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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."
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June 20, 2014
Women of Colombia Reaffirm Their Commitment to Peace
Bogotá, 10 June 2014
Women’s organizations and leaders endorse the dialogue to end the armed conflict, which is taking place in Havana between the government of President Santos and the FARC-EP insurgency. We appreciate and give value to the progress on the three points that have been discussed so far and consider it a step in the direction of ending the armed conflict that the country has been experiencing for long decades.
As a means of political dialogue and coordinating agendas to make it possible to advance in the construction of peace with social justice, we back the re-election of the president, Juan Manual Santos. We open the way to his election so that a possible peace with a view to a different Colombia can be viable, peace with a view to policies that will ensure the common good, demilitarization of the land and minds, reconciliation, truth, justice, reparation and guarantees for non-repetition [of the long years of war]. To continue the war is to abdicate the right and duty of all Colombians, male and female, to live in peace. For 60 years we have been at war; let us make it possible to build peace.
We call on the presidential candidate to present an agenda that includes the bi-lateral cessation of armed conflict, to design and set in motion a pedagogy for peace, to develop mechanisms for wide dissemination of the content of the dialogues throughout the country, as well as the specific demands of the various social sectors, especially the women and the diversities [ethnicity, religion, etc.]
We need for the dialogue process come to a happy conclusion, so that we can devote ourselves to the work of reparation for the victims, to guarantee real and effective human rights to all the men and women of Colombia (without distinction of class, ethnicity, religion, political views or sexual orientation and gender identity.)
More than half of the victims of the armed conflict are women and disproportionately of sexual violence. For them, for us, for a Colombia without armed conflict
I vote for Santos!
Translation: Trisha Novak, USA
Contact: Comunicaciones, Ruta PacÃfica de las Mujeres
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