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Brings back memories	David Roberts	16 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I was working downtown when all this went down -- smelled a little tear gas, got escorted out of my building by a gauntlet of fully armored riot police. Looking back, I wish I'd had a better sense of the significance at the time.
Topics: grassroots activism, Seattle, video, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

An economist's eye view Outline for a move to a sustainable agriculture system	Jason D Scorse	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The agricultural industry is one of the biggest users of water, energy, and chemicals on the planet. Overall it poses one of the biggest threats to global biodiversity, which is why it deserves significant attention from the environmental community. But when it comes to defining what is meant by 'sustainable agriculture,' there is a lot of confusion. Many people think 'organic,' or 'local,' or 'non-GMO,' or even 'biodynamic.' It will come as little surprise that e ...
Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, Big Ag, economy, food, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Farm-subsidy shenanigans Beware of U.S. trade officials bearing gifts	Tom Philpott	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab made headlines this week by offering to reduce U.S. farm subsidies. The context was the so-called Doha Round of trade talks -- the WTO's latest, oft-stalled effort to grease the wheels of global trade. Among sustainable-food advocates, there's a reflexive tendency to cheer whenever farm subsidies go on the chopping block. But as is often the case in the farm-policy debate, this progressive-looking offer is anything but. First ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, industrial ag, shenanigans, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Fair Trade? WTO may slash tariffs on green goods		03 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:42 PM on 03 Dec 2007 The United States and European Union have proposed that the 151 members of the World Trade Organization agree to slash tariffs on at least 43 "green" goods -- solar panels, wind turbines, and the like -- to boost their global use. A recent World Bank study suggested that removing such barriers to trade of clean-energy technologies could increase trade by up to 14 percent annually. source: Agence France- ...
Topics: business, green products, news, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

But don't take my word for it ... Top scientists appeal to WTO	Andrew Sharpless	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The other day I told you how there's a good chance we could see an end to commercial overfishing subsidies through WTO negotiations. And my organization is not alone in making the case to the World Trade Organization. At least 125 scientists from 27 countries feel the same way and sent a letter to the WTO making it clear that 'an ambitious outcome in the ongoing WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations is vital to the future of the world's fisheries.'The scientists who ...
Topics: fishing, international politics, oceans, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

You'll Eat It, and You'll Like It WTO says E.U. illegally blocked genetically modified crops		08 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
You'll Eat It, and You'll Like It WTO says E.U. illegally blocked genetically modified crops After years of striving to pry Europe open to biotech crops, Washington scored a crucial victory yesterday: A World Trade Organization panel found that the European Union had illegally blocked imports of genetically modified crops, and that several E.U. nations had no legal right to impose their own bans. Altho ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, news, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues In other genetic modification news, skirmishes over the safety and labeling of GM foods are erupting this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as delegates from around the world convene to discuss the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The U.N. accord, wh ...
Topics: China, European Union, globalization, GMOs, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Catch Me If You Cancun Tom Turner Wades Into the Action at This Week's WTO Meeting		12 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
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Topics: World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Better Biosafe Than Sorry First International Biosafety Treaty Takes Effect		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: United Nations, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Better Biosafe than Sorry A new GMO treaty is about to get tangled up in trade tussles	Lissa Harris	11 Sep 2003	Main Dish
All but eclipsed by the somber anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will become international law today with little fanfare. Nonetheless, its entry into force could mark the beginning of a new era in international trade -- with potentially sweeping consequences for the environment. Fields of grain -- GMO barley, to be precise. P ...
Topics: food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Crop Circles		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Circles Negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union over genetically modified foods broke down yesterday in Geneva, furthering heightening trans-Atlantic tension and prompting the Bush administration to call on the World Trade Organization to begin hearing the dispute. At issue is a European ban on GM crops -- a ban that the U.S. agricultural industry says is costing ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United Nations, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Ban Rollover		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Ban Rollover Starting up what's likely to be an ugly trade tussle, the Bush administration yesterday filed suit at the World Trade Organization against the European Union, challenging E.U. policies that severely restrict the import of genetically modified (GM) crops. U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick contends that the E.U. has in effect instituted a ban on GM products, which ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Test Ban Treat		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Test Ban Treat Here's one unintended consequence of the impending U.S. war against Iraq: The Bush administration has delayed a formal challenge to the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Recently, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick blamed the ban for widespread starvation in the developing world and said the administration was considering ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, Iraq, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Big Ban Boom		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Big Ban Boom Robert Zoellick, the Bush administration's chief trade official, is calling on the U.S. to challenge the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Zoellick claims the ban is both scientifically backward and "immoral," arguing that it deprives starving people in the developing world of food. The U.S. and t ...
Topics: Africa, European Union, globalization, GMOs, health, politics, population, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Privates Exposed		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Privates Exposed The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is coming under fire from environmentalists after the London Guardian published information from apparently secret E.C. documents describing efforts to liberalize trade by privatizing state-run services in ...
Topics: European Union, Friends of the Earth, globalization, international government agencies, solid waste treatment and disposal, water conflicts, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Standards vs. the Poor?		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Standards vs. the Poor? The European Union is demanding that environmental issues be included in the latest round of World Trade Organization talks, which opened on Friday in Doha, Qatar. The E.U. wants environmental standards to be negotiated as a part of trade rules -- and says the issue could be a "deal breaker" at the talks -- but many developing nations fear that ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, Middle East, Qatar, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Dino Might!		12 Jun 2000	Daily Grist
Dino Might! Calling for more use of renewable energy sources, hundreds of protestors concerned about global warming demonstrated yesterday at the start of the five-day World Petroleum Congress meeting in Calgary, Canada. The congress, which includes more than 2,500 delegates from 87 countries, is the latest target of anti-globalization groups that have protested against the World Trade Organization and ...
Topics: Canada, grassroots activism, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Trade Mandarins Want to Trade With Mandarins		09 Feb 2000	Daily Grist
Trade Mandarins Want to Trade With Mandarins U.S. corporations say they are raising environmental and labor standards in China, an attempt to head off criticism from unions, enviros, and human rights groups that want to keep China out of the World Trade Organization. A report by the Business Roundtable, a group of 200 corporate executives, highlights Eastman Chemical for having model safety and environment programs at ...
Topics: China, news, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Killing Dolphins for Free Trade	David R. Brower, David Phillips, William Snape	06 Dec 1999	Soapbox
By David R. Brower, David Phillips and William Snape 06 Dec 1999 Grist readers deserve better than the poorly informed coverage of the tuna/dolphin issue in a recent article by Rick Gaffney, which makes false and misleading claims about "dolphin safe" tuna fishing methods. A dolphin in the deep. Earth Island Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, the Humane Society of the United States, and dozens of other organizations have worked on the tuna/dolphin issue f ...
Topics: marine life, Mexico, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Raking up the Rubble	Donella H. Meadows	06 Dec 1999	Global Citizen
All week I've been cringing at the news. Tear gas. Broken windows. Bloody faces. The National Guard called in to defend Seattle against anti-WTO demonstrators. From far away, totally in sympathy with the demonstrators, I've been yelling at them, "No, please, get hold of yourselves! Don't tar our cause with violence!" Cops taking over the streets. Photo by Sherry Bosse. Of course only a tiny fraction of the protesters in Seattle wer ...
Topics: Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Making Sense of the Battle in Seattle Don't buy their official version of Tuesday's events	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	01 Dec 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 01 Dec 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. An eerie half-calm, enforced by marching columns of police and troops in full-body armor, settled over downtown Seattle today. Street corners that had been scenes of dramatic confrontation yesterday saw small-scale, unthreatening protests this morning and early afternoon, as demonstrators, trade delegates, journalists, and everyone else in this ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Cutting Globalization Down to Size Protesters make themselves heard in Seattle	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	30 Nov 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 30 Nov 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. The metaphor is irresistible. Between 8 and 10 this morning in downtown Seattle, the protesters owned the streets. Later in the day, they vied with police, back and forth; but as the day began the cops were back inside their perimeters, and the few thousand drumming, singing demonstrators were firmly in control. And so, as delegates began to arrive for the ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, globalization, grassroots activism, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

On the Streets of Seattle What the demonstrators are fighting for	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	29 Nov 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 29 Nov 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. In the USA today, according to USA Today, the holiday shopping season opened with a 6.4 percent jump in sales from last year. The Labor Department reported that personal income rose at the fastest pace in more than five years last month. Donald Trump vowed to spend $100 million of his own money if he ran for president ("very few other people can do that," he p ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, grassroots activism, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Giving Unfair Trade a Shake	David Korten	29 Nov 1999	Soapbox
Delegates to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle will be met by as many as 50,000 protesters from all around the world. WTO advocates seek to dismiss the protestors as anti-trade extremists who want to turn back the clock on human progress. In truth, the vast majority of the protestors will be coming from mainstream churches, unions, universities, independent businesses, and a wide variety of civic organizations concerned with s ...
Topics: business, globalization, politics, Seattle, Washington, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

The Battle in Seattle	Donella H. Meadows	29 Nov 1999	Global Citizen
Last month The Economist ran a frustrated editorial wondering why environmental groups would picket the upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle. The headline read "Why Greens Should Love Trade." Actually greens see no particular reason either to love or hate trade. They don't share the religious beliefs of economists, who love trade as indiscriminately as they love growth. Greens are inclined to ask questions ...
Topics: globalization, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

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