FTAA Youth & Student Organizing Packet Part 2 - Resources

Author: YCL

^{Print Resources}

No Nonsense Guide to Globalization
http://store.globalexchange.org/nnglob.html

By Wayne Ellwood

Globalization: it\'s a buzzword you can\'t escape. But what on earth does it mean? For some it\'s the ticket to a democratic world of instant communications and global prosperity. While for others it\'s a money-mad juggernaut, spinning wildly out of control, threatening both cultural and biological diversity. The complex entanglement of cultures and economies has been growing since the colonial era and even before. So today commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow.

The No Nonsense Guide to Globalization traces the journey towards a \'borderless\' world. And in the process it shows that the promise of globalization is seductive, powerful - and ultimately hollow. Chapters include a history of globalization, the Bretton Woods Trio, debt and structural adjustment, corporations, global economics, poverty, environment, the market, and ideas for redesigning the global economy. (144 pages, 2001)

The Maquiladora Reader Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA
http://store.globalexchange.org/maquiladora.html

Edited by Rachael Kamel and Anya Hoffman

Globalization is one of the most talked-about phenomena, but little information is available on how those who are most involved - the communities and working people affected by globe-trotting corporations - are responding to its challenges. The Maquiladora Reader explores how grassroots activists are facing one of the most important trends in the globalization of production: the proliferation of maquiladoras, the foreign-owned (mainly by US corporations) assembly plants along the Mexico-U.S. border.

Through more than two dozen readings culled from a variety of sources, The Maquiladora Reader reveals the determination and creativity of maquiladora workers as they seek to improve their wages and working conditions, protect their communities from health and environmental hazards, and build cross-border relationships with unions, religious groups, community organizations, and others.

Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream
http://store.globalexchange.org/mama.html

Edited by Kevin Danaher

Twenty-three chapters by Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, Lori Wallach and others on: corporate power and the global economy, corporate interest vs. the national interest, environmental costs of corporate power, and strategies for organizing alternatives. The one book you need to understand the corporate threat to democracy and how we can fight back. Kevin Danaher travels the world speaking to community groups about the effects of corporate globalization and how to get involved in the grassroots movement challenging corporate rule. (223 pages, 1996)

Demystifying the Corporate Jargon
http://store.globalexchange.org/ftaabooklet.html

By Cathleen Sullivan, Alliance for Global Justice

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Never heard of it? Well, that\'s not surprising since it has been negotiated in private beginning with the 1994 Summit of the Americas in Miami. Like the infamous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the FTAA is an international free trade agreement that aims to eliminate the remaining barriers to the free flow of money, goods and services across borders in the Western hemisphere (excluding Cuba), to create one huge integrated open market. This guide explains what that will entail and uncovers the transnational corporate agenda integral to this agreement and its threat to the well-being of all forms of life throughout the Americas. (28 pages, 2001)

Global Uprising Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century — Stories from a New Generation of Activists
http://store.globalexchange.org/uprising.html

by Neva Welton and Linda Wolf

In November 1999 more than 50,000 people and 700 organizations demonstrated in Seattle against the World Trade Organization\'s new round of closed-door trade talks hat govern the global economy. Dubbed the \'Battle of Seattle,\' the event marked the beginning of a new era of outrage. Followed by further massive protests in Washington DC, Prague, Brazil, Quebec City, and Genoa, it quickly became clear that young people especially were not prepared to let the tyrannies of the 21st century go unchallenged.

In a world of mounting turmoil and violence, the need to understand the sources of increasing discontent at a global level has never been greater. Global Uprising gives voice to more than sixty activists who are deeply concerned with the roots of this violence and who are all standing up against it. Whether they are calling for economic equality or women\'s rights, opposing police brutality or sweatshop labor, denouncing old-growth forest destruction or biotechnology, the activists featured in this book speak with conviction and from the heart. Here you\'ll meet a host of people working for global justice from groups such as: Art & Revolution, Bat Shalom, Circle of Life Foundation, Earth Rights International, Global Exchange, Global Youth Connect, Heads up Afrique, JustAct, Ruckus Society, Third Eye Movement, United Students Against Sweatshops, Youth for Environmental Sanity, and many more.

The Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
http://store.globalexchange.org/ftaaifg.html

By Maude Barlow

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated by 34 countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, is intended by its architects to be the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. Although it is based on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it goes far beyond NAFTA in its scope and power. The FTAA, as it now stands, would introduce into the Western Hemisphere all the disciplines of the proposed services agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) -- the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) -- with the powers of the failed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), to create a new trade powerhouse with sweeping new authority over every aspect of life in Canada, the Americas, and the Caribbean. This booklet explains the basics of this proposed agreement. (February 2001, 38 pages)

TRADE SECRETS (FILM) The Hidden Costs of the FTAA
http://store.globalexchange.org/tradesecrets.html

The FTAA would extend NAFTA to the entire Western Hemisphere, including 31 more countries and another 400 million people. Trade Secrets explains the impacts of the FTAA and NAFTA in clear, concise language. This film explains what the proposed trade agreement could mean for the well-being of ordinary people and the environment. Presented are three case studies: an abandoned battery recycling plant in Tijuana where the US-based owners deserted over 6000 tons of toxic waste next to an impoverished community; the lawsuit filed by Methanex against the US Government because California decided to phase out the gas additive MTBE due to its pollution of drinking water; and the lawsuit filed by UPS against the Canadian Government charging that the government-run Canadian Postal Service is unfair competition because it delivers parcels at a lower cost than UPS is able to.

Narrated by former M*A*S*H star Mike Farrell

Elite Globalization Vs Peoples’ Globalization (Film)
http://store.globalexchange.org/elite.html

The mass media talk about globalization as if it were a unified, all-encompassing entity. But there are two kinds of globalization: elite globalization and grassroots globalization.

Elite globalization is driven by the big corporations seeking mainly to maximize profits. Aided by the World Bank, IMF and World Trade Organization they force countries to \"open\" their economies to penetration by foreign capital, reduce and privatize state functions, deregulate the economy, and submit everything to the rule of \"market forces.\" Economic production is increasingly disconnected from human needs; people are encouraged to pursue an unsustainable pattern of resource consumption; and social inequality increases.

The grassroots variant of globalization is made up of the fair trade movement, micro-lending networks, the movement for social and ecological labeling, sister cities and sister schools, trade union solidarity across borders, and many others. While grassroots networks may lack the money and government influence possessed by the corporations, they showed at the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in late 1999 that they are capable of mobilizing enough people to halt the corporate agenda in its tracks—at least, temporarily.

Danaher explains why, since September 11, it has become even more important for us to build the build the global justice movement and strengthen grassroots globalization. (filmed at Colorado College, December 2001, VHS, 75 minutes)

Others on Globalization

Wallach, Lori & Sforza, S (1999) Whose Trade Organisation? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy Public Citizen: Washington DC

Shrybman, Steven (1999) A Citizens Guide to the World Trade Organisation Ottawa: Centre for Policy Alternatives

Sharma, Devinder (1995) GATT to WTO: Seeds of Despair New Delhi: Konark Publishers

Shiva, Vandana (2000) Stolen Harvest: the hijacking of the Global food supply London: Zed Books

Das, BL (1998) The WTO Agreements: Deficiencies, Imbalances and Required Changes London: Zed Books

Das BL (1999) The World Trade Organisation: A Guide to the New Framework for International Trade London: Zed Books

Das. BL (1999) Some suggestions for Improvements in the WTO Agreements Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network

Danaher, Kevin & Roger Burbach (2000) Globalize this! - the Battle Against the World Trade Organisation - Common Courage Press

Dunkley, Graham (1997) The Free Trade Adventure, The Uruguay Round & Globalism: A Critique London: Zed Books

Barker, D & Jerry Mander (1999) Invisible Government: The World Trade Organisation: Global Government for the New Millennium International Forum on Globalisation, San Francisco

Barlow, Maude (2001) The Free Trade Area of the Americas: The Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice International Forum on Globalisation San Francisco

Madeley, John (2000) Hungry for Trade? How the poor pay for free trade London: Zed Books

Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry After NAFTA by Gary Gereffi (Editor), et al (Paperback) Interpreting NAFTA by Frederick Mayer (Paperback), Columbia University Press, New York

Free Trade Under Fire by Douglas A. Irwin (Paperback) Princeton University Press

False Profits: Who Wins, Who Loses When the IMF, World Bank, and WTO Come to Town. Booklet. $2 postpaid from 50 Years Is Enough Network.

Unpacking Globalization - A Popular Education Tool Kit. A 145-page publication of the Economic Literacy Action Network (ELAN) containing seven interactive workshops and support materials. Available from United for a Fair Economy for $24 postpaid.

Anderson, Sarah and Cavanaugh, John, with Lee, Thea. Field Guide to the Global Economy. New York: The New Press, 2000.

Barnett, Richard, and Cavanaugh, John. Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order. New York: Touchstone Press of Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Brecher, Jeremy and Tim Costello. Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up. Great example of global resistance. Boston: South End Press, 1998.

Ching Louie, Miriam and Burnham, linda. WEdGE - Women\'s Education in the Global Economy. A workbook of activities, games, skits, and strategies. Women of Color Resource Center, 2000. 2288 Fulton Street, Suite 103, Berkeley, CA 94704-1449.

Danaher, Kevin (editor). Democratizing the Global Economy. The battle against the World Bank and the IMF. Available from the 50 Years is Enough Network for $20. Call 202-IMF-BANK.

Derber, Charles. Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Lives and What We can Do About It. St. Martin\'s Press, 1998.

Greider, William. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Long but very clear introduction to global production and investment.

Korten, David C. When Corporations Rule the World. Kumarian Press, 1995. How corporate power rose, its intellectual basis, how the system works, what it does to people, and one man\'s vision of an alternative.

MacEwan, Arthur. Neo-Liberalism or Democracy? Economic Strategy, Markets, and Alternatives for the 21st Century. St. Martin\'s Press, 1999 (20% discount: call 1-800-221-7945 x 270).

Rahnema, Majid, and Bawtree, Victoria (editors). The Post-Development Reader. Boston: Zed Books, 1997. Excellent essays on women, neocolonialism, the environment, development and official ideologies.

Ross, Andrew (editor). No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers. Verso, 1997. Cutting-edge design and analysis of the global garment assembly line.

^{Web Resources}

http://www.stopftaa.org - Large comprehensive website focused on the Miami protests and the fight against the FTAA

http://www.ftaaresistance.org - Up to date website focused on the FTAA mobilizations with great information and resources for the upcoming mobilizations including logistical information and outreach materials (posters etc)

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ftaa - Website of the veteran anti-globalization organization Global Exchange with good reources

http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/globaleconomy/ftaamain.cfm - AFL-CIO website against FTAA including many resources from flyers to information on Miami

http://www.jwj.org/global/FTAA/stopFTAA.htm - Jobs With Justice website against the FTAA with many good resource links and information

http://www.citizen.org/trade/ftaa - public citizen FTAA information and resource page

http://www.witnessforpeace.org/tools/tradetools.html - Witness for Peace resource web page against FTAA

http://www.cwa-union.org/international/ftaa - Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO) website with great resources (see the FTAA updates link)

http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/ftaa - Sierra Club site against the FTAA

http://www.art-us.org - Alliance for Responsible Trade website

http://www.cispes.org/english/Campaign_Against_CAFTA_FTAA/index.html/a> - CISPES page on the FTAA and the CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) including organizing materials

http://movimientos.org/noalca/index.phtml.en - Information on the movement against the FTAA in Spanish and English

http://alainet.org/alca.phtml - Updates centered site on FTAA and WTO in Spanish

http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/ftaa.htm - Informational website including many links on current campaigns and other informational resources such as a section on the upcoming Miami mobilizations

http://www.peoplesconsultation.org - Peoples’ Consultation information page

http://grassrootsvoices.org/ftaa.html - American Friends Service Committee website against the FTAA

http://www.citizenstrade.org/ftaa.php - Citizens Trade Campaign against the FTAA including an action kit

Local Organizations and Websites

http://www.flfairtrade.org - Florida Fair Trade site including information on FTAA, and on the upcoming Miami demonstrations, as well as logistical information

http://www.lasolidarity.org - Southeast Uprising Website on both the FTAA in Miami and the following demos against the School of the Americas demonstrations

http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/ftaa/ - Pittsburgh based Thomas Merton Center website on mobilizations against the FTAA

PRO-FTAA

http://www.ftaa-alca.org - official website of FTAA

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/tna-nac/ftaa1-en.asp - Canadian governmental website in support of the FTAA

http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/advocacy/ftaa.html - Council of the Americas (Coalition of North Central and South American Business) pro-FTAA website