International Forum on Globalization

Template:TOCnestleft International Forum on Globalization is a partner organization of the Institute for Policy Studies.

About

The organization has described itself as follows:

"The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is a new alliance of leading activists, economists, researchers, and writers, representing 40 organizations in 20 countries who have joined together to respond to the threats of economic globalization to the environment, communities, human rights, equity and democracy.

We believe the world's corporate and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may be as historically significant as any event since the industrial revolution. If continued, this trend will have grave impacts on every aspect of human life, and on the natural world."

This public event is the second in a series being held in the United States, Canada, and abroad, to focus increased attention on the major issues resulting from the rush to globalize.

As at Sept. 11, 2008, the following were Task Force members for the organization: Mark Ritchie, Debi Barker, Maude Barlow, Walden Bello, Agnes Bertrand, Brent Blackwelder, John Cavanagh, Tony Clarke, Edward Goldsmith, Randy Hayes, Colin Hines, Martin Khor, Andy Kimbrell, David Korten, Sara Larrain, Jerry Mander, Victor Menotti, Anuradha Mittal, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Steve Shrybman and Lori Wallach.

In her 2007 book, Global Activism, Ruth Reitan writes of the forum,

"Since its inception this forum was a brokerage site for the "who's who" of anti-corporate scholar-activists: The COC's Barlow and Focus's Bello were brought together, in addition to... David Korten of People Centered Development Forum, and Mark Ritchie of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, among many others."

Cosponsors

• Institute for Policy Studies IPS
• Public Citizen
• Sierra Club
• Third World Network TWN
• Friends of the Earth-US - Friends of the Earth
• Council of Canadians
• The Ecologist Magazine
• Rainforest Action Network RAN
• Chilean Ecological Action Network
• Citizen's Trade Campaign
• Food First
• Overseas Development Network
• Human Society International
• 50 Years is Enough Network
• International Society for Ecology and Culture
• Learning Alliance

25 Speakers and Workshops

• Ralph Nader - Center for the Study of Responsive Law
• Vandana Shiva - Third World Network
• David Korten - People-Centered Development Forum
• John Cavanagh - IPS
• Richard Grossman - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
• Walden Bello - Focus on the Global South, a Philippino communist who taught at an unversity there and in Thailand, had reported ties to the Maoist terrorists the New Peoples Army NPA, and was the admitted planner of the violence-wracked World Trade Organization WTO meeting in Seattle, in 1998? FIND DATE and NPA citation from congressional sources.
• Randy Hayes - RAN
• Maude Barlow - Council of Canadians
• Edward Goldsmith - The Ecologist Magazine
• Martin Khor - Third World Network TWN
• Richard Moore - Southwest Network for Economic and Social Justice SWNESJ, a veteran leftist leader of the Anti-Defense Lobby, especially in the Mobilization for Survival MFS
• Brent Blackwelder - Friends of the Earth
• George Gerbner - Cultural Environmental Movement
• Carl Pope - Sierra Club
• Mark Ritchie - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy IATP, and a "friend" of the Minnesota Communist Party. See his page for full details and documentation. In the late 2000s, he became the Secretary of State for Minnesota and was suspected of helping to tilt the vote in the U.S. Senate race to Al Franken (versus Norman Coleman (R-MINN).
• Barbara Shailor - IAMAW, AFL-CIO, one of the most powerful women in the leftist labor movement
• Helena Norberg-Hodge - International Society for Ecology and Culture
• Sara Larrain - Chilean Ecological Action Network
• Jerry Mander - Public Media Center (the prepared the full page notice)

External links

• International Forum on Globalization website

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