LIVE BLOG: Taksim Square attacked by riot police
It’s been a busy morning. I’m going to live blog here what’s going on.
15:05: I’ll end the liveblogging now. We’re up to 16,931 messages sent to Erdogan. That’s a gain of 37 in the last 2 hours, which is again a slowing down. The response to the crackdown in Taksim Square today has been very limited — only 163 in the last 7 hours. We’re still 283 signatures short of a LabourStart record-breaking campaign, but I’m sure we’ll reach that now — probably by tomorrow morning.
13:12: There’s been a small growth in the campaign, with 29 people signing up in the last 50 minutes. We’ve also picked up a grand total of 7 new Twitter followers today, which is very low. Last month we got 258 new Twitter followers, an average of more than 8 per day. So today is actually below average, and that’s despite one Twitterer with 135,000 followers having retwetted one of our Tweets including a link to the campaign three hours ago. Odd.
12:23: Ron Oswald is nearly done with his texting. Meanwhile, I continue to Tweet, FB, etc. The total number of new messages sent to Erdogan in all languages in the last 4 hours is just 97. Not good.
10:50: The Turkish Prime Minister is tweeting furiously – see https://twitter.com/RT_Erdogan. Feel free to tweet at him using @RT_Erdogan. Meanwhile, continuing with updates to Facebook, Twitter, our news page, etc. Still disappointed in the (lack of) growth of our campaign — we’ve only picked up 56 new supporters this morning, in the last 2 1/2 hours.
10:36: Have just written to 508 LabourStart correspondents. Here is what I asked each of them to do:
- If you’ve not yet signed up to the campaign, please do so right now.
- Please spread the news about the campaign in your union — let’s grow this rapidly and flood Prime Minister Erdogan with messages of protest.
- If there is news from your country or union about what’s happening in Istanbul (e.g., your union issues a statement condemning the police violence) please make sure to post this.
- On Facebook, please ‘like’ and ‘share’ our posts about what’s happening in Istanbul.
- On Twitter, please re-tweet our posts today.
10:04: Continuing with Ron’s live reports. In the last two hours, the number of supporters of our Turkey campaign has gone from 16,768 to 16,808 — just 40. Comrades — this is not good enough.
09:22: The IUF’s Ron Oswald is in Taksim Square; I’m getting live reports and sharing them on Facebook and Twitter. Please help spread the word. Posted several news stories. Have tweeted 6 times in the last hour. Contact two members of the European Parliament, one of whom has already supported our campaign, to get their help. Asked the British TUC if a demo was being planned. Have been sharing Facebook stuff with other groups and pages. Campaign has just under 16,800 supporters.
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