[Imc-newsroom] 3rd international conference of People's Global Action

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Please forward this conference call to interested activists and groups.
The application deadline is June 20, 2001
There is an online application form available at 
www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/new/cocha.htm#Application


People's Global Action (PGA) is an umbrella network of grassroots 
organizations
worldwide that are building alternatives to neo-liberalist policies.

The next international meeting of the PGA network will be held in Cochabamba,
Bolivia from September 17.-23., 2001

The conference will discuss especially following issues:
ú       Action strategies within the space of communication and coordination 
of
PGA
ú       Revision of the PGA manifesto
ú       Extension of the contacts and of the space of communication 
articulated
through PGA
ú       Plans of sustained action: concrete proposals of globally coordinated
campaigns against particular aspects of capitalist domination
ú       Global mobilization against IMF/WB (Washington, DC Oct. 2-4), against
the WTO (Nov.), and other globally coordinated actions.

PGA fosters and encourages the participation of grassroots organizations that
fight for socially and politically marginalized sector of every society 
(people
of color, women, indigenous, people in poverty, etc.). Scholarship for those
groups might be available.
North America will send about 30 delegates to Cochabamba, with a quota of 3 or
4 delegates from the Midwest.

All groups participating in the meeting in Bolivia must agree to the hallmarks
and objectives of PGA.
The PGA Hallmarks 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 and autonomy.

For registration or further information about the PGA meeting, please send
e-mail to:
pgaconference at yahoo.com

More information about PGA is available online at:
http://www.agp.org    or     http://free.freespeech.org/agp