ROAR Magazine's Blog, page 96
July 21, 2017
Pacifying the Neighborhood
Latin America’s new paradigm of urban planning shows how even benign state interventions can multiply violence and reproduce urban inequality.
This Land Is Whose Land?
Understanding the forces deforming our cities today requires more than a class analysis of capitalist land speculation. We have to talk about race.
The New Municipal Movements
Much more than simply a strategy for local governance, radical municipalism is emerging as a path to social freedom and democracy beyond the state.
Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve
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Only a global confederation of rebel cities can lead us out of the death-spiral of neoliberalism towards a new rational society that delivers on the promise of humankind.
May 13, 2017
Why we are not eating: the Yale graduate student hunger strike
Precarious and underpaid graduate student-workers at Yale have gone on a fast to demand that university administrators recognize and negotiate with their union.
May 1, 2017
Violent clashes break out at May Day march in Paris
Heavy clashes erupt at May Day demonstrations in Paris ahead of a historic election that will see the neoliberal Macron square off against the neo-fascist Le Pen.
The Real State of Emergency
Filmmaker Ross Domoney is in Paris ahead of the second round of the French elections, where he follows those who were never offered a choice to begin with.
April 6, 2017
Inventing the Future: a documentary adaptation
Austin Hayden Smidt, producer of the cinematic adaptation of Inventing the Future, interviews co-authors Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams and director Isiah Medina about their upcoming documentary.
April 5, 2017
The struggle to defend CEU is about much more than Soros
Hungary’s right-wing government is shutting down one of Europe’s leading universities — yet the liberal media in the West mostly fail to appreciate its real significance.
Challenging Capitalist Modernity Conference
The Challenging Modernity Conference will be held in Hamburg, 14-16 April. Speakers include David Graeber, Raul Zibechi and Salih Muslim, among many others.
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