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Vol. 74/No. 14      April 12, 2010

 
Sell the book on ‘Workers Power’
 
Washington, D.C.
Two supporters of the Militant here did a plant gate sale at Amtrak’s Ivy City maintenance yard recently. We hadn’t been selling there for many years, but after Tom Headley, who works there, reported selling 16 copies of the Workers Power book to coworkers, most with subscriptions to the Militant, we decided to back him up and join the discussion.

We sold three “combinations” of the Workers Power book with introductory subscriptions to the Militant, along with four single copies of the paper. A big majority of rail workers at this facility are Black. All three who got the book and subscription were Black, including one woman and one recent veteran who did three tours in Iraq. “Those of us with boots on the ground didn’t know why we were there,” he said.

—Susan LaMont

Miami
This week we sold five Workers Power books and four subscriptions to the Militant. One book was sold at the International Longshoremen’s Association hall in Fort Lauderdale to the president of the union local who welcomed the Militant.

Another was sold at the post office in the Black community to a young worker who said he was “looking for people like you” and ran off to the ATM to get money to purchase the book and a subscription.

A student from Florida International University also came by the Socialist Workers campaign headquarters looking for the Workers Power book, which he had read about in the Militant.

—Emily Paul

Seattle
Supporters of the Militant newspaper in Seattle are continuing to go all out to sell Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power, by Jack Barnes, to coworkers, students, and friends. Carmen Maymi-O’Reilly, who works for the Seattle school system, sold a subscription and two books at work this week, bringing her total to five.

On Sunday there was an antiwar demonstration here attended by some 200 people. John Martinez and Maymi-O’Reilly were part of a team at the demonstration engaging in discussions about the capitalist crisis and why the working class needs to take political power to begin the fight to reorganize society in the interests of the majority. Martinez said, “I’m reading about everybody else selling the new book and the response it’s getting and thought I’d better get out here.”

We get e-mail messages and phone calls at the Socialist Workers Party office almost daily requesting books and papers. A note from Dean Peoples, who works at Boeing, said, “I have sold three books and need two more ASAP.” The books are given out on consignment and the money turned in when they’re sold.

—Mary Martin  
 
 
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