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Allied Organizations


50 Years Is Enough: US Network for Global Economic Justice (http://www.50years.org) A coalition of 205 faith-based, policy, women's, justice, youth, labor and development organizations. It calls for the immediate suspension of the policies and practices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group "which have caused widespread poverty, inequality, and suffering among the world’s peoples and damage to the world’s environment."

Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr ) The largest research centre dealing with the study of globalisation and regionalisation in Europe. It has become an international site for research in this area.Located at the University of Warwick, Britain.

Global Tradewatch (www.tradewatch.org ) A division of Public Citizen that deals with international trade and investment policies.

Institute for International Economics (http://www.iie.com) A private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. "Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key international economic problems."

International Forum on Globalization (http://www.ifg.org ) Formed in response to the worldwide drive toward a globalized economic system dominated by supranational corporate trade and banking institutions, the San Francisco-based IFG advocates equitable, democratic and ecologically sustainable economics.

Jobs with Justice (http://www.jwj.org/)
JwJ's mission is to improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize. JwJ's core belief is that in order to be successful, workers' rights struggles have to be part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. To that end, JwJ has created a network of local coalitions that connect labor, faith-based, community, and student organizations to work together on workplace and community social justice campaigns.

Jubilee USA (http://www.jubileeusa.org/jubilee.cgi) Network began as Jubilee 2000/USA in 1997 when a diverse gathering of people and organizations came together in response to the international call for Jubilee debt cancellation. Now over 60 organizations including labor, churches, religious communities and institutions, AIDS activists, trade campaigners and over 9,000 individuals are active members of the Jubilee USA Network. Together we are a strong, diverse and growing network dedicated to working for a world free of debt for billions of people.

LaborNet (http://www.labornet.org/index.html) was founded in 1991 to build a democratic communication network for the labor movement. LaborNet's founders believe that the new communication technology must be put to use to revitalize and rebuild the labor movement.

Left Business Observer (http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html) is a regular newsletter of politics and economics, published by Nation contributing editor Doug Henwood.

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice http://www.nicwj.org/index.html
The National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice is a network of people of faith that calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

The National Priorities Project (NPP) http://www.nationalpriorities.org/aboutus/index.html offering citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice.

United for a Fair Economy (http://www.stw.org/about/index.html) was founded as a "movement support" organization to provide media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in our country.

United Students Against Sweatshops (http://home.sprintmail.com/~jeffnkari/USAS) United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is an international coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor.

Trade Observatory (http://www.tradeobservatory.org/pages/home.cfm) is the new home of WTO Watch. In 1999, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) opened WTO Watch in preparation for the WTO's Seattle Ministerial. As trade, globalization and sustainable development issues have evolved since the Seattle Ministerial, so has WTO Watch. In response to the growing interest in global trade policy, IATP has expanded its focus and merged WTO Watch with the Trade Observatory.

 

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