ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 32

ROAR’s most-read 2020: a historic year in ten essays

A selection of ROAR’s most-read essays, highlighting the key themes behind the year’s many important struggles and providing perspectives on the fights still to come.

Freeing space: building worlds outside of state and capital

By securing land and building infrastructure that increases our collective self-sufficiency, we can create worlds on the periphery of the capitalist order.

The Laura Flanders Show: Transportation is a Human Right

Weekly in-depth interviews with forward-thinking people in the worlds of arts, entrepreneurship and politics with Laura Flanders.

Economic Update: Lessons From A Crisis Year

A weekly show focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life and alternative ways to organize our economy and politics, with Prof. Richard D. Wolff.

There is no vaccine for climate catastrophe

Humanity’s failure to collectively respond to the pandemic presents us with a fast motion view of our inability to combat the ongoing climate crisis.

The Thailand uprising: rubber ducks against royalty

Widespread protests against an undemocratic coup government and a contemptible king have opened a new front in Thailand’s struggle for a free society.

Introducing Spadework, a podcast on movement building

A podcast dedicated to circulating the practices and mechanisms that make resilient, rewarding and effective organizations and movements.

IMF austerity is strangling Ecuador — again

Members of the Progressive International’s Debt Justice working group call on IMF President Georgieva to deliver on the promise of a just recovery.

IMF austerity is strangling Ecuador – again

Members of the Progressive International’s Debt Justice working group call on IMF President Georgieva to deliver on the promise of a just recovery.

In Charlie’s shadow: France’s not-so-funny right-wing press

With French values at a crossroads following renewed debate over Charlie Hebdo, are media commentators overlooking the polarizing “poubelle” press?