Rabble

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The correct title of this article is rabble. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

This page is about the website. For the New Zealand band, see The Rabble

rabble is a Canadian website. Among other services, it publishes journalism on a daily basis primarily relating to social justice and progressive politics. The site also hosts babble, a politically-oriented web discussion board, and also the rabble podcasting network, or rpn and the rabble book lounge. The site reports receiving roughly 300,000 unique visitors a month^[1].

rabble was launched in April 2001 by journalist and activist Judy Rebick, in cooperation with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Montreal-based NGO Alternatives. Its debut coincided with the anti-globalization protests of that year at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City. Since its founding rabble has published work by many of Canada's most influential left wing journalists, including Rick Salutin, Naomi Klein, Thomas Walkom and Linda McQuaig.

In April 2006, five-year babble administrator Audra Williams was let go by the Rabble Management Committee . Several regular posters, raising concerns about rabble's governance and labour relations, called for a protest or "strike," and established a new Babble Strike board; many boycotted the original babble board, and a few members spammed it with strike messages.

Judy Rebick retired from rabble in 2006. She was replaced by Acting Publisher Kim Elliot, editor, Sharon Fraser, and babble moderator, Michelle Langlois.