Background
| World Social Forum Conference on Transnational Corporations by Joshua Karliner and Ted Lewis, CorpWatch and Global Exchange February 1st, 2002 This paper was circulated prior to the Second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in February 2002. It was used as a point of departure to spark debate during a panel on transnational corporations, that CorpWatch co-chaired with Global Exchange, another San Francisco-based group. |
| Grassroots Globalization Fact Sheet CorpWatch March 22nd, 2001 Globalization does not only happen from above. Public opposition to corporate-led globalization is on the rise world wide. Grassroots movements and communities around the world are increasingly working together to stem the tide of corporate-led globalzation. |
| Corporate Globalization Fact Sheet CorpWatch March 22nd, 2001 Here is a fact sheet about corporate-led globalization... fifty-one of the world's top 100 economies are corporations. |
| Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies December 4th, 2000 Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations; only 49 are countries (based on a comparison of corporate sales and country GDPs). |
| Health and Environmental Issues by Rachel Kamel and Anya Hoffman, The Maquiladora Reader (American Friends Service Committee) June 30th, 1999 Maquiladora workers voice constant fears about their safety on the job. In the electronics industry alone, workers are exposed to a variety of substances which include xylene, trichloroethylene, zinc and lead oxides, and nitric acid. Not only electronics assembly but other industries as well expose workers to the materials used in thinners, paints, solvents, resins, solders, dyes, flux, and acetone. Exposure to such substances without proper protection can cause cancer, reproductive problems, skin diseases, vision problems, respiratory impairments, gastrointestinal and nervous disorders, and headaches and fatigue. |
| Mexican Evolution for Women's Rights by Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor June 8th, 1999 Guadalupe Aguirre had recently moved to Ciudad Juarez, a US-Mexico border city known for a NAFTA-fed manufacturing boom -- and dozens of murders of poor working women -- and she was frightened and frustrated. |
| MEXICO: Girl's Murder Sad Symbol of Corporate Power, Child Labor, Female Exploitation on the Border by Dan La Botz, Mexican Labor News and Analysis March 2nd, 1999 Irma Angelica Rosales, a 13-year-old girl, was raped and murdered on February 16 in the town of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, just a cross the border from El Paso, Texas. Her very brief life and violent death symbolize everything that is wrong with the social system which U.S. multinational corporations and the U.S. and Mexican government have created on our common border. |
| Globalization: The Third Wave by Roberto Verzola, The Philippine Greens February 5th, 1998 Roberto Verzola discusses the emergence of the global information economy as the third wave of globalization, a process that started with colonialism. This in depth analysis looks at how information monopolies are being used to artificially create information scarcity (and high profits) for corporate owners, such as Microsoft. |
| Building Grassroots Globalization by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch December 1st, 1997 The old 1960s slogan ''think globally, act locally'' is no longer sufficient as a guiding maxim. Rather, civil society -- popular movements, non-governmental organizations, labor unions, academics, doctors, lawyers, artists and others across the world -- must confront the essential paradox and challenge of the 21st century by developing ways of thinking and acting both locally and globally at the same time. |
| Schools for Globalized Business: The APEC Agenda for Education by Larry Kuehn, British Columbia Teachers' Federation May 1st, 1997 Larry Keuhn, the former head of British Columbia Teachers' Federation, looks at the reshaping of education to fit the needs of global corporations by critiquing a paper prepared by South Korea's Ministry of Labor and the economic integration of the Asia-Pacific region. |
| Mexico: Neoliberal Adjustment of the Educational Sector Trlateral Coalition in Defense of Public Education, Mexico February 28th, 1997 This 1997 report for the Third Trinational Conference in Defense of Public Education, held in Vancouver, Canada, explains Mexico's education crisis in the context of structural adjustment. |
| Media and Globalization Third World Network July 1st, 1996 In India for just a week in July 1996, Noam Chomsky gave this interview on media issues. |
| Globalization & Corporate Power John Pilger The consequences of growing corporate power can be seen clearly in relation to their foreign investment role. At its best, investment by a foreign company can provide jobs, stimulate economic growth and offer developing countries access to key technology and skills. At its worst, multinationals just exploit the cheap labour or natural resources which poor countries offer, and leave them nothing in return. So how can we ensure that all investment follows best practice? |