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FBI Raids Independent Media Center
Security plans intended to protect Western leaders attending a trade summit were posted on a Seattle-based web site. On Saturday night, FBI agents raided the offices of the Independent Media Center in downtown Seattle. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/19980_security24.shtml
The Force of Ethics--& Seattle: Contempt Causes Insanity
An Aesthetic Realism commentary defining economic freedom--what does it mean for the world and its wealth to be owned in a way that is free?
http://www.EliSiegel.net/seattle-ethics-Tro1394.htm
AFL-CIO: Global Economy--What is WTO?
Introduction to the WTO, and other information on how the WTO affects labor and working families.
http://www.aflcio.org/globaleconomy/whatiswto.htm
Third World Traveler: World Trade Organization (WTO)
Articles offering an alternative view to the corporate media on the impact of the policies of the United States' democratic government.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/WTO_MAI/WTO.html
The Passion for Free Markets
Noam Chomsky introduces the WTO, and the drive to export American values through it.
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9705-free-markets.html
GATT, NAFTA, and the Subversion of the Democratic Process
Analysis of WTO and erosion of democracy, environmental safeguards, and labor protections. Written by Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/WTO_MAI/WTO_CAGE.html
The Real Threat to U.S. Sovereignty
Heritage Foundation article defending the WTO, addressing many criticisms like the loss of national sovereignty to an unalleged world government which keeps its hearings and "trials" secret.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/HL497.cfm
Hell, no. We won't trade
Dori Jones Yang looks at how the WTO became a lightning rod for protest. [U.S. News]
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=19991101002243&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%2219991101002243%22)&p_perpage=10&p_s
WTO - The Facts!
Promoting free trade in light of resistance in Australia to the Sydney meetings in November 2002.
http://www.wto.com.au/
What's wrong with the WTO?
Non-commercial site by independent journalist explaining how WTO principles subordinate other social and environmental values, including democracy, to maximizing trade with alternative proposals for fairer trade rules.
http://www.speakeasy.org/~peterc/wtow/
Model WTO
Simulation of trade negotiations within the WTO ruleset by about 60 students from all over the world.
http://www.model-wto.org/
The Law of Subsidies under the GATT/WTO system
New comprehensive book about the law of subsidies under the GATT/WTO system.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mbenitah/backcover.htm
WTO Protests at Seattle
Critiques of press coverage of Seattle WTO meeting and links to information about WTO.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Seattle.asp
Globalize This
A number of activists, educators and organizers expose and critique the WTO. Book edited by Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach. Common Courage Press, 2000.
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm?action=book&bookid=196
Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy
A book by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza, Public Citizen 1999.
http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=7081
WTO Action
Historical note on a internet campaign promoting the Cross-Canada Caravan to the Seattle 1999 Protests.
http://www.openconcept.ca/index.php/wtoaction
corpWatch.org - Issues - WTO
Provides a critical perspective on corporate influence in the WTO
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PII.jsp?topicid=112
Globalization and the World Trade Organization
Provided by International Forum on Globalization, a NGO critical of the WTO.
http://www.ifg.org/wto.html
WTO pages at thefactz
A general introduction and evaluation of the WTO and Globalization with particular emphasis on economic analysis.
http://www.thefactz.org/WTO/wto_index.html
Trade Policy Analysis WTO Briefings and Forecasts
Contains sample trade policy analysis articles about the WTO and international trading system.
http://www.thunderlake.com/arch.html
The Structure of WTO
An outline of the structure and function of the WTO.
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/wtoworks.htm
Freedom to Trade: WTO's Promising Anniversary
One of the foremost policy institutes analyzes the dangers and potential benefits of the World Trade Organization
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg20n1e.html
Domestic Constituencies
Noam Chomsky analyzes and criticizes the World Trade Organization and other aspects of modern State-run markets.
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9805-domestic.html
Foreign Policy In Focus: World Trade Organization
An analysis of the WTO by a cooperative of policy institutes.
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol2/v2n14wto.html
Use WTO Process to Push China on Rights
Human Rights Watch believes that WTO membership won't itself reform the Chinese system or lead to political changes, but it could be an important catalyst over the long run if combined with consistent pressure from outside China.
http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/nov/china1025.htm
Seattle Apology
A Seattle resident offers public apology to WTO countries for the allegedly spoiled and uncivilized activists who disrupted the city in 1999.
http://sorry-wto.8m.com/
The Rumble in Seattle
Article by Stephen Van Esch looking at the arguments of "saner minds" concerning the WTO.
http://www.spark-online.com/february00/esociety/vanesch.html
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