Left Side of the Aisle #209

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of June 24 - July 1, 2015

This week:

Update on fast-track
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/politics/obama-trade-deal-congress-tpp-tpa/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/23/senate-fast-track_n_7645348.html
http://www.thenation.com/blog/obama-needs-keep-promise-rewrite-nafta
http://citizen.org/documents/prosperity-undermined.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issuesredirect.cfm?ID=2157
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pearl-korn/why-we-ordinary-people-sh_b_7635234.html
http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/23/senate-passes-tpp/
http://billmoyers.com/2015/06/23/constituents-to-senators-reject-fast-track-or-dont-come-home/
http://www.ibtimes.com/trans-pacific-partnership-house-approves-fast-track-trade-bill-close-vote-headed-1973444
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six-reasons-why-the-answer-should-scare-you-9779688.html
https://www.citizen.org/tpp
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/26/stop-calling-tpp-trade-agreement-it-isnt

Pope Francis strikes again
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
http://time.com/3930178/pope-francis-weapons-manufacturers-christian/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/21/us-pope-turin-arms-idUSKBN0P10U220150621

Our worst unaddressed evil
http://www.wesh.com/national-news/shooting-at-charleston-church-deaths-reported/33643410
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/19/dylann-roof-reportedly-wanted-a-race-war-how-many-americans-feel-like-he-supposedly-does/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-charleston-massacre-act-racist-terrorism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/18/fox-news-charleston-shooting_n_7614126.html?1434653270
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/lindsey-graham-downplays-race-after-black-church-shooting-people-looking-for-christians-to-kill-them/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/19/guns-church-charleston_n_7621988.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/19/1394598/-Thanks-to-Charleston-shootings-Wall-Street-Journal-declares-institutionalized-racism-over
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/18/call-the-charleston-church-shooting-what-it-is-terrorism/?tid=pm_opinions_pop_b
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/us/south-carolina-nikki-haley-confederate-flag.html