{"id":4459,"date":"2021-04-22T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:34:08","slug":"may-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4459","title":{"rendered":"May Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May Day<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve announced our event &#8211; an online meeting in support of jailed trade unionists in Hong Kong, Myanmar, Belarus, Turkey and Iran.\u00a0 We&#8217;re invited the speakers and created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/register4event.html\">a signup form for participants<\/a>.\u00a0 At the moment, <strong>720<\/strong> people have visited the registration page, and <strong>257<\/strong> have signed up to participate in the event &#8212; after less than one day of publicity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong>: We&#8217;re in the final stages before the launch of Dan Gallin&#8217;s book, <em>Resistance<\/em>. Details soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New correspondents<\/strong>: We added new correspondents from the USA, Vanuatu, the UK, Canada, Italy, Nigeria and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan<\/strong>: We asked the Education International if it&#8217;s possible to close down this campaign, which has now been running for more than 3 months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malaysia<\/strong>: We are about to launch a campaign, at the request of BWI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong>: We received another generous donation from a union in Norway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAQ<\/strong>: We had an old page on the site with old information &#8212; this has now been updated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home page<\/strong>: We fixed a problem &#8211; if there was a second country for the news story for a top story, it wasn&#8217;t appearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Day: We&#8217;ve announced our event &#8211; an online meeting in support of jailed trade unionists in Hong Kong, Myanmar, Belarus, Turkey and Iran.\u00a0 We&#8217;re invited the speakers and created a signup form for participants.\u00a0 At the moment, 720 people have visited the registration page, and 257 have signed up to participate in the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,54,38,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459"}],"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=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}