{"id":1729,"date":"2011-06-23T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T09:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2011-06-23T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T09:08:23","slug":"campaigns-conference-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Campaigns, conference, donations"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, my goal of 10,000 messages in the Canada Post campaign<\/a> by the weekend turned out to be not ambitious enough. \u00a0It’s only Thursday and we already have 11,213<\/strong> messages sent. \u00a0Unfortunately, the Colombia Vale campaign<\/a> launched the same day, has received only one-fifth as many supporters – 2,455<\/strong>. \u00a0Which raises some questions in my mind about how we go about building the global campaigning capacity of the international trade union movement. \u00a0I intend to address these in a column I’ll be writing later today for Solidarity<\/em>, a British weekly.<\/p>\n

Conference registrations<\/a> are not exactly flooding in — but at least today I’ve sorted out some error processing. \u00a0If you try to sign up without giving your name, or an email address, or a country (e.g., you leave ‘Select a country’ as your choice), you’ll be prompted to fix these. \u00a0You might think, who would register without giving such basic details, but a significant percentage of those who fill in the form leave out their name, country and email – which are the basic things we need.<\/p>\n

Finally, a \u00a3500 donation from a union in New Zealand has pushed us very close to the \u00a320,000 mark in this year’s May Day fundraising campaign<\/a>. \u00a0This is great news, but we can do better — and I’ll be following up today with 6 unions which last year donated a total of \u00a37,000. \u00a0While the amount of money coming in is nearly double what we raised last year, and that’s great, this is nothing as compared to what other groups manage to raise. \u00a0We can do so much better if we try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, my goal of 10,000 messages in the Canada Post campaign by the weekend turned out to be not ambitious enough. \u00a0It’s only Thursday and we already have 11,213 messages sent. \u00a0Unfortunately, the Colombia Vale campaign launched the same day, has received only one-fifth as many supporters – 2,455. \u00a0Which raises some questions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,3,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}