{"id":3151,"date":"2013-09-23T17:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2013-09-23T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:13:38","slug":"the-week-in-review-17-23-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"The week in review &#8211; 17-23 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ll be away for much of the time for the next week, I thought I&#8217;d do a slightly early update of the last week.\u00a0 Some highlights &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Campaigns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We launched two new LabourStart global campaigns in the last three days &#8212; in defense of Honduran trade union leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1948\">Victor Crespo<\/a>, and in support of unions representing staff at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1958\">United Nations<\/a>.\u00a0 The first of these had almost 6,300 supporters after 3 days; the second had over 4,000 <strong><em>in just 6 hours<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>We closed down two of our campaigns &#8212; the UK-only campaign in support of cleaners at the University of London, and the formerly-Canadian-only, later global campaign in support of workers at the Labatt brewery.<\/li>\n<li>We gave an extra boost to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1943\">John Greyson<\/a> campaign after hearing about his hunger strike.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, we did a mailing to promote two major new IUF campaigns focussing on Colombia and Honduras.<\/li>\n<li>Last week I was invited to UNISON to discuss with them how they could use their new app for smartphones to push LabourStart campaigns out to their members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>News &amp; Correspondents<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search is now working on our home page in all languages once again.<\/li>\n<li>I did a second weekly mailing to all our correspondents.<\/li>\n<li>We now have a translation of our interface into Icelandic, but no volunteer correspondents have stepped forward there yet.<\/li>\n<li>We did, however, pick up new volunteer correspondents in Denmark and Finland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ll be away for much of the time for the next week, I thought I&#8217;d do a slightly early update of the last week.\u00a0 Some highlights &#8230; Campaigns We launched two new LabourStart global campaigns in the last three days &#8212; in defense of Honduran trade union leader Victor Crespo, and in support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151"}],"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=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}