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Big Boys Gone Bananas! documents the campaign Dole waged against Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten to try to prevent him from showing his film Bananas! from being distributed in the United States.

Developments at the Globe and Mail are part of a larger trend. We are sure to see more paywalls that don't work, more union busting, more lousy journalism and more newspapers going broke.

Does Globe and Mail Publisher Phillip Crawley seriously imagine that anyone’s actually going to pay for the Globe’s not-very-exclusive drivel? Please!

Rick Salutin spoke to an Ottawa audience in April about the role dissent plays in media and politics. Watch an exclusive video clip highlight, in this report of the event.

This week Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent has made repeated allegations that environmental groups are “laundering money”. Peter Kent is a big fat liar!

Watch live on Monday as Canada's leading thinkers, innovators, media makers and musicians come together in a conversation that reimagines the CBC in the digital era.

One of the casualties of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's 2012 budget was the CBC. The network faces a 10 percent cut in funding over the next 3 years.

While we can't have everyone over to show slides of our journey through 2011, we have our annual report up for your perusal.

rabble.ca is a proud member of 'Media for the 99 Percent', a collaborative independent media effort to provide alternative media coverage to May Day events across North America.

The "Where to from Here?" panel with Judy Rebick (rabble.ca) and Kai Nagata (The Tyee) discuss Canadian coverage of the ongoing student protests in Quebec.

The conference brought together about 100 activists, academics and journalists to consider ways to revitalize active citizenship.

People with disabilities are often rendered invisible in the media, and when they do appear, the media's portrayals of them are typically very bad.

Listen in as Matt Dusenbury discusses the process of developing the rabble.ca Best of 2011 iBook using the newly released iAuthor platform.

As all Indigenous women and women of colour know, if sexism wasn't bad enough, we encounter racism on a daily basis as well -- on the street, in the classroom, in the workplace and in the media.

Independent media is more important than ever in Canada. Hard to believe, but it’s been 11 years since we launched on April 18, 2001. We want your input to help us mark the anniversary.

Unless more people stand up to twisted advertising tactics, images of violence against women will continue to proliferate.

A new blog series offers lessons, strategies and inspiration on ways you can improve your media literacy and harness the power of the media to help end violence against women and girls.

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

At a recent CreativeMornings event in Vancouver, Toporek challenged members of the audience to question their assumptions about the power of images in their environments.

That's the question my online journalism students in the MAJ program at the University of Western Ontario are tackling. And, we're working with rabble.ca and The Tyee to get a made-in-Canada answer.

Both the form and content of the newest insurgencies embody essential aspects of our age of information. Their novelty opens up new possibilities for presence, mobilization and social change.

Trent University's Arthur the Video Zine presents a collection of multi-media work covering the neo-liberal administration's attack on the student press.

Many of the industrial economy's industries and organizations will fail if left unchanged.