New campaign in defense of … a LabourStart correspondent
That’s right — for the first time, we’re being called upon to defend someone who has been a LabourStart correspondent for several years, Andy Hall. Andy, who has worked in Thailand, recently did a report for an NGO highlighting claims of abusive and exploitative policies at a company there, alleging among other things the illegal employment of child labour. The company has now taken him to court, and if convicted, Andy will not only be subject to a potential fine of millions of Euros, but an actual jail term of several years. We’ve been asked by two GUFs — BWI and UNI — to take on this case, and are happy to do so. Please do all you can to promote this campaign.
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I’d like to suggest that the next mailing re. this campaign plays on the fact that he is a LabourStarter? A bit unusual, and without getting too vampire-ish, it helps give LS itself some definition I think.
And mebbe start with a mailing to the correspondents in this regard sooner rather than later?
Very good idea about mobilizing the correspondents. I’ll do that today.
The mass public mailings will go out after the Radio Labour interview with Andy Hall goes live — we’ll incorporate that into the initial publicity.