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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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December 14, 2008
Beyond survival, towards transformation
Please read this report, Beyond survival, towards transformation, by long-time Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs.
In her December 14th column in the Fresh Air series of the progressive Michigan Citizen she tells about the inspiring work of Will Allen and friends in Milwaukee:
"Will Allen was the first African American to play for the University of Miami basketball team. I met him for the first time during a weekend visit to Growing Power in 2006. Among the things I learned was that fifteen years ago, when he retired, Will recalled that when he was growing up in rural Maryland, people may have lacked the fancy clothes and “stuff” we have today but they always had plenty to eat. So, anticipating the hard times ahead, he took his buyout money from Proctor & Gamble and bought a scruffy two acre farm with five aging greenhouses on the north side of Milwaukee.
Combining modern agro-ecological techniques with his boyhood experiences, he began to raise goats and chickens, create compost from mixing red worms with coconut shells, grow vegetables without any use of fossil fuel, breed fish in a natural, re-circulating aquaponics system, and create methane gas, a renewable energy source from feeding solid food waste into an anaerobic digester.
Today Growing Power not only grows food but also farmers and communities..."
Read full article here.