🌾Online Event- Farm Workers in South Africa and the Struggle for Justice 🌾

with Carmen Louw and Stephmarie Pekeur, hosted in collaboration between Women on Farms Project and the Farmers Without Borders

🗓️ *Tuesday, 14.04.2026 at 6pm (CEST/SAST)*

💻 *Online – Please register here:* https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/9vBMIT2RRoC3fywYyBAr3g

South Africa’s agricultural sector is deeply integrated into global markets, supplying supermarkets worldwide with products such as table grapes and wine. Yet many (women) farm workers and farm dwellers behind these exports face precarious working and living conditions. On many farms, ownership and power remain concentrated among white farm owners, and everyday relations are still characterised by reflect inequalities rooted in apartheid.

This online event explores the realities of life and work on South African farms. We will discuss power dynamics in the agricultural sector, the role of agribusiness, housing and living conditions, gendered experiences of farm labour, and how women workers navigate growing precarity. The conversation also highlights how farm workers and dwellers organize, resist, and raise their voices, while inviting reflection on the global food system and ongoing struggles for dignity, labour rights, and justice on farms.

*Carmen Louw* is the Women on Farms Project Co-Director and *Stephmarie Pekeur* is a Seasonal Farm Worker.

We are looking forward to share this space with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

#FarmersWithoutBorders #WomenOnFarms #FarmersUnion #LabourUnion #LabourRights #Farming #SouthAfrica #Grapevines #ExportAgriculture #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty #CarmenLouw #StephmariePekeur

@pluralistic : It's extremely good that #Claude's source-code leaked (02 Apr 2026)

I'm slowly realizing that when *any* issue is framed as a personal right or responsibility, it's because someone is trying to hide the fact that there's a collective solution they don't want us to know about. In this case, it's that #LabourRights do more for individual workers than #copyright ever will.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/02/limited-monopoly/

“You could be killed.”
The reality behind some of the world’s cheapest meat.

Now 4k Colorado workers at #JBS are on strike in a historic fight for dignity & safety.

“This strike is a matter of life & death.”

📖 https://grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-update-146-why-jbs-meat-packing by @grocery_nerd

#LabourRights #FoodWork

«How the Climate Crisis Impacts Workers and Migrants» webinar

🗓️ Thursday 2nd April 2026
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕑 14:00 UTC
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/N5Pub27fSQy6pynjrUz3DA#/registration 

> The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented rise in global temperatures, with each year setting new records as the warmest. This increase—driven by human-induced climate change—results in more frequent and intense droughts, floods, erratic weather patterns, and natural disasters.

> These slow- and sudden-onset weather events make working conditions in already precarious labour sectors, such as agriculture, fishing, or garment production, unbearable. They also destroy many people’s homes and livelihoods, forcing them to undertake risky migrations or accept exploitative jobs, thereby increasing their vulnerability to exploitation and human trafficking.

> To unpack some of these dynamics, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women is organising a webinar to analyse how the worsening climate crisis is impacting workers and migrants. Speakers will discuss changing working conditions in countries across Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the strategies that communities are implementing to resist resource extraction and exploitation, and what steps governments must take to protect people’s rights and well-being. 

I'm almost positively squealing here. ❤️‍🔥🌲📜💚🔥
One doesn't see this link highlighted often enough. 💖

Ofc it's GAATW noting it. ❤️❤️❤️

As they perfectly put it:

> GAATW sees the phenomenon of human trafficking as intrinsically embedded in the context of migration for the purpose of labour.

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🇺🇸🕙 10:00 New York
🇧🇷🕚 11:00 Rio de Janeiro
🇬🇧🕒 15:00 London
🇿🇦🕓 16:00 Johannesburg
🇮🇳🕢 19:30 New Delhi
🇹🇭🕘 21:00 Bangkok

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #WorkerRights #LaborRights #LabourRights #Migration #Exploitation #Trafficking #Webinar #GAATW #ATRJournal #April2026

Hard-hitting reporting from those most exploited by AI: the African data labeling workforce.

Mental health issues labelling (porno)graphic content, sweatshop working hours, low pay…all hidden by NDAs.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

#AI #LLM #Capitalism #Africa #Labour #LabourRights #Union #Tech