Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More
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Special coverage in the Trump Era
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?
March 27, 2015
#HerDreamDeferred: join the conversation online
"In honor of Women's History Month and the UN Declaration of 2015 as the International Decade for People of African Descent, please join the African American Policy Forum, the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Institute for Women's Policy Research, NOW, Black Women's Blueprint, PACE, Free Marissa Now, Sister Song and other leading racial and gender justice organizations for a weeklong series of online activities focused on elevating the crisis facing Black women."
See full program and speakers here.
The themes are:
MONDAY, MARCH 30:
#SayHerName: Towards a Gendered Analysis of Racialized State Violence
TUESDAY, MARCH 31:
Ending Violence Against Black Women:
The Movement to Combat Sexual Assault and
Intimate Partner Violence in Our Communities
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1:Black Women’s Median Wealth is $5.Why Don't We Care?
THURSDAY, APRIL 2:
Black Women Have Not "Made It": How the Current College Enrollment Narrative Undermines the Real Educational and Socioeconomic Barriers Facing Black Women
FRIDAY, APRIL 3:
Are Racism and Patriarchy Making Us Sick? Black Women, Societal Inequity and Health Disparities
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