{"id":4377,"date":"2020-08-31T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2020-08-31T17:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:07:22","slug":"we-have-never-had-more-live-campaigns-than-we-have-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4377","title":{"rendered":"We have never had more live campaigns than we have today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are currently running 13 campaigns &#8212; a new record for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/belarusstrikewave-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/belarusstrikewave-1.png 255w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/belarusstrikewave-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>They come from Albania, Belarus, Brazil, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Peru, Poland, Turkey, and Zimbabwe &#8212; so we have most of the world&#8217;s regions covered.<\/p>\n<p>Our campaign partners include the International Trade Union Confederation, European Trade Union Confederation, Building and Wood Workers International, Education International, IndustriALL, International Transport Workers Federation, International Union of Foodworkers, Public Services International, UNI Global Union, the European Transport Workers Federation, the Zimbabwean Nurses Association (ZINA), Deriteks (Turkey), Indonesian Labour with the People Movement (GEBRAK), National Union of Workers in Hospital Support and Allied Services (Malaysia), the Trade Union of United Mineworkers of Bulqiza (Albania), and the independent Belarusian trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent campaigns we&#8217;ve launched (this month) are these four:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Belarus: Stop the violence &#8211; defend democracy and human rightsv- <strong>5,135<\/strong> supporters<\/li>\n<li>Cambodia: Free jailed union leaders now &#8211; <strong>4,566<\/strong> supporters<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia: Stop Widodo\u2019s Omnibus Bill and protect workers and their families &#8211; <strong>5,178<\/strong> supporters<\/li>\n<li>Jordan: Release leaders of the Jordanian Teacher Association &#8211; <strong>5,511<\/strong> supporters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please do what you can to help us ramp up support for all these campaigns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of the campaigns are having successful results &#8212; for example, in Jordan jailed leaders of the teachers union were released, and we expect to close the current campaign shortly. And we now have a document which we can begin to share telling the stories of a significant number of campaign we victories we had in 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the work of our wonderful volunteer translators, two languages that had been problematic for us (few translations) are now working well &#8212; German and Korean. These are two of our biggest mailing lists (with over <strong>9,200<\/strong> subscribers between them), so we&#8217;re very pleased to be able to share all our current campaigns with them. In addition, our backlog of campaigns has now been translated into Turkish.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the work getting the campaign translations posted and the mailings sent out is now being done by our new intern, Nate. In addition, we have this month taken on another intern, a student at Cornell University&#8217;s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Hargun Sodhi; she will begin work with us this week.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the new campaigns, our mailing lists are experiencing significant growth this month. In August we added <strong>1,188<\/strong> new subscribers, most of them to the English list. All of our mailing lists have now been imported into Sendy.<\/p>\n<p>We made a lot of progress on the second volume of Dan Gallin&#8217;s writings &#8212; we now have all the texts digitised and ready to be edited. Dan has even suggested a title &#8212; <em><strong>Resistance<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we&#8217;ve had a problem with our newswires in the different languages (though the country newswires work) &#8212; this is due to changes IONOS made to their system and we are working to fix this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently running 13 campaigns &#8212; a new record for us. They come from Albania, Belarus, Brazil, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Peru, Poland, Turkey, and Zimbabwe &#8212; so we have most of the world&#8217;s regions covered. Our campaign partners include the International Trade Union Confederation, European Trade Union Confederation, Building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,68,7,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377"}],"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=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}