{"id":2446,"date":"2012-06-28T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2012-06-28T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:10:15","slug":"a-tsunami-of-campaigns-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"A tsunami of campaigns coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1461x500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2450\" title=\"1461x500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1461x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1461x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1461x500-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the bad old days, we&#8217;ve have unions &#8211; including locals and branches &#8211; approaching LabourStart all the time, asking for campaigns. \u00a0And to keep the numbers under control, we&#8217;d tell them that we only do global campaigns, we only focus on big, serious issues, and we only work with global union federations and the ITUC. \u00a0That, we thought, would solve the problem. \u00a0Oops.<\/p>\n<p>Today we have three campaigns being launched at the request of the ITUC and global union federations, with possibly more on the way. \u00a0As I launch them, I will update this page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first one that&#8217;s ready is this concerns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1461\">Kazakhstan<\/a> &#8211; a followup to the deadly rioting last December and the campaign we did then. \u00a0It is also our first jointly-sponsored effort, with the ITUC working together with Russian and Kazakh labour federations. \u00a0The Russian language version will go live very shortly; let&#8217;s hope this a big one and helps get some justice for the oil workers there.  <span style=\"color: #f00\"><b><i>UPDATE: After less than 4 hours we&#8217;re already up to 1,500 &#8211; that&#8217;s 375 per hour.  If that were to continue for a whole day, we&#8217;d be up to 9,000 messages by tomorrow evening.  Keep it up!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the bad old days, we&#8217;ve have unions &#8211; including locals and branches &#8211; approaching LabourStart all the time, asking for campaigns. \u00a0And to keep the numbers under control, we&#8217;d tell them that we only do global campaigns, we only focus on big, serious issues, and we only work with global union federations and the [&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\/2446"}],"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=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}