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LEAVING THE WTO BEHIND:
Impasse: Are We Nearing the End of the Corporate Globalization Era?
By Deborah James, AlterNet. August 21, 2008.

The failure to expand the WTO shows that the ideology of "free trade" has lost its luster. When the history of the seismic shifts occurring today in the global economy is written, the failure in July 2008 of corporate interests and some governments to expand the World Trade Organization (WTO) through the Doha Round will stand as a watershed moment.
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http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/globaliz...

IS THE WTO DEAD?
Will WTO, like Dracula, Come Back from the Dead?

By Walden Bello and Mary Lou Malig

It was the synergy between the massive protests in the streets and the rebellion of developing countries at the Sheraton Convention Center that resulted in the spectacular collapse of the Third Ministerial Meeting in Seattle in 1999. Like the good Count of Transylvania, the so-called Doha Round of trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization collapsed twice--the first time during the Cancun Fifth Ministerial Meeting in September 2003, the second during the so-called Group of Four meeting in Potsdam in June 2007--only to come back from the dead. But has the silver stake that will render the WTO truly and really dead finally been driven through its heart by the unraveling of the most recent “mini-ministerial” gathering in Geneva?
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http://focusweb.org/will-doha-like-dracula-come-back-from-the-dead.html?...

CURRENT GLOBAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS & NETWORKS

INTERNATIONAL:
Peoples' Global Action
www.agp.org/

Focus on the Global South; WTO Updates and Analysis
http://www.focusweb.org/trade-campaign/24.html?Itemid=73

Third World Network – Global South based research, analysis and activism
http://www.twnside.org.sg/

Via Campesina – The International farmers' organization – grassroots analysis and mobilization. Support farmers' grass roots Tsunami relief [do we want to keep this?], or mobilization against the WTO.
http://viacampesina.org

Dissent Network
http://dissentnetzwerk.org

NORTH AMERICA
Grassroots Global Justice
http://www.ggjalliance.org/

Indymedia
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights http://www.nnirr.org/

Critical Resistance
http://www.criticalresistance.org/

International Forum on Globalization
http://www.ifg.org/

Public Citizen – Global Trade Watch?
http://www.citizen.org/trade/

Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/

Council of Canadians
http://www.canadians.org/

Oakland Institute
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/

Community Alliance for Global Justice (Seattle)
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org

RESOURCES

FILMS/VIDEOS

A World Without the WTO
Focus on the Global South presents life without the WTO. This provocative and inspiring video answers questions about life in a post-WTO era and invites you to imagine a world without the WTO.
http://www.focusweb.org/a-world-without-the-wto.html?Itemid=30

This is What Democracy Looks Like
http://www.thisisdemocracy.org/

Showdown in Seattle
http://deepdishtv.org/Series/Default.aspx?id=45
http://www.whisperedmedia.org/showdown.html
Showdown in Seattle is a five part series that features an on-the-ground, non-corporate perspective and analysis you won't find anywhere else, in addition to incredible footage of police repression and popular resistance. Each half hour show is made up of segments produced by an unprecedented collaboration of video artists and activists from around the U.S. working under the umbrella of the Independent Media Center.

INDYMEDIA; SHOCKING & AWFULL
The Shocking and Awful series is the document of the events that came out of that first Indymedia center. Over 100 Videographers contributed footage, and 30 minutes of programming was produced daily, uplinked to satellite, and rebroadcast by approximately 75 public access stations around the country, as well as on Free Speech TV. You can check out all the programs at deepdishtv.org. Search the catalogue for Showdown in Seattle, and "view program details."
It was one of the most incredible weeks of my life, in all honestly. It changed me forever. --MARK READ

WTO Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzC1-NXu8Yw

A People’s History of the WTO
http://www.peopleshistory.net/

FLYERS:
Top Reasons to Oppose the WTO
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wto/OpposeWTO.html

GAMES
The Game of the WTO: Arcade Game
http://www.globalarcade.org/wto/index.html

BOOKS
About Seattle/WTO:

Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization (Duke University Press)
By Jeffrey S. Juris
http://www.networkingfutures.com

Voices from the WTO; An anthology of writings by the people who shut down the world trade organization in Seattle in 1999.
Edited By Stephanie Guilloud (The Evergreen State College)

We Are Everywhere; Notes From Nowhere (Verso)
http://www.weareeverywhere.org/

The Battle of Seattle; The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization
Edited by Eddie Yuen, George Katsifacas and Daniel Burton Rose
(Note; A new edition has called Confronting Capitalism has come out which has less Seattle-related articles) Soft Skull Press

Webs of Power; Notes from The Global Uprising
By Starhawk (New Society Publishers)
http://www.starhawk.org/writings/webspower.html

Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule
Edited by Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach