TOES - USA Related Websites
(Last updated 7/24/97)
G-7 and G-8 information
- University of Toronto G-7 Information Centre (UT G-7 Info Ctr). A Canadian University library making sure the world has access to information about the G-7 and G-8.
- U.S. State Department's G-8 Page.
- Denver Summit of the Eight web site. Useful links, e.g., to press coverage, G-7 history, past communiques, agenda.
- Statement of the NGO Africa Trade Policy Working Group, a coalition of Washington, D.C., NGOs, addressed to the G-7 leaders who will be meeting in Denver, CO, June 20-23, 1997. It argues that trade initiatives must be part of comprehensive social and economic development efforts if they are to achieve broad-based, sustainable economic growth, and identifies key elements of a comprehensive policy, including sustainability and giving priority to economically poor majorities.
- On-line Course on the Summit of 8 taught through CU Denver. For more information, contact Diana Denison, e-mail: denison@mscd.edu; web site: http://www.mscd.edu/~econ/eco345/.
General Peace and Social Justice Information on the Web
Periodicals and Publishers
- Yes! Magazine or Yes! Magazine.
- People Centered Development Forum (PCDF).
David Korten's News Service.
- Dollars & Sense. Dollars & Sense Magazine explains the workings of the U.S. and international economies and provides left perspectives on economic affairs. It is edited by a collective of economists, journalists, and activists who are commited to social justice and economic democracy. See the article on the Denver Peoples' Summit/TOES '97 in the May/June 1997 issue.
- New Society Publishers online catalogue.
- Pacifica Radio.
- The Progressive Populist.
- Third World Resurgence, Third World perspectives on the environment, economics, trade, development, indiginous peoples, the rainforest, etc. Articles by Martin Khor, Vandana Shiva, Jeremy Seabrook and others from the Third World Network.
- Southside. Another Third World Network website.
Environmental and Social Justice Groups who deal with economic issues
- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). This site is really impressive.
- Conservation International. Uses science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in rainforest and other eco-systems worldwide.
- Council of Canadians. Maude Barlow's independent non-partisan citizens' interest group providing a progressive voice onkey national social and economic issues.
- The Dutch Coalition for a Different Europe brings together more than 50 Dutch NGOs and political parties on issues like EMU, environment, marches against unemployment, democracy, anti-racism, EU and the South, Feminist Europe and Peaceful Europe. They did an Alternative Summit in Amsterdam June 12-17, 1997.
- E. F. Schumacher Society.
- EnviroLink. Advice, news, and statistics on an array of environmental issues. Provides links to more than 350 environmental groups and 25 federal regulatory agencies.
- GANE (General Agreement on a New Economy), from Ruth Caplan's Economics Working Group, a project of the Tides Foundation.
- Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE). Neva Goodwin's institute at Tufts University in Boston.
- Global Exchange home page. Global Exchange has recently published a report on the human rights sitution of teachers in Mexico entitled "Mexican Teachers and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico." The report includes a concise history of the growth and repression of the democratic teachers' movement in Mexico, human rights abuses teachers currently face, and information about a growing international teachers' movement called the Tri-National Coalition in Defense of Public Education and what it is doing to support Mexican teachers. On the Global Exchange web page, look under 'Campaigns' and then 'Mexico'.
- Global Futures.
- HealthWrights. David Werner's organization. Werner is perhaps best know for his book Donde No Hay Un Medico. HealthWrights publishes Newsletter from the Sierra Madre about their work in Sinaloa, Mexico, and other places.
- Indigenous Environmental Network.
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
- The Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) is a nonprofit research and analysis policy institute with offices located in Albuquerque and Silver City, NM. The IRC is a member of the 50 Years is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice, a coalition working to bring profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Contact: Erik Leaver, Communications Director, Box 4506, Albuquerque, NM 87196; tel: 505-842-8288; fax: 505-246-1601; email: leaver@swcp.com or resourcectr@igc.apc.org; web: http://www.zianet.com/infocus
- IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development.
- International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). Herman Daly's professional organization.
- LA PLANETE. We are a French association involved in creating a prize: "Eco-citizen and Sustainable Development." Our web page presents our goals and gives news. Your feedback and remarks are welcome and, why not your participation? You can see on our web site a demonstration of our next CD Rom to be issued on next June: It will be the first environmental CD Rom inFrance entirely linked to the Internet, including a dictionary with more than 2 000 environmental web sites: from any word on this CD Rom, it will be possible to be linked to a WEB Site explaining that word .
- Les Périphériques. A large French consortium of grassroots environmental and social justice groups. Signatories of their "Etats du Devenir" include MAUSS, Ecologie et temps, Transversales Science/Culture, Jaques Robin, le Monde Diplomatique, ICARE, REAS (ALDEA, which sponsored the 1989 TOES, merged with REAS), Ignacy Sachs, Isabelle Stengers, François Plassard, et bien d'autres…
- National Centre for Sustainability, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Yves Bajard, Secty.
- Public Citizen's Trade Watch (TradeWatch)
- South African New Economics Network (SANE). Neat site.
- Third World Network, Third World perspectives on the environment, economics, trade, development, indiginous peoples, the rainforest, etc. Articles by Martin Khor, Vandana Shiva, Jeremy Seabrook and others from Third World Resurgence.
- Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
- Southside. Another Third World Network website.
- TRANET
- Union of Concerned Scientists home page.
- Scientists' Warning to Humanity, issued in 1992 by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), signed by 99 Nobel Prize winners and 1,500 members of national, regional, and international science academies from 69 nations, including the 12 most populous and the 19 largest economic powers. It begins: "Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will being about."
Mexico and NAFTA
Living Lightly, Consuming Less, "Downshifting"
Local Currencies, Microcredit, New Financial Instruments
- Ithaca Hours local currency.
- Results. Microcredit Summit.
- Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative Union, Japan. There is a lot more to this organization than you'll find at this site.
Corportions, Sustainable Business, Socially Responsible Investing
Labor Issues, Cross-Border Worker Solidarity
Disarmament, Non-Violence, Firearms Control
- Abolition 2000. Pacific Indigenous Peoples on Decolonization, the abolition of nuclear weapons, and the end of nuclear testing.
- Center for Defense Information. Disarmament. Monitors the U.S. military, especially military spending.
- Center for Economic Conversion.
- Physicians for Social Responsibility. Their "New Programs for the 90s" extend beyond nuclear disarmament issues to firearms control, workplace contaminants and violence in the United States, large-scale industrial pollution in Eastern Europe and emerging threats to Earth's life-support systems. PSR's programs tackle problems that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable among us - children, the poor, and people of color.
Indigenous Peoples
Government, Politics, and Politicians
Agriculture and Food Security
- AgBiz Tiller On-Line. "If you are interested in what the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index has to do with corporate concentration, or how the United States and Bill Clinton weaseled out at the recent World Food Summit in Rome, or who are the top 25 private agribusiness corporations, the top twenty agribusiness corporations in terms of profitability, and the top 30 agribusiness land barons, it is all in the March 1, 1997 issue of The Tiller."
- Food First, Institute for Food and Development Policy.
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) (IATP).
Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Housing
Philosophy and Culture
Other People's Suggested Lists of Useful Links
- Robert Pollard's List of environmental links. Links to environmental groups like GreenPeace and Sierra Club, religious groups, the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the UN CSD, Habitat II, and more.
- Guy Dauncey's List of useful links.
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