{"id":2516,"date":"2012-07-28T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2012-07-28T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T14:45:14","slug":"weekly-update-11-18-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2516","title":{"rendered":"Weekly update: 11-28 July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit delayed because I was on holiday from 13-20 July but now back at work and making progress on several issues. \u00a0Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conference:<\/em><\/strong> Our organizing committee continues to function; I have a conference call scheduled with them for next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Correspondents:<\/em><\/strong> The internal messaging system is now fixed; there had been a problem before that spam could be sent, though not via email, to all correspondents.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Campaigns: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Closed: The Unite bus campaign in the UK was closed down following a victory. Another Unite campaign, in support of MMP workers, was closed down after three months.<\/li>\n<li>I added a key to the flags and languages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/showcampaignsummary.pl\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We asked for and received the support of IndustriALL in the Kazakhstan campaign.<\/li>\n<li>New campaigns launched in support of sacked trade unionists in Peru and Turkey, and RMT cleaners in London.<\/li>\n<li>I fixed a bug in our special news pages for the UK, USA, Canada and Australia &#8211; we were not showing lists of the most current campaigns there, but we are now.<\/li>\n<li><em>Closed and archived campaigns<\/em> &#8211; When trying to view certain closed campaigns, you couldn&#8217;t actually call them up &#8211; but I&#8217;ve now fixed this and you can see any campaign. I fixed the display of supporters for a campaign which has been closed. There&#8217;s now an accessible archive of closed campaigns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Office: <\/em><\/strong>I&#8217;ve begun an intensive search for a London office.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mailing list: <\/em><\/strong>We now have more than 100,000 addresses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Book: <\/em><\/strong>I was approached by UCS, our book-selling partner in the USA, about doing a primer for trade unionists on use of the net. \u00a0I&#8217;ve agreed to do so. \u00a0Details to follow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Internationalization: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A problem was discovered with part of the display of the Turkish website; this is now nearly fixed.<\/li>\n<li>Work began on a Ukrainian edition &#8211; also nearly complete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Newswires:<\/em><\/strong> Two more unions added the labour newswire to their sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fundraising:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The IUF has agreed to make a substantial donation to LabourStart.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, we&#8217;ve received several large donations from Canadian unions.<\/li>\n<li>We had 2,000 copies of our new fundraising brochure printed and I have begun mailing them out one by one to selected unions; the first target audience is Irish unions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit delayed because I was on holiday from 13-20 July but now back at work and making progress on several issues. \u00a0Here are some highlights: Conference: Our organizing committee continues to function; I have a conference call scheduled with them for next week. 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