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SUMMARY:The "Right to Hug" with Alec Karakatsanis
DESCRIPTION:This event explores how carceral bureaucracies and corporate telecommunications interests have transformed family contact into a profit center\, from Adams County’s groundbreaking “Right to Hug” class action to jail policies across the United States that replace in-person visits with costly\, glitchy\, and surveilled video calls.\n\nThe following questions frame the core issues to be addressed during the conversation\, drawing on themes of legal strategy\, human rights\, and systemic critique:\n\nDrawing on recent litigation by Civil Rights Corps\, investigative journalism from NBC News\, and critical scholarship on narrativism and punishment bureaucracy\, the conversation asks: Is there—and should there be—a constitutional right to hug one’s child or parent while incarcerated?\n\n● How video visitation bans generate millions in “kickbacks” for sheriffs and counties while extracting wealth from poor families\n● The documented psychological harm of severing physical contact between children and incarcerated parents\n● How corporate surveillance systems (voice biometrics\, AI monitoring) turn family communication into data extraction\n● Comparative questions for Canadian constitutional and human rights law: what would a “right to hug” look like in Canada’s legal framework?\n● The role of media narratives in normalizing or challenging these practices
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/the-right-to-hug-with-alec-karakatsanis/
LOCATION:Atelier of the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop\, at Saint Paul University\, 65 Clegg Street\, Ottawa\, K1S 1C4
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SUMMARY:Seniors for Climate Action Now Members' Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Members’ gathering in front of MP Marie-France Lalonde’s office \nWith other SCAN Ottawa members\, you can let MPs know that climate action must be a priority. \nThere will be signs to share or bring your own. \nJoin us and be sure to stay afterwards for some social time at a nearby cafe. Bring a friend!
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/seniors-for-climate-action-now-members-gathering/
LOCATION:MP Marie-France Lalonde’s Office\, 255 Centrum Boulevard\, Orleans\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: pandemonium ts'éqw' with Professor Dylan Robinson
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Professor Dylan Robinson will argue that public art plays a significant role in the formation of settler subjectivity and indigenous resurgence by focusing on non-human forms of vocal address and in particular\, the sensory appeals of public art. \n\n\nLocation: College of the Humanities (Patterson Hall 303) @ Carleton University
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/public-lecture-pandemonium-tseqw-with-professor-dylan-robinson/
LOCATION:Carleton University\, 1125 Colonel By Dr.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1S 5B6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:"Hot Cargo Kills" Townhall Discussion and Strategy Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join us IN PERSON for Labour for Palestine Ottawa’s “Hot Cargo Kills” Townhall Discussion and Strategy Session. \nIt’s time to declare goods\, services and relations with Israel “Hot Cargo.” \nGuest Speakers: \nRieaz Shaik (High Commissioner of South Africa)\nHassan Husseini\nKevin Skerrett \nDATE: Tuesday \,March 10th 2026 \nTIME: 7:00 P.M. (Doors open at 6:30 P.M ) \nWHERE: Saint Brigid’s Centre\, Kildare Room\n310 St Patricks st\, Ottawa\n(Entrance on Cumberland St.) \nRSVP here: https://forms.gle/i2NNRCeGzXir31gE8 \nHot Cargo Presentation followed by a strategy session in smaller groups. \nIt’s time to use our collective power to break the chains of complicity! \n/// \nRejoignez-nous EN PRÉSENTIEL pour la réunion publique et la séance de stratégie « cargaisons meurtrières » organisées par Labour for Palestine Ottawa. \nIl est temps de qualifier les biens\, les services et les relations avec Israël de « cargaisons meurtrières ». \nConférenciers invités : \nRieaz Shaik (Haut-Commissaire de l’Afrique du Sud auprès du Canada) \nHassan Husseini \nKevin Skerrett \nDATE : le mardi 10 mars 2026 \nHEURE : 19 h (Ouverture des portes à 18 h 30) \nLIEU : Centre Sainte-Brigid (310\, rue St. Patrick\, Ottawa)\, Salle Kildare (entrée sur la rue Cumberland) \nRSVP ici: https://forms.gle/i2NNRCeGzXir31gE8 \nPrésentation sur les « cargaisons meurtrières » suivie d’une séance de stratégie en petits groupes. \nIl est temps d’utiliser notre pouvoir collectif pour briser les chaînes de la complicité !
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/hot-cargo-kills-townhall-discussion-and-strategy-session/
LOCATION:Brigid’s Well\, 310 St. Patrick St.\, Ottawa\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Yoga for Grief - Queer Death Salon
DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \nJoin Yoga Therapist in training\, Des for a trauma-informed yoga practice.\nExplore yogic practices\, such as pranayama/breath work\, asana/physical shapes\, and pratyahara/tuning inward to aid in processing grief.\nDes (they/them) is a Yoga Guide and Grief Doula who lives\, breathes\, and plays on Michi Saagiig Anishnaabeg territory\, Treaty 20\, and the Williams Treaties in Nogojiwanong\, what is colonially know as “Peterborough\, ON” in so-called “Canada.” Nogojiwanong means “the place at the end of the rapids” in Ojibwe.\nQueer Death Salon takes place over Zoom\, in English\, with Automatic Closed Captioning
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/yoga-for-grief-queer-death-salon/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com
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