From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
Subject: AUT: Fw: [PGA na organizing committee] EIR article
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:03:02 -0500


Seems that PGA was already being targeted.  Not surprising per se, but
indicative of the rocky road ahead.

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: <desaparecido-AT-nadir.org>
To: <pga-AT-riseup.net>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:17 AM
Subject: [PGA na organizing committee] EIR article


>
> dear friends
>
> the following article is cruising around the internet.
> It contains a lot of lies and bullshit, depicting pga as a terrorist
> organisation. read for yourself.
>
> can you help us finding out more about this so called "Executive
> Intelligence Review ". Do you know what it is ? Any reference,
> website or so would be welcome.
>
> suggestions how to go about ?
>
> solidarity
> Luciano
>
>
>
> It's from august 24th
>
>
>  This article appears in the Aug. 24, 2001 issue of Executive
>  Intelligence Review.
>
>
>  Terrorism Central:
>  People's Global Action
>
>  by Scott Thompson
>
>  People's Global Action (PGA)
>  PGA c/o Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)
>  377 Bank Street
>  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
>  e-mail: pga-AT-agp.org
>  website: www.agp.org
>
>  Days before the Sept. 28-29, 2001 biannual meeting of the
>  International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington,
>  D.C., People's Global Action will be holding a conference in
>  Cochabamba, Bolivia, to plan how to disrupt events in Washington,
>  D.C., as well as to carry out global protests and terrorist action.
> The
>  significance of this meeting cannot be underestimated, as PGA is
>  the umbrella under which all of the world's major narco-terrorist,
>  landless, indigenist, and "Black Bloc" anarchist gangs have been
>  assembled.
>
>  PGA has been involved in every "global day of action," since the
>  birth of the new terrorism. As PGA-linked events have grown vastly
>  in size and violence, a recent editorial by Michael Albert, on behalf
>  of the PGA, entitled "Resurrect the R-Word," calls for a shift toward
>  "revolution": "To argue that capitalists will freely forsake the
>  economic violence is utopian.... We have economic violence. We
>  want economic liberty. The difference is transformative. We need
>  the R-word.... We can't win what we won't even name. We can't
>  orient today's reforms to furthering tomorrow's victories if we refuse
>  to define what tomorrow's victories might be. Blind strategy is no
>  strategy at all. Resistance is good. But to get to liberation, in
>  speaking, writing, thought, and action-resurrect the R-word."
>
>  U.S. intelligence sources have affirmed, and EIR has corroborated,
>  that the PGA is one of the "central coordinating tools" for a
>  minestrone of organizations involved in the new terrorism, ranging
>  from narco-terrorist organizations like Colombia's FARC, to the
>  reborn Autonomists and anarchists that practice "Black Bloc" (see
>  box) terrorist tactics, to an anthropologist's dream-world of
>  "indigenous" organizations, notably including the Zapatistas (EZLN)
>  of Mexico's southern Chiapas state.
>
>  The Cochabamba Agenda
>
>  Apart from the global day of action around the forthcoming
>  Washington, D.C. IMF/World Bank meeting, the agenda for the
>  Cochabamba conference includes plans for the PGA to enter a
>  phase of "sustained action"-a euphemism for terrorist acts.
>  One of the focal points for such "sustained action" is
>  opposition to Plan Colombia, which is ostensibly a major
>  North American intervention to carry out a "war on drugs" in
>  Colombia (the Plan Colombia is actually not a serious
>  anti-drug policy, as EIR has reported; see, for example,
>  speech by Gen. Harold Bedoya (ret.), in EIR, March 24, 2000).
>  Undoubtedly, despite its pleading poverty in its goal to have 70%
>  representation from the Third World, the PGA's coffers will be
>  stuffed by the narco-traffickers and their terrorist allies. Combatting
>  Plan Colombia was also the subject of a meeting in November
> 2000
>  of the representatives of the Andean and Central American regional
>  organization of the PGA.
>
>  Other suggested targets of "sustained action" to be taken up at
>  Cochabamba include stopping "the execution of transport
>  megaprojects such as the new interoceanic canal, mega-harbors,
>  finishing the Pan-American road, etc."
>
>  Cochabamba will be the third international conference of the PGA.
> It
>  will start with a "grassroots" tour through Venezuela, as well as
>  Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The agenda is set by a group of
>  "convenors" selected at the preceding conference. Among the
>  Cochabamba convenors are:
>
>     CONFEUNASSC-CNC (Confederación Unica Nacional de
>     Afiliados al Seruo Social Campesino-Consejo Nacional
>     Campesino), an Ecuadoran peasant movement that has ignited
>     several uprisings;
>
>     MJK (Movimento de la Juventud Kuna), a Panamanian
>     indigenous people's movement that sparked several actions
>     over the Twentieth Century, and won autonomy for the Kuma
>     people;
>
>     FNT (Frente Nacional de Trabajadores), a trade union
>     federation from Nicaragua that includes Sandinista central and
>     other unions;
>
>     ONECA/ODECO, the organization of escaped slaves in
>     Ibero-America, who formed societies in the rain forest in most
>     nations there;
>
>     Aoteoroa Educators, the training branch of the inter-tribal
>     Maori independence movement in New Zealand, called
>     Tino-Rangatiratatanga;
>
>     Krishok Federation, a federation of peasants and landless
>     agricultural workers from Bangladesh, which has been fighting
>     for decades against the "Green Revolution," as well as against
>     mega-projects, such as dams and levees, that might save
>     hundreds of thousands of lives from flooding;
>
>     MONLAR (Movement for National Land and Agricultural
>     Reform) from Sri Lanka;
>
>     Ya Basta! One of the main Autonomist Zapatista-support
>     networks, based primarily in Italy, which has conducted protests
>     against NATO involvement in the Balkans, for rights for illegal
>     immigrants, and held global days of action against the
>     globalization of Europe.
>
>     At present, North America is represented by acting
>     convenors-the Tampa Bay Action Group and the
>     Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles (Convergence des
>     Luttes Anti-Capitalistes)-which will be replaced, once the
>     conference has convened. Rainbow Keepers, a network of
>     radical anarcho-ecologist action groups in Eastern Europe and
>     the former Soviet republics in Asia, is the acting convenor for
>     Eurasia. At present, there are no convenors from Africa and
>     East Asia, a matter which will be taken up at Cochabamba.
>
>
>  Origins of the PGA
>
>  The PGA had its origins in a sequence of events in 1996 and
>  1997. The first event was the Zapatistas' call in 1996, via
>  e-mail, for an encuentro (encounter) of select activist
>  organizations around the world, to meet in specially constructed
>  arenas in the Chiapas jungle, to discuss common tactics. Six
>  thousand people turned up for the several-day-long discussion.
>
>  In August 1997, the European Zapatista support network called for
> a
>  Second Meeting for Humanity and Against Neo-Liberalism, in El
>  Indiano, Spain, which it had planned with the Zapatistas during the
>  1996 encuentro. Participants included: the Landless Movement
>  (MST), of Brazilian peasants, a potentially armed insurgency
>  organization, which is tied to the Colombian FARC and carries out
>  land occupations; and, for India, the Karnataka State Farmers
>  Union (KKRS), which has run a "cremate Monsanto" campaign,
>  burning fields of genetically modified crops. French farmer activist
>  José Bové, who gained notoriety by destroying a McDonald's
>  restaurant during protests in Paris, also attacked a Monsanto plant
>  in Brazil, before suddenly appearing as a major voice in the
>  Hemispheric Free-Trade Summit of the Americas in Quebec City,
>  despite a Canadian security all-points bulletin to apprehend him.
>
>  Immediately after the meeting in El Indiano, representatives from
>  activist and terrorist organizations of North and South gathered in
>  the same spot, to plot direct action against the Second Ministerial
>  Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO, which was
>  going to take place in May 1998 in Geneva, to commemorate the
>  50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade),
>  and to establish communication and coordination among those
> who
>  wanted to continue those actions against other free-trade
>  agreements and institutions. This was the origin of the PGA, which
>  held its first international conference on Feb. 23-25, 1998, in
>  Geneva's "alternative culture" centers, with representatives from
>  300 movements in 71 countries, and all the continents.
>
>  The PGA Swings Into Action
>
>  The first major PGA-linked action was on May 16-20, 1998
>  against the Group of Eight Summit in Birmingham, England,
>  and the WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva, a day later.
>  Apart from direct action at these events, there were over 65
>  demonstrations in 29 countries. In India, several hundred
>  thousand farmers demonstrated, while in Geneva, 10-15,000
>  people from all over Europe and other continents carried out
>  three days of the heaviest rioting ever seen in that city.
>
>  At a meeting of the convenors' committee in Finland in
>  September 1998, the second international PGA conference
>  was programmed to take place in Bangalore, India, several
>  months before the Third Ministerial Conference of the WTO, in
>  Seattle, Washington. At this meeting, the convenors endorsed
>  two large projects.
>
>  One project was an Inter-Continental Caravan for Solidarity
>  and Resistance, from May 22 to June 20, 1999. This brought
>  together representatives in Europe from 450 movements from
>  the Third World, with the majority from India, but also
>  including: the MST, Zapatista support groups from Mexico,
>  and the Process of Black Communities from Colombia. The
>  Inter-Continental Caravan met with a wide variety of
>  organizations in over 12 European countries. Actions included
>  taking over the Aviano, Italy air field for one day, during which
>  the NATO bombing of Serbia was stopped, and on June 18,
>  the caravan ended up in Cologne, where the G-8 was then
>  meeting.
>
>  The second project was a global day of action against
>  financial centers, on June 18, 1999. The June 18 operation
>  (www.j18.org.) was most notable in the City of London, where
>  a march of nearly 10,000 people (partly from the Luddite
>  organization Reclaim the Streets) rapidly degenerated into a
>  riot, in which 42 people were injured and damage was
>  estimated at millions of dollars. The activities were not
>  confined to London; cities in North America and continental
>  Europe also were involved, and in most cases financial
>  districts were targetted for protests and terrorism, while
>  10,000 attacks were made upon businesses by computer
>  hackers.
>
>  In August 1999, the second PGA international conference took
>  place in Bangalore. According to the PGA's own history: "At
>  Bangalore it was decided by unanimity to redefine it [the PGA]
>  as an anti-capitalist network...."
>
>  Already before the Bangalore conference, when the WTO
>  announced that it would hold its third summit in Seattle,
>  various groups from Vancouver to Los Angeles (several of
>  which had participated in earlier global days of action) formed
>  the Direct Action Network (DAN), which adopted the principles of
>  the PGA. DAN announced its intention to block the opening of the
>  WTO Summit in Seattle, where a major failure in intelligence, given
>  the pre-history of actions, left the police totally unprepared for the
>  new terrorism that emerged there on Nov. 30, 1999.
>
>  Some 10,000 activists, many adopting the tactics of the "Black
>  Bloc" (see box), managed to block all 13 accesses to the summit,
>  and they were joined by hundreds of young trade unionists, who
>  took part in the direct action, despite AFL-CIO rules to the
> contrary.
>  Simultaneously, demonstrations occurred in 60 cities around the
>  world.
>
>  Since that time, PGA-linked global days of action have become
>  larger and more violent. For example, despite little news attention
> at
>  the Sept. 26, 2000 IMF/World Bank meeting in Prague, the rioters
>  held the upper hand. Czech organizations that had participated in
>  previous global days of action issued a call that was seconded by
>  the PGA convenors, and 15-20,000 demonstrators took part,
>  coming from as far away as Spain, Italy, Norway, Poland, and
>  Greece. As the PGA official history gloats: "On S26, the opening
>  day of the summit, 15 to 20,000 demonstrators besieged the
>  assembly for hours. Delegates attempting to leave were injured and
>  finally evacuated to the underground. The second day many
>  preferred to stay in the safety of their hotels, while the remainder
>  voted to cancel the third day of the meetings." The new terrorists
>  were able to do this, despite 11,000 police having been deployed.
>
>  For more of the events that PGA took part in, see the timeline in
> this
>  Feature.Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo!
> Terms of Service.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> PGA mailing list
> PGA-AT-riseup.net
> http://lists.riseup.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pga
>



     --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---