sweatshops
links on the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Nov 2000 Bangladesh
sweatshop fire, and the 1991 Tyson
chicken factory fire. also see a good article about this issue here
for data on current debt peonage/debt slavery see Anti-Slavery
International, London
National Labor Committee
is a US organization working on campaigns with US consumers
supporting labor rights in the third world. They have worked on campaigns against
Disney and Kohl's.
The Clean Clothes Campaign
United Students Against Sweatshops
is a student organization on college campuses across
the US
Global
Exchange
is a US organization working on GAP/Old Navy campaigns.
US Labor Education in the Americas Project
(US/LEAP)
Indigenous
Peoples & Oil
the
U'wa (Colombia)
are opposing Occidental Petroleum's attempt
to drill on their land. They believe the land is sacred and they have a responsibility
to protect it. They have threatened mass suicide. Oxy has started exploratory
drilling.
Project
Underground compiles all sorts of info on mining projects
and the people affected all over the world.
Rainforest
Action Network is involved in many campaigns that affect
indigenous people, including forestry as well as oil.
Third
World Debt
Jubilee
2000 is an international
inter-faith coalition working for the forgiveness of third world debt.
Jubilee
South is the network of Southern/3rd world organizations
working for debt relief.
World
Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign the strategy and plans of
this campaign.
50
Years is Enough has been working for over a decade to
dismantle the World Bank and IMF.
Global
Exchange
has lots of projects in the third world, including debt
relief, fair trade, and reality tours.
Satire
very funny stuff from "The Whirled Bank" but accurate statistics!
Third
World Network publishes on a wide
range of issues affecting the third world.
Bank
Information Center provides
reports on the World Bank & IMF.
States of Unrest
a thorough report
on current resistance to the World Bank & IMF in third world countries.
Police
Brutality, Racial Profiling,
and the Prison Industrial Complex
CopCrimes.com
great site.
Prison
Activist Resource Center
all kinds of information and connections to activist
organizations
International
Action Center
has excellent information on military industrial
complex and prison industrial complex.
Jokes from the Fort
Collins Police Association newsletter It's pretty frightening
to read what cops think is funny.
Palestine
Daily Updates
from Palestine
Lots of statistics
Mideast
Watch
Lots of analysis.
Middle East
Research and Information Project
More analysis
Palestine
Aid Society of America with ideas about how to help
out
Free
Trade & the WTO
check out brand new report on "NAFTA
at 7 years" at the Institute for
Policy Studies webpage
Global
Trade Watch
Great way to learn about NAFTA, WTO, TABD, MAI
and all the newest trade agreements.
Corporate
Watch
Really cool on-line magazine with information
about how corporations control the international economy
.
Third
World Network from
Penang, Malaysia is the best source for third world perspectives on free trade
and international institutions.
Info on upcoming
protests of the FTAA negotiations in Quebec City: US networking at http://www.stopftaa.org,
organizations: Center for
Media Alternatives Quebec, Opération
Québec Printemps, and CLAC
(Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal. All of these
sites have a place you can click for english translation.
War
School
of the Americans Watch
SOA is a US military training academy where
many third world military personnel have been trained. SOA is clearly linked
with genocides and repression, particularly in Latin America. Religious and
other activists have been protesting annually in an attempt to get the SOA
closed. Recently it was closed and reopened under another name.
Voices
in the Wilderness is an organization
dedicated to exposing the effects of sanctions against Iraq.
What
is really going on? You
need 
AdBusters
is lots of fun!
