A PGA pamphlet, employing a rallying cry
of the network as its title
(PGA/Notes From Nowhere)
People's Global Action
Rarely confused with the Professional Golf Association, PGA (People's
Global Action) is a worldwide activist network that spreads
information and co-ordinates actions between grassroots movements.
Anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-fundamentalist and anti-sexist:
it’s no overstatement to say that PGA has been a driving force
behind the anti-globalisation movement, from Seattle to Genoa
and beyond.
PGA-organised Global Action Days use internet mailing lists,
web pages and word of mouth to create simultaneous happenings
around the world. Getting to hear about them simply requires being
plugged into one of the networks – whether that's social, technological
or both.
The first Global Action Days happened in Geneva in 1998, launching
a co-ordinated effort against the World Trade Organisation. The
following year, hundreds of demonstrations, actions and street
parties took place worldwide against the G8 and World Trade Organisation
meetings.
PGA is not an organisation you have to join. It doesn't have
star speakers you have to listen to. In fact, the only thing you
have to take on board are its openly available 'hallmarks'. If
they agree with them, nothing stops you taking part in PGA's meetings
and actions – or even organising your own.
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