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Nick Buxton

Online communications and media officer

Nick Buxton is TNI Online Communications and Media Officer. 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.

He is a long-term activist on global justice and peace issues. In the late 1990s he was communications manager at Jubilee 2000, part of the global movement that put unjust international debt on the global political agenda.

His publications include: “Networking for debt cancellation” in Advocacy, activism and the Internet (Lyceum books, 2001); “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

English, Spanish

Recent content by Nick Buxton

Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen (8 Jan 2010)

Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal -  the UN did not endorse or adopt the vacuous Copenhagen Accord but instead were forced to use the much weaker language of “noting” it.

Website overhaul (20 Oct 2009)

Transnational Institute has re-launched its core website - www.tni.org – to better showcase the work of its fellows and projects. Explore its new features and give us your feedback

U.N. General Assembly president urges rich countries to better address the economic crisis (2 Jul 2009)

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the elected president of the United Nations General Assembly, d'Escoto has touched a raw nerve among the world's most powerful nations.

Why is the UN ignoring the financial crisis? (25 Jun 2009)
UN conference was convened to find new ways of dealing with the global financial and economic crises and give voice to those most affected by them. But the rich countries have opposed any real change, and the result is an anemic UN document.
Shielding the President (18 Apr 2009)
Why are top Democrats protecting Bolivia's former president from facing trial for the massacres he ordered?
Bolivia’s New Constitution (5 Feb 2009)
Against a barrage of opposition media propaganda funded by Bolivia’s elites, the new constitution was approved with 61% of the popular vote. Bolivia was once the prized pupil for its wholesale application of policies encouraged by the IMF and the World Bank. Now it is one of the countries articulating an alternative.
Constituting change in a divided Bolivia (21 Jan 2008)
Bolivia's proposed new constitution is an innovative and progressive document constructed out of the struggles by social movements in recent years, however securing national consensus will be an uphill struggle. An in-depth analysis of Bolivia's constitutional process.
Bolivia intent on commercial suicide? (22 Jun 2007)
 
 
 
 

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