{"id":3526,"date":"2014-07-29T14:51:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2014-07-29T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:51:34","slug":"the-last-3-weeks-in-review-8-29-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"The last 3 weeks in review: 8-29 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Summer is <strong>NOT<\/strong> a quiet time at LabourStart &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Campaigns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We launched our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2394\">Gaza Ceasefire campaign<\/a> on 22 July; it is already our second largest active campaign.<\/li>\n<li>We launched a campaign in defense of jailed Iranian trade unionist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2379\">Reza Shahabi<\/a> on 10 July.<\/li>\n<li>The Ecuador campaign was closed after 3 months.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve followed up with the translators for our top 15 languages, trying to make sure that as many campaigns as possible appear in as many languages as possible.<\/li>\n<li>We did very well with the recent Turkish Georg Fischer campaign and promoted news of our victory to our list, as did with the victory at LATAM in South America. \u00a0That&#8217;s two victories this month that we contributed to.<\/li>\n<li>Using a voucher we had from Google for some free advertising, we ran ads supporting out Polish LIDL campaign; they were seen by nearly 24,000 people, but only 103 clicked on the link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fund-raising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We received a generous donation from Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) and from the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve had an offer from a well-known comrade to run a Marathon in Wales in October to raise funds for LS; more details soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our under-utilized Events module just got better &#8212; now you can tag an event not only by country, but by state\/province as well. You can see the results by checking out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/2013\/state.php?country=UK&amp;langcode=en&amp;state=England\">UK\/England news page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People noticed that visiting our home page took you to a URL that included &#8216;2013&#8217;. This has now been fixed and instead of &#8216;2013&#8217; it says &#8216;news&#8217;. Most people will not have noticed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Office:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been given warning that we&#8217;re to be kicked out of our offices\u00a0very soon. I visited possible alternatives in Finsbury Park, Bethnal Green and Muswell Hill. I&#8217;m leaning towards working from home for a few months, which will save us several thousand pounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speeches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LS has been invited to provide a speaker for a Unifor event in Canada. \u00a0Derek will probably do it.<\/li>\n<li>Eric has also been invited by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) to help teach a course in Germany in September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New contacts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A comrade from a group in France called ReACT came to our offices for a meeting; we discussed many ways of cooperating.<\/li>\n<li>I had a long meeting in London with the Morocco-based representative of the Solidarity Center; we discussed among other things the possibility of a correspondents&#8217; meeting in the region, maybe in Tunis.<\/li>\n<li>I followed up with all those who attended the IndustriALL communicators event last month in Italy, at which I spoke, and invited them to cooperate. Two replied, and we picked up a new correspondent in Cambodia as a result.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been encouraging comrades to post reviews of the Dan Gallin book on Amazon; some have already done so.<\/li>\n<li>Even though book sales haven&#8217;t been amazing, for the first two months of our current financial year (June-July), book sales have made up about 10% of LabourStart&#8217;s income, though this is unlikely to continue.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve begun adding reviews to the Gallin book to our page promoting the book &#8212; so far, only two.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote to everyone who requested a review copy (PDF) and asked them to let me know when their reviews appear.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to Matt Heaney, the book is now on sale at ver.di&#8217;s bookshop, both off- and online.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote to all 130 people who spoke at our Berlin conference reminding them that we want all their texts for our next book by the end of July.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo of the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For those who post these photos (mostly Derek) there&#8217;s now an explanation of how to post country-specific ones. If anyone wants to do this, email me and I&#8217;ll explain how it&#8217;s done.<\/li>\n<li>The photo of the day is also now available on our mobile edition for the first time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enough for now &#8230; and now back to work &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is NOT a quiet time at LabourStart &#8230; Campaigns: We launched our Gaza Ceasefire campaign on 22 July; it is already our second largest active campaign. We launched a campaign in defense of jailed Iranian trade unionist Reza Shahabi on 10 July. The Ecuador campaign was closed after 3 months. 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