{"id":4058,"date":"2017-08-03T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2017-08-03T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:03:02","slug":"coming-soon-two-new-campaigns-on-kazakhstan-and-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon: Two new campaigns on Kazakhstan and Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We closed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=3386\">the Kazakhstan campaign<\/a> after 4 months &#8212; but are likely to launch a new one soon with the support of several global unions. The campaign ran in <strong>17<\/strong> languages and had <strong>8,157<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n<p>We have a new campaign in the works, brought to us by a coalition of trade unions and NGOs in response to the sudden closure of a garment factory in Cambodia. It should go live today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=3458\">Our Iran campaign<\/a> seems quite out of date, as Esmail Abdi was apparently released and then re-arrested. We have asked the Education International for clarification and guidance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Among the top labour news stories we&#8217;ve given exposure to this week were the road blockades and fires set by sacked workers at Haifa Chemicals in Israel; the ongoing strike by teachers in Peru, who have now marched on the capital; the struggle by Palestinian workers to form a union at a furniture factory in the occupied territories; the campaign to support Nissan workers organising to form a union in the USA; and finally, the struggle of train drivers in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkish Facebook page:<\/strong> This has grown spectacularly in the last few weeks, rising from about 250 to 1,815 &#8212; 480 of those in the last week. \u00a0See the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LabourStartTurkce\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mailing lists:<\/strong> While we wait for new campaigns to launch (Cambodia and Kazakhstan &#8211; see above) our lists are stagnant and not growing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations:<\/strong> The ITUC has made a generous pledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigns: We closed the Kazakhstan campaign after 4 months &#8212; but are likely to launch a new one soon with the support of several global unions. The campaign ran in 17 languages and had 8,157 supporters. We have a new campaign in the works, brought to us by a coalition of trade unions and NGOs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38,7,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058"}],"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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}