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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?
December 19, 2014
Great victory! Fracking banned in New York State
Received on Dec. 19, 2014:
Today we are celebrating a tremendous victory for the climate movement and grassroots organizing. On Wednesday, December 17th, Governor Andrew Cuomo banned fracking in New York State! This announcement comes after more than six years of increasing political pressure on Governor Cuomo to ban fracking as people began to learn about, and take action around, this threat to their communities and the climate. Thousands and thousands of people came together to educate the public, rally, protest, make phone calls, and sign petitions. The result of this organizing and protesting? The state leaders listened to the concerns of the people. Today we celebrate this victory of people power.
Watch this short video of mother, author, scientist, and activist Sandra Steingraber reacting to the decision.
As we celebrate this victory, we know that the climate science tells us that we must transition New York and every other state away from fossil fuels and toward a clean and renewable energy economy swiftly and completely. From oil trains, liquified natural and propane gas storage projects, to new gas pipeline proposals, there is work to be done....
Onward!
Mothers Out Front http://www.mothersoutfront.org/
See also an interview with Dr. Steingraber on Dec. 19, at http://www.democracynow.org/
See more on our No to Fracking page