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2005
 WOMEN
AND GLOBALIZATION Conference July 27-August 3, 2005 at the Center
for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Resources including papers on-line at this link.
Actions
and Aftermaths: Starhawk's first post-G8 report describes the
blockades and the adverse effects of the London bombings on the participants.
Her second, Tatting
Down (July 11) gives an inside view of the activist encampment.
See her website for
the full series of reports. http://www.starhawk.org/
2-6
July 2005, Gleneagles, Scotland: G8 Summit Actions (what
is the G8?)
Further information at: http://www.dissent.org.uk
Dissent is the main group organizing actions.
http://www.g8alternatives.org.uk
Website for alternative forums, etc.
http://scotland.indymedia.org
Indymedia Scotland page
Read ecofeminist writer-activist Starhawk's
report on the big demonstration on July 3.
For excellent on-the-spot
coverage of the movement and actions in Bolivia against privatization
of energy resources, and for democracy,
see Jean
Friedsky's notebook reports.
Reports from the 5th
World Social Forum, January 2005, Brazil:
The Fifth WSF in the balance (click on English) "There were
155,000 participants, from 135 countries and 6,880 lecturers. More than
200,000 people in the opening march, 2,500 activities and 2,800 volunteers
that supported the organization" see
photos
Next year there will be regional social forums, and the next international
one will be held in 2007 in Africa.
Read
the WSF summary concluding statement here.
Read Another
World Is Possible on the event, by Marjorie Cohn, t
r u t h o u t | Perspective, 2 February 2005.
2003
FTAA:
in Miami Nov. 19 - 21 2003
What’s
wrong with the Free Trade Area of the Americas?
From
ecofeminist activist Starhawk:
Report
from Cancún
From Woman and Life on Earth co-coordinator and long-time globalization
activist Jean Grossholtz:
20 August
2003
Globalization is
happening; fortunately more rapidly by those opposed to corporate takeover
than by the governments and transnational corporations operating across
national borders to take control of the economy of the world, from the
peasant agriculture in Mexico to the oil resources of Iraq...
On
the Sacramento Mobilization Against Biotech and the WTO, June
20-25, 2003, By Starhawk
The Arrest of the Seed Balls --or What Universe Are We Living In?
http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/seedball_arrest.html
Globalization is not Gender Neutral
(This
article by German journalist-scholar Christa Wichterich, appeared in
the German daily newspaper the "taz" 25/26 January 2003)
From a feminist
perspective, Porto Alegre is not all that different from conventional
political gatherings.
Old and young leftist men set the tone in the movements critical of
globalization.
2001
50
Years Is Enough! Network demands for transformation of the IMF and World
Bank, in preparation for their annual meetings, Washington,
DC, September/October 2001
"Caring
for the Life of All We Demand Justice Globally" - A Women's
Declaration on the Occasion of the World Economic Forum Davos 2001
2000
The People's Caravan 2000 - "Citizen's
on the Move for Land and Food Without Poisons"
in India, Bangladesh, the Philippines
One year after massive
protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its
brand of globalisation-the People's Caravan 2000 ended three weeks of
activities in India, Bangladesh and the Philippines, with simultaneous
events in Japan, Korea and Indonesia. (more)
Actions against the World
Bank/IMF: Washington, DC, April 2000
1999
Whose Trade Organization? What's wrong with the WTO?
"The Battle of Seattle":
reports on the demonstrations against the WTO (Nov.-Dec. 1999)
Visit DAWN: women scholars and activists from the economic South
http://www.dawn.org.fj/
DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES
WITH WOMEN FOR A NEW ERA is a network of women scholars and activists
from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis
of the global environment and are committed to working for economic
justice, gender justice and democracy. DAWN works globally and regionally
in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific on the
themes of the Political Economy of Globalisation; Political Restructuring
and Social transformation; and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights,
in partnership with other global NGOs and networks.
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