Vol. 71/No. 16      April 23, 2007

This puts the international effort to win 2,400 new subscribers by the end of May ahead of schedule.

Supporters of the Militant from Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco took part in the 15,000-strong march in Los Angeles last Saturday demanding legalization of immigrants. They signed up 17 subscribers and sold 130 copies of the paper at the action. At smaller rallies the same day in New York and Los Angeles to oppose U.S. policies toward Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia, nine more people subscribed.

“One fellow worker who expressed discontent with the ‘immigration reform’ bills now in Congress subscribed,” said Maggie Trowe, a butcher in a meat provisioning plant in Miami. “She said the Militant is a good paper.”

“Despite winter weather hanging on, we have had good results at literature tables and showing the paper door-to-door in working-class areas,” said Beverly Bernardo in Toronto. “We have sold 25 subs so far. One of them was to a worker who arrived here from Mexico five months ago and has worked all over North America, including on the fishing boats in Alaska.”

To give an extra boost to the campaign, Militant supporters are planning a “target week” of sales between Saturday, April 21, and Sunday, April 29. During those nine days, in addition to regular outreach on the job, at school, and beyond, they will field daily teams in their cities and broader region.

One of these teams will go to the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico April 19-23 to sell subs to coal miners and other working people in the region.

Join the effort! Contact the Militant or distributors listed on p. 8.

Click here to see the subscription drive chart