Cities like New York, Berlin, and Austin are not “cool” because of their public transportation or how many jobs there are there; instead, they were all direct beneficiaries of a cycle in which artists, punks, and general counterculture types ended up moving there when they were still cheap, treating these underpopulated cities as places where they could live affordably and in close quarters with likeminded people, together producing the sort of radical art and culture that end up being cool enough to get vacuumed into the city’s self-conception, after which a bunch of yuppies move in and fuck it all up.

"The World Wildlife Fund reports that in the last 40 years, wildlife population numbers have declined by 60 percent due to climate change, loss of habitat, and other human-influenced environmental factors. The climate is changing at such a rapid rate that many species can’t adapt."

"In a groundbreaking recent study, researchers ... constructed an “Index of Economic Democracy” and found a statistically significant relationship between levels of economic democracy and both inequality and labor productivity. When measured against other OECD countries, the United States finished dead last in both the raw and weighted Index of Economic Democracy."

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/index-systemic-trends#mass-incarceration

The Electoral Strategy of the DSA.

electoral.dsausa.org/national-electoral-strategy/

A new Global Ecosocialist Network has been launched.

Check this article if you want to learn more.

Official Site

"Sanders is still the most likely beneficiary from a fractured race. He’s a factional candidate with a solid floor, but he’s made inroads with Latinos and can probably do well in all of the early states and California. His biggest competition was Biden, and Biden is likely to suffer the most after tonight"

https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-2020-election-live/