Left Side of the Aisle #213

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of July 23-29, 2015

This week:

Good News: US and Cuba resume diplomatic relations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-cuba-diplomatic-relations_55ac7645e4b065dfe89ea12a

The fight for LGBT rights goes on
http://www.care2.com/causes/the-u-s-senate-just-told-lgbtq-kids-they-dont-matter.html
http://www.care2.com/causes/were-failing-trans-students-in-new-york-and-probably-across-the-u-s.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/senate-votes-down-federal-protections-for-k-12-lgbt-students/2015/07/14/745da4dc-2a64-11e5-a250-42bd812efc09_story.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33601483
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/18/1403401/-Republican-Legislation-Will-Permit-Companies-To-Fire-Single-Pregnant-Women
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s1598/text
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/first-amendment-defense-act_55a7ffe6e4b04740a3df4ca1
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/07/2122.html

RIP, Theodore Bikel
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-theodore-bikel-20150721-story.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/theodore-bikel-dead-sound-music-719735
http://www.newportfolk.org/history

Too little, too late: Cleveland admits it should not have hired cop who killed Tamir Rice
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/20/1404016/-8-months-later-the-Cleveland-PD-admits-it-was-wrong-to-ever-hire-the-officer-who-killed-Tamir-Rice
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/07/cleveland_police_supervisors_d.html
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/99643d75107f42489a227a20493df1a3/boy-pellet-gun-warned-friend-police-shooting
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/06/judge_finds_probable_cause_for.html

Happy Birthday to "The Nation"
http://www.thenation.com/
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/1/started_by_abolitionists_in_1865_the

Outrage of the Week: Wesley Clark proposes internment for "disloyal" Americans
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150719/NEWS/150719203
http://news.yahoo.com/chattanooga-shooting-suspect-doha-qatar-government-sources-212510026.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/us/tennessee-shooting-gunman-contacts/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wesley-clark-internment-camps-chattanooga-radical-muslims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPwqokBn9M
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/20/chattanooga-wesley-clark-calls-internment-camps-disloyal-americans/
https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/RethinkingRadicalization.pdf

Footnote: Since 9/11, right-wingers have killed far more Americans than American jihadists have
http://www.refinery29.com/2015/06/89683/homegrown-terrorism-statistics
http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/deadly-attacks.html
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/The-danger-of-homegrown-terrorists-6356697.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html

Clown Award: Planned Parenthood idiotically apologizes for "tone" of official in sting video
http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-attacks-on-planned-parenthood-20150716-column.html#page=1
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/experienced-foe-behind-planned-parenthood-videos-120439.html
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/interview-didnt-happen/?dcz=
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/14/attack-on-planned-parenthood-3-deceptive-edits/204419
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/unspinning-the-planned-parenthood-video/
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/what-you-didnt-see-planned-parenthood-video
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/21/latest-video-attacking-planned-parenthood-full/204524
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/anti-abortion-group-releases-second-video-accusing-planned-parenthood-of-selling-fetal-tissue/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/16/1402922/-Planned-Parenthood-President-Cecile-Richards-Makes-Official-Statement-About-Under-Cover-Video
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/07/16/planned-parenthood-head-apologizes-for-tone-of-doctor-in-covert-video/?tid=ptv_rellink