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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.
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March 05, 2012
Fukushima One Year Anniversary, March 11th, events planned worldwide
From the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS):
SPRING ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIONS 2012
From Fukushima Diary:
http://fukushima-diary.com/forum/latest-fukushima-news/fukushima-one-year-anniversary-march-11th-list-of-events-around-our-world/
- No more Fukushimas – 10-11 March 2012: Surround Hinkley Point
http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/
- Japan's Fukushima Disaster: 1st anniversary Nuclear energy protest & vigil
http://plancast.com/p/9pia/jap…..test-vigil
- 3/11/2012 Peaceful Rally and Protest – San Onofre 3/11/2012 Peaceful Rally and Protest – San Onofre
- No-Nukes in California (Fukushima anniversary)
http://www.facebook.com/events…..650390535/
- Artist call for 3/11 Fukushima Anniversary Online Art Show
http://www.facebook.com/events…..577828929/
- TAKE ACTION ON 11 MARCH
http://www.11march.com/take-ac…..-11-march/
- SF World Premier Screening Of "Fukushima, Never Again
http://www.indybay.org/newsite…..705737.php
- Fukushima Anniversary Evacuation March
http://safeandgreenenergyallia…..-3-11-2012
- March for a nuclear free world
http://wespac.org/index.php/en…..free-world
- Rally at San Onofre: NO FUKUSHIMA USA! — KEEP IT SHUT DOWN. March 11 1-3pm Hands-Across-the-Sands to STOP the Nuclear Madness!
http://activistsandiego.org/node/3454
- One year after 3/11: First anniversary of the Fukushima catastrophe
http://greennewdeal.eu/energy/…..rophe.html
- FUKUSHIMA REMEMBERED
Protest Continued Risky and Costly Operation of San Onofre Nuclear Waste Plant
http://www.copswiki.org/Common…..stAndRally
- PEACEFUL PROTEST at San Onofre, the nuclear power plant with the worst safety record of all 104 reactors in America.
http://www.nirs.org/action.htm
AND MORE:
Many more actions are being planned for March 11th, to remember Fukushima and say: Never again! Stop nuclear power!
In Germany there will be major demonstrations at six locations (WLOE translated press release from 7 March here.)
In France: a human chain from Lyons to Avignon will demand "an exit from nuclear" (Info in English: http://chainehumaine.org/English?lang=en)