{"id":3256,"date":"2013-11-21T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T10:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2013-11-21T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T10:18:26","slug":"the-week-in-review-14-21-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"The week in review – 14-21 November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> Three new campaigns were launched in the last week, plus we did publicity for the IUF campaign on Colombia and IndustriALL\u2019s campaign on Iraq.\u00a0 I really appreciate the incredible work done by our volunteer translators in getting these translations done.<\/p>\n

Berlin 2014:<\/strong><\/em> Our conference blog<\/a> is being updated, some 40 people have already registered, and we\u2019re doing loads of publicity. On Friday, I was invited to address a meeting of global union communicators at the ITF headquarters in London about the conference.\u00a0 There were participants from the ITUC, ITF, IndustriALL, PSI, etc.\u00a0 I migrated the entire database of conference participants to a relational database using MySQL, which has made it much easier to display (and sort) the list of people who\u2019ve registered.\u00a0 I wrote to 10 comrades in Turkey specifically appealing for help building a Turkish contingent; no one has replied yet.\u00a0 If you’ve not yet registered, please do so today – click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mailings to national lists:<\/strong><\/em> We just did a mailing to our UK list advertising a half dozen events taking place in the next month and plan to do this regularly; we encouraged people to submit their events to our online events list \u2014 and we\u2019ll take future ones from there.\u00a0 We also did a Canada-only mailing today promoting a Bangladesh garment workers’ meeting in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Writings:<\/strong><\/em> I had an article<\/a> in Solidarity about the successful railway workers\u2019 strike in Georgia and have been commissioned to write something on the same subject for Equal Times.\u00a0 I have also been commissioned to write about the Histadrut\u2019s recent organizing successes for Jungle World, in Germany.<\/p>\n

Book & calendar sales:<\/strong><\/em> Still sluggish.\u00a0 We\u2019ve now sold 190 calendars<\/a>; our third book (Firefox OS<\/a>) is up to over 160.\u00a0 An attempt to promote sales of the book on the Iraqi labour movement, \u201cHadi Never Died\u201d, disappointed with only two sales. Tom is preparing a calendar of trade union events in the UK at which we can sell our publications in 2014, following on the success Derek had at the CUPE convention in Canada.\u00a0 Comrades — you can help by posting reviews of our books on Amazon and spreading the word about all LabourStart publications.<\/p>\n

Social networks:<\/strong> <\/em>Our group on Facebook is growing quite quickly, though we’re doing nothing to promote it.\u00a0 66 people joined in the last week alone.\u00a0 On Twitter, we’ve launched a low-key, low-cost ad campaign which has brought us 12 new followers in the last 2 days (at a cost of \u00a32.00).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigns: Three new campaigns were launched in the last week, plus we did publicity for the IUF campaign on Colombia and IndustriALL\u2019s campaign on Iraq.\u00a0 I really appreciate the incredible work done by our volunteer translators in getting these translations done. Berlin 2014: Our conference blog is being updated, some 40 people have already registered, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,60,16,33,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256"}],"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=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}