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• - Alliance formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization. Members view globalization as an extreme restructuring of social, economic and political system with profound effects on humans and the
  
• - A campaign to promote free trade and free markets.
  
• - The World Development Movement (WDM) tackles the root causes of world poverty. It campaigns for fairer world trade, regulating multinationals and cancelling Third World debt.
  
• - The European Fair Trade Association follows events and policy in the EU concerning its subject. Annotated news links.
  
• - Section of Public Citizen, a public-interest group founded by Ralph Nader, GTW promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor "free trade."
  
• - Activist organization opposed to corporate globalization.
  
• - A lobbying organization promoting free-trade laws and international agreements.
  
• - An organization defending free trade.
  
• - Coalition of political organizations meeting to have global trade meet human needs first.
  
• - An international organization working to introduce Tobin-type tax and opposing free trade, globalization and neoliberalism.
  
• - A coalition of labor, environmental, religious, family farm, and consumer organizations united in the pursuit of socially and environmentally just trade policy.
  
• - An open platform for discussing strategies of resistance to neo-liberal globalisation, and alternative paths to sustainable development and social and economic justice. Includes meeting and event information, news and articles.
  
• - Introduces international effort designed to promote ethical trade.
  
• - A loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting against the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading systems. Site includes articles relating to agriculture, Hong Kong, Trade-Related Aspects
  
• - IFAT is a federation of producers and "alternative" trading organizations (ATOs), that encourage models of international trade that are direct and fair to all parties.
  
• - A group of organizations that are concerned with the impact of international trade rules on the poorest people in the world, the environment, and democracy.
  
• - A conference meeting in resistance to the meetings of the World Economic Forum which push for the globalization of capitalism.
  
• - Papers, articles, and pamphlets on free trade, and the institutions that support it.
  
• - A working group established by Oxfam's volunteers that advocates for small, poor and disadvantaged producers in developing countries through fair prices and working conditions.
  
• - Includes action items, facts and debates about issues such as coffee, reports, impacts on real lives, and events around the world.
  
• - Campaign of Swedish conservative and libertarian student clubs who believe that free trade is one of the most fundamental principles of a free society, and that free trade increases both liberty and economic prosperity in a society.