1. Plenary Proposals from Process Workgroups
2. Process decisions European PGA Plenary 2002 (RAW)
3. Process Outcomes European PGA Plenary 2002

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author: Process Workgroups - 04.09.2002 07:57

I Infopoints

1. Groups that endorse the PGA hallmarks are called upon to take on work as PGA 'infopoints' which means they spread information on PGA in their local movement. Infopoints can be physical spaces as well as just (digital) contacts.
2. These groups are not labelled as 'PGA' groups but are already existing groups that want to do PGA activities next to their other activities.
3. These infopoints can organise regional meetings inspired by PGA. They can also start autonomous regional initiatives (not labelled 'PGA'). There is no representative structure from the regional to the European or Global PGA conferences.
4. Infopoints cannot represent PGA, nor are they members of PGA, they are autonomous initiatives to spread information.
5. The infopoints can be started autonomously, so consensus for their formation does not have to be reached at the European plenary. Infopoints that violate the hallmarks and principles of PGA will be noticed, and other infopoints and convenors can decide to no longer work with them (i.e. they are no longer part of the process).
6. At every conference there will be an open meeting of infopoints where groups that want to become an infopoint can introduce themselves and get to know the other groups involved.

II Global Contacts

1. A global email list will be started
2. We will continue creating a PGA directory / contact list, starting in Europe and bringing it to a global scale
3. The infopoints will gather and dissemenate information on global contacts
4. Convenors should continue to take care of global communication (for instance by delegating it to a working group)

III Support Group

1. Groups endorsing the PGA hallmarks (who express an interest in support work) will form the basis for support work. These groups will create open and transparent communication tools for the coordination of the support work.
2. We will invite people that want to do support work and/or become infopoints to a meeting after the final plenary. If thay are interested but cannot be at the meeting, there is a contact point on the info-board to express their interest.
3. We aim to build personal trust between people in the support groups. People joining in should go through a process of learning in order to get involved, and there should be committment from those people joining. A face to face meeting is very important, and a first training will take place here in Leiden before the end of the conference.
4. Support groups, in combination with the convenors, should have the autonomy of working out any problems within the group should they arise.
5. Any support group has the autonomy to organise itself, make lists, develop internal communications, and create internal working groups, so long as it is done in a transparent manner.
6. The function of the support groups is to help the convenors in their tasks, and is limited to the tasks decided upon for them by the PGA conference.
7. Any new group or individual who wants to join the support groups should have the support of one group (or several) already in the support group.
8. We differentiate between Info Points and Support activities, but coordination should exist between them.

IV Convenorship

1. The three main tasks for convenors are: Organising the European Conference; European networking and maintenance of infrastructure; and Global Contacts.
2. There will be at least two convenors, and after organising a conference at least one of the old convenors will help the new convenor/s organise the next conference
3. Eurodusnie and MRG will continue as convenors while we (the entire PGA network) search for new convenors. They will organise a meeting for the winter where the new convenors will be decided upon.This meeting will be open to anyone endorsing the PGA hallmarks, but will definitely include the convenors, the possible new convenors, the support group, and the infopoints. Any further discussion on the convenorship will be discussed at the winter meeting.

V Communications

1. There will be three email lists
   • The caravan99 list will be redefined for action announcments
   • A list for discussion and strategy
   • A list for support group coordination
2. The question of who will administer the support group list and how will be discussed on the conference process list (pga2002_proces@aseed.antenna.nl).
3. Future of the www.pgaconference.org and 'Global Archive' websites will be disussed by a workgroup - first meeting today, over lunch

VI Decision making

At the plenary we will address the need for initiating a long-term, deep debate on consensus decision making and of the philosphies and cultures that it reflects.

If any of the participants in the process workshops think there is anything we forgot please talk to the facilitators BEFORE the plenary.

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C =Concensed
O =Objectived or not yed consensed.

I Infopoints

C1.
Groups that endorse the PGA hallmarks are called upon to take on work as PGA 'infopoints' which means they spread information on PGA in their local movement. Infopoints can be physical spaces as well as just (digital) contacts.

C2.
These groups are not labelled as 'PGA' groups but are already existing groups that want to do PGA activities next to their other activities. The PGA infopoints can give visibility to the PGA process without representing it.

C3.
New: These infopoints can organise regional meetings inspired by PGA. They can also start autonomous regional initiatives that are according to the hallmarks of PGA, but are not labelled 'PGA'. There is no representative structure from the regional to the European or Global PGA conferences.

C4.
Infopoints cannot represent PGA, nor are they members of PGA, they are autonomous initiatives to spread information.

C5.
The infopoints can be started autonomously, so consensus for their formation does not have to be reached at the European plenary. Infopoints that violate the hallmarks and principles of PGA will be noticed, and other infopoints and convenors can decide to no longer work with them (i.e. they are no longer part of the process).

C6.
At every conference there will be an open meeting of infopoints where groups that want to become infopoint can introduce themselves and get to know the other groups involved.

Clarifications/Questions

• Are we refering to the european process or the global process ?
  Only for europe, this should be specified in text.
  
• What information do these local groups distribute ?
  They can autonomously distrubute materials in the spirit of the hallmarks or ‘inspired by pga’, but not label them pga
  
• Are regions fixed regions or is it left open ?
  It is left open
  Confusion between notes and what was in the paper

II Global Contacts

C1.
A global email list will be started. This is a proposal to take to the global convenors. We will leave the details of the list open and trust the working group to sort them out, but we recommend that it is well moderated and with translations.

C2.
We will continue creating a PGA directory/contact list, starting in Europe and coordinating it on a global level.

• How is this done ?
• Is this a document or mailing list ?
• the information should be collected in coordination with the global archive

C3.
New : We invite the infopoints to gather and disseminate information on global contacts. We should use the infopoint structure to make the global nework stronger.

C4.
Convenors should continue to take care of global communication (for instance by delegating it to a working group)

C5.
The existing working group continues to function with the mechanisms agreed on for working groups.

O6.
Rapid Response Network for international emergencies and crises

• Discussion Point - what is an emergency crisis ?
• It does not reflect the real violence of this system imposed in everyday life on every one of us. It implies that we can judge what is more or less bad. It is preten and hum and third worldist
• Maybe this part should not be in this block, as this is a call to act and pga does not do actions. He thinks it could be an autonomous initiative and should be taken out of this framework.
• It is not humanitarian, we have been doing this as solidarity from the begin. This is just an information dissemination system and is not an action.
• There is no explanation and no concrete plan of what this means
• Main model is columbia. Based upon connecting process where we get news about what is happening and people can do whatever they want with it. And yes, our networks are too slow and this could create a fast channel. At least this group can start to work on building this. If we take it our we cannot start with it.
• It could be done outside of pga, and there are already loads of action lists.
• Proposal – for now this is not clear enough, people should work it out.

Maybe it is a misunderstanding of terms

• C - Remove it, people that want to work on it bring a more detailed proposal to the winter meeting

III Support Group

C
Proposal A for the entire block of Support Group: One digital space where all of the people that want to do support work gather to discuss the support tasks. We will renew the discussion on the basis prepared in Leiden, taking into account what has already been consensed on, and we leave the decision on the whole block until the winter meeting.

O*1
Old: The support group will have an open process meeting every time there is a European conference. This meeting is open to all (i.e. anyone endorsing the pga hallmarks who wants to join the meeting may do so)

New: The support group will have an open process meeting every time there is a European conference. This meeting is open to all (i.e. anyone endorsing the pga hallmarks who wants to join the meeting may do so) There should be meetings between support groups and convenors between the European Conferences.

• Maybe we should not establish more and more structure. Rather the role of the support groups should wither away as more and more people fill the tasks.
• Maybe rather we want more people to be in the support groups?

O*2
Information on who is involved in the support groups should be open. The manner in which it will be open is through meetings; names or nick-names and a contact such as email are sufficient for identification.

O*3
The European group that is working on the Global PGA Process will have an open meeting at every European conference.

C*4
The members of the European group working on Global PGA Process will be open. The manner in which it will be open is through meetings; names or nick-names and a contact such as email are sufficient for identification.

C5 (1 in the paper)
Groups endorsing the PGA hallmarks (who express an interest in support work) will form the basis for support work. These groups will create open and transparent communication tools for the coordination of the support work.

C6 (2 in the paper)
We will invite people that want to do support work and/or become infopoints to a meeting after the final plenary. If they are interested but cannot be at the meeting, there is a contact point on the info-board to express their interest – or see the guy with his hand raised.

C7 (3 in the paper)
We aim to build personal trust between people in the support groups. People joining in should go through a process of learning in order to get involved, and there should be committment from those people joining. A face to face meeting is very important, and a first training will take place here in Leiden before the end of the conference – tonight LVC 20:00.

C8 (4 in the paper)
Support groups, in combination with the convenors, should have the autonomy of working out any problems within the group, should problems arise.

O9 (5 in the paper)
Any support group has the autonomy to organise itself, make lists, develop internal communications, and create internal working groups, so long as it is done in a transparent manner.

O10 (6 in the paper)
The function of the support groups is to help the convenors in their tasks, and is limited to the tasks decided upon for them by the European PGA conference.

O11 (7 in the paper)
Any new group [or individual] who wants to join the support groups should have the support of one group (or several) already in the support group.

• Maybe it is contradictory with the previous point about open meetings?
• Clarification that open in meetings, but must have support to join in times outside of conferences
• Discussion point: Take out individuals, as we only talked about groups
• Admendment: Change it to several groups only

C12 (8 in the paper)
We differentiate between Info Points and Support activities, but coordination should exist between them.

O*13
The support group shall regularly report about its activities to the process list.

• Discussion Point: Overall Clarification – support group or groups ?
• Groups would be groups doing specific tasks, and group would be overall – propose to make it group meaning the entire support structure?
• Discussion : Include a list of tasks in this block

IV Convenorship

C1
The three main tasks for convenors are: Organising the European Conference; European networking and maintenance of infrastructure; and Global Contacts.

C2
There will be at least two convenors, and after organising a conference at least one of the old convenors will help the new convenor/s organise the next conference

• it is fine for the next conference, but in terms of the international conference maybe it is better to just have one convenor
• the latin american conference has 4 convenors, and it was agreed by all other regions at the first global conference
• this is about only an european issue…
• from Cochabamba «we emphasise autonomy and decentralisation, and each can organise aut, but there shold be one international contact…

C3

New : EuroDusnie and MRG Catalunya will continue as convenors while we (the entire European PGA network) search for new convenors. They will organise a meeting in the winter where the new convenors will be decided upon. This meeting will be open to anyone endorsing the PGA hallmarks, but will definitely include the convenors and the possible new convenors. Any further discussion on the convenorship will be discussed at the winter meeting.

• For Discussion : must the info points be there or just an option?
• Not clear what the support group will do and what it means, and unless it is clear we should not use it. And as it is everyone is invited.

V Communications

C1
There will be three email lists

• The caravan99 list will be redefined for action announcments
• A list for discussion and strategy
• A list for support group coordination

• Maybe the info points will need an email list ? This is covered by support group list
• Will this (the caravan99 list) be the list talked about in global contacts ?
• No, that is a different list
• What is the policy of subscription, moderation, open/closed ?
• These details will be discussed in the support group list in point 2 below.

C2
The questions of who will administer all lists and how this will be done will be discussed on the conference process list (pga2002_proces@aseed.antenna.nl)

The questions of who will administer all lists and how this will be done will be initially discussed on the conference process list and and further discussed and decided at the winter meeting 2002. (pga2002_proces@aseed.antenna.nl).

• The decision cannot happen through an email list, we need a face to face meeting ?

C3
Future of the www.pgaconference.org and 'Global Archive' websites will be disussed by a workgroup - first meeting will be today over lunch with a small report later in the plenary.
Email list of the working group - agpweb-tech@nadir.org

VI Decision Making

O
At the plenary we will address the need for initiating a long-term, deep debate on consensus decision making and of the philosphies and cultures that it reflects.

Other Proposals :

• Formulate a group that will discuss how we make decisions, especially as related to final plenaries.
• Add a sentance at the begin that says something like, ‘this text refers to the European PGA Network’

Other Consensus :

• Add always MRG Catalunya instead of only MRG
• Always change PGA to PGA Europe so long as it does not refer to the global network.
• Global comm should be changed to communication process in Europe.
• And anything sounding authoritarian in the document should be changed.
• We trust the people who work it out to be able to make the judgement call to change the above, and anyone is welcome to participate in this process.

Other Agenda

• 15 min for ?
• tasks for the convenors
  
• Public request that the 2 convenors work things out J and that they meet before the december meeting
• Much appreciation for all of the extremely hard work put into making this conference happen!!!
• The convenors and support group will try to clarify the network situation toward eastern europe.

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author: PGA EUROPE - 04.09.2002 20:41

Process Outcomes European PGA Plenary 4 September 2002. These are the outcomes of the Plenary session endorsement of the proposals as has been worked out by the Process Workgroup, during the Second European Peoples' Global Action, that took place from the 31st of August, untill the fourth of September in Leiden.

Notes

• discussion points have been left out
• when stated PGA, it means the global network of Peoples' Global Action

I Infopoints

1. Groups that endorse the PGA hallmarks are called upon to take on work as European PGA 'infopoints' which means they spread information on PGA in their local movement. Infopoints can be physical spaces as well as just (digital) contacts.
2. These groups are not labelled as 'PGA' groups but are already existing groups that want to do PGA activities next to their other activities. The European PGA infopoints can give visibility to the European PGA process without representing it.
3. These infopoints can organise regional meetings inspired by PGA. They can also start autonomous regional initiatives that are according to the hallmarks of PGA, but are not labelled 'PGA'. There is no representative structure from the regional to the European or Global PGA conferences.
4. Infopoints cannot represent PGA Europe, nor are they members of the European PGA, they are autonomous initiatives to spread information.
5. The infopoints can be started autonomously, so consensus for their formation does not have to be reached at the European plenary. Infopoints that violate the hallmarks and principles of PGA will be noticed, and other infopoints and convenors can decide to no longer work with them (i.e. they are no longer part of the process).
6. At every conference there will be an open meeting of infopoints where groups that want to become infopoint can introduce themselves and get to know the other groups involved.

Note: yet to be done is to insert a disclaimer from the PGA manifesto that no actions can be done out of name of PGA.

II Global Contacts

1. A global email list will be started. This is a proposal to take to the global convenors. We will leave the details of the list open and trust the working group to sort them out, but we recommend that it is well moderated and with translations.
2. We will continue creating a PGA directory/contact list, starting in Europe and coordinating it on a global level.
3. We invite the infopoints to gather and disseminate information on global contacts. We should use the infopoint structure to make the global nework stronger.
4. Convenors should continue to take care of global communication (for instance by delegating it to a working group).
5. The existing working group continues to function with the mechanisms agreed on for working groups.

III Support Group

1. One digital space where all of the people that want to do support work gather to discuss the support tasks. We will renew the discussion on the basis prepared in Leiden, taking into account what has already been consensed on, and we leave the decision on the whole block until the winter meeting.

IV Convenorship

1. The three main tasks for convenors are: Organising the European Conference; European networking and maintenance of infrastructure; and Global Contacts.
2. There will be at least two convenors, and after organising a conference at least one of the old convenors will help the new convenor/s organise the next conference
3. EuroDusnie and MRG Catalunya will continue as convenors while we (the entire European PGA network) search for new convenors. They will organise a meeting in the winter where the new convenors will be decided upon. This meeting will be open to anyone endorsing the PGA hallmarks, but will definitely include the convenors and the possible new convenors. Any further discussion on the convenorship will be discussed at the winter meeting.

V Communications

1. There will be three email lists
   • The caravan99 list will be redefined for action announcments
   • A list for discussion and strategy
   • A list for support group coordination
2. The questions of who will administer all lists and how this will be done will be initially discussed on the conference process list and and further discussed and decided at the winter meeting 2002 ( pga2002_proces@aseed.antenna.nl).
3. Future of the www.pgaconference.org and 'Global Archive' websites will be disussed by a workgroup - first meeting will be today over lunch with a small report later in the plenary. Email list of the working group - agpweb-tech@nadir.org
   correction?

author:: plenary participant 09.09.2002 14:26

• "Convenors should continue to take care of global communication" should either read Global Convenors or "European Convenors should continue to take care of communication within the European PGA network" because all decisions at the plenary were related to the European part of the PGA network.

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