{"id":3353,"date":"2014-02-20T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T09:05:25","slug":"the-weeks-in-review-7-20-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":"The weeks in review – 7-20 February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"berlin-logo-300\"<\/a>Berlin conference:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> We’ve made lots of progress on a wide range of issues, most of the work having been done by the organizing committee in Berlin.<\/p>\n

We’re now up to 352<\/strong> registered participants from 58 countries<\/strong> with the largest groups coming from Germany (77), the UK (49) and Nigeria (31).<\/p>\n

Because of the very large number of people who’ve signed up to come from Africa, we’ve actually done a mailing to all of them and have recruited some new correspondents.\u00a0 We’ve also been warned that some of these will not be representatives of genuine independent and democratic trade unions and are showing caution in who gets invitation letters (to get a visa into Germany).<\/p>\n

Because of number of registrants we did consider moving the conference to a larger venue, but the majority of members of the organizing committee decided to stick with our current venue.<\/p>\n

We’re still putting together the agenda, organizing solidarity housing for the 147 registrants who requested it, working on the visas, dealing with interpretation into the various languages, and much more.<\/p>\n

Only 3 months to go!<\/em><\/p>\n

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