WTO (World Trade Organization): Suggested Source Material

Approaching WTO Education: World Trade Organization (WTO) in the Classroom Curriculum, including two lessons developed by Global Source Education:
http://www.world-affairs.org/GlobalClassroom/GCResources.htm#WTOonline

Free Publications by and from the World Trade Organization (email WTO Publications: publications@wto.org):

• Focus Magazine free subscription upon request. Also downloadable from the Internet site: http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/focus_e/focus_e.htm
• The World Trade Organization: Trading into the Future Free on request.
• Video: Ministerial Conference, Singapore 1996 - Global Challenges English, French, Spanish versions available. Length: 24 minutes. Available in PAL, SECAM, NTSC. Free on request.

The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations
By Janet Thomas, Fulcrum Publishing, Gulden Colorado, 2000. In the first published account of the protests against the WTO ministerial meetings in Seattle in November 1999, Janet Thomas examines who was behind the protests, why they were so important in galvanizing a global movement, and where the alliance of activists will go from here.

Whose Trade Organization: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy
By Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza, Public Citizen, Washington, D.C., 1999. Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch produced this citizen guide book to the WTO after documenting the World Trade Organization for 5 years. The group makes the case that the U.S. and other governments favor corporate interests above the interests of citizens, and that multi-national institutions such as the WTO are anathema to democracy.

The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization
By Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza, Seven Stories Press, New York, 1999. A pamphlet on the expanding corporate economy from the point of view that the interests of big business is undermining democracy. Intro. by Ralph Nader.