7pm, Sunday September 11th
at the 'convergence space' for protests against the DSEi east London arms fair - venue to be announced on Friday at www.dsei.org or ring 07817 652029.
at the 'convergence space' for protests against the DSEi east London arms fair - venue to be announced on Friday at www.dsei.org or ring 07817 652029.
* music from the incomparable Society of Imaginary Friends (www.societyofimaginaryfriends.com) & the 2012 Roadshow sound system
* plus food, films and wicked cocktails...
Peoples' Global Action (PGA) is a way for anti-capitalist direct action groups and movements to communicate better, to share stories of their struggles, and, with any luck, to inspire eachother and others. In the past it has helped to network global mobilisations like J18 1999 and that against the World Bank and IMF in 2000, as well as supporting action caravans heading towards summit mobilisations.
More recently it has had a more local focus, as many groups particularly in Europe have been setting up permanent or temporary centres, some of which act as PGA 'infopoints'. The London infopoint is the London Action Resource Centre (or LARC - www.londonarc.org), which is used and supported by groups like London Indymedia, Destroy DSEi, Rhythms of Resistance and London Rising Tide.
This benefit is to help towards the travel costs of delegates from the global south to the next PGA meeting. For more info, email
info@londonarc.org, phone (020) 7377 9088, or have a look at the main PGA site at www.agp.org
Thanks and hope to see you there...
* plus food, films and wicked cocktails...
Peoples' Global Action (PGA) is a way for anti-capitalist direct action groups and movements to communicate better, to share stories of their struggles, and, with any luck, to inspire eachother and others. In the past it has helped to network global mobilisations like J18 1999 and that against the World Bank and IMF in 2000, as well as supporting action caravans heading towards summit mobilisations.
More recently it has had a more local focus, as many groups particularly in Europe have been setting up permanent or temporary centres, some of which act as PGA 'infopoints'. The London infopoint is the London Action Resource Centre (or LARC - www.londonarc.org), which is used and supported by groups like London Indymedia, Destroy DSEi, Rhythms of Resistance and London Rising Tide.
This benefit is to help towards the travel costs of delegates from the global south to the next PGA meeting. For more info, email
info@londonarc.org, phone (020) 7377 9088, or have a look at the main PGA site at www.agp.org Thanks and hope to see you there...
Comments
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isn't PGA already dead
07.09.2005 19:18
imho it doesn't work if it isn't based on practical tasks, but on ideological theoreties.
As well as it doesn't work if the local are constantly overruled or ignored by the PGA elite.
A bit of a pity though because from afar it seemed to be a rather good project at the start.
Now there does not seem that there is anything to save.
Just asking, if there are the same pple of the UK PGA elite going as before.
nobby
lucky for us
07.09.2005 19:22
Good their banner was nicked though, showed that hostile take-overs in the activist scene are not welcome in Scotland.
nobby
Info-points
07.09.2005 23:37
Nobby -- what are you on? You comment on people doing PGA stuff by telling them that they ought to be dead and/or engaging in some kind of elitist power play. Are you part of some group that is hostile to the PGA network?
Random
PGA is not dead
07.09.2005 23:59
These initiatives are not bullshit, they are proper, get a grip, not everything is as shit as you think it is.
Solidarity,
check it out
Go
08.09.2005 01:54
Krop
Solidarity? There isn't any solidarity in PGA!
08.09.2005 09:44
Isn't it that the PGA oppresses all criticism, so that the only possibility left is to take you into account on lovely open publishing websites like Indymedia?
If PGA would be about global solidarity, it would do something practical, like the Chiapas Solidarity does, or the Argentina solidarity:
But PGA is all empty talk with nothing substantial behind its mask of exotic sponsored activist holidays..
nobby
yawn
08.09.2005 18:25
Peter Walker
Solidarity for Nepal?
09.09.2005 11:32
If people want to help grassroots groups in Nepa, I suggest they check out the All Nepal Peasants' Association (ANPA) and ask them what kind of support they'd like.
Prem Dangal
Secretary General
All Nepal Peasants Association (ANPA)
PO Box: 547, Lalitpur, Nepal,
Tel: 977 1 548971
Email:
Random
Nobby's claims show how little he wants to understand
12.09.2005 19:35
The PGA does have conferences, globally, and regionally, where many groups can send delegates to spread information of their latest campaign, network and be inspired. The conference itself does not claim to speak on anyones behalf but as a network, groups involved have been involved in many of the Global actions of the past 7 years. The Global Street Party in 98, The Carnival Against Capital in 99, Seattle, Quebec, Genoa etc along with many other networks these action grew and ideas spread.
There is no dominating committee, just rotating conveners that attempt to keep communication flowing, and a network of supporters that translate and help logistically. Of course for cynics like 'nobby' it is easy to complain, try and undermine what others do, and claim you are doing it for the greater good of 'the movement', your wisdom being of course greater than everyone else. But for some reason people are still ignoring you, they have listened to your rants and decided they are just a bit sad, and are able to make up their own minds.
Open to any group to participate who support the 'hallmarks' (see www.agp.org), it is hard to say the PGA is 'not working', new groups adopt the hallmarks all the time, yes, including the dissent network, this does not mean they that an 'elite' takes them over as 'nobby' claims, it means they want to work locally but link globally to a growing movement of campaigns and active anti-capitalists, people who will support them in solidarity and respect.
Many of the active groups in the UK are involved in some way in this network, some wanting to go to global or regional meetings some as info points at a local level - each to their own.
arthur