Left Side of the Aisle #55

Left Side of the Aisle for the week May 3-9, 2012

This week:

Good news: "personhood" failure in Oklahoma
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-house-fails-to-act-on-personhood-bill/article/3670167
http://www.saintmarknorman.org/assets/files/20120420-archbishop-coakley-letter.pdf
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/sarahmoricebrubaker/5927/lessons_from_the_defeat_of_the_oklahoma_personhood_bill__/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/oklahoma-personhood-fetal-personhood-bill_n_1465657.html
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/personhood-usa-to-appeal-oklahoma-supreme-court-decision-to-us-supreme-court-2012-05-01

Good news: an ancient pest on the verge of being eradicated
http://cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/mini_site/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/25/jimmy-carter-guinea-worm_n_801252.html

Occupy is back (not that it ever left)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/suspicious-white-powder-received-banks-day-protests/story?id=16251936#.T6BVZ9WpOSo
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/us-usa-occupy-powder-idUSBRE84017M20120501?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71&google_editors_picks=true
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/occupy-movement-returns-for-may-day-protests-in-dc-new-york-and-around-us/2012/05/01/gIQASDqQvT_story.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/01/bloomberg_articlesM3CGZL6S972901-M3DJ6.DTL
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/nyregion/may-day-demonstrations-lead-to-clashes-and-arrests.html
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/01/11485652-protesters-hit-streets-for-may-day-rallies-violence-flares-in-oakland-seattle
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/01/11485085-battle-for-the-soul-of-occupy-activists-fear-being-pulled-to-the-right-becoming-democratic-pet?lite

Outrage of the Week: HHS endorses failed right-wing program on teen pregnancy
http://www.communityactionkit.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=984
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/04/30/he-men-virginity-pledges-and-bridal-dreams-an-hhs-endorsed-curriculum
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/ab_ed_moves_ahead/
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10/461402/teen-pregnancy-sex-education/
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db89.pdf
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/ab_ed_moves_ahead/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/11/we-dont-need-no-stinking-studies.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/12/ignorance-is-bliss-not.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2005/03/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-success-story-in-keeping-us.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-already-knew-this.html

Afghanistan and the advance of the national security state
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/since_bin_ladens_death/singleton/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/billions-dollars-thousands-lives-lost-afghanistan-war/story?id=16256292#.T6DyFNWpOSo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9240356/Barack-Obama-in-Afghanistan-we-must-finish-the-job.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/opinion/missed-chance.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2012/04/left-side-of-aisle-52-part-5.html