Before the start of the rally in New York City dozens of youth crowded around a table set up by the Socialist Workers Party to listen to a soapbox speech by Dan Fein. "There is no ‘we’ Americans. You and I, we’re part of ‘we’ with the workers and farmers of Iraq, the Palestinian people, and workers and peasants throughout the world," Fein told the students to their applause. "The ‘they’ are the ruling capitalist families in the imperialist countries--here in the United States and also in France and Germany."

Participants in the protests bought 165 copies of the Militant throughout the day, and five students subscribed to the paper. One subscription to Perspectiva Mundial was sold along with about $100 in books from Pathfinder Press.

A couple dozen students signed up for more information on the Cuba-U.S. Youth Exchange that will take place in July, and to help build meetings for Cuban youth leaders Ernesto Fernández and Estela Zulueta in New York in April.
 

BY DENNIS RICHTER
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina--Participants in a rally at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte bought 34 copies of the Militant. Three books including Marianas in Combat: Teté Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956-58, and Malcolm X Talks to Young People were sold from a table set up by three socialist workers who work the night shift at two textile mills in nearby Kannapolis, and a Young Socialists member from Concord high school who took the day off school to join in standing against the war on Iraq.

More than a dozen participants in the rally signed petitions, and expressed interest in helping to build a March 17 meeting on campus to defend Róger Calero. The meeting is sponsored by the Feminist Union and Young Socialists. YS members also handed out a flyer and talked to several students about building a North Carolina contingent to the Cuba-U.S. Youth Exchange.
 
 
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