Historic event: Global Uprisings conference in Amsterdam | ROAR Magazine

Historic event: Global Uprisings conference in Amsterdam | ROAR Magazine:

 GLOBAL UPRISINGS

The Stories, Ideas and Future of Uprisings around the World

De Balie, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

November 15-17, 2013

Over the past two and half years, streets and squares across the world have become the site of massive demonstrations, strikes, occupations, riots, rebellions and revolutions. From the Arab Spring to the movement of the squares in Southern Europe, and from there to the global Occupy movement and the current uprisings in Turkey and Brazil, people everywhere have been rising up against the power of governments, corporations and repressive regimes, representing a global legitimation crisis that affects authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies alike.