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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?
September 06, 2011
Claudia Gimena Roa wins essay contest on climate change.
(Foto: Claudia Gimena Roa Avendano)
She writes: "I would like to share with you this good news about the contest. I feel that many women like you have encouraged me to write reports and essays." See Claudia's work on our site here.
Her new essay can be downloaded here. (1,54 MB, 9 pg.)
The European Greens' 2011 Summer University is at the Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder (D) and the Collegicum Polonicum in Słubice (PL) from September 8th-11th 2011. Infos here
The winners of the essay contest:
Claudia Gimena Roa Avendano is the director of Fundaexpresión, a non-profit organization established in the year 2001 and based in the region of Santander, north-eastern Andean region of Colombia; this territory is abundant in agricultural, climatic and biological diversity. One of her main roles has been to develop participatory methodologies, intercultural dialogue and community exchange between rural and urban localities. A particular achievement has been the collective work with a Campesino School of Agroecology and a network of Community Forest Reserves, involving many peasant and women’s associations, by fostering local skills and understanding of this natural and cultural heritage. Her work is developed in the context of different civil-society campaigns for food sovereignty, defence of water, forests and biodiversity, and international women’s networks such as GenderCC - Women for Climate Justice and WLOE – Women and Life on Earth, which highlight the synergy between local and global actions.