ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy.
In 2015, more than a dozen Kurdish towns in southeastern Turkey declared their autonomy from the state, only to be met by an extremely violent crackdown.
Angelina Lopez Gomez is a potter from Chiapas. She shows her work and home, discusses her commitment to Indigenous traditions and how she learned her rights as a woman.
After an earthquake in late 2017 destroyed their outdoor kitchens, Tehuantepec locals opted to rebuild themselves rather than relying on state support.
At the demise of empire, Britain transformed from a colonial power into a financial one that today is estimated to hide up to half of global offshore wealth.
The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) campaigns against police surveillance and the regular smearing of activists and groups as “domestic extremists.”
Indigenous locals in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec resist the construction of destructive windfarms on their traditional lands.
Delegates at the fifth gathering of the CNI in Oventic describe their ideologies, mission and struggles — and the Zapatistas throw a party.
Drawing on the story of Ahmed, a Tunisian migrant to Italy, “Scirocco” shows the impact of deportation policies on migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
This short film tells the story of several hundred brave ramblers from Manchester and Sheffield, whose trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932 played a major role in giving people...
A filmic experiment investigating the relationship between politics and economics, against a backdrop of democratic deficits, capital controls and soft European coups d’état.
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This final part of a mini series on the dreams and struggles of refugees in Greece tells the stories of those stuck at the unofficial Eko refugee camp.
Living in tents and over-crowded ferry terminals in the port of Athens, refugees wait for the right to continue their journeys and to seek hoped-for refuge.
A glimpse of the quietly devastating impacts of border closures, and reflections of some of those in Idomeni, Greece, seeking refuge in Europe.
Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of protest policing, a set of strategies developed in the wake of 9/11.
With the people of Iceland back in the streets following the Panama Papers scandal, this film on the 2008 “pots and pans revolution” provides some essential context on the...
On the occasion of International Romani Day, Ross Domoney’s new film celebrates a strong culture that continues to struggle day after day.
The beauty of street art is the direct contact you have with people. There is no mediation — there is no structure around the art.
Locals on the Greek island of Lesbos, which has been at the front-line of the refugee crisis, discuss what they think the new term “hot spot” means.
This is the story of Midtown Park, where the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978 is taking place.
Taking the Earthlings music band as its point of departure, this short film questions the artificial dividing line between being a refugee and being human.
ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy.
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