{"id":3734,"date":"2015-07-08T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2015-07-08T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:09:43","slug":"iran-turkey-morocco-malaysia-norway-burma-and-transnistria-another-week-goes-by-at-labourstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Turkey, Morocco, Malaysia, Norway, Burma and Transnistria &#8211; another week goes by at LabourStart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/esmail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3735 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/esmail-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"esmail\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/esmail-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/esmail.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>Campaigns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2779\">a new campaign<\/a> demanding the release of a jailed Iranian teacher trade union leader, Esmail Abdi, which instantly became one of our largest. The campaign has <strong>6,700<\/strong> supporters after less than two days online. Canadian teachers unions have launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderclap.it\/projects\/28671-free-lib-rez-esmail\">Thunderclap<\/a> to help build support for this.\u00a0 If you have a Twitter or Facebook account, please sign up to support this and spread the word about it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also been asked to support a campaign in Turkey and Morocco this week as well. We&#8217;re waiting to hear from the IFJ and EFJ about a possible campaign in defense of a journalist in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transnistria\">Transnistria<\/a> who is a LabourStart correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>I did a followup mailing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2766\">Malaysia forestry workers campaign<\/a> in English. That campaign is well over 8,000 messages sent, making it our second largest current campaign.\u00a0 But I expect the Iran campaign to overtake it in a day or two.\u00a0 Followup emails sent a week after we do the initial mailing are important, and I always do them in English.\u00a0 If the translators for our other large lists (French, German, Spanish) want to do the same, it might help get several hundred additional supporters for our campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailing lists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We picked up <strong>974<\/strong> new subscribers this week following the launch of our Iran campaign. We&#8217;re now have <strong>132,173<\/strong> subscribers to our various lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social networks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/labourstart.org\">Our Facebook page<\/a> now has <strong>10,021<\/strong> likes. I&#8217;ve stopped paying for advertising and growth from today will be organic. That ad campaign cost us $95.29 and generated <strong>583<\/strong> new page likes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Android app in Norwegian is now nearly done &#8212; just a couple more tweaks and it will go live on Google Play. We&#8217;ll begin work on other languages, using this as the template.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ILO office in Burma needed a Word version of our global labour movement book; this has been found and sent to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: We launched a new campaign demanding the release of a jailed Iranian teacher trade union leader, Esmail Abdi, which instantly became one of our largest. The campaign has 6,700 supporters after less than two days online. Canadian teachers unions have launched a Thunderclap to help build support for this.\u00a0 If you have a Twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,53,8,7,16,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734"}],"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=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}