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be lieve that now is the time to commit ourselves consolidate Peoples’ Global Action to these summits will continue, unprecedented. movements' that is in many ways emerged a global 'movement of operate. From these mobilisations has to co- unleashed when we begin can be converge that and realise the possibilities to day-to-day struggles more localised, also provided much-needed spaces for the world's people. This resistance has institutions have fiercely resisted by been sense of humanity from all of our lives. destroyed ecologies, whilst removing any to a system that creates war, famine and attempting to manage and bring stability capitalism will continue to meet, Throughout 2005 the institutions of global Global Resistance 2005: A call to action In 2005, across 4 continents, resistance Over recent years, meetings of these participate in these mobilisations, to participate Kong in December). Organisation (WTO) Ministerial (in Hong and the WorldNovember) Trade (FTAA) meeting (in Argentina in Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (Washington G8 Summit (UK in July), DC), Fund Meeting International Monetary in building resistance to the April 2005 Alegre, Brazil) of people involved(Porto youth camp of the 5th World Forum Social Caracol Intergalaktika, International talked about. world that is so often this other possible movement and bring us closer to creating our collective experiences as a global attempting to learn from and build upon It is a call for people to support and It is a call for people to support This call is a result of meeting at the On 17th March necessary to find another location for the conference. Note: At time of writing (Feb '05) the political situation in Nepal may make it http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/katmandu/climatica_caravan.htm and/or give workshops. struggles aeroplanes. The Caravan would stop along the way to join in the local conference, by a desire to avoid inspired in part climate-trashing There are plans for a train-based caravan from Europe to the S Nepal Global Conference. to prepare fornational agenda, sustainable campaigns and to start has called a meeting of PGA Indian movements to discuss the of PGA, BKU (a farmers'Coordinator India) organisation from North meeting in December. After the rally, on 18th March, the South Asian formeets to decide its agricultural position the Hong Kong WTO taking place two days beforeFarmers Coordination, the government amba Climatico Caravan , there is a rally in Delhi called by the National Indian L ondon: Clown Army closes down an Army recruiting centre F or further reports: www.all4all.orgor further C ontact: [email protected] resistance becomes truly global! resistance becomes the year in which our Let 2005 be differences as much our commonalities. can learn from one another, from our themselves, to open up spaces in which we ordinate and co-operate amongst and these expressions of solidarity to co- towns and cities worldwide. coinciding with these events in villages, the summits, and to organise actions solidarity with those actively resisting and practical political show both WTO: FTAA: G8: IMF/World Bank: Moreover, it is a call for this resistance July 2nd-8th, Scotland December, Hong Kong November, Argentina April 16th, Washington DC USA
05 Recent actions and events Resist the 2005 G8 Summit International Call to Action vs. in London will be met by a pots & pans noise demo ('cos organizations that can benefit and learn the support group would be to increase This year, the G8 will attempt to meet at Root Causes of Climate Change, the climate's going to pot!) Infopoints from each other's struggles and triumphs. communication and coordination between Gleneagles, Scotland. Resiatance to the 2005 8th July 2005 Contact Email: [email protected] The idea of PGA infopoints came from the “We are inspired by the principles, activist actions that are in agreement with Tel: 07904 452297 summit and the world system it represents is “Any claim to tackle climate change whilst Leiden conference of 2003. It was decided structures, and achievements of social the PGA principles in North America and all being planned by groups and networks from fighting wars for control of the planet's there that the most practical way to keep the movements throughout the world and over the world, but also to reinforce the around the UK, Europe and beyond. Actions dwindling carbon-based energy reserves is as Resist the World Bank & IMF, European network alive and kicking was for through popular education hope to share presence and identity of PGA as a network of on issues of work, migration, war and hypocritical as it is ridiculous. We reject any Washington, 15th April 2005 local groups and spaces happy with the PGA these dreams, lessons, and experiences with struggles; (some ideas: a radio documentary, hallmarks to set up points of contact where local organizers and communities. Through pamphlets, articles, web page, workshops) ecology are being planned. market-led techno-fixes to the climate crisis “The April 2005 meetings of the International information about PGA could be propelled, salons, fundraisers, actions, and other and to participate actively in the Here are a few of the events which have by an unelected global elite. Oil fuels Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will with any luck, into their communities. They encounters, we will open pathways of organization of the network (new alliances, already been confirmed: capitalism - there cannot be an end to global represent the 5th anniversary of major
are currently sprinkled around the UK, communication to strengthen our global translation, fundraising, participating in Info points 4 July: Mass Direct Action at Faslane Nuclear warming without an end to the system that demonstrations against these institutions in Europe and - as of January 2005 - North resistance. For starters in early 2005 we are: organizing debates). Submarine base - a day of action against the causes it. Nuclear power is not an the US. Again we will gather in the streets of America. For a hopefully soon-to-be-updated list, * Facilitating a PGA workshop at the National Many new initiatives are taking shape in armed wing of Global Capitalism alternative, as it is massively wasteful and D.C. on A16 to show that our resistance to see www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/ Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington, Canada over coming months, including 6 July: Mass Blockades of the G8 Summit & inextricably linked to the most destructive these institutions and their greed only grows. pgaeurope/infopoints.htm D.C.
Dissent Network CATAPULT in Ottawa much much more! weapons on the face of the earth. Each day people around the world people * Hosting a salon bringing together Palestinian and [email protected]] , and Toronto activists both 8 July: Day of action against Climate Change We believe that anti-capitalist are coming together to construct a better, NY joins PGA! Acehnese solidarity organizers to share strategy wanting to reinforce their involvement. - Direct Action to tackle the root causes of environmentalists and all those committed more just world. Not only are they “We are popular educators, anti-war and and struggle (February 13th). Montreal PGA Infopoint [email protected] the biggest threat to life on earth. to a sustainable, socially just world, can demonstrating in the streets, but they are Palestinian solidarity organizers, prison * Throwing a benefit party for the Via Campesina For more info: www.dissent.org.uk work together over the linked issues of oil, actively reclaiming their communities. In abolitionists, and anarchist academics - in Tsunami Relief Campaign
Global Anti-War protests mark of “Autonomous Spaces”, which were organized by Zapatista encuentros in 1996-97, grassroots Swedish anarcho-syndicalist union) to first Gulf War anniversary individuals, grassroots organizations and collectives. What is PGA? movements from all continents gathered in international Solidarity groups, connecting Massive opposition to war was demonstrated in 38 There were discussions, workshops, films, actions and Peoples' Global Action (PGA) is a network for Geneva in February 1998, for the first global us with Bangladesh, Colombia, West Papua, countries worldwide 12 years after the Gulf war. Up to entertainment and more. For more information on the spreading information and coordinating PGA conference. This marked the launch of a Turkey... as well as free space/autonomous 500,000 people rallied in Washington DC on January 18 programmes, check this Indymedia archive: actions between grassroots movements around worldwide network of resistance to the global zone groups, German, Dutch and French 2004 to say no to war with Iraq. Speakers at the event www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2004/esf/ the world who are actively fighting the market, 'free' trade and the World Trade info-shops, UK and Croatian co-ops and evoked the memory of Martin Luther King in calling for Within these events there was also a PGA meeting at destruction of humanity and the planet by Organisation (WTO). From Genoa to squatting groups from all over. There were a world without violence. ‘Beyond ESF’ on Friday 15th. In this meeting people capitalism, and building local alternatives to Birmingham, many of the groups and also anarchist groups like A-infos Israel, Protests were also held in San Francisco, with discussed a new direct action concept of ‘Chain Re- economic globalisation. movements involved with PGA have been a Croatian Anarchist Federation, Federation estimates of crowd size ranging from 200-350,000 Flaction’, which is based on the idea of moving beyond Inspired partly by the international driving force behind recent global 'anti- Anarchiste , "Nihilist Assault Group". people. All age groups were in attendance, and people Global Days of Action called by the PGA network. Instead capitalist' mobilisations. AltMedia and Culture jamming groups ... of all colours attended the convergence. A radical anti- have a local action coordinated through the internet. >> How is PGA organised? << The first conference brought together over Indymedia Centres, the European Newsreel, capitalist breakaway march militantly marched through After the action has taken place it can be discussed on PGA is not an organisation and has no 300 activists from over 71 countries. Later that Art in Action, Adbusters group and the the financial center smashing windows and graffitting the web; then another action can be organized in members. However, PGA aims to be an year, hundreds of coordinated Tactical Media Crew. another country or continent in the same way. This organised network. There are info points demonstrations, actions and street parties We spent long days and sociable nights the San Francisco Chronicle building, the British Tokyo: global anti-war demonstrations Consulate, CitiCorp and the Immigration & Naturalization process allows the accumulation of knowledge and for each region, which are responsible for took place on all five continents against the together discussing and planning upcoming Service building. blood was distributed over the main entrance. The CAAT experience on a global level. disseminating information; rotating meeting of the G8 in Birmingham and the actions ... the anti-NATO actions in Prague, march finished with speeches and before the next event regional convenors who organise WTO ministerial meeting in Switzerland. Nov 2002; anti-WEF actions in Salzburg; Love and Destroy! "Fluffy DSEi" blockaded the surrounding streets. PGA at World Social Forum international and regional conferences; an A 2nd international conference took place anti-DSEi in London, 2003. We shared ideas Protests against the G8 in Evian The second day activists, anti-arms organisations, The PGA meeting within WSF took place in the Caracol informal support group that has been vital in Bangalore, India in 1999, and the 3rd in about alternatives - Radical Routes (UK co- The protests against the G8 Summit in Evian were students and the public, angry, both about the items on Intergalactica space, which represented the more in the fundraising and organising of the Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2001. There have been ops); Recycled Estate, a Croatian land co-op ; strong, clear and powerful. Conferences, actions, sale, the well-known human rights abusing countries horizontally organized self-managed space and was held previous conferences; a website, numerous regional conferences in Latin America, North Free Zones Europe-wide and the "European debates and blockades took place around Lac Leman, invited, and the devastation caused by weapons and in the so-called Youthcamp. Even though the meeting email lists; and a secretariat. The basis of America, Europe and South Asia and six Social Consulta"; a massive outreach project. starting from May 28 to June 3rd 2003. People munitions, attempted to "Shut DSEI by any means was not widely publicized, it was well attended since unity and political analysis is expressed in caravans of movements. There have also been We shared information with talks on converged in several alternative protest villages and possible". This was the day that bargaining at the DSEi there were representatives of PGA Latin America, PGA the manifesto and hallmarks. several conferences on the issue of gender. "Repression in the EU"; "Support for took the streets in many creative and determined ways. arms fair began in earnest, press and public were kept North America and PGA Europe. See www.agp.org for more background on PGA, undocumented women"; "The war against
Snapshot ofTh actionsey & illustrated reports concerns, dissent, anger and hope, out.” Watch out for DSEI September 2005... The initial reports from different parts of the world the hallmarks and the manifesto in full. A network in Europe Iraq and the US economy"; were followed up by a realisation that there is a genuine Leiden brought together an inspiring "Sustainability and the disappearing whereas the state displayed desperate efforts to silence "We do not think we can conceive of desire to keep networking. However, further discussion collection of groups working on a diversity of computer"; "A radical history of food"; "Using them with a massive and often brutal police presence. Beyond the ESF in London ‘the movement’ as a thing, as an entity The European Social Forum took place in London from concerning the more effective ways of cooperating and issues, from environmental and social justice cryptography" and started strategy What is Peoples’ Global Action? More: www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2003/evian/ which can be defined. Instead, we are October 13th-17th 2004. From the start of the organizing exchanging ideas and information. Therefore the PGA groups (ecologists of Chios Island, EF! UK and discussions on things like "democratic thinking of the movement in terms of Fluff & Spike against DSEi phase there was a clash between the so-called verticals global list ([email protected])will be revived Groen Front Nederlands) to anti-military decision-making", not to mention the feared the moving of social relations. We are “Action against DSEi started early this morning when (mainly SWP and Greater LA) and the horizontals (many to begin a better communication process, especially groups (CAAT UK and 12th Grade Army "PGA process", ie. how to structure this seeing examples of this everywhere," one arms company had their doors D-locked whilst anti-hierarchical groups). The latter eventually decided needed in the build-up to the coming global conference Refusers Israel), from workers' groups monster network of ours... 03 06 - Leeds MayDay group another got paintball decoration. Red paint symbolising to organize their own events, under the general banner in Nepal. (Barcelona CGT and Sindikalisterna, a See over for a report from Belgrade 2004.