What's Left #35

What's Left
for the week of October 13-19, 2017

This week:
Good News: majority of GOPpers say society should accept homosexuality
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/06/a-majority-of-republicans-finally-agree-homosexuality-is-ok/

Good News: transgender boy forced to leave Christian school; elected homecoming king at new one
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-teen-crowned-homecoming-king_us_59da483ee4b072637c44c02c

Good News: anti-nuclear weapons group wins Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/06/anti-nuclear-campaign-ican-wins-2017-nobel-peace-prize/23234823/
http://www.icanw.org/

Good News: cops who dragged nurse from hospital is fired
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/detective-jeff-payne-fired-nurse-alex-wubbels-video/

Not Good News: Dakota Access pipeline to continue operations during review
https://earthjustice.org/features/dakota-access-what-next?utm_source=crm&utm_content=LearnMoreButton&autologin=true

Outrage of the Week: backlash against kneeling NFL players
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/08/the-counted-police-killings-2016-young-black-men
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/racial-disparity-police-shootings
https://www.vox.com/cards/police-brutality-shootings-us/us-police-racism
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/data-police-racial-bias
http://killedbypolice.net/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/
http://www.odmp.org/search?cause=Gunfire&from=2017&to=2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/06/fbi-black-identity-extremists-racial-profiling
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-identity-extremism-the-new-reverse-racism_us_59dc2d88e4b0a1bb90b83095

We Are Not Alone: Burma
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/garnett-genuis/to-the-critics-rohingya-really-are-the-victims_a_23235078/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/save-the-children/the-level-of-suffering-in-the-rohingya-crisis-is-almost-unimaginable_a_23226632/?utm_campaign=canada_dau
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-myanmar-rohingya/myanmar-takes-first-step-to-ease-buddhist-muslim-tension-idUKKBN1CF08D
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thousands-gather-interfaith-rallies.html
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/west-edges-towards-punishing-myanmar-army-leaders-rakhine-crisis-sources.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/04/myanmar-blocks-all-un-aid-to-civilians-at-heart-of-rohingya-crisis