Ecumenical
and Interfaith Links
U.S.
Interfaith Trade Justice Campaign
(http://www.tradejusticeusa.org/)
is working to mobilize and facilitate an active engagement
of faith communities in educational activities, policy advocacy
and Fair Trade efforts. The Interfaith Working Group on Trade
and Investment (IWGTI) has mounted this national Trade Justice
Campaign, affiliated with the international Ecumenical Advocacy
Alliance’s efforts to promote global action on just trade.
Ecumenical
Advocacy Alliance (http://www.e-alliance.ch/)
is a broadly ecumenical network for international cooperation
in advocacy on HIV/AIDS and global trade. More than 85 churches
and church-related organizations have joined the Alliance
by committing themselves to "speak out with one voice
against injustice, to confront structures of power, practices
and attitudes which deprive human beings of dignity and to
offer alternative visions based on the Gospel."
Church
World Service
Education and Advocacy - Trade Justice (http://www.churchworldservice.org/Educ_Advo/trade.html)
American
Friends Service Committee - Trade Matters (http://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/)
Web site includes information on the Free Trade Agreement of
the Americas and the Central America Free Trade Agreement
Church
of the Brethren Web site (http://www.brethren.org/genbd/witness/Peace/EqualExchange.htm)
for information on their fair trade coffee project
Episcopal
Church Economic Justice Web site (http://www.episcopalchurch.org/peace-justice/economic.asp)
Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America Fair Trade Web site –
“Café: Stirring the Spirit Within" (http://www.elca.org/wo/cafe/index.html)
Global
Policy Forum (http://www.globalpolicy.org/visitctr/about.htm)
is a grantee of the Presbyterian Hunger Program and was
founded in 1993 to monitor global policy making at the
United Nations. GPF works in partnership with citizen
organizations (NGOs) around the world and has actively
sought to broaden citizen voices within the UN system.
Lutheran
World Relief Web site on fair trade advocacy (http://www.lwr.org/coffee/pandg.html)
Mennonite
Central Committee (http://www.mcc.org/us/globalization/):
for Web site on economic globalization. You can also find an
Economic Globalization and Food
& Farming Guide and a Economic Justice Packet at (http://www.mcc.org/us/washington/issues/econjustice/).
For the MCC U.S. Coffee Project: http://www.mcc.org/us/washington/coffee/index.html
Presbyterian
Coffee Project is
another way to support Just Trade. Already more than 1,300
congregations are serving and/or selling Equal Exchange's
Fair Trade coffee, tea and cocoa. http://www.pcusa.org/coffee/
Presbyterian
Joining Hands Against Hunger http://www.pcusa.org/hunger/hands.htm
Peruvian
Fair Trade through Joining Hands Against Hunger
http://comerciojusto.webcindario.com/ingles.htm
The Virtual Fair Trade Bridge Catalogue is ready for
business, so people who want to buy Fair Trade Peruvian artesania
can shop
online now.
Presbyterian
Sweat-Free T educates
about sweatshops and enables you to buy declared sweat-free
products. This is also a part of Just Trade, particularly
when items are purchased from overseas. Fair trade means fair
wages, and this is the intent behind Sweat-Free T: that our
purchases translate into livable wages for producers. http://www.pcusa.org/sweatfree/
Unitarian
Universalists for a Just Economic Community (http://www.uujec.net/)
The mission of the UUJEC is to engage, educate, and activate
Unitarian Universalists to work for economic justice,
recognizing and affirming that as people of faith in the
struggle for justice, we are supporting and renewing our
spiritual lives. Organizing, training, denominational
action and a transformative social change library grace
this site.
United
Methodist Women - WTO: The Whole World in Whose Hands
(http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/wto.html)
Explanation of the WTO and action suggestions.
Non-Profit
and NGO Links
Alliance
for Responsible Trade
The Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART) is a national
network of labor, family-farm, religious, women's, environmental,
development and research organizations that promotes equitable
and sustainable trade and development.
AlterNet
AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and
supporting independent and alternative journalism. This
part of Alternet's online magazine provides a mix of news,
opinion and investigative journalism on subjects relating
to globalization. The AlterNet article database includes
more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.
Center
for Economic and Policy Research
CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the
most important economic and social issues that affect
people’s lives. CEPR's professional research is oriented
towards filling important gaps in the understanding of
particular economic and social problems, or the impact
of specific policies.
Choike
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility
of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as
a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at
the same time enrich it with information from diverse
sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern
civil society.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate led globalization with organizing,
information and networking. We work to hold corporations accountable
on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Fair
Trade Watch
Developed by the AFL-CIO, this site provides information
on trade and the global economy from a worker's perspective.
Friends
of the Earth International | Friends
of the Earth U.S. "Greening Trade" Friends
of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental federation
in the world aiming to protect the environment and to
create sustainable societies.
International
Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
information, analysis, sources and links to empower stakeholders
in trade policy to influence the international trade system
such that it advances the goal of sustainable development
NAFTA
This site maintained by the Canadian Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade includes the complete text
of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Oxfam's
Make Trade Fair site
A site on Oxfam International's campaign on global trade
governance.
Rethinking
Globalization
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools --
more than 400 pages -- helps teachers raise critical issues
with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization
of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the
many different impacts this trend has on our planet and
those who live here.
Third
World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international
network of organizations and individuals involved in issues
relating to development, the Third World and North- South
issues.
Trade
Aid Aotearoa/New Zealand
New Zealand's only alternative trading organization has been
campaigning on social, economic and environmental justice
issues for 30 years. See what's happening Down Under in the
country that is nuclear free, and proud of it.
Trade
Justice Movement
The Trade Justice Movement is a group of organizations in
the UK who are concerned with the negative impact of international
trade rules on the poorest people in the world, on the environment,
and on democracy. We call for fundamental change to the unjust
rules and institutions governing international trade, so that
trade is made to work for all.
Trade
Observatory
A
Resource Center from the Institute for Agriculture and
Trade Policy
Women's
Edge Coalition
Women's
Edge Coalition's mission is to advocate international
economic policies and human rights that support women
worldwide in ending poverty in their lives, communities
and nations. Women’s lack of participation in economic
and trade policies stunts economies, holds back countries,
and makes ending poverty nearly impossible. To address
this, the Women’s Edge Coalition, a non-partisan
organization, was created in 1998 to advocate for the
needs of millions of women and poor people around the
world left destitute and desperate by unfair trade policies.
World
Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global
international organization dealing with the rules of trade
between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements,
negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s
trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The
goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters,
and importers conduct their business.
