On January 31st and February 1st, all undergraduate students will be    voting on whether or not to continue allowing OPIRG to receive this fee. Voting ‘no’ means that students do not want OPIRG to continue as an organization and receive funding. Voting ‘yes’ means that students want the option of giving us funding each September when they pay tuition.

Learn more about the campaign at our referendum site: http://voteopirg.tumblr.com/

Be sure to check out our ‘NOPIRG?‘ page for information on the anti-PIRG movement on campus and beyond.

To get involved in the ‘VOTE YES’ for OPIRG campaign, e-mail info@opirgkingston.org

Where? Queen’s Centre room 506, 284 Earl Street

A day full of workshops, lectures, discussions and other events designed to bring together the wide variety of groups working on social and environmental justice in our community. We aim to share our knowledge, experiences and skills in the hopes of empowering participants to take action and create change in their own lives and communities. Workshop descriptions will be available shortly on our website.

Workshop Schedule:

10:00 – 11:00 AM OPIRG – Introduction to Consensus Decision Making and Facilitation

11:15 – 12:15 PM Engineers Without Borders – Fair Trade Workshop

12:30 – 1:30 PM CFRC & Journalists for Human Rights – Media and Activism

1:45 – 2:45 PM Earth Centre – Green Consumerism

3:00 – 4:00 PM QPID – Youth Outreach and Engagement

4:15 – 5:15 PM POSSE – Theatre and Social Justice

5:30 – 6:30 PM SHRC – Consent Workshop

If you or a group you are involved in would like to be involved in a future Activism 101 workshop series, please contact us at opirgkingston@gmail.com

We believe that there are no better experts about our lives than ourselves. We want this publication to come directly from our community (students, staff, faculty) which has the knowledge, skills and experience to develop solutions for our community.

We are seeking to provide resources, tactics and strategies through soliciting

*articles
*artwork
*poetry
*stories, etc.

Please e-mail us at opirgkingston@gmail.com with submissions, questions, comments and more! Or feel free to post below.

Want to get involved? Send us an e-mail !

Submission deadline EXTENDED: January 27th, 2012.

Join us for PSAC 901′s first LGBTQ meeting of the year. We will develop our mission statement, appoint a chair and brainstorm ideas about LGBTQ committee goals. Some initial ideas include: gender neutral bathrooms, documenting everyday barriers and discrimination for LGBTQ workers at Queen’s, establishing equity and anti oppression training for 901 stewards and members at large, education and outreach around LGBTQ discrimination and barriers in the workplace, establishing safe space in our workplace, LGBTQ social events in collaboration with other equity seeking groups on campus, etc. These are some initial ideas, we are seeking more input and involvement from anyone interested in equity in the workplace. All are welcome (including those who are not 901 members)!

Contact the Equity officer, Hannah Johnston: equityofficer@psac901.org or Vice-President of Community Krystle Maki: vpc@psac901.org for more information.

Essay Prize

Awarded by the Department of Sociology Equity Committee

In April 2012, the Department of Sociology Equity Committee will award Two Social Justice and Equity Prizes.  We encourage all undergraduate students who write an essay concerning social justice and equity issues for a course taken during the 2011/2012 academic year to consider submitting an essay to the competition.  Essays can be submitted at anytime throughout the year to: sociologyequitycommittee@gmail.com.

The best essay in an introductory course will receive a prize of $200 and the best essay in an upper year course will receive a prize of $200.

The Equity Committee is pleased to announce that the 2010/2011 Social Justice and Equity Essay Prizes were awarded to Katharine Wolff and Alissa Warner.

Katharine Wolff won the award for best essay in an introductory course with her essay entitled, “The Correlation between Feminism and Agricultural Transition” which she wrote for Socy 122.

Alissa Warner won the award for best essay in an upper year course with her essay entitled, “Beyond Pro-Choice: Reproductive Justice and Inequality within the Feminist Movement” which she wrote for Pols 403.

Congratulations Katharine and Alissa!

To read Katharine and Alissa’s essays or to access more information about this year’s prize please email sociologyequitycommittee@gmail.com or visit our page on the Sociology department’s website: http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=programs/undergraduate/announcements

The Equity Committee acknowledges the financial support of the Dean of Student Affairs, OPIRG, and the Department of Sociology.

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