{"id":1924,"date":"2011-10-03T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:43:08","slug":"d-46-conference-preparations-moving-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"D-46: Conference preparations moving ahead &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just some quick updates on our upcoming Global Solidarity Conference in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We received some three dozen requests for financial support &#8211; about half of them were incomplete. \u00a0I&#8217;ve written to all those who didn&#8217;t complete the form giving them another opportunity to do so. \u00a0The form itself is now closed. \u00a0I&#8217;ve shared a spreadsheet with details with our committee in Turkey and with several senior LabourStart correspondents. \u00a0We aim to reach a decision by the end of this week.<\/li>\n<li>The Solidarity Center is committed to bringing about a dozen representatives of the new independent trade unions in the Middle East and North Africa. \u00a0We should have details this week. \u00a0We&#8217;re arranging for a Monday meeting, post-conference, for them &#8211; in the Taksim Square area.<\/li>\n<li>ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow is preparing a video welcome to our conference. \u00a0We aim to have it subtitled in Turkish.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve reached agreement on a list of workshops which we&#8217;ll publish at the end of this week. We also have an agreed timetable and more-or-less have settled on who will be the plenary speakers.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re still looking into arranging transportation from the conference hotel (in Taksim square) to the conference venue (Petrol Is); this may be done free of charge by the municipality. \u00a0If not, we&#8217;ll pay for a bus.<\/li>\n<li>We now have three bids from different companies regarding interpretation &#8211; the first time we&#8217;ve ever had to do this at a LabourStart conference. \u00a0We&#8217;ll need to consider these and reach a decision shortly.<\/li>\n<li>The organizing committee in Turkey is proposing a labour history walk around the Taksim square area on Friday before the conference opens, and a possible concert on Saturday evening. \u00a0Details to follow.<\/li>\n<li>If you have not yet registered to attend, and not yet registered for the hotel, please do so now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some quick updates on our upcoming Global Solidarity Conference in Istanbul. We received some three dozen requests for financial support &#8211; about half of them were incomplete. \u00a0I&#8217;ve written to all those who didn&#8217;t complete the form giving them another opportunity to do so. \u00a0The form itself is now closed. \u00a0I&#8217;ve shared a spreadsheet [&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\/1924"}],"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=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}