GLOBALIZATION LINKS

Last updated: June, 2002

ANTI-ESTABLISHMENTARIANS ON THE WEB

AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/globaleconomy/
This excellent web site details the labor union's support of the anti-globalization movement, critiques the WB and IMF, and makes concrete political proposals for global economic justice.

Anti-Capitalist Convergence
http://www.abolishthebank.org/en/index.html
Their home page says it all: "Many of you have asked if the protests are still happening. They are still being planned and organized. If the World Bank and IMF cancel their meetings, we will change our plans. Today the World Bank and IMF still exist and capitalism continues to kill thousands around the world. The movement continues..."

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
This is a progressive policy/theory site from our friends up north.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research
http://www.cepr.net/
This page contains more essential critical analysis and discussion "on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives to act effectively in the public interest."

Centre for Research on Globalisation
http://globalresearch.ca/
The mission statement says it all: "The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research and media group of progressive writers, scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of "globalisation" and "disarming" the New World Order." This site provides solid theoretical and practical support to the anti-globalization movement.

The Economic Policy Institute
http://epinet.org/
This is another excellent source of the vital theoretical underpinnings for both the critiques and solutions being supported by the anti-globalization movement.

Global Issues Organization
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/FreeTrade/Protests.asp
This site has an extensive list and summary of anti-globalization protests and uprisings throughout the world over the last few years.

The Global Policy Forum
http://www.globalpolicy.org/
The GPF monitors global policy making at the UN. This impressively ample site has a lot of valuable articles and links.

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
http://www.levy.org/
Good stuff.

Mobilization for Global Justice
http://www.september30.org/s30/
This is a large and resourceful site with lots of interesting articles. Their lead page begins with a dedication to the victims of the tragedy last Tuesday, but then goes on to speak of all the other several billion people on the planet who have long been victims of the vast global disparities of economic (and of course military) power.

Porto Alegre 2002
http://www.portoalegre2002.org/publique/cgi/public/cgilua.exe/web/templates/htm/ingles/home.htm?user=reader
Lots of commentary on Tuesday's tragedy here. The anti-Davos campaign begun in Porto Alegre this year continues in this very attractive multi-lingual webpage with dozens of links and lots of articles. This webpage has the added bonus of including a list of all the cities involved in the anti-globalization protest to date.

Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
http://www.tradewatch.org/
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch does not mince words. They argue that corporate globalization is not only a major source of global economic woe, but that it erodes democracy as well.

50 Years is Enough: US Network for Global Economic Justice
http://www.50years.org/s28/call.html
This group has a detailed series of environmental and economic proposals. Lots of articles here, too.

The Ruckus Society
http://www.ruckus.org/actioncamp.html
As one of the direct-action groups in the anti-globalization movement, The Ruckus Society "provides training in the skills of non-violent civil disobedience to help environmental and human rights organizations achieve their goals."

Znet
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/jan2000albert.htm
This site is a powerful and concise primer for anti-globalization activists prepared by Michael Albert at Znet.

Hey, just for benchmarking, this is what the competition is doing at Stanford: GLOBALIZATIONS
Reflections on the State of the World and Its Discontents. Sponsored by the WORLD ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (WAIS), Stanford University, July 28-August 1, 2001. Conference open to the public
http://wais.stanford.edu/conference_wais121300.html

ESTABLISHMENTARIANS ON THE WEB

(IMF) International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm
The IMF perspective.

(IMF) International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm
This page is a well-produced and easy to read pro-globalization e-book.

(WB) The World Bank Group
http://www.worldbank.org/
The World Bank webpage is better than the bland IMF webpage. There are lots of helpful articles and links to get the pro-side of the story on globalization.

(WB) The World Bank Group
http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/
This is another interesting World Bank link addressing sustainable development, poverty and globalization.

(WTO) World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org/
The WTO is another essential organization responsible for overseeing the implementation, development and dissemination of the so-called "Washington Consensus" that underwrites globalization as we know it.

(WEF) The World Economic Forum
http://www.weforum.org/whatwedo.nsf/flash?OpenPage
This page will dazzle you with its animated pro-globalization display as well as its wealth of information and links.

(USCIB) United States Council for International Business
http://www.uscib.org/
Business interests in the globalization debate are given ample treatment at this engaging site.

(OECD) The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
http://www.oecd.org/
Like the World Bank webpage, there is a lovely picture of some children at the top. I think this is because children are more photogenic and less "flighty" than money, which is the real interest of the OECD.

Office of the US Trade Representative
http://www.ustr.gov/
The "official" story (or at least one of them) on globalization from Washington.

The Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/search/
Perspectives from this right wing think-tank.

The Cato Institute
http://www.cato.org/
Another conservative think-tank with "24 Years of Promoting Public Policy Based on Individual Liberty, Limited Government, Free Markets and Peace."

National Center for Policy Analysis
http://www.ncpa.org/
Yet another think-tank for conservative policy initiatives with some interesting things to say about the globalization and not-so-nice-things to say about the anti-globalization movement.