{"id":2657,"date":"2012-10-30T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2017-07-09T09:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T07:24:56","slug":"weekly-round-up-22-30-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"Weekly round-up: 22-30 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conference:<\/strong> Registrations now up to 111; a gain of 50 in the last 7 days. \u00a0The Australian Council of Trade Unions has been publicizing. \u00a0An agenda is now agreed and nearly ready for circulation. \u00a0International guests are expected to attend from the UK, Turkey, Russia, Norway, the USA, the Philippines, Fiji, Taiwan, China, New Zealand and Timor l&#8217;Este, and maybe more &#8212; at least a dozen countries represented. \u00a0During the week, I had Skype calls with both Andrew Casey and Peter Lewis in Sydney to discuss conference progress. \u00a0Members of the organizing committee have been receiving a daily email from me updating them as we rapidly approach the conference opening. \u00a0The conference has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/260537070684403\/\">event page<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intern: <\/strong>Interviews took place last Monday, 22 October; each of the four shortlisted interns was then asked to complete a written test (to draft a plan for a new LabourStart campaign). \u00a0The result of all this is that our new intern, Edd Mustill, has begun work 3 days a week in the office. \u00a0Say hello to Edd &#8211; intern@labourstart.org.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1613\">a new campaign<\/a> yesterday demanding the release of two teacher trade union leaders in Bahrain; it took off very quickly and within less than 20 hours had generated 4,544 messages. \u00a0(The campaign is already larger than our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1603\">China NGOs campaign<\/a>, which was launched 18 days ago..) \u00a0We also did a promotion of our Zimbabwe campaign, which had stalled at under 4,700. \u00a0It&#8217;s picked up another 800 supporters thanks to our additional effort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong> I had a short meeting in London with David Prosten, owner of Union Communication Services. \u00a0David&#8217;s not only our partner bookseller for the <a href=\"http:\/\/commerce2.pair.com\/unionist\/ccp7\/index.php?app=ecom&amp;ns=prodshow&amp;ref=kings&amp;mktsrc=labourstart\">Labour Book of the Month<\/a>, but he&#8217;ll also be publishing my next book on unions and the internet, due out next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference: Registrations now up to 111; a gain of 50 in the last 7 days. \u00a0The Australian Council of Trade Unions has been publicizing. \u00a0An agenda is now agreed and nearly ready for circulation. \u00a0International guests are expected to attend from the UK, Turkey, Russia, Norway, the USA, the Philippines, Fiji, Taiwan, China, New Zealand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657"}],"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=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}