{"id":3269,"date":"2013-11-28T20:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2013-11-28T20:59:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T18:59:15","slug":"the-week-in-review-21-28-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"The week in review &#8211; 21-28 November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/em> We launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2070\">another campaign<\/a> today, in support of locked out workers in the USA.\u00a0 Meanwhile, our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2053\">Sri Lanka campaign<\/a> is doing well, with well over 8,000 messages sent \u2014 a significant number of them from Australia.\u00a0 Our volunteer translators have been working very hard on the many campaigns we\u2019ve had in the last few weeks.\u00a0 We expect to very soon have another campaign in support of Korean railway workers \u2014 now being reviewed by the ITF and ITUC.\u00a0 And we&#8217;ve just learned today that the 3 Cosas campaign here in London has been victorious.\u00a0 They had a LabourStart campaign that was UK-only during the summer.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Berlin 2014:<\/strong> <\/em>The organizing committee in Berlin continues to meet regularly and a draft agenda is shaping up very nicely. Last week I reported that 40 people had registered so far; today that number is 128, with the largest groups coming from the UK (19) and Germany (19).\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve not yet registered, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/2014\/\">please do so today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Publications:<\/strong> <\/em>Sales of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/calendar\/\">calendar<\/a> have started to pick up \u2014 in part due to publicity we did today.\u00a0\u00a0 (Free shipping helps.)\u00a0 This afternoon so far we\u2019ve sold 6 of them to 6 separate individuals.\u00a0 So the total so far is 197 \u2014 but I have every hope that we\u2019ll be over 200 tomorrow and sales will continue to rise as we approach Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Upcoming meetings:<\/strong> <\/em>Tom is attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unions21.org.uk\/events\/unions21-engagement-seminar\">Unions 21 conference<\/a> in London tomorrow.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be speaking next Friday in Freiburg, Germany at an academic conference on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.come.uni-freiburg.de\/events\/mobilityandcivilsociety\">Mobility and Civil Society: How social commitment takes place.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 Among other things, it will be an opportunity to meet German students and talk up our conference.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Articles:<\/strong><\/em> I submitted a piece to the ITUC\u2019s online magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equaltimes.org\/\">Equal Times<\/a> about the trade union movement in Georgia; it should appear next week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This blog:<\/strong><\/em> I fixed a problem we were having with the new subscription module.\u00a0 If you\u2019re getting this as an email, this means it all works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: We launched another campaign today, in support of locked out workers in the USA.\u00a0 Meanwhile, our Sri Lanka campaign is doing well, with well over 8,000 messages sent \u2014 a significant number of them from Australia.\u00a0 Our volunteer translators have been working very hard on the many campaigns we\u2019ve had in the last few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269"}],"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=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}