What's Left #17

What's Left
for the week of April 6 to 12, 2017

This week:

Good News: Alabama limits power to impose death penalty
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alabama-judicial-override-ends_us_58c83063e4b09cd957673398?

Footnote: Arkansas to create "assembly line of death"
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/04/assembly-line-of-death-arkansas-is-going-to-execute-8-people-over-an-11-day-stretch/
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/jurisdictions-no-recent-executions
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRalpha
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty

Good News: celebrating resistance
http://www.alternet.org/activism/diverse-protest-groups-unite-majority-aiming-large-scale-demonstrations-may-1st
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html
http://www.mcall.com/opinion/yourview/mc-martin-luther-king-vietnam-speech-50th-anniversary-lang-yv-0403-20170402-story.html

Good News: Appeals Court supports rights of transgender people
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/04/us-civil-rights-law-protects-lgbt-workers-from-workplace-bias/22026101/

Good News/Not Good News: Virginia repeals part of HB2
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/30/522009335/north-carolina-lawmakers-governor-announce-compromise-to-repeal-bathroom-bill
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/10/poll-americans-oppose-bathroom-laws-limiting-transgender-rights/21879293/
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Steven-Petrow-You-can-t-compromise-on-civil-11043391.php
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NCAA-NC-back-in-running-to-host-events-after-law-11048783.php

RIP: Gilbert Baker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gilbert-baker-whose-rainbow-flag-flew-over-the-rise-of-gay-rights-dies-at-65/2017/04/01/07becbe8-16e5-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?utm_term=.a0fc7e51e399

For the Record: a brief comment on the gas attack in Syria
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/04/days-after-tillerson-mouths-russian-line-on-syria-assad-uses-gas.html
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/05/an-infantile-argument-experts-pour-cold-water-on-russias-fanciful-explanation-syrian-gas-attack/22027154/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/04/white-house-blames-obama-administration-assad-regime-chemical-attack-syria/22025672/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/tillerson-haley-syria-assad-turkey

Update: progress on implementing Colombian peace accord
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/01/86-good-news-of-year-2016-peace.html
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/31/colombias-farc-rebels-give-up-guns-in-disarmament-camps/22020673/
http://colombiareports.com/evidence-indicates-colombia-military-bribing-farc-rebels-abandon-peace-process/
https://panampost.com/julian-villabona/2017/03/22/colombian-armed-conflict-despite-farc-peace-deal/

Footnote: mudslides in Colombia kill hundreds
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39469033
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39478189
http://colombiareports.com/farc-caused-south-colombia-flooding-disaster-opposition-senator/

Clown Award: Pennsylvania state Senator Scott Wagner
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/global-warming-report-sunday-shows_us_5884ca53e4b070d8cad322b3
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/scott-pruitt-global-warming-human/
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2017/03/28/wagner-keynotes-for-natural-gas-advocates-in-harrisburg/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17228-why-is-the-earth-moving-away-from-the-sun/
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/89424/how-much-does-increased-world-population-contribute-to-global-warming

Outrage of the Week: new illegal Israeli settlement
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/11/yasser-arafat.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/10/and-this-is-why-in-lot-of-ways-it-wont.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/07/peas-in-pod.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlement-idUSKBN1711K6
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/middleeast/israel-approves-new-settlement/