What's Left #31

What's Left
for the week of August 11 - 17, 2017

This week:

Good News: protest and resistance continue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/erica-chenoweth/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.98de205445f8
https://sites.google.com/view/crowdcountingconsortium/home
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/26/1684152/-Public-protests-soared-higher-in-June-than-in-any-month-since-the-January-Women-s-Marches
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/07/25/more-people-protested-in-june-in-the-u-s-than-in-any-month-since-the-january-womens-marches/?utm_term=.91ed65d4c3f7

Outrage of the Week: threats to the rights of assembly and free press
https://www.environews.tv/051017-aclu-reveals-bills-20-states-aiming-criminalize-peaceful-protest-state-list/
http://fair.org/home/theres-an-effort-around-the-country-to-curtail-peoples-fundamental-1st-amendment-rights/
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-06-19/supreme-court-wont-touch-legality-of-mass-arrests-without-warning
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-06-09/journalist-arrested-during-trump-inauguration-arraigned-on-new-felonies-carrying-decades-in-jail
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/26/1684110/-Salon-Capitol-Police-Forced-Journos-to-Delete-Footage-of-AHCA-Protesters
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/25/capitol-hill-staff-prevent-journalists-reporting-health-care-protesters/217376
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/893492385094615041
http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/1289

Noting August 6 and 9: the start of the nuclear weapons age
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/08/2156-70th-anniversary-of-bombings-of.html
(See that post for a full list of sources)