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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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September 09, 2009
Farida Akhter on women's action against the Tipaimukh Dam
She writes:
"Dear Sisters,
As you know Bangladesh shares about 57 major rivers with India, but India
has been constructing big Dams, Hydro-electric projects and blocking the
water flow of the rivers into Bangladesh. The latest one is the proposed
Tipaimukh Dam in the North Eastern side on Barak river at Tipaimukh. The
united Women¹s front Sammilita Nari Samaj have visited the spot which is
going to to be worst affected on the Bangladesh side, i.e. Jokiganj in
Sylhet and protested against the protest. We also want to express solidarity
with the people in Monipur, Mizoram, Nagaland etc. because they will be
equally affected and the Indian government does not is least concerned about
that. These are mostly indigenous people.
We want support from the international community to stop the Tipaimukh project of India and save people and their livelihood and biodiversity."
Farida Akhter
August 19, 2009
Read her report, with photos, of the trip to the area that would be affected.
Tipaimukh Project: A protest trip of Sammilita Nari Samaj
(pdf download 327 K)