
The resources below were taken directly from our pre-conference survey. To submit a resource, please email Jennifer Patrick. Thanks!
Lucy Atkin
Margaret Sanger Center International
Planned Parenthood of New York City
www.safeyouthworldwide.org
Patrice Barrat | bio
Bridge Initiative International
www.madmundo.tv
www.openun.org
An article about the OPEN UN event will be posted.
Globalisation: Violence or Dialogue?
a film I did in 2001
Barbara Bramble | bio
National Wildlife Federation
Document will be posted.
Francis Calpotura | bio
Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action
Survey of Money Transfer senders from the U.S. to their communities of origin (Eng, Sp, Fr).
'Money Down the Wire' research on global context of remittances and emergence of new constituency
Organizational Resolutions in support of campaign (Eng, Sp, Fr).
All of these are at www.transnationalaction.org
Michelle Chan-Fishel | bio
Friends of the Earth
Evaluation of Equator Principles Implementation (2005) (PDF)
Corporate Accounting Standards and Stock Exchange Listing Requirements
Principles for Responsible Investing (UNEP) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Financial Sector Supplement
Shareholder activism handbook
Stephen Coats | bio
U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project
Document will be posted.
Terry Collingsworth | bio
International Labor Rights Fund
Document will be posted.
Frans de Clerck | bio
Triodos Bank
'Private Development Banking: Managing the Tensions' David Porteous, Harvard Business School (2005)
International Social Finance Network and Platform
Lalanath de Silva | bio
The Access Initiative & Partnership for Principle 10
World Resources Institute
The Access Initiative's assessment method
Results of the Access Initiative National Assessments
Commitments made by partners of the Partnership for Principle 10
Brief report on the October 2005 PP10 meeting in London
Mark Dworkin | bio
Moving Images
Net Loss [2003] - 52 min.
The salmon aquaculture industry produces huge quantities of farm raised fish but in the process threatens the economies of local coastal fishing communities, and the fragile marine environment. www.movingimages.org/page18.html
Another World Is Possible [2002] - 24 min.
What if 51,000 people from 131 countries put their heads together to discuss what is wrong with the world and how to work together to change it? That's what happened at the 2002 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Covered extensively by the international press, the Forum was barely mentioned by U.S. media. This film presents a sampling of the issues and events at this enormous and inspiring gathering.
www.movingimages.org/page16.html
Islas Hermanas [1999] - 28 min.
A celebration of a unique and burgeoning sister relationship between Bainbridge Island near Seattle Washington, and the Island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua. A positive example of international people-to-people relationships in this era of corporate globalization.
www.movingimages.org/page6.html
Willy Foote | bio
EcoLogic Finance
See EcoLogic Finance Description and Strategy document: www.ecologicfinance.org
Kevin Gallagher | bio
Global Development And Environment Institute
Tufts University
Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO: http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/other_books/PuttingDevelopmentFirst.htm
The Shrinking Gains from Trade: A Critical Assessment of the DOHA Projections: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/shrinking_gains.html
Amy Glasmeier | bio
The Pennsylvania State University
See my web site: www.povertyinamerica.psu.edu
for reports, tools, maps, etc., and an Atlas of Poverty in America
Heather Grady | bio
Ethical Globalization Initiative
Wye River Symposium on Strengthening Local Health Systems and Right to Health Statement
Statement of Principles on Trade
www.realizingrights.org
Priya Haji | bio
World of Good
Fair Trade Pricing Tool
www.fairtradecalculator.org
Randy Hayes | bio
International Forum on Globalization
Restructuring the Global Economy: Eradicating Bretton Woods and Creating New Institutions
Document to be posted.
Petr Hlobil | bio
CEE Bankwatch Network
Look for online movie - Sakhalin's Black Tears.
The threat to Sakhalin's precious environment becomes more imminent as the EBRD considers funding a local oil extraction project.
Do you think the World Bank is the biggest or worst of IFIs?
http://www.ifiwatchnet.org/eyes/item.shtml?x=42955
Better if you check about European Investment Bank. www.bankwatch.org/issues/eib/meib.html
Kimberly Kreiling | bio
The Sister Fund
www.rdiland.org
www.agros.org
www.ecologicfinance.org
Margaret Ladner | bio
Human Rights Advocates Program,
Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/humanrights/training/training.htm
Solana Larsen | bio
openDemocracy.net
Currently developing a project to create a wikipedia type online directory of all of civil society as a joint initiative with Civicus.
Jerry Maldonaldo | bio
Global Policy Innovations,
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Here's a link to an important new publication we authored: http://www.policyinnovations.org/page.php/prmID/121
Howard Mann | bio
International Institute
for Sustainable Development
IISD Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development, Negotiators' Handbook, 2005
Victory in the Methanex case
Nadia Martinez | bio
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
Institute for Policy Studies
www.ips-dc.org
Come to the IPS website and check out IPS's new report (by Sarah Anderson) on the debt boomerang
Also check out our work on the IFIs at www.seen.org
Michael Marx | bio
Corporate Ethics International
www.businessethicsnetwork.org
Go to the resources page
Jason Morrison | bio
Pacific Institute
Electronic document to be posted.
Beth Myers | bio
STITCH
http://www.stitchonline.org/whowhat.asp
http://www.stitchonline.org/archives/womenandwalmart.asp
http://www.stitchonline.org/curriculumprojectupdate.asp
http://www.stitchonline.org/documentation.asp
Peter Riggs | bio
Forum on Democracy & Trade
Trade Topics: Prescription Drugs
CAFTA'S Investment Chapter
Atila Roque
ActionAid
AAIUSA Changing Course Report (PDF)
Marc Rotenberg | bio
Electronic Privacy Information Center
The Public Voice WSIS Sourcebook: Perspectives on the World Summit on the Information Society (EPIC 2004)
http://epic.org/bookstore/pvsourcebook/
Privacy and Human Rights: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments (EPIC 2004)
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/phr2004/
The Public Voice Website
http://www.thepublicvoice.org/
Nadia Roumani
Global Policy Innovations
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
www.cceia.org
www.policyinnovations.org
Resources focus on positive, pragmatic policy alternatives to current system of economic globalization. Profiles experts and practitioners from the North and the Global South, and their institutions and bodies of work to display the critical mass of people working on positive alternatives.
'Fairer Globalization' series launched in 2006 focused on positive alternatives.
Annual Conference on Development and Change - bringing together young scholars across the Global South to focus on alternatives. First meeting to be held in India in December 2005.
Amy Shannon | bio
Enlaces América
See website of National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities for more info on this immigrant-led coalition
www.nalacc.org
Investing in Hope: Transnational Communities as Social and Political Entrepreneurs (Recent Article in Enlaces News)
Ralph Taylor
Metanoia Fund
Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative
Access Initiative
Generative Dialogue Project
www.generativedialogue.org
Hubert Tshiswaka Masoka | bio
Action Against Impuntiy for Human Rights
Human
Rights Advocates Program, Columbia University
ACIDH is based in Katanga province (DRC) working on: past crimes committed in DRC last 5 years that The International Criminal Court can investigate; and the role of corporates in human rights abuses. One of the cases studied is the Kilwa incident and the Australian company (Anvil Mining). ACIDH is working closely with RAID and OECD Watch to old accoutability of this company in Australia. (More details in the report to be posted.)
Mark Weisbrot | bio
Center for Economic and Policy Research
http://www.cepr.net/publications/development_2005_09.pdf
http://www.cepr.net/publications/econ_enviro_2005_09_12.pdf
http://www.cepr.net/publications/trade_2004_01_08.htm
Lynda Yanz | bio
Maquila Solidarity Network
Maquila Update - October 2005 (our newsletter)
www.maquilasolidarity.org
Brand Campaigns and Worker Organizing: Lessons from Lesotho, Thailand and Honduras (recent publication)
Codes Memo, October 2005 (e-publication assessing developments related to codes of conduct and labour rights in the garment industry)
www.maquilasolidarity.org
Sondra Youdelman | bio
Community Voices Heard
An online clearinghouse of popular education resources for grassroots organizations looking to integrate a global perspective into local work www.globallocalpoped.org
Melissa Young | bio
Moving Images
Argentine Hope in Hard Times [2005] - 74 min.
After a devastating economic collapse in 2001, Argentines mobilize to improve their situation. These inspiring stories - of neighborhood assemblies, worker-run factories, unemployed workers, community gardens - show regular people taking it upon themselves to make their country look more like their dreams.
www.movingimages.org/page22.html
Not For Sale / No Se Vende [2002] - 32 min.
What are the consequences of patents on life forms such as genes, seeds, and even human cell lines? NOT FOR SALE explores this question with case studies from Yellowstone to the headwaters of the Amazon, among farmers of the North and South and indigenous people.
www.movingimages.org/page5.html
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