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In Ice, Anna Kavan's haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as 'the warden' search for an elusive girl in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organisation. There is destruction everywhere; great walls of ice overrun the world. Together with the narrator, the reader is swept into a hallucinatory quest for this strange and fragile creature with albino hair.

Written in plain English, this book explains the major political ideologies without slogans, tribalism, or academic jargon. It focuses on what these belief systems actually say about power, markets, government, and human behavior, not how they are marketed in modern politics.

What if democratic socialism isn’t something to fear, but a serious, practical way to organize an economy and a society?For many people, “socialism” still conjures Cold War propaganda, failed states, or online shouting matches. Meanwhile, the system we’re told is “the only way” delivers homelessness, medical debt, climate breakdown, and billionaire fortunes built on other people’s exhausted labor. How to Be a Democratic Socialist is a clear, engaging guide to what democratic socialism actually is, where it came from, and how it works in practice.

This is my first podcast, please have fun listening and give feedback :)

Blind-Casting is a step in the better direction, but more can be done. As an actor, I know that there is too much diversity among actors to play the limited amount of roles in the entertainment industry. This podcast is used as a database to store other's stories of the industry regarding casting and diversity in hope to be used for future reference.

The Socialist Scholars Conference, held every spring in New York City for the last 23 years, is the largest event of the U.S. Left. Every year thousands of radical activists, socialists, feminists, anarchists, union organizers, black liberation advocates, alternative journalists, and democratic scholars gather for a weekend of spirited debate and dialogue. This is the beston-going conference in America.