links to related webpages

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

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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:

http://www.seattlewto.org

"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 *
 
 

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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
 
 

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         - 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/
 
 

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