North American Interviews

Canada - Dave Bleakney

Interview Details

  • PGA Affiliation: Canadian Union of Postal Workers
  • Region: Canada
  • Language: English
  • Interviewee - Dave Bleakney
  • Interviewer - Lesley Wood
  • Date: November 2016, Toronto

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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…

Canada - Lesley Wood

Interview Details

  • 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

Interview Details

  • PGA Affiliation: Direct Action Network
  • Region: North America
  • Language: English
  • Interviewee: Mac Scott
  • Interviewer: Lesley Wood
  • Date: July 29 2018
  • Bio: Mac Scott is a longtime organizer from Toronto. He was involved in supporting the PGA during his time in Victoria (VPIRG), New York City (Direct Action Network) and in Toronto (No One is Illegal, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Movement Defence Committee). He is an immigration consultant in Toronto.

Transcript

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

Canada - Mostafa Henaway

Interview Details

  • PGA Affiliation: Mobilization for Global Justice Toronto
  • Region: North America - Canada
  • Language: English
  • Interviewee: Mostafa Henaway
  • Interviewer: Lesley Wood
  • Date: December 2016
  • Bio: Mostafa Henaway was involved in York University’s Mobilization for Global Justice Toronto, Canada, and is now based in Montreal.

Transcript

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

Interview Details

  • PGA Affiliation: CLAC
  • Region: North America - Canada | Montreal, Quebec
  • Language: English
  • Interviewee: Sarita Ahooja
  • Interviewer: Lesley Wood
  • Date: November 2016
  • 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.

Transcript

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

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

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.

United States of America - Mario Galván

Interview Details

  • PGA Affiliation: Zapatista Solidarity Coalition, Sacramento California, US

  • Region: North America

  • Language: English

  • Interviewee: Mario Galván

  • Interviewer: Lesley Wood

  • Date: September 4, 2024

  • Bio: Mario Galván was an active member of the Zapatista Solidarity Coalition, Sacramento California.

Transcript

Lesley: Okay, so this is Lesley talking to Mario Galvan on September 14th, 2024. We’re doing this by zoom. So how did you hear about or get involved in Peoples Global Action? What’s the story?

z - Canada - Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Canada

Interview Collection

To gather: This Archive is hoping to receive or collect interviews from various North American organizations.

Overcoming Limitations

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.

If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us info[@]pgaoralhistory.net. We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations:

z - USA - Direct Action Network

Interview Collection

To gather: This Archive is hoping to receive or collect interviews from various North American organizations.

Overcoming Limitations

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.

If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us info[@]pgaoralhistory.net. We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations:

z - USA - Tampa Bay Action Group

Interview Collection

To gather: This Archive is hoping to receive or collect interviews from various North American organizations.

Overcoming Limitations

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.

If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us info[@]pgaoralhistory.net. We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations:

z - USA - Zapatista Solidarity Coalition

Interview Collection

To gather: This Archive is hoping to receive or collect interviews from various North American organizations.

Overcoming Limitations

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.

If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us info[@]pgaoralhistory.net. We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations:

zz - North America - Various Groups

Interview Collection

To gather: This Archive is hoping to receive or collect interviews from various North American organizations.

Overcoming Limitations

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.

If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us info[@]pgaoralhistory.net. We have interviews from just a few of the following organizations:

z - USA - Tampa Bay Action Group

Interview Collection

To gather: This Archive is hoping to receive or collect interviews from various North American organizations.

Overcoming Limitations

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.

If you can help with contacts, interviews, or would like to participate in some other way, please contact us info[@]pgaoralhistory.net. 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.

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

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Colección de Entrevistas

Para recopilar: Este Archivo espera recibir o recopilar entrevistas de varias organizaciones de América del Norte.

Superando Limitaciones

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

Si puedes ayudar con contactos, entrevistas o te gustaría participar de alguna otra manera, contáctanos info[@]pgaoralhistory.net. Tenemos entrevistas de solo algunas de las siguientes organizaciones:

América del Norte

  • Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Canada, Canada
  • CLAC- Montreal: Convergence des Luttes Anticapitalistes, Canada Esta era una organización convocante
  • 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 Esta era una organización convocante
  • Tampa Bay Action Group (TBAG), US Esta era una organización convocante
  • 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

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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