{"id":2546,"date":"2012-08-07T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T06:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T06:29:44","slug":"iraq-campaign-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2546","title":{"rendered":"Latest campaign news: Iraq campaign closed; translations backlog cleared; new campaigns coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1390\">Iraq campaign<\/a>, launched at the request of the ICEM (now IndustriALL) has <strong>closed<\/strong> after two months. \u00a0The campaign attracted only 3,951 supporters, which is quite small for us, even though it was available in 9 languages. \u00a0We&#8217;ve asked IndustriALL, who have agreed to close it down, for a summary of what the effect of the campaign was, but are still waiting for a reply.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>backlog of translations<\/strong> of campaigns and mass mailings has now been completely cleared. \u00a0In future, we&#8217;re aiming to have more of the work done by the translators themselves, which will speed things up considerably.<\/p>\n<p>There are several <strong>new campaigns coming up<\/strong>. \u00a0We may well launch a <strong>Swaziland<\/strong> campaign later today at the request of the EI, PSI and ITF. <strong>UniteHere<\/strong> in the USA has something they want to discuss with us. \u00a0And we&#8217;ve been talking to <strong>Iranian<\/strong> comrades about a possible campaign in defense of jailed activists (yet again). \u00a0It&#8217;s been 12 days since the launch of our last campaign (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1495\">Peru<\/a> &#8211; 4,851 messages sent so far).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest Iraq campaign, launched at the request of the ICEM (now IndustriALL) has closed after two months. \u00a0The campaign attracted only 3,951 supporters, which is quite small for us, even though it was available in 9 languages. \u00a0We&#8217;ve asked IndustriALL, who have agreed to close it down, for a summary of what the effect [&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\/2546"}],"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=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}