OPIRG is looking for board members to starting at the end of March, 2007. The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 19th.
Please download our application package for more information:
Download a 2007-2008 Board Application Package here
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OPIRG Seeks Nominations for Faculty Activism Award
Do you know a faculty member who deserves to be recognized for their community service? Then we want to hear from you!
The Ontario Public Interest Research Group Kingston seeks nominations for its faculty award for community activism. This recognition is given annually to a Queen’s University faculty member …
| March 29, 2007 |
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
OPIRG Kingston’s AGM
Thursday March 29th, 7:30pm
Location: The Grad Club, Barrie and Union Streets
Join us to wrap up another year of great events and projects! Everyone welcome at our Annual General Meeting and volunteer appreciation. Complementary snacks and drinks!
For more information, please contact OPIRG 613-533-3189
| February 12, 2007 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Black History Exposé: Student Exposure on Black History.
What does It Mean to You?
date: Monday, February 12 from 6:00-7:30 pm
location: Robert Sutherland Room, JDUC
There will be a student speaker and student poets. Come out and debate; be a part of Black History on the Queen’s Campus. Rule out ignorance, spread Education. Free. Presented by the African & Caribbean Student …
| February 15, 2007 |
| 1:30 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
Black Radicalism & the Making of Indigenous “Red” Power in Canada, 1965-1975
date: Thursday February 15 at 1:30 pm
location: Room 351, JDUC, Queen’s
Lecture by Scott Rutherford, PhD candidate, Queen’s Department of History. Free public talk. Presented by CARED.
contact: cared@ams.queensu.ca
| February 28, 2007 |
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Celebration of the Bi-centennial Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
date: Wednesday February 28 at 2:00 pm
location: Robert Sutherland Room, JDUC, Queen’s
Free public lecture by Dr. Afua Cooper, this year’s Robert Sutherland Visitor.
On March 25, 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act received Royal Assent: marking the end of the official trafficing of human beings. Join the Committee …
| January 21, 2007 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
| January 28, 2007 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
| February 4, 2007 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
| February 11, 2007 |
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
Food Not Bombs serves a free lunch every Sunday at 1:00pm at the Queen’s Street United Church. All the food is animal product free. Everyone is welcome!
Contact: fnbkingston@lists.riseup.net for more info
| February 20, 2007 |
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Parent Workshop: Exclusion and Your Children
date: February 20, 2007 5:00-7:00pm
location: The Ban Right Centre, 32 Bader Lane
Presenter: Anita Davies, Antiracism/Education Advisor, Queens’ Human Rights Office. Co-sponsored by Queen’s Human Rights Office, Black History Month Kingston & KARRA.
Exclusion based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, family structure, ability, and age can be painful for marginalized groups within a community setting. …
| February 14, 2007 |
| 6:30 pm | to | 7:55 pm |
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 6:30pm
Location: The Grey House, main floor meeting room, 51 Bader Lane
Drop by for a free movie night!
Forbidden Love : The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Love (1992, National Film Board) - In the 1950s whenever a pulp novel was written about lesbian lives, one development was always guaranteed: a tragic ending. To repudiate those …
| February 7, 2007 |
| 6:30 pm | to | 7:13 pm |
Date: Wednesday, February 7, 6:30pm
Location: The Grey House, main floor meeting room
Drop by for a free movie night.
The Origins of AIDS: Did Scientists inadvertently cause the AIDS epidemic (2003, National Film Board) - More than 20 years after the AIDS epidemic started, we still do not know its origins. We know for sure that AIDS was born from contact …