Vol. 75/No. 34      September 26, 2011

Real journalism
Great articles! I bought the paper at a Saveway supermarket and both myself and my wife welcomed the truthful, valued form of real journalism. We are both Cubans and share the views and ideas of your writers. Keep up the good work.

F.S.
Stockbridge, Georgia

Prison wages
I am writing to thank you for the gift subscription that you have provided to me with the inmate funding that is donated. Myself and other inmates are able to keep up to date on news from around the world.

One topic that I am curious about is if you have written about the wages that Federal inmates make. I thought this might be a good topic because, being inmates, it’s pretty much out of our hands. The public may not even know that we only make about $5 to $20 per month.

A prisoner
Florida

First time buys book
Mike Cameron, an over-the-road truck driver from Monroe, North Carolina, bought a copy of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes from me. I saw him a month later and asked him what he thought.

Mike told me he had been talking with people from Monroe about the book and the details it has about Robert F. Williams, armed self-defense of the Black community there in the 1960s, and the frame-up of Williams. A friend of his immediately ordered four copies from Amazon.

“I’ve been driving 22 years,” Mike told me. “This is the first time I ever actually bought and read a book. This book is not just history, it’s about today. Capitalism does not work.”

Stu Singer
New York, New York  
 
 
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