GLOBALIZATION BULLETIN 
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Vol 2. No. 2

                         

Trade Agreements

EU Under Fire Over Doha http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30708

Illusion of Progress at WTO http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/3338.html

Anti-WTO Protestors Back in the Streets

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30574

G20 Jumps into Agricultural Reform Debate

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30593

Campaign Against WTO Ministerial Conference Kicks Off

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30643

Via Campesina Declaration on the WTO

Mercosur: Expanding Energy Ties at the Cost of Free Trade

http://lists.topica.com/lists/LLNews@igc.topica.com/read/message.html?mid=1719561086&sort=d&start=13831

Trade and Development, comment by Dean Baker

http://www.cepr.net/err/2005_10_17.htm#2

Over 50,000 Farmers Protest Against WTO in India

http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/2017.html

 

The Global Economy         

Bill Gates, World's Richest Man, Bets Against Dollar

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aO.Rl7JwFWy8&refer=news_index

U.S. Labor is in Retreat as Global Forces Squueze Pay and Benefits by David Streitfeld

http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/1640216

Labor Threat by Thomas Palley

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=8867

 

Europe
New German Government Line-Up Takes Shape

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051013/wl_afp/germanypolitics

Poland's Hard Right Turn by David Ost

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/10/poland_turns_ha.html

Yo, Jeeves!

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/05/opinion/edblack.php

 

The Global Environment

Antarctic Glaciers Calving Faster into the Ocean

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8173

Ocean Warming Threatens Antarctic Wildlife

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1595328,00.html

Is This Proof of Global Warming?  Alaska Melting

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article321119.ece

Fifty million environmental refugees by decade's end, UN warns

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1589883,00.html

Burma: Junta Pays China in Timber for Protection

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30669

Melting Away: by Mike Davis

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20051024&s=davis

Climate Change and Pollution are Killing Millions, Study Says

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1585800,00.html

 

Global Governance

UN Treaty Challenges "Planet Hollywood" by Haider Rivzi

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30690

US STANDS VIRTUALLY ALONE YET AGAIN

http://lists.topica.com/lists/LLNews@igc.topica.com/read/message.html?mid=1719569726&sort=d&start=13830

Abuse by UN troops still widespread, says report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1596103,00.html

Developing Nations Blast U.N. for Appeasing U.S. by Thalif Deen

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1011-01.htm

 

Labor Rights/Human Rights

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Mexico: Lajat Workers' Struggle for Union Rights

http://www.coalitionforjustice.net/PaginaWeb/Alerts/Lajat_Alert_10_20_2005.pdf

Corporate Social Responsibility

Social Responsibility Doesn't Much Sway the Balance Sheet by Steven Pearlstein

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100401689.html

 

Boycotts and Anti-Sweatshop Movements

A New Push Against Sweatshops

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1115508,00.html?promoid=rss_business

Student Group Steps Up Effort to Get Universities to Use Their Clout Against Sweatshop Factories

http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/09/2005092905n.htm

 

Outsourcing

Globalisation driving increase in international offshoring of research and
development centres, finds OECD report

http://www.oecd.org/document/25/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35471385_1_1_1_1,00.html

Outsourcing Our Safety by Harold Mayerson

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701467.html

 

Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Nudges Foreign Suppliers: Retailer to Demand Environmental and Social Responsibility
Wal-Mart Can Hide But It Can't Run by Don Hazen
Asda Wal-Mart: Cutting Costs at any Cost by Joe Zacune

Immigration

Arizona Minutemen Driven Largely by Sense of Deprivation, Insecurity

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1692

Republicans Wary of Bush Guest Worker Proposal

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/11b2bf5e-403e-11da-8394-00000e2511c8,ft_acl=reg,s01=2.html

Blood, Sweat and Tears: Asia's Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12675

U.S. Cash Fuels Human Trade

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0510090433oct09,1,5263530.story

Poor Migrants Work in Iraqi Netherworld

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-nepal9oct09,0,1753562.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Communities Without Borders  by David Bacon

http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20051024&s=bacon

A Wing and a Prayer for Migrants by Giselle Velazquez

http://www.alternet.org/story/26461

U.S. Immigration Policy Shift Causes Record Deaths

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2435

 

China

Red China's Democracy White Paper

http://lists.topica.com/lists/LLNews@igc.topica.com/read/message.html?mid=1719569720&sort=d&start=13830

China's Export Boom

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&an=18484195

China Crisis: Threat to the Global Environment

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article320565.ece

China Contemplates Change in Economic Policy

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5014759&fsrc=nw

China's Currency, comment by Dean Baker

http://www.cepr.net/err/2005_10_17.htm#2

Some recommendations on the amendments to the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/public/contents/article?revision%5fid=17815&item%5fid=17814

Two Women Reportedly Killed, and Three Workers' Leaders Detained, During Police Crackdown on Mass Protest at Chongqing Steel Plant

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/public/contents/article?revision%5fid=17753&item%5fid=17752

U.S. Offers Plan for Open Markets in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/business/16china.html?oref=login

Too Many Left Behind in China's Economic Race

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c4fc8c07-f7f

China Promises Equitable Growth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/30/AR2005093001545.html

 

Developing Countries

After Four Decades, Foreign Aid is a Hot Item Again by Barbara Crossette

http://www.unausa.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=1078941&auid=1136738&kntaw5367=5E93390B2684472994711EA5CA5E0F73

Inequality Persists in Brazil, Despite Progress

http://www.gpn.org/data/brazil.html

BRAZIL: Workers Party Survives Scandal Relatively Unscathed and Unchanged

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30691

Nigeria Gets Paris Club Debt Deal

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-10-20T100446Z_01_MOR022420_RTRUKOC_0_US-ECONOMY-NIGERIA-

PARISCLUB.xml&archived=False

Nigeria Ratifies IMF Policy on Debt Relief

http://allafrica.com/stories/200510140661.html

Thousands March in La Paz on October 17 for the Nationalization of the Oil and Gas

http://lists.topica.com/lists/LLNews@igc.topica.com/read/message.html?mid=1719573247&sort=d&start=13830

Haiti, Imperialism and the Hypocrisy of Liberals

http://mail1.icpbounce.com/icp/relay.php?r=499871&msgid=1271554&act=75KU&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackcommentator.com%2F155%2F155_pate_haiti_imperialism.html

"Electoral Cleansing" in Haiti Violates Human Rights and Democracy

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/816

Haiti's Children's Prison: Hope is Fading by Judith Scherr

http://www.blackcommentator.com/154/154_scherr_haiti.html

Poverty Campaigners Take on Arms Spending

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30661

Uruguay: Social Programs Overhauled

http://www.latinamericapress.org/article.asp?IssCode=&lanCode=1&artCode=4425

Malawi Declares Disaster

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2097022005

African Food for Africa's Starving is Roadblocked in Congress

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/12/international/africa/12memo.html?ex=1286769600&en=0de1afa6dd7990e7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Congress Rejects Food Aid for Local Development

http://www.irc-online.org/ggn/neighbor/1468

12 October Colombian National Strike

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/colombia/txt/2005/1015national_strike.htm

Bolivia: El Alto: A World of Difference by Raul Zibechi

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/1622

Venezuela Firm Challenges Seizure

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4290146.stm

Venezuela: Chavez, The Gambler, By Alma Guillermoprieto

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18355

 

Resources

Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a
Brighter Economic Future:

http://www.nap.edu/books/0309100399/html

Fair Labor Association Monthly Newsletter

http://www.fairlabor.org/all/news/updates/20051017.pdf

Japanese Working Life Profile 2004/2005: Labour Statistics

http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/2004_2005jwlp.pdf

ORIT info, the newsletter of the ICFTU Latin America, is available.  To subscribe, write to

info@cioslorit.org

Human Rights for Workers: Globalization and Its Impact on Working Men and Women

http://www.senser.com/05-10-01.htm

 

Action Alerts

Don't Let CAFTA-Expansion Fuel the Drug War

http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1383

Compensate Chinese Jewellry Workers Suffering from Silicosis

http://www.jewelrycampaign.net/eng/whatyoudo_letter.htm

Did Child Slaves Harvest Your Latest Chocolate Treat?

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/3338.html

Time Warner Exploits Child Labor in Mexico

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=59

Support Sugar Workers in Indonesia

http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2370&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1

Gate Gourmet Again!

http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2376&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1

Global Horizons Abuses Immigrant Farmworkers

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/globalhorizonsagain/bdgske4r7wnixt?

Victory Over Coke!  Justice in Colombia and Beyond

http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/campaigns/coke_main.php

Nestle Union Leader Assassinated, Take Action Now

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/nestle

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