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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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March 11, 2016
Five Years of Nuclear Disaster: Fukushima Anniversary
"As we approach the fifth anniversary of the tsunami and earthquake which devastated Japan on March 11, 2011 the press is again — briefly — paying attention. Perhaps like you, I have been reading articles on the condition of the four Fukushima reactors, the radiated water gushing into the Pacific, the 9 millions bags of contaminated soil and debris, the daily crises faced by 80,000 evacuees, the ghost towns. (Links to a few are below). There are two themes in the general media: the government and TEPCO (owner) have no idea what to do about most of this, and they lied, covered up and colluded to the public.
OpEds by Safe & Green Campaign members:
Five years of local Fukushima solidarity actions
Fukushima: Five Years Later [Popular Science February 2016] A clear overview
Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds, reporting from Japan now. This audio episode is on daily living impacts. [Put on a Happy Face – Japan]
Mary Olsen of NIRS reporting from Japan now [Japan Diary 2016]
Namie: Abandoned Town in Japan’s Chernobyl (The Telegraph UK photos]
Kawauchi: Citizens step in where government has failed Fukushima children [Simply Info, the Fukushima Project 2014]
Over 9 million bags of nuclear clean up waste piled up across Fukushima [Mainichi JP December 2015]
Five years on, contamination crisis [South China Morning Post February 2016]
Japan to consider ocean disposal [Ashahi Shimbum December 2015]
For Fukushima mothers, protecting children from radiation comes at a heavy price [Ashahi Shimbum February 2016]
Cancer on the Rise in post-Fukushima [Fairewinds Energy Education November 2015]
Public Housing for Disaster Victims [Japan Times February 2016]
Safe and Green is a founding member of the SAGE Alliance, a coalition of regional groups and individuals working to close VY through grassroots organizing, education, and nonviolent direct action.