ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 55

Organizing under lockdown: online activism, local solidarity

As the pandemic forces us into lockdown, activists across Europe demonstrate that there are still ways to organize and practice solidarity at a safe social distance.

COVID-19 Chronicles with Dr. David Healy

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

Economic Update: Coronavirus and Mental Health

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.

COVID-19 Chronicles with Vijay Prashad

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

The Laura Flanders Show: A Future Where Everyone Counts

“It’s not the majority that tells us what are the disruptive moments…all of the innovations came by looking at the edge and by trying to address the needs of the edge.”

COVID-19 Chronicles with Molly Crabapple

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

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Compensatory Consumerism

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

COVID-19 Chronicles with Yanis Varoufakis

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

The future will be socialist — or it will not be at all

We are shackled by a system that has outlived its usefulness. COVID-19 paves the way for radical systemic change and a transition to a socialized economy.

Policing the pandemic: “security” for whom?

The human tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic must not be permitted to become a pretext for the expansion of state powers that brutalize vulnerable communities.