Left Side of the Aisle #245

Left Side of the Aisle
for the weeks of April 21 - May 4, 2016

Good News: Democracy Spring protests push to restore power of the vote
http://www.thenation.com/article/the-most-important-protest-of-the-2016-election/
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=5870
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19067/roughly_300_arrested_in_democracy_initiatives_democracy_awakening_2016_camp

Clown Award: the state government of Utah
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/19/evil-degrading-addictive-harmful-utah-officially-deems-porn-a-public-health-crisis/

Outrage of the Week: censoring a textbook
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/08/mcgraw-hill-education-withdraws-textbook-maps-viewed-anti-israel
http://www.thetower.org/3027ez-mcgraw-hill-publishes-college-textbook-with-mendacious-anti-israel-maps/
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/academics-urge-mcgraw-hill-education-reverse-decision-destroy-textbook/

Lovely Little War: Obama sending 200 more troops to Iraq
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/us-sends-200-more-troops-to-help-iraq-fight-islamic-state/
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/us-pledges-more-troops-weapons-money-to-fight-isis-in-iraq
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/04/19/mccain-blasts-obama-s-anti-isis-troop-increase-as-grudging-incr/21346367/

What now for progressives?
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/02/2364-rare-and-potentially-my-only.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-and-trump-hope-ny-primary-cements-their-front-runner-status/2016/04/19/0122daa4-061a-11e6-b283-e79d81c63c1b_story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/new-york-primary-voter-problem-polls-sanders-de-blasio/
http://usuncut.com/politics/independent-voters-bernie/
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm