Today’s Globalization Timeline Import Bank — White study 1936 — Keynesianism developed War II Foreign Relations — US race riots Economic History Korean War 1953 — Iranian Shah restored 1958 & 1959 — Computer chip invented 1942 — Bracero Program 1944 — Bretton Woods 1948 — Cold War 1949 — NATO formed African neocolonization 1965 — Vietnam War WAR ON POVERTY Popular Movement History Project South Today’s Globalization Timeline 9 Gammon Avenue, SW Atlanta, GA 30315 www.projectsouth.org — US race riots 1936-1939 — Spanish Civil War 1937 — Abraham Lincoln Brigades 1952 — McCarran- 1963 — OAU formed 1966 — ICCPR & ICE- Walter Act — Egyptian coup 1954 — Brown v Board of Education 1955 — Bandung Conference 1958 — European Common Market SCR SOCIAL CONTRACT WEAKENS 1986-1994 — “Uruguay Round” of talks 1986 — IMF forms Structural Adjustment Facility 1989 — World Bank forms Structural Adjustment Facility 1992 — New wedge issues appear in OR & CO 1994 — FTAA negotiations begin 1995 — WTO 1996 — TANF 2000 — Response to Seattle: SAP’s replaced by CDR at IMF 1954 — Puerto Rican 1963 — March on People’s Conference — Fifth Pan-African Congress 1946 — Operation Dixie 1949 — Chinese Revolution ind. movement 1955 — AFL-CIO merger — Montgomery Bus Boycott 1956-1990 — African independence 1959 — Cuban Revolution 1959-1978 — Latin American revolutions Washington 1965 — United Farm Workers lead national grape boycott 1966 — Black Panther Party formed 1967 — National Welfare Rights Org. formed 1968 — American Indian Movement formed 19 74 19 7 19 0 71 19 63 19 65 19 66 19 67 19 68 LGBT MOVEMENT 1945 — All-Colonial 1970 — 1st Earth Day — Struggle Vieques begins 1971 — Attica Prison uprising — MS. Magazine published 1974 — 424 big strikes (1000+ workers) 1979 — 1st LGBT March on Washington 20 03 20 02 20 01 2001 — US stock market plumets after 911 2002 — Euro begins circulation 2003 — Iran declares shift: dollar to euro. 2003 —35.9 million Americans in poverty GLOBAL WAR SOCIAL CONTRACT BROKEN Commission formed 1974 — Principles of NIEO ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS NEOLIBERALISM 1973 — Trilateral WOMEN’S MOVEMENT 199 7 1990 — Max. RAM avail. = 4mb available = 64k 1991 — Gulf War 1981-82 — SAPs ini— 500 largest corps tiatied sales = $5.2 trillion 1983 — US invasion 1994 — NAFTA of Grenada 1997 — Global North — Caribbean Basin gets $77 billion loan Initiative profits 1980 — Max. RAM 19 73 19 74 19 66 19 63 19 58 19 54 19 55 19 52 19 4 19 5 4 19 6 47 19 48 SOCIAL CONTRACT EXPANDS 19 59 19 3 19 4 3 19 5 3 19 6 37 19 17 19 19 19 2 19 0 21 19 09 19 10 STRONG UNION ACTIVITY 1934 — Southern 1905 — IWW founded 1910 — International 1917-1921 — Russian Revolution Textile Strike 1909 — NAACP Women’s Day founded 1917 — WEB Du Bois 1920 — Debs runs for 1935 — CIO formed US presidency issues “Close Ranks” — National Women’s Party 1919 — Seattle General Strike — Sleeping Car Porters organized 19 41 1941 — Atlantic Charter Standards Act (min. 1945 — Dumbarton wage 25 cents/hour, 40 Oaks proposal hour workweek) — UN formed 1946 — Taft-Hartley 1947 — GATT — Marshall Plan — Truman Doctrine 1948 — Israel TRADE UNION MOVEMENT 19 05 19 38 19 35 1935 — Wagner Act 1938 — Fair Labor 19 54 19 5 19 5 56 Origins Act (US) 1927 — Creation of Saudi Arabia Government Policy History 19 27 1924 — National 19 49 established throughout the US South 1917 — US Immigration Act — US race riots 1919 — Int’l Labor Organization — League of Nations 19 45 19 46 1905 — Jim Crow 19 24 19 17 19 19 NEW DEAL SOCIAL CONTRACT 199 4 19 7 19 0 71 19 73 1970 — Computer chip used in production 1971 — Sales of 500 largest corps = $721 billion 1973 — US abandons gold standard 1960 — OPEC formed 1960-Present — 20 05 Saudi Arabia 20 01 20 02 War I 2001 — PATRIOT Act eliminates basic civil libertiers in USA 2002 — US introduces CAFTA to step towards an FTAA 2002 — US deploys troops to guard Occidental Oil Pipeline 2003 — Bush tax-cut GLOBAL MOVEMENTS 1991 — Environ Justice movement Nation unites 1995 — El Barzón 1987 — ACT-UP forms forms — Palestinian 1997 — Haitian genIntifadah eral strike 1989 — Up & Out of 1998 — MAI defeatPoverty Now! Summit ed 1999 — Bolivian fight for water — WTO shut down 1984 — Cherokee 20 01 20 01 20 03 20 04 1939-1945 — World 1950-1953 — BEGIN WANE OF US ECONOMIC DOMINANCE — GLOBALIZATION SPEEDS UP 19 9 19 5 9 19 7 98 19 99 1934 — Export- GLOBAL ECONOMY 19 89 19 92 19 9 19 4 95 19 96 1927 — Creation of 2000’s GENERAL ECONOMIC DECLINE 19 65 19 48 19 4 19 9 50 19 53 19 27 ECONOMIC BOOMS & BUSTS 1990’s 19 87 19 89 19 91 the Gold Standard 1905 — RussoJapanese War GENERAL ECONOMIC EXPANSION 1914-1918 — World 1918 — Council on 1980’s 19 86 1902 — Japan joins 1970’s 19 84 War 1960’s 19 79 1899-1902 — Boer GREAT DEPRESSION 19 18 19 14 19 05 19 02 GLOBAL TRADE EXPANDS 1950’s 1940’s 1930’s 19 58 1920’s 19 42 19 44 19 45 1910’s 1900’s 19 34 19 36 Project South Presents: 2001 — Zapatista’s March to Mexico City 2001 — 911: Global response of symathay unprecedented for US 2003 — Global response of protest to US War in Iraq 2003-5 — GGJ brings over 100 grassroots leaders to WSF. 2004 — African Social Forum in Lusaka, Zambia