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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 01, 2015
How Did This Happen? Capitalism’s Double Subordination of Women and Nature
May 1, 2015, by Julie Goreck, guest contributor to the feminist wire...
..."Indigenous and ecological-centered feminists have long affirmed that neoliberalism’s founding ideology of endless growth—achieved through the infinite extraction of finite natural resources—is rooted in a historical and contemporary intersection of the domination of women, minorities, and the Earth. This intersection has been foundational in uplifting patriarchal systems of power, or what some have referred to as the “Capitalist Patriarchy.”
In September 2014, my article for TFW, “ ‘No Climate Justice Without Gender Justice:’ Women at the Forefront of the People’s Climate March,” addressed how gender and climate oppression are linked today.
As a guest editor of TFW’s forum on “Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms,” I seek to lay out a historical foundational framework to understanding the root causes of the exploitative relationship found at the intersection of capitalism, gender, and the environment. There are many significant feminist issues embedded within this intersection. Capitalism’s oppression of non-binary sexual identities and non-heterosexual relations are two examples, which are important in more widespread histories on this topic that are not addressed here.
Instead, I focus on groundbreaking feminist works, which explain a history of how the foundation of today’s capitalism was dependent on the simultaneous subordination specifically of women and nature. Working this history into my common activist and intellectual narrative, as a white western woman, is also an act of recognition and solidarity with the incredible women and minority groups on the frontlines of the powerful climate justice movement today." ...