{"id":1860,"date":"2011-08-30T20:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2011-08-31T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T09:01:46","slug":"back-at-my-desk-fiji-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Back at my desk &#8211; Fiji; Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on holiday I managed to launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1086\">an ActNOW campaign<\/a> in support of the embattled trade unions of Fiji &#8211; at the request of the British TUC and ITUC.  Even without the normally extensive LabourStart publicity, it has already gotten <strong>2,184 <\/strong>messages sent and was translated (without prompting by me) into two languages.  Today I asked 11 other volunteer translators to get to work on it, and am beginning our own publicity blitz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <em>Following our publicity blitz, support is increasing. \u00a0Here are the latest totals as of 10:00 London time (Wednesday), 12 hours later \u00a0&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4,213<\/strong> supporters<\/li>\n<li><strong>730<\/strong> recommendations on Facebook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot remains undone for our upcoming Global Solidarity Conference &#8211; this will be my top priority in the next week.  I leave next Wednesday, 7 September, for Istanbul, where I&#8217;ll be meeting with our Turkish comrades and we&#8217;ll try to fix all outstanding issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on holiday I managed to launch an ActNOW campaign in support of the embattled trade unions of Fiji &#8211; at the request of the British TUC and ITUC. Even without the normally extensive LabourStart publicity, it has already gotten 2,184 messages sent and was translated (without prompting by me) into two languages. Today I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"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=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}