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Vol. 75/No. 22      June 6, 2011

 
Four areas increase
‘Militant’ fund-raising goal!
 
BY DOUG NELSON  
“The response to the Militant in working-class neighborhoods and communities here in Canada has been reflected in the higher number of first-time contributors,” said John Steele, who organizes the Militant Fighting Fund there. “One new contributor said she would send in $50. When the check arrived, it was for $100.” This week supporters of the paper there increased their fund-raising goal from $6,400 to $7,000.

Canada is joined this week by three other areas where supporters of the Militant raised their quotas: San Francisco with $1,000 more; Seattle with $200, and Houston pledging an extra $200 for the second week in a row. The four provide an example for other areas where collections have gone over, or are poised to exceed, the goals.

The four increases bring the combined local quotas to $119,200—more than $3,000 over the $116,000 goal!

Dan Fein, who organizes the fund in New York City, said supporters there initially decided to reach for a goal of 15 new contributors, but later increased it to 25 because the response was better than anticipated. So far they have received first-time donations from 24 readers of the paper. Surely they will exceed their goal again.

One new contributor in New York, Koffi Abbiw, returned Fein’s call to say he was putting $40 in the mail when he gets paid on Friday.

“I like the Militant because it is the most truthful paper I have ever read and I read a lot of papers to keep up with what’s happening in the world,” said Abbiw, a student at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn who is originally from Ghana and has been reading the paper for a year. “The Militant does not back off from telling the facts.”

Another recent contributor in New York, Samuel Alarape, an African American hospital worker, pledged $100 when he renewed his subscription for a year and picked up a copy of The Working Class and the Transformation of Learning, one of several books on special with subscriptions.
 
 
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