Beyond Gezi: What Future for the Movement? | ROAR Magazine

Beyond Gezi: What Future for the Movement? | ROAR Magazine

 Today, we end our Gezi symposium with this closing editorial: "Recent grassroots initiatives — neighborhood forums, an occupied factory, Istanbul’s first squat — show that the Gezi spirit is still very much alive. But to have a lasting effect, the Spirit of Revolt will have to be taken out of the realm of the extraordinary and into the everyday lives of ordinary people. We find ourselves on the eve of a historic transformation. We must push on."

Gezi lives, but to have a lasting effect it will need to be taken out of the realm of the extraordinary and into the everyday lives of ordinary people.