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Vol. 75/No. 41      November 14, 2011

 
Fund event puts Atlanta over top
 
BY OMARI MUSA  
More than 30 participants attended the SWP Party-Building event in Atlanta. The featured speaker was SWP leader Maggie Trowe, who talked about how the defensive battles that workers are involved in today are beginning to change our class.

Two new contributors to the party fund were among those in attendance.

Oscar Silviano, a 36-year-old from Mexico who works as an apartment cleaner, was one of them. “Whenever the bosses want to fire immigrant workers, whether it’s because they want to fight for safety or whatever, they use the excuse that their ‘number is no good,’” he said. “People are looking for a way to fight, for a solution to the problems we face. We have to unite.”

“I didn’t know of the existence of the party before,” said Rajeev Karajgikar, who moved to the U.S. from India 20 years ago. “There is disillusionment in the American Dream. From my vantage point, this party has a platform that could get a resonance in this country today.”

Rachele Fruit reported that Atlanta’s goal for the fund was $8,000. “We had pledges of $8,550 and then we got a check for $1,000! We raised $483 in new pledges at the meeting and now we’re up to $10,033.”

Fourteen copies of the new Pathfinder booklet The Cuban Five: Who They Are, Why They Were Framed, Why They Should Be Free were also sold at the meeting.

More than 50 attended the fund meeting in New York City October 29. (See article on page 8.) Tom Fiske, a leader of the party spoke on “Spreading Ties of Solidarity: Preparing for the Working-Class Battles to Come.” Some $3,000 was collected at that meeting.
 
 
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