Global Trade Watch
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Global Trade Watch was founded by Lori Wallach in 1995 as a division of the U.S.-based advocacy group Public Citizen
that monitors the World Trade Organization
(WTO) and other trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Like Public Citizen in general, GTW advocates for a greater public role in international, federal, state and local policy-making, and for a different set of policies and institutions than those governing the current model of globalization
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Its director and founder, trade lawyer and activist Lori Wallach, has been compared to "Ralph Nader
with a sense of humor" in a Wall Street Journal profile, dubbed "the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior" by the National Journal
,http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/reuters/2000-02-09.asp, the "Madame Defarge
of Seattle" by the Institute for International Economics
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2633/is_4_14/ai_64564019/print and "a key player in Washington debates on trade policy" by The Nation
.http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0612-33.htm
Global Trade Watch holds a position on the executive board on the Citizens Trade Campaign
and belongs to Our World Is Not For Sale.
Public Citizen
Public Citizen is a non-profit, consumer rights advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., United States, with a branch in Austin, Texas. Public Citizen was founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, headed for 26 years by Joan Claybrook, and is now headed by Robert Weissman.-Lobbying Efforts:Public Citizen...
that monitors the World Trade Organization
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...
(WTO) and other trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement
North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement...
(NAFTA) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Like Public Citizen in general, GTW advocates for a greater public role in international, federal, state and local policy-making, and for a different set of policies and institutions than those governing the current model of globalization
Globalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
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Its director and founder, trade lawyer and activist Lori Wallach, has been compared to "Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
with a sense of humor" in a Wall Street Journal profile, dubbed "the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior" by the National Journal
National Journal
National Journal is a nonpartisan American weekly magazine that reports on the current political environment and emerging political and policy trends. National Journal was first published in 1969. Times Mirror owned the magazine from 1986 to 1997, when it was purchased by David G. Bradley...
,http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/reuters/2000-02-09.asp, the "Madame Defarge
Madame Defarge
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a tricoteuse, a tireless worker for the French Revolution and the wife of Ernest Defarge....
of Seattle" by the Institute for International Economics
Institute for International Economics
The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics , formerly the Institute for International Economics, is a private, non-profit, and nonpartisan think tank focused on international economics, based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C...
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2633/is_4_14/ai_64564019/print and "a key player in Washington debates on trade policy" by The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
.http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0612-33.htm
Global Trade Watch holds a position on the executive board on the Citizens Trade Campaign
Citizens Trade Campaign
Citizens Trade Campaign is a 501C organization, which means it is classified by the Internal Revenue Service as a 'social welfare organization'. It was first started in 1992 in response to passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement...
and belongs to Our World Is Not For Sale.