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From Public Citizen's Corporate Presidency site: "44 Trump administration officials have close ties to the Koch brothers and their network of political groups, particularly Vice President Mike Pence, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House budget director Mick Mulvaney."
Dark Money author Jane Mayer on The Dangers of President Pence, New Yorker, Oct. 23 issue on-line
Can Time Inc. Survive the Kochs? November 28, 2017 By Jane Mayer
..."This year, among the Kochs’ aims is to spend a projected four hundred million dollars in contributions from themselves and a small group of allied conservative donors they have assembled, to insure Republican victories in the 2018 midterm elections. Ordinarily, political reporters for Time magazine would chronicle this blatant attempt by the Kochs and their allies to buy political influence in the coming election cycle. Will they feel as free to do so now?"...
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America" see: our site, and George Monbiot's essay on this key book by historian Nancy MacLean.
Full interview with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer March 29, 2017, Democracy Now! about her article, "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer Exploited America’s Populist Insurgency."
Democracy Now! Special Broadcast from the Women's March on Washington
The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version
Local Futures offers a free 19-minute abridged version of its award-winning documentary film The Economics of Happiness. It "brings us voices of hope of in a time of crisis." www.localfutures.org.
What's New?
August 03, 2016
A Vision for Black Lives
A Vision for Black Lives -- the website and vision presented
In Spanish: “Una Visión para las Vidas Negras.”
"Black humanity and dignity requires black political will and power. In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and globally, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda. We are a collective that centers and is rooted in Black communities, but we recognize we have a shared struggle with all oppressed people; collective liberation will be a product of all of our work."
See also: Movement for Black Lives Calls for Reparations and "End to War Against Black People"
2 August 2016 00:00 By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
And from A Vision for Black Lives, article By Staff, www.policy.m4bl.org
August 2nd, 2016, posted at popularresistance.org
..."From Demos announcing this site: . . . a group of more than 50 grassroots organizations and networks connected to the Movement for Black Lives the Black Lives Matter Network, BYP_100, Organization for Black Struggle and many others launched a beautiful policy platform, complete with 39 policy briefs. The platform is called “A Vision for Black Lives” and is document that is breathtaking in it’s vision and scope. You can follow (and participate!) in the conversation today at #Vision4BlackLives
The core partners have been collaborating on this for over a year.
As you can see in the Demos Action statement about the platform,we believe this document should be seen as a guidebook — we are urging everyone to read it…today."