{"id":4809,"date":"2024-06-14T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2024-06-14T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:02:54","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-7-6-24-14-6-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4809","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 7.6.24 \u2013 14.6.24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fundraising:<\/strong> Facing a significant fall in our bank accounts, we put out a call for donations, including a mailing to our English list. In the last few days, we raised over <strong>\u00a32,800<\/strong> and are expecting more to come in. Comrades are encouraged to ask their unions to make donations if possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programming:<\/strong> I looked into a complaint about the language selection drop-down menus, but could not reproduce the problem. Meanwhile, our pages showing state\/province news have had a bug for years &#8212; clicking on &#8216;More news&#8217; would show news from the country, not the state, and the display of the page was terrible (very small font, etc.) I have now fixed this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcasts:<\/strong> I participated in the regular weekly online meeting of the Labor Podcasting and Radio Network, a US-based group. I learned that the numbers of downloads we are seeing is actually quite good, and will grow. I also learned that often the most successful interviews are with rank-and-file activists, and these sometimes draw larger audiences than those with high-ranking union leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> In the first two weeks of June, <strong>32<\/strong> of our volunteer correspondents were active, and they posted a total of <strong>1,503<\/strong> news stories &#8212; averaging <strong>107<\/strong> stories per day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We continue to have no new campaigns listed on our home page. We have reached out to a number of unions, but so far nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundraising: Facing a significant fall in our bank accounts, we put out a call for donations, including a mailing to our English list. In the last few days, we raised over \u00a32,800 and are expecting more to come in. Comrades are encouraged to ask their unions to make donations if possible. Programming: I looked into [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809"}],"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=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}