Information > Organizations
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Alliance for Democracy - a movement to restore populist democracy over domination of corporations.
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Community Aid Abroad - promotes social justice and the alleviation of poverty through the funding of development projects both overseas and in Aboriginal Australia, and through our campaigning, education and advocacy work. Australian member of Oxfam International.
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Corporate Watch - an online magazine and resource center designed to provide an array of tools that you can use to investigate and analyze corporate activity. Also includes a Japanese-language area.
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50 Years is Enough - a coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policty, women's, social and economic justice, youth, solidarity, labor and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Global Exchange - Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education and action center dedicated to advocating and working for political, economic and social justice on a global scale. Their goal is to increase global awareness among the US public and move them to action while building international and domestic partnerships around the world. They also have a good introduction to the global economy.
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International Forum on Globalization (IFG) - an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers, and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to the rapidly emerging economic and political arrangement called the global economy.
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International Forum on Food and Agriculture - Key issues, such as global warming, trouble in the Middle East, trade conflicts, and cancer are linked to how we grow, process, market, consume, and dispose of food. And the impacts are global. Converting land in Mexico that once grew food for local consumption into mega-farms for vegetable exports affects the ecological and the social conditions around the planet. The International Forum on Food and Agriculture (IFA) was created to address these global concerns,
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JustAct - JustAct offers programs that link students and youth in the U.S. to organizations and grassroots movements working for sustainable and self-reliant communities around the world. Programs they offer include: Bike Aid, Education, and International Opportunities Clearinghouse.
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Peacenet.org (igc internet) - The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is a nonprofit organization that provides alternative sources of information as well as online access and comprehensive Internet services for progressive individuals and organizations. You can access different progressive organizations.
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Project Underground - Project Underground exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity. They effectively deal with the problems created by the mining and oil industries by exposing environmental and human rights abuses by the corporations involved in these sectors and by building capacity amongst communities facing mineral and energy development to achieve economic and environmental justice.
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Public Citizen - Founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen is the consumer's eyes and ears in Washington. This site offers programs including Congress Watch, The Health Research Group, Litigation group, The Critical Mass Energy Project, Global Trade Watch, and Buyers Up. Good source of information on subjects such as GATT, MAI, NAFTA, and WTO.
STARC (STudent Alliance to Reform Corporations) is a student movement for corporate accountability, including a campaign to make sure universities invest responsibly.
Third World Network is organizing NGOs from the global south against the WTO. It's a "network of groups and individuals involved in bringing about a greater articulation of the needs, aspirations and rights of people in the Third World; a fair distribution of world resources and forms of development which are humane, in harmony with nature and fulfill people's needs."
The Turning Point Project has written several excellent introductions to the problems of globalization, and run them as ads in the New York Times.
Women's Environment and Development Organization - includes analysis of, and an agenda for, globalization from womens' perspectives
