{"id":3841,"date":"2016-03-28T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2016-03-28T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:26:18","slug":"our-next-book-new-campaign-donations-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"Our next book, new campaign, donations, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Work is being done on our book on migrant labour which we hope to launch in Toronto.  We have a cover and the inside pages are nearly done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve asked the KCTU and HKCTU for permission to close down the Korea and China campaigns, both of which have been running for a long time.<br \/>\nA new campaign in support of Turkish union GIDA-IS is about to go live.<br \/>\nThe campaign submission page has a new field for videos so these can be incorporated into future campaigns.<br \/>\nI did the monthly review of translations into our major languages and identified some problems, especially with German campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correspondents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weekly mailings to all correspondents continue.  One focussed on the use of states and regions in news stories; the other encouraged the 90% who&#8217;ve been inactive to get active.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We received a large donation from a branch of Unite the Union in the UK.  The Education International and UNI have also made  substantial donations to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mahesh pointed out a problem with tweeting a news story with a apostrophe in the title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have submitted weekly programmes to WINS on the terrorist attacks in Brussels and the new crackdown on independent unions in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, I&#8217;ll be speaking on a panel with a leader of Unite the Union and Amnesty International&#8217;s Shane Enright on corporate campaigning, in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books Work is being done on our book on migrant labour which we hope to launch in Toronto. We have a cover and the inside pages are nearly done. Campaigns I&#8217;ve asked the KCTU and HKCTU for permission to close down the Korea and China campaigns, both of which have been running for a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,60,38,6,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841"}],"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=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3842,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}