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Nick Buxton

Email: nick AT tni dot org
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Blog: Open Veins
Nick Buxton

Online communications and media officer

Nick Buxton is a communications consultant, working on media, publications and online communications for TNI. He has been based in California since September 2008 and prior to that lived in Bolivia for four years, working as writer/web editor at Fundación Solón, a Bolivian organisation working on issues of trade, water, culture and historical memory. His publications include “Civil society and debt cancellation” in Civil society and human rights (Routledge, 2004) and “Politics of debt” in Dignity and Defiance: Bolivia’s challenge to globalisation (University of California Press/Merlin Press UK, January 2009).

Trade Policies, EU-CAN Relations, Participatory Democracy, Social Movements, Latin America Left, Climate Justice policies

English, Spanish

Recent content by Nick Buxton

Resistance and Hope at a time of Climate Emergency (12 Jan 2012)

The Durban climate conference could act as a turning point. Are we willing to be truly honest about the failure of our political and economic system to tackle climate change and willing to exercise our power in shaping the world we want to live in?

Legalised Profiteering? (3 Nov 2011)

The secretive and lucrative world of international investment arbitration has enriched a small coterie of multi-billion dollar international firms, which actively promote and even help finance litigations against states and have fought fiercely to prevent changes to an unjust international investment regime.

Drug Club: Spain's alternative cannabis economy (30 Jun 2011)

While public opinion seems to be shifting towards support for legalisation;there is surprisingly little discussion in the drugs counter-culture of what a socially just model of cannabis consumption might look like.

The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia's historic bill (22 Apr 2011)

Approval of Bolivia's revolutionary 'Mother Earth' law is an historic step by social movements in a long struggle for real ecological transformation of their economy and society.

Cancun Agreement stripped bare by Bolivia's dissent (16 Dec 2010)

Bolivia was not an obstacle to progress at Cancun's climate talks. It was rather the only nation daring enough to tell the truth.

Could granting rights to nature change the climate debate? (15 Dec 2010)

In the wake of failure in Cancun and the much deeper problem that humanity is no longer living within the ecological capacity of the planet, might it be time for nature to have its own legal advocates?

Corporate capture at the heart of Europe (6 Oct 2010)

The Irish government announcement of a €34 billion Euro bailout, two years after the financial crisis first broke, is a reminder that little has been done to prevent it happening again just as the social costs are becoming ever more evident.

Key issues on the table at the 8th Asia Europe People's Forum (29 Sep 2010)

Ahead of the Asia Europe People's Forum (AEPF) which coincides with the official ASEM8 summit this year in Brussels, four TNI scholar-activists - Susan George, Praful Bidwai, Ben Hayes and Walden Bello - discuss some of the key struggles facing citizens from both regions.

Is the water privatisation tide finally turning? (21 Sep 2010)

The EU's announced fund of 40 million Euros to support “non-profit partnerships” of water and sanitation utilities in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific is the latest evidence that the corporate push for water privatisation has been forced on to the back foot.

Peoples Conference model of inclusion offers only path forward on climate change (14 May 2010)

The Peoples' conference on climate change showed that a global movement, much larger than anyone imagined and with firm proposals, has coalesced and gathered strength

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