**Meet-up invitation**

On Monday (06.04) I leave the arctic for a two-week train trip to Oslo, south Sweden, and possibly Denmark & Germany.

I'd love to meet up with folks doing radical stuff in the spaces of
- digital self-determination through collective action (hosting co-ops focused on serving individuals and organizations, digital independence days, commons-developing software)
- grassroots economic organizing (workers' unions, workers' co-operatives, housing co-operatives)
- hacking for good
- anti-authoritarian left / anarchism

If you're doing any of that, I'd love to grab a club mate or beer with you and hear the details, and share what I'm involved with as well. Let's build international solidarity.
Send me a message here, on matrix (@papiris:data.coop), or via email (jacob [at] kollektiv.email).

Also, if you know of nice hidden (no-pay) places to put up my hammock for the night, or would like to lend me your sofa, that'd be lovely.

(also I'm low on funds, so donations towards train tickets and food are welcome)

**About me**

Involved in organizing grass roots democratizing of digital infrastructure, particularly in Norway; among other things through https://datakollektivet.no.
Member of a new tech workers' co-op which helps movement organizations in Norway move away from big tech. We're keen on inter-cooperation. I'm involved in solidarity work. Organizing with workers' movement and left-wing political movement.
I'm a bit under 30 years old. I present mostly masculine, but any pronouns are fine. I live on a farm with horses, sheep, dogs, hens and a cat.

I did a journey like this one last year, RE:https://hachyderm.io/@papiris/114668920852221487

#internationalism #cooperative #coop #digitalIndependence #solidarity #antiFascism #workers #anarchism #solarpunk

Yesterday I met with these orgs:

- my workers' union [Forbundet Styrke Ung](https://ung.styrke.no/)
- @attacnorge
- @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge (https://smultringokonomi.no/)

And met with folks of these orgs
- Co-operative book café [Rosa Bøker](https://www.rosabok.no/)
- NTUC vistors' centre [Folkets Hjørne](https://www.lo.no/folketshjorne/)
- @hackeriet

The wonderful @jhamre let me spend the night, and we had delightful discussions around the yummy breakfast table.

Today I met with these orgs:
- political party https://roedt.no
- youth political party https://rodungdom.no
- @attacnorge
- participatory festival https://karlsoyfestivalen.no

These next few days I want to make an effort to meet with these orgs:

Norway:
- network of political orgs https://landbruksalliansen.no
- solidarity committe https://latinamerika-gruppene.no (planned)
- patient org https://pkinorge.no
- political party https://mdg.no
- political party https://sv.no (planned)
- political party https://arbeiderpartiet.no
- my workers' union https://styrke.no
- NTUC https://lo.no
- workers' union https://elogit.no (planned)
- @XR_Norway (planned)
- the hosting collective I'm a part of https://datakollektivet.no (planned)
- national security bureau https://nsm.no
- @efn
- consumer council https://forbrukerradet.no
- workers' union https://tekna.no

Sweden:
- workers' co-op https://digidemlab.org (half-planned)
- workers' co-op https://greenheart.coop
- workers' co-op https://doop.coop
- @konstellationen (planned)
- @solidariacenter
- @SAC_Syndikalisterna

If you find yourself or someone you know on this list without a meeting planned, please help facilitate our meeting.

If you know someone who should be met, please let me know.

If you find a planned meeting which you'd like to join, let me know and I'll see what can be done.

Knowledge to few is power. Knowledge to many is liberation. Let's organize a broad anti-fascist coalition to migrate our movements away from big tech; to co-operatively run free/libre/open source software!

#organizing #socialMovement #digitalIndependence #norgeSkifter #allheimen #coops #workers #cooperative #freeSoftware #openSource #antifascism #anarchism #democracy #fedihelp

Forside

Ung

**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

DemocraticTech.Fund - Building Post-BigTech

**Digital Sovereignty Collective**

A key part is that these efforts for digital autonomy shouldn't be undertaken by each organization in isolation. We use similar digital tools in similar ways, and face similar threats. That is the cause of our current vulnerability, but also a perfect starting point for collective action.

If *one* or a handful of organizations manages to defend themselves and their organizing capacity against fascist attacks and sabotage by fascism-aligned tech providers, we will likely all lose, still. To defend our society against fascism, and win our separate-yet-connected struggles, we need **all** anti-fascist orgs and movements to maintain and build their organizing capacity.

If you're part of an organization with values, goals and methods which oppose the values, methods and goals of fascism; read on. Digital Sovereignty Collective is an international network of a few dozen orgs like yours, digital hosting co-operatives/collectives, and tech workers' co-ops; collaborating, helping and sharing knowledge to liberate our own and eachothers' orgs from the clutches of fascism-vulnerable tech.
We believe free/libre/open source software operated by co-operatives is the most reliable, maintainable and future-proof way forwards. Reach out to me if you want to participate.

#digitalSovereigntyCollective #digitalSovereignty #digitalIndependence #coops #cooperatives #commoning #antifascism

**Note**

My funds are usually a few hundred euros short each month, and this month is no different. I have mutual plans to meet these orgs physically in Sweden:
- @konstellationen
- the autonomous social centre @solidariacenter
- (a bit too loose) plans with tech workers' co-op https://digidemlab.org

I was hoping to meet with syndicalist workers' union SAC (@SAC_Syndikalisterna, @kimsac) and some more collectives/orgs in Sweden, but haven't heard back from my contacts.

I can't justify to myself the cost of train tickets (€150) without more firm plans, and hitch-hiking would risk the rest of the schedule. So I don't think I'll make it to Sweden this time around.

I'm planning to participate in this event in Malmö next month, and spend a few days meeting with folks and orgs then, instead: https://www.organizemovementmeetup.org

Please donate to me if you want to help cover my bills, so I can focus on organizing for digital autonomy and grass-roots democratization: https://liberapay.com/papiris

#konstellationen #sac #syndicalism #socialCenter #sweden #digiDemLab #MutualAidRequest #organizeMovementMeetup

Digidem Lab – Framtidens deltagande demokrati