#Bolivia four weeks into an indefinite #generalstrike declared by the Central Obrera Boliviana (#COB). Miners, teachers, peasants, factory workers, #firstnations communities went into the streets of #LaPaz. 40+ Blockades of highways elsewhere.
Police killed Four protesters & raided spaces for COB Executive-Secretary Mario Argollo and 24 other organizers on charges of terrorism.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bolivia-government

https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Bolivia&langcode=en

#blockades #directaction #labourMovement #MayDay #solidarity

Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz faces a deepening crisis as widespread protests and #blockades leave the political capital under siege less than six months after he took office. Two weeks of road closures — spearheaded by the Bolivian Workers’ Central, COB, peasant unions and miners — have emptied markets in La Paz and depleted vital hospital oxygen reserves.
#Bolivia #protests #shortages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbS84BySR1w

LIVE: Bolivians protest in La Paz over government policies

Bolivia's social crisis deepens as more groups join a mass protest movement, including widespread blockades in La Paz. Bolivians are demanding the resignation of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz and have been protesting against government policies they say are hurting them, including privatization measures and the sale of poor-quality fuel. #bolivia #lapaz #rodrigopaz #protest #blockades Keep up with the latest…

https://fllics.com/en/video/live-bolivians-protest-in-la-paz-over-government-policies/

Vic Mensa in Cuba: Black Culture, Blackouts and Resistance
https://peertube.world/w/3uASZxjLKw1XPGQ7SMjG7A
Duration - 8:39

[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Vic Mensa came to Cuba — but not as a performer. The Chicago rapper arrived as part of the #NuestraAméricaConvoy, an international solidarity mission bringing humanitarian aid to an island under one of the longest economic #blockades in modern history.

“From a #US perspective, the pain of the world is often out of sight, out of mind,” he said in an interview with BotB.. Vic came to Cuba to see the impact of US policy firsthand.

Cuba didn't just move him politically. It moved him personally, as a #Black man, as a father, as someone who carries both America and #Africa inside him.

Walking deeper into Old Havana, he kept seeing faces that looked like home.

“What I like the most about this experience is seeing that there are Black people on this planet who can't be broken,” he said.

#politics #BlackMastodon

The workers: https://www.aurianneor.org/the-workers/

#art #automation #blockades #chain #cooperatives #decentwork #deplorables #destruction #developingcountries #dictatorship #environment #factory #fairtrade #islandbuilding #Kaizen #labor #manufacturing #millions #miner #organic #Photomontage #politics #poor #quality #rags #remuneration #reputation #rich #shareholders #social #sovereignty #struggle #ThirdWorld #toothless #uberization #UN #wage #workers #workingconditions #workingpoor

Sunday, April 19, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/sunday-april-19-2026/

Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/republican-mutiny-sinks-trumps-push-to-extend-warrantless-surveillance/

Global Unions call for a permanent and sustainable ceasefire in the Middle East
#ausnews #vicnews #war #unions #usa #trump #iran #israel #palestine #lebanon #blockades #maga #gop #republicans #america

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/politics/international/global-unions-call-for-a-permanent-and-sustainable-ceasefire-in-the-middle-east/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social