Vol. 72/No. 41 October 20, 2008
A special focus is getting orders for New International no. 14, whose lead article is Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X, and its Spanish-language counterpart, Nueva Internacional no. 8. Orders have already come in from Texas, California, and Illinois.
Pathfinder volunteers are also taking advantage of the widespread discussion provoked by the capitalist financial crisis to show buyers Capitalisms Long Hot Winter Has Begun in New International no. 12, Imperialisms March toward Fascism and War in New International no. 10, and the book Capitalisms World Disorder: Working-Class Politics at the Millennium.
Teams of volunteers have made trips to Portland, Oregon; Tallahassee and Tampa, Florida; and Santa Cruz, California, to expand visits and sales to even more cities and states. They have participated in book fairs and conferences, staffing booths at the New York Is Book Country fair, the Brooklyn Book Festival, and the Reforma library conference in El Paso, Texas.
On a trip to Portland, Oregon, volunteers met with four buyers, including one who orders backlist titles for Portlands largest bookstore and who asked for a shortlist of 25 titles published before 2006 that he could review.
The teams are soliciting library subscription orders for three Spanish-language periodicals published in Cuba and distributed by Pathfinder: Granma International, La Gaceta de Cuba, and Cuba Socialista. They are also promoting several pamphlets about the case of the Cuban Five, five Cuban revolutionaries unjustly imprisoned in the United States.
Volunteers in Miami have been working with an African studies professor who ordered Womens Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle, by Thomas Sankara, for one of his classes. Another Florida professor is using By Any Means Necessary by Malcolm X for a class. Three Miami university libraries recently ordered the video Cuba and Angola: Response to the South African Escalation to be used by African studies departments.
Pathfinder supporters will visit a number of stores over the Columbus Day holiday weekend, October 11-13.
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