As I was travelling overseas from 13-20 April, I have missed the chance to update you on some things happening at LabourStart. Here’s a quick roundup of the last 16 days …<\/p>\n
Speaking and Writing:<\/strong> I have begun organizing a panel discussion on online activism due to take place in London at the annual “Ideas for Freedom” conference<\/a> in the last week of June. I’ll be one of the speakers and am recruiting others from the large campaigning organizations. I reviewed my chapter in a forthcoming book, the third annual anthology of Global Labour Columns (published by the Global Labour University<\/a>). The chapter is about the future of online campaigning, and focusses mostly on the LabourStart experience. More details when the book becomes available.<\/p>\n Campaigns:<\/strong> I fixed the campaign software to make it more difficult – and I hope, impossible – for individuals to participate more than once in the same campaign using the same email address. There was a loophole in the system which had previously allowed this. We’ve been given permission to close a number of campaigns, including Peru, Canada (Acadia), and Serbia (Hasan Abazi). Every month I review all the active campaigns and check which have not yet been translated and follow up with our volunteers; as a result, campaigns typically appear now in 10 languages, with mailings sent out in nearly all of those as well. My article on the Matteo Parlati campaign<\/a> appeared in German in the Jungle World weekly newspaper.<\/p>\n Facebook:<\/strong> I made a number of improvements to the LabourStart page<\/a>, including a large horizontal banner (which I’ve updated) and links. I also created a Facebook event for May Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n Global Union Federations:<\/strong> I’ve confirmed my participation, primarily as a journalist, at the upcoming congresses of the IUF<\/a> (May) and IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF (June). The latter is the launch congress for IndustriALL<\/a> and will be held in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n Israel:<\/strong> I had meetings at the Histadrut with international relations department head Avital Shapira and with Jacob Avid of the Hanoar Haoved youth movement (Jacob attended our Istanbul conference). I also met in East Jerusalem with Assaf Adiv and colleagues from WAC Ma’an.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I was travelling overseas from 13-20 April, I have missed the chance to update you on some things happening at LabourStart. Here’s a quick roundup of the last 16 days … Speaking and Writing: I have begun organizing a panel discussion on online activism due to take place in London at the annual “Ideas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237"}],"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=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}