A relatively quiet fortnight
As I was travelling for eight of the last fourteen days, this will be a relatively short summary of the last fortnight at LabourStart.
Campaigns:
We closed the long-running campaign in support of jailed teacher trade unionist Esmail Abdi in Iran — but opened a new one at the request of hte Education International due to his hunger strike.
We added a text to our closed Nigerian dockers’ campaign from the ITF.
We are now completely caught up with translations of campaigns and mailings in our 8 largest languages.
Next conference: We’ve followed up with our comrades in Hong Kong.
Mailing lists: We added just 98 new names — this number is low due to the fact that we launched no new campaigns in this period.
Social media: We gave our Turkish Facebook page, which is being revived, a boost with a mailing to our Turkish language list, picking up 21 new likes.
Finances: UNISON (UK) has donated £1,000.
Site security: We did a thorough review following the massive ransomware attacks earlier this month. We’ve improved our backups, which are now comprehensive and done regularly. Our web hosting company allows us to do a malware test, which we ran, and which showed no security issues.
Books: We’ve begun sending out review copies of our book on migrant workers’ struggles — the goal is to send out about 100 copies. If you know of any publications that should receive one, please do let me know.
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I would like to raise the issue of the Bolton Language School, which is a Charity based school in Bolton, that teaches students from all over the world, many from Countries where there have been wars and where the students have had to get away to save their life. We try to integrate them, but the Council and DWP give us no funding to help our aim.