Welcome to OPIRG Kingston

The OPIRG Office will be open from 9-5 the week of June 2-7. The Alternative Resource Library will also be open. Come and meet the new coordinator.

You can email announcements to events[at]opirgkingston.org.

Want to learn more about OPIRG? Come visit us at the GreenUP Festival this Sunday March 30th in the Biosciences Complex. We will be there all day from 10am to 4pm. You can specifically find out more about A Lovin’ Spoonful, the Kingston Community Garden Network, Sunnyside Community Garden, and the Alternative Resource Library (a joint project with the …

Kingston’s only anarchist infoshop has moved its materials into the OPIRG Kingston office! You can now purchase any of their materials during office hours. Miasma will continue to have a presence at concerts and events and hope to move into the bottom floor of a new local social centre (http://kingston.roadnetwork.org/germinations) this fall.

For more information about Miasma please contact kingston.crimethink[at]gmail.com

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The Kingston African Caribbean Collective presents Black History Month Kingston 2008! Please visit www.qcred.org for details of events or download a calendar here.

OPIRG will be displaying a history of Black History Month in Kingston, at the Alternative Resource Library, located at 51 Bader Lane for the entire month of February. The hours of the library are:

Mon 9-4 …

The OPIRG Office will be open the following hours:

Mon 10-4
Tue 8-4
Wed 8-4
Thurs 10-4

The Alternative Resource Library will be open the following hours:

Mon 10-4
Tue 8-6
Wed 8-4, 4:30-6:30
Thurs 10-6

Library memberships are free so come by today! For more info email altlibrary[at]opirgkingston.org

The OPIRG Kingston office and alternative resource library will be closed from Monday December 17th, 2007. And it will reopen Monday January 7th, 2008. Have a great break!

For the weeks of Dec 3rd and Dec 10th, the Alternative Resource Library will be open:

Mon 10-4
Tue 10-6
Wed 10-8
Thu 10-4

The OPIRG Office and Alternative Resource Library will be closed from Monday December 17th, 2007 and will reopen on Monday January 7th, 2008. Have a great holiday!

The Alternative Resource Library is hosting its first film of the year on Tuesday November 13th at 7pm in the Grey House.

Gigante: Despierta! or Giant: Awake! documents the voices and stories behind the mass movement on May Day 2006 in the US where millions took to the streets to protest in support of immigrant rights. www.gigantedespierta.org

For more info about …

Given the current struggle that Ardoch Algonquin and Shabot Obaadijiwan First Nations are engaged in at Sharbot Lake, here are some resources that relate to First Nations issues, which are available at the Alternative Resource Library:

Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations - Al Gedicks
The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations - Al Gedicks
Honoring …

The Alternative Resource Library will now be open for the following:

Mondays 10am - 4pm
Tuesdays 10am - 8pm
Wednesdays 10am - 4pm, 4:30pm - 8pm
Thursdays 10am - 7pm

Stay tuned for a monthly film screening in the library!

Prospects of Agrarian Reform Under the New Order, ed. Romulo A Sandoval

Seeds, Spades, Hearths and Herds, Carl O. Sauer

The Human Farm, Katie Smith

Alternative Technology, David Dickson

Membership at the Alternative Resource Library is free! Click here to search online.

The contents of the People’s History Project can now be searched using the online catalog for the Alternative Resource Library. Search for documents related to local social justice issues of the distant and recent past, such as anti-war demonstrations, prisoners, alternative economies, and the environment. Multimedia icon and ‘Archived by the People’s History Project’ text are used to indicate collections …

This month’s Alternative Resource Library theme is Labour issues.

Check out these resources and much more!

The Exploited Child
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
Fear At Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment
Raise The Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us
Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work Time, Consumption, …

Join us at the Grey House for a riot grrrl party! We will screen the documentary entitled: “Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl” as well as stitch and bitch - bring any crafts you desire - and listen to music from the riot grrrl scene.

All are welcome. The Grey House is wheelchair accessible. For more info call or …