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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
..."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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September 01, 2008

Police harass demonstrators at Republican Convention

There have been police raids and harassment during the weekend preceeding the Republican National Convention. Ecological activist Starhawk reports on several cases.

RNC Post #2 “Raid on the Convergence Center”

Aug. 30, 2008, By Starhawk
"It’s Friday night. Our Pagan Cluster is sitting on the bluff of the Mississippi having our first real meeting, when Lisa gets a call.  The cops are raiding the Convergence Center, where we’re organizing meetings and trainings for the protests against the Republican National Convention.  It’s not a role play, the caller says.  It’s real..."

see also:
ARTICLE August 30 Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis - Salon.com
ALERT August 31 from Starhawk : Police Seize Earth Activist Training Permaculture Demonstration Bus -- alternate link
Blog #3 August 31 "New Moon Ritual"

and: http://www.economichumanrights.org/press.html


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