#WorkersRights #WorkersMovement
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/16/thousands-of-workers-in-india-defy-state-repression-to-demand-their-rightful-wages/
**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.