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Getting Action Strategy Check: Confronting ‘corporate super-rights’ in the TTIP
Campaigners Pia Eberhardt and Arthur Stamoulis discuss what has been learned so far about challenging investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), as the European Commission consults on its use in the...
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New Report: Movement Strategies for Moving Mountains
Conversations with Activists Worldwide on How to Use Latin America’s COP to Build Citizen Action on Climate (From the Introduction…) “Mobilizing effective citizen action on the global climate crisis...
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Getting Action: Strategic lines of ATTAC at the Summer University
Social movements of Europe gather for three days of education, planning and action-building by Thomas Mc Donagh When it comes to historic sites for turning ideas into action for social change, the...
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Making the Case for Hope, Strategy and Cold War Thinking: Reflections on NYC...
Democracy Center Director Jim Shultz was in New York for Climate Week in September 2014. Here is a collection of articles and interviews that capture thinking on the issues surrounding the People’s...
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Getting Action Beyond New York: Shifting the Focus to the South
Supporting the growth of a diverse, rooted and strategic global climate movement Last month New York saw 400,000 people marching in the streets of Manhattan, a day before the UN Climate Summit called...
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Cambio Climático es…hablar de Mujeres
Visite el micrositio: Cambio Climático es…hablar de Mujeres Visit the microsite: Climate Change is About…Women Estamos en Lima para el Cumbre de los Pueblos, coincidiendo con el COP20. Entre muchas...
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Climate Change is About…Women
Sowing resilience to patriarchy and climate change in peri-urban Bolivia In 2014 two Democracy Center colleagues, Leny Olivera and Carey Averbook, worked together over several months to produce the...
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Democracy Center team at the COP20 and the People’s Summit in Lima this week
Almost the entire Democracy Center team will be present in Lima all this week, reporting from the People’s Summit, and inside the COP20. Scroll down this page for daily news and reports. You can...
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On The Ground And In The Boardrooms – Strategies For Connecting Frontline...
Thomas Mc Donagh and Philippa de Boissière report from Lima as the Democracy Center launches its new report: Climate Conquistadors – The Many Ways Multinationals Both Drive and Profit from Climate...
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COP20 Gender Day – What does genuine, legitimate participation by women look...
Leny Olivera writing from Lima, where the Democracy Center is hosting a photo exhibition at the People’s Climate Summit, based on our photo-documentary Climate Change is About…Women. Since 2012 the...
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There’s Something About Water
Thomas McDonagh looks back on the Cochabamba water war that took place fifteen years ago this month. With one eye cocked to Ireland, he talks about how water struggles lead to huge political changes....
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Bolivia, 15 Years on from the Water War
What happened in Cochabamba and Bolivia after the Water War? by Aldo Orellana First published on Narco News *See our April 2015 Newsletter for the full set of writings about the Water Revolt and its...
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Bolivia: 15 Years After the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of...
by Philippa De Boissière First published in Upside Down World *See our April 2015 Newsletter for the full set of writings about the Water Revolt and its legacies today* Fifteen years ago this month the...
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Women, Violence and Climate Change
Witnessing and Documenting Resilience in Periurban Bolivia Bolivian women’s activist Leny Olivera and US photographer Carey Averbook spent several months documenting resilience in the climate-change...
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Getting Action: Cutting Off The Flow Of Finance To Coal
How Anti-Coal Campaigners Changed the Bank of America by Thomas Mc Donagh In 2011 Bank of America (BofA) was the lead financier of coal in the United States. By May 2015 the bank had announced a shift...
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Fracking with the Happy People
How the search for shale gas is exposing cracks in Denmark’s showcase democracy by Anders Vang Nielsen This article first appeared on Common Dreams We are used to hearing about multinational...
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Sembrando Dignidad ante el Patriarcado y el Cambio Climático, en fotografías
Por Sian Cowman y traducido por Leny Olivera Rojas English version here. A finales de mayo El Centro para la Democracia junto a la presencia de algunas de las mujeres de la Comunidad María Auxiliadora...
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Sowing Dignity in the face of Patriarchy and Climate Change, in photos
By Sian Cowman Versión en español aquí. At the end of May 2015 the Democracy Center and women from the María Auxiliadora community in the Zona Sur of Cochabamba, Bolivia, organized a photo exhibition...
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Ten Years After the Defeat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) –...
By Aldo Orellana López and Thomas Mc Donagh. First published in ALAI on 4th November, 2015. This month marks the tenth anniversary of the defeat of the FTAA. What can we learn from that victory and the...
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NEW PROJECT: Abundance for Everybody
Visit the microsite: www.democracyctr.org/alternatives …versión en español: www.democracyctr.org/alternativas Over the past several years the Democracy Center has covered the impacts of climate change...
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