{"id":4016,"date":"2017-05-26T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T07:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2017-05-26T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T07:47:33","slug":"a-relatively-quiet-fortnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"A relatively quiet fortnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was travelling for eight of the last fourteen days, this will be a relatively short summary of the last fortnight at LabourStart.<\/p>\n

Campaigns:<\/strong>
\nWe closed the long-running campaign in support of jailed teacher trade unionist Esmail Abdi in Iran — but opened a new one<\/a> at the request of hte Education International due to his hunger strike.
\nWe added a text to our closed Nigerian dockers’ campaign<\/a> from the ITF.
\nWe are now completely caught up with translations of campaigns and mailings in our 8 largest languages.<\/p>\n

Next conference:<\/strong> We’ve followed up with our comrades in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

Mailing lists:<\/strong> We added just 98 new names — this number is low due to the fact that we launched no new campaigns in this period.<\/p>\n

Social media:<\/strong> We gave our Turkish Facebook page<\/a>, which is being revived, a boost with a mailing to our Turkish language list, picking up 21 new likes.<\/p>\n

Finances:<\/strong> UNISON (UK) has donated \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n

Site security:<\/strong> We did a thorough review following the massive ransomware attacks earlier this month. We’ve improved our backups, which are now comprehensive and done regularly. Our web hosting company allows us to do a malware test, which we ran, and which showed no security issues.<\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong> We’ve begun sending out review copies of our book on migrant workers’ struggles<\/a> — the goal is to send out about 100 copies. If you know of any publications that should receive one, please do let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I was travelling for eight of the last fourteen days, this will be a relatively short summary of the last fortnight at LabourStart. Campaigns: We closed the long-running campaign in support of jailed teacher trade unionist Esmail Abdi in Iran — but opened a new one at the request of hte Education International due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38,7,16,40,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016"}],"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=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}