Welcome to the Democracy Center’s new website. For a year we have been preparing a whole set of new initiatives that build on the Democracy Center’s 20-year history supporting citizen action for social, economic and environmental justice. We invite you to explore our new site and join us in our new projects.
The site is divided into three main sections: Climate and Democracy, Corporate Power and Citizen Advocacy. It is these three areas of activity, and the links between them, that the Democracy Center will be focusing on in the years to come. You can find out more about each project by clicking on the main menu above or using the colored tabs to the right.
Of course we still have a specific ‘Bolivia‘ area of the site as well. This brings together all of the material from more than a decade of reporting on the impacts of economic globalization and its associated policies on Bolivia. This includes all of our reporting on the water revolt and from our involvement in the legal case against Bechtel which followed, as well as current climate change investigations from Bolivia. Click on the ‘Bolivia’ tab above to access all of this.
We are working on a new media center that will bring together all the media material produced by or about the Democracy Center, as well as an archive of older stuff. The Democracy Center newsletter is once again coming out every month or so. To keep up to date with our work, subscribe here.
And as always we are interested to hear from anyone interested in volunteering with the Democracy Center, either here in Bolivia or from wherever you are.
Finally, we are very excited to announce the launch of a new blog, Getting Action. After putting the ‘Blog from Bolivia’ to bed over a year ago, we are hoping this new space will act as a stimulating forum for discussion on how we can more effectively address the crisis of climate change, challenge corporate power, and increase the power of citizen advocacy and activism. Getting Action will feature regular extended discussions in which guest contributors will be invited to take part in the conversation, sharing their thoughts on how we can be more strategic and effective in the action that we take for greater social, economic and environmental justice.
