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June 2013: Defending Democracy from a New Attack

June 16, 2013 by Mads Ryle

Dear Readers, For two decades the Democracy Center’s work has been based on one fundamental principle: that citizens everywhere in the world have the right to influence the public decisions that impact their lives. That is what real democracy means. …

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February 2013: Celebrating the Democracy Center’s 20th Birthday

February 25, 2013 by Jim Shultz

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 …

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December 2012: Democracy Here, There, But Not Quite Everywhere

December 18, 2012 by Jim Shultz

2012 has been a big year for the Democracy Center following our ‘relaunch’ in late 2011. Here’s a look back at our projects and publications from the year – and a heads up on what’s to come in 2013…

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October 2012 Newsletter: Real Democracy

October 31, 2012 by Jim Shultz

It begins after the votes have been counted.

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September 2012: Getting Action on Climate

September 10, 2012 by Jim Shultz

September Newsletter from the Democracy Center brings you up to date with new projects on climate campaigning, teenagers making videos, and what about Rio+20?

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Follow our Reporting from this Week’s UN Conference in Rio!

June 15, 2012 by Jim Shultz

Dear Friends, This week the Democracy Center team, myself included, will be in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Global Conference on Sustainable Development. Tens of thousands of heads of state, government leaders, UN officials and environmental and social …

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May 2012: Climate Change and Captain Underpants

May 23, 2012 by Jim Shultz

Third grade ends this week. While I will be grateful for a three-month respite from making my daughter late to school most every day, there are many things about the school year I will surely miss.