Multinational Monitor

JAN/FEB 2001
VOL 22 No. 1

FEATURES:

Taking on Corporate Power: Campaigns That Have Made a Difference
by the Monitor Editorial Staff

Brazil's MST: Taking Back the Land
by Jason Mark

A Clean Sweep: Justice for Janitors
by Carter Wright

Working for a Living Wage
by Jen Kern

Felling the Lumbering Giants
by Jen Krill

Taking on Toxics I: Stopping POPs
by Charlie Cray

Taking on Toxics II: Health Care Without Harm
by Charlie Cray

The Great South African Smokeout
by Anna White

Haiti's Thirst for Justice
by Charles Arthur

Students Against Sweatshops
by Stew Harris

Lilliputians Rising - 2000: The Year of Global Protest Against Corporate Globalization
guest commentary by Walden Bello

INTERVIEW:

Defying the Drug Cartel: The South African Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
an interview with
Zackie Achmat

DEPARTMENTS:

Behind the Lines

Editorial
The Corporate Conservative Administration Takes Shape

The Front
Damning the Dams - People's Health Assembly

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Names In the News

Resources

Resources

Organizations Publications

Brazilian Landless Workers
Movement
(Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra)
E-mail:[email protected]
www.mstbrazil.org

Global Exchange
2017 Mission Street #303
San Francisco, California 94110
E-mail: [email protected]
www.globalexchange.org

ACORN
Living Wage Resource Center

739 8th Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.acorn.org

Justice for Janitors Campaign
Service Employees
International Union
1313 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
www.justiceforjanitors.org

Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94104
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ran.org

American Lands Alliance
726 7th Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.americanlands.org

Earth First!
Direct Action Fund
P.O. Box 210,
Canyon, CA 94516
www.earthfirst.org

Coastal Rainforest Alliance/
Forest Ethics

P.O. Box 3418
Berkeley, CA 94703
www.forestethics.org

Greenpeace Toxics Campaign
703 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
www.greenpeaceusa.org/toxics

International POPs
Elimination Network

1101 14th Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ipen.org

Health Care Without Harm
c/o CCHW Center for Health,
Environment and Justice
P.O. Box 6806
Falls Church, VA 22040
E-mail: [email protected]
www.noharm.org

Global Toxics Initiative
World Wildlife Fund
1250 24th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
www.worldwildlife.org

Global Anti-Incineration Alliance
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
Email: [email protected]
www.no-burn.org

Science and Environmental
Health Network

Rt. 1, P.O. Box 73
Windsor, ND 58424-0073
E-mail: craffensperger@
compuserve.com
www.sehn.org

United Students
Against Sweatshops

1413 K Sreet, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
www.usasnet.org

Campaign for Labor Rights
1247 E Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.summersault.com

Sweatshop Watch
310 Eighth Street, Suite 309
Oakland, CA 94607
E-mail: [email protected]
www.sweatshopwatch.org

National Labor Committee
275 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.nlcnet.org

Global Partnerships
for Tobacco Control

Essential Action
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.essentialaction.org

Globalink - International Union
Against Cancer

3, rue du Conseil General
1205 Geneva
SWITZERLAND
E-mail: [email protected]
www.uicc.ch

Haiti Support Group
Campaign for Union Rights
E-mail: haitisupport@
gn.apc.org
www.gn.apc.org

Batay Ouvriye
P.O. Box 13326
Delmas, HAITI

Haiti Reborn/Quixote Center
P.O. Box 5206
Hyattsville MD 20782
301-699-0042
301-864-2182 fax
E-mail: [email protected]
www.quixote.org

War on Want
Fenner Brockway House
37-39 Great Guilford Street
London SE1 OES
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.waronwant.org

International Labor Rights Fund
733 15th Street, NW, Suite 920
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: [email protected]
www.laborrights.org

Treatment Action Campaign
717 Colonial Building
330 West Street
(off St. Mark's Lane)
Durban, 4001
SOUTH AFRICA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.tac.org.za

Consumer Project
on Technology

P.O. Box 19367
Washington, DC 20036
www.cptech.org

Focus on the Global South
c/o CUSRI
Chulalongkore University
Prachuabmoh, Phyathai Road
Bankok, 10330
THAILAND
www.focusweb.org

Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch

215 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.tradewatch.org

Third World Network
228 Macalister Road
Penang, 10440
MALAYSIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.twnside.org.sg

People's Health Assembly
Gonoshasthaya Kendra
PO Mirzanagar, Savar
1344 Dhaka
BANGLADESH
E-mail: [email protected]
www.pha2000.org

International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94703
E-mail: [email protected]
www.irn.org

Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Federation of American Scientists
307 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
E-mail: [email protected]
www.fas.org

Fighting for the Soul of Brazil
Edited by Kevin Danaher
and Michael Shellenberger
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995

Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization
by Amory Starr
Zed Books, 2000

Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy
By Joe Thornton
Cambridge, Massachusetts:
MIT Press, 2000

Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment
By Ted Schettler, et. al.
Cambridge, Massachusetts:
MIT Press, 2000

Drumbeat for Mother Earth:
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Threatening Indigenous Peoples

Washington, DC:
Indigenous Environmental Network/Greenpeace, 2000

No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Edited by Andrew Ross
New York, Verso, 1997

Addicted to Profit: Big Tobacco's Expanding Global Reach
By Ross Hammond
Washington, DC:
Essential Information, 1998

Labor Notes
7435 Michigan Avenue
Detroit MI 48210
www.labornotes.org

WoodWise Consumer Guide: Practices, Products, and Services that Protect Forests
Washington, DC:
Co-op America, 2001
www.coopamerica.org

Bad Harvest? The Timber Trade and the Degradation of the World's Forests
By Nigel Dudley et al.,
London: Earthscan, 1995

Taking a Stand: Cultivating a New Relationship with the World's Forests
by Janet N. Abramovitz
Washington: Worldwatch, 1998

Earth First! Journal
P.O. Box 1415
Eugene, OR 97440
www.earthfirstjournal.org

Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture
By Charles Arthur
Northampton, MA:
Interlink Publishing Group, 2001

Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
Edited by Jim Yong Kim, et al.
Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000

Views from the South:
The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries

San Francisco: International Forum on Globalization, 1999

The Globalisation of Poverty
By Michel Chossudovsky
New York: Zed Books, 1999

Report of the World Commission on Dams
Earthscan Publications, 2000
www.damsreport.org

Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists
By Jason Salzman
Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1998

The Activist's Handbook
By Randy Shaw
Berkeley, California:
University of California Press, 2001

 

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