Europe

Balkans - Andre Grubacic

Interview Details Region: Balkans Language: English Interviewee: Andre Grubacic Interviewer: Lesley Wood Date: December 2021 Bio: Andre Grubačić is the Founding Chair of the Anthropology and Social Change department at CIIS-San Francisco, an academic program with an exclusive focus on anarchist anthropology. He is the editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and is an affiliated faculty member at the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid (coauthored with Denis O’Hearn), Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!

Catalunya - Arnau Montserrat

Interview Details Region: Europe - Catalunya Language: English Interviewee: Arnau Montserrat Interviewers: Terry Dunne & Mags Liddy Date: 2017 PGA Affiliation: Movimenta de Resistência Global Bio: Arnau Montserrat - I am nurtured, in many ways, by the Vall de Can Masdeu, community eco-social territory wedged between the district of Nou Barris and the Collserola mountains surrounding Barcelona, where I coordinate part of its gardens and I raise a son who I love.

Catalunya - Mayo Fuster-Morell

Interview Details Region: Europe - Catalunya Language: English Interviewee: Mayo Fuster-Morell Interviewers: Terry Dunne & Mags Liddy Date: 2017 PGA Affiliation: Movimenta de Resistência Global Bio: Mayo Fuster-Morell was involved in MRG in Barcelona and participated in the Prague IMF protests and various PGA processes and meetings in Europe. She was later involved in the 15M movement. Audio File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eh7ad0kcygo2l03/PGA%20Catalunya%202%20-%20Mayo%20Fuster-Morell%204-5.m4a?dl=0 Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ic30fkzfsm2ss36r9g3qn/PGA-Catalunya-2-Mayo-Fuster-Morrell.docx?dl=0&rlkey=mit6gkf67145nh22o57wxz5hq Transcript Terry Dunne: We will start. You’ve already seen the questions we are interested in.

Catalunya - Victor

Interview Details Region: Europe - Catalunya Language: English Interviewee: Victor Interviewers: Terry Dunne & Mags Liddy Date: 2017 PGA Affiliation: Movimenta de Resistência Global, Zapatista Solidarity Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t2wxoq8a5qg9f61w63vz2/PGA-Catalunya-3-Victor-.m4a.docx?rlkey=cfbnf882pwqyi8hefsgljs2o9&dl=0 Transcript Terry Dunne: So, Victor, maybe the first thing I could ask you is how you how you started to get involved in PGA activism. Victor: At the time of the Prague protests. Victor: Involved; I was always left. But before we supported Zapatista solidarity.

Germany - Ann Stafford

Interview Details Region: Europe - Germany Language: English Interviewee: Ann Stafford Interviewer: John Stafford (biographer) Date: Bio: Ann Stafford was an activist in social movements and worked in the secretariat and coordination team for the Peoples Global Action network doing many tasks including website work. She passed away in 2013 but the attached text is from a biography written from her notebooks. Transcript: https://gitlab.com/initiative6722422/pga-oral-history/-/blob/working/content/europe/Ann_Book_Draft_FrontPage_Chapter_19.pdf?ref_type=heads Transcript Michael Reinsborough: This is an oral history in review around the role of Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) Network.

Germany - Friederike Habermann

Interview Details Region: Europe - Germany Language: English Interviewee: Friederike Habermann Interviewer: Michael Reinsborough Date: June 18 2019 Bio: Friederike Habermann is an economist and historian with a PhD in political science. As an author, activist, and independent researcherr, she has been exploring for decades how a solidarity-based and caring society can become reality. Here she focuses in particular on the interdependency of the economy with sexist, racist, classist, and other privileges - as well as on ways out of this mess.

Ireland - Barry Finnegan

Interview Details Region: Europe - Ireland Language: English Interviewee: Barry Finnegan Interviewer: Mags Liddy Date: 2017 PGA Affiliation: ATTAC Ireland Bio: Barry Finnegan works as a Programme Director and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism & Media Communications in Griffith College. He holds an MA in International Relations from Dublin City University and is currrently pursuing a PhD at Queens University Belfast entitled, ‘Embedded Neoliberalism and EU Trade and Investment Policy in the Anthropocene: an Ecosocialist Critique’ which will argue that the era of the Anthropocene requires that the European Union develops and implements a sustainable and ethical trade and investment policy.

Ireland - Clare B

Interview Details Region: Europe - Ireland Language: English **Interviewee: Clare B **Interviewer: Mags Liddy Date: April 2017 PGA Affiliation: Gluaiseacht Bio: Clare B lives in Dublin, Ireland. As a student she was a member of Gluaiseacht, a social and environmental network, and attended a European PGA meeting in the Netherlands in 2002. Clare has been centrally involved in a range of community, feminist and anarchist organisations and was a founding member of the Abortion Rights Campaign.

Ireland - Eoin Ó Broin

Interview Details Region: Europe - Ireland Language: English Interviewee: Eoin Ó Broin Interviewer: Mags Liddy Date: April 8 2017 PGA Affiliation: University of Limerick EnviroSoc Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/88aes9jao4naf8ghfp798/PGA-Ireland-1-Eoin-Broin.docx?dl=0&rlkey=buijqfy7dzrqmbyqy3zz0uv4i Transcript [Note from interviewer: this interview was completed via Skype, and I did not have the recording set-up correctly in the beginning as I was using a headset. Initial 3 minutes are lost, but I did stop EOB from speaking for some time.]

Italy - Eva

Interview Details Region: Europe - Italy Language: English Interviewee: Eva Interviewers: Terry Dunne & Mags Liddy Date: 2017 PGA Affiliation: Ya Basta Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0t9a6tka9e7yo2ho5uoal/PGA-Italy-2-Eva.docx?rlkey=rlz4knpz8gjlif2gqm32d6rkl&dl=0 Transcript Mags Liddy: And we begin by asking a lot of people about their involvement with PGA. As you were saying the years that you were involved there …but maybe maybe we go a little bit back from that and tell me how did you get… and how did you become an activist, maybe going back.

Italy - Luca Mondo

Interview Details Region: Europe - Italy Language: English Interviewee: Luca Mondo Interviewers: Terry Dunne & Mags Liddy Additional Speaker: Chukki Date: 2017 PGA Affiliation: Ya Basta Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d76o5laip23yt8l/PGA%20Italy%201%20-%20Luca%201.docx?dl=0 Transcript Terry Dunne: So thanks for this Luca. I think the first thing we want to ask you just to get things started is what was your role in PGA?. What were you involved in within PGA? Luca Mondo: Yeah. So thank you for doing this work.

Italy - Riccardo

Interview Details Region: Europe - Italy Language: Italian & English Interviewee: Riccardo Interviewers: Terry Dunne & Mags Liddy Additional Speaker: Translator Bilingual Transcript Checker: Lisa Date: 2017 PGA Affiliation: Trade unions, Ya Basta, Zapatista solidarity Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ykriiscdbqj9y708ajbq/PGA-Europe-Italy-Riccardo.docx?rlkey=g0v41u7hbu0etkv0doh4t8ygy&dl=0 Transcript English & Italian Sonix transcription Interviewer: First of all, thanks for taking part. And I think maybe we’ll start by asking how you first became involved in politics or in activism? Riccardo: Nel 1977 in Italia con un grosso movimento di lotta che era il movimento dell’Autonomia Operaia.

Italy & UK - 4 participants

Interview Details Region: Europe: Italy & UK Language: English Interviewees: Leo (pseudonym); Dagamr; Maria; Massio Interviewers: Terry Dunne & Mags Liddy Date: 2017 Description: Anonymized transcript - 4 participants, speaking about Italy and the UK. [Note from interviewer: this was anonymized as per the interviewees request - The audio file are not available. I have left some parts in bold where I was unclear about the spelling of the names of particular individuals or organisations.

Switzerland - Four Organizers

Interview Details Region: Europe Language: English Interviewee: Group interview in Bern, Switzerland with Detti, Yvonne, Sandra, Steven Interviewer: Olivier de Marcellus Date: December 2021 PGA Affiliation: Bio: Group interview in Bern, Switzerland with Detti, Yvonne, Sandra, Steven Audio File: PGA bern2.WAV Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/li8elv8ec03brpu6aqqhd/PGA-Europe-Berne-x4.docx?rlkey=88ginwsi7ojx5dpgeuitq3q7c&dl=0 Transcript Olivier: [00:00:01] That was the blocking of the G8 summit in Evian in 2003, remember? Yvonne: (Yvonne)[00:00:05] It’s now recording, right? Olivier: [00:00:12] Yeah. But yeah, that was the answer to the question of what was the last thing.

Switzerland - Olivier de Marcellus

Interview Details Region: Europe - Switzerland Language: English Interviewee: Olivier de Marcellus Interviewer: Lesley Wood Date: December 21 2022 & January 16 2023 Transcript 1: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f9lj4eicswbh7khirbzno/PGA-Oral-History-Switzerland-Olivier-de-Marcellus-1.docx?dl=0&rlkey=u58gfs3njkz4qkvq0m9cgd3jx Transcript 2: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/scr6x75h50a4x4ph9ukoo/PGA-Oral-History-Europe-Olivier-de-Marcellus-pt.-2.docx?dl=0&rlkey=rk0dwxow2o25jyuz82np0n1eq Transcript Lesley Wood: All right. Its December 21st, 2022. I’m talking to Olivier de Marcellus. I want to start out with the story from your perspective, because I think I’ve heard some stories from others’ perspectives. But how did you get involved in this PGA tour?

United Kingdom - Caravan1

Interview Details Region: Europe Language: English Interviewee: anonymous Interviewer: Michael Reinsborough Date: 14 October 2022 PGA Affiliation: Caravan Bio: Participant was involved in supporting the UK caravan and organized a meeting space where Reclaim the Streets planned the J18 Action Day Transcript: https: Transcript Speaker1: Okay, so today is October the 14th and we’re at the British Library. My name’s Michael Reinsborough, and we’re doing an interview. Speaker2: (acknowledges) Speaker1: Okay, great.

United Kingdom - John Jordan

Interview Details Region: Europe - UK Language: English Interviewee: John Jordan Interviewer: Michael Reinsborough Date: 2019 PGA Affiliation: Reclaim the Streets Audio File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0r8b2ngrelafgc/PGA%20UK%20Jordan%20pt2.MP3?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/h7w2kasqvluomb5/PGA%20UK%20-%20Jordan.MP3?dl=0 Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/01f9yh682997vamhf6xch/PGA-UK-1-John-Jordan.docx?dl=0&rlkey=p566jxs8zki7w4za4kpp0vnfr Transcript Michael Reinsborough: For the purpose of the tape, do you wanna say your name? John Jordan: I’m John Jordan. Michael Reinsborough: Okay, and I’m [redacted], and we just happen to be in London. [Redacted] gave a very marvelous talk last night, and it was in London, so I’m taking advantage of doing an interview.

United Kingdom - Michael Reinsborough

Interview Details Region: North America Language: English Interviewee: Michael Reinsborough Interviewer: Leen Amarin Date: June 7 2023 PGA Affiliation: Bio: Michael Reinsborough was involved in various Global Action Days in San Francisco, Dublin and other cities and participated in the PGA European network from 2002 onwards. He is involved in the Peoples Global Action Oral History project, and currently works in London, United Kingdom. Transcript: Transcript Leen: Okay, so I’m going to pull up my– just will, just share my screen to share the consent form with you.

United Kingdom - Uri Gordon

Interview Details Region: Europe Language: English Interviewee: Uri Gordon Interviewer: Lesley Wood Date: 26 July 2023 PGA Affiliation: European network Bio: Uri Gordon is an Israeli-born activist, author and educator based in the UK. Formerly an academic temp lecturer, he is not part of The Editing Cooperative. He is the author of “Anarchy Alive!: Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory” and numerous articles and book chapters on the political theory of contemporary anarchism.

Zbrati - Russia - International Socio-ecological union

Interview Details Region: Commonwealth of Independent States Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: PGA Affiliation: International Socio-ecological union Bio: Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview. Transcript Interviewer: bla-bla Interviewee: la-la-la We are currently hoping to recieve or collect an interview from this organisation. This project does not represent the full array of movements and activists involved in PGA.

Zbrati - The Netherlands - Eurodusnie

Interview Details Region: Western Europe Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: PGA Affiliation: Eurodusnie Bio: This was a convenor organisation within the PGA network. Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview. Transcript Interviewer: bla-bla Interviewee: la-la-la We are currently hoping to recieve or collect an interview from this organisation. This project does not represent the full array of movements and activists involved in PGA.

Zbrati - Ukraine - International Socio-ecological union

Interview Details Region: Commonwealth of Independent States Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: PGA Affiliation: International Socio-ecological union Bio: Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview. Transcript Interviewer: bla-bla Interviewee: la-la-la We are currently hoping to recieve or collect an interview from this organisation. This project does not represent the full array of movements and activists involved in PGA.

Zbrati - United Kingdom - Reclaim the Streets

Interview Details Region: Western Europe Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: PGA Affiliation: Reclaim the Streets Bio: This was a convenor organisation within the PGA network. Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview. Transcript Interviewer: bla-bla Interviewee: la-la-la We are currently hoping to recieve or collect an interview from this organisation. This project does not represent the full array of movements and activists involved in PGA.

Zbratiz - Central & Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States - Various Groups

We are currently hoping to receive or collect interviews from various CEE/CIS organizations. This project does not represent the full range of movements and activists involved in PGA. Like so many activist and research projects, this one is shaped by limited social networks and by resource imbalances and priorities within our global system. We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations: Central & Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States

Zbratiz - Western Europe - Various Groups

We are currently hoping to receive or collect interviews from various Western Europe organizations. This project does not represent the full range of movements and activists involved in PGA. Like so many activist and research projects, this one is shaped by limited social networks and by resource imbalances and priorities within our global system. We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations: Western Europe Indymedia France Collectif STAMP, France Collectif Friche Artistique-Autogérée, France Hameau collectif,France Intercontinental project, Berlin, Germany AStA Technische Universitaet Berlin (students union) European Network of the Marches against Unemployment, Precarity and Social Exclusion (Euromarches), Germany No One Is Illegal, Germany Committee Against Olympic Games, Athens, Greece Italy IMC Tactical Media (Italy) Ya Basta (Italy) Politiek Infocentrum Wageningen / Leftwing Analysis of Biopolitics (LAB), The Netherlands Bangladesh People’s Solidarity Centre (BPSC), The Netherlands Eurodusnie, The Netherlands Play Fair Europe!

Zbratiz - Western Europe - Various Groups

We are currently hoping to receive or collect interviews from various Western Europe organizations.

This project does not represent the full range of movements and activists involved in PGA. Like so many activist and research projects, this one is shaped by limited social networks and by resource imbalances and priorities within our global system.

We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations:

Western Europe

  • Indymedia France
  • Collectif STAMP, France
  • Collectif Friche Artistique-Autogérée, France
  • Hameau collectif,France
  • Intercontinental project, Berlin, Germany
  • AStA Technische Universitaet Berlin (students union)
  • European Network of the Marches against Unemployment, Precarity and Social Exclusion (Euromarches), Germany
  • No One Is Illegal, Germany
  • Committee Against Olympic Games, Athens, Greece
  • Italy IMC
  • Tactical Media (Italy)
  • Ya Basta (Italy)
  • Politiek Infocentrum Wageningen / Leftwing Analysis of Biopolitics (LAB), The Netherlands
  • Bangladesh People’s Solidarity Centre (BPSC), The Netherlands
  • Eurodusnie, The Netherlands
  • Play Fair Europe! Amsterdam / “Mental Defective Giraffes against Plan Colombia” / the process on gender “Nor Men Neither Women, but just the Opposite”, The Netherlands
  • Politiek Infocentrum Wageningen, The Netherlands
  • Rising Tide, Netherlands
  • Vrienden van GroenFront! (GroenFront! / EarthFirst! Netherlands Support Group), The Netherlands
  • Interculturalidade - Associação de Professores (IAP), Portugal
  • Global Action Scotland, Scotland
  • Autonomous Centre, Scotland
  • Ecologistas en Accion, Spain
  • la Red Ciudadana por la Abolición de la Deuda Externa (RCADE), Spain
  • Play Fair Europe!, Spain
  • Movimiento de Resistència Global de Catalunya (MRG), Catalunya, Spanish State
  • MRG, Madrid
  • SAC-syndikalisterna. Sweden
  • Globalisering underifrån, Sweden
  • Antifascistisk Aktion, Sweden
  • Ingen människa är illegal. Sweden
  • Foundation North-South XXI, Switzerland
  • Nord-Sued-Koordination, Switzerland
  • Action Populaire Contre la Mondialisation (APCM), Switzerland
  • People Not Profit, UK
  • Earth First!, UK
  • Reclaim The Streets! London (UK)*
  • Campaign Against the Arm Trade (UK)
  • Globalize Resistance UK
  • Colombia Solidarity Campaign, UK
  • Socialist Workers Party, UK
  • Wombles, UK

If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us. We invite you to tell your stories and collect the ones you think need to be told. Despite the many gaps in this project, we present it with the intention of inspiring others and indicating a sample of the diversity of participation.

For more information and to get involved, please contact us pgaoralhistory.

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Actualmente, esperamos recibir o recopilar entrevistas de varias organizaciones de Europa occidental.

Este proyecto no representa la gama completa de movimientos y activistas involucrados en PGA. Como tantos proyectos activistas y de investigación, este está determinado por redes sociales limitadas y por los desequilibrios y prioridades de recursos dentro de nuestro sistema global.

Tenemos entrevistas de solo algunas de las siguientes organizaciones:

Europa occidental

  • Indymedia France
  • Collectif STAMP, France
  • Collectif Friche Artistique-Autogérée, France
  • Hameau collectif,France
  • Intercontinental project, Berlin, Germany
  • AStA Technische Universitaet Berlin (students union)
  • European Network of the Marches against Unemployment, Precarity and Social Exclusion (Euromarches), Germany
  • No One Is Illegal, Germany
  • Committee Against Olympic Games, Athens, Greece
  • Italy IMC
  • Tactical Media (Italy)
  • Ya Basta (Italy)
  • Politiek Infocentrum Wageningen / Leftwing Analysis of Biopolitics (LAB), The Netherlands
  • Bangladesh People’s Solidarity Centre (BPSC), The Netherlands
  • Eurodusnie, The Netherlands
  • Play Fair Europe! Amsterdam / “Mental Defective Giraffes against Plan Colombia” / the process on gender “Nor Men Neither Women, but just the Opposite”, The Netherlands
  • Politiek Infocentrum Wageningen, The Netherlands
  • Rising Tide, Netherlands
  • Vrienden van GroenFront! (GroenFront! / EarthFirst! Netherlands Support Group), The Netherlands
  • Interculturalidade - Associação de Professores (IAP), Portugal
  • Global Action Scotland, Scotland
  • Autonomous Centre, Scotland
  • Ecologistas en Accion, Spain
  • la Red Ciudadana por la Abolición de la Deuda Externa (RCADE), Spain
  • Play Fair Europe!, Spain
  • Movimiento de Resistència Global de Catalunya (MRG), Catalunya, Spanish State
  • MRG, Madrid
  • SAC-syndikalisterna. Sweden
  • Globalisering underifrån, Sweden
  • Antifascistisk Aktion, Sweden
  • Ingen människa är illegal. Sweden
  • Foundation North-South XXI, Switzerland
  • Nord-Sued-Koordination, Switzerland
  • Action Populaire Contre la Mondialisation (APCM), Switzerland
  • People Not Profit, UK
  • Earth First!, UK
  • Reclaim The Streets! London (UK)*
  • Campaign Against the Arm Trade (UK)
  • Globalize Resistance UK
  • Colombia Solidarity Campaign, UK
  • Socialist Workers Party, UK
  • Wombles, UK

Si puedes ayudar con contactos, entrevistas o te gustaría participar de alguna otra manera, contáctanos. Te invitamos a contar tus historias y a recopilar las que creas que deben contarse. A pesar de las muchas lagunas de este proyecto, lo presentamos con la intención de inspirar a otros e indicar una muestra de la diversidad de la participación.

Para obtener más información y participar, contáctanos pgaoralhistory.

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