For those who want more, much more about the WTO please see below. ---------- From: Steven Clift To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DW] WTO Lists and Links Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 11:54AM *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** An amazing collection of links from: http://www.seattlewto.org/wto_listservs_and_links.html WTO Listservs and Links An effective way to learn more about the WTO is to participate in on- line discussions and receive information though e-mail about the issue and latest news items. Below are some listservs that you might find helpful. There are also a variety of organizations and activists with Websites relating to the WTO. Whatever your specific field of interest, you should be able to find more information through the following links. Did we leave anyone out? E-mail us with additional links and listservs. Please include a short description, and instruction on how to subscribe to your listservs. Listservs: What is the WTO? Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Announcing the publication of a free electronic News bulletin that will highlight events, meetings, forums, and other planning activities during the buildup to the World Trade Organization's Third Ministerial meeting, that is being held November 29 - December 3, 1999 in Seattle, Washington, USA. "The Road" will inform you about the meetings and activities of government ministers and their negotiators throughout the course of this year. It will also closely track the plans of citizens groups, labor unions, church organizations, environmentalists, farmers, small businesses and others as they come together to strategize and plan for their role in the trade talks. To subscribe to The Road to Seattle, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message write: subscribe road_to_seattle The full text searchable archives to this and other News bulletins produced by IATP can be viewed on the World Wide Web at: http://www.Newsbulletin.org. Submissions to the Road to Seattle should be sent to Renske van Staveren at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or faxed to Renske at: (1) 612-870- 4846. Public Citizen TW-List: focuses on all trade and investment issues. To subsrcibe to the listserv, send an e-mail with the information "subscribe TW-list" in the body of the e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAI-NOT: focuses on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and its clones, aimed at U.S. activists. To subscribe to the listserv, send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with information about your interest in the issue, and which (if any) organization you belong to. MAI-INTL: focuses on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and its clones, aimed at international activists. To subscribe to the listserv, send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with information about your interest in the issue, and which (if any) organization you belong to. StopWTO covers all issues relating to the WTO. To subscribe, go to http://www.onelist.com or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Links: (* frequently updated) OFFICIALS World Trade Organization http://www.wto.org WTO Seattle http://www.wto.org/wto/minist/seatmin.htm Seattle Host Organization http://www.wtoseattle.org European Commission http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg01/dg1newround.htm TABD Mid Year Report http://www.tabd.org/about/MYMExecSummary1.html and the annex: http://www.tabd.org/about/MYMTechnicalAnnex.html =========== AGRIGULTURE =========== Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy / en http://www.iatp.org/ Rural Advancement Foundation Int'l http://www.rafi.org ========= ANTI APEC ========= Aotearoa/New Zealand APEC Monitoring Group / en http://www.apec.gen.nz/ APEC Alert! Vancouver / en http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/fuller/apec_alert/ No to APEC / en http://www.trican.com/~rsantos/front.htm ===================================== ENVIRONMENT - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ===================================== Earthjustice Legal Defense Fundhttp://www.earthjustice.org CUTS - Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment in http://www.cuts-india.org (under construction) Earth First! / en http://www.k2net.co.uk/ef Friends of the Earth International / en http://www.foe.org International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development / en http://www.ictsd.org International Institute for Sustainable Development / en http://iisd1.iisd.ca/ National Center for Sustainability / Vancouver en http://www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/ncfs/ Rainbow Keepers/ ru en http://www.ecoline.ru/KOI/SEU/KOLLEKT/RK /INDEXE.HTM Sacred Earth Network / ru en http://www.igc.apc.org/sen/ russian: http://www.ecoline.ru/sen/ SEAC - Student Environmental Action Coalition / en http://www.seac.org/ ========== OTHERS ========== Alliance for Democracy / en http://www.afd-online.org/ A SEED Europe / en http://www.antenna.nl/aseed A SEED Japan http://www.jca.ax.apc.org/~aseed/ C.A.D.T.M. / en fr es http://users.skynet.be/cadtm/ Corporate Watch / en http://www.corpwatch.org Critical Mass Seattle es http://www.oz.net/~nic/cm.html Critical Mass Tokyo http://www.jca.ax.apc.org/~aseed/bicycle2.htm Ending Corporate Governance / en http://www.ratical.com/corporations/ EuroDusnie / Leiden nl en http://stad.dsl.nl/%7Erobbel/ Eyfa - European Youth For(est) Action / en http://antenna.nl/eyfa/ Food First / en http://www.foodfirst.org Food Not Bombs Seattle / en http://www.scn.org/activism/foodnotbombs Global Policy Forum NYC / en http://www.globalpolicy.org/ http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/ Halifax Initiative / en http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/halifax/ IBON Foundation / en http://www.ibon.org/ InterContinental Caravan / en http://stad.dsl.nl/%7Ecaravan/ International Coalition for Development Action / en http://www.icda.be LabourNet Austria / de http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ LabourNetAustria/ Les Peripheriques vous parlent / Paris fr www.globenet.org/periph Multinational Corporations Human Rights / en (Erasmus University Project, Rotterdam) http://www.multinationals.law.eur.nl/ PICIS Korea http://www.jinbo.net/~picis/top_e.html Project Underground / en http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/ "Reclaim the Streets!" / en http://www.gn.apc.org/rts Socio-Ecological Union ru http://www.ecoline.ru/seu TOES - The Other Economic Summit / en http://pender.ee.upenn.edu/~rabii/toes/ Transnational Corporate Research / en http://www.trufax.org/menu/resource.html Transnational Institute / en http://www.tni.org Tusovka / ru en http://www.savanne.ch/tusovka/en "50 Years are enough!" (IMF/ WB) / en http://www.50years.org/ Zeme predevsim! (Earth First! Prague) / cz http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/1651 http://www.ecn.cz/zemepredevsim ---------------------------- FAO http://www.fao.org IMF (International Monetary Fond) http://www.imf.org OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) http://www.oecd.org TABD (Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue) http://www.tabd.org Trilateral Comission http://www.trilateral.org/ UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade and Development) http://www.unicc.org/unctad/ WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) http://www.wbcsd.ch/ WEF (World Economic Forum) http://www.weforum.org/ World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/ ============================================ WTO - MILLENNIUM ROUND - GLOBAL TRADE - MAI ============================================ Adbusters: The big Question / en http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/economic/splash.html American Lands / en http://www.americanlands.org/forestweb/newwto1.htm ATTAC / en /fr * http://attac.org/ang/ (in french): http://www.attac.org Brian Jenkins anti-MAI page / en * http://www.nettrek.com.au/~brian/ "Citizens on the Web" / Toronto en * http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/action7b.htm home: http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/ EjTrcito Zapatista de Liberaci=n Nacional /es * http://www.ezln.org "Infos zum MAI" / de http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~timor/mai/ "Millennium Round" (a URL of EP Green Party) /en * http://www.millennium-round.org 180 Movement for Democracy and Education / en http://www.corporations.org/democracy/wto.html home: http://www.corporations.org/democracy/ No2WTO Listarchive / en * http://no2wto.listbot.com/cgi- bin/view_archive?Act=view_archive&list_id=no2w "MAI niet gezien" / Leiden nl * www.stelling.nl/mai Observatoire de la Mondialisation / Paris fr http://www.ecoropa.org/ob Ontario PIRG's MAI-not Project / Ottawa en * http://mai.flora.org Peoples Global Action (PGA) / en fr es de ru * Accion Global de los Pueblos/ Action mondiale des peuples AGP/AMP http://www.agp.org PGA in Seattle / en http://members.aol.com/mwmorrill/pga.htm List archive: www.listbot.com/cgi- bin/view_archive?Act=view_archive&list_id=WTO SeattleDiscussion People For Fair Trade / Seattle en http://www.peopleforfairtrade.org Polaris Institute / en http://www.nassist.com/mai/ Public Citizens Global Trade Watch / en * http://www.tradewatch.org List archive: http://lists.essential.org/mai-intl/ "Road To Seattle" (Newsletter) / en * www.Newsbulletin.org/bulletins/getcurrentbulletin.cfm? bulletin_id=67&sid= Seattle Citizen Committee/ en http://www.seattlewto.org "SHUTDOWN SEA-TOWN" / Seattle en http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/8771/nowto.html Third World Network / en * http://www.twnside.org.sg/souths/twn/trade.htm ================================================== European Groups involved in the Stop Millennium Round Campaign (without special WTO websites) ================================================== BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany) / de http://www.snafu.de/~bund or http://www.bund.net Center for Environmental Public Advocacy (Slovakia) / sk http://www.changenet.sk/cepa Friends of the Earth Europe / en http://www.foeeurope.org Friends of the Earth Czech /cz http://www.duhafoe.cz Friends of the Earth UK / en http:://www.foe.co.uk Trade, Environment and Sustainability: http://www.foe.co.uk/foei/tes KEPA Finland / fi http://www.kepa.fi Movimiento contra la Europa de Maastricht / es http://www.nodo50.org/maast Oxfam Belgium / fr en http://www.oxfamsol.be ============================ Organizations and Treaties - more or less pushing Globalization ============================ ---------------------------- FREE TRADE AREAS ---------------------------- APEC http://www.apec.org Secretariat http://www.apecsec.org.sg/ ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) http://www.asean.or.id/ MERCOSUR http://www.americasnet.com/mauritz/mercosur/ WEF Santiago Summit, May 1999: http://www.weforum.org/Activities/Regional/Mercosur/live99/ trade and investment report: http://www.mercosurinvestment.com/ SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Agreement) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) http://www.south-asia.com/saarc/ ---------------------------- INDUSTRIAL LOBBY GROUPS ---------------------------- ERT (European Round Table of Industrialists) http://www.ert.be/ ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) http://www.iccwbo.org UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe) USCIB (US Council for International Business) http://www.uscib.org/ Expo 2000: http://www.expo2000.de/ Back to SeattleWTO Homepage ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. 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