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Latest Articles
- Report author Thomas Mc Donagh writing in Alternet about our recent publication on global investment rules, Unfair, Unsustainable, and Under the Radar. You can also listen to an interview with Thomas on FSRN.
- Director Jim Shultz in Yes!, Alternet and ThinkProgress on the desperate search for an effective activist strategy on climate change.
- Mads Ryle writing in Red Pepper magazine on the real climate action taking place far from the UNFCC negotiations.
- Researcher Ben Castle writes on Alternet and blogs at New Internationalist on the debates and realities around climate change and adaptation in Bolivia.
Latest Video
A group of 9 to 19 year-olds in Cochabamba, Bolivia made this highly original mock newscast to alert us to the impact of climate change in their country, and call for change.
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The Democracy Center’s Digital Media Projects
- Getting Action – our blog and forum
- Climate Change is About…Water – microsite on the impact of climate change in Bolivia (VERSION EN ESPAÑOL)
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Recent Articles from the Democracy Center (2010 -)
- How Corporations are Subverting Attempts to Rein in their Power (AlterNet, 23rd May 2013)
- Hometown Heroes: Three ways to win climate fights at the local level (Grist, 10th September 2012) This piece also appeared on Alternet
- Rio+20: 5 Key Takeaways (Interview, Christian Science Monitor, July 2012)
- ‘What Should be Done About Water Scarcity in Latin America?’ (Latin America Advisor, August 2012)
- Will ‘Green Economics’ Help Save the Environment or Just Sell it off to Corporations (Alternet, 15th June 2012) This piece also appeared on Salon.com
- Three Ways to Beat Corporate Giants (Yes! Magazine, 9th March 2012)
- Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia’s Forests? (Alternet, 21st November 2011)
- Protests erupt in Bolivia and the U.S. targeting ‘progressive’ presidents failing to protect the environment (Alternet, 6th Sept 2011.) The same piece also appeared in ‘Yes!’ Magazine
- Latin America finds a voice on climate change: with what impact? (NACLA, June 2010)
What others are saying about us…
Reviews of and reporting on our work
‘Democracy Center releases guide on corporate campaigning’
A review of our resource, Beating Goliath, from Rabble.ca
‘REDD at a crossroads in Bolivia’
Article from Mongabay about our 2011 report on forests and climate change in Bolivia
Profiles of the Democracy Center
Top Ten for Internet Activism
Video made in 2009 to celebrate the Democracy Center being named by Politics Online as one of the top ten groups using the internet to support activism
Armed with Democracy
Profile of the Democracy Center’s executive director, Jim Shultz (Sacramento News and Review, June 20, 2002)
Catchy Title, Solid Advice
Profile of Jim Shultz (Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, October 10, 2002)
Archived Media 2000-2010
The Blog from Bolivia
- Searchable database of over 600 posts from 2004-2010 on Bolivian politics, economy, society and culture, from our popular ‘Blog from Bolivia’
Voices from Latin America
- Archived microsite from our collaborative project that ran 2007-2010 aimed at bringing Latin American voices into foreign policy debates in the US
On Globalization
Jim Shultz interviewed about ‘Dignity and Defiance‘
(Democracy Now, April 19, 2010)
Evo Morales Accuses Right-Wing Governors of Trying to Stage Violent Coup
Jim Shultz as in-studio guest (Democracy Now, Sept 17 2008)
Chicago Public Radio interview with Jim Shultz
(Downloadable Mp3)
A New Alliance for the Americas?
Jim Shultz in a filmed panel discussion on U.S./Latin America relations (Grit TV , Feb 17, 2009)
IMF Policies Seen Firsthand in Bolivia
Interview with two Democracy Center volunteers (Seattle Times, April 9, 2005)
The Politics of Water in Bolivia
Editorial by Jim Shultz (The Nation, Feb 14, 2005)
Bringing it all Back Home
Article by Jim Shultz (New Internationalist, Jan 5, 2002)
Public pressure forces Becthtel to drop water case
Interview with Jim Shultz (Business News Americas, January 19, 2006)
Water Fallout
Reporting from Jim Shultz for ‘In These Times’ on the Water Revolt – a Project Censored winner in 2001
On Bolivia
Bolivian President Evo Morales Wins Critical Referendum on His Presidency
Interview with Jim Shultz (Democracy Now, Aug 12, 2008)
Autonomy Vote Threatens to Pull Bolivia Apart
Interview with Jim Shultz (Democracy Now, May 5, 2008)
Four of Bolivia’s Wealthiest Regions Declare Autonomy in Protest of New Constitution
Interview with Jim Shultz (Democracy Now, Dec 17, 2007)
Bolivia Country Profile:
Bolivia country profile (New Internationalist, May 2004)
Bloody Chaos over California Gas Deal
Opinion column (Sacramento Bee, Oct 2003)
Leasing the Rain
Film on the Cochabamba water revolt (PBS, July 5, 2002). For the transcript of the entire program click here.
On California
How Big Corporations Became Proposition 13′s Biggest Winners
An extended article from 1997 looking back at Proposition 13 and how it was still shaping the basic outlines of California government and politics nearly two decades later.
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