Jim Shultz

Jim Shultz is executive director of The Democracy Center, based in Bolivia and California. He has trained citizen advocates on five continents, and writes frequently on global democracy issues. He is author of The Democracy Owners' Manual: a practical guide to changing the world (Rutgers University Press, 2003)

The Pipeline Strikes Back: the audacity of TransCanada's $15b suit against the U.S.

The political saga of the Keystone XL pipeline is like a real-life version of The Force Awakens. So why are we giving the Dark Side even more power?

By Jim Shultz

/ 5 Feb 2016

America's promise

Dear Jim, Against the world, against the people, against life: that is what the United States means to me. It means a state apparatus run by the gangsters of petroleum

By Jim Shultz and Oscar R. Olivera

/ 12 Sep 2004