North American Interviews

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 - Lesley Wood

Interview Details Region: North America Language: English Interviewee: Lesley Wood Interviewer: Leen Amarin Date: May 16 & May 23 2023 PGA Affiliation: Direct Action Network 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 Region: North America Language: English Interviewee: Mac Scott Interviewer: Lesley Wood Date: July 29 2018 PGA Affiliation: Direct Action Network 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.

Canada - Mostafa Henaway

Interview Details 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: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pf6il3u3m47pyubajsyz0/PGA-Canada-2-Henaway.docx?dl=0&rlkey=956xvl4u44lzvw2p0qo84an2i 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 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.

Zbrati - Canada - Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Canada

Interview Details Region: North America Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: PGA Affiliation: Asociacion de Mujeres Indigenas de Canada, Canada 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 Actualmente esperamos recibir o recopilar una entrevista de esta organización. Este proyecto no representa la gama completa de movimientos y activistas involucrados en PGA.

Zbrati - USA - Direct Action Network

Interview Details Region: North America Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: 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. Transcript 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.

Zbrati - USA - Tampa Bay Action Group

Interview Details Region: North America Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: 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. Transcript 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.

Zbrati - USA - Zapatista Solidarity Coalition

Interview Details Region: North America Language: Interviewee: Interviewer: Date: PGA Affiliation: Zapatista Solidarity Coalition, US 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 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.

Zbrati - USA - Zapatista Solidarity Coalition

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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.

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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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. Like so many activist and research projects, this one is shaped by limited social networks, and the resource imbalances and priorities within our global system.

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

For more information and to get involved please contact pgaoralhistory.

pga en | www.agp.org