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Topia!: Society: Issues: Economic: International: Trade: World Trade Organization (39)
See Also:  FBI Raids Independent Media Center - Security plans intended to protect Western leaders attending a trade summit were posted on a Seattle-based web site. On Saturday night, FBI agents raided the offices of the Independent Media Center in downtown Seattle. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]The Structure of WTO - This is a very informative outline of the structure and function of the WTO. Freedom to Trade: WTO's Promising Anniversary - One of the foremost policy institutes analyzes the dangers and potential benefits of the World Trade Organization The MAI Shell Game - The World Trade Organization (WTO) - An article, by Global Trade Watch, which introduces the WTO, and it's track record. Domestic Constituencies - Noam Chomsky analyzes and criticizes the World Trade Organization and other aspects of modern State-run markets. Foreign Policy In Focus: World Trade Organization - An analysis of the WTO by a cooperative of policy institutes. Use WTO Process to Push China on Rights - Human Rights Watch believes that WTO membership won't itself reform the Chinese system or lead to political changes, but it could be an important catalyst over the long run if combined with consistent pressure from outside China. Seattle Apology - A Seattle resident offers public apology to WTO countries for the allegedly spoiled and uncivilized activists who disrupted the city in 1999. WTO Watch Archive - Mother Jones magazine coverage of the 1999 World Trade Organization's failed talks, the protests which surrounded them, and plans for 2000. The Rumble in Seattle - Article by Stephen Van Esch looking at the arguments of "saner minds" concerning the WTO. Globalize This - A number of activists, educators and organizers expose and critique the WTO. Book edited by Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach. Common Courage Press, 2000. The Force of Ethics--& Seattle: Contempt Causes Insanity - An Aesthetic Realism commentary defining economic freedom--what does it mean for the world and its wealth to be owned in a way that is free? AFL-CIO: Global Economy--What is WTO? - Introduction to the WTO, and other information on how the WTO affects labor and working families. Third World Traveler: World Trade Organization (WTO) - Articles offering an alternative view to the corporate media on the impact of the policies of the United States' democratic government. The Passion for Free Markets - Noam Chomsky introduces the WTO, and the drive to export American values through it. Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy - Attempts to translates the WTO's trade rules and track record into understandable prose for the layperson, policymaker and academic alike. GATT, NAFTA, and the Subversion of the Democratic Process - Analysis of WTO and erosion of democracy, environmental safeguards, and labor protections. Written by Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach. World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign - News, background, materials, and information on the international campaign using grassroots financial and political power to demand an end to socially and environmentally destructive policies and projects. The Real Threat to U.S. Sovereignty - Heritage Foundation article defending the WTO , addressing many criticisms like the loss of national sovereignty to an unalleged world government which keeps its hearings and "trials" secret. Hell, no. We won't trade - Dori Jones Yang looks at how the WTO became a lightning rod for protest. [U.S. News] WTO - The Facts! - Promoting free trade in light of resistance in Australia to the Sydney meetings in November 2002. What's wrong with the WTO? - Non-commercial site by independent journalist explaining how WTO principles subordinate other social and environmental values, including democracy, to maximizing trade with alternative proposals for fairer trade rules. WTO Action - Current events of a coalition of groups promoting grass-roots activism and providing research on the effects of the WTO. Model WTO - Simulation of trade negotiations within the WTO ruleset by about 60 students from all over the world. The Law of Subsidies under the GATT/WTO system - New comprehensive book about the law of subsidies under the GATT/WTO system.
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