Conrad Black may be heading to jail, but Canadaâe(TM)s media remains shackled to corporate concentration and a lack of critical perspectives. Over the past seven years, rabble.ca has become an important source of information, analysis and discussion for progressives in Canada. In modest (donor supported and largely volunteer) steps, it has helped contribute to shaping the overall debates on the Left in Canada, and helped define new directions for media and social media.
At rabble.ca, you can check in every weekday and find news and features from writers across the country. Here is where you can find your favourite progressive columnists all in one place; read news from Canadian labour and non governmental organizations, in cahoots with rabble.ca; and find people talking about all of this and more on our discussion boards, babble. With the addition of the book lounge two years ago, rabble has developed a forum to showcase vital literature, both fiction and non-fiction, with a unique focus on Canadian small presses, and with an on-line bookstore spotlighting Canadian publishers.
The rabble podcast network (rpn), now also two years old, provides easy access to a potpourri of dynamic progressive audio and video. If you havenâe(TM)t already, we encourage you to make use of the rpn âe” itâe(TM)s an addition to the site that hints at the great potential for the multi-media dissemination of critical alternative perspectives across the country.
rabble.ca is brought to you daily by a dedicated group of part-time staff and volunteers (you can read about all of us in About Us).
Today we have the great pleasure of introducing the newest member of the rabble.ca team, our editor, Derrick Oâe(TM)Keefe.
Derrick joins in the tradition of rabbleâe(TM)s founding folk, unapologetically merging media activism and a deeply routed belief in the possibility of the internet for connecting our dispersed voices and experiences into a powerful potential for social change and social justice. When he is not working with Assistant Editor, Alexandra Samur, at bringing news and views to you, he is introducing social justice to young minds as a part-time school teacher.
We strongly believe we have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the potential for on-line media. In the crucial years and months ahead, rabble.ca, with our web redesign and re-launch, can become an institution in many more Canadian households, and a force for media democracy and social justice.
But we canâe(TM)t to it without you, our dear readers and supporters from coast to coast, to coast.
In order to complete our planned re-launch of the site, and to continue to add more web 2.0 features like the rpn, we need your support. Specifically, at this time, we are asking for your feedback on our website survey.
Please take a few minutes today to complete our fall survey. And once you have done that, please take a minute to seriously consider becoming a monthly sustainer of rabble.caâe(TM)s work. You could also consider making a significant one-time donation.
Your participation will help rabble.ca to grow, to increasingly shape the overall debate in Canada, and to move the media landscape in a more progressive direction.
In solidarity,
Kim Elliott, Publisher
Duncan Cameron, Associate Publisher
Derrick O’Keefe, Editor
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