The march continues: Protestors from the People's Climate Movement, the environmental activist group that organized the climate march on Washington D.C., has a planned another demonstration to demand the president acknowledge the seriousness of climate change. On Tuesday, May 9, hundreds of protesters are expected to rally around the Trump Hotel from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. to ring the alarm, Beyonce style, in an effort to wake the president up to reality. Trump is meeting with his advisors to decide whether or not to bow out of the Paris Agreement. If you're looking to get involved on the day of action, the protest takes place at Trump Hotel in D.C. at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW & Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW.Think tank in action: Solve is a summit that gathers the best minds in technology and innovation to figure out solutions to the world's problems. Housed at MIT, participants have the opportunity to submit solutions in hopes of securing funding and support. The challenges on the table this year are Youth, Skills and the Workforce of the Future; Brain Health; Sustainable Urban Technology and Women and Technology. The event takes place at the United Nations where members pitch their ideas and some heavy intellectual hitters are getting together in Cambridge this week to kick things off.Prepare to roll your eyes: In yet another blatant disregard for empirical evidence for alternative facts, the Administrator the EPA, Scott Pruitt, told at least five members of the EPA's scientific review boards that they could back their bags. The news just gets better. The replacements for the scientists are representatives from industries who the EPA monitors on pollution rates. That totally doesn't sound like a conflict of interest.Unfortunate legacy in NOLA: A New Orleans resident is threatening the city if they follow through on their plans to remove a statue of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, a confederate soldier and slave owner, from the entrance of the City Park and New Orleans Museum of Art. The city has already taken down the first of four monuments celebrating Confederate leader planned for removal. Members of the black community, who rightly don't want to be reminded of historical figures who advocated for the slavery of their ancestors, are protesting groups that want to keep the monument in place. White protestors argue that the statue, though a public object, is on private land and should be left alone. Tensions are high, and the nation is monitoring the situation.Going with the flow isn't really an option: The state assembly in Wisconsin voted last week on a high capacity well bill and approved it. The bill has been an issue of contention, with Democrats and Republican standing on unfamiliar sides of the aisle. Dems say that the bill will pump too much water and doesn't provide enough oversight for farmers. GOP members advocated for the bill, saying that a high capacity well will have a huge positive impact on local farmers and the economy. It's rare to see Republicans pushing for a source of renewable energy, but anything is possible.Break the Internet: The Federal Communication Commission wants to kill net neutrality which will effectively ruin the internet as we know it. Without net neutrality Internet service providers will we able to control what we can do online. Do you like social media? Do you want to keep your memes? Then sign this petition. More than 96,000 people have put their names on this list to tell elected officials to keep their hands off our Internet.Job growth up, unemployment down: In his campaign, Trump talked about how great he was at job creation and boasted that he would add over 600,000 jobs to the economy. He's reaching high, but that's what leaders are supposed to do, right? To his credit, job growth was on the rise in April. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 211,000 jobs were added in the month. Unemployment is also down from 4.5 to 4.4 percent, and across the country that .1 percent makes a huge difference.
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