"There’s no secret to success: it’s persistence in calling and talking to people," Geyer said, adding, "People really appreciate being called about the fund."

In discussing the fund "we have been highlighting the announcement that Pathfinder will be publishing pamphlets by Lenin," he said. "People are really excited about that."

Over the past week--the sixth in the campaign, which ends June 10--some $10,000 has been collected and sent in. A total of $60,778 has been raised out of the $100,000 goal. This means the momentum has been growing, but decisive steps need to be taken to raise the remainder and make the goal on time.

From Des Moines, Edwin Fruit reports that with a successful meeting May 27 to celebrate the publication of Pathfinder’s new book Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas, Pathfinder supporters there will be able to go over their original goal of $1,400.

The featured speaker was Lawrence Mikesh, a meat packer and Young Socialist who had recently attended the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC) congress in Havana. "He explained how Pathfinder’s publications help people see there is a working class internationally with counterposed interests to those of the capitalists and that these books show the line of march necessary for that class to take power," Fruit wrote.

Some $540 was collected for the fund at the meeting, Fruit said, including $100 in new pledges. More than $100 of Pathfinder literature and three Militant subscriptions were sold at the meeting as well.  
 
 
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