Campaigns, conference, donations
First of all, my goal of 10,000 messages in the Canada Post campaign by the weekend turned out to be not ambitious enough. It’s only Thursday and we already have 11,213 messages sent. Unfortunately, the Colombia Vale campaign launched the same day, has received only one-fifth as many supporters – 2,455. Which raises some questions in my mind about how we go about building the global campaigning capacity of the international trade union movement. I intend to address these in a column I’ll be writing later today for Solidarity, a British weekly.
Conference registrations are not exactly flooding in — but at least today I’ve sorted out some error processing. If you try to sign up without giving your name, or an email address, or a country (e.g., you leave ‘Select a country’ as your choice), you’ll be prompted to fix these. You might think, who would register without giving such basic details, but a significant percentage of those who fill in the form leave out their name, country and email – which are the basic things we need.
Finally, a £500 donation from a union in New Zealand has pushed us very close to the £20,000 mark in this year’s May Day fundraising campaign. This is great news, but we can do better — and I’ll be following up today with 6 unions which last year donated a total of £7,000. While the amount of money coming in is nearly double what we raised last year, and that’s great, this is nothing as compared to what other groups manage to raise. We can do so much better if we try.
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Sending a second newsletter to try to top the thousand messages sent in French (978 as I write this). Wow!
Wow indeed!
I’m getting a good response with posting incl a link to the campaign page, on Facebook. Hard to tell with Twitter, but have been tweeting something different each day with a link. Lots of retweets anyway.
The French campaign is already well over 1,000 messages – and the second message is only starting to go out now …
The feedback I am getting here on conference registrations is that aside from a few die-hards who are going while on holidays, most are waiting to see the agenda.