OPIRG Kingston is established, setting up their office in the attic of the Grey House. Their first ever elections and general meeting take place, bringing about the organization’s existence.

OPIRG Kingston establishes their resource centre, maintaining several OPIRG publications as well as magazines and information on various issues.

OPIRG Kingston provides funding and staff support to the “STOP ARMX” coalition, which sends protestors to Ottawa to disrupt the international arms sale. Kingston protestors join a group of 500, who manage to shut down the building for about 5 hours.

Grants from the Ministries of Environment and Agriculture allow OPIRG Kingston to initiate two student-led projects: a Community Garden Project, and a Queen’s Pesticide Audit researching the use of pesticides on campus and the promotion of organic alternatives.

The Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Pamphlet Working Group and Global Awareness, Local Action Working Group are formed.

Grants from the Ministry of Environment allow OPIRG Kingston to fund two student researchers, who publish a Pesticide Alternatives and Naturalization booklet that is distributed across Ontario.

• The Housewarming working group winterizes nearly 50 student homes.
• The Teenage Women’s Health Initiative, Media Watch, and Popular Theatre become working groups.

• Through grants, OPIRG Kingston is able to fund a student researcher to create an extensive guide on naturalization, and a student researcher to create a booklet of safe healthcare workers for queer women.
• The Harris government comes into power, and OPIRG Kingston becomes involved in a community coalition and student coalition in order to participate in protesting its new bills and cuts.

• The resource libraries of CUSEN and OPIRG Kingston become combined, creating the Alternative Resource Library with over 600 books.
• Economic Alternatives, Animal Welfare, Free Burma, and Education on Education become working groups. Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression working groups are established.
• The Forestry Working Group is formed to involve students in opposing logging in the Temagami region, participating in local political actions.

The first annual Community Activist Conference is organized.

Unherd, OPIRG Kingston’s zine series featuring hard-hitting critical analysis, is launched.

The Free Burma working group runs a campaign to place two questions on the student government referendum regarding investments and policies related to Burma, with both questions receiving favourable votes.

• Free Tibet, Fair Trade, Vegetarian Issues, and Queer Action working groups are established.
• More than 60 student and low-income houses are winterized by the Housewarming working group.

The Queer Action working group organizes a protest and vigil for the death of Matthew Shepard behind City Hall. Over 70 people attend.

The ReelOut Queer Film Festival becomes a working group.

Canadian Network to End Sanctions on Iraq (CANESI), GroundSwell, Wear Fair, Human Rights for Tamils, and Meatbusters (later known as Kingston Vegan Outreach) become working groups.

Twenty volunteers successfully organize an action to draw attention to the attempts of a mining company to secure mining rights in a local conservation reserve at Mellon Lake.

Quattrocchi Community Garden, Kingston Community for Palestinian Human Rights, Radical Cheerleading, Revolutionary Knitting (later known as Radical Knitting Circle), Unified Networkers of Drug Users Nationally (UNDUN), Yellow Bike Action, Food Not Bombs Kingston, and Sustainable Spirit become working groups

• ReelOut becomes a separate entity from OPIRG Kingston, becoming registered as a nonprofit. It continues to run to this day.
• The People’s History Project begins.
• Friends of Marble Rock, Queen’s University Against Killer Coke, Solidarity Across Borders, Sunnyside Community Garden, and Curbside Theatre become working groups.

• OPIRG Grants are established for individuals and groups.
• The OPIRG Kingston website is created.
• Alternative Jewish Voices, Community Urban Sustainability, Free Geek Kingston, Germinations, Kingston Urban Agriculture Action Committee (KUAAC), Queen’s Backing Action on Climate Change (QBACC, now known as Queen’s Backing Action on the Climate Crisis), and Radio 613 become working groups.

Downtown Action Revitalization Network, Bash Back Radio, and Queers: Indigenous and People of Colour become working groups.

The Push It Hip Hop Festival is launched for the first time, and becomes an annual event for several years.

Conservative students run a “NO-PIRG” campaign to rally students to vote against OPIRG Kingston’s undergraduate student fee, claiming that the organization does not provide benefit to students and harassing the coordinator. OPIRG Kingston loses its undergraduate student fee as a result, with 62% of referendum votes being against the fee.

• OPIRG Kingston loses its SGPS student fee, despite acquiring a 61.8% vote in favour. A policy change had required all opt-outable fees to secure a 2/3 majority vote for renewal.
• OPIRG Kingston supports two new research projects: the Kingston Community Garden Census, and We Believe in a Campus Free of Sexual Violence.
• A project called Out of the Archive and Onto the Streets transforms stories from the People’s History Project into posters and art with the help of a digital artist.
• A new group called Not Just Cisters begins running workshops to combat transmisogyny.

The AMS terminates the agreement that allowed OPIRG Kingston to keep their office space in the Grey House. OPIRG Kingston ends up relocating to the AKA Autonomous Social Centre.

A two-day forum on the rise of the alt-right is organized, bringing together community organizers from across the province.

Unsettling the Commons and Kingston Coalition for Reproductive Justice become working groups.

Mutual Aid Gardens is created in order to address food insecurity in the community.

Umbrella Academy becomes a working group.

Mutual Aid Gardens officially becomes a working group.