{"id":2017,"date":"2011-11-28T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2011-11-28T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T10:50:33","slug":"lets-see-if-weve-got-this-global-solidarity-thing-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s see if we&#8217;ve got this global solidarity thing right &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1167\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solidarity picket at GEA.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/images\/gea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Real world trade union solidarity - the picket at GEA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ten days ago, a couple of bus-loads of trade union activists from around 30 countries paid a solidarity visit to the picket line of locked-out workers at GEA, a German-owned metal company in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve now been asked by the International Metalworkers Federation to turn this into an online campaign, and have done so this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1167\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We thought the solidarity picket was very exciting and tried to share some of that excitement with comrades who couldn&#8217;t be with us in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if we can keep up the momentum, turning a real-world act of solidarity into an online one.<\/p>\n<p>Please spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also today launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1168\">a campaign in support of jailed Pakistani trade union leaders<\/a> &#8211; at the request of the ITGLWF.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve launched three campaigns in less than a week, we&#8217;re going to stagger the publicity to our mailing lists &#8212; and will start with the IMF Turkey campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten days ago, a couple of bus-loads of trade union activists from around 30 countries paid a solidarity visit to the picket line of locked-out workers at GEA, a German-owned metal company in Turkey. We&#8217;ve now been asked by the International Metalworkers Federation to turn this into an online campaign, and have done so this [&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\/2017"}],"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=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}