{"id":4764,"date":"2023-06-01T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2023-06-01T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:08:17","slug":"ads-arabic-cambodia-campaigns-fundraising-global-solidarity-conference-followup-17109-news-stories-another-quiet-week-at-labourstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4764","title":{"rendered":"Ads, Arabic, Cambodia, Campaigns, Fundraising, Global Solidarity Conference followup, 17,109 news stories &#8211; another quiet week at LabourStart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Advertising<\/strong>: We had ad campaigns on both Microsoft and Facebook but with disappointing results, so both have been suspended.\u00a0 We need to have a re-think about how we promote our Belarus campaign more effectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arabic<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve migrated our Arabic language mailing list from Mailjet to a different provider, as Mailjet handled right-to-left languages quite poorly.\u00a0 And we did our first Arabic language mailing for a long time &#8212; in support of the Belarus campaign.\u00a0 Thank you Assaf for the translation!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cambodia<\/strong>: We shared Eric Lee&#8217;s article about the jailing of a woman trade union leader &#8212; but so far we have not been asked to help with a campaign (we did reach out).\u00a0 The Australian Council of Trade Unions already has an online campaign going.\u00a0 The article was also posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svenssonstiftelsen.com\/post\/cambodia-union-leader-jailed-shocking-abuse-of-human-rights\">the Svensson Foundation<\/a> in Norway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns &#8211; Belarus<\/strong>: The campaign is now in Arabic.\u00a0 The campaign has now also been translated into Polish, but we are awaiting the translation of the mass mailing as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns &#8211; Georgia<\/strong>: The Wolt campaign is now in Polish.\u00a0 Waiting for the mass mailing text to be translated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fundraising<\/strong>: The last translated fundraising mailings have now gone out &#8212; to our Portuguese, Hungarian and Polish lists.\u00a0 So far, the mailing went out in <strong>12<\/strong> languages, but unfortunately it has not yet been translated into German.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global Solidarity Conference<\/strong>: The Georgian Trade Union Confederation released <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/kUnaY4c2Oo\/\">an excellent video<\/a> which we&#8217;ve shared widely. We also wrote to all the conference participants asking those who spoke in plenaries or workshops to share their texts for a possible book.\u00a0 (If we don&#8217;t publish a book, we will find a way to share the texts online.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: As we reported today across social media, LabourStart shared <strong>17,109<\/strong> news stories in the first five months of 2023 &#8212; that&#8217;s an average of <strong>3,421<\/strong> per month, or over <strong>113<\/strong> per day.\u00a0 <em><strong>Thank you to all our volunteer correspondents!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertising: We had ad campaigns on both Microsoft and Facebook but with disappointing results, so both have been suspended.\u00a0 We need to have a re-think about how we promote our Belarus campaign more effectively. Arabic: We&#8217;ve migrated our Arabic language mailing list from Mailjet to a different provider, as Mailjet handled right-to-left languages quite poorly.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,3,38,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764"}],"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=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}