Globalization Archive
At the WTO protests in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we had not seen in this country for decades.
Dr. Helen Caldicott on the profound medical, environmental, political, and moral effects of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear waste.
Bruce Gagnon, founder and director of the Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space, spoke at the Louden Nelson Community Center.
Radical folk musician and organizer Ryan Harvey, along with others, called into Free Radio Santa Cruz from New Haven to give an update on the DNC2RNC march.
The biotechnology industry meeting in San Francisco was countered by an alternative gathering called Reclaim the Commons, from June 3-9, 2004.
In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
More than 30 people showed up in downtown Santa Cruz to express their opposition to Corporate America
NAFTA has forced millions of subsistence farmers to migrate to other parts of Mexico and the US. Before NAFTA went into effect in 1994, Mexican farmers had been protected from the inexpensive, low quality, and mass-produced corn grown in the US.
BIO consists of representatives from the world's largest and most influential multinational agricultural and pharmaceutical corporations.