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International Forum on Globalization              Materiales en español RECENT IFG PUBLICATIONS  The False Promise of Biofuels  The Rise and Predictable Fall of Globalized Industrial Agriculture  Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization NEW EDITION FROM SIERRA CLUB BOOKS!  Manifesto on Global Economic Transitions  Toward A Campaign in Support of The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples  Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible provides detailed alternatives to the current rules and institutions of economic globalization. Written by leading researchers and activists, the report discusses viable alternatives that are more democratic, socially equitable, and environmentally sound than the present model. Read more...  Download the report New Report from the Council of Canadians Our Water Commons - Toward a new freshwater narrative Written by Maude Barlow Our Water Commons is part of the ongoing work to bring together key activists, writers and thinkers to address the global water crisis by naming and reclaiming the freshwater commons. Maude Barlow in San Francisco December 2nd! Challenging Corporate Control of Water: A Public Discussion Date: December 2, 2008 Time: 7:00 – 9:30 PM Place: Mission Cultural Center Address: 2868 Mission Street, SF This is a free event and the public is welcome. download the flyer UN President Appoints Canadian as New Senior Advisor on Water Maude Barlow appointed first Senior Advisor on water issues by Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd session of the United Nations. More... The Citation of Lifetime Achievement Canada's highest environmental award presented to Maude Barlow Click here to read more IFG Congratulates our Board Member Annie Leonard, creator of the acclaimed video "The Story of Stuff" on being named a TIME Magazine Hero of the Environment 2008    Heroes of the Environment 2008: Annie Leonard By BRYONY SCHWAN Bryony Schwan is executive director of the Biomimicry Institute in Montana My friends often don't believe me when I say I can spend an entire evening listening to stories about garbage and be completely mesmerized. That's because they haven't met Annie Leonard. She has been relentlessly explaining the absurdity of our throwaway culture to me and many others for decades. While her mastery of detail is impressive, it's her passionate style that transforms bleak facts into emotive stories that compel you to take action. read the rest of the TIME Magazine Article....  Please join us: Bay Area Speaking dates: • City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, 7PM, Dec. 10 • Modern Times Bookstore, SF, 7 PM, Jan. 28 • Pt. Reyes Books, Pt. Reyes Station, 7PM, Feb. 7 • Book Passage, Larkspur, 4PM, Feb. 8 • Others to be announced NEW BOOK BY IFG’S JERRY MANDER "The SuperFerry Chronicles" Hawaii’s Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism, and the Desecration of the Earth “Open this book and dive into a story of almost allegoric proportions. Let it embolden you to stand up for our Earth, its beauty and its creatures, including ourselves.” ---Frances Moore Lappe, author Diet for a Small Planet and Hope’s Edge “The idea of boats to connect the Hawaiian Islands is so natural and lovely that it makes one doubly made to read how in this case it’s been perverted into yet one more sad scheme for our paranoid future. Good for you—people of Hawaii—who’ve raised the alarm, and to these authors for pulling back the curtain.” --- Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy, founder 350.org “In every era, simple events become symbols of greater forces that shape human history. The “Superferry Chronicles” brings one such moment alive. This book captures the spirit of that defining event and reveals the corporate manipulation, political bullying, corruption, and deceit that lay behind the Hawaii Superferry.” ----Lucienne de Naie, Chair, Sierra Club Hawaii “I applaud the authors for bringing the voices of the grassroots to the foreground. The people make history, and the people of Kauai have made us proud.” ----Ikaika Hussey, Publisher, the Hawaii Independent Book also available now at Amazon.com THIS INSPIRING new book by award-winning Kauai film-maker Koohan Paik, and IFG director Jerry Mander, is an astonishing report of a successful local citizens’ uprising confronting an invasive corporate project controlled by big military financiers 6,000 miles away, with potentially disastrous environmental consequences especially for whales and other sealife. Their investigation also reveals interlocking connections to Pentagon plans for U.S. Navy expansion in the Pacific, as well as the deeply shocking performance by Hawaii’s rightwing governor, Linda Lingle, who pushed the project forward despite a Supreme Court ruling against it. John F. Lehman: The infamous wealthy NY military financier, former Secretary of Defense under Reagan (where he famously advocated for first strike nuclear war), a leading neocon—-close colleague of Richard Perle, a member of 9-11 commission, and the man that the NY Times said would likely be John McCain’s chief of staff (if he’d won.) Lehman ALSO owns this odd new ferryboat service in Hawaii, which sounds innocent enough, but it isn’t. The boat is a hi-tech, very high speed shallow water aluminum catamaran boat much bigger than a football field, five stories high, completely out of scale for use in Hawaii. Many observers believe it’s the prototype for the Navy’s hopes to expand the Pacific fleet--a strong desire of Lehman's going back to Reagan days-- by building 55 similar high speed ferries, fitted as transports and gunboats, to be part of the controversial Joint High Speed Vessel and Littoral Combat Ship programs. John McCain talked about the project in the second debate. The idea is to be prepared for possible military threats from China, which is reportedly now developing similar shallow water high speed boats. Many believe its introduction of this colossus to Hawaii was mainly as a try-out, or an in-the-water test run for its military uses. A few days ago, the Navy announced it would go ahead with ten more almost identical boats from the same manufacturer that builds the Superferry. download the pdf flyer... IFG Teach-In: Confronting the Global "Triple Crisis" "Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion & Extinction" Held September 14-16, 2007  Resources and Publications • Audio and Video • Teach-In Program • Workshops • Speaker Biographies • Speaker Presentations "Manifesto on Global Economic Transitions" "IFG Report: The False Promise of Biofuels" Purchase CDs and DVDs IFG Triple Crisis Teach-In Featured on Democracy Now! • Vandana Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third World • "From Empire to Earth Community: Author David Korten on "The Great Turning" • "Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist Language to Talk About Climate Change • Michael Klare on the Internal War For Control of Iraq's Oil GLOBALIZATION RESOURCES and ANALYSIS by IFG and IFG ASSOCIATES Globalization and Empire-Building Analysis of current issues The Hijacking of the Development Debate: How Friedman and Sachs Got It Wrong by John Cavanagh and Robin Broad China Copes with Globalization: A Mixed Review (version released in German) Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization Global to Local: What You Can Do (section from Alternatives to Economic Globalization) WTO The Other Oil War: Halliburton's Agenda at the WTO (also, en español) WTO 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Analysis of the WTO's July 2004 Framework Package Analysis of WTO Collapse in Cancun Focus on the Global South Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Third World Network FTAA, CAFTA, GATS and other Multilateral Trade Agreements Council of Canadians Friends of the Earth Global Exchange Polaris Institute Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Agriculture and Biotechnology Center for Food Safety International Society for Ecology and Culture Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization. Representing over 60 organizations in 25 countries, the International Forum on Globalization associates come together out of a shared concern that the world's corporate and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may prove as historically significant as any event since the Industrial Revolution. This restructuring is happening at tremendous speed, with little public disclosure of the profound consequences affecting democracy, human welfare, local economies, and the natural world. Read more...   RECENT NEWS FROM IFG: 1999 Joint Statement by IFG, IPS, TWN and FOE on Global Financial Reform Download the article (pdf) Read Victor Menotti's Article "Derailing Doha and the Pathway to a New Paradigm" Download the article (pdf) IFG board member Maude Barlow discusses her book, BLUE COVENANT: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.  Click Here to Watch IFG at the UN Bali Conference on Climate Change. Reports from staff, board members and associates. Click Here to Read Blog IFG's "Greensumption" Video and Jerry Mander Interview Featured on New York Times blog Dot Earth November 14th, 2007: Jerry Mander Interview on Dot Earth - NY Times' Climate BLOG (edited version) Full Text of Jerry Mander Interview with New York Times Reporter Andrew Revkin (pdf) Check out IFG's YouTube video "GREENSUMPTION"  IFG Recommended Reading:  Field Guide to the Global Economy, by John Cavanagh, IFG President, with Sarah Anderson and Thea Lee. This updated edition of Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy. A great resource! Read more...  20% discount for IFG members! Green Alternatives to Globalisation, by Michael Woodin and IFG Associate Caroline Lucas. The authors, both UK Green Party members, show how economic localization can help solve many current international crises. Read more...  Whose Trade Organization? 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