| 11/28/00 |
Activists Mark WTO Anniversary -- The World Trade Organization meeting that collapsed in clouds of tear gas a year ago is being marked by activists this week in a city that's now known as much for civic haplessness as it is for its good coffee and charm.
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| 11/26/00 |
Take Globalization Protests Seriously -- It has become difficult for economic organizations to hold international meetings without attracting large crowds of protesters railing against globalization, as evidenced by clashes over the last year in Seattle, Washington and Prague. Some organizers have attributed half the success of the anti-globalization coalition to, as one activist has put it, "the notion that the democracy deficit in the global economy is neither necessary nor acceptable."
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| 11/1/00 |
Importance of Free Trade as an Issue in the Presidential Campaigns -- In many parts of the nation, and in many parts of the world, debates over trade and globalization have become increasingly hot. Opponents of globalization have staged massive protests in Seattle and here in Washington, DC. Congress had a long and bitter debate over normalizing trade relations with China. But in the presidential race, world trade barely has been mentioned.
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| 9/23/00 |
Anti-Capitalist Protests: Angry and effective -- The threat of renewed demonstrations against global capitalism hangs over next week's annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank. This new kind of protest is more than a mere nuisance: it is getting its way.
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| 9/23/00 |
The Case for Globalisation -- The anti-capitalist protesters who wrecked the Seattle trade talks last year, and who hope to make a great nuisance of themselves in Prague next week when the city hosts this year's annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, are wrong about most things.
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| 9/15/00 |
WTO = Wealthy Take Over -- The WTO's edicts have the power to affect nearly every facet of our lives. But hardly anyone knows what the WTO is.
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| 9/13/00 |
Seattle National Lawyers Guild Releases Draft Report on WTO Ministerial -- The Seattle Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has just released its report on the World Trade Organization Ministerial. The report examines what took place in Seattle as an example of larger trends brought about by destructive economic policies.
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| 8/11/00 |
Report for U.N. Calls World Trade Body 'Nightmare' -- A United Nations-appointed study team has labeled the World Trade Organization a "nightmare" for developing countries and suggested the body should be brought under the U.N.'s purview.
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| 7/27/00 |
Announcing Global Update -- Seattle! -- A new website and publication inspired by the convergence of issues and organizations during last year's and the ongoing protests against the World Trade Organization, the IMF and the movement for a more just global economy! The site includes a daily newswire focused on globalization issues.
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| 6/20/00 |
Convention Violence Is Not a Given -- The city has more to fear from basketball fans than from environmentalists or WTO foes. Monday night's disturbance after the Lakers' championship victory at Staples Center was not a prelude to the Democratic National Convention at Staples Center in August. Bonfires will not be lit, nor squad cars or limos torched, at the entrance of Staples--not with the Secret Service in charge. (By Tom Hayden, Democratic State Senator representing parts of West Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.)
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| 6/20/00 |
State Law on Myanmar Boycott Is Voided -- The Supreme Court today unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law aimed at boycotting companies that do business in Myanmar, ruling that crucial differences between the state law and existing federal sanctions "compromise the very capacity of the president to speak for the nation with one voice in dealing with other governments."
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| 6/20/00 |
Developing Nations Decry Globalization Pain At Summit -- Leaders of developing nations lashed out Monday at a wealthy world benefiting from open markets, and reflected more briefly on what they can do to pull their struggling economies forward.
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| 6/19/00 |
States Lose Trade Discretion Case -- The Supreme Court, ruling that states cannot infringe on the foreign policymaking prerogatives of the U.S. government, made it harder for states to refuse to buy from companies that do business in nations known for human-rights abuses.
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| 5/17/00 |
People Making History -- The introduction to the new book "GLOBALIZE THIS!" edited by GX co-founder Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach.
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| 5/2/00 |
Motion Passed by Vancouver B.C. City Council Canada -- A motion passed concerning GATS--the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade-- urging the Canadian government to consult with the people of Canada before taking action on this agreement.
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| 3/10/00 |
Why Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda -- In the wake of the collapse of the Seattle Ministerial, there has emerged the opinion that reform of the WTO is now the program that NGOs, governments, and citizens must embrace. What civil society, North and South, should instead be doing at this point is radically cutting down the power of the institution and reducing it to simply another institution in a pluralistic world trading system with multiple systems of governance. By Walden Bello
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| 3/7/00 |
ACLU Challenges Seattle's WTO No Protest Zone -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington today is filing its second lawsuit in United States District Court in Seattle challenging the City of Seattle's establishment of a No Protest Zone during the meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 1-3, 1999. The lawsuit challenges the imposition of the zone, its extension, and the manner of its enforcement. The ACLU filed the case on behalf of seven citizens whose rights to freedom of speech were violated by the City's actions.
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| 1/30/00 |
Calls for Free Trade Mix With Pessimism About New Trade Round -- After three days of public and private dialogue, there's agreement among the world's business, political, and financial leaders both that a new global trade round is vital to world growth, and that the chances of a round starting soon are slim.
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| 1/27/00 |
WTO, State Law on Collision Course -- Sometime soon, members of the California Legislature might want to ponder how many of the laws they enact this year could be overturned not by state or federal courts but by tribunals administered by foreigners, meeting in secret and rendering decisions that cannot be appealed.
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| 1/27/00 |
World Economic Forum Opens in Davos -- An annual Alpine gathering of the world's political and corporate elite kicked off Thursday with the hosts cautioning that free trade must be people-friendly.
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| 1/26/00 |
Protesters At WTO Plan D.C. Follow-Up -- Activist groups that paralyzed downtown Seattle during the World Trade Organization conference late last year plan to converge on Washington in April to protest a joint meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund--with some groups pledging to "shut down" the gathering with civil disobedience.
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| 1/26/00 |
Where Was The Color In Seattle? -- Looking for reasons why the Great Battle was so white.
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| 1/13/00 |
Letter from the MST in Brazil -- A letter from João Pedro Stedile, National Board member of the Landless Workers' Movement congratulating US workers and society for our work in Seattle, and denouncing a World Bank project in Brazil.
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| 1/11/00 |
Woken up in Seattle -- The image of tens of thousands of protesters besieging the World Trade Organisation summit in early December was startling, in part because of the incongruity of the location: Seattle, the most relaxed of American cities. The true significance of the event lies elsewhere, however, in the changing political structures of international affairs. The 'Battle of Seattle' was the latest manifestation of the enormous shift in international politics caused by the end of the Cold War, the predominance of the United States, the globalisation of technology and business, and the rise of an 'international civil society'.
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| 1/7/00 |
Pettigrew says WTO should be 'reinvented' -- The fumbling World Trade Organization is in bad need of repair, and should be "reinvented" to look more like the United Nations, says Canada's Trade Minister, Pierre Pettigrew.
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| 1/7/00 |
U.S.-EU seek new trade round but warn of hurdles -- The United States and the European Union said on Friday they hoped to launch a new round of global trade talks next year, but Washington warned that negotiations would fail if the EU refused to back down on agriculture and other issues.
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| 1/7/00 |
US and EU Push For WTO Negotiations to Continue As Soon As Possible -- A statement issued by the European Union-United States Summit on the WTO held in Washington, DC on December 17, 1999. The statement is followed by a Reuters story on the EU-US Summit.
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