World Trade Organization
besides a lot of PR also
usefull information and source material (if you know how to find it ;-)
http://www.wto.org
Seattle Business welcomes WTO:
no comment needed
http://www.wtoseattle.org
TABD Mid Year Report:
the TABD stands for transatlantic
business dialog (if some thing is worth than WTO than ...)
http://www.tabd.org/about/MYMExecSummary1.html
http://www.tabd.org/about/MYMTechnicalAnnex.html
OECD
the organisation who cooked up
the MAI which now might showup again in the WTO
http://www.oecd.org
....more to come.....
related links to webpages of civil society
(* Involved in the "stop millennium round campaign")
American Lands:
US NGO with focus on the free logging
agreement
http://www.americanlands.org/forestweb/newwto1.htm
*
Corporate Europe Observatory:
see e.g. theire special issue about
the WTO
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo *
MAI niet gezien:
Dutch page with information about
the MAI and the WTO
http://www.stelling.nl/mai
*
"Millennium Round"
an URL of the Green Party members
of the Europien parliament
http://www.millennium-round.org
*
No2WTO Listarchive:
archive of a mailing list WTO opponents
http://no2wto.listbot.com/cgi-bin/view_archive?Act=view_archive&list_id=no2wto
Ontario PIRG's MAI-not Project:
including a very active online
mailing list archive
http://mai.flora.org
Peoples Global Action (PGA):
the international netwerk which
organised the Total Crazy Project
http://www.agp.org *
PGA in Seattle:
http://members.aol.com/mwmorrill/pga.htm
*
List archive:
http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/view_archive?Act=view_archive&list_id=WTOSeattleDiscussion
People For Fair Trade:
????
http://www.peopleforfairtrade.org
Public Citizens Global Trade Watch:
well known I guess
http://www.tradewatch.org *
List archive: http://lists.essential.org/mai-intl/
"Road To Seattle":
is a news bulletin dedecated
to the upcomming WTO ministerial you can either subscribe to the mailing
list or read the last issue on the following webpage
http://www.newsbulletin.org/bulletins/getcurrentbulletin.cfm?bulletin_id=67&sid=
Seattle Citizen Committee:
"shut down seatown":
"This site is to help
coordinate coordinate and disseminate information regarding Seattle's City-Wide
Walkout of
Workers and Students
to oppose the Third Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Seattle November
30."
http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/Lobby/8771/nowto.html
Third World Network:
one of the biggest "Third World
NGOs"
http://www.twnside.org.sg/souths/twn/trade.htm
*
....more to come.....
some more European Groups involved in the Stop Millennium Round Campaign
BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany):
All pages in German.
No page directly related to the WTO
Germany seems still sleepy
;-)
http://www.bund.net
Center for Environmental Public Advocacy (Slovakia):
in theire mother tung
http://www.changenet.sk/cepa
in english
http://www.changenet.sk/CEPA/index-e.htm
Friends of the Eath international:
http://www.foe.org
Friends of the Earth Europe:
http://www.foeeurope.org
Friends of the Earth Czech:
in theire mother tung
http://www.duhafoe.cz
in english with some
material but "still underconstruction"
http://www.duhafoe.cz/index_e.htm
Friends of the Earth UK:
http://www.foe.co.uk
KEPA Finland:
on their frontpage youhave
the choise between
Swedish, Finish, English,
Spanish and Portuguese !!!
http://www.kepa.fi
Observatoire de la Mondialisation:
in frensh
http://www.ecoropa.org/
Oxfam Belgium:
in Dutch, Frensh, English
and Spanish
http://www.oxfamsol.be
anothe site from oxfam
in begium in frensh
http://mdm.ngonet.be/
Transnational Institute:
http://www.tni.org
....more to come.....
- some more interesting
links -
this is a unsettled list I'll update frequently
A SEED Europe:
hosted in the Netherlands
but writen in English
http://www.antenna.nl/aseed
A SEED Japan:
http://www.jca.ax.apc.org/~aseed/
if you have which does
not support the japanes "letters" you'll have to visite the english site
at
http://www.jca.ax.apc.org/~aseed/english.htm
ATTAC:
They got famous with
their campain for a Tobin Tax but there is more to find on ther webpages
the original in Frensh
http://www.attac.org
in Spanish
http://attac.org/esp/
in English
http://attac.org/ang/
in German
http://www.attac.org/schweiz/index.html
Corporate Watch:
"Corporate Watch is an
online magazine and resource center designed to provide you--every day
Internet users--activists, journalists, students, teachers and policy
makers--with an array of tools that you can use to investigate and
analyze corporate activity."
http://www.corpwatch.org
Critical Mass Seattle:
"What is Critical Mass?
Critical Mass is an organized coincidence. It happens when a lot of cyclists
happen to be in the same place at the same time and decide to cycle the
same way together for a while. Very often, those taking part enjoy
it so much that they decide to get toge ther at the same place and time
the next month and the month after and so on, and to get other cyclists
to join as well."
http://www.oz.net/~nic/cm.html
Critical Mass Tokyo:
with readebel letters
in English
http://www.crisscross.com/users/oldxeye/TokyoCriticalMass/
the original
http://www.ecolink.sf21npo.gr.jp/criticalmass/
Earth First!:
http://www.eco-action.org/index.html
"This page will carry
news (and links to more) of what's going on with EF! and related actions
and campaigns from around the world."
http://www.eco-action.org/action/global.html
EuroDusnie:
Over all in nederland
heerst het polder modell. overall ?
http://stad.dsl.nl/%7Erobbel/
in english
"...Together with other
anti-authoritarian groups we want to organise against the european superstate
and to inform the public about our views on Europe and what is wrong with
the European unification. Although EuroDusnie is a democratic group and
is not into illegal actions, we are lots of times being observed and intimidated
by the police..."
http://stad.dsl.nl/%7Erobbel/engels/index.htm
Eyfa:
"EYFA is a European-wide
youth NETWORK of individuals and groups active on social and environmental
issues. As a network, our aim is to challenge socially and environmentally
unsound ways of life by promoting alternative ways of living and working
and fighting environmental destruction and social injustice.We believe
in CONSENSUS, as a tool for making decisions and non-violent direct action,
as a tool of RESISTANCE and social CHANGE."
http://www.xs4all.nl/~amdam/index.html
(was: http://antenna.nl/eyfa/)
Food First:
"The Institute for Food
and Development Policy better known as Food First--is a member-supported,
nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Our
work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and
poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental
human right...."
http://www.foodfirst.org
Food Not Bombs Seattle:
"Food Not Bombs Seattle
is one of the many many FNB chapters around the world that serves vegetarian
meals to
people in need and to
support political activism."
http://www.scn.org/activism/foodnotbombs
Les Peripheriques vous parlent:
"..Les périphériques
vous parlent, beyond examining the problems of our era, is involved in
it's capacity as a magazine of
analysis and commentary,
in the social, political and citizen's sphere. It constantly organises
meetings, activities and
events leading to the
formation of work groups involving people of all ages, professions and
social backgrounds..".
in Frensh, English, German
and Spanish
http://www.globenet.org/periph
Mc Spotlight
all you (probably don't)
want to know about Mc Donald
"..And welcome. To McSpotlight.
The biggest, loudest, most red, most read Anti-McDonald's extravaganza
the world has ever seen. Anything you could possibly want to know
about McDonald's or McLibel nestles somewhere in our 21,000 files. Don't
get us wrong, though, we're not telling you to give up your Big Macs.
We just provide the info for you to judge for yourself."
http://www.McSpotlight.org/
PICIS Korea:
leftwing newsletter from
Korea in english
http://www.jinbo.net/~picis/top_e.html
SAPRIN
"SAPRIN is a worldwide
network of civil society organizations challenging the imposition of structural
adjustment programs (SAPs). The Network is working with citizens'
groups in 12-15 countries to organize public processes to determine
the real impact of World Bank-and IMF-supported economic-reform programs
and to chart a new course for the future."
http://www.igc.org/dgap/saprin/index.html
Tusovka:
"We hope to contribute
with our newsletter Tusovka to an active exchange of ideas on the
level of analysis, background
information on regions and topics, strategy and political theory
across the barriers of
language and culture between activists in Western Europe and Eastern
Europe..."
http://www.savanne.ch/tusovka/en
also in Russhian
http://www.savanne.ch/tusovka/welcome.ru.html
Watching Monsanto:
"..In particular, these
webpages are concerned about the use of the technology covered by
US Patent 5,723,765, "Control of Plant Gene Expression", dubbed by
some "Terminator technology"..."
http://www.monsanto.vigil.net
West Coast Environmental Law
"West Coast Environmental
Law strives to empower citizens to participate in forming policy
for, and making decisions about, protecting our environment. From
the local to international level, our work supports the right of the public
to have a voice in how we share our earth. Since 1974, we have been
providing free legal advice, advocacy, research and law reform services."
http://www.wcel.org/
List archive:
A website with a lot
of mailing lists a lot of them are open to the public. You can use a search
function
http://www.egroups.com/
....more to come.....