Peoples’ Global Action was the initial linking network that inspired the decentralized Global Action Days, and the blockades of summit meetings between 1998 and 2005. The first Global Action Day, was called for the 2nd WTO Ministerial conference in Geneva in May 1998, during which hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in over 60 countries. People asked “is this the first flutter of a new global social movement?” After years of saying “It’s no use resisting here, we would have to organize globally”, people thought “Hey, maybe we can!” And did. A “virtuous circle” developed between these decentralized mobilisations and blockades of summits. Subsequent Global Days of Action - each mobilizing thousands around the world - included those during the G8 summit in Cologne in June 18/1999 (with notably the massive blockades and invasion of buildings of the City of London) ; during the 3rd WTO summit in Seattle November 30/1999) , where the PGA inspired Direct Action Network successfully blocked the opening day. More worldwide Global Action Days coincided with the massive mobilisations that ran the IMF/World Bank meeting in Prague out of town September 26/2000 , forced the cancelling of a World Bank meeting in Barcelona (2001), besieged the G8 in Genoa (2001) and blocked all accesses to G8 summits in Evian (2003) and Gleneagles (2005). Summits cast as demonstrations of our rulers legitimacy had on the contrary to be held in remote locations, or protected by thousands of police. Massive protests laid siege annually to the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos from 2001 to 2005 despite ever more violent repression. The PGA hallmarks, inspired by the Gandhian tradition of the Indian farmers, popularised (mostly) non-violent disobedience as a radical form of struggle.