Nick Buxton
Nick Buxton
Communications Manager
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).
Areas of expertise:
Trade Policies, EU-CAN Relations, Participatory Democracy, Social Movements, Latin America Left, Climate Justice policiesContact
Email: nick AT tni dot org
Work tel: +1 (530) 758 8952
Mobile: +1 (530) 902 3772
English, Spanish
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Recent content by Nick Buxton
After Doha: rejecting dystopia by default
December 2012
We need to challenge the security industries and military that are thriving on the fear and insecurity created by our governments' inaction on climate change.
Putting a spotlight on the arbitration industry
November 2012
Profiting from Injustice report reveals that the legal arbitration industry have strong vested interests in supporting an unjust international investment regime.
Video: The Dark Side of Investment Agreements
May 2012
Architecture of TNC Impunity: , Corporate Economic & Ecological Crimes: , Corporate Planet: , International Investment Regime and BITs:
An animation which exposes how people are paying the costs of corporate lawsuits under international investment agreements.
Resistance and Hope at a time of Climate Emergency
January 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?
November 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
June 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
April 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
December 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?
December 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
October 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.
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