Come Here To Me!

rabble
noun
a disorderly crowd; a mob : “he was met by a rabble of noisy, angry youths.”
• ( the rabble) ordinary people, esp. when regarded as socially inferior or uncouth.

Last weekend, the poor unsuspecting population of our fair city were greeted with a new agit-prop free magazine Rabble. Think The Slate meets Red Pepper with a dash of Mad Magazine.

5,000 copies were printed and over half, in a very short period of time, were distributed right around the city – cafes, pubs, dole queues and shops.

Rabble’s manifesto (call to arms!) is loud and clear:

Those behind this effort know each other from alternative media and street mobilisations, from raves, gigs and the football terraces, or by just living in the village that is Dublin. We range from people raising their families in the city, to community and political activists, to artists, messers and mischief-makers.
With this paper we will  do something more than join the ad rags and mouthpieces for power that comprise most of the city’s freebies. We want to draw stories from the harsh realities of the city and sketch paths towards building Dublin as we’d prefer it. Consider this an effort to breathe new life into journalism in the city, as well as a space for emerging writers. Down the line, expect original story-telling and explorations of the boundaries between photography, new fiction, journalism and art.

rabble stands within, and with, Dublin as it struggles from below against the ghost of the Celtic Tiger and the state it left us in. We support those who fight with a new world in their hearts and encourage those who create cultures that seed hope in bleak times. Try to imagine a newspaper acting like a melting pot of connections, not just between emergent cultural scenes and everyday life, but also between social movements and power structures.

Yours truly has an interview with Garry O’Neill (author of the upcoming Where Were You? – photographic history of Dublin youth culture) on page three, which can be read here.

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