{"id":4975,"date":"2025-08-22T18:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:05:26","slug":"this-week-on-labourstart-8-22-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"This week on LabourStart: 8 &#8211; 22 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry that we missed one week, so this covers the last 14 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippines Kawasaki campaign:<\/strong> This went live today with over 1,400 supporters in the first few hours and translations into four languages &#8212; including the highly relevant Tagalog and Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka Next campaign:<\/strong> We had a call last week to discuss the possibility of doing this and are waiting to hear back from partners before taking the next steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkey teachers campaign:<\/strong> This was a win. We will share the full statement we received from the union via the Education International in another week or so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interns:<\/strong> The first of our two interns from Cornell University will begin work on Monday. The second should start about a week later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns:<\/strong> We now have a big and prominent link for our supporters to share our campaigns on WhatsApp. We hope that this will help a lot in regions where the instant messaging app is more used than email.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations:<\/strong> BWI made another very generous donation to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry that we missed one week, so this covers the last 14 days. Philippines Kawasaki campaign: This went live today with over 1,400 supporters in the first few hours and translations into four languages &#8212; including the highly relevant Tagalog and Japanese. Sri Lanka Next campaign: We had a call last week to discuss the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975"}],"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=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4976,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/4976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}