{"id":4070,"date":"2017-08-25T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2017-08-25T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:15:29","slug":"two-new-campaigns-launched-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"Two new campaigns launched this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/iran2017\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4071 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3534-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3534-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3534.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We launched two new campaigns this week &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=3508\">Kazakhstan<\/a> (IndustriALL and ITUC) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=3534\">Iran<\/a> (Education International and International Transport Workers Federation). \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first of these is already in 11 languages and has <strong>4,200<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n<p>(Pictured to the left are Esmail Abdi and Reza Shahabi, the two jailed Iranian trade union leaders, who are the focus of our latest campaign.)<\/p>\n<p>Prior to doing this, we closed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=3458\">the previous Iran campaign<\/a> which focussed on Esmail Abdi&#8217;s hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign had <strong>8,410<\/strong> supporters and ran in 18 languages.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, we helped to publicise the upcoming strike by McDonald&#8217;s workers &#8212; including inviting our subscribers to demonstrate at the company&#8217;s headquarters in London next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Having finally caught up with an overflowing inbox, all campaigns and mailings that have been translated have now finally gone live. \u00a0Our volunteer translators have been working overtime to keep up with all the new campaigns, and this is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Our mailing lists grew by <strong>184<\/strong> this week due to new supporters for our new campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We launched two new campaigns this week &#8212; Kazakhstan (IndustriALL and ITUC) and Iran (Education International and International Transport Workers Federation). \u00a0 The first of these is already in 11 languages and has 4,200 supporters. (Pictured to the left are Esmail Abdi and Reza Shahabi, the two jailed Iranian trade union leaders, who are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070"}],"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=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}