One of the great intellectual and strategic leaders of the global economic justice movement, Jerry Mander, died this week. His charge to us: don’t give up because you lost the first round. Educate movements and the public to fight back.
Twenty years after Seattle, we are still working towards a progressive trade agenda that protects people and planet.
IPS’ Global Economy and Foreign Policy In Focus projects co-sponsor this a shocking exposé of how pharmaceutical companies use patent law to keep profits unconscionably high even at the expense of peoples’ lives.
The World Trade Organization struggles for relevance in a world that embraces diversity.
The WTO should stop insisting on an out-of-date trade agenda. It should get back on track — or get out of the way — to support fresh approaches that bolster local food systems.
Government efforts to finance job creation and other public goods can clash with subsidies restrictions in trade agreements.
A new report finds that bans on capital controls are outdated and a hindrance to developing nations.
A civil society statement on the G20 summit from IPS Director John Cavanagh and coalition members.
Please join us at a book discussion with Kim Fellner, the former director of the National Organizers Alliance. Fellner recently published Wrestling With Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino, a feisty and unpredictable book that traces how the Battle of Seattle – informed by the Internet – helped consolidate a new global justice culture that didn’t buy anything about Starbucks (except, maybe, the coffee). It explains what Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern, and Global Exchange Co-director Medea Benjamin hold in common – and what they don’t. It tells the largely unknown story of how Starbucks rescued thousands of Central American coffee growers from going under – and became a major patron of biodiversity. It explores two competing definitions of goodness – being better than the rest vs. being good in a larger moral context – the place where the rub of capitalism hits the road of global economic equity.
According to Mark Engler, the future of globalization is in question. Will the fight between “imperial globalization” and “corporate globalization” lead to the rise of democratic globalization”?
Will the WTOs Doha talks come back from the dead?
From the point of view of environmental sustainability, global trade has become deeply dysfunctional.
Think trade liberalization in agriculture and industry is bad? What the United States and EU want to do with financial services is a train wreck about to happen.
Think the current global food crisis is something new? Just ask the North Koreans.
The World Bank and the IMF are the real culprits behind the current food crisis, argues columnist Walden Bello.