In San Francisco, Koppel was joined on a panel by Manuel Gonzalez, a college student in Santa Cruz, and José Sandoval, a central organizer of a recent immigrant rights demonstration in San Jose and longtime supporter of Pathfinder's working-class arsenal of books. Laurel Kelly, a member of the steering committee of the Pathfinder Reprint Project, spoke about the work of project volunteers around the world, who are turning every Pathfinder title into a ready-to-print digital file.

"We are now in a position to increase our goal," wrote Bev Bernardo following a successful fund meeting May 11 in Upper Manhattan. Some $627 was raised at the event, which featured Militant staff writer Roger Calero.

"By asking people to make a contribution at a literature table," Bernardo said, "we collected $15.75 in response to our books and signs in defense of immigrant rights and opposing police brutality."

Having already raised $605, supporters in New Zealand have raised their goal from $800 to $1,145. Supporters in Sydney, Australia, held a Pathfinder fund celebration May 6. Some $243 towards a goal of $900 has been raised there, Doug Cooper writes. Peter Weitzel, a teacher and activist in the Australia Cuba Friendship Society, spoke at the meeting about Playa Girón: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas. The foreword to the new book, which recounts how students in Minnesota rallied to the defense of the Cuban Revolution during the U.S.-organized invasion in 1961, "emphasized how Cuba, then as now, provided encouragement for people to struggle," he said.

With another new book, Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, rolling off the presses at Pathfinder's printshop in New York, supporters of the fund have an excellent opportunity to raise money.  
 
 
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