{"id":4657,"date":"2022-09-05T07:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2022-09-05T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:56:42","slug":"september-fundraiser-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"September fundraiser kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fundraising:<\/strong> As we do a couple of times a year, last week we sent out a fundraising appeal to our readers.\u00a0 Nearly all the donations came in via PayPal and these totalled <strong>\u00a32,796.73<\/strong> so far.\u00a0 As there were around <strong>120<\/strong> donors, the average donation was <strong>\u00a323.30<\/strong>.\u00a0 The appeal went out in ten languages &#8211; Belarusian, Chinese, English, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be following up today with the other languages, trying to get translations done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belarus:<\/strong> Support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5092\"><strong>the campaign<\/strong><\/a> has slowed down to a trickle, with just 17 new supporters this week, as we wait for the union to decide on next steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poland:<\/strong> Solidarnosc reached out about a possible campaign and we are in discussions about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ukraine:<\/strong> Following up on our recent campaign, we were contacted by a group of trade unionists who have doing solidarity work in a number of countries and who had launched their own campaign on change.org.\u00a0 We had a Zoom call this week to discuss joint work in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telegram:<\/strong> Using all our social media accounts (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) we reached out to encourage people to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/labourstart\"><strong>our public feed on Telegram<\/strong><\/a>, which had just 119 followers.\u00a0 The result was a gain of just one new follower, which does say something about the limits of those social media accounts &#8212; and possibly how few trade unionists are using Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundraising: As we do a couple of times a year, last week we sent out a fundraising appeal to our readers.\u00a0 Nearly all the donations came in via PayPal and these totalled \u00a32,796.73 so far.\u00a0 As there were around 120 donors, the average donation was \u00a323.30.\u00a0 The appeal went out in ten languages &#8211; Belarusian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657"}],"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=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4658,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}