Email backlog cleared
It took all morning, but my entire email backlog (was 144 messages 4 hours ago) has been cleared and I’ve written 100 messages this morning. Among other things, I added new correspondents in Mauritius, France and Canada.
It took all morning, but my entire email backlog (was 144 messages 4 hours ago) has been cleared and I’ve written 100 messages this morning. Among other things, I added new correspondents in Mauritius, France and Canada.
A couple of weeks ago we asked our readers to tell the Filipino government to release a jailed labour lawyer. At least one embassy has begun sending out form responses, which have been forwarded to us:
Thank you for your letter expressing concern over the reported arrest of Atty. Remegio Saladero, Jr. We welcome this opportunity to address the concerns you have raised. I have conveyed your message to the Philippine Government. I would also like to reassure you that the Philippine Government is committed to promoting and preserving democracy and freedom has no policy calling for the suppression of political dissent and curtailment of worker’s rights. We remain open and prepared to act on concerns that are brought to our attention. The Embassy appreciates your interest in and will remain in touch with you on this matter. Sincerely yours, WILLY C. GAA Ambassador
I’m suspending our Korea campaign (which generated 5,922 messages of protest) after we received this message from the KCTU’s International Secretary, Lee Changgeun.
Thank you for your solidarity. We received the protest messages and published it. In case of First Vice-president, Sis. Jin young-ok and General Secretary, Bro. Lee Yong-shik, were released on bail. The President of KCTU is still wanted by the police. And some leaders are still in jail including First-vice president of KMWU. I thank you again for your support.
Publicity so far:
Let me know how you have publicized this in your country!
Updated 4 Nov 2008 – see below
We have a lot of newswires, in many languages, and in different formats. Nearly all of them work fine but some require changes. I’ll be listing some of the things I’m fixing here:
More soon …
While we wait to hear if we’re going to be moved up to the next level, some interesting statistics:
We received this email today:
The 3 emails you sent for me to Gap Inc Dan Henkle, Darryl Knudsen, and CEO Glenn Murphy did not go and were resent to me. Fortunately their complete address was on the email. Hence, I was able to send a letter to these executives at Gap. Thanks for doing this work for workers rights and for including full addresses to allow people to send returned emails by regular mail. Actually that makes the letters twice as powerful as the email.
I should add that at the request of other readers, the email addresses of our targets also appear on the campaign page, for those who want to send out the emails themselves and not through our system.
Voting has now been halted. There is a clear winner. We’ll announce it here, and then to correspondents, the media, our email subscribers and the general public. Please be a bit more patient …
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