Campaign Updates Week 10
Coverage in campus newspaper; An essay in the Times of Israel; An interview with Channel 5; Support for our campaign from call center workers, local African-American community; Volunteers wanted.
Greetings comrades, friends, and supporters from the campaign trail.
The weeks only become more and more intensive. Our proletarian message is striking a nerve amongst working-people in Edinburg and the broader Rio Grande Valley. Ecstatic support from workers in the RGV is coming in daily, from factory workers, to renters at working-class apartment complexes. With more and more news reporters being fascinated with the kind of campaign we’re running, word spreads faster than I ever could have imagined. This is proof-positive that working-people in the area are tired of politics-as-usual and in a fighting mood.
Our campaign made this past week’s edition of the UTRGV Rider newspaper. You can read it online here. Another story to be printed in this week’s edition, but was already published online, can be read here.
I had a 15-minute sit-down interview with Channel 5 earlier this week as well. A portion of the interview was quoted in this article.
I also published an essay commemorating the two-year mark of the horrific pogrom inflicted on the Israeli people on 7 October 2023. I reflected on how things were before the events, how they changed things, and what the defeat of Hamas means for working-people in our time. You can read it here.
Our campaign received support from call center workers in Hidalgo County, this past week, at one of the largest call centers in the U.S. These workers, like others who’ve expressed support for our campaign, are really excited to see a working-class campaign talking about the issues that affect us the most. These kinds of endorsements, rather than seeking those of “people in high places,” are the ones we seek.
I personally received support from a neighbor who heard of our campaign through the media. He was militantly supportive, saying, “Fuck yeah, man. It’s about time somebody else steps in. It’s always the same people robbing us.”
I’ve known him for years but this was the first time we stopped to have a political discussion. This is how revolutionary working-class campaigns can bring people together in new ways from before. He’s African American as is his family whom he said he’d encourage to vote for our campaign.
Volunteer Canvassers Wanted
If you and your friends support our campaign, and would like to know how to get involved, shoot a message to Salinas4Edinburg@gmail.com