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Getting Action: The Fracking Frontline in the English Countryside 16 Aug 2013 | 02:37 pm
A Letter from Balcombe, West Sussex The situation at Balcombe is constantly evolving and the British media are there in numbers, along with plenty of citizen journalists. Here’s the latest on all thi...
Getting Action: Infinito Gold and the power of mining corporations in a poor country like Costa Rica 7 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
Introduction Our guest contributor for this latest Getting Action blog post is Jorge Coronado Marroquín, a sociologist and social activist from Costa Rica. His post looks at two areas that are centra...
June 2013: Defending Democracy from a New Attack 14 Jun 2013 | 12:59 am
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 impac...
Getting Action: Unfair, Unsustainable, and Under the Radar 29 May 2013 | 06:13 pm
An article by report author Thomas Mc Donagh on how global investment rules and state-investor arbitration undermine sustainable development efforts.
New Report! Unfair, Unsustainable, and Under the Radar 24 May 2013 | 03:47 am
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 issu...
February 2013: Celebrating the Democracy Center’s 20th Birthday 25 Feb 2013 | 11:31 pm
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 sixtee...
How Do We Take Effective Citizen Action on the Climate Crisis? A Debate Across Three Continents 25 Feb 2013 | 10:44 pm
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 pointe...
Latest articles from the Democracy Center 14 Jan 2013 | 03:39 pm
Head to our Media Center to find links to recent articles and blogs from Democracy Center staff on Think Progress, New Internationalist, Red Pepper, Alternet and more.
December 2012: Democracy Here, There, But Not Quite Everywhere 18 Dec 2012 | 05:09 pm
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...
Looking Back with Fears for the Future 10 Dec 2012 | 08:58 pm
In the wake of election climate silence and a superstorm, Shawn, Leny and Aldo from the DC team reflect on their research with Bolivian communities impacted by climate change.
