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''ROAR Magazine'' (''Reflections on a Revolution'') is an independent online publication that describes itself as a "journal of the radical imagination". 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".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://roarmag.org/about-roar/ )〕 Referred to by Naomi Klein as "a very exciting window into the global uprisings", ROAR has become especially known for its coverage and analysis of the crisis of global capitalism and the mass mobilizations that began in 2011. With a worldwide readership numbering in the tens of thousands, its articles have been picked up, among others, by ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Wired'' and WikiLeaks, while its editors have appeared on BBC World,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWo4kDw_S0U )〕 Al Jazeera and RT News.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Jerome )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://roarmag.org/about-roar/ )〕 All original content is published online for free, without advertisements, and under Creative Commons license.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://roarmag.org/legal-stuff/ )〕 ==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." 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. The negative media attention eventually led to the resignations of LSE Director Howard Davies and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's former PhD supervisor, Professor David Held. 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, 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Que No Nos Representan: The Crisis of Representation and the Resonance of the Real Democracy Movement from the Indignados to Occupy )〕 and actively participated in the preparations for the global day of action on October 15, 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://roarmag.org/2011/09/call-to-action-united-for-global-change-on-october-15/ )〕 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet-tactical-briefing.html )〕 and in 2012 again drew on ROAR reports about the ''indignados'' in an attempt to reinvigorate the movement with a number of tactical innovations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/spains-indignados.html )〕 Occupy-related websites like OccupyWallSt.org, OccupyWallStreet.net and Occupy.com〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://occupywallst.org/article/what-do-bosnia-bulgaria-and-brazil-have-common/ )〕 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".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://roarmag.org/2011/11/the-global-square-an-online-platform-for-our-movement/ )〕 The proposal, tentatively called "The Global Square", gained the support of WikiLeaks〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/15-4 )〕 and free software activist Richard Stallman,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://p2pfoundation.net/Global_Square )〕 and received widespread attention in the international media. 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" 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/germany-greece-schaeuble-idUSL5E8E77F420120307 )〕 about the punitive and counterproductive austerity measures being imposed on Greece and the rest of Southern Europe. The action was reported by ''La Repubblica''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/03/07/foto/schaeuble_contestato_siamo_tutti_piigs-31142908/1/ )〕 and the ''Financial Times''. 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. The documentary, which featured three Greek activists alongside 89-year-old WWII resistance hero Manolis Glezos, was freely shared online and featured on ''Adbusters'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.adbusters.org/abtv/utopia-horizon.html )〕 Zero Hedge,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-19/greece-nothing-gonna-be-alright )〕 Top Documentary Films,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/utopia-horizon/ )〕 and Films for Action.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/utopia_on_the_horizon/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ROAR Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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