On 25 and 26 November Ya Basta! and Reclaim the Streets met, in their capacity as present and past PGA convenors for western Europe, and discussed coming initiatives of the European network of Peoples’ Global Action.

It was decided to call a European meeting of Peoples’ Global Action, including all those - individuals and groups, both in east and west Europe - who are at present supporting PGA activities or who are interested in becoming involved and supporting action in the future.

The meeting aims to define the state of the PGA network in Europe, as it has been up to now and after the inspirational events in Prague, and to give shape to its future characteristics and actions. The meeting will take place in Milan, Italy, at the Leoncavallo Social Centre from the morning of Saturday 3 March to the evening of Sunday 4.

All those who are interested are invited to contribute to the preparation of the meeting by sending the following to Ya Basta! (see address below), at least three weeks before the date of the meeting:

Presentation of the person(s) taking part and the reasons for their participation;
proposals for the agenda to be covered.
Attendance does not necessarily depend on making these contributions , but they will make the debates easier to organise and will be considered as elements that give priority of access to speakers.

Those interested in attending are advised to organise local, regional or national meetings in preparation.

We also suggest organising exchanges of opinion regarding the European meeting, as side initiatives to upcoming events similar themes. As an example, we suggest the preparatory meetings for Davos (16 and 17 December in Geneva and 13 and 14 of January in Zurich) as well as the action days in Davos between 25 and 28 of January, (as well as the action in Nice on 6 and 7 December, and the European Noborder meeting in Paris on the 9th and the 10th of December, when these discussions already happened); obviously these exchanges should not steal time from the discussion of the themes for which the events were organised and should be agreed on with the organisers.

As a means of communication, and preparing the agenda, we shall be using the mailing list  caravan99@list.free.de , the list in use by the PGA European network since the intercontinental caravan project. All those interested are invited to register with this list, asking for subscription to the list itself. Future decisions regarding communications in the PGA European network will be taken at the European meeting.

The following is the address of the Ya Basta! Association, the present European convenor of the PGA and reference point for the organisation of the European meeting:  yabasta@tin.it . We invite the participants to arrive Friday 2 March evening and to inform the organising group in advance of your accommodation needs, and welcome participation in the organisation of this event.

For further information on the PGA and access to its manifesto, the website is:  http://www.agp.org.

Ya Basta! Association
For the dignity of all people, against neoliberalism Reclaim the Streets, London

INFO on Ya Basta: www.yabasta.it or www.ecn.org/yabasta.milano/

INFO on RTS : www.reclaimthestreets.net