Peoples' Global Action

from email, 25 November 2008: People's Global Action (Montreal) & the Popular Education Committee of the Autonomous Social Center presents: Popular Education Workshops and Discussions, October-December 2008 ++++ Monday, DECEMBER 1st at 7pm - Resistance 2010!: The links between the G8, SPP, the Olympics and local struggles... more

from contra-doxa, 14 April 2008: At the PGA-conference in Dijon a need for a non-digital communication-tool was mentioned. There was an idea to refresh a printed newsletter. We would like to continue the project with this call. Our aim is to continue using this newsletter as forum of debates, different project, actions and struggles of collectives, related to PGA. The newsletter does not speak in the name of the network, but is inspired by PGA. more

from roadnetwork, 19 March 2008: There are lots of reasons we’re opposing the Olympics. One of the main ones is that they’re happening on stolen (aboriginal) land... There’s also the gentrification aspect that’s going on in the city of Vancouver. Poor people are being pushed out of the city. Low-income housing is being torn down... People are dying in the streets to so it seems foolish to be wasting so much money on some games. We’re resisting the games for issues of environment; for issues of race; for issues of class; and all of those things interacting. more

from email, 3 March 2008: We are activists from Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia who are involved in local struggles but always with a global aspect. The idea of this network came out from the last PGA inspired infotour, September 2007, when two activists traveled together in seven countries in Balkans and eastern Europe. more

from email, 20 August 2008: The 5th gathering of Peoples Global Action in Europe this time will take place in Greece. A responsibility of organizing and coordinating the discussion that opened in the last meetings of PGA europe has taken by a decentralized network of activists and collectives in Balkans. Thats exactly and the essential advantage of this initiative. The convenor is not a local collective like other conferences in the past but a vital balkan decentralized network. more

from email, 27 February 2008: Recognizing the need for an international space for activists in Berlin, the Carambolage Collective is issuing a callout for people to join our efforts in creating a dynamic meeting space and a People's Global Action (PGA) Infopoint. We invite anyone who is interested in helping to realize this vision, on a conceptual as well as a task-oriented level. We hope that activists will find out about what is going on and make connections here, talk to each other and give feedback. more

from email, 19 February 2008: On 03 and 04 of March 2008, a multi-vitamin festival of free exchange, called “Radost Obrata 3/4” (Joy of Revolt 3/4), will be held in Maribor. The festival will host numerous active individuals and groups from different parts of Europe, who are all, each in their own way, fighting bio-political and eco-social catastrophes, brought on by the neoliberal and nationalist ideologies. more

from ROAD, Canada, 9 January 2008: In 2010, Canada will host the Winter Olympics, the G8 meetings, and will participate in a major Security and Prosperity Partnership summit. PGA Bloc Ottawa invites all anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian, and anti-oppression groups to join us in Ottawa on January 19th-20th to build a collective strategy for confronting the agenda of capitalist war and occupation, both at home and abroad, that these three institutions represent. more

from email, 25 September 2007: What follows is a report, a story, a synthesis about the European PGA Gatherings in 2006, based on the convenor collective's post-conference discussions. more

from noborderscamp.org: "We are currently an informal network of collectives, working groups, and individuals, in many cities, on both sides of the border. We are planning a no borders action camp for the second week of November 2007, in the region of Calexico and Mexicali. The PGA hallmarks are the basic points of unity for the mobilization..." more

from deletetheborder: This proposal was read at the Encuentro with the Zapatista Communities and the People of the World in Oventic on January 2nd 2007 in the plenary session for the Intergalatic Encuentro as a proposal for a theme to the Intergalactic and a Global Call to Action. more

from email, 30 August 2007: We would like to anounce a preparation European meeting of the PGA process in Thessaloniki the third weekend of October. Help and ideas are needed to organize the next conference and to go on with the PGA dynamic. The preparation meeting will take place in Thessaloniki (Greece) 19th - 21st October 2007. more

A Consulta (ie. preparation and organizing meeting) -- open to all delegates of groups who are interested in actively mobilizing against Bush, Harper, Calderon and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) -- will be held in MONTREAL on SATURDAY, JULY 21 from NOON to 5pm. more