{"id":3371,"date":"2014-03-07T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T10:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T10:19:39","slug":"the-weeks-in-review-21-feburary-7-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3371","title":{"rendered":"The weeks in review – 21 Feburary – 7 March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlin conference:\u00a0<\/strong> The list of participants continues to grow — two weeks ago we had 352 registrants from 58 countries; today that’s 420<\/strong> from 68<\/strong> countries.\u00a0 The number coming from Germany is now 84<\/strong>, up from 77.\u00a0 The team in Berlin is doing a fantastic job, meeting regularly and building up a solid programme of workshops and plenaries.\u00a0 We’ve now begun weekly Skype conference calls involving myself, Derek and Gisela and this will continue in the run-up to the event.\u00a0 We are doing a monthly mailing to all those who registered and in last week’s mailing we made a special appeal for people to volunteer as interpreters.\u00a0 Our volunteer translators have begun translating the conference website<\/a> into Spanish (as well as English and German), and the registration form now works in 8 languages.\u00a0 And we now have a donations page in German<\/a> (in the hope that our raised profile in the German labour movement may help generate donations).\u00a0 The ITUC has agreed to promote our conference in their next mailing to delegates to their upcoming world congress in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Campaigns:<\/strong>\u00a0 We launched four new campaigns in the last two weeks after a period of relative calm.\u00a0 Here they are (with the current number of supporters in brackets): Korea<\/a> [7,178], Bangladesh<\/a> [4,007], Peru<\/a> [838], and Canada<\/a> [508].\u00a0 The last of these is a Canada-only campaign; all the others are global.\u00a0 We closed down the Sri Lanka campaign today and the USA (First Energy) campaign last week.\u00a0 We’re hoping to launch a Ukraine campaign in the next few days.\u00a0 Finally, our French language ActNOW RSS feed is greatly improved, with French text replacing the English that remained there.<\/p>\n

New languages:<\/strong> We’ve had an offer to translate LabourStart into Hindi which is great, and something we’ve wanted for a very long time.\u00a0 Now that we have a Hungarian language edition<\/a>, we need correspondents, so I wrote to all the Hungarians I could find on our English language mailing list — and the first of them has now volunteered to be a correspondent.<\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong>\u00a0 Andy completed the translation into French of our second book<\/a> (global labour movements) which is now on sale at Amazon, CreateSpace, etc.\u00a0 He did a mailing to our French language list which generated a lot of interest (nearly 50 sales in the first few days), and it appears that we’ll need to have copies of all our books, in English and French, in Berlin for sale to delegates.\u00a0 We’re also working hard on Dan Gallin’s book in order to get it ready well in advance of the Berlin conference — at which we’ll have book launch with Dan speaking.<\/p>\n

My new contact details:<\/strong> Please note that I am contactable in many ways, but no longer at the old phone number.\u00a0 I’ve written up what I’m doing and why<\/a> and encourage LabourStart correspondents to use email where possible, and in urgent cases only, to use Telegram<\/a> or Skype to reach me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berlin conference:\u00a0 The list of participants continues to grow — two weeks ago we had 352 registrants from 58 countries; today that’s 420 from 68 countries.\u00a0 The number coming from Germany is now 84, up from 77.\u00a0 The team in Berlin is doing a fantastic job, meeting regularly and building up a solid programme of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,3,8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371"}],"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=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}