Democratic Civic Association (DCA)

Democratic Civic Association (DCA)
founded in the year	1986
City	Helsinki
Country	Finland
Website	http://www.desili.fi/
address	Hitsaajankatu 9 A, 6. krs. 00810 Helsinki
Networks	transform!, Think Tank
Last revision	18.06.2015

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Finnish: Demokraattiseen sivistysliittoon

The association's operations are focused on the traditions of the leftist and the working class movement. The DCA supports people's actions in the civic and cultural fields and especially those in leftist and workers' organizations, and labour, peace, environmental, and other civil movements. The DCA promotes contemporary Marxist studies and publishes literature and material for study and discussion. The association has projects with marginalized and immigrant groups.

It has observer status to the transform! Europe-network.

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Hitsaajankatu 9 A, 6. krs. 00810 Helsinki

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Lena Huldén, president, member of the union council

• Jari Heinonen, president of the association council

• Leo Partanen, secretary general, study director

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Jari Heinonen, president of the association council

• Mikko Korhonen, member of the association council

• Heikki S. Vuorinen, member of the association council

• Sippo Kähmi, member of the association council

• Arto Viitaniemi, member of the association council

• Tarja Västilä, member of the association council

• Helena Tuominen-Aliferenko, member of the association council

• Olli Savela, member of the association council

• Minna Mentula, member of the association council

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Kalle Kuittinen, member of the union council

• Eira Kejonen, member of the union council

• Tuula Kankaanperä, member of the union council

• Pasi Ranki, member of the union council

• Jaakko Ujanen, member of the union council

• Jari-Pekka Tamminen, member of the union council

• Seppo Ruotsalainen, member of the union council

• Sauli Hyöppinen, member of the union council

• Reijo Sutinen, member of the union council

• Lena Huldén, president, member of the union council

• Nowzar Nazari, member of the union council

• Irmeli Saarijärvi, member of the union council

• Aino Haavisto, member of the union council

• Olli Ikonen, member of the union council

• Heikki Kemppainen, member of the union council

• Abu Yosif Al Fawz, member of the union council

• Outi Mononen, member of the union council

• Ilmari Ekonen, member of the union council

• Asko Julkunen, member of the union council

• Kalevi Wahrman, member of the union council

• Marja Petäjäniemi, member of the union council

• Dimitri Laine, member of the union council

• Marja-Leena Kalkkinen, chairperson of the union council

• Jorma Eloranta, member of the union council

• Raija Siirilä, member of the union council

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.