{"id":2985,"date":"2013-06-11T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:08:15","slug":"live-blog-taksim-square-attacked-by-riot-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2985","title":{"rendered":"LIVE BLOG: Taksim Square attacked by riot police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It&#8217;s been a busy morning.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to live blog here what&#8217;s going on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>15:05:<\/strong> I&#8217;ll end the liveblogging now.\u00a0 We&#8217;re up to <strong>16,931<\/strong> messages sent to Erdogan.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a gain of <strong>37<\/strong> in the last 2 hours, which is again a slowing down.\u00a0 The response to the crackdown in Taksim Square today has been very limited &#8212; only <strong>163<\/strong> in the last 7 hours.\u00a0 We&#8217;re still <strong>283<\/strong> signatures short of a LabourStart record-breaking campaign, but I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll reach that now &#8212; probably by tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13:12:<\/strong> There&#8217;s been a small growth in the campaign, with <strong>29<\/strong> people signing up in the last 50 minutes.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also picked up a grand total of 7 new Twitter followers today, which is very low.\u00a0 Last month we got 258 new Twitter followers, an average of more than 8 per day.\u00a0 So today is actually below average, and that&#8217;s despite <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Debbas\">one Twitterer with 135,000 followers<\/a> having retwetted one of our Tweets including a link to the campaign three hours ago.\u00a0 Odd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:23:<\/strong> Ron Oswald is nearly done with his texting.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I continue to Tweet, FB, etc.\u00a0 The total number of new messages sent to Erdogan in all languages in the last 4 hours is just <strong>97<\/strong>.\u00a0 Not good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:50:<\/strong> The Turkish Prime Minister is tweeting furiously &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_Erdogan\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_Erdogan<\/a>.\u00a0 Feel free to tweet at him using <s>@<\/s>RT_Erdogan.\u00a0 Meanwhile, continuing with updates to Facebook, Twitter, our news page, etc.\u00a0 Still disappointed in the (lack of) growth of our campaign &#8212; we&#8217;ve only picked up <strong>56<\/strong> new supporters this morning, in the last 2 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:36:<\/strong> Have just written to 508 LabourStart correspondents.\u00a0 Here is what I asked each of them to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve not yet signed up to the campaign, please do so right now.<\/li>\n<li>Please spread the news about the campaign in your union &#8212; let&#8217;s grow this rapidly and flood Prime Minister Erdogan with messages of protest.<\/li>\n<li>If there is news from your country or union about what&#8217;s happening in Istanbul (e.g., your union issues a statement condemning the police violence) please make sure to post this.<\/li>\n<li>On Facebook, please &#8216;like&#8217; and &#8216;share&#8217; our posts about what&#8217;s happening in Istanbul.<\/li>\n<li>On Twitter, please re-tweet our posts today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10:04:<\/strong> Continuing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org\">Ron&#8217;s live reports<\/a>. In the last two hours, the number of supporters of our Turkey campaign has gone from 16,768 to 16,808 &#8212; just 40.\u00a0 <em>Comrades &#8212; this is not good enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:22:<\/strong> The IUF&#8217;s Ron Oswald is in Taksim Square; I&#8217;m getting live reports and sharing them on Facebook and Twitter.\u00a0 Please help spread the word.\u00a0 Posted several news stories.\u00a0 Have tweeted 6 times in the last hour. Contact two members of the European Parliament, one of whom has already supported our campaign, to get their help.\u00a0 Asked the British TUC if a demo was being planned.\u00a0 Have been sharing Facebook stuff with other groups and pages.\u00a0 Campaign has just under 16,800 supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy morning.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to live blog here what&#8217;s going on. 15:05: I&#8217;ll end the liveblogging now.\u00a0 We&#8217;re up to 16,931 messages sent to Erdogan.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a gain of 37 in the last 2 hours, which is again a slowing down.\u00a0 The response to the crackdown in Taksim Square today has been [&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\/2985"}],"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=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}