Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More
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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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February 22, 2011
Workers Fight Back: The Midwest Unites to Defend the Commons
(cont'd) "Standing in front of the capital with firefighters, teachers, LVNs, nurses, teaching assistants, and other public workers and their supporters, I was one small part of an overwhelming crowd spilling over the capitol lawn and onto the streets, far too large to take in from any one vantage point. I was there with the Graduate Employees Organization from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, sleep deprived from our early morning rise in order to make the drive from Illinois in time for the 10:30am rally.
Was it Scott Walker who brought us here? At first thought, the convergence seems a sad occasion, in a country where we appear to be losing ideological ground as a rightwing resurgence slowly chips away at hard-won rights. In one fell swoop, a governor seeks to erase organizing rights that were historically gained and preserved through the blood, sweat, and tears of workers and organizers. Gov. Walker’s bill would erode collective bargaining rights for public workers on all issues except wages and force public workers to pay substantially more for their healthcare and pensions, amounting to an 8% pay decrease. All of this in the state that was the first to grant collective bargaining rights over half a century ago."...
Sarah Lazare is an anti-militarist and GI resistance organizer with Dialogues Against Militarism and Courage to Resist. She is interested in connecting struggles for justice at home with global movements against war and empire. She is also a freelance writer.