ROAR Magazine – Call for solidarity

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am reaching out to ask for your solidarity. We are a small group of volunteers who set out in early 2011, at the start of a worldwide wave of popular mobilizations, to create a free online space for independent news and critical analysis. Through our blog, *ROAR Magazine <http://roarmag.org/>*, we have been providing grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for autonomy and real democracy ever since.

So far, we have managed to cover all expenses for this project from our own pockets. More recently, however, our resources (time, personnel, money, website, servers, etc.) have struggled to keep up with the rapid growth of our readership and the great increase in high-quality submissions we receive from scholars, journalists and activists every day. If ROAR is to stay alive and evolve into a tireless advocate for social justice and democratic empowerment, we really need to develop a solid base of financial support.

Our goal for the coming year is to team up with the leading editorial designer Jeremy Leslie of magCulture, who has been referred to as “the godfather of independent publishing”, to transform ROAR from an activist blog into a proper online magazine for, by and about today’s movements. This is a collaborative project, fully independent from governments and corporations, and we need your help to make it happen.

We recently set up a crowdfunding campaign<http://igg.me/at/roarmag/x/2031731> to cover our basic expenses and develop ROAR into this exciting new direction. Your contribution, however small, will go directly towards the creation of a genuine grassroots alternative to the corporate media. We hope you will support us in this effort.

Thank you for your consideration!

In solidarity,

Jerome Roos
Founder, *ROAR Magazine*

P.S. For comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at jerome@roarmag.org. For article submissions, media inquiries or content-related suggestions, please send an email to editor@roarmag.org.

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am reaching out to ask for your solidarity. We are a small group of
volunteers who set out in early 2011, at the start of a worldwide wave of
popular mobilizations, to create a free online space for independent news
and critical analysis. Through our blog, *ROAR Magazine
<http://roarmag.org/>*, we have been providing grassroots perspectives from
the front-lines of the global struggle for autonomy and real democracy ever
since.

So far, we have managed to cover all expenses for this project from our own
pockets. More recently, however, our resources (time, personnel, money,
website, servers, etc.) have struggled to keep up with the rapid growth of
our readership and the great increase in high-quality submissions we
receive from scholars, journalists and activists every day. If ROAR is to
stay alive and evolve into a tireless advocate for social justice and
democratic empowerment, we really need to develop a solid base of financial
support.

Our goal for the coming year is to team up with the leading editorial
designer Jeremy Leslie of magCulture, who has been referred to as "the
godfather of independent publishing", to transform ROAR from an activist
blog into a proper online magazine for, by and about today's movements.
This is a collaborative project, fully independent from governments and
corporations, and we need your help to make it happen.

We recently set up a crowdfunding
campaign<http://igg.me/at/roarmag/x/2031731> to
cover our basic expenses and develop ROAR into this exciting new direction.
Your contribution, however small, will go directly towards the creation of
a genuine grassroots alternative to the corporate media. We hope you will
support us in this effort.

Thank you for your consideration!

In solidarity,

Jerome Roos
Founder, *ROAR Magazine*

P.S. For comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at
jerome@roarmag.org. For article submissions, media inquiries or
content-related suggestions, please send an email to editor@roarmag.org.