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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 07, 2015
Heeding the Call: Black Women Fighting for Black Lives That Matter
Saturday, 07 March 2015 00:00 By Thandisizwe Chimurenga and Sarah Rosenblatt, Truthout | Graphic Journalism
With portraits of women, their words and more, the authors introduce their presentation of women's roles in the current movement. Then the text:
"The year 2015 began much like 2014 ended. Since August, the United States has seen a resurgence of direct action and civil disobedience reminiscent of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This latest wave has been a response to the extrajudicial murders of Black people by police - young Black males in particular - and the seeming inability of the justice system to hold their murderers accountable. And, it has been headed largely by Black women activists and organizers.
More militant and sustained than the Occupy protests of a few years ago, or the World Trade Organization protests at the latter part of the 20th century, this movement, which began in Ferguson, Missouri, and has traveled worldwide, has been as dedicated to affirming the value of Black life as it has been to condemning state-sanctioned violence against Black bodies.
While Black women are also victims of murder by police, the tally is not as high as for Black men. And, while many of their names are known and the circumstances of many of their deaths are similar to the murders of Black men, the level of outrage and protest has not been comparable. The reasons for this are varied..."
Excerpt:
"According to Ashe-Lee Henderson, "We're creating multitiered strategies with a diversity of tactics, including direct action and civil disobedience ... Our movement is dynamic and we are learning from and with each other, how to do this work effectively, every day. Developing more and more leaders and organizers and activists, and we're not going to stop."
As Ferguson activist and rapper Tef-Poe put it, "This is not your grandparents' civil rights movement."
That being the case, where do the activists and organizers in the forefront of the movement see it headed? Again, their replies were strikingly similar.
"There is a short-term and a long-term," said Melina Abdullah. "We have to think about the ways that state-sanctioned violence against Black people is tied to a system that keeps us oppressed, so really what we are talking about is a complete transformation of the existing system." ...