{"id":2762,"date":"2013-01-21T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T13:51:15","slug":"weekly-summary-15-21-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2762","title":{"rendered":"Weekly summary &#8211; 15-21 January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Campaigns book:<\/strong> Andy is working on a translation into French. \u00a0The Kindle edition should go live today. \u00a0Sales are now well over 400. \u00a0Two parts of the book are about to be reprinted in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicy.org\/\">Social Policy<\/a>\u00a0magazine whose editor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wade_Rathke\">Wade Rathke<\/a>, the founder of ACORN, loved the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We launched new campaigns in support of workers in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1675\">Philippines<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1676\">El Salvador<\/a>. \u00a0We closed down the Mexico and China campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ActNOW DIY:<\/strong> Made a lot of progress on this &#8211; hopefully will have something to show before the month is up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newswires:<\/strong> We have working newswires in RSS format now for all regions &#8211; Europe, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Central America, the Caribbean, South America and the Middle East. \u00a0A number of new unions have signed up to use the newswires &#8211; we&#8217;ve been writing to local and branch unions, especially in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correspondents:<\/strong> Some &#8211; a small number &#8211; of the inactive ones are coming back asking for passwords. \u00a0We&#8217;ve now written individually to every inactive correspondent and will gradually begin deleting those who are inactive and don&#8217;t respond. \u00a0A couple of new correspondents have come on board, from Finland and Canada this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talks:<\/strong> Eric spoke to Southend-on-Sea Labour Party on Saturday; this week, on Thursday, Edd speaks at the Unions 21 event in London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns book: Andy is working on a translation into French. \u00a0The Kindle edition should go live today. \u00a0Sales are now well over 400. \u00a0Two parts of the book are about to be reprinted in\u00a0Social Policy\u00a0magazine whose editor,\u00a0Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN, loved the book. Campaigns: We launched new campaigns in support of workers in [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762"}],"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=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}