{"id":3245,"date":"2013-11-14T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T12:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T12:06:57","slug":"the-weeks-in-review-22-october-14-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3245","title":{"rendered":"The week(s) in review: 22 October &#8211; 14 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve not been updating this regularly enough, but a lot\u2019s been going on over the last 24 days.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Berlin 2014:<\/strong> <\/em>I just returned from a short visit to Berlin where I met our organizing committee.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/2014\/\">The conference<\/a> opens in a little more than 6 months and so far we\u2019ve got a venue (Ver.di headquarters), an organizing committee, a registration form and a blog full of information \u2014 so far, so food.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/2014\/register.php?langcode=en&amp;city=Berlin&amp;year=2014\"><strong>Please make sure to register if you plan to come.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kiev 2013:<\/strong><\/em> We had a very successful meeting of LabourStart correspondents (and potential correspondents), and our first ever rock concert last week.\u00a0 See details below.\u00a0 Followup has included the translation of additional pages into Russian, and signing up some new correspondents.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Firefox OS book:<\/strong><\/em> This was published on 24 October; sales so far have not been as high as expected, but we have sold over 140 of them.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve read the book, please make sure to post reviews to Amazon.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/firefoxos\/\">please order a copy now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The LabourStart Calendar 2014:<\/strong><\/em> We need to work harder to promote sales.\u00a0 We sold 164 last time I reported to you, and in the last 24 days \u2014 just 11 more.\u00a0 Please do what you can to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/calendar\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Intern:<\/strong><\/em> We have hired Tom Harris, who began work 8 days ago.\u00a0 Edd continues to work with us one day a week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> Last time I reported, we were at 10,100 messages for our most recent campaign (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2020\">Colombia<\/a>); in the last 24 days we\u2019ve picked up about 800 more.\u00a0 We closed our Peru campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Donations:<\/strong><\/em> We\u2019ve received substantial donations from the FDHT in Geneva and the RMT union in London.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Upcoming travel:<\/strong><\/em> In December, I\u2019ve been invited to speak about online campaigning at a conference in Freiburg, Germany.\u00a0 In January, Tom and I will go to Berlin for another meeting with the conference organizers.\u00a0 At the end of that month, I\u2019ll be in Brussels to help the European Trade Union Institute plan a course \u2014 initiated by the German national trade union center DGB \u2014 on the subject of unions and the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve not been updating this regularly enough, but a lot\u2019s been going on over the last 24 days. 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