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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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April 26, 2013
"Workers Decry Multinationals' Greed Following Disaster in Bangladesh"
More than 700 (as of May 7) were killed and many are still missing as an eight story garment factory center in Bangladesh collapsed. Most victims were young women. Lauren McCauley, staff writer for Common Dreams, put the story together, with a link to the video from the excellent coverage on Democracy Now! from April 25:
The article starts:
"As the body count following the collapse Wednesday of a large industrial building in Bangladesh reaches nearly 250 garment industry workers, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets Thursday to protest against the gross "negligence" of multinational corporations who "continue to make huge profits" at the risk of workers' lives and health.
A Bangladeshi woman shows a portrait of her missing daughter in-law, believed trapped in the rubble of the collapsed garment factory building in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25, 2013. (Photo: AFP) "Grief turned to anger," reports the New Strait Times, "as the workers, some carrying sticks, blockaded key highways in at least three industrial areas just outside the capital Dhaka, forcing factory owners to declare a day’s holiday."
After walking off the job, many of the demonstrators marched to the Dhaka headquarters of the main manufacturers association, demanding the owners of the collapsed factories be punished."...
Read full report here
Published on Thursday, April 25, 2013 by Common Dreams
See also:
www.newagebd.com English news from Bangaldesh.
Bangladesh: Seven Women Dead in a Preventable Factory Fire:
"Seven young women, at least two of them teenagers, died over the weekend in a Bangladesh garment factory fire—the 28th fire incident to frighten, injure or kill Bangladeshi garment workers since a deadly blaze at the Tazreen Fashion factory killed at least 112 workers in late November, according to the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center staff in Bangladesh. At least 491 garment workers have been injured on the job since the Tazreen blaze, according to information compiled by the Solidarity Center." read report here
In AFL-CIO NOW, January 29, 2013, by Tula Connell