{"id":4547,"date":"2021-11-18T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:53:53","slug":"weekly-review-africa-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4547","title":{"rendered":"Weekly review: Africa in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/africa-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/africa-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/africa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/africa-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/africa-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/africa.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Africa:<\/strong> We are discussing holding our first ever African regional meeting of LabourStart correspondents. More details soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Algeria:<\/strong> We did a second mailing to our English list today. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5019\">campaign<\/a> has <strong>4,774<\/strong> supporters, but we expect this to above 5,000 today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigeria:<\/strong> We are continuing publicity for the Yoruba versions of our campaigns, two of which have already been translated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweden:<\/strong> We closed down our Zalando&#8217;s campaign today and informed the union there. The campaign had about <strong>3,500<\/strong> supporters, though the Swedish version only had <strong>2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UK:<\/strong> Eric was interviewed for the labour podcast &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/uniondues.podbean.com\">Union Dues<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; it will be aired in another couple of weeks and we&#8217;ll publicise it widely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T-shirts:<\/strong> We did a mailing to our German list. Sales of the dna-merch shirts have not been as high as we would have liked (they are only a fraction of what we sold last year). We will continue the marketing and are in discussions with our friends about what we can do to improve this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa: We are discussing holding our first ever African regional meeting of LabourStart correspondents. More details soon. Algeria: We did a second mailing to our English list today. The campaign has 4,774 supporters, but we expect this to above 5,000 today. Nigeria: We are continuing publicity for the Yoruba versions of our campaigns, two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547"}],"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=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}