Get lunch on us today!
It's finals season and just an all around tough time. We want to give you one less thing to worry about.
Be one of the first three people to respond to our Instagram story at 11 a.m. today, and you will be sent $20 to cover your meal.
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Virtual Yoga: In this Body with Yoga Unity
Have you been feeling in need of some grounding, some rest, or even just needing to remember how to stretch? Tune in today, or on April 28, at 11:30 a.m. for virtual yoga sessions on Instagram Live, hosted by Yoga Unity's Lucila Al Mar.
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Abolition and/as World-Building with Robyn Maynard
Tune in on Friday, April 16 at 3 p.m. for this Zoom lecture with Robyn Maynard on the world-making capacities of abolitionist struggle, focusing on past and present Black-led freedom-making practices that at once challenge the features of multi-sited anti-Blackness and bring forth new forms of lived justice.
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Discussion: Organizing Together During a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and the sanitary restrictions have changed the way we organize. Come to this community check-in and discussion on Tuesday, April 27 at 7 p.m. to share your experiences or learn from experienced organizers like Fridays for Future Toronto, Horizon Ottawa, the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition, Future Rising and many more! During the event, community members will create a map of the tools, skills and considerations needed to organize better during and after the pandemic.
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Iftar Meal Pickup
Every Wednesday during Ramadan, there will be iftar meal pickups for Muslims who are fasting and experiencing food insecurity.
Please RSVP with Haoua at haoua@aco-cso.ca with your name, and the number of meals needed (one meal per person).
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Petition: Free Canada from Violence
Canada should redirect the equivalent of 10% of current federal expenditures on policing, courts, and prisons towards adequate funding for effective local prevention programs instead. Sign the petition now!
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Support Land Defenders
Indigenous Solidarity Ottawa has put together an easily shareable list detailing how you can support Indigenous land defenders.
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Open Letter: Contain COVID, not people in Ontario
Urge Premier Ford and provincial officials to take action around COVID-19 outbreaks that continue to batter Ontario provincial jails and prisons. Click here for more information on the call to action.
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Job & Volunteer Opportunities
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Got something to say? Contribute to the Leveller!
The Leveller is a left-leaning newspaper covering Carleton University, University of Ottawa, the city of Ottawa, and the wider world. They work to provide news and analysis in support of people everywhere who are fighting against all forms of oppression – among them, racism, sexism, homophobia, and capitalism. They are a volunteer project that pays in small honorariums.
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Millhaven Lifers' Liaison Group: Call for Volunteers
The Millhaven Lifers Liaison Group (MLLG) works to be a bridge between the community and prisoners serving life sentences at the Millhaven maximum security institution in Bath, Ontario, while supporting their eventual release and re-integration.
The MLLG has moved their collective efforts online through prison justice activism, developing information pamphlets, research, weekly correspondence to the incarcerated community, and planning prisoners justice day activities. Meetings take place once a month.
Interested in volunteering? Email mllgottawa@gmail.com for more information.
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Books 2 Prisoners: Moving Online
Books 2 Prisoners Ottawa sends free books to prisoners across Canada and the US, and responds to letters from prisoners. As an abolitionist group, they believe that education and human contact are important supports to the educational, vocational and personal development of those incarcerated.
Due to current conditions our meeting space has moved online.
If interested in getting involved email us at b2pottawa@gmail.com
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Looking for resources?
On the hunt for resources during COVID-19? Not sure where to look? From food/care packages and community care groups to supports for specific communities and relief funds, this list has you covered!
Check out this consolidated list of emergency resources and support services, and share widely!
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Check out our 'Community' and 'Financial' Instagram story highlights to be connected with COVID-19 resources in the broader Ottawa community and beyond.
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Mutual Aid Mondays
Every Monday on Instagram, we'll be making a post to boost community mutual aid requests. Check out this Google doc for links to where you can donate.
We encourage you to participate in the ongoing act of community re-distribution and reflect on ways you can sustainably budget for reparations and wealth redistribution.
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If you do not have money to give to these funds please still engage with these posts. Share widely, comment and pass it along to people who want to donate.
If you have a mutual aid request you'd like us to boost online, please message us on our social media or send us an email.
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Our Own Table: New programming series by and for Black folks
Interested in helping us create a lineup of learning, organizing and creative spaces, workshops and events by and for Black community members? More information to come on our social media and website.
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If you are a Black community member interested in planning or facilitating an event, or would like to help us set community guidelines ahead of this programming, please reach out to harar@opirgcarleton.org. We're excited to hear from you!
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Have an idea but need the funds to make it happen?
We're happy to help! If you need some money to help with organizing a community event, action, collective or initiative, send a funding request to admin@opirgcarleton.org to have it reviewed by our board.
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Restructuring OPIRG Carleton
Our organization is currently going through a restructuring and accountability process. If you have any suggestions, concerns, experiences or insight you would like to share with us as we undergo this process, please send an email to feedback@opirgcarleton.org. This email will be monitored by someone external to the OPIRG Carleton board and staff, and is currently overseen by Pascale Diverlus -- our current lead on organizational restructuring.
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We're making actionable plans to ensure our accountability is sustainable.
We are committed to being transparent and accountable to community through our restructuring process. For more information on our short-term and long-term commitments, check out our website.
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Sorry, we're closed! But we're still here for you.
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A reminder that the OPIRG Carleton office as well as the Carleton campus remain closed. If you're looking for information on resources or programming, or have any other questions, you can reach us via email at gowlene@opirgcarleton.org and harar@opirgcarleton.org.
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Did we miss something?
OPIRG Carleton is happy to advertise your virtual community event, webinars, workshops or campaigns related to environmental, economic and social justice.
Please send events by Monday @ 6 PM to get your events and news in, but late submissions will be squeezed in if there's time.
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