Vol. 75/No. 28      August 1, 2011

Harry D’Agostino, 19, is running in the 27th Assembly District, which includes College Point, Willets Point, Kew Gardens, and parts of Forest Hills and Richmond Hill. D’Agostino works in a food manufacturing and distribution center and is a student at the State University of New York in New Paltz. In June he participated in the Third International Youth Conference in Solidarity with the Cuban Five in Havana. The five are Cuban revolutionaries serving long prison terms in the United States for monitoring the activities of right-wing Cuban exiles who have carried out violent attacks against Cuba.

Seth Galinsky, 54, is running in the 23rd A.D., which covers most of Rockaway Peninsula, Howard Beach, and Ozone Park in Queens. Galinsky writes for the Militant newspaper. He has participated in mobilizations for legalization of undocumented workers and marched against U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Libya. The SWP campaign calls for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops now.

Rebecca Williamson is the SWP candidate in the 54th A.D., which includes Crown Heights, Park Slope, and East Flatbush in Brooklyn. Twenty-nine-years old, Williamson is an assembler in an electronics plant. She has been active in defending women’s right to choose abortion. In 2007-2008 she participated in a fight to defend the union at her workplace, Dakota Premium Foods in South St. Paul, Minnesota.

All four socialist candidates are campaigning July 23 at the Harlem Book Fair and the anniversary celebration of the opening of the Cuban Revolution.
 
 
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