ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 50

Rights, riots and police brutality

Riots are communities defining what counts as police brutality and to set the limits of authority. It is here, not in the courts, that our rights are established.

COVID-19 Chronicles with Roger Waters and Brian Eno

In the COVID-19 Chronicles, Frank Barat interviews analysts, doctors, thinkers, activists and politicians on the coronavirus crisis and its impact on global politics.

Hard Road of Hope

From the hills of West Virginia, “Hard Road of Hope” — a new film by Eleanor Goldfield — is a story of a radical resource colony and the continued struggle of its people.

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Concept of Totality pt.2

A bimonthly podcast hosted by Professor David Harvey that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens.

COVID-19 Chronicles with Noura Erakat

In the COVID-19 Chronicles, Frank Barat interviews analysts, doctors, thinkers, activists and politicians on the coronavirus crisis and its impact on global politics.

Towards a borderless world where we can all “just stay home”

Now may be a strange time to call for border abolition, but as the pandemic has shown: we are collectively no safer than the least protected among us.

Of dreams and warnings: from Agamben to Žižek and beyond

Agamben warns of authoritarian responses to the coronavirus pandemic, while Žižek dreams of a “reinvented communism.” How do anti-authoritarians respond?

The Laura Flanders Show: We Need #TomateloEnSerioMX

“In the midst of this catastrophe our imaginations have been unshackled and I think it’s time for us to kind of be bold in what we envision the country to be.”

COVID-19 Chronicles with Marc Lamont-Hill

In the COVID-19 Chronicles, Frank Barat interviews analysts, doctors, thinkers, activists and politicians on the coronavirus crisis and its impact on global politics.

Emancipatory mutual aid: from education to liberation

A New Orleans radical mutual aid group organizes with and within communities to help transform the conditions that created the crisis in the first place.