Left Side of the Aisle #144

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of January 30 - February 5, 2014

This week:

Good news: Some federally-contracted workers to get $10.10 minimum wage
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/28/strike_wave_spurs_obama_to_make_contractors_pay_10_10/
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/01/28/obama-to-lift-minimum-wage-for-federal-contractors-white-house/20817542/?icid=maing-grid7|htmlws-sb-bb|dl3|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D435684
http://goodjobsnation.org/
http://goodjobsnation.org/breaking-pentagon-workers-strike-over-poverty-pay/

RIP: Pete Seeger
http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_25010549/pete-seeger-folk-legends-essential-songs
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/28/legendary_folk_singer_activist_pete_seeger_dies_at_94/?source=newsletter
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/28/pete_seeger_huac_transcript_full_text_of_anti_communist_hearing_courtesy.html?google_editors_picks=true
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/toshi-seeger-wife-muse-and-ally-of-pete-seeger-dies-at-91/2013/07/11/440dd81e-ea48-11e2-8f22-de4bd2a2bd39_story.html

The discovery of COINTELPRO: March 8, 1971
http://www.examiner.com/article/burglary-of-fbi-office-did-not-stop-cointelpro-tampering-of-omaha-two-trial
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014/01/media_pa_fbi_break_in_revelations_what_we_can_learn_from_them_about_intelligence.html
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/07/fbi-1971-burglary-hold-government-accountable
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/08/22220561-nbc-reporter-recounts-breaking-fbi-spying-story
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-break-in-1971-come-forward-documents
http://www.theburglary.com/
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG100-150/dg144davidon.htm

Clown Award: Susanne Atanus
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_texas_public_schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_public_schools_mapped_where_tax_money_supports_alternatives.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/23/1271963/-Illinois-Republican-says-God-makes-tornadoes-to-punish-gay-people
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/23/booted-from-illinois-gop-susan-atanus-anti-lgbt-comments-spark-rage/

Global warming: It's going to get worse
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/obama-climate-change-is-a-fact-7Uwc4lz4RwefZFRXQNSTwA.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/01/28/in-the-state-of-the-union-obama-pledges-strong-action-on-climate/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/01/22/finally-a-reason-for-a-bit-of-optimism-about-climate-change/
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/29/climate_change_by_the_numbers_the_worst_is_yet_to_come/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/noaa-world-in-2013-was-4th-hottest-on-record
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/02/earth_set_to_warm_a_catastrophic_4_degrees_by_the_end_of_the_century/
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/19/unchecked-global-warming-double-el-nino-weather

Outrage of the Week: how the rich think of you
http://www.msnbc.com/all/the-rich-got-richer-the-99-not-so-much
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/25/wealthy_venture_capitalist_tom_perkins_says_the_1_in_america_are_treated_like_jews_in_nazi_germany/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579316913982034286
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/thomas-perkins-doubles-down-holocaust_n_4674266.html
http://pando.com/2014/01/26/disingenuous-basterds-the-oligarchs-long-campaign-to-depict-their-critics-as-nazis/