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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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July 12, 2012
Senegalese Women demand firm action to end Mali crisis
Declaration issued during a reflection on the Malian crisis:
"We, members of the Senegalese Feminist Forum, would like to express our full support for the Malian people and especially to the women who are woefully underrepresented in these critical moments of the country's political life.
We also wish to express our concern about the situation of people living in the occupied territories (Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao). International NGOs have withdrawn from the North and the schools are closed. The little information we have about the living conditions of people living in this zone is of multiple violations of human rights and individual freedoms.
FLAGRANT VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS
We were indignant and alarmed to find that the first act of Ansar Dine (one of the rebel movements, linked to al-Qaeda, which control the north of Mali) was to impose their interpretation of 'sharia'; (banning watching or playing football, shaving, smoking, watching television, hiring motor-cycles carrying a man and a woman at the same time) - denouncing all these as forbidden by religion. Militias patrolling the various districts of Timbuktu have launched operations against the markets and seized cartons of cigarettes which they burned in front of customers.
The measures taken by Ansar Dine prompted clashes with local people, particularly young people, on the very day they were imposed. On June 5, in Kidal, around 500 women and young men marched while smoking cigarettes in protest against the imposition of 'Sharia'. While they encountered no resistance from members of Ansar Dine or AQIM, when they arrived in the city centre, the women were attacked. The demonstrations were brutally suppressed and resulted in deaths and many injured." ...
Read full statement here, courtesy of Pambazuka News