This week, the long-awaited Earth Week is finally upon us and with that lots and lots of Earth Week-related blog posts and content on rabble.ca! Joanna Chiu and guest videographer Camila Galdino produce a series on resisting media representation as a way to prevent violence against girls and women from April 15 to 21 and Mercedes Allen produces a three-part series on LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying education, centring around the Day of Silence.

Today is rabble's birthday! Hard to believe, but it's been 11 years since we launched on April 18, 2001.

rabble was created to provide independent, progressive media, critiquing power and injustice while helping to report on social movements whose perspectives are too often ignored. That's why the website first went live in the midst of an important protest action.

Welcome back Derrick! Veteran freelance journalist, author, and community activist Derrick O'Keefe has returned to rabble.ca as the new Editor. 

Welcome back to another edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

This week we look at the growing scandals of the Harper government and their F-35 jets, the Alberta Wildrose Party and their flip-flopping politics on abortion, the trans human rights bill and a conservative MP's misguided rhetoric, and the power of images and their ability to evoke emotional responses. Also, rabble.ca is currently on the hunt for interns for our rabble podcast network, blogs section and book lounge, so if you know anyone who would fill the role, send them an application! (Added bonus: they could be the next rabble.ca weekly blog roundup writer!)

Welcome to this week's edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

First thing: let's welcome new blogger Don Tapscott to the blog dashboard and support his vision to create conversation around the growing theme of the power of collaboration.
Second thing: check out all these lovely blogs for thoughts, commiserations and opinons on Harper's 2012 federal budget, robocall culprits, minimum wages and social media.

Happy long weekend!

Welcome back!

Well no surprises here, the rabble.ca blog dash was burning up with opinions on the NDP leadership candidate-turned victor Thomas Mulcair. Some were outraged, others not surprised and a few urged us to move on to the bigger fight: defeating Harper.

As always, the rabble.ca bloggers have provided us with other stimulating conversation topics such as the Conservatives' outlook on Indigenous communities, Carleton students' views of pro-Israeli Apartheid investments, University of Calgary's view on satire and the continued exclusion of trans people from everything.

Enjoy this extended instalment of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

Thousands of new democrats descended upon the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on the week-end to elect a new leader. Here are a few moments - in photos. With great thanks to photographer John Maclennan for sharing his wonderful images.  Other photos are are courtesy of rabble staff and volunteers, and columnist Elizabeth Littlejohn.

The feisty and often contentious NDP leadership race is over and Canada has a new leader of the Official Opposition. Thomas Mulcair, elected on the fourth ballot, is the man the NDP membership voted to lead the party into the future and, hopefully, into forming the next federal government.

Babble, rabble.ca's energetic discussion forum, accumulated some 147 leadership threads, containing passionate discussions, rants, cheers and screams for each contributor's favoured candidate. It got messy, heated, and was highly informative and not a little amusing.

The end of the NDP convention has now spawned a whole spate of post-convention threads, where lively discussion continues. Here are some rabble.ca readers may find interesting:

Welcome back to another edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!

This week we welcome new blogger Cat Reporter, a right-siding reporter who will infiltrate the NDP convention to expose all the scary truths of this radical political party! (no seriously.)

Also, this week was the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street (guess how they celebrated) and World Water Day on Thursday and then we take a look at animal rights, human rights, teacher rights, student rights and a cat?

Enjoy!

rabble.ca has got you covered! Our contributors are reporting live from the convention floor. 

Keep up with the latest on babble here. 

Find all of our latest coverage -- including our leadership candidate interviews here.

Wondering how to vote online? Don't fret: follow Meg Borthwick's helpful guide.

Are you at the convention? Drop by rabble's booth in the exhibit area!