A relatively quiet fortnight
As I was travelling for eight of the last fourteen days, this will be a relatively short summary of the last fortnight at LabourStart.
Campaigns:
We closed the long-running campaign in support of jailed teacher trade unionist Esmail Abdi in Iran — but opened a new one at the request of hte Education International due to his hunger strike.
We added a text to our closed Nigerian dockers’ campaign from the ITF.
We are now completely caught up with translations of campaigns and mailings in our 8 largest languages.
Next conference: We’ve followed up with our comrades in Hong Kong.
Mailing lists: We added just 98 new names — this number is low due to the fact that we launched no new campaigns in this period.
Social media: We gave our Turkish Facebook page, which is being revived, a boost with a mailing to our Turkish language list, picking up 21 new likes.
Finances: UNISON (UK) has donated £1,000.
Site security: We did a thorough review following the massive ransomware attacks earlier this month. We’ve improved our backups, which are now comprehensive and done regularly. Our web hosting company allows us to do a malware test, which we ran, and which showed no security issues.
Books: We’ve begun sending out review copies of our book on migrant workers’ struggles — the goal is to send out about 100 copies. If you know of any publications that should receive one, please do let me know.