Beyond Trade
The WTO’s expansive agenda and impactBy Lori Wallach In the late 1980s, corporate leaders and their backers in the U.S. and British governments launched a campaign to transform the General Agreement on...
View ArticleTrading Human Rights for Corporate Profits
Global trade policy weakens protections for health, the environmentBy Martin WagnerIn 1995, a small town in central Mexico refused to allow the California-based Metalclad Corporation to build a...
View ArticleCorn Crisis
The impact of U.S. food policy on Mexican farmersBy Oxfam International“Corn is the basis of our culture, our identity, adaptability and diversity. Corn created us, and we created corn.”Exhibition Sin...
View ArticleStrategies From the Global South
The alliances and alternatives that aim to defeat corporate-driven tradeBy Deborah JamesIn September 2003, the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Cancun, Mexico came to a screeching halt after a...
View ArticleEngendering Global Justice: Women First
A tool for prioritizing women in trade dealsBy Marceline A. WhiteIn the village of San Ignacio, Mexico, Felicitas Villalobos weaves baskets. For Felicitas and many of the Tarahumara Indians living in a...
View ArticleThe New Face of Agriculture
Alternative models to corporate agribusinessBy Anuradha Mittal For thousands of years, small family farmers across the globe have grown food for their local communities, planting diverse crops in...
View ArticlePort of Oakland: Private Industry or Public Agency
By Ben Jesse Clarke and Hana BabaIn the United States, there are 361 public ports. The Port of Oakland, the fourth largest, processes about $30 billion of exports and imports annually. Oakland’s...
View ArticleDavid Harvey
The Financial Crash and the Right to the City An Interview by Amy GoodmanDavid Harvey is a Marxist geographer and distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University...
View ArticleVoices of Climate Justice
Some of the voices raised for climate justice in this issue."The climate bill, unfortunately, has been co-opted by the oil and coal industry." —Tom Goldtooth"My number one inspiration right now is not...
View ArticleCarbon Fundamentalism vs. Climate Justice
By Gopal Dayaneni Imagine waking up on December 1, 1999, and learning about the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the first time by watching it fall apart. The catalyst? An internationalist...
View ArticleCorn Crisis
The impact of U.S. food policy on Mexican farmersBy Oxfam International“Corn is the basis of our culture, our identity, adaptability and diversity. Corn created us, and we created corn.” Exhibition Sin...
View ArticleStrategies From the Global South
The alliances and alternatives that aim to defeat corporate-driven tradeBy Deborah JamesIn September 2003, the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Cancun, Mexico came to a screeching halt after a...
View ArticleEngendering Global Justice: Women First
A tool for prioritizing women in trade dealsBy Marceline A. WhiteIn the village of San Ignacio, Mexico, Felicitas Villalobos weaves baskets. For Felicitas and many of the Tarahumara Indians living in a...
View ArticleThe New Face of Agriculture
Alternative models to corporate agribusinessBy Anuradha Mittal For thousands of years, small family farmers across the globe have grown food for their local communities, planting diverse crops in...
View ArticlePort of Oakland: Private Industry or Public Agency
By Ben Jesse Clarke and Hana BabaIn the United States, there are 361 public ports. The Port of Oakland, the fourth largest, processes about $30 billion of exports and imports annually. Oakland’s...
View ArticleDavid Harvey on The Financial Crash and the Right to the City
The Financial Crash and the Right to the City An Interview by Amy GoodmanDavid Harvey is a Marxist geographer and distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University...
View ArticleVoices of Climate Justice
Some of the voices raised for climate justice in this issue."The climate bill, unfortunately, has been co-opted by the oil and coal industry." —Tom Goldtooth"My number one inspiration right now is not...
View ArticleCarbon Fundamentalism vs. Climate Justice
By Gopal Dayaneni Imagine waking up on December 1, 1999, and learning about the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the first time by watching it fall apart. The catalyst? An internationalist...
View ArticleFeminist Critique of Militarism
amina_mama.mp3Preeti Shekar interviews Nigerian feminist scholar Amina Mama, chair of Gender and Women's Studies at U.C. Davis and a former board member of the Global Fund for Women.Subscribe to...
View ArticleDec. 4 Event: Movement Lessons Since the Battle of Seattle
Our joint event with the The Center for Political Education has been cancelled so we can join forces with another WTO anniversary event sponsored by Shaping San FranciscoSeattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th...
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