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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
..."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

Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More

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.

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March 25, 2015

"Building Movements Without Shedding Differences: Alicia Garza of #BlackLivesMatter"

"It's about interpersonal dynamics that are backed by systemic power. When we look at that, we see that Black people are on the losing end of every disparity that you can possibly think of. Not only is it not appropriate to not be paying attention to Black lives in this country, but it's certainly not appropriate to just erase Black from the conversation.2

Tuesday, 24 March 2015  By Laura Flanders, Truthout |

Video Interview with Alicia Garza, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter.

Excerpts from the 26 min. video and transcript:

Alicia Garza: "#BlackLivesMatter was an attempt for us to re-humanize us in a world that so profoundly dehumanizes us, and it was a call to action. We were able to both - because we're all organizers and because people like Opal have incredible skills in building online platforms - we were able to use that to build connections online so that people can take action together offline." ...

What I think is important here is that we've been pushing people to really talk about what does structural racism look like in this country. It's not about people being mean to each other.

That's just the smallest bit. It's about interpersonal dynamics that are backed by systemic power. When we look at that, we see that Black people are on the losing end of every disparity that you can possibly think of. Not only is it not appropriate to not be paying attention to Black lives in this country, but it's certainly not appropriate to just erase Black from the conversation.

Laura Flanders: Not only are Black lives on the receiving end, as you put it, but Black lives and stolen labor was at the heart of the way we created our society.

Absolutely.

That's an important piece of it, too. You said, "When Black people are free, everybody's free." For people that scratch their heads at that, can you explain?

Sure. The way that race works in this country is really on a Black to White spectrum. The closer you are to Black, the worse off you are. When we talk about Black liberation being intrinsic to everybody's liberation, we're really talking how systems in this country have been not only built off the backs of Black people and exploited labor, but certainly have been crafted to exclude and exploit Black people. If we're able to dismantle those systems, everybody has a better chance of living a better life. For example, we have domestic workers in this country who still are not covered under federal labor protections because of a compromise between Southern lawmakers and White-controlled and dominated labor unions. If we were able to, and that's a structural issue ..."

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