{"id":1626,"date":"2011-05-10T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2011-05-10T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:34:45","slug":"new-campaign-launched-in-support-of-iraqi-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"New campaign launched in support of Iraqi unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our first new campaign in three weeks, we&#8217;re responding to an appeal from the Iraqi unions. \u00a0The campaign has a short and memorable URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/iraq\">http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/iraq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first campaign we&#8217;ve run in support of the Iraqi unions &#8212; so let&#8217;s see if we can do better than before. \u00a0Here is what we&#8217;ve done so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iraq: Minister closes all union offices in Saddam-style move \u2013\u00a0TUC\/GFIW \u2013 23 July 2010 &#8211;\u00a03,100<\/li>\n<li>Iraq: Stop harassment of oil union leaders \u2013 Solidarity Center \u2013 12 April 2010 &#8211;\u00a02,643<\/li>\n<li>Hands off the Iraqi Teachers Union! \u2013 TUC \u2013 26 February 2010 &#8211;\u00a0328<\/li>\n<li>Iraq: Stop government interference in the unions \u2013 GFIW \u2013 19 October 2009 &#8211;\u00a02,530<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iraq: Teachers union faces threat of government takeover \u2013 ITU \u2013 27 March 2009 &#8211;\u00a04,468<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Iraq: Raid on trade union offices \u2013 GFIW \u2013 1 March 2007 &#8211;\u00a03,068<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if we can do better than that March 2009 effort, aiming to get over 5,000 messages sent this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our first new campaign in three weeks, we&#8217;re responding to an appeal from the Iraqi unions. \u00a0The campaign has a short and memorable URL: http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/iraq This is not the first campaign we&#8217;ve run in support of the Iraqi unions &#8212; so let&#8217;s see if we can do better than before. \u00a0Here is what we&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}