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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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November 26, 2014
"Women On The Frontlines Of The Struggle In Ferguson"
"Women have always played integral roles in social movements and turning points in American history," wrote Michelle Zei, www.youngist.org in an article on women and Ferguson posted on October 18, 2014 on the website Popular Resistance. As thousands of people in cities across the US demonstrate against the grand jury decision not to charge white policeman Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown, we turn to her piece on the special role of women in the protest and srtuggle against racism in the US. See also extemsive coverage of Ferguson on Democracy Now!
The article starts:
"In times of crisis, the term “protect the women and children” might still come to mind. However, when police responded to Ferguson residents with the excessive force of rubber bullets, tear gas, and arrests, women stood their ground and took a place at the frontlines of a long fight to challenge police brutality rooted in racism.
Although Mike Brown was a young Black man, the steady participation of young Black women in Ferguson isn’t a mere act of solidarity. Women too face brutality from police that is often unaccounted for by the system and unnoticed by the public. Renisha McBride’s murder and the recent discovery of Angelia Mangum and Tjhisha Ball dead by a Jacksonville, Florida road cry for attention and outrage at violence against young Black women, along with their male counterparts. Racism isn’t neatly divided or contained by gender and thus requires unity to construct solutions and demand changes.
Women have always played integral roles in social movements and turning points in American history. For example, women in the Civil War revolutionized the nursing profession that we know today. Prior to the Civil War, it was seen as obscene for women to be around illness and especially to care for wounded men. However, women were willing to get their hands dirty and fulfill an immense need that men alone couldn’t meet. Despite the contributions of fearless women throughout history like Eleanor Roosevelt, Angela Davis, and Dolores Huerta, women are often remembered in the margins as wives and supporting roles while history celebrates their male contemporaries with more distinction." ...