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Materiales en español
IFG's Recent Teach-In:
Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis"
"Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource
Depletion & Extinction"
(Held September 14-16, 2007,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
CDs
and DVDs of the "Triple Crisis" Teach-In, featuring
60 speakers
from 16 countries, are available
for
purchase from Conference Recording Services
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM
ON GLOBALIZATION
The International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists,
researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint
activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
Representing over 60 organizations in 25 countries,
the International Forum on Globalization associates come together
out of a shared concern that the world's corporate and political leadership
is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that
may prove as historically significant as any event since the Industrial
Revolution. This restructuring is happening at tremendous speed, with
little public disclosure of the profound consequences affecting democracy,
human welfare, local economies, and the natural world. Read
more...
GLOBALIZATION RESOURCES and ANALYSIS
by IFG and IFG ASSOCIATES
Globalization and Empire-Building
Analysis of current issues
The
Hijacking of the Development Debate: How Friedman and Sachs Got It
Wrong by John Cavanagh and Robin Broad
China Copes with Globalization: A Mixed Review (version
released in German)
Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to
Globalization
Global to Local: What You
Can Do (section from Alternatives to Economic
Globalization)
WTO
The Other Oil War: Halliburton's
Agenda at the WTO (also, en
español)
WTO 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial
Analysis of the WTO's July 2004 Framework Package
Analysis of WTO Collapse in
Cancun
Focus on the Global South
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Third World Network
FTAA,
CAFTA, GATS and other Multilateral Trade Agreements
Council of Canadians
Friends of the Earth
Global Exchange
Polaris Institute
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Agriculture and Biotechnology
Center for Food Safety
International Society for Ecology and Culture
Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology
LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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RECENT NEWS
FROM IFG:
IFG board member Maude Barlow awarded
Canada's highest environmental award: The Citation
of Lifetime Achievement
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Here to Read More
IFG is pleased to announce a
series of informal
briefings followed by open discussions about the December 2007
UN climate conference in Bali
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for More Details , Dates, Times, and Locations
IFG at the UN Bali Conference on Climate Change. We have reports from IFG Board Members Walden Bello and Martin Khor, as well as IFG Staff, Associates and Colleagues: Victor Menotti (Program Director of IFG), Peter Riggs of the Forum on Trade and Democracy, and Daphne Wysham and Janet Redman of the Institute for Policy Studies.
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IPS and
IFG launch "Bali
Call" at United Nations Climate Meeting"Bali
Call" Press Release
IFG (USA) and
the Institute for Public Policy Research (UK) Present
A Side Event at the UNFCCC Meeting in Bali, Indonesia
Saturday, December
8th,
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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IFG Board Member Annie Leonard's Fabulous New Film:
"The Story of Stuff"
Just Released!
Click Here to Watch
IFG's "Greensumption" Video and Jerry Mander Interview
Featured on New York Times blog Dot Earth
November 14th, 2007:
Jerry
Mander Interview on Dot Earth - NY Times' Climate BLOG
(edited
version)
Full Text of Jerry Mander Interview
with New York Times Reporter Andrew Revkin (pdf)
Check out IFG's
new video on YouTube:
"GREENSUMPTION"
IFG Triple Crisis Teach-In Featured on Democracy Now!
September 14th, 2007:
Vandana
Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of
Pollution to the Third World"
From
Empire to Earth Community: Author David Korten on "The Great
Turning"
"Climate Porn" -
Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist Language to Talk About
Climate Change
Michael Klare on the Internal War For Control of Iraq's Oil
IFG Teach-In:
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RESISTANCE TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
Cooper Union,
New York City
November 18, 2006
Event Program
Speaker Bios
Democracy Now! Broadcast
November 23, 2006
RECENT IFG PUBLICATIONS
The False Promise
of Biofuels
The Rise and Predictable
Fall
of Globalized
Industrial Agriculture
Manifesto on Global Economic Transitions
Toward A Campaign in Support of The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples
Resisting Globalization
NEW EDITION FROM SIERRA CLUB BOOKS!
Paradigm Wars:
Indigenous Peoples' Resistance
to Globalization
A Better World is Possible
Alternatives
to Economic Globalization [A Better World is Possible], provides
detailed alternatives to the current rules and institutions
of economic globalization. Written by leading researchers and
activists, the report discusses viable alternatives that are
more democratic, socially equitable, and environmentally sound
than the present model.
Read more...
IFG
Recommended Reading:
Field Guide to the Global Economy, by John Cavanagh, IFG President, with
Sarah Anderson and Thea Lee.
This updated edition of
Field Guide to the Global Economy
presents the latest facts to help make sense
of the rapidly changing international economy. A great resource!
Read more...
20% discount for IFG members!
Green Alternatives to Globalisation,
by Michael Woodin and IFG Associate Caroline Lucas. The authors, both UK Green Party members, show how economic localization
can help solve many current international crises.
Read more...
Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO, By IFG Board Member Lori Wallach, with Patrick Woodall,
of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
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