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Jerry Mander-President of the IFG Board of Directors-is the author of the bestsellling books In the Absence of the Sacred and Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.
This book is the culmination of a three-year project by the International Forum on Globalization to define alternatives to the current corporate model of globalization. What makes this book so important are the premier group of thinkers from around the world who have worked together for three years to produce it, the fact that it is the official consensus report of the International Forum on Globalization, and the fact that it lays out alternatives to the corporate globalization more fully, specifically, and thoughtfully than has ever been done before.
The International Forum on Globalization is an alliance of leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers, and writers-representing 60 organizations in 25 countries-that was formed in 1994 to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization. IFG is the intellectual brain trust behind much of the anti-globalization/living democracy movement that has become so visible because of the protests in Seattle, Washington, D.C., and various other places. Besides leading the intellectual discussion of globalization, IFG has also been a major organizing force through its public "teach-ins," beginning with its historic first teach-in in November 1995 in New York City that attracted more than 1,500 people (to an event that was designed for up to 400 people) and that effectively launched the newly published When Corporations Rule the World on to bestsellerdom (when David Korten was one of the speakers).
This consensus document has been a collaborative project of a drafting committee made up of eleven members of the IFG Board of Directors, along with seven other contributors, many of whom are internationally known and bestselling authors in their own right and who represent important organizations:
- Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians, Ottawa, Canada
- Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, Thailand
- John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.
- Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute, Ottawa, Canada
- Edward Goldsmith, The Ecologist Magazine, United Kingdom
- Martin Khor, Third World Network, Penang, Malaysia
- Sara Larrain, Chile Sustainable, Chile
- Jerry Mander, Public Media Center, San Francisco
- Helena Norberg-Hodge, International Society for Ecology and Culture, United Kingdom
- Vandana Shiva, Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology, New Deli, India
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen (Ralph Nader's organization) and Global Trade Watch, Washington, D.C.
In addition these eight prominent thinkers, authors and activists contributed:
- Sarah Anderson
- Debi Barker
- Robin Broad
- Randy Hayes
- Colin Hines
- David Korten
- Simon Retallack
- Victoria Tauli-Corpus
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THREE LANDMARK EVENTS in 2003 punctuated the end of "the Golden Era" of corporate-driven economic globalization, the domination of the so-called Washington Consensus, and the ability of the United States to unilaterally dictate the course of global economic and political affairs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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