{"id":4112,"date":"2017-12-09T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2017-12-09T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:43:19","slug":"big-victory-in-libya-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"Big victory in Libya campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I will be travelling from 13-24 December, this will probably be the last update to Inside LabourStart before Christmas. I’d like to wish all of you a merry Christmas and happy Chanukkah.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The big news this week is that our campaign helped force the Libyan government<\/strong> to return Nermin’s passport and to apologise to her. This is a big win for us and the ITF, and the ITF has acknowledged this in their statement<\/a>. We have begun informing all of our mailing lists about this victory. (Unlike other organisations, we don’t use every victory — or even every mailing — as an excuse to fundraise. Sometimes, you just want to share good news, full stop.)<\/p>\n

While we didn’t launch any new LabourStart campaigns this week, we did do a mailing to promote the IUF’s current Iran campaign<\/a>, as well as promoting that on social media. As we often get complaints (a handful each time) when we do this — why am I getting this mailing twice? why am I being asked to support a campaign that I already signed up to?<\/em> — I included a sentence this time explaining that this is an IUF campaign, not a LabourStart one, and we cannot know who has supported it, and so on. As a result, we got only one complaint letter this time.<\/p>\n

I have also begun including in our mailings, again, links to Tweet and post these messages to Facebook, as well as a special link to forward messages. If people just use their email clients to forward messages, as many do, they are forwarding messages that include a unique unsubscribe link, which anyone receiving the message can click on, and sometimes do. When that happens, the original recipient will usually receive a message from MailChimp telling them that they’ve been unsubscribed — and they sometimes write to ask us why this happened.<\/p>\n

We — and the IUF — were having issues with some of our campaign messages being bounced; we have now learned why (our default messages were sometimes too long) and this has now been fixed, and we are monitoring this more closely now.<\/p>\n

Finally, as I wrote last week, we’ve now formally nominated our candidates<\/a> to receive the Svensson prize<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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