 
 
 
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