{"id":4437,"date":"2021-02-19T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:45:47","slug":"4-new-campaigns-launched-in-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"4 new campaigns launched in one month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigns:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next week we will launch a campaign in support of an organising campaign in Israel, at the request of the Histadrut.
\nWe launched a campaign at the request of the ITF and ETF targetting FedEx-TNT<\/a> in Europe; after a week online it is in 12 languages and has 4,465<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n

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We also launched a campaign in support of a union under pressure in Kazakhstan<\/a> which has 6,293<\/strong> supporters.
\nAt the request of PSI we launched a campaign in support of jailed women activists in Algeria<\/a>, which now has 8,062<\/strong> supporters.
\nOur largest current campaign is in support of the teachers union in Jordan<\/a> — it has 9,491<\/strong> supporters and appears in 24<\/strong> languages. I hope that campaign will exceed 10,000<\/strong> supporters.
\nWe also closed a number of the older campaigns.<\/p>\n

Correspondents:<\/strong> We signed up new correspondents in the USA and Vanuatu this month.<\/p>\n

Finland:<\/strong> A number of new translators volunteered and our campaigns began appearing in Finnish again.<\/p>\n

Interns:<\/strong> Amos Netzer from the Global Labour University began working for us this week. We had the first-ever meeting of all 3 LabourStart interns this week as well. We will be participating in the Cornell ILR Career Fair next month. In addition, Derek has reached out to some Canadian labour studies departments to sound out the possibility of Canadian interns.<\/p>\n

Mailing lists:<\/strong> I imported 918<\/strong> new subscribers this month. We now have a Malaysian language list.<\/p>\n

Poland:<\/strong> A number of new translators volunteered and our campaigns began appearing in Polish again.<\/p>\n

Publicity:<\/strong> Eric was interviewed by Davar, the online newspaper of the Histadrut. The interview appeared in Hebrew and English.<\/p>\n

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Translators:<\/strong> With more than 80 volunteer translators, we called a meeting of them in mid-February. About 20% of them participated, and we ‘met’ a number of them for the first time.<\/p>\n

Turkey:<\/strong> We did publicity to our list promoting a new book on the international labour movement in Turkish, written by Kivanc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigns: Next week we will launch a campaign in support of an organising campaign in Israel, at the request of the Histadrut. We launched a campaign at the request of the ITF and ETF targetting FedEx-TNT in Europe; after a week online it is in 12 languages and has 4,465 supporters. We also launched a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,68,7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437"}],"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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}