{"id":4096,"date":"2017-11-13T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:36:29","slug":"new-campaign-launched-in-support-of-workers-in-georgia-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4096","title":{"rendered":"New campaign launched in support of workers in Georgia, and more &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB_IMG_1485705488957-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB_IMG_1485705488957-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB_IMG_1485705488957-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB_IMG_1485705488957-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB_IMG_1485705488957-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FB_IMG_1485705488957.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=3618\">a major new campaign in support of workers in <strong>Georgia<\/strong><\/a>. It had 5,931 supporters by 12:30 today, and appears in 15 languages. I have encouraged our friends in Georgia to help with a Georgian language translation as well.<\/li>\n<li>I closed our <strong>Cambodia<\/strong> campaign after three months. We&#8217;re still waiting to hear from our partners what effect, if any, our effort had.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve had a problem for some time with <strong>our mailings<\/strong> in Germany and have come up with a solution. You&#8217;ll notice a small change in how we link to campaigns in future mass mailings &#8212; in all languages.<\/li>\n<li>Derek has been leading a discussion with some of our North American correspondents about a LabourStart presence at next spring&#8217;s <strong>Labor Notes conference<\/strong> in the U.S.. Andrew has proposed a LabourStart presence at next year&#8217;s <strong>ACTU congress<\/strong> in Brisbane.<\/li>\n<li>Our <strong>mailing lists<\/strong> grow by 209 this week, all of them new supporters of our campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>At Derek&#8217;s suggestion, I&#8217;ve begun a review of all our existing <strong>Twitter accounts<\/strong> &#8212; some active, some not. We&#8217;re going to try to get a grip on these and grow them all, and add new ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We launched a major new campaign in support of workers in Georgia. It had 5,931 supporters by 12:30 today, and appears in 15 languages. I have encouraged our friends in Georgia to help with a Georgian language translation as well. I closed our Cambodia campaign after three months. We&#8217;re still waiting to hear from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096"}],"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=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}