**Thursday**
I met with these orgs:
- co-operative building the social capacity for digital autonomy through commoning https://democratictech.fund
- solidarity committee https://latinamerika-gruppene.no
- solidarity committee https://palestinakomiteen.no
- youth environmental group https://nu.no
- environmental action group https://www.folkmotfossilmakta.no
- anarchist news paper https://gateavisa.net
- mutual aid funding co-op https://bread.coop
- tech workers' co-op @agaric
I met with solidarity brigadists from these orgs:
- CNA - Coordinador Nacional Agrario (Colombia), https://cnacolombia.org
- MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brasil), https://mst.org.br
- Conavigua - Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala, https://conavigua.org.gt/es
In the general area of democratization and working class struggle, I went to and participated in:
- a book bath about a third housing sector, https://www.facebook.com/events/4550301785205231
- a seminar about anarchism and syndicalism in the norwegian workers' movement, https://www.lo.no/folketshjorne/hva-skjer/arrangementsliste/2026/april/en-annen-verden-er-mulig-martin-tranm%C3%A6l-og-syndikalismen/
**Friday**
I met with these orgs:
- environmental action group @XR_Norway
- political party https://sv.no
I met with folks of these orgs:
- network of orgs for donut economics @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge
- digital hosting association/co-op for people https://datakollektivet.no
All but 2 of the orgs I've met with thus far are positive to becoming independent from big tech.
Most are trying to do *something*.
Some have done a critical review of their digital systems, evaluated alternatives, and developed contingency plans for when/if the US escalates their digital attacks on orgs daring to stand for love, freedom, equality, solidarity, and against fascism.
Some orgs are already using digital infrastructure which secures their continued organizational capability; and have been for years.
#democraticTechFund #LAG #Palestine #Palestina #solidarity #abyaYala #latinAmerica #NU #naturOgUngdom #folkMotFossilMakta #gateAvisa #breadCoop #agaricCollective #CNA #MST #coNaViGua #housing #anarchism #syndicalism #workers #workersMovement #LO #union #climate #extinctionRebellion #SV #socialism #donutEconomics #doughnutEconomics #sustainability #datakollektivet #alleTilAllheimen #allheimen
In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for iftar, breaking their Ramadan fast; the music, pulsing from boomboxes and cell phones held up to megaphones, swells into one shared hum. In this sliver of land across from the sprawling JBS beef processing plant—among the largest in the country—workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.
The strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with the US and the EU.
Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.
We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.
It's going great.
Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.
If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone
#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian
Bringing back an episode we did with For A New Republic Podcast to talk about Trump, fascism, and rebuilding the workers' movement in the United States. For a New Republic is the official podcast of Éirígí For A New Republic, an Irish socialist republican party that seeks the reunification of Ireland and the establishment of a workers' republic.
#fascism #trump #maga #workersmovement #socialist #eirigi
#community
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regrettable-century/id1439945899?i=1000709149357
papiris🏴🇵🇸
Josh
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Regrettable Century Podcast