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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?
October 09, 2009
From Zene u crnom, Women in Black Belgrade
Report on our activities for May – September 2009
As we have done in the past, we are providing you with a brief report regarding our actions for this period. If you are interested in more detailed information you can find it on our website at www.zeneucrnom.org
Street actions: in this reporting period, street actions were dedicated to the campaign to proclaim July 11 as a day to remember the genocide in Srebrenica, for the commemoration of significant dates and of crimes committed in our name as well as for actions of feminist-antimilitarist and antifascist character.
May 9, Europe Day, the day of victory over fascism. Performance on Republic Square, organized by Women in Black and Queeria Center from Belgrade.
May 11 – “Day to Remember Genocide in Srebrenica – Proclaim it”, a protest in front of the Presidency of Serbia and public reading of a letter addressed to President Boris Tadic, demanding that he proclaim July 11 as “Day to Remember Genocide in Srebrenica”. This protest was organized with other human rights organizations: the Humanitarian Law Center, Youth Initiative for Human Rights and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. We have organized such a protest on the 11th of every month since February 2009.
June 5 – “Everything for Peace, Health and Knowledge and Nothing for Armament”, women`s peace march in Leskovac during which the following feminist-antimilitarist performances took place: “Let’s expel militarism from our lives”; “We go slowly to arrive surely” - women’s peace caterpillar; “Let’s demilitarize ourselves, let’s demilitarize our environment” – peace parachute. Over fifty women from the network of Women in Black took part in the march, from the following cities: Niš, Belgrade, Pirot, Leskovac, Vlasotince, Dimitrovgrad, Kraljevo, Kruševac, Novi Sad and Sremski Karlovci. Activists from Vukovar (Croatia), USA and Great Britain also participated.
June 11 – “July 11 – Day to Remember Genocide in Srebrenica – Proclaim it”.
June 15 – Antimilitarist action in Belgrade as part of the Global Week of Action against Gun Violence – IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms); Women in Black took part in this action together with a group of activists from Mali Lošinj in Croatia.
July 10 – “July 11 – Day to Remember Genocide in Srebrenica – Proclaim it”....
Read full report on their website here.