Gaining momentum, supporters in San Francisco, where pledges have now been made by 56 people, raised their local goal from $8,000 to $10,000. This also helps bridge the gap between total local quotas, now at more than $95,000 and the international goal of $100,000.

"We anticipate that we will go over our goal if we collect all the pledges," said Lea Bockman, the Atlanta Pathfinder Fund director. They are planning a special event June 8 featuring Róger Calero, a staff writer for the Militant and Perspectiva Mundial, speaking on "Cuba and the Coming American Revolution." Also speaking will be Michael Ellis, a high school student from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Linda Joyce, from Atlanta, who volunteers for the Pathfinder Reprint Project.

In New York’s Garment District, a public fund-raising meeting drew a full house, including several attending an event there for the first time. The meeting, which featured Militant and Perspectiva Mundial editor Martín Koppel, sparked discussion that continued informally until well past midnight. Participants included a worker who spoke about resistance by his native Garífona community on Honduras’s Atlantic Coast to encroachment by foreign capitalist tourism developers. A young man who had attended the Quebec City protests in April against the Free Trade Area of the Americas and wanted to know what communists thought of them.  
 
 
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