Labour photo of the year – and the winner is …
Publicity so far:
- Top story on LabourStart’s front page in English; also appears on sites using our global syndicated news in English
- Labour photo of the day
- Flickr
- LabourStart Facebook group – mailed to all members, over 1,700
- Free the Blackadder One Facebook group – mailed to all 2,516 members
- LabourStart correspondents – mailed to all 500
- Submitted to Labour Research magazine in the UK and The Guardian and The Independent newspapers. Labour Research has replied and may use the winning photo.
- Requested the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the UK to publicize this with a press release
- Posted to the very popular web forums at UnionReps.org.uk
- Wrote to the more than 50 members of PCS – the winner’s union – on our mailing list.
- Suggested that a Labour MP might wish to make a statement in the Commons. What may now happen is a display in the British Parliament building of the finalist photos – details soon.
- This blog
- Page translated into French.
- International Union Rights has expressed an interest in running the photos.
- We’re on the front page of an important Norwegian union website.
Let me know how you have publicized this in your country!
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AFL-CIO Blog:
http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/11/06/global-labor-photo-of-year-uk-strike
Plus I have hopes of something appearing in Labour Notes in the US and Our Times in Canada. Both paper publications.