"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
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/index-systemic-trends#mass-incarceration
TheNextSystem.org
The Index of Systemic Trends
One of the signs that a crisis is systemic, rather than purely political or economic, is that key indicators decline or stay the same regardless of changes in political power or business cycles. This first edition of the Index of Systemic Trends is an effort…
I changed the time at which I send the articles. Do you prefer it as it is now or as it was before?
Final Results
43%
7:00 AM (London time) - former schedule
33%
3:00 PM (London time) - current schedule
24%
In between
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A new Global Ecosocialist Network has been launched.
Check this article if you want to learn more.
Official Site
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/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-2020-election-live/
FiveThirtyEight
What Did — And Didn’t — Go Down In The Iowa Caucuses
Visit the post for more.
A useful guide on talking to the media
https://itsgoingdown.org/how-to-talk-to-the-media-if-you-must/
https://itsgoingdown.org/how-to-talk-to-the-media-if-you-must/
It's Going Down
How To Talk to the Media, If You Must - It's Going Down
For better or for worse, anarchists are finding themselves in the spotlight of the mainstream news. Not since the anti-globalization movement, when thousands shut down the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle, Washington in late 1999, has the…
"The current market-driven system isn’t neutral or natural. The decisions we make in structuring our media are deeply political, laden with value judgments. And the present system naturalizes the powerful and profitable while defunding adversarial journalism."
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporate-media-system-democracy/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporate-media-system-democracy/
Jacobinmag
We Need a Media System That Serves People’s Needs, Not Corporations’
Our corporate media system prioritizes making money over producing adversarial journalism and covering working-class issues. We should dare to imagine something different: a public media system that privileges democracy over profits.