Jim Shultz
@jimshultz.bsky.social
An activist for more than 50 years and a teacher of advocacy on five continents. I also write books, magazine articles, and opinion columns. After two decades in Bolivia, I now reside in exotic Lockport NY.
I was grateful to be invited to speak to a very large No Kings gathering in Amsterdam yesterday. The US is waking up, even abroad. Onward!
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I was grateful to be invited to speak to a very large No Kings gathering in Amsterdam yesterday. The US is waking up, even abroad. Onward!
Trump will whine that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, because it was given to someone working to turn a dictatorship into a democracy instead of the other way around. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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October 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Trump will whine that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, because it was given to someone working to turn a dictatorship into a democracy instead of the other way around. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
I was really honored to be profiled in the new edition of the Kennedy School alumni magazine. I have been walking the citizen activism road for 50 years and I have been graced to walk it with many of you.
www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni/conne...
www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni/conne...
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Changes
Jim Shultz MC/MPA 1985 is founder of The Democracy Center, which for more than three decades has trained and supported activists around the globe in their quest for positive social change.
www.hks.harvard.edu
September 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I was really honored to be profiled in the new edition of the Kennedy School alumni magazine. I have been walking the citizen activism road for 50 years and I have been graced to walk it with many of you.
www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni/conne...
www.hks.harvard.edu/alumni/conne...
Donald Trump sends me an email like this almost every day. Is he finally having regrets about his actions? But it seems like the only way he can get to heaven if I give him money.
August 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Donald Trump sends me an email like this almost every day. Is he finally having regrets about his actions? But it seems like the only way he can get to heaven if I give him money.
Dear Donald, sorry I missed you. Are you asking for money again?
August 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Dear Donald, sorry I missed you. Are you asking for money again?
More than 120 people of all ages turned out this morning in Lockport NY for our protest against ICE and Trump‘s abduction of migrants in our community. Most heartbreaking sign, a middle school student holding up: “ICE abducted my friend’s family.”
August 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
More than 120 people of all ages turned out this morning in Lockport NY for our protest against ICE and Trump‘s abduction of migrants in our community. Most heartbreaking sign, a middle school student holding up: “ICE abducted my friend’s family.”
Masked agents with no identification are throwing terrified men, women, and children into unmarked vans and carrying them away. Here is my column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and syndicated to 100 newspapers nationwide.
www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...
www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...
JIM SHULTZ: America's new secret police
They wear black masks that cover everything but their eyes. They carry guns but not identification. They drive unmarked cars.
www.lockportjournal.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Masked agents with no identification are throwing terrified men, women, and children into unmarked vans and carrying them away. Here is my column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and syndicated to 100 newspapers nationwide.
www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...
www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...
"Congresswoman Claudia Tenney loves concentration camps in El Salvador the way some Germans loved Auschwitz." My column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: Letter to our Coward Congresswoman. www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...
JIM SHULTZ: A letter to our cowardly congresswoman
Dear Congresswoman Tenney,
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April 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Congresswoman Claudia Tenney loves concentration camps in El Salvador the way some Germans loved Auschwitz." My column in today's Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: Letter to our Coward Congresswoman. www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jim-...
Notice the difference in Pope Francis photos?
April 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Notice the difference in Pope Francis photos?
Rep Claudia Tenney are you on drugs. Our retirement funds are cratering in service to Trump’s ego and your lips are occupied elsewhere.
March 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Rep Claudia Tenney are you on drugs. Our retirement funds are cratering in service to Trump’s ego and your lips are occupied elsewhere.
If you aren’t paying attention to how NYPD is turning #LuigiMangione into a folk hero, you aren’t paying attention.
December 22, 2024 at 3:45 AM
If you aren’t paying attention to how NYPD is turning #LuigiMangione into a folk hero, you aren’t paying attention.
Biden’s pardon of his son will give Trump both license and a lot of motivation to pardon anyone for anything. Political boomerangs are tough. Hunter did us no favors and we owed him none.
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Biden’s pardon of his son will give Trump both license and a lot of motivation to pardon anyone for anything. Political boomerangs are tough. Hunter did us no favors and we owed him none.
Happy Thanksgiving! He is risen.
November 28, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! He is risen.
A friendly reality reminder: Donald Trump’s win in the popular vote in 2024 was half that of Biden’s in 2020. Not much of a mandate.
November 27, 2024 at 2:33 PM
A friendly reality reminder: Donald Trump’s win in the popular vote in 2024 was half that of Biden’s in 2020. Not much of a mandate.
@MikeJohnstonCO does an excellent job speaking the language of common sense on deportation on @CNN www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/p...
Denver mayor responds to Trump’s ‘border czar’ threatening to arrest him | CNN Politics
CNN’s Erin Burnett speaks with Denver’s Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston about President-elect Donald Trump’s new “border czar” threatening him with arrest if he does not comply with directives to assis...
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November 27, 2024 at 4:18 AM
@MikeJohnstonCO does an excellent job speaking the language of common sense on deportation on @CNN www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/p...
A smart and important piece www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach (Gift Article)
Facing diminishing public support, some activists say all-or-nothing tactics are not working. “We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds.”
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:10 PM
A smart and important piece www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
“Allocating even a fraction of what the United States spends on warfare toward peace building and development would address the deeper drivers of migration,” Ms. Sheinbaum wrote in the letter. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
Mexican President Mulls Retaliatory Tariffs After Trump’s Threats
President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.
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November 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
“Allocating even a fraction of what the United States spends on warfare toward peace building and development would address the deeper drivers of migration,” Ms. Sheinbaum wrote in the letter. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
When Fred Harris dropped out of the presidential race in 1976 he said this and I never forgot it: “We couldn’t exactly call it winning and we couldn’t exactly call it losing so we decided to call it quits.” Vintage Fred Harris. www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
Fred Harris, former US senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94 | CNN
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.
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November 25, 2024 at 4:41 AM
When Fred Harris dropped out of the presidential race in 1976 he said this and I never forgot it: “We couldn’t exactly call it winning and we couldn’t exactly call it losing so we decided to call it quits.” Vintage Fred Harris. www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
Fred Harris was the kind of populist the Democratic Party stopped being and a man worth remembering. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Fred Harris, former senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94
He made a bid for the presidency in 1976.
www.politico.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Fred Harris was the kind of populist the Democratic Party stopped being and a man worth remembering. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Greetings friends and fellow X Twitter refugees. Nice to be out of the cesspool. I’m also at www.democracyctr.org
THE DEMOCRACY CENTER
Since its founding nearly thirty years ago, The Democracy Center has been dedicated to a single mission: To support activists around the world who are fighting for social justice and a healthy planet....
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November 24, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Greetings friends and fellow X Twitter refugees. Nice to be out of the cesspool. I’m also at www.democracyctr.org