{"id":1853,"date":"2011-08-10T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T08:10:06","slug":"100-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"100 days to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our conference opens in Istanbul in another 14 weeks and 2 days, and while of course there is still an enormous amount to do, we have made some progress. \u00a0Today I&#8217;d like to focus on <strong>what&#8217;s gone right<\/strong> so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have a steering committee up and running in Istanbul and I&#8217;m confident that they&#8217;ll do an excellent job. \u00a0I will meet with them on 7 September.<\/li>\n<li>We now have a conference hotel at a great price &#8211; more details coming soon.<\/li>\n<li>We secured a great conference venue &#8211; at Petrol-Is, the oil workers union.<\/li>\n<li>108 people have registered so far &#8211; 40 of them say they can pay their own way. \u00a0Of those 40, 29 are from outside Turkey, so those plus the ones we expect via the Solidarity Center bring us up to nearly 40 &#8212; getting very close to our goal of 50 participants from outside Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>We have a significant number of workshop proposals which we need to refine and finalize.<\/li>\n<li>We have tentative commitments from one, possibly two, very senior international trade union leaders to speak at the event.<\/li>\n<li>At the meeting of global union federations in Istanbul in September, we have a slot to talk about the conference and to encourage participation from GUFs. \u00a0We already have commitments for participation from the IUF, IMF, ITF, and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our conference opens in Istanbul in another 14 weeks and 2 days, and while of course there is still an enormous amount to do, we have made some progress. \u00a0Today I&#8217;d like to focus on what&#8217;s gone right so far: We have a steering committee up and running in Istanbul and I&#8217;m confident that they&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853"}],"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=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}