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Web-sites & E-mail Address for

Progressive Organizations Around the World

Global:

 
Trade & Labor

Campaign for Labor Rights -- networks much anti-sweatshop work and other
global labor rights support from a solidarity perspective. Also provides good analysis & organizes some tours. (e-mail address)

Citizens Trade Campaign -- coordinates lobbying against Free Trade Agreements and other harmful "trade" treaties, Fast Track authority for the president, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle this December. Part Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization. (web-site)

Global Exchange -- international solidarity organization with programs in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba among other places. Also information on anti-sweatshop campaigns, fair trade links to artisans & coops in the South. (web-site)

People's Global Action -- for specific updates on the the People's Global Action Against "Free" Trade and the WTO. (web-site)

Third World Network -- is a place to get progressive information and analysis from third world sources. (web-site)

Global Debt

Focus on the Global South (FOCUS) is a network and a conference that just took place in Bangkok called "Economic Sovereignty in a Globalising World." One of its principals, Walden Bello, was a leader of Friends of the Filipino People and has done great work dissecting the Asian financial crisis. (web-site)

 
Jubilee 2000 USA -- Jubilee 2000 groups throughout the world are pushing to cancel the debt of nations in the South, since it'll never be paid; it only keeps them in poverty and makes big banks richer. The US campaign is mainly church-based. (web-site)

 
Other

One World -- "a community of over 350 leading global justice organizations under one roof." (web-site)

 
A PIECE OF AFRICA -- Welcome to our online shopping Mecca of ethnic African arts & crafts. (web-site)

 

Africa

 
Asia

East Timor Action Network up-to-date information on the situation in East Timor. (web-site) PO Box 150753, Brooklyn, NY 11215-0753 USA Phone: (718)596-7668 Fax: (718)222-4097

 
Europe

 
Latin America

 
US & Canada

50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is the US
partner in an international grassroots campaign to expose and unseat the
IMF, World Bank, and other Bretton Woods institutions. Their e-mail address is: wb50years@igc.org. (web-site)

 
Alliance for Democracy doesn't do much international work, but is coordinating city councils, state legislatures, Democratic Party councils and other governing bodies adopting resolutions opposing the "Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)-Free Zones". Their e-mail address is: peoplesall@aol.com (web-site)

Resource Center of the Americas a good resource place for information on what is going on in the Americas. Includes their recent Colombia edition of Connection to the Americas with lots of photos, links and updates. Their e-mail address is: cmitchell@americas.org (web-site)

Corporate Watch campaigns to hold corporation accountable. The contact person is Julie. Their e-mail address is corpwatch@corpwatch.org (website)

Institute for Global Communications -- hosts peacenet and several other conferences which allow you to research practically anything. (web-site)

Jay's leftist & progressive internet resources directory -- "amazing, up-to-date directory for progressive activists." (web-site)

JustAct -- student organization with overseas partners, sets up volunteer-abroad placements for students, does radical education on global issues. (Formerly ODN, Overseas Development Network.) (web-site)

MADRE -- NY-based women's organization focusing on international peace and economic justice issues. (web-site)

The Western Hemisphere Conference is a US-based international left labor solidarity project which is organizing a conference at the beginning of the year 2000 and, in the meantime, occasionally forwarding appeals from around the world. You can subscribe to their email list. (e-mail)

Witness for Peace -- "stop the war against the poor" is their new theme; campaigns focus on Mexico and Central America. (web-site)

Women's Edge -- new organization that is working on global economic policies affecting women, concentrating on the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations and a few other items. (e-mail)

You can subscribe to several useful listservs by going to this link and following the prompts.

Dave Lippman, is a musical satirist. We all can use some political humor to get us through these all too depressing times.

If you have any comments on any of the sites listed here, or would like us to add a site please send us a note. Thank you for your help.

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