A demonstration in support of the political prisoner Bob Lovelace is planned for Saturday, Feb 23 at 11am at the Quinte Detention Centre (Napanee) - email Cathy Willis at cjwills@kos.net if you can attend and have room in your car for others.
Quinte Regional Detention Centre is located at 89 Richmond Street, Napanee
Directions: Hwy 401, exit at Hwy 41 (#579), …
In Get Involved
Posted on Feb 19
Groundswell commemorates Black History Month. Tonight on CFRC 101.9 FM or at www.cfrc.ca, tune in for Rocky Jones’ address from a panel discussion entitled “Black Power Comes North.” The panel took place at New World Coming: the Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, a conference held in June 2007 at Queen’s.
Rocky Jones is a prominent lawyer and activist …
Posted on Feb 16
Mon March 3 at 6:30pm in Dunning 12
Scott Rutherford helps make meaning of “liberation” in Canada during the Cold War by examining the period between 1945 and 1975. His lecture discusses how a wide array of actors imagined liberation by simultaneously drawing from their own local experiences while conceptually linking to a politics of global dissent. Through an examination …
In Free Queen's
Posted on Feb 14
The OPIRG Office and Alternative Resource Library will be closed from Monday February 18th and will reopen Monday February 25th due to Family Day and Reading Week at Queen’s.
Have a great holiday!
Posted on Feb 14
URGENT: KINGSTON COURT HEARINGS, at 5 Court St.,
Tues, 11 a.m., and currently on the court schedule through to Thursday
PLEASE ATTEND TO SUPPORT NATIVES AND SETTLERS CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT.
“Ardoch Algonquin First Nation has no choice but to continue to prohibit uranium exploration and mining on our community lands which have been staked by FVC. While we will not …
Posted on Feb 12
Vee Blackbourn presents “Reading Contemporary Travel and Tourism” as part of the Free Queen’s Winter 2008 Course entitled “Making Meaning”
6:30-8:30pm in Dunning 12. Please note there is no class Mon Feb 18th due to Family Day and Reading Week.
What does modern-day luxury tourism have to do with the legacy of European imperialism? This lecture will focus on a section of …
In Free Queen's
Posted on Feb 5
At Sexual Assault Centre Kingston’s annual general meeting in September, 2007, the membership voted to follow the lead of many of our sister Centres and amend our organizational structure. By changing to a participatory hierarchy, SACK will be able improve efficiency and more effectively focus on our constant goal: to prevent sexual violence.
As we write the pages of the Centre’s …
Posted on Jan 31
Check out the fourth class of Free Queen’s, Making Meaning: Conversations on Society and Culture on Monday February 4th, 6:30pm in Dunning Hall Room 12 (Union St and University Ave)
Cheryl Cundell: “How beautiful is That?”
Using examples from the works of Wyatt, Surrey, and Sidney, the class outlines some of the conventions, forms, and rhetoric of Early Modern sonnets in order …
In Free Queen's
Posted on Jan 29
The Fourth Wave Feminist Speaker and Discussion Series presents: Ann Hansen on Tuesday February 5th at 7pm in Watson Hall, Room 517 on Queen’s Campus (behind the Grey House)
Ann will present an Anarcha-Feminist Discussion on Prisons. The evening will include a screening of “Eyes in the Back of Your Head” which was produced with Womyn 4 Justice.
Ann is a member …
In Fourth Wave
Posted on Jan 28
OPIRG has money and wants you to have it! OPIRG has money to fund grassroots social and environmental justice projects, groups and events. Grants are given to applicants whose initiatives embrace OPIRG’s mandate of grassroots education, research and action, and are committed to anti-oppression in their organization and project content.
Applicants should review OPIRG’s funding policy, and submit an application, which …
These are the entries that were published in February 2008.