This is almost certainly going to be the last weekly summary before December — on Thursday I’m off to Sydney for the third annual LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference and will not be back before 2 December. \u00a0Some highlights from the last week:<\/p>\n
Conference<\/strong> – going well, lots of last minute work dealing with people coming, cancelling, the programme, lunches, etc. \u00a0The Facebook Event page had to be cleaned up a bit as we were getting spammed. \u00a0Today – with only a week to go – we have 193 people registered to attend, of those 145 from Australia and 5 from New Zealand.<\/p>\n Campaigns<\/strong> – we got permission to close down the Pakistan campaign<\/a>. \u00a0On Friday we got our first campaign request ever from the International Federation of Musicians<\/a> — we’ll launch this later today. \u00a0The Guatemala campaign<\/a> is two months old; I asked the sponsor what they wanted to do. \u00a0Meanwhile, the Bahrain campaign<\/a> is well over 10,000 names making it one of the largest we’ve ever done.<\/p>\n Book of the month<\/strong> – we did our second one<\/a> last Monday, and by Wednesday I was growing concerned that 98% of those who were clicking through to learn more about the book were not ordering it. \u00a0I then did a survey on Survey Monkey to find out why. \u00a0We got a very large number of responses (482 and counting) and I’ll close the survey tomorrow and will publish a summary here. \u00a0We’ve learned a lot, I think, from this experience.<\/p>\n Publicity<\/strong> – on Monday I was interviewed by a journalist from a Swiss-German left-wing magazine called Woz<\/a>. \u00a0They did a similar interview more than a decade ago – this was the follow-up. \u00a0He strongly suggested that we work closely with LaborNet Germany – I followed up by sending a message to all three leading figures, but have not yet gotten a response.<\/p>\n