The last two months
Due to some overseas travel and other issues, I’ve not been updating this blog — the last update was on 1 June. So this will try to cover the last two months briefly. I’ll try to keep the updates shorter and more frequent in future.
Campaigns:
- We just now launched a new campaign, together with PSI, in support of a jailed trade union leader in Mexico. Translations are coming in and publicity happening. After the first day, we have 2,750 supporters — a good start.
- We closed the Belarus and Georgia campaigns after three months.
Publicity:
- We’ve created the first version of a media list with a few dozen names. All campaigns, events and conferences will now be sent to them. Comrades with suggestions of who else should be on this list, please do let us know.
- We have reinvigorated our Instagram account (485 followers) and signed up for a Threads account. We continue to grow our followings on Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn and Mastodon.
- We ran advertising campaigns on Facebook and Microsoft in support of our Belarus campaign, but they produced very disappointing results.
Next book:
- Some of the participants in our recent Global Solidarity Conference have sent in texts of their presentations. We have about 9,000 words and will probably post this online and perhaps as a print booklet as well. The texts need to be edited.
Donations:
- We received a very generous donation from the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) and another from NUPGE in Canada. In September we will resume our fundraising efforts.
