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Author: Benjamin. Andrea Freedman., Medea
Title: Bridging the Global Gap
Publisher: Global Exchange
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Bridging the Global Gap is the first major work on the growing internationalist movement that is focusing national attention on the interdependence of nations and on the connections between local and international struggles. This politcal movement is unlike any in United States history. The diversity of supporters alone make this movement unique. Representativesof unions, schools, churches, community groups, and local government have joined to search for non-violent ways to wage world peace and end poverty. They are traveling across the globe to discover concrete ways of supporting their Third World counterparts and in the process they are redefining the real "national interest" of the United States.
Author: Aguilar. Miguel Caveda., Jose Victor
Title: Ten Plagues of Globalization
Publisher: EPICA
Category: Reference
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Now in English, this book by the well-known Salvadoran popular education organization Equipo Maiz explains the primary problems generated by the global economic system in a way that everyone can understand. Full of fun drawings by Alfredo Burgos and Otto Meza, it addresses the issues of environmental damage, concentration of wealth, unemployment and more.
Author: Ahn, Ed., Christine
Title: Shafted: Free Trade and America's Working Poor
Publisher: Food First
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NAFTA. The WTO. Trade agreements are supposed to benefit us all. Instead, in the decade since they've been in effect, life has become much worse for millions of working Americans. In Shafted, working people-family farmers and farmworkers, fishermen and seamstresses-describe the ruin free trade has brought to them, their families, and their towns. These aren't theorists; these are the voices of experience. And they're telling us, clearly and eloquently, that it's time to stop the madness that enriches a few corporations at the cost of justice, human rights, community, family, and the dignity of work and of workers
Author: Anderson, Ed., Sarah
Title: VIEWS FROM THE SOUTH: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries
Publisher: IFG
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A rare chance for a comprehensive perspective on the WTO from some of the leading voices from the South. Martin Khor (Malaysia), Vandana Shiva (India), Walden Bello (Thailand), Oronto Douglas (Nigeria) and Sara Larrain (Chile), as well as Anuradha Mittal (India and the U.S.) debunk the idea that global instruments have been designed to benefit the interests of the Third World or the poor. In fact, exactly the opposite is the case as the South bears extra burdens from the rules of trade.
Author: Anderson. Jennifer Michol, Joshua Silverberg. , Jennifer
Title: Ready for Action: A Popular Theatre Popular Education Manual
Publisher: Waterloo Public Research Interest Group (WPRIG)
Category: Workshop Guide Book
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This manual was written by the Enviromaniacs, a popular theatre group at the University of Waterloo, in an effort to share knowledge and experience gained by the group in their many years of pop theatre work. It provides an overview of ideas, materials, and resources dealing with popular theatre and popular education, and connects and links the theory to concrete exercises, which comprise the majority of this book. But the focus here is on concrete exercises for groups who want to jump into the popular theatre process. It includes energizer exercises, analytical exercises, reflection and evaluation exercises, as well as ideas for doing street theatre and pop theatre workshops.
Author: Arnold. Beverly Burke., Rick
Title: A Popular Education Handbook
Publisher: CUSO-Development Education and Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Category: Guide Book
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This handbook begins by briefly discussing the roots of popular education in the literacy work of Paulo Freire in Brazil in the early 1960s and traces its development through the 1970s in South America. The handbook then provides practical advice about doing popular education, with three examples of popular education programs. Various tools for building popular education are also described. Tools include: sculpturing, sociodrama, role play, drawing, songwriting, and exercises to help the group process.
Author: Barndt, Deborah
Title: Naming the Moment: Political Analysis for Action
Publisher: The Moment Project, Jesuit Center for Social Faith
Category: Guide Book
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Divided into five chapters, this manual presents ideas, experiences and concepts that help groups working for social change. It introduces and defines the idea of political analysis for action, or naming the moment. It likewise reviews the history of the concept and situates the practice in current social movements and structures in Canada. It describes in detail the method of naming the moment and illustrates its four phases (identifying ourselves and our interests, naming the issues/struggles, assessing the forces, planning for action) together with some examples. Furthermore, this manual discusses the two applications of the method: one focused on local environmental issues, the other analyzing the free trade battle. It suggests different ways to integrate the process of naming the moment process, or political analysis for action, into the daily life of organizations. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of linking analyses across issues and across sectors.
Author: Barndt, Deborah
Title: Tangled Routes
Publisher: Garamond Press
Category: Case Studies, Guide Book
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This book stems from a five year commitment to research, education and action called the Tomasita Project. TANGLED ROUTES traces the tomato trail from a Mexican farm field to a Canadian supermarket, examines the significance of fast food chain McDonald's and Loblaw's supermarket conglomerate, looks at workers who serve the global food system, a trucker and a migrant picker in Ontario, and at the role and position of women within the Mexican agroexport industry The experiences of women workers in different sectors of the food chain between North and South are examined, and the book concludes with alternatives and a framework for "the other globalization" through collective action and transnational coalitions.
Author: Bigelow. Bob Peterson., Bill
Title: Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Category: Teaching Materials
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Rethinking Globalization alerts readers to the challenges that we face- and also spotlights the enormous courage and creativity of the groups and individuals working to set things right. Through numerous role-plays, interviews, poems, stories, background readings, cartoons, and hands-on teaching activities, Rethinking Globalization offers a memorable introduction to the forces that are shaping the future of our world.
Author: Brecher. Tim Costello., Jeremy
Title: Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up
Publisher: South End Press
Category: case studies
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In clear, accessible language, Brecher and Costello describe how people around the world have started challenging the New World Economy. From the Zapatistas to students and workers in France to the broad-based anti-NAFTA and anti-GATT coalitions, opposition to economic globalization is becoming a worldwide revolt.
Author: Burke, JoJo Geronimo, D'Arcy Martin, Barb Thomas, Carol Wall, Beverly
Title: Educating for Changing Unions
Publisher: BTL
Category: Teaching Materials
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This eagerly awaited new book is destined to become a key work in popular education. The book is a rich, stimulating, and provocative storehouse of ideas, practical exercises and debate about union education. It is written in a clear and accessible style, designed to stimulate working people and teachers in many settings and locations. All the exercises and activities have been widely tested.
Author: Ching Louie, with Linda Burnham, Miriam
Title: Wedge: Women's Education in the Global Economy
Publisher: Women of Color Resource Center
Category: Teaching Materials
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A Workbook of Activities, Games, Skits and Strategies for Activists, Organizers, Rebels and Hell Raisers. Wedge should be used by anyone working on economic justice issues, inside the U.S. as well as abroad. It could easily be translated and used in many different grassroots local communities.
Author: Clarke, Tony
Title: By What Authority?
Publisher: International Forum on Globalization
Category:
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This booklet looks at the specific corporations that are designing the new rules of trade, specifically, WTO rules. A sector by sector analysis (food, public health, fresh water, public education public broadcasting, forestry, etc.) reveals exactly which corporations are benefiting from some specific WTO policies.
Author: Clover. Shirley Follen and Budd Hall., Darlene E.
Title: The Nature of Transformation: Enviornmental Adult Education, 2nd Edition
Publisher: OISE
Category: Guide Book
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This Second Edition brings together an even wider variety of educational strategies and practices for working primarily with adults and young people within their own communities. However, the book can and is being used by professors in higher education and school teachers around the world. It is used by adult, feminist, environmental and popular educators, activists, animators, and many others around the world who are interested in using education to work toward a more healthy and sustainable future on this planet or weave ecological issues into their practice.
Author: Delp, Miranda Kramer, Sure Schurman, Kent Wong., Linda
Title: Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement
Publisher: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and the George Meany Center/National Labor College
Category: Case Studies
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This is the first book to capture the stories and experiences of popular educators in the U.S. labor movement. From the Highlander Center in Tennessee to the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles, from the National Labor College in Maryland to the Avondale Shipyard workers of Mississippi, popular education has played a critical role in organizing workers, developing new leaders, and strengthening labor and community alliances. While drawing from the rich history of popular educators nationally and internationally, popular educators today are forging a new path based on the changing needs and changing conditions of workers and unions.
Author: Doerge. Beverly Burke., Suzanne
Title: Starting with Women's Lives: Changing Today's Economy (A Facilitator's Guide to a Visual Workshop Methodology)
Publisher: Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada and Canadian Labour Congress
Category: Guide Book, Teaching Materials
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Starting with Women's Lives was written by popular educators who have worked with grassroots groups in church, community, and labour sectors. It provides detailed notes for facilitators, background information, and educational exercises. It is designed primarily for women who want to facilitate workshops with women, though it also includes a section on adapting the method for mixed groups.
Author: Dutt, Mallika
Title: With Liberty & Justice for All: Women's Human Rights in the United States
Publisher: Center for Women's Global Leadership
Category: Guide book
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With Liberty and Justice for All develops a conceptual framework for using human rights as a legal and popular education tool as well as for political mobilizing among women activists working in the United States. Mallika Dutt develops a human rights framework as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of women's oppression across identity and issue lines. Concrete issues around socio-economic rights and violence against women are discussed to show how a human rights vision could facilitate action at the local, national and international level.
Author: Economic Literacy Action Network,
Title: Unpacking Globalization: A Popular Education Toolkit
Publisher: ELAN
Category: Guide Book
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This newest publication, available through Highlander and a product from the Economic Literacy Action Network (ELAN), is an exciting new resource for people and groups struggling to tackle the impact of economic globalization. ELAN was founded in 1996 as a network for economic literacy and popular economic education groups working to build movements for social change.
Author: Highlander Research and Education Center,
Title: A Very Popular Economic Education Sampler
Publisher: Highlander Center
Category: Teaching Materials
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The Sampler is designed to be used by community and labor-based groups and popular economic educators. The book contains skits, role-plays, group building activities and methods for identifying and analyzing issues. Sections on honing group facilitation skills and creating activities and programs are included. Also, a complete resource guide that lists many of the groups working on the cuttingedge of popular economic education.
Author: Hope. Sally Trimmel., Ann
Title: Training for Transformation: A Handbook for Community Workers (Volume 1-3)
Publisher: Mambo Press
Category: Teaching Materials
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A three-part workbook series with theories, codes, exercises and illustrations for developing critical awareness in poor communities and for building solidarity in people's movements.
Author: Liebhold. Harry Rubenstein, Peter
Title: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, and Smithsonian Institution
Category:
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Demonstrations and public campaigns against well-known corporations such as Nike, Wal-Mart and The Gap have raised awareness of sweatshops among many Americans, especially among many young people. Peter Liebold and Harry Rubenstein, curators of an exhibition on sweatshops at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, place the current debate on sweatshops in the garment industry in a historical context and explore the complex factors that contribute to their existence today.
Author: Mackenzie, Liz
Title: On Our Feet: Taking Steps to Challenge Women's Oppression. A Handbook on Gender and Popular Education Workshops.
Publisher: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education. University of the Western Cape.
Category: Guide Book
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This book was produced by the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education in South Africa. CACE aims to build and extend adult education for a non-rascist, non-sexist democratic society, to train adult educators formally and non-formally, to provide resources for adult and community educators, to support research, to hold workshops, and to publish materials to further these aims. This is their classic pop-ed text focusing on gender!
Author: McEwen (Ed.), Celina
Title: Community Education and Community Building for Justice and the Law
Publisher: Centre for Popular Education, UTS
Category: Case Studies, Guide Book
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The Bulletin No.6 is a unique collection of essays focusing on the rich and complex field of practice that is Community Legal Education (CLE). In this issue authors discuss the place and use of CLE in Community Legal Centres, Government Departments and NGOs and the use of CLE for social change. Through a mixture of case studies, traditional essays and some more unusual forms of reflective writing a model of good practice based on community development principles emerges.
Author: Moyer, with JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley, and Steven Soifer, Bill
Title: Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Category: Case Studies, Guide Book
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Doing Democracy provides both a theory and working model for understanding and analyzing social movements, ensuring that they are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight typical stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health (breast cancer), and globalization movements. Doing Democracy will appeal to social movement activists and organizations working on all issues, as well as to academics in a variety of disciplines ranging from political science, sociology, and peace studies, through women studies and the various courses in social work schools. Accessibly written, it will also be of interest to all those interested in better understanding the social movements they hear about in the daily media.
Author: Nadeau, Denise
Title: Counting Our Victories: Popular Education and Organizing
Publisher: Catalyst Reprint
Category: Guide Book
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This workshop guide is designed to help groups--union locals, women’s groups, and non-governmental organizations of all kinds--use popular education to broaden organizing in the post-NAFTA era. The theme is using popular education for organizing in the context of the social and economic restructuring of the late 1990s. The main idea remains to create a training kit that can help grassroots groups build their organizations, strengthen their own organizing initiatives and continue to work in coalitions with other groups. The approach taken to popular education owes much to the years of practice and theoretical development of popular education in Central America and Mexico. As well much of the inspiration for the video and guide comes from the work of women organizers from unions, women’s organizations, anti-racist groups, and cultural organizations in Canada. This kit provides activities and information about popular education and organizing from a wide variety of campaigns. For us, it documents some signs of hope in very bitter times. It shows how the work of organizing for justice and for life with dignity is constantly being renewed. Users are encouraged to use it to help contribute to the rebuilding and re-visioning of social movements and social change.
Author: Praxis/Economic Justice Project,
Title: Economics Education: Building a Movement for Global Economic Justice
Publisher: American Friends Service Committee
Category: Guide Book
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Community activists, organizers, union members, women, mothers, students, teachers anyone who is interested in learning more about the way the economy affects our lives should take a look at this book. We think it will be particularly useful to people who want to work with others to change some of the economic and social conditions that affect them. Those who are already facilitators may particularly find this book useful.
Author: Project South,
Title: Popular Education Guide for Movement Building: A Resource Guide
Publisher: Project South
Category: Guide Book
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This book offers tools, ideas and material you can use to build consciousness among people - to become conscious of our commonalities, uncovering the myths that confuse us. And to make a clear path to the future - a future where we walk side by side in the continuing struggle for lives with dignity, justice and the ability to love.
Author: Project South,
Title: Popular Education Guide for Movement Building: A Resource Guide, Vol. II
Publisher: Project South
Category: Teaching Materials
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This new workbook is a valuable tool for new popular educators or seasoned veterans, with 3 new workshops (including timelines) on Work & Wages, Public Education, and Movement Building. There are also descriptions of eight new popular education tools developed at the Second Southern Institute for Popular Education as well as facilitation tips, group guidelines and much more!
Author: Prokosch, and Laura Raymond, Mike
Title: The Global Activists Manual: Local ways to Change the World
Publisher: ThunderÆs Mouth Press/Nation Books
Category: Case Studies
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A guide to transforming the corporate globalization movement and ultimately the world you live in. Tired of job insecurity, environmental degradation, and the selling of political office to the highest corporate bidders? Follow three dozen authors who look beyond the spectacular shutdowns and protest in Seattle, Genoa, and Ottawa and introduce the readers to farmers in Iowa, industrial workers in Tennessee, and anti-sweatshop activists in Maine who are connecting global injustices to the issues in their own front yards. The authors range from movement "stars" to the unsung heroes who are challenging the world's largest corporations.
Author: Ross, ed., Andrew
Title: No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Publisher: Verso
Category: Case Studies, Guide Book
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A hard-hitting expose of the chasm between the glamour of the fashion catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop and how you can join the growing global campaign of consumer groups, human rights activists and international labor organizations to close down sweatshops and guarantee basic rights for those who cut and sew our clothes.
Author: Schwarz, John
Title: Illusions of Opportunity: The American Dream in Question
Publisher: W.W. Norton
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How America ended up with a deficit of sixteen million adequate jobs, hurting nearly a quarter of American families. The "American dream" and the immigrant's vision of America as "the land of opportunity" both depend on the idea that everyone in this country who works hard can support a family and get ahead. Yet, as John Schwarz makes clear, even thirty years ago opportunity in America was drying up--to the point that, today, nearly a quarter of American families that depend on employment to sustain themselves can't find adequate work, despite tremendous economic growth. Illusions of Opportunity reveals how this happened--and how the signs have been consistently misread, manipulated, or ignored by leaders across the political spectrum. Schwarz's provocative and original new research demonstrates that, rather than global competition or suffocating governmental interference, the real culprits are too many people competing for too few good jobs, high productivity outpacing low wage increases, and pay raises disproportionately benefiting the highest earners. The belief that all citizens should be able to sustain themselves and their families and communities decently is one that Americans regardless of political affiliation still share. Schwarz shows how the loss of opportunity has led to social decay, and how--with a better understanding of the problems we face--we might make the American dream a reality again.
Author: Shiman, David
Title: Economic and Social Justice: A Human Rights Perspective
Publisher: Human Rights Resource Centre
Category: History, and Teaching Materials
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Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement is the first book to capture the stories and experiences of popular educators in the U.S. labor movement.
Author: Tett, Lyn
Title: Policy and Practice in Education: Community Education, Lifelong Learning, and Social Inclusion
Publisher: Dunedin Academic Press Ltd. Scotland
Category: Case Studies, Guide Book
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Government policies in the areas of lifelong learning and social inclusion could build a more inclusive and democratic society through education that is rooted in the interests and experience of ordinary people. What contribution can community educators make to this project? How can learning in communities help to improve people’s social and economic conditions and bring about positive change? How can discrimination and oppression be challenged? How can a curriculum be developed that helps people to recognise that they can learn and generate new knowledge? How can community capacity be built and individual and collective self-confidence increased? This book explores answers to these questions using illustrations of Scottish practice in community education drawn from a range of contexts including detached youth work, family literacy, health education and community regeneration programmes.
Author: Think Again,
Title: A Brief History of Outrage
Publisher: Politicizing Pictures Press
Category: artwork
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"A Brief History of Outrage is a full color collection of Think Again's public art and agitprop over the past 6 years. The volume also includes 12 new digital collages that question the source of political backlash and explore the possibility of social transformation".
Author: Walter. Liz Manicom., Shirley
Title: Gender in Popular Education: Methods for Empowerment
Publisher: Zed Books and The Ctr. for Adult & Continuing Education
Category:
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A collection of critical reflections on feminist adult education work in South Africa, India, the US, Canada, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Australia. Drawing on and critiquing Freire-inspired and other traditions of adult education and feminist pedagogy, its concerns are the education methodologies and learning strategies that lead to women's empowerment.
Author: Walters, Shirley
Title: Globalization, Adult Education, and Training: Impacts and Issues
Publisher: Zed Books
Category: Guide Book
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"Globalization" has become a key shorthand for describing some of the important changes which are affecting daily life in all parts of the world. Adult educators and trainers are having to grapple with the impacts of changing social relations in the economic, political, social, cultural and environmental spheres. There is particular concern for the majority of people who are poor, live in rural areas of urban slums and are marginal to decision-making in their societies. This includes most women. It is the purpose of this volume, which is the product of a meeting of some 150 leading academics, professional practitioners and education activists from over 25 countries, to help adult educators and trainers to contend with the changes.
Author: WIDE,
Title: Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy
Publisher: WIDE
Category: Guide Book
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The manual combines gender analysis and gender sensitivity with the essential principles and techniques of popular education training to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalization, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO. It does not just explore differential impacts of a policy or reality on women but also addresses how gender, race/ethnicity and class differentials and the absence of women’s human’s rights are intrinsic and fundamental to the very workings of the market economy.
Author: Willams, Ed., Mary
Title: Child Labor and Sweatshops
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Category: For young adults
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Gr 9 UpIn a series of 17 articles, this book addresses child labor around the world and the use of sweatshops by industry. The selections are written by a variety of people, from journalists to teachers to human-rights activists, all of whom give different perspectives on this complex issue. Essays discuss efforts to ban imports of items made by children, whether consumer pressure can reduce the use of sweatshops, and sweatshops and the economies of developing countries. Some of the articles have endnotes and all are preceded with an abstract. This thought-provoking volume would be especially useful for preparing a persuasive paper or an oral report on the topic.
Author: Zerkel, Mary
Title: Coyuntural Analysis: Critical Thinking for Meaningful Action
Publisher: American Friends Service Committee
Category: Guide Book
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This booklet is based upon the premise that action needs reflection to be truly successful. Coyuntural analysis is a tool for critical thinking that leads to strategic planning. This booklet leads a group through the process, with exercises to help the analytical process. The coyuntural analysis is a process of identifying the problems in a neighborhood, linking them to larger issues, but then breaking them down to a level at which local activists can make a difference.
Author: ,
Title: Free Trade
Publisher: EPICA
Category: Guide Book
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The book addresses three main topics: 1) free trade in general; 2) the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in particular; and 3) the movement against these agreements and against neoliberal globalization.The main idea of the book is that free trade contains a lot of trade but very little freedom. Free Trade, instead of promoting the development of poor countries, is generating extraordinary power and wealth for transnational companies while it sinks most people inpoor countries even further into the slavery of poverty.
Author: ,
Title: Unpacking Globalization--A Popular Education Tool Kit
Publisher: Highlander Center
Category: Teaching Materials
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from Highlander and the Economic Literacy Network (ELAN) contains seven popular education sessions which tackle aspects of the global economy: women and work, Asian financial crisis, privatization, sweatshops
Author: ,
Title: Learning in a Global Society: Guidelines for Policy and Practice in adult learning
Publisher: DEA
Category: Teaching Materials, Case Studies.
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These guidelines challenge all adult educators to bring global perspectives to their programmes. It sets out the key knowledge, concepts, skills and values that underpin the global dimension, offers pointers for good practice and explores why global learning is important.They also provide practical checklists for tutors and for institutions on linking local to global. How do you bring a global dimension to your college, your curriculum, classroom, community group, workplace learning? What support, advice and resources are available? Finally, it offers three brief case studies of 'global learning in action'.
Author: ,
Title: A Citizen's Guide to the WTO
Publisher: Global Exchange
Category:
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Established in 1995, the WTO is a powerful new global commerce agency. While its proponents say it is based on "free trade," in fact, the WTO's 700-plus pages of rules set out a comprehensive system of corporate-managed trade. Under this system, economic efficiency dominates all other values. Decisions affecting the economy are confined to the private sector, while social and environmental costs are borne by the public. This booklet contains the basic information you need to know about this powerful organization. (28 Pages)