Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Polaris_Institute> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 70 of
70
with 100 triples per page.
- Polaris_Institute abstract "The Polaris Institute is a Canadian think tank based in Ottawa. Its stated goal is \"to help empower citizen movements towards democratic social change\". It was formed in 1997 in response to its view that citizens were becoming politically disenfranchised in an age of corporate driven globalization.The catalyst for the formation of the organization was the passing of two controversial trade agreements, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989 and the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994.The organization currently focuses its work on six projects: Water Rights: a multi-year campaign to promote public tap water and establish bottle water free zones’ in schools, universities, colleges and municipalities supplemented with work on a comprehensive ban on bulk water exports plus solidarity actions with water justice struggles and movements in Mexico, South Africa, and India. Energy Transition: a multi-group campaign with other Canadian and US groups to put a cap on the production and export of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands and promote the development of clean and renewable energy sources. Indigenous Rights: an ongoing initiative led by indigenous activists committed to grassroots mobilizations in First Nations communities affected by tar sands development as well as an initiative to focus on the financial risk of investing on disputed First Nations lands. Climate Jobs/Green Economy: a program wherein Polaris has played a role in organizing a new nationwide alliance of the country’s major labor unions, environmental and social justice organizations to develop and promote a common policy platform for transitioning to a green economy. Corporate Profiles: ongoing critical analysis of the corporate power that influences government policy making. Work includes developing corporate profiles on the some of the major corporate players and providing a rapid response mechanism for community and movement activists on corporate research matters. Current projects include profiles of water services corporations operating in Canada, the influence of corporations over immigration policy in Canada, research on foreign and Canadian mining corporations and the lobbying activities of tar sands industry. Global Justice: a program involving social movements and NGOs from around the world focused on corporate power [through the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power] and global trade justice issues [through Our World is Not For Sale]. These movements are engaged primarily in: challenging the GATS regime at the World Trade Organization; mobilizing resistance to the G20; and confronting the corporate capture of the United Nations.".
- Polaris_Institute foundingYear "1997".
- Polaris_Institute keyPerson Executive_director.
- Polaris_Institute keyPerson President.
- Polaris_Institute keyPerson Tony_Clarke_(activist).
- Polaris_Institute location Canada.
- Polaris_Institute location Ottawa.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageExternalLink www.polarisinstitute.org.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageID "1402679".
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageLength "3916".
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageOutDegree "20".
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageRevisionID "665935786".
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Athabasca_oil_sands.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Canada–United_States_Free_Trade_Agreement.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Category:Political_advocacy_groups_in_Canada.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Category:Think_tanks_based_in_Canada.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Environmental_justice.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Executive_director.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink First_Nations.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink General_Agreement_on_Trade_in_Services.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Globalization.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Green_economy.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Ottawa.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink President.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Social_justice.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Think_tank.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink Tony_Clarke_(activist).
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLink World_Trade_Organization.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageWikiLinkText "Polaris Institute".
- Polaris_Institute areaServed Canada.
- Polaris_Institute focus Environmental_justice.
- Polaris_Institute focus Social_justice.
- Polaris_Institute foundedDate "1997".
- Polaris_Institute keyPeople President.
- Polaris_Institute keyPeople Tony_Clarke_(activist).
- Polaris_Institute keyPeople "Richard Girard, Executive Director".
- Polaris_Institute location "Ottawa, Canada".
- Polaris_Institute name "Polaris Institute".
- Polaris_Institute type "Non-Profit".
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Canada-org-stub.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_non-profit.
- Polaris_Institute wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Url.
- Polaris_Institute subject Category:Political_advocacy_groups_in_Canada.
- Polaris_Institute subject Category:Think_tanks_based_in_Canada.
- Polaris_Institute hypernym Tank.
- Polaris_Institute type Agent.
- Polaris_Institute type Group.
- Polaris_Institute type Non-ProfitOrganisation.
- Polaris_Institute type Organisation.
- Polaris_Institute type Weapon.
- Polaris_Institute type Group.
- Polaris_Institute type Organization.
- Polaris_Institute type Organization.
- Polaris_Institute type Organization.
- Polaris_Institute type Agent.
- Polaris_Institute type SocialPerson.
- Polaris_Institute type Thing.
- Polaris_Institute type Q163740.
- Polaris_Institute type Q43229.
- Polaris_Institute comment "The Polaris Institute is a Canadian think tank based in Ottawa. Its stated goal is \"to help empower citizen movements towards democratic social change\". It was formed in 1997 in response to its view that citizens were becoming politically disenfranchised in an age of corporate driven globalization.The catalyst for the formation of the organization was the passing of two controversial trade agreements, the Canada-U.S.".
- Polaris_Institute label "Polaris Institute".
- Polaris_Institute sameAs Q3394051.
- Polaris_Institute sameAs Polaris_Institute.
- Polaris_Institute sameAs m.04zrfd.
- Polaris_Institute sameAs Q3394051.
- Polaris_Institute wasDerivedFrom Polaris_Institute?oldid=665935786.
- Polaris_Institute isPrimaryTopicOf Polaris_Institute.
- Polaris_Institute name "Polaris Institute".