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We will keep sharing local actions, ways to support Palestinian advocacy, and activists/organizations to follow on our social media pages.
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Apply to our bursaries
OPIRG Carleton's bursary applications are open for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Carleton students can apply to any of the bursaries they are eligible for. The legal name change bursary is open to anyone in the community looking to apply.
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This year, we're introducing two new bursaries: the First Generation Student Bursary and the Caregiver Student Bursary!
If you have any questions, please email admin@opirgcarleton.org.
Applications are due by May 30.
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Panel: Gender-Based and Domestic Violence
Today, on Wednesday, May 19 from 6:00-7:30 p.m., attend the Feminist Festival's panel on gender-based and domestic violence to hear from local scholars, artists, grassroots activists and practitioners who work and resist on the issues of racism and colonialism.
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Eliminating Barriers Faced by Migrant Workers
Today from 7:00-8:30 p.m., join panelists from leading provincial migrant worker advocacy organizations in exploring pathways to eliminating barriers faced by migrant workers, including permanent status on arrival vs pathways to permanent residency, and the groundwork that needs to be laid to remove the systemic barriers hindering migrant workers’ success.
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A Peer Learning Session on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
In response to the recent call to action put out by Palestinian youth, join us on Thursday, May 20 at 7:30 p.m. as we engage in a peer learning session with our pals and communities. We will learn and discuss how we can respond to the Palestinian Civil Society's Call to Action for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions as international allies.
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The Innumerable Ways that Canada Supports Israeli Apartheid - And What We Can Do About It
Tune in on Friday, May 21 at 7 p.m. for this Zoom webinar in order to further understand how Canada is complicit in Palestinian dispossession and what you can do about it. This event is free and open to the public.
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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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