Left Side of the Aisle #242

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of March 24-30, 2016

This week:

Good News: Cop-shielding prosecutor in Tamir Rice murder voted out
http://www.care2.com/causes/bungling-tamir-rice-prosecutor-loses-reelection-bid.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/01/2355-prosecutor-in-tamir-rice-case-may.html
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/15/3760660/bye-anita/
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/24/3725304/laquan-mcdonald-shooting-murder-charges/
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/anita-alvarez-cook-county-states-attorneys-office/Content?oid=19119102

Racism is alive and well
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-supporters-for-intolerance.html?rref=upshot&smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cleveland-ems-captain-fired-tamir-rice-facebook-post-article-1.2569853
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-cincinnati-cops-reveal-double-standards-black-men-face-article-1.2537271

Outrage of the Week: citizens deported as "illegal aliens"
http://www.thenation.com/article/why-has-president-obama-deported-more-immigrants-any-president-us-history/
http://jacquelinestevens.org/StevensVSP18.32011.pdf
https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deporting-its-own-citizens
http://stateswithoutnations.blogspot.com/2015/05/deported-us-citizen-andres-robles-wins.html#EOIRDataAnalysis
http://www.care2.com/causes/ice-has-accidentally-deported-thousands-of-american-citizens.html
https://news.vice.com/article/theres-a-new-us-policy-on-sanctuary-cities-that-makes-it-easier-for-ice-to-deport-people

"War on drugs" was a lie from the start
https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-drugs-tool-target-black-people-article-1.2573832

Drug war used to demonize poor people
 http://www.aol.com/article/2016/03/17/should-people-with-felony-drug-convictions-have-access-to-food-s/21328901/
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/alabamians_with_drug_convictio.html
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/02/04/six-states-where-felons-can-t-get-food-stamps?ref=tsqr_stream#.8s7hSzmEc
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/02/1939-outrage-of-week-drug-testing-poor.html
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/02/18/States-tested-their-welfare-recipients-and-the-results-w/21314760/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/10/2237-states-continue-to-demonize-poor.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/07/2112-our-worst-unacknowledged-evil-part.html
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/22/1489251/-The-Republican-war-on-poor-people-s-grocery-lists-continues
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/20/1501544/-Punishing-the-poor-is-not-going-to-end-poverty

More troops in Iraq
http://www.centcom.mil/en/news/articles/march-20-26th-marine-expeditionary-unit-on-ground-in-iraq
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/03/number-us-troops-iraq-more-than-4000-exceeds-previous-claims.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/20/politics/us-firebase-iraq-isis/index.html
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/22/revelation-secret-iraq-base-belies-claim-no-boots-ground