{"id":5028,"date":"2026-01-09T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:30:05","slug":"what-weve-been-up-to-during-the-last-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5028","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;ve been up to during the last 4 weeks &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year and a new opportunity to apologise for not updating this blog for four weeks (maybe this one three weeks late). We&#8217;ve had a busy season &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve received very generous donations from IndustriAll Europe and EPSU (the European public sector workers&#8217; union) and expect further ones in the days to come. Next week we will reach out to all our supporters in all languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New correspondents<\/strong>: We picked up new correspondents in Belgium and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaigns<\/strong>: A week before Christmas we did a special mailing to our English list encouraging people to support all 7 of our current campaigns and our latest podcast. We closed down our Sri Lanka campaign but received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5696\">a detailed report on the impact the campaign had<\/a>. The same is the case with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5678\">Kawasaki campaign in the Philippines<\/a>. We closed down our Turkey campaign as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcasts<\/strong>: We recorded a second &#8220;60 seconds on &#8230;&#8221; Christmas shopping and unions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trademark<\/strong>: LabourStart is now our registered trademark &#8212; after using it for nearly 28 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year and a new opportunity to apologise for not updating this blog for four weeks (maybe this one three weeks late). We&#8217;ve had a busy season &#8230; Donations: We&#8217;ve received very generous donations from IndustriAll Europe and EPSU (the European public sector workers&#8217; union) and expect further ones in the days to [&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\/5028"}],"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=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}