{"id":4467,"date":"2021-05-10T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:15:51","slug":"may-day-another-book-and-new-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4467","title":{"rendered":"May Day, another book and new campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/panelists-1024x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/panelists-1024x206.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/panelists-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/panelists-768x155.png 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/panelists-600x121.png 600w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/panelists-1536x309.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/panelists.png 1991w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May started off with a bang, as we hosted a global event on Zoom on 2 May with speakers from the embattled trade union movements in Hong Kong, Myanmar, Turkey and Belarus. We also received a video from Iran, which we were unable to show on the day. The video of our event is live <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/544554329\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. It has been seen by 213 people. Over 500 trade unionists registered to participate in our event. For the first time, we actually commissioned a logo, which has been shared widely:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/mayday2021.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also completed the publication of the new book of essays by Dan Gallin, Resistance. The book is already available for sale from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/resistance\"><strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/a> and we will begin promotion shortly.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also been working on a number of new campaigns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Algeria: We launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/ghedia\"><strong>a campaign<\/strong><\/a> last week at the request of PSI. The campaign already has <strong>3,480<\/strong> supporters and has been translated into a number of languages.<\/li>\n<li>Hong Kong: We are in discussions with the HKCTU about ways we can help, including a global campaign.<\/li>\n<li>India: A new campaign has been proposed and we&#8217;re working to coordinate a response with local and global unions.<\/li>\n<li>Malaysia: We are supporting BWI&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/ytl\"><strong>campaign<\/strong><\/a> by sharing their link across social media and our news page.<\/li>\n<li>Myanmar: We&#8217;re in discussions about the possibility of organising a global campaign as well helping (again) with fundraising.<\/li>\n<li>Turkey: We&#8217;re just about to go live with a campaign in support of a jailed Canadian trade unionist in Turkey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>USA: And finally, we&#8217;re discussing the possibility of a global webinar with the RWDSU on the struggle to unionise Amazon. Details coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May started off with a bang, as we hosted a global event on Zoom on 2 May with speakers from the embattled trade union movements in Hong Kong, Myanmar, Turkey and Belarus. We also received a video from Iran, which we were unable to show on the day. The video of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467"}],"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=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}