This event was recorded by the Independent Media Center and is posted on the A-Infos Radio Project web site. Click on red links to download audio recordings of the Teach-In panels.

10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
I. Globalization's Triple Threat: WTO, IMF & the World Bank
       More than fifty years ago at Bretton Woods, the world's leading corporate, government, and economic figures designed a new centralized world economic system. It effectively placed global corporations in charge, via instruments like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and finally the World Trade Organization. This panel presents overviews of this global triad and its grim effects on the environment, small business, social welfare, democracy, culture, sovereignty, labor, indigenous peoples, and the global poor.

Jerry Mander, International Forum on Globalization, U.S.
Anuradha Mittal, Institute for Food & Development Policy, U.S.
Herman Daly, University of Maryland, U.S.
Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years is Enough Network, Kenya
Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies, U.S.
Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange, U.S. Edward Goldsmith, The Ecologist, UK
Danny Kennedy, Project Underground,

12:30 - 2:45 p.m.
II. Reports from the planet: IMF's and World Bank's Devastating "Structural Adjustment Programs"
       Panelists in this session present specific reports about consequences of IMF and World Bank loans on countries that were required to restructure their economies toward corporate-based export systems. Often, the entire social, economic, and political fabric of nations is laid waste, with particularly gruesome effects on the poor, workers, and middle classes. Health care, small business assistance, environment and natural resource protections, and services to the poor are usually the first to be eliminated. In the end, the economies are not lifted, and huge debts are unpayable.

Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth, U.S.
Catherine Caufield, Author: Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations, U.S.
Emmy Hafild, Indonesian Environmental Forum (WALHI), Indonesia
Carlos Chen, Maya Achi, Guatemala
Bertha Lujan, Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, Mexico
Dennis Brutus, Jubilee 2000, South Africa
Catherine Tactaquin, National Network for Immigrant Rights, U.S.

2:45 - 5:00 p.m.
III. The Technological Dimension: Globalization of Corporate Communications & Military Technologies
       Communication technologies and the Internet were supposed to enhance empowerment and democracy but have instead become the crucial infrastructure for the globalization of corporate commercial and political power. Now in the wake of merger mania (Time Warner, AOL, EMI, et. al.),"information society" is revealed to be centralized, corporatized, hegemonic, and globally homogenizing. Similar developments among military technology industries—hidden from public view, and exempted from trade rules, subsidy limits, and even WTO controls—are creating a new global military infrastructure that is designed to protect the new global corporate order.

Jerry Mander, International Forum on Globalization, U.S.
Mark Crispin Miller, Project on Media Ownership, NYU, U.S.
Robert McChesney, Author: Rich Media, Poor Democracy, U.S.
Steven Staples, International Network on Disarmament & Globalization, Canada
Randall Christine Forsberg, Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies, U.S.
Andrew Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment, U.S.

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. dinner break

6:00 - 8:15 p.m.
IV. The Casino Economy: The Anatomy of Global Control
       The International Monetary Fund sits at the hub of an international financial system that places the interests of global investors, speculators, and corporations above all other values. It seeks to force all countries to abandon self-reliance, and open themselves to "free trade" in capital as much as in commodities. This has made Third World countries especially vulnerable to the whims of investment bankers and currency speculators and it is a direct cause of the terrible global financial crises of the last decade. This panel describes the details of how this works, who gains and who loses, and what to do about it.

John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, U.S.
David Korten, Author: The Post Corporate World, U.S.
Michele Chan-Fishel, Friends of the Earth, U.S.
William Greider, The Nation, U.S.
Yao Graham, Third World Network, Ghana
Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute, Canada
Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South, Thailand

8:15 - 10:30 p.m.
V. Reports from the Planet: Effects of the IMF, World Bank, and WTO on Environment, Energy, Agriculture, Biodiversity & Culture
       This panel focuses on sectoral effects of globalization policies, as expressed by its three main institutions. We describe effects on farmers, food and agriculture—especially from the forced introduction of biotechnology—on global fresh water supplies, on forests and the environment, and on the choice and application of energy systems, as well as the profound effects upon democracy itself.

Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians, Canada
Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, India
Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, U.S.
Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization, U.S.
Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, U.S.
Oronto Douglas, Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria
Special guest: Ralph Nader, Public Citizen, U.S.