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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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October 06, 2011
Occupy Wall Street March Gets Massive Turnout
See the events of this historic day in the Democracy Now! daily program of Thursday, October 6th. An extraordinary report of the spread and depth of this new movement. (starts here, but go to Democracy Now! website for full show and transcripts)
"Tens of thousands marched from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park, renamed 'Liberty Plaza,' the site of the protest encampment where hundreds have been sleeping since Sept. 17. The march was peaceful, but police later beat a handful of protesters with batons after they toppled a police barricade in an attempt to march down Wall Street. Police say a total of 28 people were arrested."...
"We Have Come Together": Inspired By Occupy Wall Street, Unions Join Activists for Historic March
Naomi Klein on Occupy Wall Street & Chilé: Courage to Ask Questions We Don’t Have Answers For (12 minute video follow-up to hour-long Oct. 6 show)
"In part two of our conversation with journalist and author Naomi Klein she discusses how her book, "The Shock Doctrine," focuses in part Chilé, where the 1973 coup led to the privatization of education, and now Chilean students are protesting in the streets. Klein talks about their demands, and dismisses the critique that the related Occupy Wall Street movement lacks its own clear set of demands."