Java Colleen's Eclectic Links: WTO

Java Colleen's Eclectic Links

WTO and Globalization

Starting Points

Trade Watch: Public Citizen (founded by Ralph Nader)
Trade Observatory: New home of WTOWatch
AFL-CIO: Global Economy
IFG: International Forum on Globalization

Agriculture and Globalization

CropChoice.com: An alternative news source for the American Farmer
Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
National Farmers Union
RAFI: Rural Advancement Foundation International

Corporate Watchdog Groups

Adbusters
Citiaction: Campaign against Citigroup
Corporate Europe Observatory
CorpWatch: Holding corporations accountable
Global Exchange
Global Policy Forum: Monitors global policy making at the UN
Global Solidarity Dialogue
Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
Multinational Monitor
POCLAD: Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
Public Citizen: Founded by Ralph Nader
ReclaimDemocracy.org: Restoring Citizen Authority over Corporations
A SEED Europe: Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development

Corporations and Social Responsibility

Business & Economic Relations: Amnesty International
Business & Human Rights: A Resource Guide
Business for Social Responsibility
Corporations and Human Rights: Human Rights Watch
Ethical Trading Initiative: UK
Fair Trade Foundation: UK
International Right to Know Campaign
World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Debt Crisis

50 Years is Enough
Debt Channel
Jubilee +: Successor to Jubilee 2000 UK
Jubilee USA Network

Developing Countries and Globalization

Abantu: Sustainable development in Africa, empowering women
Africa Action: US organization that works for political, economic & social justice for Africa
The Berne Declaration: Swiss NGO working to promote more equitable, sustainable and democratic North-South relations (English translation)
Both Ends: Supports inspiring enviromental initiatives all over the world
CADI: Center for Alternative Development Initiative
Development Group for Alternative Policies
Focus on the Global South
Globalization Challenge Initiative
International Development Research Centre
IFG: International Forum on Globalization
Just Act for Global Justice: Promotes youth leadership and action for global justice.
NGONET: Information sharing network of southern NGOs
Partnership Africa Canada
Panos Institute: Information and communication for sustainable development
Third World Network
Transnational Institute
The Washington Office on Africa: Mobilizing for a Just American Policy Toward Africa
World Social Forum: Another World is Possible

Direct Action

Anti-Capitalist Convergence
Midnight Special Law Collective: Legal support for activists
Ruckus Society

Economic Justice

Center for Economic and Policy Research
Center for Economic and Social Rights: Social Justice through Human Rights
Inequality.org: News, information and expertise on the divide in income, wealth and health
New Economics Foundation
Responsible Wealth: A Project of United for a Fair Economy
United for A Fair Economy: Inspiring Action to close the economic divide
World Development Movement: Working to change the policies of government and business that keep people poor

Environment and Globalization

Center for International Environmental Law
E.F. Schumacher Society: Resources for Community Renewal and Environmental Sustainablity
EarthRights International: Human rights and the environment
Friends of the River Narmada: India
Global Trade: American Lands Alliance
International Rivers Network
International Society for Ecology and Culture: Promoting locally based alternatives to the world consumer culture
Planet Drum Foundation
Project Underground: Supporting the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploration.
World Rainforest Movement

Genetically Modified Food

The Campaign to Label Genetically Modified Foods
Council for Responsible Genetics
Food and Environment: Union of Concerned Scientists
Genetic Engineering and Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center
Ground Up: A SEED Europe
Organic Consumers Association

Global Financial Institutions

Bank Information Center: Research on the projects, policies & practices of World Bank and other Multinational Development Banks
The Bretton Woods Project: Monitoring the World Bank and the IMF
CEE Bankwatch Network
Globalization Challenge Initiative
Initiative Against Economic Globalisation- Prague 2000
The Whirled Bank Group: Try their on-line banking!
World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign
World Band and the International Monetary Fund: Global Exchange

Global Trade Agreements

AFL-CIO: Global Economy
Alianza Social Continental
Alliance for Responsible Trade
AlterNet.org: Globalization
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas: Global Exchange
Global Economic Crisis: ZNet
Global Economy: Global Exchange
IFG: International Forum on Globalization
Operacion Quebec Printemps 2001
People's Consultation on the FTAA
Stop the FTAA: Quebec, April 20-22 - includes links to local actions in U.S. and Canada
Trade Observatory: New home of WTOWatch
Trade Watch: from Public Citizen (founded by Ralph Nader)

Media

Indymedia: Started in Seattle during WTO, now a global network
Radio Gap: Global Audio Project
Showdown in Seattle: Whispered Media
This is What Democracy Looks Like

Official Sites

FTAA: Free Trade Area of the Americas
IMF: International Monetary Fund
WTO: World Trade Organization
World Bank
World Economic Forum
Trade & Development Center: World Bank/WTO project
WTO Seattle Ministerial Conference Webcast Archive
WTO: Ready for the Millenium?: University of Washington conference held Nov. 29-30, 1999 - Video archives seem to be no longer available on-line, but conference papers are.

Sweatshops

Behind the Label
Clean Clothes Campaign: Europe
Fair Labor Association
Maquila Solidarity Network
National Interfaith Community for Worker Justice
National Labor Committee for worker and human rights
NIKE Sweat Shop Olympics: Dare to Dream
Nikewages.org: Educating for Justice
Nike Watch: JUST STOP IT
Sweatshop Watch
Sweating for Nothing!: Global Exchange
Sweatshops.org
UNITE! Stop Sweatshops Campaign
United Students Against Sweatshops
US/LEAP: U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project
Workers Rights Consortium

Unions

AFL-CIO
Campaign for Labor Rights
Global Unions
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
International Labor Rights Fund
International Labor Organization
Jobs With Justice
LaborNet: working for a democratic, independent labor union
LabourNet: International Labour Solidarity Website
National Labor Committee: In support of human and worker rights
Teamsters
US/Labor Education in the Americas Project

Women and Globalization

International Center for Research on Women
Women's EDGE: Economic Development and Global Equity
Women's Environmental and Development Organization

WTO in Seattle: Aftermath Reports

ACLU: Out of Control: Seattle's Flawed Response to the WTO
You can also order a copy of the ACLU report by mail.
Amnesty International calls for an inquiry into police actions at WTO talks in Seattle
National Lawyers Guild - Seattle: Waging War on Dissent
R.M. McCarthy & Associates: Final Report: hired by Mayor Schell - Note: opens into a document
Seattle City Council: WTO Accountability Review Committee
Seattle Police Department After Action Report

WTO in Seattle: Historical Archives

WTO History Project: Center for Labor Studies - University of Washington

WTO in Seattle: Newspaper Archives

Seattle PI
Seattle Times
Seattle Weekly
The Bremerton Sun
One more link to Marxist Propaganda. . .

Java Colleen's Eclectic Links

Select an item: