Community Organizing And Movement Building LinksChoike
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern civil society.
Choike at the World Social Forum
The fifth edition of the World Social Forum took place once again in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from January 26 to 31, 2005.
It was opened to organisations and individuals and a new perspective and methodological approach was adopted to increase collaboration and dialogue during the event. The goal was to avoid repetitive activities on similar issues that were developed independently of each other. This initiative started from the premise that it is not possible to build another world without combining efforts, building alternatives and interlinking common actions and campaigns.
Those who participated in the previous WSFs have contributed to create a new type of organisation, which is more a process than an institution. While being extraordinarily ambitious in its diversity, in the wide range of topics it deals with and in the activities it holds, the Forum is also consciously modest with regard to its role: its Charter of Principles clearly specifies that it is not the only space of convergence.
This is just one more space within a broader process of global struggles and its function is to offer a way by means of which people who share common concerns and believe that "another world is possible" could jump over geographic, cultural and political differences and could freely develop new plans, strategies, initiatives and organisations.
It is a space for democratic debate of ideas, reflective thinking, formulation of proposals, exchange of experiences and interlinking of social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations. After the first world meeting held in 2001, it became a permanent process of seeking and building alternatives to neoliberal policies.
The International Council of the Forum has decided that next year's editon will be realized in a spread out manner, in different places in the world. With this, the WSF ensures it's commitment with it's Letter of Priciples, seeking for a permanet process of searching and building new alternatives, which are not limited to the events proposed.
In [the reports at this link] we offer articles, discussions from previous regional forums, news, debates and background information on the World Social Forum 2005. Coverage was also provided during the development of this event.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
CEO is an Amsterdam-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate led globalization with organizing, information and networking. We work to hold corporations acountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental federation in the world aiming to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies.
Global Accountability Project
The 21st Century is crammed with organisations that boast a global reach. Powerful actors from three key groups, Intergovernmental Organisations, Transnational Corporations and Non-Governmental Organisations, think nothing of working across national borders and delivering to an international constituency. Global organisations regularly take decisions that have an impact on all of our lives. A key issue is whether we have the power to hold them to account for their actions.
The Global Accountability Project aims to assess how open and receptive global organisations are to the internal demands of their members and the external demands of individuals and groups who are affected by the organisations' daily operations.
The One World Trust established an informal accountability forum for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The forum aims to provide a space for NGOs to collectively share learning and resources on accountability and begin to articulate a common vision of the type of accountability the NGO sector requires.
Global Issues in a Changing World
A new series from Zed Books of short, accessible think pieces deals with leading global issues of relevance to humanity.
Global Policy Forum
The Global Policy Forum was founded in 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations. GPF has a large web site with dozens of publications on global policy issues, and thousands of pages of documents and data. GPF works in partnership with citizen organizations (NGOs) around the world and has actively sought to broaden citizen voices within the UN system. It works cooperatively with scholars, experts and research institutes in a number of countries, to produce high quality analysis and data.
Globalizaction
The Globalizaction site brings action campaigns from around the world into one, accessible location - concrete actions for a just and sustainable world economic order.
India Resource Center
India Resource Center coordinates the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for its crimes in India and Colombia
IRC Global Good Neighbor Initiative
Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's vision of international relations guided by "mutual respect" and cooperation, the IRC's Global Good Neighbor Initiative is initiating a process of reclaiming this legacy by promoting dialogue and action aimed at forging a new animating vision for foreign policy in our time:
A Global Good Neighbor Ethic for International Relations.
Jessica Matthews
DevNetJobs.org brings together job opportunities in the area of International Development, including NGOs, Foundations, UN agencies on one platform. Over 1200 recruiters currently post on the website. DevNetJobs.org runs a free Jobs Newsletter which goes to over 45,000 colleagues and could be subscribed by sending a blank email to developmentjobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Rethinking Globalization
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools -- more than 400 pages -- helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
Social Criticism Review
An outstanding selection of 1,000 online readings on the crisis of modernity: progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt, counterproductive economy, globalization, corporate rule, anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms race, war on terrorism, and much more. A useful resource for a unified protest movement.
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excellent references for SCR: www.socialcritic.org/ref.htm
Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit
international network of organizations and individuals involved
in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-
South issues.
Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social
and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish
books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars;
and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern
interests and perspectives at international fora such as the
UN conferences and processes.
Trade Aid Aotearoa/New Zealand
New Zealand's only alternative trading organisation has been campaigning on social, economic and environmental justice issues for 30 years. See what's happening Down Under in the country that is nuclear free, and proud of it.
World Social Forum
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place for reflective thinking,
democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences
and interlinking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that
are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form
of imperialism, and are committed to building a planetary society centred on the
human person.
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