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New Report! Unfair, Unsustainable, and Under the Radar
New paper sheds an urgent public light on the system of international investment rules and tribunals corporations use to undermine citizen and government action on urgent social and environmental issues.
February 2013: Celebrating the Democracy Center’s 20th Birthday
Dear Readers, By my calculation this is the 95th issue of The Democracy Center Newsletter, a publication we started on a lark in early 1997 with a few hundred readers and which has grown in the sixteen years since to have more …
How Do We Take Effective Citizen Action on the Climate Crisis? A Debate Across Three Continents
In December, I wrote an article that appeared in Climate Progress, Yes Magazine, AlterNet and elsewhere, which took a hard look at citizen action on the climate crisis. The article raised some pointed questions about the value of global summitry …
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Sources of Information on the TIPNIS Controversy
Here the Democracy Center provides our readers with a range of sources of analysis and reporting on the TIPNIS controversy.
Some good news from the climate battlefield…
Getting Action on Climate: We just published an inspiring and, we hope, valuable new series of profiles on global climate activism. Read the blog post and follow the links to find out more…
Launch of ‘Climate Change is About…Water’ microsite
What is climate change really about for Bolivia? Check out the microsite in English or Spanish.
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