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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 30, 2015
Beatrice Makwenda: The future belongs to organized farmers
"In her AgTalk, Beatrice Makwenda, Policy and Programmes Coordinator of the National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM), explains how her organization turned farmer members into a formidable force for collective action, leveraging lucrative markets and strong consumer loyalty in the process.
"Watch it now - https://youtu.be/qHzYRvvTtkI
(10:44 min.)
See also: 15 July: Empowering farmers while going organic
"We need to have the consumer well informed of what is happening in the field, on the farm," says Gabriela Soto Muñoz, an agronomist from Costa Rica. "So that when they choose an organic product on the shelf, they know that they are deciding on the livelihood of the farm." In this latest AgTalk Gabriela Soto Muñoz, President of Eco-LOGICA discusses the evolution of organic farming in developing countries, and how we can bring back the principles of care and fairness to organic farming. Read more
Source: "Each AgTalk is recorded as part of a live event hosted by IFAD, and a new talk is released every two weeks. Subscribe to IFAD's YouTube channel to be notified about every new release.
AgTalks is an initiative of the Office of the Secretary of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which is both an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency. It is a unique organization dedicated exclusively to investing in rural people."