People's Global Action (PGA) is a network for spreading information and coordinating actions between grassroots movements around the world. These diverse groups share the same opposition to capitalism, and committment to direct action and civil disobediance as the most effective form of struggle. PGA grew out of the international Zapatista gatherings in 1996 and 1997, and was formed as a space for direct and un mediated contact between autonomous groups.

The first conference took place in 1998, when movements from all continents met in Geneva and launched a worldwide coordination of resistance against the global market economy and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Later that year, hundreds of coordinated demonstrations, actions and street parties took place on all five continents, against the meeting of the G8 and the WTO ministerial meeting. From June 18^th, Seattle, Prague, Genoa, Evian and now Scotland many of the groups and movements involved with PGA have been


    1. A  rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions
 and governments that promote destructive globalisation.

  
   2. A rejection of 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 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.

People s Global Action in a Nutshell