People decide that because we are a small group, we are not a decision-making body, but that we can still discuss issues and make proposals related to the PGA process.

Agenda for the two-day meeting:

1. Agenda for Cochabamba
2. Selection of Participants for Cochabamba
3. Report-Back from the Working Group on Colombia
4. Report-Back on Everything that has Happened in Europe Since the Milan Meeting
5. Report-Back from Scandinavia
6. Qatar
7. How to make PGA More Visible
8. Criminalization

Note: In practice, we end up discussing the points in a different order than presented above. Moreover, some points are discussed, others are not, and new points are added along the way.

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I. Discussion of proposal for MRG and Euro-Disney to serve as the two European Co-Convenors for PGA next year

• Euro-Disney will host and organize the logistics of the next European PGA meeting. MRG will work on facilitating communication within the network and helping to build and maintain the network itself. The group issues a proposal in support of this arrangement. The MRG will bring this proposal to their next assembly for approval.

II. From Milan Until Now

• People from each region discuss what they have done, including report-backs from Barcelona, Tarifa, Holland, Germany and Gothenburg (among others)

III. Agenda for Cochabamba

1. Three Days of "self-managed" roundtable discussions- September 16- 18, 2001.
2. Three Days of "official" PGA Meetings- September 19-21, 2001.
3. Day of Direct Action- September 22, 2001.

• The agenda is also posted on the PGA web-site

Day 1 (September 19):

Morning- march

16:00- Welcome Plenary

17:00 to 19:00- Working Groups on Action Strategies Within the Space of PGA

Themes that been suggested so far:

• Criminalization of our movements and forms of action in response
• Concept of Global Days of Action and Sustained Resistance
• How to coordinate in case of need for International Solidarity
• Non-violence versus violence
• Etc.

Day 2 (September 20):

9:00 to 11:00- Report-back Session from Working Group Strategy Discussions

11:00 to 12:00- Report-back Session from Roundtable Discussions (from the three days prior to the meeting) Regarding Strategies and Proposals

Afternoon- Plenary about Global Days of Action and Sustained Resistance

• Session on extending network contacts

Evening- Report-back Session from Roundtable Discussions Regarding Organizational Principles

Day 3 (September 21):

Morning- Working Groups on Organizational Principles

Lunch and Discussion of Manifesto

Afternoon- Plenary About the PGA Manifesto

September 22:

Visit to Chapare (leave 6 AM)

IV. Improvised Thematic Discussion on Anti-Capitalism,

Alternatives and Forms of Action within PGA

• Discussion of what anti-globalization and anti-capitalism mean in different contexts and settings
• Discussion of proposal from PGA in North America to include a PGA hallmark reflecting a clear rejection of capitalism and all forms of oppression
• The group decides to issue a statement in support of this proposal
• Discussion of the proposal from MRG in Catalunya to initiate a European-wide social consultation: a process of engaging people politically by asking key questions about how society should be organized, and involving people in the entire process of selecting questions and carrying out the consultation. This proposal is based on the experience of the Citizens Network to Abolish the External Debt (RCADE) in organizing a social consultation around the issue of the debt
• Discussion of the idea among some people involved with the PGA to initiate another continental caravan that would involve a process of "internal" consultation about what various social movements are doing and would like to work on together throughout Europe
• The group decides to support the MRG proposal for a European-wide consultation process that would involve two phases:
  1. An "internal" consultation among grassroots movements that would be connected with a PGA caravan
  2. An "external" phase that would organize a social consultation among the people of Europe around an issue that would emerge from the process itself
• The MRG will present this idea in Cochabamba as a regional campaign in Europe that other regions may or may not want to take on down the road as well. It could become a global project at some point in the future

V. Very brief discussion of the Cochabamba delegate selection process.

It is pointed out that the organizers of the conference in Bolivia are now saying that more "observers" will be encouraged to attend in order to ensure sufficient international presence for the day of action.

VI. Report-Back from Working Group on Colombia

• Discussion of the idea of organizing several routes to visit communities and grass-roots movements in Colombia before the Cochabamba meeting.
• Discussion of how to coordinate our work against Plan Colombia.

VII. Criminalization

Brainstorm about important issues and themes related to criminalization:

• Separation of "Good" and "Bad" Protestors (by police, NGOs, media)
• Relation Between Level of Confrontation and Public Opinion
• Police Infiltration
• Political Initiatives Regarding Criminalization
• Different Perceptions of Violence and Non-Violence
• How to Deal with Different Scenarios, How to Act if the Police Try to Destroy our Networks
• Interpol Conference in the Hague in October to Discussion the Police Tactics to "Control" the Anti-Globalization Movement
• Increase of Neo-Fascist Elements
   
• Round of Report-Backs from different regions regarding recent incidences of police repression, brutality and criminalization. The following regions are discussed: Germany, Britain, the Spanish State, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Sweden
• The following kinds of concrete actions are discussed:
  1. written response providing an analysis from a different point of view,
  2. Real action or dialogue with more mainstream groups,
  3. Global Day of Action against Criminalization
• Discussion of new initiative against police repression started in France (around a French woman who was arrested with no legal basis in Prague)- CRISE
• Discussion of the internal dynamics within our movements: the consequences of the forms of action we use and the interplay between internal and external dynamics, ie. repression and radicalization (like what happened in the 1970s)
• We mention the need for both internal discussion regarding tactics among "radicals" and "reformists" as well as the need for actions and communication toward the public and the state
• Concrete Proposal is Discussed:
   
  Have a meeting/conference in the Hague talking about criminalization parallel to the police conference in October (involving moderate and radical activists, NGOs, grassroots movements, etc.). The idea is to generate a process of reflection and open new communication channels.

VIII. Meeting concludes by approving a list of concrete proposals made as a "group of people who met in Genova following the call of Ya Basta for a European-wide PGA meeting, but which does not represent the PGA":

1. We support the proposal that Euro-Disney and MRG take on the role of PGA co-convenors in Europe next year.
2. We support the general framework laid out for the PGA meeting agenda in Cochabamba.
3. We propose that the following points be discussed at the PGA meeting in Cochabamba within the general framework of the meeting as outlined:
   1. criminalization,
   2. relation of grassroots movements to more formal NGOs,
   3. anti-globalization vs. anti-capitalism,
   4. concrete alternatives,
   5. forms of action (Global Days of Action vs. Ongoing Resistance),
   6. how to integrate local/global organizing and reach out to more grassroots groups.
4. We support the initiative from the PGA meeting in North America to include a clear rejection of capitalism and all forms of oppression in the PGA hallmarks, and propose to merge the first two hallmarks.
5. We call on the MRG to take the lead in initiating a two-phase European-wide consultation process, starting with an internal consultation and caravan and then moving on to the external consultation. We also call on the MRG to present this idea as a European regional campaign at the meeting in Cochabamba.
6. We call on Dutch groups that are involved in the PGA process to organize a parallel conference during the Interpol meeting in the Hague in October 2001 to challenge the increasing repression of the anti-globalization movement, initiate a process of reflection and to open communication channels between more "radical" and more "moderate" groups, networks and organizations.
7. We support the CRISE initiative to coordinate national anti-police repression networks, and call for the meeting in the Hague within this context.
8. We support the project of organizing several routes to visit Colombian grassroots movements before the meeting Cochabamba, and we support a process of convergence among networks focusing on the situation in Colombia.

Note: There is not sufficient time to discuss the organization of global actions around the WTO meeting in Qatar.

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