{"id":3888,"date":"2016-08-01T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2016-08-01T12:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:01:34","slug":"while-i-was-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3888","title":{"rendered":"While I was away …"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Eric

LabourStart editor Eric Lee meeting Bernie Sanders and Larry Sanders in Philadelphia.<\/p><\/div>\n

I spent the last couple of weeks in the United States, mostly attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Nevertheless, I managed to do a few LabourStart tasks:<\/p>\n

TURKEY:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the abortive military coup and the increase of repression, I contacted our comrades in Turkey as well as a couple of global union federations about a campaign. So far, there has not been any interest.<\/p>\n

DISK did issue a statement, which we publicized widely. We’ve also given extensive publicity to statements issued by global unions about the situation in Turkey.<\/p>\n

A request came in for another Turkey campaign, unrelated to the coup. However, it appears to be an internal union dispute, so we will not pursue this.<\/p>\n

I followed up with the International Federation of Journalists, which has launched an online effort in support of Turkish journalists, and they are considering working with us on a campaign.<\/p>\n

AFP campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I sent out the campaign mailing in additional languages. I also added a link to the LabourRadio interview. I did a followup email to English list; the campaign had 4,289 supporters; the follow-up mailing went out to 74,008 people. As a result, the campaign now has 5,341, a gain of over 1,000 people. It remains, however, a small campaign.<\/p>\n

SFI campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the request of BWI, we’ve launched another campaign in support of forestry workers in Malaysia. It has 3,367 supporters as of today and appears in 9 languages with more coming. Our mailing also promoted the IUF’s current campaign on India, which has received a boost due to our effort. I publicized this campaign on Facebook and Twitter and sent out mailings promoting it in a number of languages.<\/p>\n

Uzbekistan campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As three months have now passed, I’d asked for permission to close this down. It’s our largest current campaign with well over 10,000 supporters.<\/p>\n

USA:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I offered LabourStart’s help with a Philadelphia airport workers campaign. The strike however was settled on the eve of the Democratic Convention.<\/p>\n

I’ve informed the Workers Independent News Service that I’ll not be submitting additional “Working World” broadcasts as I did for several months this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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