Peoples' Global Action North America
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Peoples' Global Action is abbreviated as either PGA or AGP (from the Spanish,
Acción Global de los Pueblos).
The global website is at www.agp.org.
Contact Points
PGA-bloc Ottawa - www.resistance2010.net
Summary
Peoples' Global Action is the network that put out the call for global actions against the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle and includes hundreds of organizations ranging from peasant movements in Brazil and India to labor unions in Argentina and Canada, indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, immigrants, squatters, environmentalists, anarchists, autonomists, and rebels from every continent, united by a set of shared principles (see below). It remains a fulcrum of resistance, even as it is engaged in a process of reformulation now that global elites have reacted to our movements' successes by trying to plunge the world into a nightmare of war and genocidal violence. At this time, we feel it's absolutely crucial to fill in a major missing piece in this planetary network and build PGA here in the very heart of empire.
Hallmarks of Peoples' Global Action
1. A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalization.
2. We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all creeds.
We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.
3. A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker.
4. A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social movements' struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximize respect for life and oppressed peoples' rights, as well as the construction of local alternatives to global capitalism.
5. An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.
