Tobin Tax Endorsers/ Active Groups /Studies/ Resources - From Around the World...

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International Campaigners

International Groups and Platforms which include Tobin Tax (Combined nongovernmental organization platforms)

Copenhagen Alternative Declaration (signed by hundreds of NGO's at 1995 World Summit for Social Development)
iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/1995/cpendecl.htm

NGO Forum on Food Security (1996 Food Security Convention, World Food Summit, Rome)

Rio Plus 5 Recommendations - Managing Systems for Sustainable Development (1997 NGO review of 1992 Rio Summit)
www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/followup/recommendations.htm

CIDSE - International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity (Very active), sponsored 1999 Tobin Tax experts meeting, and published 2000 document updating the Economic Feasibility
www.cidse.be

Alternatives for the Americas (1998 Santiago People's Summit; both South and North American NGO's, including IPS, DGAP, RMALC, and others), includes a Tobin Tax platform
www.economicjustice.org/alternatives/InternationalFinance.html

World Council of Churches 8th Assembly (December 1998 Harare, Zimbabwe: attended by thousands of delegates)

Earth Action International (1800 partner organizations), active on Tobin Tax since 1995
www.earthaction.org

Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, published The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, 1996, which includes articles promoting the Tobin Tax

Commission on Global Governance, published book Our Common Future, 1995, which suggests the Tobin Tax.
www.cgg.ch/ssrg77.htm and
www.cgg.ch/stories.htm#Tobin_Tax

World Congress of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women, (Rio 1996), statement supporting global financial levies for long-term financing of the UN
www.globalpolicy.org/finance/action/wfedmw.htm

Independent Commission on Population and Quality of Life, published Najman & D'Orville, "Towards a New Multilateralism: Funding Global Priorities."
gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/00/ungophers/popin/icpd/prepcomm/ngo/940414113121

Parliamentarians for Global Action, debated Tobin Tax at Sept. 1999 yearly forum, decided to include a task force on the Tobin Tax in their new action plan.

Environmental NGO's Statement to the Fifth Ministerial of the OECD Environment Ministers (1996, Paris; endorsed by numerous US NGO's, including CIEL, CIPA, IATP, Defenders of Wildlife; and by European Enviro Bureau - 136 NGO's from 26 countries; FOE International - 54 countries; Union de Grupos Ambientalistas - Mexico - 38 environmental NGO's; and many other individual NGO's)

APC Women's Network: NGO Statement "Quality Benchmark for Bejing: An Economic Framework" (includes DAWN; Eurostep; WIDE; Alt-Wid; Engender)

Copenhagen Youth Declaration "Social Rights and Responsibilities of Youth" - International Youth Consultation on Social Development, WSSD, Copenhagen, 1995

International Forum on Globalization - A Preliminary Report: "Beyond the WTO: Alternatives to Economic Globalization" by an international task force of IFG, Nov 26, 1999, includes a call for currency speculation taxes by the world's major currencies.

CONGO: Conf. of NGO's in Consultative Relationship with UN recommends that the development committees review, among other proposals, the Tobin Tax... this was referred to their Board in early 1998...

International Youth and Student Movement, Statement to ECOSOC, July 23, 1997 supporting Tobin Tax
www.globalpolicy.org/finance/alternat/ecosoc/jlecosoc.htm

North American Groups

Canada:

Social Affairs Office, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Canadian Council for International Cooperation
CUSO
Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice
Inter-Church Coalition on Africa
Inter-Church Comittee for Human Rights in Latin America
North-South Institute
Oxfam Canada
RESULTS Canada
Sierra Club of Canada
Social Justice Committee of montreal
World Interaction Mondiale

Labor Organizations, Canada
Canadian Auto Workers - CTC, mentions Tobin Tax in "Jobs Crisis"
Canadian Labor Congress
NUPGE - National Union of Public and Goverment Employees

ATTAC, Quebec (French speaking affiliate of ATTAC-International), actively campaigning on Tobin Tax worldwide
www.attac.org

UNAC, Canada (United Nations Assocation of Canada), Published a paper "Tobin Tax as a mechanizm to finance de-mining"
www.ncrb.unac.org/landmines/UNACinfo/tobin-tax.html

Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, published a Tobin Tax interview with James Tobin

North/South Institute, published the essential paper by Rodney Schmidt! Solves the enforcement problem through collecting the tax at the settlement site!

IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development), monitors UN Actions on SD, has published updates on Tobin Tax
iisd1.iisd.ca

World Federalists of Canada, supportive since 1996, published 1999 paper "Stabilizing the world economy: Tobin Tax may be best bet"
www.web.net/~wfcnat/tobin.html

World March of Women (Montreal), includes Tobin Tax in platform demands for ending poverty and voilence against women
www.ffq.qc.ca/marche2000/en/cahier

COMER (Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform), published "The Case for an FTT" in Flipside, Jan 1997

US Groups:

Preamble Center (www.preamble.org)
Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment (www.asje.org)
National Lawyers Guild
Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org)
50 years is Enough National Network
RAN (Rainforest Action Network), beginning a campaign (www.ran.org)
City of Arcata
Seventh Generation Fund
Center for Environmental Economic Development (www.ceedweb.org)

Earth Action International, active on Tobin Tax since 1995

AFL - CIO, active Policy Department research and advocacy, published studies on Tobin Tax.
Requests for papers should be sent to: AFL-CIO, Public Policy Department, Attn: Wroking Papers Administrator, 815 16th Street, NW Room 504, Washington, DC 20006

Friends of the Earth, campaigns for Tobin Tax since 1995, recently published Recommendations for Cologne G-8 Summit (1999), and "Call to Action" which recommended taxes on currency speculation and "Control of International Capital: Policy Options"

Economic Policy Institute, published sutdy "Policies for Restoring Financial Stability and Global Prosperity" by Robert Blecker, includes Tobin Tax to "cool down hot money flows"

Institute for Policy Studies, DC, publishes Foreign Policy in Focus reports, which have featured Tobin Tax articles/analysis on several occasions

Global Policy Forum, NY, actively promotes the Tobin Tax on the best website in the world - over 5 million website hits so far, and growing!
www.globalpolicy.org

World Energy Modernization Plan, actively working on the Tobin Tax as a financial mechanism to fund the battle against global warming, by providing public funds for the transition to safer, renewable energy. See The Heat is On, by Ross Gelbspan, a Pulitzer prize-winning author.
www.wemp.org

International Forum on Globalization, Alternatives Task Force, recommends a tax on currency speculation

Financial Markets Center, Virginia, Publishes the FOMC Alert, which has included articles advocating the Tobin Tax mechanism.
www.fmcenter.org

World Federalists Association, has sponsored Tobin Tax workshops; a 1995 WFA document for Beijing Conference on Women called for Tobin Tax.
www.wfa.org

Active Groups in Europe on the Tobin Tax

France:

UK:

Oxfam Great Britain (development), published a study on the Tobin Tax
www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/tobintax/tobintax.htm

Overseas Development Institute (development, research), published "Twenty Recent Suggestions for Global Revenue"
www.oneworld.org/odi

Royal Economic Society (academic), published several short articles on the Tobin Tax, some critical, some supportive.
www.res.org.uk

Jubilee 2000 Coalition (ecumenical), published a short piece on the Tobin Tax and the debt
www.oneworld.org/jubilee2000/faq_cancel.html

NorthEast England Greens (environmental), published an endorsement piece
www.gn.apc.org/negreens/pr981127.htm

Bretton Woods Project, endorsed concept in one of their studies.

Christian Aid (development), endorsed the Tobin Tax in an article, "Pennies from Seven: 7 ways the G-7 can help the Third World"
www.christian-aid.org.uk/

CAFOD (Catholic Aid and Development), published "Capital Punishment" which suggests further scrutiny and study of proposals such as the Tobin Tax
www.cafod.org.uk/capitalpunishment.htm

Switzerland:

Bread for All, actively supportive, has sponsored Tobin Tax workshops at conferences
www.bfa-ppp.ch

International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW; labor), active and endorsers

International Metalworkers Federation (labor), endorsers
www.imfmetal.org

International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development
www.ictsd.org

Germany:

Wuppertal Bulletin (research), flight tax proponent
www.wuppertal-forum.de/wuppertal-bulletin/WBe/WBe_3_96/JL_NP_1.htm

German Greens, endorser
www.gruene.de/index2.htm

Finland:

Network Instittue for Global Democratisation, published Patomaki report, The Tobin Tax: How to make it real, 1999.
www.nigd.u-net.com/tobin.htm

GASPP - Globalization and Social Policy, actively endorsing the Tobin Tax
www.stakes.fi/gaspp/news.htm

Italy:

Fondozione Eni Enrico Mattei (development research), conference included Tobin Tax academics
www.feem.it/feem/notifeem/notifeem.html

Belgium:

European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD; development), active endorsers
www.oneworld.org/eurodad

World Confederation of Labor (WCL; labor)
www.cmt-wcl.org/en/index.html

Netherlands:

Ireland:

Asian Groups Active on the Tobin Tax

Malaysia:

Thailand:

Australia:

Australian Labor Party

Korea:

India

Center for Peace Action, Tamil Nadu, India has joined in this effort and supports the Tobin Tax

Latin American Groups Active on Tobin Tax

Brazil:

Alternatives for the Americas (Alliance for Responsible Trade, Common Frontiers, RECHIP, RMALC, RQIC), support a Tobin Tax to slow down hot money
www.economicjustice.org/alternatives/InternationalFinance.html

ATTAC - Brazil (Association for Taxation of Transactions to Aid Citizens), supporting the Tobin Tax and against neoliberal policies. Sao Paulo's ATTAC is independent from its French counterpart.
E-mail at attac-sp@yahoogroups.com

African and Middle Eastern Groups Active on Tobin Tax

South Africa New Economic Federation
SANE listserve, sometimes discusses the Tobin Tax
sane@iafrica.org
Published "Can the Casino Economy be tamed?"
www.woza.co.za/wayne14.htm

Morocco - 350 lawyers signed a peition in favor of the Tobin Tax

Labor Endorsements/Studies/Resources on Tobin Tax