In San Francisco, socialists joined a rally of 500 at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where a one-day work stoppage of campus workers took place. They sold 20 single copies and a subscription.

Seth Dellinger from Los Angeles writes, “Supporters of the Militant were invited to set up a table at a concert organized at the South Central Farmers’ gardens and sold a subscription to Perspectiva Mundial along with a copy of Nueva Internacional no. 7. Garden farmers are fighting the city government’s attempts to displace them from their small plots in Vernon, an industrial center east of L.A. We also sold four subscriptions to young people planning to attend the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students.”

Dan Fein and Peter Musser, Socialist Workers candidates for New York city comptroller and Bronx borough president, respectively, joined an anti-police brutality rally at New York’s city hall April 18 against the release of New York City cop Francis Livoti from a North Carolina federal prison. Livoti served seven years for the 1994 killing of 29-year-old Anthony Baez, who he strangled to death using a chokehold. “I used to subscribe to the Militant years ago,” said a woman when she saw the paper. When she filled out the sub blank she checked the renewal box and said, “I am glad you are here.”

On April 20, Fein sold a subscription to a bus driver and member of TWU Local 100 at a strike settlement meeting between the union and the Bee-Line bus company in Westchester County. The bus drivers were ending a 48-day strike against the company around the demand for early retirement without a reduction in benefits. “He saw the articles the Militant had written about their strike,” Fein said, “but he got the subscription because of the coverage of world politics.”

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