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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
..."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

Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More

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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March 08, 2012

PAMBAZUKA NEWS 573: SPECIAL ISSUE

ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN AFRICA

This is a special issue to mark the International Day for Women on 8 March, prepared by Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) http://www.soawr.org/

WHY THE AFRICA UNITE CAMPAIGN?
Muhanji Alexandriah
The Africa UNiTE Campaign to End Violence Against Women and Girls aims to create a favorable and supportive environment for governments, in partnership with civil society experts, to be able to fulfill existing policy commitments.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80545

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK Helplessness and hope in using the law to combat violence against women
Osai Ojigho
It is necessary to implement legislation to address violence against women in Africa. Yet women must tread the fine line between cultural expectations and legal systems that often deny them justice.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80539

WHAT WAY FORWARD FOR AFRICAN PROTOCOL FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS?
Marren Akatsa-Bukachi
Ending gender-based violence will mean changing cultural concepts about masculinity. This includes recognition of the importance of active engagement of men and women at all levels, whether they are policy makers, parents, spouses or young boys and girls.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80542

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR WOMEN: WOMEN AS PEACEMAKERS
Rene Wadlow
It is only when women start to organise in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility of a truly democratic society in which every human being can be brave, responsible, thinking, and diligent in the struggle to live at once freely and unselfishly.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80547 

ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE: AFRICAN WOMEN'S ENGAGEMENT IN TRADE AGREEMENTS
FEMNET
The Economic Governance documentary was produced by FEMNET with support from Trust Africa. It highlights some of the challenges African women traders experience (especially Kenya, Egypt, Zambia, Rwanda & Uganda). It also captures some the best practices that gender lobby groups or governments at regional and national levels are using to successfully mainstream gender in trade arrangements as well as the gaps that hinder mainstreaming of gender in trade agreements.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80553

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