Books & Films
By What Authority?: Unmasking and Challenging the Legitimacy of Global Corporations (booklet) -- This 35 page booklet looks at the specific corporations that are designing the new rules of global trade.
Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream (book) -- Twenty-three chapters by Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, Lori Wallach and others on: corporate power and the global economy, corporate interest vs. the national interest, environmental costs of corporate power, and strategies for organizing alternatives
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Corporate Welfare (book) -- Ralph Nader writes about corporate welfare - that it's a function of political corruption. Corporations are picking our pockets and corporate welfare programs weaken our democracy. Here's how to stop them.
Elite Globalization vs People's Globalization (film) -- Kevin Danaher discusses two kinds of globalization: corporate and grassroots movements by the people.
Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century — Stories from a New Generation of Activists (book) -- Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the WTO in Seattle and the event marked the beginning of a new era of outrage. Followed by further massive protests in Washington DC, Prague, Brazil, Quebec City, and Genoa, it quickly became clear that people were not prepared to let the tyrannies of the 21st century go unchallenged. Neva Welton and Linda Wolf give voice to more than sixty activists in these pages.
The Global Economy and Democracy (film) -- Noam Chomsky covers third-world debt, the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund, proposals for reform, and much more.
Global Village or Global Pillage: The Race to the Bottom (film) -- Today's global economy lets corporations pit workers and communities against each other to see who will provide the lowest wages, most abusable workers, cheapest environmental costs, and biggest subsidies for corporations.
Globalisation and Africa: Which Side Are We On? (film) -- This film raises questions about the impact of globalization on ordinary South Africans.
Globalize This!: The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule (book) -- Edited by Kevin Danaher & Roger Burbach. Learn from some of the WTO opposition movement's best and brightest activists, educators and organizers: Paul Hawken, Manning Marable, Walden Bello, Vandana Shiva, David Bacon, William Greider, and many more. This book demonstrates why the WTO, World Bank and IMF must be stopped. With its rich information about how to become part of the opposition movement, Globalize This! also shows us how to stop them.
Life and Debt (film) -- Life and Debt exposes the detrimental effects of the IMF, World Bank, and WTO in promoting policies which are costing many ordinary Jamaicans their livelihoods while driving the country deeper and deeper into debt.
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Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA (book) -- This reader explores how grassroots activists are facing one of the most important trends in the globalization of production: the proliferation of maquiladoras, the foreign-owned (mainly by US corporations) assembly plants along the Mexico-US border.
The New Rulers of the World (film) -- Award-winning journalist, John Pilger, investigates the realities of corporate globalization by taking a close look at Indonesia.
No-Nonsense Guide to International Development (book) -- Building dams in India, planting trees in Burkina Faso, rescuing street children in Brazil - these are images of aid and international development with which we can all identify. What few people realise, as Maggie Black explains, is that the terms "overseas aid" and "international development" mask confusion, contradiction, and even downright deceit.
No Nonsense Guide to Globalization (book) -- Globalization: it's a buzzword you can't escape. But what on earth does it mean? This book shows that the promise of globalization is seductive, powerful - and ultimately hollow.
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World (book) -- A memorable introduction to the forces that are shaping the future of our world with a rich collection of essays, photos, cartoons, poems, role plays, interviews, stories, background readings, and hands-on teaching activities that provide an extraordinary one-volume education on wealth, poverty, corporate power, and popular resistance in the contemporary world. The book is both a delight to read and a treasury of ideas and information.
Still Waiting for Nike to do it: Nike's Labor Practices in the Three Years Since CEO Phil Knight's Speech to the National Press Club (book) -- In 1998, Nike's CEO and founder Phillip Knight announced in a speech that Nike would undertake a series of reforms. Now, this report by Global Exchange reveals that workers making Nike products are still forced to work excessive hours, are not paid enough to meet the most basic needs of their children, and are subject to
harassment, dismissal and violent intimidation if they try to form unions or tell journalists about labor abuses in their factories.
Sweating for a T-Shirt (film) -- When incoming UCLA freshman Arlen Benjamin stops by the campus gift shop to buy a t-shirt, she notices that her purchase was made in Honduras. Asking the question "Who made this t-shirt?" sends her on a journey with her mother, Medea, through Honduras' sweatshop industry. It also starts her asking where the billions of dollars worth of clothes sold at college stores are being made and what students can do to help eliminate sweatshops.
Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World (book) -- People everywhere are starting to educate themselves on how they can "take it personally" by making conscious consumer choices that will make a difference in the world. This is a vibrant collection of photographs, essays, and montages, on the driving issues behind globalization from impassioned writers and activist organizations. A great handbook for the average consumer who wants to learn about the issues and make informed choices.
TimberGAP(film) -- The Fisher family (owner of The Gap Inc.) made their fortune using cheap sweatshop labor, now they are exploiting Mendocino's redwood rainforests. The late Judi Bari, of Earth First!, explains how vineyards and gentrification are "creeping up the pike," into the redwood region as the last big trees are cut down by profit-driven corporations. Former sweatshop worker Chie Abad explains what conditions are like on the island of Saipan, where Asain Women are kept as 'indentured' workers to make cheap clothing.
Trade Secrets: The Hidden Costs of the FTAA (film) -- In clear, concise language, this film explains what the proposed trade agreement could mean for the well-being of ordinary people and the environment.
Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries (book) -- A rare chance for a comprehensive perspective on the WTO from some of the leading voices from the South: Martin Khor (Malaysia), Vandana Shiva (India), Walden Bello (Thailand), Oronto Douglas (Nigeria), Sara Larrain (Chile), and Anuradha Mittal (India and the US). Produced by the International Forum on Globalization.
We Need to Go to School: Voices of the Rugmark Children (book) -- In their own words and drawings, Nepalese children talk about their early years in poverty-stricken villages, their work as virtual slaves in carpet factories in Kathmandu, and how they felt when they were given a chance to attend school and pursue their dreams for the future. Sixteen-year-old Tanya Roberts-Davis traveled to Nepal, where she lived with former child carpet weavers. During that time, she collected the children's poems, drawings and stories, which she has assembled in this book.
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Corporations Rule the World (book) -- In this new and expanded edition (with five new chapters), David Korten updates the reader as to the deepening human crisis of the global economy. He writes of the new global citizens movement of activism in response to corporate globalization, and the efforts of civil society groups to restructure global economic governance.
Whose Globalization? (film) -- Kevin Danaher discusses the effects of elite globalization and the role corporations are playing
Audio
Many audio tapes are available, including:
- Toward a New Economic Model (Michael Albert)
- Nike, Reebok and the Global Sweatshop (Medea Benjamin)
- Globalization: The Race to the Bottom (Jeremy Brecher)
- Labor in the Age of Globalization (Jeremy Brecher)
- Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations (John Cavanaugh)
- Global Economic Apartheid (John Cavanaugh)
- Globalization: The New Face of Capitalism (Noam Chomsky)
- An Inquiry Into Global Capitalism (Noam Chomsky)
- The Myth of the Free Market (Noam Chomsky)
- Power of the People (Noam Chomsky)
- Robbing People Blind: The US Economic System (Noam Chomsky)
- Economic Inequality: The Growing Divide (Chuck Collins)
- Citizen Power in the Global Economy ( Kevin Danaher)
- Corporate Accounting vs. Corporate Accountability (Kevin Danaher)
- The Prison-Industrial Complex (Angela Davis)
- Corporation Nation (Charles Derber)
- Challenging Corporate Power (Richard Grossman)
- Revoking Corporate Charters (Richard Grossman)
- The Human Face of the Global Economy (Charlie Kernaghan)
- Reports from the Global Factory: Kathie Lee, The Gap & Disney (Chalie Kernaghan)
- No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Naomi Klein)
- When Corporations Rule the World (David Korten)
- Downsize This! (Michael Moore)
- Hidden Economic Indicators (Marylin Waring)
