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Website guides to globalisation The Globalization Website http://www.emory.edu/SOC/globalization/index.html The Globalisation Guide http://www.globalisationguide.org UNESCO-MOST on Globalisation and Governance http://www.unesco.org/most/most3.htm Globalisation links http://www.journoz.com/global Guardian Unlimited special report on globalisation http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation Globalisation and soecial exclusion unit links page: http://www.gseu.org.uk/links/index.htm Sociology Online, Directory of web pages and sites on globalisation http://cgi.sociologyonline.co.uk/News/Globalisation-A.shtml Institutions of global governance International Monetary Fund(IMF) http://www.imf.org World Bank http://web.worldbank.org WTO - World Trade Organization http://www.wto.org UNEP - United Nations Environmental Program http://www.unep.org UNDP - United Nations Development Program http://www.undp.org World Summit for Sustainable Development http://www.earthsummit2002.org The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides economic arguments for globalisation, such as data demonstrating the positive contribution made by multinational corporations to economic development http://www.oecd.og/subject/growth/in_tr_gl.htm Peak Business Associations The European Round Table of Industrialists A peak business association of around 40 members, who are 'Chairmen and Chief Executives of large multinational companies, representing all sectors of industry, which have their headquarters in Europe and also significant manufacturing and technological presence worldwide.' Membership is by invitation only. Almost all observers agree that the ERT is an immensely powerful body, which is well integrated into the EU machinery and has a key role in framing EU policies and directives. http://www.ert.be The World Business Council for Sustainable Development Swiss based peak business association of 150 TNCs dedicated to presenting business as environmentally friendly. It has played a key role in reshaping the debate on sustainable development in corporate friendly direction and was a key actor in lobbying for type II (voluntary) outcomes at the Johannesburg summit. http://www.wbcsd.org http://www.wbcsd.ch/ The World Economic Forum (WEF), a private not-for-profit foundation that operates conferences for business, political, intellectual and other society leaders http://www.weforum.org The International Chamber of Commerce argues economic growth generated by trade is essential if living standards around the world are to increase http://www.iccwbo.org/home/menu_case_for_the_global_economy.asp European Partners for the Environment http://www.epe.be Corporate front groups/lobbying coalitions Multinational Monitor links on corporate front groups http://multinationalmonitor.org/links/scat.php?scat_id=12 Multinational Monitor Corporate - Funded, - Influenced or - Sympathetic Think Tanks http://multinationalmonitor.org/links/scat.php?scat_id=14 The Scottish Parliament Business Exchange The SPBE is promoted as an educational exchange allowing members of the Scottish parliament to learn more about all kinds of business. All corporate participants are required to sign a letter affirming they will not use the scheme for lobbying.. In practice the exchange is dominated by TNCs who pay £6000 to join and three quarters of those taking part are full time lobbyists! http://www.spbe.org.uk The Science Media Centre The Science Media Centre is a London based media resource which claims that it is 'independent', but is in practice mainly funded by big business including the biotech industry. This might in theory not skew the output of the Centre, but in practice the SMC does not live up to its remit to represent the 'full spectrum' of opinion, tending to err towards versions of science promoted by corporations and to pro-corporate scientists. http://www.sciencemediacentre.org PR and lobbying firms and organisations Public Relations Links http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hallahan/j13pr.htm Resources on PR and lobbying Center for Responsive Politics (US) Monitors lobbying expenditure and the role of money in US politics. http://www.opensecrets.org/ Corporate Europe Observatory (NL). Monitors corporate strategies and lobby groups at the European and global levels. Also involved in campaigning against GATS. http://www.corporateeurope.org/ Corporate Watch (UK) Monitors big business abuses and strategies. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/ CorpWatch (US) Monitors TNC strategies in the US and at the global level. Good on front groups and the corporate agenda to capture ‘sustainable development’ http://www.corpwatch.org/ PR Watch (US) The world’s leading source of critical reporting on the PR industry and its many covert operations. Focuses on the US and global levels, but developing reporting on Europe and the rest of the world. http://www.prwatch.org/ Disinfopedia An online encyclopedia of disinformation and PR. Disinfopedia is a project of PR watch. An ‘open source’ collective endeavour allowing activists everywhere to contribute information and to update entries. Go on try it. http://www.disinfopedia.org Public Citizen (US) Monitors the role of money in US politics, campaigns against privatisation and neo-liberal reform http://www.publiccitizen.org/ Centre for Public Integrity (US) Monitors http://www.integrity.org O’Dwyers (US) O’Dwyers is the best of the commercially available sources of reporting on the PR industry. http://www.odwyerspr.com PR Week. The leading trade journal. Far too cosy with the industry, owned by the family firm of former Conservative Party chairman Michael Heseltine. But a useful source of intelligence on the PR world. http://www.prweek.com Movement organisations/sites CEO - Corporate Europe Observatory http://www.corporateeurope.org TNI - Transnational Institute http://www.tni.org IFG - International Forum on Globalization http://www.ifg.org Attac http://www.attac.de/english/index.php Attac international: http://www.attac.org Greenpeace International http://www.greenpeace.org Panos London - Making Sense of Global Change http://www.panos.org.uk No Logo, Naomi Klein's site: http://nologo.org/ Oneworld.net http://www.oneworld.net CNES - Citizens' Networtk on Essential Services http://www.challengeglobalization.org Centre for Research on Globalisation http://www.globalresearch.ca CorpWatch - Holding Corporations Accountable (US) http://www.corpwatch.org EZLN -Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional http://www.ezln.org FOE - Friends of the Earth: FOE International http://www.foei.org WEED - World Economy, Environment & Developmentpractical reform policies. http://weed-online.org/info/start_e.htm TWN - Third World Network http://www.twnside.org.sg Focus on the Global South http://www.focusweb.org World Social Forum http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/home.asp Oxfam International http://www.oxfam.org FEE - Foundation for Environmental Education http://www.fee-international.org PGA - Peoples' Global Action http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/en Bretton Woods Project http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org Corporate Watch (UK) http://www.corporatewatch.org GpgNet - Global Network on Global Public Goods http://www.gpgnet.net rp - Redefining Progress http://www.rprogress.org GATSwatch.org http://www.gatswatch.org Our World Is Not For Sale - Stop Corporate Globalization http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org WWF -World Fund For Nature http://www.wwf.org Movement media/media monitoring The Ecologist http://www.theecologist.org/ Media lens http://www.medialens.org/ Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) http://www.fair.org/ Indymedia Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org Indymedia UK http://uk.indymedia.org/ Media channel http://www.MediaChannel.org/ AlterNet.org http://www.alternet.org AlterNet.org on globalisation http://www.alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=21 Special edition of New Internationalist http://www.newint.org/issue338/contents.htm Consumerism Overcoming Consumerism site: http://www.verdant.net/ Global Issues page on consumerism: http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption.asp
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