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Public Citizen | Global Trade Watch - Global Trade Watch

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Global Trade Watch (GTW) is a division of Public Citizen, the national consumer and environmental group founded in 1971. Public Citizen has about 160,000 due-paying members mainly in the U.S. GTW was created in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena. Having built unique substantive capacity and diverse contacts with other public interest organizations, the press and policy-makers, GTW is one of the few progressive U.S. organizations focused full-time on globalization issues. We have become a leader in promoting a public interest perspective on an array of globalization issues, including implications for our food, health and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and democratic, accountable governance.

GTW combines substantive and analytical capacity with extensive grassroots, press, and policy-maker relationships to develop public policy debates on vital trade and globalization issues. We design multi-faceted national and international campaigns which focus on the current mechanisms of globalization, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the procedures by which such policies are designed and implemented. We conduct research; publish diverse educational materials; educate the public through an extensive grassroots program; maintain relations with press and policy-makers; and coordinate closely with an array of domestic and international allies and partners. We have been part of building a diverse, nationwide U.S. grassroots coalition with labor, religious, family farm, environmental, and community groups called the Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) and have been part of building an international network called Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS).

Animating many facets of our work is the concept of the “public citizen” - a person who, once empowered with information and tools to affect change, makes being an activist part of her or his daily life. Thus, a GTW goal is clarifying for people that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor “free trade.” We have worked in many venues to demonstrate for the public, press, and policy-makers that our current system is merely one version of rules, which includes a “corporate-managed trade” system, removal of government safeguards policies on investment and finance, commodification of environmental commons and public services, deregulation and international harmonization of domestic regulatory standards and new protections and rights for investors and foreign corporations. All of our work seeks to make the measurable outcomes of this model accessible to people, while reiterating that if the results are not acceptable, then the model can and must be changed or replaced.