Democracyctr.org - Think tank focused on social justice & democracy in Bolivia
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The Democracy Center
Description
The Democracy Center works globally to advance human rights through a unique combination of investigation and reporting, training citizens in the art of public advocacy, and organizing international citizen campaigns. Through all of these efforts the Center is working to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action. A special emphasis of our work is economic globalization and the movement for global democracy and justice.
The Democracy Center is well known and regarded for its ability to make complex issues both understandable and interesting. The Center's articles have appeared worldwide in newspapers and magazines such as Newsday, The Nation , In These Times, the San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Toronto Star, The New Internationalist and others. In 2001 The Democracy Center was awarded top story of the year by Project Censored for its work on the Bolivian water revolt. The Center's work has been also been the basis for many other media outlets including The New Yorker, PBS, the BBC and others.
"Though a major American corporation was at the center of the Bolivian unrest, not a single U.S. newspaper had a reporter on the scene. And yet, news of the uprising was reaching a worldwide audience through the Internet. The source was an electronic newsletter with thousands of readers -- written by the American who had uncovered the Bechtel connection -- Jim Shultz [The Center's executive director]. He was in the streets during the uprising, and filing daily accounts about events in Cochabamba."
Contact
- Capitol WebWorks
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- Sacramento CA
- United States 95814
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- +1.91644414
