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Internet Sites

If you are looking for some of the Web sites surrounding the (in)famous 1999 WTO Meetings in Seattle:

• . WTO History Project

  The World Trade Organization Ministerial and the corresponding anti-WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 had a profound impact on the public perception of world trade agreements, on the US labor movement, and on the way social movement organizations around the globe work together in pursuit of sustainable global economies.
  In an effort to promote a better understanding of the development and impact of the anti-WTO protests in Seattle, the Center For Labor Studies at the University of Washington has organized the WTO History Project as a joint effort with the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, and the Manuscripts, Special Collections and University Archives division of the of the University of Washington Libraries.

• A collection of relevant sites (GTTLS) [Extensive List of Conference Related Websites!]
• A UW Gateway to the WTO Meetings
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer's WTO Site ["THE WTO LEGACY"]
• The World Trade Organization Home Page
  • Speeches: Director-General Mike Moore

• Global Trade Watch Global Trade Watch (GTW) promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor free trade. Our work seeks to make the measurable outcomes of this model accessible to the public, press, and policy-makers, while emphasizing that if the results are not acceptable, then the model can and must be changed or replaced. GTW works on an array of globalization issues, including health and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and democratic, accountable governance.

• Corporate Watch

  Corporate Watch provides news, analysis, research tools and action resources to respond to corporate activity around the globe. We also talk with people who are directly affected by corporate abuses as well as with others fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice.

• National Association of Manufacturers

Events:

Sun Nov 7 17:59:21 PST 1999 (posted) -
December 2, 1999: Transportation, Logistics and Industrial Development (Part of the Seminar Series "The WTO, Greater China, and the USA"). 4:00 - 5:50 pm, Kane 210. Speaker: Victor F.S. Sit, Professor and Head, Department of Geography & Geology, Hong Kong University. Sponsors: JSIS; GTTL; Geography; Economics; CIBER. Advance registration required. Info: 616-5778.

Specific Trade Disputes:

• Banana Split: US challenges EU trade policies The United States, in association with Latin American banana producers (in Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico whose goods are distributed by American owned companies), first complained to the World Trade Organization in 1995 about EU trade policy bias in favour of Caribbean countries.

Clippings:

• WTO this time: ready for results Seattle Times, Sunday, November 04, 2001 By Stephen H. Dunphy Beginning Friday, the WTO will hold its first post-Seattle ministerial meeting in Doha, the capital of Qatar, a small Middle Eastern country that juts into the Persian Gulf.....
  Negotiations are bound to be contentious as the 142 member countries struggle to balance the concerns of developing economies and developed economies. The developing economies have voiced concerns over their representation in the organization, calling for widespread structural and institutional reforms.

• What you need to know about the WTO Seattle Times, November 04, 2001

• Seattle: One Year After - The Situation is Worse [TWN: Third World Network, December 2000]
• WTO leader looks forward after Battle of Seattle Seattle Times, Oct 22, 2000;

  GENEVA - It's been a tough year for Mike Moore, the director general of the World Trade Organization....

• WTO fallout considered | Looking back on the Battle in Seattle University Week (UW), January 27, 2000.
• RUCKUS: UW's Progressive Independent Student Newsmagazine [WTO Issue, 1999]

Literature:

WTO History Project Bibliography

Gender Dimensions and Dynamics in International Lobbying on Trade and Development [Seattle WTO Meetings] By Josefa (Gigi) Francisco, DAWN-South East Asia

Khor, Martin Backlash Grows Against Globalisation 1996 (corpwatch)