I didn't realize they did. Because you asked I just reread this one and
I noticed the question marks that I had missed before because I don't
read my own posts once they are on the list. I have no idea why they are
there.
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Voltaire
??? Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
???
??? Voltaire,
On 7/6/2019 12:00 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Roger,
I wonder if you have an answer as to why recent posts of yours contain
so many question marks?
Carl Jarvis
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On 7/6/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2019/07/06/swp-candidates-step-up-campaigning-demand-us-rulers-hands-off-iran/
SWP candidates step up campaigning, demand ???US rulers??? hands off
Iran!???
By Janet Post
Vol. 83/No. 25
July 15, 2019
Left, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council Malcolm Jarrett joins
Wabtec workers picket May 17. Alyson Kennedy, at right, campaigns door
to door in West Dallas in 2018. Two SWP campaigners will travel, speak
across country.
Left, UE; right, Miitant/Hilda Cuzco
Left, SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council Malcolm Jarrett joins
Wabtec workers picket May 17. Alyson Kennedy, at right, campaigns door
to door in West Dallas in 2018. Two SWP campaigners will travel, speak
across country.
Socialist Workers Party candidates and their supporters across the
country are stepping up efforts to introduce the party, its
working-class program and activities to workers and youth coming out of
the party-sponsored 2019 International Active Workers Conference held
June 13-15.
To strengthen the party???s campaigns, Alyson Kennedy, its 2016
presidential candidate and 2019 candidate for mayor of Dallas, and
Malcolm Jarrett, the SWP candidate this year for Pittsburgh City
Council, will visit different areas to join in campaigning on workers???
doorsteps, at local union strike picket lines, march in social protests,
talk to the press and speak together at public meetings.
???Everywhere we go we???ll discuss why working people need to speak out
against the U.S. rulers??? war threats against Iran, Venezuela and Cuba,???
Jarrett said. Party candidates across the country have recently been
participating in demonstrations calling for ???U.S. hands off Iran!??? and
???End the sanctions!???
???We???ll be explaining the need for working people to break from the
Democrats and Republicans, the two parties that represent the interests
of the ruling rich and their political system,??? Kennedy told the
Militant.
At the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey, Lea Sherman and Candace
Wagner, SWP candidates for New Jersey General Assembly, joined a rally
June 27 demanding driver???s licenses for undocumented immigrants,
sponsored by the immigrant rights group Cosecha. ???Winning licenses
serves to unite us. And it puts us in a stronger position to fight for
amnesty for the 11 million immigrants without papers so we can organize
and rebuild a fighting union movement,??? Wagner, a union rail worker,
told fellow protesters.
Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, and
Francisco Molina with driver???s license placard at protest for licenses
for immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey, June 27.
Militant/Candace Wagner
Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for New Jersey General Assembly, and
Francisco Molina with driver???s license placard at protest for licenses
for immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey, June 27.
The same day members of the Communications Workers of America who
gathered at the Statehouse to lobby government officials invited Cosecha
members to speak on the fight for licenses. ???We???ll continue to fight
until we win licenses for everyone,??? Norma Morales told some 100 people
from both organizations. ???We???re standing united, without papers and
without fear,??? added Caritina Hernandez. They got enthusiastic applause.
Sherman and Wagner will join Seth Galinsky, SWP candidate for New York
City public advocate, at a campaign program at the opening of the new
SWP hall at 3600 Bergenline in Union City July 6.
Rachele Fruit launched her campaign as SWP candidate for the Atlanta
Board of Education at a Militant Labor Forum June 28. Two days earlier
she joined an action called by the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition
demanding, ???U.S. hands off Iran!??? and ???End U.S. sanctions now!???
There she met Thomas Proenza, a former graduate student and member of
Democratic Socialists of America. He said he wanted to donate to the
campaign, bought a subscription to the Militant and got a copy of the
Militant supplement ???Revolution, Counterrevolution and War in Iran.??? It
describes the working-class-led protests that swept 90 cities and towns
across Iran early last year and presents the stakes for the working
class in the wars and upheavals sweeping the region today.
Fruit and supporters campaigned door to door in Calhoun, an industrial
town north of Atlanta June 22, where she met Moraima Thomas and her
husband, Hector Ramirez, a truck driver from the Dominican Republic.
When Fruit explained that the Cuban Revolution made health care a human
right and not a commodity available only to those with enough money to
pay, Thomas said, ???I can tell you from personal experience that???s not
how it is in the Dominican Republic.???
They subscribed to the Militant and bought three books, Is Socialist
Revolution in the US Possible? and Are They Rich Because They???re Smart?
by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes and In Defense of the US Working
Class by SWP leader Mary-Alice Waters.
Join the SWP campaign
Kennedy and Jarrett will kick off their national campaign trips in
Louisville, Kentucky, July 12-14. They will join Amy Husk and Samir
Hazboun, SWP candidates for governor and lieutenant governor in that
state, campaigning in eastern Kentucky coal country, in Louisville and
in southern Indiana. Supporters of the campaign are organizing both a
public meeting and a barbecue for July 13.
The two socialist campaigners will join supporters in Pittsburgh July
19-21. In addition to campaigning in the region and speaking at a public
event, they will help gather the final dozens of signatures to put
Jarrett on the ballot.
The 2020 presidential election is well underway, with Joe Biden trending
down and others rising as the over 20 Democrats jostling to represent
the party against Donald Trump held their first debate. All of them ???
and Trump ??? claim they???re the best candidate to shore up and defend
capitalist rule.
???Workers need an alternative, a fighting perspective and party of our
own,??? Kennedy said. A socialist and trade union fighter for more than 40
years, Kennedy is a member of the SWP National Committee. She was part
of the first wave of women who got jobs as underground coal miners,
helping break decades of discrimination and to strengthen working-class
solidarity. Today she is a retail worker at Walmart in Dallas.
Jarrett, who works as a cook in Pittsburgh, has been building the party
there, walking the picket line with members of the United Electrical
Workers union during their strike against Wabtec in Erie, Pennsylvania,
earlier this year.
???Working people know they can bring fights like this to the attention of
our campaign, and together we can get the word out and help win
solidarity,??? said Jarrett.
Join the SWP campaigning! For more information about the candidates in
your area, and future trips by Kennedy and Jarrett, see the directory.
Janice Lynn from Atlanta and Lea Sherman from New Jersey contributed to
this article.
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atrocities. ???
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