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    Vol.60/No.30           September 2, 1996 
 
 
Letters  

`Militant' on tape
Readers and distributors of the Militant should know that there is an edition of the Militant on cassette tape that is available for people who are blind, visually impaired, or dyslexic. The tape subscription is offered to those who, because of their impairment, are legally qualified to receive postage- free tapes in the mail.

Following are some comments that have come in recently from subscribers to the paper's tape edition.

Loren Schmidt of Iowa City, Iowa, writes:

"A couple of brief thoughts about the role of the Militant in enabling me to be more effective talking with other workers.

"Although I read other periodicals, it's clear that the Militant is the single most important and accurate in terms of giving me a sense of what's happening.

"But there's an even more important facet of this and that is that the news it contains are encouraging. Before I began reading it, and related material like the issues of New International, I had very little sense of the resistance others are putting up, and nothing of the theoretical framework which people are developing."

Roger Bailey from Charleston, West Virginia, writes:

"I have been a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party and of the Militant for 24 years, the last eight of which I have been blind. Without the Militant on tape it would be necessary for me to rely solely on the capitalist media as my only source of information. So I would be in the dark about many of the working-class struggles going on about me in the world today. That is why I appreciate this service very much."

And Claude Decoret from Lyon, France, wrote that he enjoys listening to the tape and is acquiring "a better understanding of the American accent."

The tape edition of the Militant is recorded and mailed by volunteers in Seattle, who receive the text by e-mail from New York. The tapes are mailed to subscribers within 48 hours from the time of publication.

If Militant distributors meet anyone who might be interested in a subscription to the tape edition, their name and address should be sent in to the Militant business office [see address on page 2]; they will receive a sample copy of the paper on tape in the mail. Or they can simply subscribe at the same rate as for the printed edition.

Jim Miller

Seattle, Washington

Ireland coverage
Enclosed is a renewal for my Militant as well as a new subscription for my cousin Brian. Brian is in the third year of a 20-year sentence for doing his part in the struggle for freedom in the northeastern occupied counties in Ireland, and has expressed interest in the paper. He is presently in the H- Block of the Long Kesh prison in northeastern Ireland. I have also sent him a copy of Ernesto Che Guevara's Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War. Thank you and please keep up the excellent coverage on Ireland and all who continue the struggle fighting for equality throughout the world.

Michael Cavlan

Palo Alto, California

Protest against Buchanan
Twenty-five people picketed outside a Republican party fundraising dinner for a local congressional candidate at the Rosebud restaurant in Pittsburgh July 11. The dinner featured Patrick Buchanan as the keynote speaker. The picket line, which was initiated by the Western Pennsylvania Socialist Workers Campaign Committee, drew activists from the Campus Coalition for Peace and Justice (an anti-police brutality group), National Organization for Women, the 14th Ward Democratic Club, International Socialist Organization, the Young Socialists, and SWP.

Spirited chanting of slogans such as "Patrick Buchanan go away, immigrants are here to stay," and "Not the church, not the state, women must decide their fate" forced the organizers to close the large doors of the restaurant that are customarily left open in the summer.

The local CBS affiliate along with reporters for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and KQV radio interviewed participants in the protest.

Sandi Sherman

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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