Vol. 79/No. 10      March 23, 2015

At a March 7 rally in Charleston, West Virginia, against a proposed “right-to-work” law, 25 people got Militant subscriptions and 35 bought single copies.

Striking oil workers are subscribing to the paper in growing numbers. At the Feb. 24 march and rally in front of the Marathon Oil headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, 14 workers subscribed.

Seven refinery workers in the Los Angeles area, including four strikers against Tesoro in Carson, got subscriptions.

“We bought a subscription. We save the papers because they give an accurate description of our struggle,” Brandi Sanders, a warehouse worker at Marathon Galveston Bay Refining in Texas City, Texas, told Militant volunteers.

In Catlettsburg, Kentucky, Militant supporters spent the evening on the picket lines March 6 with workers on strike against Marathon there. Three workers picked up subscriptions to the paper, and two bought copies of Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs, a book about the 1934 strikes that built the industrial union movement in Minneapolis.

“I’m glad to see a newspaper like this,” Al Vandergriff told Militant supporters who visited him and his wife, Ida, in Pasco, Washington, Feb. 25, the day of the funeral of Antonio Zambrano, a 35-year-old agricultural worker killed by police.

“It’s important to protest these police killings,” Ida added. The couple also bought a copy of Teamster Rebellion.

Two people subscribed to the paper while picketing a Safeway grocery store in Olympia, Washington, March 2 in support of the fight by berry pickers at Sakuma Farms in Burlington for recognition of their union, Familias Unidas.

Each week the lead article from the Militant is translated to French in Canada and posted on the website www.themilitant.com. While Philippe Tessier from Montreal was attending the Haiti International Book Fair last December, workers signed up to receive French-language articles by email.

“Thanks for your weekly articles,” wrote Jean-Jacques Toussaint from Haiti Feb. 23, Tessier reports. “I’m circulating them among students and plan to distribute them among workers leading up to May Day.”

You can join efforts to spread the reach of the Militant. Contact distributors in your area, listed on page 8.  
 
 
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