{"id":3013,"date":"2013-06-26T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2013-06-26T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:14:08","slug":"the-week-in-review-19-26-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3013","title":{"rendered":"The week in review – 19 – 26 June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Turkey campaign<\/a> has now reached an unprecedented level of support, with over 21,250<\/strong> messages sent.\u00a0 For the first time, German is the second language with 1,076<\/strong> messages sent — a new record.\u00a0 (This will be very helpful in raising our profile in Germany prior to our conference in Berlin next year.)<\/p>\n

We launched a new Canadian campaign<\/a> in support of beer workers in Newfoundland and Labrador.\u00a0 It’s gotten over 1,530<\/strong> messages sent in the first few days online – making it larger already than the UK-only campaign<\/a> in support of University of London cleaners.<\/p>\n

It’s been more than 3 weeks since we launched a global campaign, and as we expect to soon shut down the Thailand campaign<\/a> (this week) and the USA Vancouver lockout campaign<\/a> (in about 20 days), we may soon have just two live global campaigns running.<\/p>\n

Next global solidarity conference – Berlin, May 2014<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Eric, Edd and Gisela met in London on Monday in the first face-to-face discussion about the conference.\u00a0 It was a very productive meeting and has been followed up with the creation of a shared Evernote notebook in which members of the organizing committee in Berlin and London are sharing ideas and information.<\/p>\n

Publicity<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Our list of press contacts continues to grow, and we now have over 80<\/strong> journalists we’ll be writing to regularly.\u00a0 If anyone reading this has email addresses of journalists who cover labour news, please share those addresses with us.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

I’ve been invited to speak next week at the ILO International Training Centre in Turin, Italy to a group of 15<\/strong> trade union communicators from 9 countries in Asia.\u00a0 There will be people from unions in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.\u00a0 One of the subjects I’m expected to cover is LabourStart campaigns.\u00a0 I’ll be giving each of the participants copies of the two LabourStart books and will attempt to awaken their interest in our project with a view toward recruiting more correspondents, translators, etc.<\/p>\n

LabourStart books<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sales at last weekend’s Ideas for Freedom in London were disappointing.<\/p>\n

The total sales CreateSpace reports on the Global Labour Movement<\/em> book since its publication two months ago is 364<\/strong> plus 27<\/strong> Kindle editions, for a total of 391<\/strong>.\u00a0 This doesn’t include sales from our office.<\/p>\n

As for the Campaigning Online<\/em> book, CreateSpace reports sales of 630<\/strong> copies sold, plus 65<\/strong> Kindle editions, for a total of 695<\/strong>.\u00a0 In addition, we sold over 62<\/strong> copies from our office and gave away at least 44<\/strong>, including review copies, so the total distribution of this book is over 800<\/strong>.\u00a0 In addition,\u00a0 the French edition of the Campaigning book has sold 78<\/strong> copies through CreateSpace.<\/p>\n

Fundraising<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We just heard that a large British union has contributed \u00a31,000.\u00a0 Next week I’ll do the quarterly mailing to our 15,923<\/strike> 19,692<\/strong> “power users” — the people who tend to support all our online campaigns.\u00a0 The last mailing raised several thousand pounds, so I hope that this time we’ll do as well — or better.<\/p>\n

Today in Labour History<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve made some progress in identifying a supplier and costing for the print calendar.\u00a0 And we’ve made sure that for the next few weeks (until the end of July), there will be history items every day on our home page.<\/p>\n

New home page<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve come up with draft home pages in the new format for the last two remaining languages — French and Norwegian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigns The Turkey campaign has now reached an unprecedented level of support, with over 21,250 messages sent.\u00a0 For the first time, German is the second language with 1,076 messages sent — a new record.\u00a0 (This will be very helpful in raising our profile in Germany prior to our conference in Berlin next year.) We launched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,38,53,16,5,47,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013"}],"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=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}