{"id":4018,"date":"2017-06-03T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2017-06-03T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T11:48:53","slug":"new-campaign-launched-esmail-abdi-on-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4018","title":{"rendered":"New campaign launched – Esmail Abdi on hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

New campaign – Esmail Abdi – hunger strike:<\/strong>
\nThis campaign went live about a week ago is already doing well, with over 6,000 supporters, and was translated into a dozen languages.
\nI sent out a reminder to the 71,354 people on our English list who didn’t open the message sent out a week ago.<\/p>\n

Campaigns in the pipeline:<\/strong>
\nWe are in discussions with a Canadian union on a major campaign.
\nUGT Spain is talking with us about a campaign focussing on workers facing jail.
\nA US union has also asked for a possible campaign with a long-running dispute.
\nWe were given a campaign by a union in Turkey last week but have been asked to hold off on this for a bit.<\/p>\n

Mailing lists:<\/strong>
\nWe picked up 317 new subscribers, nearly all of those for the English list.<\/p>\n

Fundraising drive:<\/strong>
\nWe did the annual fundraising drive, which raised \u00a32,500 in the first 48 hours. The mailing is translated into a number of languages – but some key ones still remain.<\/p>\n

New correspondents:<\/strong>
\nWe have new correspondents in Iran and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong>
\nWe’ve now sent out review copies of our migrant workers book to 33 publications — I hope this will generate some reviews and raise awareness of the book.
\nWe continue to have problems with CreateSpace, the Amazon subsidiary that prints and sells the books, and have continued complaining and demanding that they sort out the payments which are owed to us. They are currently looking into what the problem is.<\/p>\n

New LabourStart flyer:<\/strong>
\nA new LabourStart brochure is in the works, our first since 2014. The English version should be ready in a few days.<\/p>\n

Privacy issue – resolved:<\/strong>
\nAfter repeated requests to Google to re-crawl our site, they have finally done so. As a result, people searching for their own email addresses on Google should not find them listed on an internal LabourStart campaign, as was the case for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn:<\/strong>
\nFrom what I can tell, we are no longer able to mail to our group on LinkedIn, which is a pity.<\/p>\n

Publicity on social media:<\/strong>
\nPublicised China Labor Watch statement on Ivanka Trump on Facebook and Twitter.
\nPromoted the ITUC statement on the new South Korean president.
\nPublicised our extensive coverage of the Histadrut election in Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New campaign – Esmail Abdi – hunger strike: This campaign went live about a week ago is already doing well, with over 6,000 supporters, and was translated into a dozen languages. I sent out a reminder to the 71,354 people on our English list who didn’t open the message sent out a week ago. Campaigns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,38,34,7,16,33,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018"}],"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=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}