Magazine name

Magazine Name:

The name I have chosen for my magazine is Militia the reason for this is because I feel as though it is very fitting for the genre which I am focusing on, which is the rock genre. The word not only is very catchy and recognisable but it is also very fitting.
A Militia is an organisation of citizens prepared to provide defence, emergency, or paramilitary service, or those engaged in such activity. Militias can be government sanctioned or independent organisations. The legality of such organisations varies by country, as does the role they have played in the founding of different countries.
I feel as though if you were to read into the title further you could interpret the title referring to the followers of the magazine as they would be in a sense "an army" that contains citizens like them selves. Also in relation to the title and rock theme the actions which militias perform can be considered rebellious much like the conventions and stereotypes of people, especially teenagers, that listen to rock music.
The term militia is derived from Latin roots:

• miles /miːles/: A fighter or warrior
• -itia /iːtia/: A state, quality, condition, or activity

In its original sense, therefore, militia meant "the state, quality, condition, or activity of being a fighter or warrior." It can be thought of as "combatant activity," "the fighter frame of mind," "the militant mode," "the soldierly status," or "the warrior way."

Militia can mean multiple things:

• Defence activity, as well as those engaged in it, when it is defence of the public, its territory, property, and laws.
• The entire able-bodied male population of a community, town, or state, available to be called to arms against an invading enemy, to enforce the law, or to respond to a disaster. A similar common law provision, the posse comitatus, exists in jurisdictions with English judicial origin for law enforcement authority to conscript from the male population to assist with keeping the peace, law enforcement, and so forth.
• A private, non-government force, not necessarily directly supported or sanctioned by its government.
• An official reserve army, composed of citizen soldiers, also called an Army Reserve, National Guard, or State Defence Forces.
• The national police forces in Russia, and other former CIS countries, or the former Soviet Union: Militsiya.

Yet all of these are along the same lines of a strong united force. Much like a following of people that support a certain organisation.