Topics
topics of 5th PGA conference Greece 2008
precarity issues - Militant Research Group Budapest, ovis.bp@gmail.com; Our intention is to drop in questions, and generate a debate, rather than a clear opinion about what is precarity and why are we using this expression.
Can precarity be a unification of different kind of workers that are so far away on the social ladder from each other by mainstream measures? (Quality of living measured by income, goods, etc.) Btw., should precarity be a unification at all?
anti-repression: A call-out for anti-repression workshops at the PGA and international reports of attacks to political spaces, erosion of political freedoms, and repression over the past decades
antifascist struggles and antinationalism - there is a rising wave of nationalistic rhetoric and thinking within the Fortress Europe, masked behind the face of "patriotism", which is trying to distract people from the real problems - capitalism, state, hierarchy and any forms of domination.
antimilitarist objectors in Greece and Turkey Militarism is the source of hegemonic domination, discrimination etc...We believe that to create a new world we need to destroy it and its all instruments in human relationship. It also supplies gender roles, immanent authority of all kind of relations and make obedience widespread. We call all the various antimilitarist collectives from europe and beyond to participate to the next PGA conference in order to discuss the topic of objectors, antimilitarism and conscientious objection , to establish a bridge between the objectors, to create a network and to empower the solidarity of them."
Antimilitarists from Turkey
biotechnology - it is mostly the last two decades when emerging techniques of Genetic Engineering and modern biotechnology have broadened their spectra of economic exploitation on fields previously unspoiled. Most big global players of Pharma-industry, Agri-chemicals and Bio-sciences have yet found in DNA decoding and modification innovating means to proliferate profits, raise property rights an spread domination - goals, against which we must oppose!
digital struggles , hack labs , autonomous servers and indymedia tools - in a world, dominated by mainstream media where the facts are hidden our goal is to give a voice to the voiceless, to prevent censorship and commercialization of one of the only remaining outlets of free speech, the internet. To counter the alarming commercialization of the internet, we pour healthy doses of non-censored, non-commercial subversive information into the net. We should promote hacktivism and all groups that share this philosophy with us.
DIY activities and sharing skillsD.I.Y. is the way to take the situation in our own hands away from passive consuming and letting others decide and do things for us. Its meaning and application is so wide that it varies from simple constructions to the idea of the active self organization of our everyday lives.
environmental struggles and biotechnology: radical environmentalism, struggles for saving the earth and all earthlings from the greedy corporate hands and the everyday ignorance of the common people; earth and animal liberation; AnarchoResistance, Sofia, aresistance@riseup.net
media and culture of resisistance
this is an open call for exhange videos , documentaries and an idea of creating a global video database !! as a starting point could be the pga conference in Greece!!
queer , radical feminism , struggles against patriarchy : Gender and love – Feminism – Patriarchy – Men hating women – Heterosexuality – Homosocial / Heterorelational – Sexliberalism – Women hating men – Separatism – Women’s solidarity – Solidarity with women: Power of definition / Partiality
squats and autonomous spaces - it is very essential to build and defend our own physical spaces for exchanging ideas and knowledge and to show that autonomous zone projects (squats, social centers, community farms, etc.) are a real working alternative to the social and economic system of capitalism.
We call out to all individuals and collectives involved in squatting and autonomous spaces to use this opportunity for an international exchange of
information and resources, to participate in the gathering, organise workshops and discussions and further the building of the international network of solidarity that is the PGA.
student struggles in europe - from greece and the student occupations of the university faculties to France and the anti-CPE movement , the riots all around France and the autonomous student tribune in Slovenia. A call out to every student group in Europe contact at: student_struggles at lists(.)riseup(.)net
zapatistas issues and solidarity movements Solidarity to such struggles is our weapon, by building local creative resistances which construct our autonomy, along with communication and coordination with these struggles through common networks, as is proposed in the Sixth International that was created in the depths of the Lacandona jungle in Chiapas. This is the essence of the People’s Global Action network.
Radical X change We Open the discussion for a new infrastructure that in the previous PGA
meetings in Athens and Maribor we called it Radical X change . Radical X change means a practical network of solidarity between autonomous spaces , eco communities , collectives and activists in order , activists to travel and work with various collectives in Europe. This project is not a travel agency but an radical exchange between activists for sharing skills and develop trust relations
PGA PROCESS DISCUSSION
Global process discussion: how can we reconnect the different contacts and collectives all around the globe? as soon as we have a proposal we will post it here! In fact we try to propose a new start for the global process!
PGA europe process discussion: more info soon
Balkan Decentralised Network: about the Balkan process
PGA europe process tools: PGA infopoints , digital tools , printed newsletter , communication