What's Left #16

What's Left
for the week of March 30 - April 5, 2017

This week:

Good News: victory on disability rights
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/22/high-court-bolsters-rights-learning-disabled-students.html
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-supreme-court-rules-for-children-with-1490202454-htmlstory.html

Good News: victory on the death penalty
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/28/supreme-court-rules-for-texas-death-row-inmate-over-iq-claim/22015198/

Good News: resistance to corruption in Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nationwide-protests-bring-thousands-to-russias-streets/2017/03/26/7e3af598-128b-11e7-bb16-269934184168_story.html?utm_term=.dcb767264b97
https://www.rt.com/news/382381-russia-opposition-protests-detentions/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/26/521594477/russians-take-to-the-streets-in-nationwide-anti-government-protests
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-protests-20170326-story.html

Not Good News: $15 minimum wage vetoed in Baltimore
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/26/dem-mayor-vetoes-15-min-wage-bill/
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/pass-the-buck.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-actually-earns-the-minimum-wage/

Right-wing trying to change rules on minimum wage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/11/minimum-wage-advocates-won-big-in-november-but-now-theyre-at-risk-of-losing-all-over-again/
http://www.thestand.org/2017/03/early-i-1433-results-are-in-raising-minimum-wage-boosts-jobs/
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/23/1645780/--SaveTheWage-Protect-Minimum-Wage-Raises-from-Corporate-Lobbyists-and-Lawyers
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/minimum-wage-supreme-court-backs-voters-over-business-interests-9163185
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2017/03/1511-update-repressing-protest.html

The love of profit is the root of all economic evil
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/10/2227-pursuit-of-profit-is-baseline.html
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Timothy-6-10/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-alabama-s-auto-jobs-boom-cheap-wages-little-training-crushed-limbs
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/26/during-obamas-presidency-wealth-inequality-has-increased-and-poverty-levels-are-higher/
http://www.epi.org/publication/the-top-charts-of-2016-13-charts-that-show-the-difference-between-the-economy-we-have-now-and-the-economy-we-could-have/
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
http://fortune.com/2017/01/16/world-richest-men-income-equality/

Outrage of the Week: TheRump attacks the climate
https://thecorrespondent.com/6285/shell-made-a-film-about-climate-change-in-1991-then-neglected-to-heed-its-own-warning/692663565-875331f6
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-climate-change-1981-climate-denier-funding
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/8/1400557/-Former-Exxon-scientist-says-Exxon-knew-about-climate-change-and-fossil-fuels-in-1981
http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/3/27/14922516/trump-executive-order-climate
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/11/06/2013-26785/preparing-the-united-states-for-the-impacts-of-climate-change
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/16/press-briefing-press-secretary-sean-spicer-3162017-25
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/trumps-war-on-the-climate-begins/519159/


For the Record: Daniel Pantaleo should have been fired long ago
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/22/1646219/-Leaked-documents-show-the-NYPD-officer-who-killed-Eric-Garner-should-have-been-fired-a-long-time-ago

For the Record: MakeTweetsGreatAgain
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/27/1647743/-Thanks-to-these-computer-developers-when-Trump-tweets-the-ACLU-gets-a-donation
https://maketweetsgreatagain.us/

For the Record: forum on trade with Africa included no Africans
https://www.indy100.com/article/africa-trade-meeting-african-visa-denied-us-travel-ban-global-economic-development-summit-7637666

Hero Award: Aramis Ayala
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/92813296-132.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-aramis-ayala-no-death-penalty-20170316-story.html
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/03/28/judge-backs-scotts-removal-of-prosecutor/amp/
http://www.wesh.com/article/florida-legislators-propose-cutting-budget-of-state-attorney-aramis-ayala/9196886

Clown Award: a majority of American men
https://www.scribd.com/document/342699692/PerryUndem-Gender-and-Birth-Control-Access-Report
https://thinkprogress.org/congress-is-more-regressive-on-womens-rights-than-most-voters-poll-finds-88efc93d7e59#.t6051vj6e