"Free" Trade, Globalization & Fair Trade www.planetfriendly.net/trade.html

"Free" Trade, Globalization & Fair Trade
links, resources, organizations & opportunities
(a People- & Planet-Friendly Portal & Guide)

Canada

Canadian Alliance on Trade and Environment www.sierraclub.ca/national/trade-env/
Making the Links: A Peoples' Guide to the WTO and the FTAA (downloadable pdf format)
No-nonsense Guide to Globalization (paperback book) www.newint.org/shop/can/nonoglob.htm
Polaris Institute www.polarisinstitute.org
Straight Goods www.straightgoods.com/FTAA/
Council of Canadians www.canadians.org (click on "Trade Campaign")
Centre for Research on Globalization www.globalresearch.ca
Citizens on the Web (Toronto) http://home.eol.ca/~command/citizen/action7b.htm
Global Democracy Ottawa www.gdo.ca
MAI-Not www.flora.org/mai/

USA & International

Globalization 101 www.corpwatch.org/issues/PII.jsp?topicid=104
Znet Global Watch / Trade www.zmag.org/GlobalWatch/Trade.html
WTO Watch www.wtowatch.org
Public Citizen www.citizen.org/trade/
Indymedia www.indymedia.org
Protest.net www.protest.net
More: http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Economic/International/Trade/

Life and Debt (film/video) www.lifeanddebt.org

Fair Trade

Articles – Grounds Zero | Wikipedia Article

TransFair Canada www.fairtrade.ca www.transfair.ca

Where to Buy Fair Trade Products
Fair Trade Handicrafts (North America) www.tenthousandvillages.org
Fair Trade Stores & Cafes across Canada www.transfair.ca/tfc/ (click "TransFair Canada's Licensees")
Fair Trade Gift Suggestions www.transfair.ca/tfc/xmas.html
Alternative Grounds Coffee (Ontario) www.alternativegrounds.com/coffee_buy.htm
Fair Trade Coffee & Tea (Toronto) 1-888-741-5369 www.merchantsofgreencoffee.com
The Fair Trade Coffee Story www.campuslife.utoronto.ca/groups/opirg/groups/fair_trade/story.html
Where to Drink or Buy Fair Trade Coffee in Toronto
www.campuslife.utoronto.ca/groups/opirg/groups/fair_trade/story.html

See also:
Organic & Local www.planetfriendly.net/organic.html
Sustainable Living Links www.planetfriendly.net/living.html
Green & Ethical Gift Ideas www.planetfriendly.net/gifts.html

Featured

Gangs of America – The Rise of Corporate Power & The Disabling of Democracy (book). "A brilliant page-turner revealing how powerful, greedy corporations wage institutional terrorism. Reading it is the first step to saving our communities, our democracy and our planet's environment." – John Stauber, author, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You. "The essential guide to the history of the American corporation – it explodes the myth of inevitability surrounding the corporate takeover of our lives." – Maria Elena Martinez, executive director, CorpWatch. www.gangsofamerica.com

The Corporation – feature documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan. Based on the forthcoming book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan. www.thecorporation.tv

Other related pages at Planetfriendly.net

Organic & Local www.planetfriendly.net/organic.html
Sustainable Living Links www.planetfriendly.net/living.html
Green & Ethical Gift Ideas www.planetfriendly.net/gifts.html

Questioning Business www.planetfriendly.net/business.html
What is the commons? www.planetfriendly.net/commons.html
Civil Rights – Use Them or Lose Them www.planetfriendly.net/rights.html
FTAA (2001 coverage) www.planetfriendly.net/ftaa.html

Business & Economics Links (from The Green Pages) www.thegreenpages.ca/web_resources/be/default.asp

Peace Links www.planetfriendly.net/directory.html#peace www.planetfriendly.net/iraq2.html

"If, for all our wealth and knowledge, developed nations cannot
devise any better way to raise world-wide standards of living than
by creating one global market for frivolous consumer garbage,
then humanity is in serious trouble." – Richard Thompson

Why We Are Here
(a poem by Robert Arthur Lewis, distributed in Seattle on the occasion
of the World Trade Organization Ministerial Summit in 1999).

Because the world we imagined, the one
we had always counted on is disappearing.

Because the sun has become cancerous
and the planet is getting hotter.

Because children are starving in the shadows
of yachts and economic summits.

Because there are already too many planes in the sky.

This is the manufactured world
you have come here to codify and expedite.

We have come to tell you
there is something else we want to buy.

What we want, money no longer recognizes
like the vitality of nature, the integrity of work.

We don't want cheaper wood, we want living trees.

We don't want engineered fruit, we want to see
and smell the food growing in our own neighborhoods.

We are here because a voice inside us,
a memory in our blood, tells us you are not
just a trade body, you are the blind tip
of a dark wave that has forgotten its source.

We are here to defend and honor
what is real, natural, human and basic
against the rising tide of greed.

We are here by the insistence of spirit
and the authority of nature.

If you doubt for one minute the power of truth
or the primacy of nature
try not breathing for that length of time.

Now you know the pressure of our desire.
We are not here to tinker with your laws.
We are here to change you from the inside out.
This is not a political protest.
It is an uprising of the soul.

– Robert Arthur Lewis


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