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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.
What's New?
December 29, 2016
A New Year's Special: the Bread & Puppet Theater
See the Bread & Puppet archive!
Here's one great show
"Bread and Puppet is a radical puppetry group that has been producing large-scale performances since the 1960s. The group is so named for the combination of fresh bread and puppets that their audiences enjoyed when the troop was in their original loft location in the Lower East Side of New York City.
In the 1970s Bread and Puppet moved to Vermont where their performances took on a greater scale in the outdoors every summer. Hundreds of volunteer performers (many in giant group costumes) perform for thousands of audience members.
The puppet activists address issues such as corruption, war, education, love, health, animal cruelty, and the environment. This collection of videos features outdoor performances and rehearsals large and small. A number of videos in this collection feature small indoor musical performances and rehearsals as well.
The archive is almost 200 hours long and is the raw hand-held rough record of 10 years of the Bread and Puppet’s big summer circuses. The record is not only the performances, but the life and work of the people who were the makers of the shows: the community of cooks and carpenters, gardeners and dishwashers, staplers and stitchers, poets and paper masheyers, bakers and bean counters, singers and salad makers, whistlers and weed wackers, who came every summer to live and create beneath the indigo skies of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Martin Luther King Junior once spoke of a "beloved community": “The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, so that when the battle is over, a new relationship comes into being….” The battle isn’t over. But Bread and Puppet’s power is the very real creation of those new relationships in the green Vermont hills. This archive is the proof. These images are not edited, but are attached one to another by the common love that pervades the creative activities of this uniquely beloved community.
Source: https://archive.org/details/breadandpuppet&tab=about
Visit breadandpuppet.org to learn more.
