{"id":2195,"date":"2012-03-26T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:30:28","slug":"iran-ramping-up-the-pressure-to-stop-the-execution-of-abdolreza-ghanbari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Ramping up the pressure to stop the execution of Abdolreza Ghanbari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1299\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Abdolreza Ghanbari\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/images\/abdolreza.jpg\" alt=\"Abdolreza Ghanbari\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdolreza Ghanbari - could be executed any day now<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly three weeks since we launched <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/solidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1299\">the campaign<\/a><\/strong> to save the life of jailed Iranian teacher trade unionist Abdolreza Ghanbari.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s vital that we not let this campaign slip off our radar even as we work on new ones &#8211; because this one is literally a matter of life or death.<\/p>\n<p>A number of us have been taking additional steps to ramp up the pressure and grow the campaign in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you&#8217;ve done in the comments to this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Noting that we did mailings to 13 different language lists (sometimes more than once), I saw that the Turkish campaign was live, but no mailing done &#8211; so I wrote to four of contacts in Turkey in the hope of getting this out to our list of 800 addresses there.<\/li>\n<li>I followed up with the German teachers union which has promoted the campaign, but not in the way I had hoped.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote to the American Federation of Teachers &#8211; whose international affairs director spoke at the 2010 LabourStart conference in Washington.<\/li>\n<li>I followed up with a number of our contacts among the Iranian emigre community, as well as inside Iran, to build support for the Farsi language version of the campaign.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote to all those 526 LabourStart correspondents who didn&#8217;t open my last message, from 9 days ago, about the campaign.<\/li>\n<li>I located Amnesty International&#8217;s most recent statement about the case, made it a top LabourStart news story, and promoted it via UnionBook, Facebook, and Twitter as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly three weeks since we launched the campaign to save the life of jailed Iranian teacher trade unionist Abdolreza Ghanbari. It&#8217;s vital that we not let this campaign slip off our radar even as we work on new ones &#8211; because this one is literally a matter of life or death. A number [&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\/2195"}],"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=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}