PGA is an umbrella network of grassroots peoples' organizations worldwide that are building alternatives to neo-liberalist policies. Last September, PGA held an international meeting of continental convenors in Prague, as part of the Global Day of Action Against Capitalism on September 26. This meeting in June is to consolidate a North American network before the next international PGA meeting in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Sept 1, 2001 where participants will further define and develop strategies and tactics for the two sustained global actions and discuss how to further continue to locally build, and globally link, positive resistance to capitalism.

Peoples' Global Action
North American Meeting

JUNE 1st - 3rd, 2001
Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A

PGA is an umbrella network of grassroots peoples' organizations worldwide that are building alternatives to neo-liberalist policies. Last September, PGA held an international meeting of continental convenors in Prague, Czech Republic. This meeting was in conjunction with the protests against the IMF and World Bank meetings there, as part of the call that PGA put out for the Global Day of Action Against Capitalism on September 26. Convenors, representing peoples' grassroots movements around the world, met to discuss PGA's goals for the future.

From this meeting emerged a plan for two sustained global actions:

-- building a movement to stop Plan Colombia;
-- linking the struggles of people to reclaim our water and land rights.

The next international PGA meeting will be in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Sept 1, 2001 where participants will further define and develop strategies and tactics for the two sustained global actions, and discuss how to further continue to locally build, and globally link, positive resistance to capitalism.

Prior to this meeting there will be a North American meeting called by the Tampa Bay Action Group, of Florida, USA and The Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal à Quebec (Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes-CLAC, the two temporary co-conveners for North America.

The suggested agenda for the North American meeting includes an overview of PGA, detailed analysis and dicussion of the the two sustained global actions, networking and brainstorming for concrete ideas for direct actions that support and further these global actions, how to further build the PGA network in North America, how to continue to build the network from the succesful FTAA protests, and planning for the Cochabamba meeting.

Those organizations interested in having a voice on the organizing committee for the North American PGA meeting should contact by email pga-...@riseup.net

(please include only the word "subscribe" without quotes in body of the letter), or call 727-896-TBAG or at onew...@att.net.

To register for the North American meeting and the Cochabamba meeting contact TBAG at 727-896-8224 email "mailto:oneworldnow@att.net".

The organizing committee will use this list serve to communicate and to plan both meetings. If your organization is interested in attending or helping to organize the PGA meeting in North America or Cochabamba, Bolivia, please contact the list serve. Any group desiring to participate in the Cochabamba meeting must participate in the North American meeting.

All groups participating in both the North American meeting and wanting to attend the meeting in Bolivia must agree to the PGA Hallmarks:

The hallmarks of the alliance are:

1)A rejection of neo-liberal politics and institutions, which promote socially and environmentally destructive globalization.

2)A rejection of all forms of oppression and exploitation such as patriarchy, white supremacy and imperialism.

3)A confrontational attitude toward undemocratic organizations in which capital is the only real policy maker.

4)A call to nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience and the construction of local alternatives by local people as answers to the actions of governments and corporations.

5)An organizational philosophy based on decentralization, direct democracy and local autonomy.

For more info on Peoples Global Action, go to http://www.agp.org/

Some current and former members of the PGA convenors' committee and conference hosts:

Seis Federaciones del Trópico:
one of the most active resistance movement in Bolivia right now; they participated in the recent battle for water which reversed the privatization plans of the government. Will host the 3rd PGA conference.

Movimento dos Trahalbadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Brazil:
The most important movement for land reform through direct action in the world.

Organizaciones Negras de Centroamerica (ONECA)
Central American network of black communities; the secretariat is at the organization of the Garífunas of Honduras.

Central Sandinista de Trabajadores (CST) / Federación Nacional del Trabajo (FNT)
The CST is part of the FNT, a major union federation.

Movimiento de la Juventud Kuna:
The youth movement of the Kuna people of Panama, one of the first Latin American indigenous peoples to obtain self-governance.

Confederacion Unica Nacional de Afiliados al Seguro Social Campesino-Coordinadora Nacional Campesina:
The main peasant movement in Ecuador strongly involved in the take-over of the Parliament in January 2000.

Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR), Sri Lanka.

www.agp.org/