Peoples' Global Action

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, 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

reposted from email, 12 June 2007: As the 10th of june meeting in hamburg took place with around 20 people, we announced for all participants to send the G8 evaluation around, so here it is: more

After nearly 10 years of existence, the squatted autonomous space "Les Tanneries" (in Dijon, France) is being threatened by a private medical complex, facilitated by the city council.

The excellent social centre, which hosted the centralised part of the PGA conference last year as well as digital struggles and free spaces sections, has a concert hall for do-it-yourself bands and miscellaneous performances, a housing collective and some anarchist affinity groups, a hacklab for developing free software and running alternative servers, a free-shop, a space for mecanics and a bike-repair workshop, rehearsal rooms and silk-screening facilities, a meeting space, an organic garden, an alternative media center, a squatters' helpdesk, a library, diverse ecological constructions, dozens of collectives, associations, and local and international networks that use the space to organise gigs, info-nights, actions, skill-shares, meetings and projects... more

REPOST: It was quite a short time and mostly the workshop was raising questions rather than answering...

Internationals from variouse countries participated, from italy, spain, greece, swiss, new zealand and uk. But the wintermeeting in general was not focussing on g8 but on international networking and strategies about continuity. more

Friday, 23rd of February to Sunday, 25th of February in the Rote Flora, Hamburg - evaluation, network tools, future gathering and continuation of common projects and actions.

Please send contributions to the winter meeting on the various issues if you can't be there, especially on the various projects started during the conference. more

This report is taken from the feedback from the People's Global Action European Conference. The idea of this meeting, as a spin off of the strategy debates, was to bring together different groups and networks that are interested in and have been experimenting with various forms of social disobedience.  more