Globalization

Everything related to Globalization:

The WTO, IMF, and World Bank: What are they and why are they evil.
Seattle 1999: What happened, why did it happen and what has it changed?

The WTO, IMF, and World Bank: The unholy trinity

Since 1982, the IMF and the World Bank have been the targets of increasing public protest over their conduct in the developing world. There's still some confusion, though, over these institutions: What do they do, exactly? When and why were they founded? What's their relationship to the United States and the other major economic powers?

To answer some of these questions, we've prepared this beginner's guide to the IMF and the Bank. This was written as a primer for the 16 April 2000 protests in Washington, DC, and it outlines the history of the global economy (and especially developing-country debt) since 1945, as well as some of the big questions about the problems and future direction of the IMF and World Bank.

Read the beginners guide here (or you can download the document in MS-WORD format here)

Seatle 1999

What is already here:

ACLU report in html or in postscript
National Lawyers Guild report:

What will hopefully follow:

History of Seattle and preparation
Analysis of what it meant
Analysis of it's implications
other fun and interesting stuff

Last modified: Wednesday, 07-Feb-2001 00:04:51 EST