ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the work of key organizers and key events constitute important 'grassrooting vectors' which literally 'produce' the network enabling it to act. Networks can be both topological and topographical the relative balance of these factors giving rise to different spatialized forms. People's Global Action (PGA) represents a network for communication and co-ordination between diverse social movements, whose membership cuts across differences in gender, ethnicity, language, nationality, age, class and caste. PGA Asia is concerned with five principal processes of facilitation and interaction between movements. It acts as a facilitating space for communication, information-sharing, solidarity, coordination and resource mobilization. The International Federation for Chemical Energy Mine and General Workers Unions (ICEM) is one of the 10 Global Union Federations (GUF), formally known as International Trade Secretariats, set up to represent and coordinate worldwide labour interests. Other GUFs include Education International (EI) and the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) which both have 25 million members.
