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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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February 07, 2007
Report on World Social Forum 2007
GENDER PLATFORM WOMEN’S VOICE WAS STRONG AND CLEAR Zarina Geloo
NAIROBI - The women’s movement had a stronger voice at Nairobi 2007 than in all other forums and has made genuine attempts to link their issues into other processes, Fatma Aloo, a member of the WSF organisation committee, said Wednesday.
Aloo, who is also an executive board member of FEMNET, told a media briefing that the African women’s voice was especially strong and clear at the forum. "Unlike the other forums where our voice was drowned by the bigger and stronger solidarity movements, here in Nairobi we were strong. We had representation across the board, were able to link our issues into the other processes like land, water and health and, more importantly, did not talk to the converted – we engaged with other groups that did not traditionally have a gender component in their work." Enough Talk Aloo, who is from Tanzania, said there had been enough talk and that it was now time for action: "We must now move from NGOism to activism, we now know what we want to do and how to do it. We must now move to action – to doing it – and then come back and report progress." ... (read full text)http://www.ipsterraviva.net/TV/Nairobi/en/viewstory.asp?idnews=836
Women at the World Social Forum
Feminist Dialogues: Feminists and democracy
by L. Muthoni Wanyeki, a political scientist based in Nairobi, Kenya
"... the Feminist Dialogues, convened by 12 feminist organisations from all regions ... drew together just under 200 feminists from Africa, Asia, Europe, north and south America.
The theme of the FD was ‘feminist democracies: visions and strategies.’ Attended by many Kenyan and other Africans, it aimed to discuss the ways in which economic, ethnic and religious fundamentalisms fuel and are fuelled by militarism and neo-liberal globalisation to women’s detriment worldwide. It also aimed to critically analyse strategies through which women have sought to engage with the political process—nationally, regionally and internationally—in attempts to bring not only more women on board, but also more attention to women’s daily lived experiences..."