Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More
Menu
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 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.
What's New?
November 17, 2009
Women vigil against US base construction, Vincenza, Italy
Women in Black Italy vigil:
"On Saturday November 7th, Women in Black from Padua, Naples, Schio, Verona, Udine, Bologna, Ravenna, Milan, Turin and Alba were in the streets of Vicenza together with many women from the city, to declare their opposition to the construction of the new US military base, Dal Molin.
"They went to Vicenza because the construction of the base and all that is revealed by the choices and actions of successive Italian governments concerning the base, is a problem that all of us must confront.."
more: http://wibitaly.blogspot.com/
slideshow here
From NO to DAL MOLIN website:
"In October, 26th 2006 the City Council of Vicenza approves the project of a new military base in Vicenza and thousands of citizens occupy Piazza dei Signori armed with pans and lids, making noise and protesting against it.
Soon after, in January 2007, President Prodi -from Bucarest- confirms that decision and intends to put an end to the Dal Molin question.
But the protest in Vicenza is overwhelming and thousands of citizens are back in the streets to say “NO”! They occupy the Railways Station and they shout their strong disappointment and disapproval.
It is on January, 16th 2007 that the NO DAL MOLIN movement sets up an encampment on the edge of the site of Dal Molin and calls it PRESIDIO PERMANENTE: it has operated 7 days a week, 24 hours a day ever since.
The No Dal Molin movement led ordinary people of all ages and from across political, social and cultural boundaries to mobilize in opposition to the project of a new USA military base in Vicenza."...
See also:
Activists in Vincenza, Italy occupy the site of a proposed U.S. military base
2009/1/31 Stephanie Westbrook
2007: Vicenza/Italy: No to the American Military Base