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This is rabble.ca's staff blog. Visit this blog regularly for updates about rabble, and comments and observations from staff members, with occasional visits by board members and volunteers. Our staff blog is represented by our website "mascot" Ruckus, the sock monkey, who joined us in 2006. Ruckus cheers us on through fundraising campaigns and membership drives, and reminds us to keep perspective in the midst of the challenges of running an independent media website.

Keep the 'free' in 'free press'

| May 26, 2011

Since day one, every section of rabble.ca has been free to use. While that is true of a number of other online media sources the times are a changin' and more media are a chargin'.

Not us. We are committed to keeping rabble free -- free to use and free from corporate ownership.

But of course, rabble isn't free to operate. We have an annual budget that is about a quarter of the budget of similar organizations, and that is less than the salary of a single news anchor in some bigger media outlets. We can only be free to use if a lot of folks pitch in a bit.

So please, ah-hem, "give freely." Your monthly donation of $5, $8, $15, $25 or $50 is crucial to us. Plus, with your membership donation of at least $60/year you can receive a free subscription to one of more than a dozen leading Canadian independent magazines. If you give at least $8/month we will also send you our new book Best of rabble.ca 2010.

You can become a member (at least $5/month) right here.

If you want to just make a donation you can do that right here.

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