North American Interviews

Canada - Dave Bleakney

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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

Canada - Lesley Wood

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  • PGA Affiliation: Direct Action Network

  • Region: North America

  • Language: English

  • Interviewee: Lesley Wood

  • Interviewer: Leen Amarin

  • Date: May 16 & May 23 2023

  • Bio: Lesley Wood was involved in the Direct Action Network in New York City, participated in the organizing of the PGA North America conference in Amherst, MA in June 2001. She is involved in the Peoples Global Action Oral History project, and currently works in Toronto, Canada.

Canada - Mac Scott

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Lesley Wood: All right, so this is a PGA interview on July 29th.

Canada - Mostafa Henaway

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Lesley Wood: So, and… PGA: you know there is a lot of different stuff you can say about it, but why don’t we start with what was your connection to it?

Canada - Sarita Ahooja

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Lesley Wood: So, tell me how PGA played out here, and how it translated what people who were doing Zapatista solidarity work to the local context. Can you say something more about that?

United States of America - Brooke Lehman

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Lesley Wood: This is an oral history in review around the role of Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) Network. While no interview was done with Brooke we did recieve this material from her.

Zbrati - Canada - Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Canada

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  • Region: North America
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  • PGA Affiliation: Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Canada, Canada
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  • Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview.

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Interviewer: bla-bla

Interviewee: la-la-la

Actualmente esperamos recibir o recopilar una entrevista de esta organización.

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.

Zbrati - USA - Direct Action Network

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  • Region: North America
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  • PGA Affiliation: Direct Action Network
  • Bio: This was a convenor organisation.
  • Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview.

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Interviewer: bla-bla

Interviewee: la-la-la

Actualmente esperamos recibir o recopilar una entrevista de esta organización.

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.

Zbrati - USA - Tampa Bay Action Group

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  • Region: North America
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  • PGA Affiliation: Tampa Bay Action Group (TBAG)
  • Bio: This was a convenor organisation.
  • Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview.

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Interviewer: bla-bla

Interviewee: la-la-la

Actualmente esperamos recibir o recopilar una entrevista de esta organización.

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.

Zbrati - USA - Zapatista Solidarity Coalition

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  • Region: North America

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  • PGA Affiliation: Zapatista Solidarity Coalition, US

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  • Transcript: Zbrati: Ta spletna stran je škrbina za snemanje intervjuja. | To gather: This web page is a place-holder stub for an interview.

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Interviewer: bla-bla

Interviewee: la-la-la

Actualmente esperamos recibir o recopilar una entrevista de esta organización.

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.

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. 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.

United States of America - Brooke Lehman

Interview Details

  • PGA Affiliation: Caravan tour/ Direct Action Network
  • 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

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Lesley Wood: This is an oral history in review around the role of Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) Network. While no interview was done with Brooke we did recieve this material from her.

Brooke Lehman - Institute for Social Ecology - Fall 1999