Canada - Dave Bleakney
Interview Details Region: Canada Language: English Interviewee - Dave Bleakney Interviewer - Lesley Wood Date: November 2016, Toronto Audio File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bngkj4gab7rnluo/PGA%20Canada%201.m4a?dl=0 Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7163cxe7mhpnlck/PGA%20Bleakney%202.MP3?dl=0 Video/Audio Insert media link here or remove section
Transcript Interviewer: Alright do you wanna use your name, or not use your name…or do you wanna figure out what you want to use after the task?
Interviewee: Figure out after…
Interviewer: That’s right
Interviewee: I’m not…my fear is not my union, they can’t touch me, they’ve always tried but they can’t, my fear is that actually being like, speaking like I’m somebody else, I don’t identify as somebody who would do that, right?
Canada - Sarita Ahooja
Interview Details Region: North America - Canada | Montreal, Quebec Language: English Interviewee: Sarita Ahooja Interviewer: Lesley Wood Date: November 2016 PGA Affiliation: CLAC Bio: Sarita Ahooja is a grassroots anti-capitalist organiser from Montreal. She has worked in community-based develpment, human rights, and indigenous sovereignty movements throughout the Americas, as well as in India and Palestine. Some of the orgnisations she has been active in since the early 1990s: Project acompagnement Quebec-Guatemala, EZLN National & International Solidarity Movement, UNAM Student Strike, la CLAC, NOII-Montreal, SAB-SSF, UFCW migrant worker unionization, Montreal neighborhood housing rights groups.
United States of America - Brooke Lehman
Interview Details Region: North America - United States Language: English Interviewee: Ann Stafford Interviewer: Lesely Wood (contact person) Date: Bio: Brooke Lehman was an activist in social movements and worked in the East Coast coordination team for the international Caravan sponsored by the Peoples’ Global Action network and part of the Direct Action Network. The attached text is from her in lieu of an interview. Transcript: https://gitlab.com/initiative6722422/pga-oral-history/-/blob/working/content/north-america/Lehhman-US-caravan.pdf Transcript Lesley Wood: This is an oral history in review around the role of Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) Network.
Zbratiz - North America - Various Groups
We are currently hoping to receive or collect interviews from various North American 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:
North America
Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Canada, Canada CLAC- Montreal: Convergence des Luttes Anticapitalistes, Canada This was a convenor organisation Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Canada No One Is Illegal, Toronto Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Canada Polaris Institute, Canada Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Canada Pauktuutit - National Association of Inuit Women, Canada Direct Action Network, US This was a convenor organisation Tampa Bay Action Group (TBAG), US Student Alliance to Reform Corporations (STARC), US Santa Cruz, Indymedia, US Sabate Anarchist Collective,US Boston Earth Action Network, US Boston Global Action Network US Ya Basta, NYC, US Zapatista Solidarity Coalition, US Peace Action, US If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us.