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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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May 29, 2015
Climate Change is About... Women
Maria Auxiliadora is a community with a difference. Meet four women reclaiming their lives from violence on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Report from The Democracy Center project on climate resilient women: http://democracyctr.org/climateresilientwomen/
Read the new article: 'Women in Resistance and Resilience' by Leny Olivera Rojas in Upside Down World
Bolivia as a country is highly vulnerable to climate change, with extreme weather and rising temperature impacts putting ever more lives and livelihoods at risk. The complex effects ripple throughout society. Rosa, Isabel, Maria Eugenia and Irene embody much of what makes large numbers of Bolivians vulnerable, such as economic marginalization and poor access to resources and state protection.
“With women there is a lot of violence, but in this neighbourhood there is very little. Whenever there is violence, a group of women always gets together. They whistle when they hear husbands beating their wives.”
– Doña Isabel. Explore her story: "Now I have almost everything"
But on top of all this, they are also women. Women are more vulnerable to climate change impacts and they bear more of the burden of dealing with them. This is on top of the threats that society already presents them with. These four women, like women across the globe, live in a society that frequently exposes them to many types of violence - from the subtle to the physical - including inside their homes. They lack opportunities and face discrimination because of their gender on a daily basis. For women like them around the world climate change is yet another form of systemic violence they are having to confront.