ICANN: the Secret Government of the Internet?
Article: April, 2001 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: In These Times, 15 May 2000. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a little-known international body that oversees crucial Internet functions. Depending on whose description you read, it is either an innocuous non-profit with a narrow technical mandate, or the first step in corralling the Internet for commercial and other purposes. Despite the centrality of it's role in the online world, there has been almost no media coverage of ICANN. The question of who should control this new form of global communication requires an answer.
Article: April, 2001 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: In These Times, 15 May 2000. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a little-known international body that oversees crucial Internet functions. Depending on whose description you read, it is either an innocuous non-profit with a narrow technical mandate, or the first step in corralling the Internet for commercial and other purposes. Despite the centrality of it's role in the online world, there has been almost no media coverage of ICANN. The question of who should control this new form of global communication requires an answer.
WTO Dissent In the Streets, Instead Of In the Legislature?
Article: 26 April 2000 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. As the clouds of tear gas dispersed over the streets of Seattle, one couldn't help but wonder where all this dissent over the World Trade Organization came from. Certainly in booming economic times we have not heard much vocal opposition in our state and federal legislatures.
Article: 26 April 2000 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. As the clouds of tear gas dispersed over the streets of Seattle, one couldn't help but wonder where all this dissent over the World Trade Organization came from. Certainly in booming economic times we have not heard much vocal opposition in our state and federal legislatures.
WTO Problems Underscores Need
for U.S. Labor Party
Article: 12 December 1999 - Albion Monitor. No matter which political party has been at the helm, Democrats or Republicans, the U.S. government and corporations have been the world's primary boosters for the World Trade Organization and globalization. Unfortunately, the heat of debate usually has reduced the complexities of the issue to simplistic slogans and sound bites.
for U.S. Labor Party
Article: 12 December 1999 - Albion Monitor. No matter which political party has been at the helm, Democrats or Republicans, the U.S. government and corporations have been the world's primary boosters for the World Trade Organization and globalization. Unfortunately, the heat of debate usually has reduced the complexities of the issue to simplistic slogans and sound bites.
An Antidote to GATT: Stakeholders vs. Stockholders
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: The Humanist, March-April, 1995. With NAFTA behind us and GATT in front of us, it's a sane response for working people to start feeling surrounded. There seems to be little to stop these steamrollers from running us over, as the workers of the world prepare to unite finally -- in the unemployment line. But, Hill points out, there are stubborn pockets of resistance to free trade that have sprung up over the last few years.
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: The Humanist, March-April, 1995. With NAFTA behind us and GATT in front of us, it's a sane response for working people to start feeling surrounded. There seems to be little to stop these steamrollers from running us over, as the workers of the world prepare to unite finally -- in the unemployment line. But, Hill points out, there are stubborn pockets of resistance to free trade that have sprung up over the last few years.
Stakeholders vs. Stockholders
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Hill looks at the enduring legacy of the Pennsylvania law that protects the rights of stakeholders, as opposed to the rights of the stockholders with respect to corporate-community relations. States and communities seeking new strategies to cope with job losses and corporate disinvestment associated with global free trade would do well to understand the opportunities provided by a legal framework solidifying stakeholder rights.
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Hill looks at the enduring legacy of the Pennsylvania law that protects the rights of stakeholders, as opposed to the rights of the stockholders with respect to corporate-community relations. States and communities seeking new strategies to cope with job losses and corporate disinvestment associated with global free trade would do well to understand the opportunities provided by a legal framework solidifying stakeholder rights.
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