{"id":4455,"date":"2021-04-07T13:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2021-04-07T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:29:43","slug":"kyrgyzstan-we-spoke-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan: We spoke too soon …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We spoke too soon – in Kyrgyzstan<\/strong>, the government has had a change of heart and has passed anti-union laws<\/a>. We are just about to launch a campaign demanding that the president veto that law.<\/p>\n

In other news …<\/em><\/p>\n

Canada<\/strong>: We’ve done a mailing to our entire global list encouraging submissions to CLIFF, the labour film festival. We received a very generous donation from a Canadian union. And we also launched a new Canada-only campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Israel<\/strong>: We continued with building our mailing list and social media following, writing directly to the more than 500 Hebrew speakers who supported our campaign<\/a> – which now has just under 7,500<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n

Myanmar<\/strong>: We have given extensive publicity to two union fundraisers, organised by DSA in the US, and BWI.<\/p>\n

Pakistan<\/strong>: We did more followup mailings to promote our campaign<\/a>, also to our English, German and French lists.\u00a0 The campaign has over 7,000<\/strong> supporters.<\/p>\n

Home page<\/strong>: A problem emerged with the ‘more stories’ for country link not working; this has now been fixed.<\/p>\n

Interns<\/strong>: We participated in Cornell University’s Social Justice Career Fair and interviewed a number of participants. Three of these were short-listed, they were interviewed, and we took a decision to hire one, who will begin work in June. Our intern Amos, who is studying at the Global Labour University in Berlin, completed his internship with us.<\/p>\n

Labour News Network<\/strong>: We have revived this tool which allows LabourStart correspondents to post news stories that have not appeared elsewhere on the web. This is now being beta-tested. More details coming soon.<\/p>\n

Mailing list<\/strong>: We added 366<\/strong> new subscribers from the new campaign supporters, mostly to the English list but also with significant growth for the Dutch list.<\/p>\n

May Day<\/strong>: We are working on two events online — a panel discussion focussing on jailed trade union activists around the world, and a possible world premiere online of a major new film about working people (more details soon).<\/p>\n

RSS newswires<\/strong>: We have been alerted to the fact that these are broken; we will aim to fix them ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spoke too soon – in Kyrgyzstan, the government has had a change of heart and has passed anti-union laws. We are just about to launch a campaign demanding that the president veto that law. In other news … Canada: We’ve done a mailing to our entire global list encouraging submissions to CLIFF, the labour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38,68,61,7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455"}],"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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}