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Media Packets From Past Events:

Press Releases

• New Scientific Report to be Released at Washington, DC Teach-In Challenges Industrial Biofuels as Greenhouse Gas Solution, September 14, 2007

• International Coalition of NGOs Calls for Adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, August 29, 2007

• FIRST WASHINGTON, DC PUBLIC TEACH-IN ON GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS, August 21, 2007

• The Rise and Predictable Fall of Globalized Industrial Agriculture(download the report), April 18, 2007
  

• China Copes with Globalization: A Mixed Review (Read the Executive Summary and Introduction) , December 9, 2005
  

• Five-Years After the "Battle of Seattle," Preeminent Global Scholars Present Real Alternatives to Economic Globalization and Declare A Better World is Possible! November 16, 2004
  
  

DOWNLOAD THE ALTERNATIVES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE (2nd edition, October 2004) PRESS RELEASE FROM PUBLISHER BERRETT-KOEHLER

IFG IN THE NEWS

As We Stand on the Brink of Catastrophe, Bio-Fuels are no Magic Bullet, by Debi Barker & Jerry Mander, Alternet, September 12, 2007

A Nice Little War to Fill the Coffers, by Antonia Juhasz, Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2004

The Hand-Over That Wasn't: Illegal Orders Give the U.S. a Lock on Iraq's Economy, by Antonia Juhasz, Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2004

Despite Risk, Iraqis Must Control Iraq, The Times and Democrat (South Carolina), June 21, 2004


Despite Timing of CAFTA Signing, Bush Administration Cannot Prevent Public Scrutiny of Failed NAFTA Model
Statement by Lori M. Wallach, IFG Board Member and Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch,
May 27, 2004

Democracy vs. Corporate Rule: How the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Allows Investor Rights to Trump the Public Interest, Statement by Antonia Juhasz, Project Director, May 27, 2004

PAST NEWS

Free Trade Area of the Americas Summit, Miami, Florida, November 20-21, 2003

Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, From Seattle to Miami, The Nation, December,1 2003

Walden Bello, ORIGINAL FTAA VISION SCRAPPED AS PEOPLE POUR INTO MIAMI FOR ANTI-FREE TRADE PROTEST, November 21, 2003

Lori Wallach, Press Release - The Beginning of the End of FTAA: Crisis Leads to Scale Back in Scope, Punting Hard Decisions Off With No Instructions to Overcome Differences, November 21, 2003

World Trade Organization 5th Ministerial, Cancún, Mexico, September 9-14, 2003

Antonia Juhasz, The WTO Collapses: A New Multilateralism is Born, Left Turn Magazine, November 1, 2003

Walden Bello, Corporate America Wants To Kill G21, Bangkok Post, October 11, 2003

NGOs Seen As Reason For Talks Failure, The Nation (Thailand), September 23, 2003

Poorest Nations Opt Out of WTO Block, Reuters, 22 Sep 2003.

John Cavanagh and Robin Broad, A Turning Point for World Trade?, Opinion Editorial, Baltimore Sun, September 18 2003

Lynne Walker, Suicide Underscored by Power Shift in WTO, San Diego Tribune, September 16, 2003

Alwyn Scott, This Time, Loudest Dissent May Come From Within Seattle Times, September 10,2003

Roberto Gonzalez Amador, Another stage of Resistance to globalization to be seen here. Nearly an entire continent says ‘no’ to its policies, Mander says, La Jornada, September 10, 2003

David Munk, Ring of Steel Security Costs $6 Million, The Guardian, September 10, 2003

Agence France Presse, Anti-Globalisation Circus Faces Frustrating WTO Summit, September 9, 2003

Evelyn Iritani, WTO Talks Could Derail in Cancun Negotiators face a backlash against the U.S. and a widening rift between rich and poor, Los Angles Times, September 7, 2003

Jane Bussey, Miami waits in the shadows of WTO summit, Miami Herald, September 2003

Tom Hayden, The Seattle Beat Goes On, AlterNet, September 10, 2003.

Carolyn Said, Protesters Prepare to Decry Globalization, San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 2003

WTO Critics Predict Cancun Meeting Will Flop, Reuters, September 2, 2003.

Deidre Pike, War of the Global-Phobics Activists from Tucson joined protests at 2003 World Trade Organization Ministerial in Cancun, Mexico,Tuscon Weekly, September 25, 2003

IFG Staff and Speakers in the News at the Sacramento USDA Conference on Agricultural Science and Technology, June 23-25, 2003.

Edie Lau, "Protesters gearing up for global farm expo," Sacramento Bee, May 26, 2003.

Debi Barker appearing on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, June 20, 2003.

Bobby Caina Calvan, "Protesters to converge on agriculture conference in Sacramento," Boston Globe, June 16, 2003.

Edie Lau, "Lessons in how to raise a ruckus," Sacramento Bee, June 20, 2003.

Percy Schmeiser, "Who owns the seeds?" Opinion Editorial. San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 2003.

Douglas Fischer, "U.S. blasted for genetic solution to food scarcity," Oakland Tribune, June 21, 2003.

Joe Garofoli, "Genetically altered food at heart of controversy; activists protest Sacramento meeting of ag ministers," San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2003.

Tewolde Egziabher, "Food security, not biotech," Opinion Editorial. Sacramento Bee, June 24, 2003.

Associated Press, "European official criticizes U.S. for hosting ag conference," Sacramento Bee, June 24, 2003. (Interview with IFG guest speaker, Tito Barbini, regional minister for agriculture, Tuscany, Italy).

Jennifer Coleman, "11 biotech protesters arrested in California," The Miami Herald, June 24, 2003.

Andrew Gumbel, "Police and protesters clash at GM summit," The Independent Newspapers (UK), June 24, 2003.

Nancy Whalen, "Altered food war," Letter to the Editor, San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 2003.

Kim Baca, "EU absence at biotech meeting causes stir," Kansas City Star, June 25, 2003.

Kim Baca, "EU criticized at biotechnology meeting," Washington Post Web Site, June 25, 2003.

Eric Bailey and Joel Rubin, "10 protesters arrested as agriculture meeting winds down in Sacramento," Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2003.

"EU leader criticizes US biotech meeting," Orange County Register, June 25, 2003.

Douglas Fischer, "Biotech battle takes shape in capital," Daily Democrat, June 26, 2003.

"Absence of EU ministers criticized," Daily Democrat, June 26, 2003.

Diana Griego Erwin, "Delegates enjoy meal, but nations’ food woes are harder to digest," Sacramento Bee, June 26, 2003.

United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD),
Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2002

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Sampling of IFG Media

The Washington Post. Jeter, Jon. "Summit Delegates Consult The South African Example; Country Is Emblem of Success, Failure in Globalization Debate." August, 29 2002.

The Washington Post. Jeter, Jon. "Rich, Poor Further Apart as Earth Summit Nears." August 25, 2002.

The Washington Post. Jeter, Jon. "Divergent Agendas at Summit." August 27, 2002.

Associated Press. Vales, Colleen. "Environmentalists Blat Bush on eve of Earth Summit."August 14, 2002.

San Francisco Chronicle. Collier, Robert, "Strong Bay presence at Earth Summit; Challenge to U.S. contingent even greater than 10 years ago."August 24, 2002.

LA Weekly, Kuipers, Dean. "Why Johannesburg Matters."August 23-29, 2002.

Associated Press. Marquez, Jeremiah. "Activists Predict Peaceful Protests During Upcoming U.N. Summit Unless Police Overreact."August 23, 2002.

Agence France Press. "Nobel Scientists to Launch Appeal to Protect World."August 20, 2002.

The Post, Johannesburg, South Africa. "NGOs Accuse Big Business of Trying to Hijack World Summit."August 26, 2002.

South African Broadcasting Corporation News. "South Africa; Environmental Issues Are Being Overlooked: Activists"August 30, 2002.

The Times (London). Browne, Anthony. "Summit disarray as EU officials walk out."August 31, 2002.

Time Magazine Special Report, "How to Save the Earth," September 2, 2002, Vandana Shiva featured on pgs 9and 32.

Calgary Herald. "Canadian activist's protest met by police stun grenades." August 25, 2002.

Toronto Star. Fraser, Graham. "Our summit role defended." August 28, 2002.