{"id":4930,"date":"2025-03-28T17:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:29:01","slug":"this-week-in-labourstart-21-28-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4930","title":{"rendered":"This week in LabourStart: 21 &#8211; 28 March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The best news this week:<\/strong> Following a LabourStart campaign, our brother Ismet Aslan from Turkey has been released from prison after 6 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/labournewsnetwork.org\/2025\/03\/27\/turkey-ismet-aslan-released-trade-unionism-is-not-a-crime\/\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We launched three new campaigns in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5604\">Belarus campaign<\/a> grew to <strong>3,098<\/strong> supporters &#8212; a gain of <strong>79<\/strong> this week.<\/li>\n<li>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5605\">Nike campaign<\/a> grew to <strong>2,197<\/strong>, a gain of about <strong>1,450<\/strong> this week.<\/li>\n<li>And our newest campaign, in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5617\">striking workers at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas<\/a> in New York, grew to <strong>2,336<\/strong>, a gain of <strong>766<\/strong> this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Next campaign:<\/strong> Next week we are likely to launch a new campaign in support of jailed trade unionists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/news\/country._php?country=Azerbaijan&amp;langcode=en\">Azerbaijan<\/a>. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcasts:<\/strong> Our most recent podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2313632\/episodes\/16829108\">Pat Bulmer&#8217;s interview with the president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Mark Hancock<\/a>, has been downloaded over 470 times in the last 8 days. It is our most successful podcast after, reaching a much wider audience than usual. We hope that this will get more people to subscribe to our podcasts, and to check out the podcasts we have already done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Our correspondents posted over <strong>3,500<\/strong> news stories on LabourStart in March, averaging close to <strong>128<\/strong> per day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations:<\/strong> We were very pleased to receive another generous donation from our friends at the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best news this week: Following a LabourStart campaign, our brother Ismet Aslan from Turkey has been released from prison after 6 months. Read more here. Campaigns: We launched three new campaigns in the last two weeks. Our Belarus campaign grew to 3,098 supporters &#8212; a gain of 79 this week. Our Nike campaign grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,38,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930"}],"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=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}