Board of Directors applications DEADLINE EXTENDED!

March 12, 2007

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

Faculty Activism Award nominations due TODAY!

February 28, 2007
4:30 pm

Props to the Profs!
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 …

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Annual General Meeting

March 29, 2007
7:30 pmto9:00 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

Black History Exposé

February 12, 2007
6:00 pmto7:30 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 …

Radicalism BHM Talk

February 15, 2007
1:30 pmto3:30 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

Abolition BHM Talk

February 28, 2007
2:00 pmto4:00 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 …

Free lunch

January 21, 2007
1:00 pmto2:00 pm
January 28, 2007
1:00 pmto2:00 pm
February 4, 2007
1:00 pmto2:00 pm
February 11, 2007
1:00 pmto2:00 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

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Black History Month Workshop for Parents

February 20, 2007
5:00 pmto7:00 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. …

Film - Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Love

February 14, 2007
6:30 pmto7:55 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 …

Film- The Origins of AIDS

February 7, 2007
6:30 pmto7:13 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 …