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Global Movement Strategies (GMS) is a non-profit resource center whose purpose is to assist social movements and their allies make the connections and develop the strategies needed to function effectively in the global economy. While the need for cross border and cross movement cooperation is increasingly recognized by social change activists, the barriers to such cooperation are often formidable. This is the core problem that GMS was created to address. GMS is a bridge building organization whose mission is to initiate and stimulate activities and connections needed to deal with the effects of globalization. GMS provides strategic analysis and intelligence, public policy development, educational products, and help with organizational outreach to social movements around the world. The GMS staff of Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, Jeremy Brecher, and Claudia Torrelli is an established team with a proven record that brings the practical and expert knowledge resulting from decades of hands-on experience in labor, government, law, and social movements. GMS is a not-for-profit 501(c)-3 that seeks foundation funding and fee for service projects consistent with our mission. GMS is actively seeking partner organizations from around the world for joint projects. GMS works on a wide range of long-term projects, including developing campaigns and public policy to regulate the behavior of US based global corporations in Latin America; tracking and linking new worker organizations around the world; increasing the role of labor in the fight for access to basic needs such as safe drinking water; and advancing strategic responses to the rise of China in the world economy based on "fair globalization" principles. GMS also does short-term projects and provides strategic advice, information, and support to unions, social movements, public policy makers, and media on an on-going basis. Global Labor Strategies, a GMS project, maintains a blog to discuss and debate global labor issues, which can be found at: www.laborstrategies.blogs.com |
