{"id":2724,"date":"2012-12-31T17:19:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2013-01-16T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T10:06:09","slug":"fortnightly-update-18-12-31-12-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2724","title":{"rendered":"Fortnightly update &#8211; 18.12 &#8211; 31.12.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/4104805\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2725\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2725 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 15px;\" alt=\"bookcover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bookcover.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Book:<\/strong><\/em> We completed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/4104805\">our campaigns book<\/a> and published it, and publicized it today.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> We closed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1582\">Guatemala campaign<\/a> two weeks ago &#8211; still waiting for a report on how things turned out. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1540\">Zimbabwe campaign<\/a> was closed ten days ago. \u00a0The Histadrut has asked us about doing a campaign in support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/show_news.pl?country=Israel&amp;langcode=en\">striking Pelephone workers in Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Newswires:<\/strong><\/em> We located the RSS version of the health &amp; safety newswire for Australia which the ACTU had requested.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ActNOW DIY:<\/strong><\/em> Did some work on writing the code for this &#8211; moving slowly &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Site overhaul:<\/strong><\/em> Did a considerable amount of work on the new-look website for 2013. \u00a0Coming soon.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>International Union Rights:<\/strong><\/em> Sales of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/ictur\/\">subs to this<\/a> were disappointing &#8211; we sold just 34 of them (as of 10 days ago).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Today in Labour History:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/labourhistory\/show_lhc.pl\">This<\/a> is now working fairly well, and displaying on our home page. \u00a0We have 4 or so people adding content and will soon go public in an attempt to get more correspondents.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Twitter:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>We are working to get <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/labourstartes\">our Spanish language Twitter feed<\/a> working again and we&#8217;re exploring ways to get all our languages working.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Inactive correspondents:<\/strong> <\/em>We&#8217;re building up a list of all those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/showinactivecorrespondents.pl\">correspondents who are inactive<\/a> and are beginning to write to each one individually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book: We completed our campaigns book and published it, and publicized it today. Campaigns: We closed the Guatemala campaign two weeks ago &#8211; still waiting for a report on how things turned out. \u00a0The Zimbabwe campaign was closed ten days ago. \u00a0The Histadrut has asked us about doing a campaign in support of striking Pelephone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,10,16,47,59,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724"}],"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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}