{"id":723,"date":"2009-09-30T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=723"},"modified":"2009-10-02T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T06:48:51","slug":"labour-photo-of-the-year-the-final-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Labour Photo of the Year &#8211; the final hours &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>203 trade unionists have signed up to our group on Flickr and have submitted 182 photos for judging.\u00a0 In another 12 hours, we&#8217;ll stop the submissions and tomorrow we&#8217;ll ask the judges to select a shortlist of five, and then we&#8217;ll begin the voting.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, this resulted in several positive things and they&#8217;re worth remembering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We highlighted the great work of labour photographers &#8211; contributing in our own small way to encouraging our movement to generate its own content (photos, texts, etc), which is part of a broader project to reinvigorate the international trade union movement and its culture.<\/li>\n<li>We showed off many great struggles, reminders to everyone that unions can be dynamic and exciting organizations engaged in great battles.<\/li>\n<li>We raised LabourStart&#8217;s profile, meeting new people along the way, and we grew our mailing list by several hundred names.<\/li>\n<li>We managed to get one great photo (last year&#8217;s winner) onto the front cover of Amnesty International&#8217;s trade union magazine in the UK, in the glossy full-colour magazine of the Education International, and elsewhere.\u00a0 The photo was very widely distributed on the web.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth remembering that the idea for this competition came from Mac Urata of the ITF and has been run largely by Derek Blackadder; they both deserve our thanks.\u00a0 I think this year is going to be another success and hope that we get even more votes cast than we did last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>203 trade unionists have signed up to our group on Flickr and have submitted 182 photos for judging.\u00a0 In another 12 hours, we&#8217;ll stop the submissions and tomorrow we&#8217;ll ask the judges to select a shortlist of five, and then we&#8217;ll begin the voting. Last year, this resulted in several positive things and they&#8217;re worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}