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Vol. 74/No. 17      May 3, 2010

 
Read, Sell, & Discuss
 Malcolm X, Black Liberation,
& the Road to Workers Power

Seattle
This past week we sold five copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power along with eight Militant subscriptions. Three of these subscriptions were sold in Anacortes, Washington, across from the site where six workers were killed at the Tesoro oil refinery April 2. One of the subscriptions was to a student, another to a firefighter, and the third to a construction worker who had seen a coworker killed in an accident at his work site.

Another subscription was sold at a picket line here against the Rio Tinto mining company. More than 500 miners, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 30, have been locked out by the company since the end of January after voting against a takeback contract.

We also visited the ILWU hiring hall, where workers come to pick up their paychecks. There a young African American worker bought the book with a subscription after looking through the book’s photos.

—Edwin Fruit

New York
An attractive display of the new Pathfinder book Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power was set up at a luncheon meeting for Cuban medical students Yenaivis Fuentes and Aníbal Ramos at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, April 14. It received a really good response. Fuentes and Ramos, both leaders of the Cuban Federation of University Students, were on a one-month speaking tour of U.S. campuses. Hofstra was one of the three campuses where they spoke during a three-day visit here.

After the presentations, four students who had not brought money to the meeting asked if we could wait a few minutes while they went to their dorms or ATM machines. They returned shortly each holding $20 bills to sign up for the special offer of 12 weeks of the Militant and the Workers Power book for $15. We sold a total of nine books and subscriptions to the 30 students at the meeting.

—Dan Fein and Ruth Robinett

San Francisco
Two supporters of the Militant working at United Airlines here have so far sold 15 copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power and four subscriptions to the Militant. One useful way of getting the book around has been to ask those who have already bought it for suggestions of other coworkers who might be interested. We’ve also been lending out copies of the book, encouraging everyone to look at the many photographs and read the captions. This has helped convince others to buy the book.

—Tom Tomasko
 
 
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