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'''''ROAR Magazine''''' (''Reflections on a Revolution'') is an [[Independent media|independent online publication]] that describes itself as a "journal of the radical imagination".<ref>{{cite web|title=ROAR Magazine|url=http://roarmag.org/}}</ref> Writing mostly about [[social movements]], [[political economy]], [[digital activism]], [[environmental issues]] and [[International relations|international affairs]] from a [[left-libertarian]] perspective, its stated aim is to "provide grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for real democracy".<ref>{{cite web|title=ROAR Magazine|url=http://roarmag.org/about-roar/|work="About ROAR",}}</ref>

Referred to by [[Naomi Klein]] as "a very exciting window into the global uprisings",<ref>{{cite web|title=@NaomiAKlein|url=https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/405095206816477184}}</ref> ROAR has become especially known for its coverage and analysis of the [[Great Recession|crisis of global capitalism]] and the [[Impact of the Arab Spring|mass mobilizations]] that began in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=See: http://www.globaluprisings.org/global-uprisings-event-balie-amsterdam/|url=http://www.globaluprisings.org/global-uprisings-event-balie-amsterdam/}}</ref> With a worldwide readership numbering in the tens of thousands, its articles have been picked up, among others, by ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{cite web|last=Dunham|first=Jillian|title=#OccupyWallSt Roundup, Day 80|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/occupywallst-roundup-day-80/?_r=0|publisher=New York Times, 'City Room Blog', December 5, 2011}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite web|last=Douzinas|first=Costas|title=In Greece, we see democracy in action|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/15/greece-europe-outraged-protests|publisher=The Guardian, June 15, 2011}}</ref> ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]''<ref>{{cite web|last=Captain|first=Sean|title=Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%|url=http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-facebook/all/1|publisher=Wired, December 27, 2011}}</ref> and [[WikiLeaks]],<ref>{{cite web|title=https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/133001817524150272|url=https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/133001817524150272}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/367595887670722560|url=https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/367595887670722560}}</ref> while its editors have appeared on [[BBC World]],<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC World Have Your Say, "Greece gets another bailout"|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWo4kDw_S0U|publisher=June 24, 2011}}</ref> [[Al Jazeera]] <ref>{{cite news|title=Greece: Is the media part of the problem?|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2011/06/20116258446620353.html|newspaper=Al Jazeera|date=June 25, 2011}}</ref> and [[RT News]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Over 70 injured as protesters clash with police in Madrid|url=http://rt.com/news/fires-bullets-protesting-miners-939/|accessdate=30 November 2013|newspaper=RT News|date=July 11, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Cyprus applies for EU bailout|url=http://rt.com/news/cyrpus-crisis-eu-bailout-704/|accessdate=30 November 2013|newspaper=RT News|date=June 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Take away people's food & homes - expect violence|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fkU38YVDZY&feature=youtube_gdata}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title='Surround Congress' Madrid clashes: Dramatic footage of night violence in Spain|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8yNywAOEk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Spain should repudiate its debt|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/10/roar-on-rt-spain-should-repudiate-its-debt/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Summit in Brussels is going to solve absolutely nothing|url=http://rt.com/business/eu-summit-brussels-october18-720/|newspaper=RT News|date=October 18, 2012}}</ref>

ROAR is run on a volunteer basis by a transnational editorial collective of citizen journalists, scholar-activists and independent filmmakers based in Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berkeley, Florence, Istanbul and Quito.<ref>{{cite web|title=ROAR Magazine|url=http://roarmag.org/about-roar/|work="About ROAR"}}</ref> All original content is published online for free, without advertisements, and under [[Creative Commons license]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Legal stuff – no rights reserved, all wrongs reversed|url=http://roarmag.org/legal-stuff/|publisher=ROAR Magazine}}</ref>

==History==

ROAR was founded in the summer of 2010 by writer, activist and political economist Jerome Roos, who intended to create "an online platform for young writers and activists to share critical perspectives on the status quo and to propose creative new visions for an alternative future."<ref>{{cite web|last=Albert|first=Michael|title=Relevant News by Jerome Roos|url=http://www.zcommunications.org/relevant-news-by-j-r-me-e-roos|publisher=Znet, April 21, 2012}}</ref> The history of ROAR is bound up with the revolutionary events that unfolded between 2010 and 2013.

In early 2011, while covering the [[Arab Spring|popular uprisings]] in the Arab world, ROAR helped to break the story of the [[London School of Economics Gaddafi links|LSE-Gaddafi affair]] as its early reports about the close ties of the [[London School of Economics]] to the Libyan regime were picked up by various mainstream media, including the [[BBC]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Call Upon LSE Students to Demand the Restitution of Gaddafi's Blood Money|url=http://roarmagazine.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/lse-gaddafi-donation-global-governance-held/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, February 20, 2011}}</ref> The negative media attention eventually led to the resignations of LSE Director [[Howard Davies (economist)|Howard Davies]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=LSE Director Quits over Gaddafi Ties|url=http://roarmagazine.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/lse-director-davies-gaddafi-libya/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, March 4, 2011}}</ref> and [[Saif al-Islam Gaddafi]]'s former PhD supervisor, Professor [[David Held]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Vasager|first=Jeevan|title=Academic linked to Gaddafi's fugitive son leaves LSE|url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/oct/31/saif-gaddafi-lse-academic|publisher=The Guardian, October 31, 2011}}</ref>

Starting in May 2011, as [[anti-austerity protests]] spread across Southern Europe, ROAR expanded its team of contributors and started a collaboration with Take The Square,<ref>{{cite web|title=Take the Square "Partners": http://takethesquare.net/partners/|url=http://takethesquare.net/partners/}}</ref> the international commission of the [[2011–12 Spanish protests|Spanish 15-M movement]]. As a result, ROAR's editors became directly involved in transnational coordination efforts between the various movements,<ref>{{cite web|author1=Oikonomakis, Leonidas |author2=Roos, Jerome |lastauthoramp=yes |title=Que No Nos Representan: The Crisis of Representation and the Resonance of the Real Democracy Movement from the Indignados to Occupy|url=https://www.academia.edu/3138632/Que_No_Nos_Representan_The_Crisis_of_Representation_and_the_Resonance_of_the_Real_Democracy_Movement_from_the_Indignados_to_Occupy|publisher=paper presented at the conference 'Street Politics in the Age of Austerity', University of Montreal, February 21–22, 2013}}</ref> and actively participated in the preparations for the global day of action on [[15 October 2011 global protests|October 15, 2011]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Call to Action: United for Global Change on October 15|url=http://roarmag.org/2011/09/call-to-action-united-for-global-change-on-october-15/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, September 27, 2011}}</ref>

In its tactical briefings prior to [[Occupy Wall Street]] on September 17, 2011, ''[[Adbusters]]'', the Canadian anti-consumerist magazine that originally called for the action, drew on ROAR's reports about the Spanish ''indignados'' to help inspire the "swarming tactics" of the [[Occupy movement]],<ref>{{cite web|title=#OCCUPYWALLSTREET this weekend!|url=https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet-tactical-briefing.html|publisher=Adbusters, 13 September 2011}}</ref> and in 2012 again drew on ROAR reports about the ''indignados'' in an attempt to reinvigorate the movement with a number of tactical innovations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spain's Indignados: Three Tactical Innovations|url=https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/spains-indignados.html|publisher=Adbusters, June 25, 2012}}</ref> Occupy-related websites like OccupyWallSt.org,<ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Roos, Jerome, "What Do Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil Have in Common?" OccupyWallSt.org, June 18, 2013|url=http://occupywallst.org/article/what-do-bosnia-bulgaria-and-brazil-have-common/|publisher=OccupyWallSt.org|accessdate=30 November 2013}}</ref> OccupyWallStreet.net<ref>{{cite web|last=Zibechi|first=Raul|title=Autonomy in Brazil: Below and Behind the June Uprising|url=http://occupywallst.org/article/what-do-bosnia-bulgaria-and-brazil-have-common/)|publisher=OccupyWallstreet.net}}</ref> and Occupy.com<ref>{{cite web|title=5 Demands in Brazil: A Million Marchers Across the Country Say "It's Not About 20 Cents!|url=http://occupywallst.org/article/what-do-bosnia-bulgaria-and-brazil-have-common/|publisher=Occupy.com|accessdate=30 November 2013}}</ref> regularly feature ROAR's reports from Europe and Latin America.

In November 2011, ROAR launched a proposal for the creation of a new and independent social network for the global movements "to perpetuate the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations and transform them into lasting forms of social organization".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Global Square: An Online Platform for Our Movement|url=http://roarmag.org/2011/11/the-global-square-an-online-platform-for-our-movement/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, November 2, 2011}}</ref> The proposal, tentatively called "The Global Square", gained the support of [[WikiLeaks]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Global Square: Wikileaks-Backed Activist Platform Launching in March|url=https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/15-4|publisher=CommonDreams, February 15, 2012}}</ref> and free software activist [[Richard Stallman]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Global Square wiki|url=http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Square|publisher=P2P Foundation}}</ref> and received widespread attention in the international media.<ref>{{cite news|title=Would you join a Facebook-style Occupy social network?|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/12/would-you-join-a-facebook-style-occupy-social-network.html|newspaper=CBC|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Zoe|title=Occupy Facebook: Social Network for Protesters in the Works|url=http://mashable.com/2011/12/28/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=Mashable|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=John|first=Constine|title=Good Luck Occupiers, But Here’s Why "Facebook For Protesters" Won’t Work|url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/29/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=TechCrunch|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Captain|first=Sean|title=Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%|url=http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-facebook/|newspaper=Wired|date=December 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Chanda|first=Devin|title='Occupy' Protestors Building Activist-Only Facebook|url=http://www.complex.com/tech/2011/12/occupy-protestors-building-activist-only-facebook|newspaper=Complex Tech|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Baylen|first=Ashley|title=Occupy Facebook: A New Social Network|url=http://www.shalomlife.com/news/16417/occupy-facebook-a-new-social-network/|newspaper=Shalom Life|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Crow|first=Lorien|title=Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative|url=http://www.mobiledia.com/news/122216.html|newspaper=Mobiledia|date=January 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hartmann|first=Thom|title=Wikileaks is dabbling in social networking|url=http://truth-out.org/news/item/6741:on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-gov-rick-scott%E2%80%99s-plan-to-imprison-floridians-for-profit-derailed-by-his-own-party-and-more|newspaper=Truthout|date=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ribeiro|first=John|title=Wikileaks-backed Global Square P2P activist platform due in March|url=http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3337689/wikileaks-backed-global-square-p2p-activist-platform-due-in-march/|newspaper=PC World, Computer World, UK Computer World, TechWorld|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gutiérrez|first=Bernardo|title=Trends 2012: La fusión definitiva de lo virtual y lo real|url=http://trends.ticbeat.com/trends-2012-fusion-definitiva-virtual-real/|newspaper=TicBeats Trends|date=February 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Los indignados de Wall Street tendrán su proprio Facebook|url=http://www.abc.es/fotos-medios-redes/20111229/indignados-wall-street-tendran-1502233032202.html|newspaper=ABC|date=December 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=La red social de ‘Occupy Wall Street’|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/12/29/navegante/1325164134.html|newspaper=El Mundo|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Global Square: los indignados de EEUU trabajan en su proprio Facebook'|url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2011/12/30/emprendimiento-civil-los-indignados-de-eeuu-trabajan-en-su-propio-facebook-1620/|newspaper=El Confidencial|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nace Global Square la red social de los indignados|url=http://www.theinquirer.es/2011/12/30/nace-global-square-la-red-social-de-los-indignados.html|newspaper=TechWeekEurope, The Inquirer|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=ROMÁN|first=JOSE FERNÁNDEZ|title=Global Square, la red social de los indignados de EEUU|url=http://www.elreferente.es/tecnologia/redessociales/global-square-la-red-social-de-los-indignados-de-eeuu-17510|newspaper=El Referente|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Occupy Wall Street prepara su propia red social: "Global Square"|newspaper=Canal331|date=January 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square: o Facebook dos Indignados|url=http://www.dinheirovivo.pt/Buzz/Artigo/CIECO028209.html|newspaper=Dinheiro Vivo|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Machado|first=Paulo Maurício|title=The Global Square – a rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.materiaincognita.com.br/the-global-square-a-rede-social-do-movimento-occupy-wall-street/#axzz28dzBTC6Z|newspaper=Matéria Incógnita|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Street cria rede alternativa ao Facebook|url=http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/tecnologia/global-square-occupy-rede-social-facebook-tvi24/1313031-4069.html|newspaper=TVI24 Occupy|date=December 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Global Square, a futura rede social do movimento Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.fibra.pt/redes-sociais/4114-global-square-a-futura-rede-social-do-movimento-occupy-wall-street|newspaper=Fibra|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Franc de Ferrière|first=Jacques|title=Wall Street ne veut plus occuper Facebook et crée son réseau alternatif|url=http://www.itespresso.fr/occupy-wall-street-ne-veut-plus-occuper-facebook-et-cree-son-reseau-alternatif-49799.html|newspaper=ITEspresso|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Guerin|first=Hélene|title=Global Square, la nouvelle plate-forme de Wikileaks|url=http://blog.studiovitamine.com/actualite,107,fr/global-square-la-nouvelle-plate-forme-de-wikileaks,304,fr.html?id=966|newspaper=Studio Vitamine|date=February 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=La plateforme d’échanges de Wikileaks sortira en mars|url=http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-la-plateforme-d-echanges-de-wikileaks-sortira-en-mars-47797.html|newspaper=Le Monde Informatique|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=GUERRINI|first=FEDERICO|title=Square, gli attivisti di Occupy Wall Street lavorano a un loro Facebook|url=http://blog.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=30&ID_articolo=9924&ID_sezione=38|newspaper=La Stampa|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Deotto|first=Fabio|title=Occupy Wall Street lavora a Global Square, un Facebook al riparo da occhi indiscreti|url=http://mytech.panorama.it/Occupy-Wall-Street-lavora-a-Global-Square-un-Facebook-al-riparo-da-occhi-indiscreti|newspaper=Panorama|date=December 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Knoke|first=Felix|title=Neue Internet-Plattform: Occupy Facebook|url=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/netzwelt-ticker-forscher-finden-neue-hinweise-auf-stuxnet-familie-a-806208.html|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gehl|first=Christian|title=Global Square: Occupy-Bewegung startet soziales Nerzwerk|url=http://www.wuv.de/digital/global_square_occupy_bewegung_startet_soziales_netzwerk_im_januar|newspaper=Werben & Verkaufen|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square, Jejaring Sosial untuk Aktivis dan Demonstran|url=http://nasional.topikutama.com/detail/berita/33731/2011-12/The_Global_Square_Jejaring_Sosial_untuk_Aktivis_dan_Demonstran|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=http://nasional.topikutama.com/detail/berita/33731/2011-12/The_Global_Square_Jejaring_Sosial_untuk_Aktivis_dan_Demonstran|url=http://massimo.in.ua/?p=1213|newspaper=Massimo|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Сеть оккупантам|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1862178|newspaper=Коммерсантъ (Citizen K)|date=February 6, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1862178|url=http://ittechblog.pl/2011/12/29/ffacebookowi-nie-mozna-juz-ufac-twierdza-aktywisci-stworza-wlasny-portal/|newspaper=IT Tech Blog|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Michalik|first=Łukasz|title=Oburzeni uruchamiają Global Square – własny serwis społecznościowy|url=http://internet.gadzetomania.pl/2011/12/29/%E2%80%9Eoburzeni-uruchamiaja-global-square-wlasny-serwis-spolecznosciowy|newspaper=VBeta|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nova društvena mreža za prosvjednike koji ne vjeruju Facebooku|url=http://tehnoklik.net.hr/nova-drustvena-mreza-za-prosvjednike-koji-ne-vjeruju-facebooku|newspaper=Net.hr|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Global Square za generaciju prosvjednika|url=http://www.zamirzine.net/spip.php?article11155|newspaper=ZaMirZINE|date=December 30, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Global Square': Wikileaks-Backed Activist Platform Launching in March|url=https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/15-4|newspaper=Common Dreams|date=February 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Occupy Facebook: Protesters Planning Their Own Social Network|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5aEVWLgoS0|newspaper=Slate|date=December 29, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=Virality: international media coverage of The Global Square|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/02/global-square-wikileaks-media-social-network/|newspaper=ROAR|date=February 18, 2012}}</ref>


In March 2012, ROAR participated in a public intervention against German Finance Minister [[Wolfgang Schäuble]] during a lecture at the [[European University Institute]] in Florence, asking him some "hostile questions" <ref>{{cite web|title=Germany's Schaeuble Says Is Not Too Hard on Greece|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/germany-greece-schaeuble-idUSL5E8E77F420120307|publisher=Reuters, March 7, 2012}}{{failed verification|date=December 2013}}</ref> about the punitive and counterproductive austerity measures being imposed on Greece and the rest of Southern Europe. The action was reported by ''[[La Repubblica]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Schaeuble contestato: 'Siamo tutti piigs'|url=http://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/03/07/foto/schaeuble_contestato_siamo_tutti_piigs-31142908/1/|publisher=La Repubblica}}{{failed verification|date=December 2013}}</ref> and the ''[[Financial Times]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Murphy|first=Paul|title=Schäuble, it's just cos' they're Greek, you know|url=http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/03/08/914091/?Authorised=false|publisher=Financial Times, Alphaville Blog}}{{failed verification|date=December 2013}}</ref>
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'''''ROAR Magazine''''' (''Reflections on a Revolution'') is a quarterly journal of [[contentious politics]] whose stated aim is to “provide grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for real democracy”.<ref>{{cite web|title=ROAR Magazine|url=http://roarmag.org/about-roar/|work="About ROAR"}}</ref>


In November 2012, ROAR launched its first internally produced documentary, 'Utopia on the Horizon', a 27-minute film on the occupation of Syntagma Square in Greece.<ref>{{cite web|title=The documentary is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAnGxynPxL4|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAnGxynPxL4}}</ref> The documentary, which featured three Greek activists alongside 89-year-old WWII resistance hero [[Manolis Glezos]], was freely shared online and featured on ''[[Adbusters]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Utopia on the Horizon: for those who chose to struggle|url=https://www.adbusters.org/abtv/utopia-horizon.html|publisher=Adbusters, November 19, 2012}}</ref> [[Zero Hedge]],<ref>{{cite web|title=For Greece, Nothing Is Gonna Be Alright|url=http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-19/greece-nothing-gonna-be-alright|publisher=Zero Hedge, November 19, 2012}}</ref> Top Documentary Films,<ref>{{cite web|title=Utopia on the Horizon|url=http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/utopia-horizon/|publisher=Top Documentary Films}}</ref> and Films for Action.<ref>{{cite web|title=Utopia on the Horizon|url=http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/utopia_on_the_horizon/|publisher=Films for Action, November 18, 2012}}</ref>
Originally founded as a political blog in 2010, ROAR has since expanded into an online magazine and print publication with subscribers in over 50 countries. <ref>{{cite web|title=About ROAR Magazine|url=http://https://roarmag.org/about/}}</ref> In recent years, ROAR has become especially known for its coverage and analysis of the political fallout of the global financial crisis and the [[social movements]] that emerged in its wake.<ref>{{cite web|title=Occupy Wall Street|url=http://www.occupy.com/article/young-people-are-losing-faith-capitalism-interview-roar-magazines-jerome-roos}}</ref> [[Naomi Klein]] has referred to the publication as "a very exciting window into the global uprisings".<ref>{{cite web|title=@NaomiAKlein|url=https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/405095206816477184}}</ref>


==Political views==
While its editorial line can be described as [[Radical democracy|radically democratic]], [[internationalist]] and [[libertarian socialist]] in outlook, ROAR is known to publish a wide range of left perspectives, offering a non-sectarian platform for debate among scholars, activists and political commentators alike.<ref>{{cite web|title=Zcomm|url=https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/relevant-news-by-j-r-me-e-roos/}}</ref>


ROAR's political orientation can be described as broadly [[libertarian socialist]] in outlook, combining elements of traditional [[anarchism]] and [[autonomism]] with the [[Horizontalidad|horizontalist]], [[Leaderless resistance|leaderless]] and [[Decentralization|decentralized]] spirit of the contemporary social movements.
In recent years, ROAR's editors and contributors have often come out in support of social movements and democratic struggles like the [[Arab Spring]], the [[Anti-austerity_movement|European anti-austerity movement]], [[Occupy movement|Occupy Wall Street]], the [[Gezi Park protests]], the [[Movimento Passe Livre|Free Fare Movement]] in Brazil, the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation|Zapatistas]] of Mexico, the [[Rojava_conflict|Rojava Revolution]], the [[Abahlali_baseMjondolo|South African shackdwellers]], [[Black Lives Matter]], the [[No Border network]], [[Nuit Debout]] and many more.


ROAR's editors and contributors have often come out in support of experiments with [[autonomy#politics|autonomy]] and [[direct democracy]] in social movements like [[Occupy Wall Street]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title="How Occupy Reinvented the Language of Democracy", ROAR Magazine|url=http://roarmag.org/2013/09/occupy-movement-autonomy-direct-democracy/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, September 17, 2013}}</ref> the [[Indignados|Spanish ''indignados'']],<ref>{{cite web|last=Sánchez|first=Marta|title=Indignados: Re-Asserting the Human Right to Dream|url=http://roarmag.org/2012/08/indignados-evictions-squatting-vacancies-of-capitalism/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, August 16, 2012}}</ref> the [[Anarchism in Greece|Greek anarchists]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Oikonomakis|first=Leonidas|title=In Greece, the criminals live in other villas|url=http://roarmag.org/2013/01/in-greece-the-criminals-live-in-other-villas/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, January 20, 2013}}</ref> the [[Chapulling|Turkish çapullers]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=The Turkish Protests and the Genie of Revolution|url=http://roarmag.org/2013/06/tahrir-taksim-egypt-turkey-protests-revolution/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, June 3, 2013}}</ref> the [[Movimento Passe Livre|Brazilian Free Fare Movement]],<ref>{{cite web|last=A|first=Franco|title=In Brazil, the Mask of Democracy Is Falling|url=http://roarmag.org/2013/06/brazil-protests-real-democracy-movement/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, June 18, 2013}}</ref> the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation|Zapatistas]] of Mexico,<ref>{{cite web|last=Oikonomakis|first=Leonidas|title=Chiapas Cries Out: The Sound of Zapatista Silence|url=http://www.zcommunications.org/chiapas-cries-out-the-sound-of-zapatista-silence-by-leonidas-oikonomakis.html|publisher=Znet, December 29, 2012}}</ref> the [[Abahlali baseMjondolo|South African shackdwellers]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Roos|first=Jerome|title=South Africa's Untold Tragedy of Neoliberal Apartheid|url=http://roarmag.org/2013/11/south-africa-marikana-anc-poor/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, November 12, 2013}}</ref> and the anti-authoritarian [[Egyptian Revolution of 2011|revolutionaries of Egypt]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Rizk|first=Philip|title=Why the Egyptian Revolution Is Far from Dead|url=http://roarmag.org/2013/07/egypt-revolution-military-coup-power/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, November 12, 2013}}</ref> as well as whistleblowers like [[Chelsea Manning]] and hacktivist collective [[Anonymous (group)|Anonymous]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Hayase|first=Nozomi|title=, "The Whistleblowers at the Frontier of Digital Liberation"|url=http://roarmag.org/2013/08/manning-snowden-assange-whistleblowers/|publisher=ROAR Magazine, August 13, 2013}}</ref>
==Prominent Contributors and Interviewees==


==References==
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* [[Michael Albert]]
* [[Janet Biehl]]
* [[George Ciccariello-Maher]]
* [[John Curl]]
* [[Dilar Dirik]]
* [[Eirik Eiglad]]
* [[Silvia Federici]]
* [[Peter Gelderloos]]
* [[Michael Hardt]]
* [[David Harvey]]
* [[John Holloway]]
* [[Srećko Horvat]]
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* [[George Katsiaficas]]
* [[Maria Mies]]
* [[Antonio Negri]]
* [[Immanuel Ness]]
* [[Oscar Olivera]]
* [[Kristin Ross]]
* [[Marina Sitrin]]
* [[Nick Srnicek]]
* [[Jonas Staal]]
* [[Wolfgang Streeck]]
* [[Opal Tometi]]
* [[Raúl Zibechi]]
|}


==External links==
==External links==

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ROAR Magazine
File:Logo for ROAR magazine.jpg
ROAR Magazine's Logo by Noam Galai
Staff writersCarlos Delclos
Nozomi Hayase
Leonidas Oikonomakis
Tamara van der Putten
Joris Leverink
Jerome Roos
CategoriesPolitics, culture
Circulation50,000+
FounderJerome Roos
Founded2010
LanguageEnglish
Websiteroarmag.org

ROAR Magazine (Reflections on a Revolution) is an independent online publication that describes itself as a "journal of the radical imagination".[1] Writing mostly about social movements, political economy, digital activism, environmental issues and international affairs from a left-libertarian perspective, its stated aim is to "provide grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for real democracy".[2]

Referred to by Naomi Klein as "a very exciting window into the global uprisings",[3] ROAR has become especially known for its coverage and analysis of the crisis of global capitalism and the mass mobilizations that began in 2011.[4] With a worldwide readership numbering in the tens of thousands, its articles have been picked up, among others, by The New York Times,[5] The Guardian,[6] Wired[7] and WikiLeaks,[8][9] while its editors have appeared on BBC World,[10] Al Jazeera [11] and RT News.[12][13][14][15][16][17]

ROAR is run on a volunteer basis by a transnational editorial collective of citizen journalists, scholar-activists and independent filmmakers based in Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berkeley, Florence, Istanbul and Quito.[18] All original content is published online for free, without advertisements, and under Creative Commons license.[19]

History

ROAR was founded in the summer of 2010 by writer, activist and political economist Jerome Roos, who intended to create "an online platform for young writers and activists to share critical perspectives on the status quo and to propose creative new visions for an alternative future."[20] The history of ROAR is bound up with the revolutionary events that unfolded between 2010 and 2013.

In early 2011, while covering the popular uprisings in the Arab world, ROAR helped to break the story of the LSE-Gaddafi affair as its early reports about the close ties of the London School of Economics to the Libyan regime were picked up by various mainstream media, including the BBC.[21] The negative media attention eventually led to the resignations of LSE Director Howard Davies[22] and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's former PhD supervisor, Professor David Held.[23]

Starting in May 2011, as anti-austerity protests spread across Southern Europe, ROAR expanded its team of contributors and started a collaboration with Take The Square,[24] the international commission of the Spanish 15-M movement. As a result, ROAR's editors became directly involved in transnational coordination efforts between the various movements,[25] and actively participated in the preparations for the global day of action on October 15, 2011.[26]

In its tactical briefings prior to Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2011, Adbusters, the Canadian anti-consumerist magazine that originally called for the action, drew on ROAR's reports about the Spanish indignados to help inspire the "swarming tactics" of the Occupy movement,[27] and in 2012 again drew on ROAR reports about the indignados in an attempt to reinvigorate the movement with a number of tactical innovations.[28] Occupy-related websites like OccupyWallSt.org,[29] OccupyWallStreet.net[30] and Occupy.com[31] regularly feature ROAR's reports from Europe and Latin America.

In November 2011, ROAR launched a proposal for the creation of a new and independent social network for the global movements "to perpetuate the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations and transform them into lasting forms of social organization".[32] The proposal, tentatively called "The Global Square", gained the support of WikiLeaks[33] and free software activist Richard Stallman,[34] and received widespread attention in the international media.[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]

In March 2012, ROAR participated in a public intervention against German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble during a lecture at the European University Institute in Florence, asking him some "hostile questions" [72] about the punitive and counterproductive austerity measures being imposed on Greece and the rest of Southern Europe. The action was reported by La Repubblica[73] and the Financial Times.[74]

In November 2012, ROAR launched its first internally produced documentary, 'Utopia on the Horizon', a 27-minute film on the occupation of Syntagma Square in Greece.[75] The documentary, which featured three Greek activists alongside 89-year-old WWII resistance hero Manolis Glezos, was freely shared online and featured on Adbusters,[76] Zero Hedge,[77] Top Documentary Films,[78] and Films for Action.[79]

Political views

ROAR's political orientation can be described as broadly libertarian socialist in outlook, combining elements of traditional anarchism and autonomism with the horizontalist, leaderless and decentralized spirit of the contemporary social movements.

ROAR's editors and contributors have often come out in support of experiments with autonomy and direct democracy in social movements like Occupy Wall Street,[80] the Spanish indignados,[81] the Greek anarchists,[82] the Turkish çapullers,[83] the Brazilian Free Fare Movement,[84] the Zapatistas of Mexico,[85] the South African shackdwellers,[86] and the anti-authoritarian revolutionaries of Egypt,[87] as well as whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and hacktivist collective Anonymous.[88]

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