{"id":3724,"date":"2015-06-14T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T09:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2015-06-14T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T09:16:23","slug":"china-campaign-has-broken-the-10000-barrier-and-more-news-from-the-2nd-week-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3724","title":{"rendered":"China campaign has broken the 10,000 barrier and more news from the 2nd week in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Campaigns:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2743\">The China campaign<\/a> now tops 10,000 messages sent and is our largest active campaign.<br \/>\nA followup mailing was sent to the English list, and this generated 1,600 new supporters from the 5,500 people who opened this message (but didn&#8217;t open the first one we sent).\u00a0 We should consider doing this for our other large language lists.<br \/>\nThe Hindi version of this campaign went live this week.<br \/>\nI discussed the possibility of a LabourStart campaign in support of jailed journalists in Turkey with a former president of the National Union of Journalists (UK) &#8212; we&#8217;d want to do this as a campaign together with the European or International Federation of Journalists.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Internationalization:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re still working to get the Portuguese interface working properly for adding news &#8212; nearly there. We also now have a transation of the welcome message for new correspondents. Euan has made contact with all our translators and correspondents in Brazil.<br \/>\nWe now seem to have a working interface in Sinhalese for our campaigns and have just received the first translation of a campaign &#8212; I hope to go live with this very soon.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Books &amp; other publications:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nDerek and I have begun looking into printers for the 2016 calendar. Once we know we can do this, and afford this, we&#8217;ll begin the work on a photo competition.<br \/>\nWith the agreement of my co-author, Jeremy Green, we&#8217;ll make our book Firefox OS for Activists, free on the Kindle.\u00a0 And maybe other books later as well.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Office:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;m exploring the possibility of re-opening a LabourStart office in London; we&#8217;ve had an offer of (free) space. More details next week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mailing lists:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThis week, I added 558 new subscribers to 16 mailing lists &#8211; 401 of them in English.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>London Labour Film Festival:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nOnce again, we&#8217;ll be involved in supporting this and promoting it to our supporters in the UK. The festival will take place in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Donations:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWe received a generous donation from the PSEU, a union in Ireland.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written individually to half a dozen unions in the USA that we have worked with asking for donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: The China campaign now tops 10,000 messages sent and is our largest active campaign. A followup mailing was sent to the English list, and this generated 1,600 new supporters from the 5,500 people who opened this message (but didn&#8217;t open the first one we sent).\u00a0 We should consider doing this for our other large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,38,8,7,56,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724"}],"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=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}