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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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May 02, 2015
Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms: Closing Remarks
May 1, 2015 from the feminist wire
By Cristina Awadalla, Piper Coutinho-Sledge, Alison Criscitiello, Julie Gorecki, and Sonalini Sapra
photo: the feminist wire
Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms: Closing Remarks
"Climate change impacts us all, from the itty-bitty crawler in your garden to the mother in Africa who spends most of her days dangerously trekking for clean water. This forum has concentrated on varying subjects, which shed light on how the climate crisis disproportionately affects Indigenous and Global Southern Women and minorities around the world. The current state of our planet is frightening, and our future is uncertain. The political blockades we are facing make this an uphill battle towards genuine solutions, especially those that cater to interlocking struggles around climate and gender justice.
But let our fears push us into action and motivate us to provide a future of flourishing for all of our earthly kin. Climate change offers us something beautiful: solidarity. Solidarity across arbitrary geopolitical borders, class, race, and gender divisions. The most important thing we can do now is to give this fight our all; to organize, to engage, and to recognize climate change as a feminist and racial justice issue.
Throughout this forum, contributors highlighted intersectional dimensions between the climate crisis and gender and racial injustices. The articles in this forum have shed light on ways in which vegan praxis and ahimsa can be used to challenge neoliberal whiteness; on decolonizing patriarchal frameworks and breaking down anthropocentrism by reclaiming our location in this world in a non-hierarchical fashion; on women’s experiences maneuvering through activist and professional spaces; and the systematic ways in which global institutions fuel mass inequalities. Authors have also looked critically at mainstream ecofeminism and its appropriation of Indigenous environmental knowledges and how capitalism was founded on the subordination of women and nature." ...
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