Dec
24
2013

Christmas campaigns …

I’ve just closed two campaigns that ran their 3 month courses — in defense of the Honduran dock workers’ leader Victor Crespo, and in support of the UN staff workers’ union.  I’m waiting to hear from our partners to find out what effect, if any, these campaigns had.

The UN campaign was one of our largest, generating 14,581 messages in 19 languages.

Meanwhile, our Korea campaign continues to grow. Even though very large numbers of our supporters are not online this week, we picked up an additional 1,011 supporters in the last 24 hours.  We’re now up to 13,715 supporters for the Korea campaign.

In my mailing yesterday to our English list, I asked people to visit the websites of the BBC and CNN to demand they cover the Korea strike, as well as write to Sky News.  According to the report on MailChimp, 881 of them clicked through to the BBC site and another 270 to CNN.  You’d think these numbers might influence the news editors there, but a quick check this morning shows no change — BBC, CNN and Sky continue to have no coverage of South Korea …

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