Special coverage in the Trump Era

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

Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More

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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January 15, 2015

January 15th, 2015: the 86th birthday anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

Read about his life, and his perhaps most important speech, Beyond Vietnam. (April 4, 1967, a year to the day before his assassination.)

From the Zinn Education Project, teaching a peoples' history:

Ten Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film,
January 3, 2015, by Emilye Crosby

And an interesting analysis of the role of armed defense in the nonviolent civil rights movement era in the south:
Guns and the Southern Freedom Struggle: What’s Missing When We Teach About Nonviolence

From Popular Resistance:

#ReclaimMLK Protests Begin On Rev. King's Real Birthday

"The #BlackLivesMatter movement is seeking to reclaim the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in protests across the nation with the hash tag #ReclaimMLK.  People are not focusing on his “I Have a Dream” speech but instead on his challenge to the United States as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” as well as his criticism of capitalism." 
Read article here; it includes a reading list of links to articles on MLK

 

 

 

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