Left Side of the Aisle #83

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of November 22-28, 2012

"Grand Bargain" is neither
http://www.thenation.com/blog/171300/week-poverty-fiscal-cliff-and-janitors-who-are-already-it
http://americablog.com/2012/11/leaked-deal-memo-for-last-years-grand-bargain-obama-willing-to-go-quite-far.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/the-case-against-a-grand-bargain.html

Clown Award: Being mean to the homeless
http://www.care2.com/causes/homeless-man-jailed-charging-cell-phone.html
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20121112/ARTICLE/121119888/2416/NEWS?p=1&tc=pg&tc=ar
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57549315-71/homeless-man-charges-cell-phone-in-park-jailed/
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
http://www.nlchp.org/
http://www.nlchp.org/news.cfm?id=210
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-10/cities-crack-down-on-homeless/55479912/1
http://www.nlchp.org/content/pubs/11.14.11%20Criminalization%20Report%20&%20Advocacy%20Manual,%20FINAL1.pdf

Walmart and Black Friday
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/16/us-walmart-union-idUSBRE8AF1DB20121116
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/walmarts-internal-compensation-plan_n_2145086.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/11/16/walmart-mexican-bribery-probe-china-brazil-india/
http://static.reuters.com/resources/media/editorial/20121116/Wal-Mart-letter-to-UFCW.pdf

Outrage of the Week: Israel and the Clock of History
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/mideast-conflict-israeli-gaza-violence_n_2134659.html
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-shattered-gaza-truce-leading-escalating-death-and-tragedy-timeline
http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/11/15/when-does-israelpalestine-violence-start/

Turkey Day tales: The real "First Thanksgiving"
http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/mourt6.html
http://mith.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=bradford_history.xml
http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/mourt2.html