Welcome to Radical Events Ottawa! Learn more about the list here. See the full calendar here.
Please Note: Events listed on this calendar are not organized by the Punch Up Collective unless otherwise noted in the event details.
In October, Ontario MPPs will be returning to Queens Park. So our community coalition of food banks, tenant unions, housing advocates, disability rights activists, and legal clinics are coming together for a BIG rally to welcome MPPs back to work! Together, we are urging the Provincial Government to make their first priority: 1 - Raising […]
This event by F4P Ottawa, IJV Carleton, and INSAF uOttawa invites members of the community to learn about Canada’s complicity in the violent dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of the people of Palestine and to discuss how we can learn from Indigenous experiences and resistance to challenge entrenched institutional settler-colonial practices. Canadian institutions, including the […]
The system is failing us. Poverty is spreading, and the overdoses crisis is here to stay. The best way out is to help each other. The workshop will teach : - The basics of first aid; - How to help people who have overdosed; - How to help people who have been injured during protests […]
Are you a tenant in Centretown? Are you tired of feeling powerless against rising rents and bad landlords? Join Centretown Tenant Power (CTP) in building our own power to challenge landlords and the exploitative housing system! Inspired by our neighbours, the Tenants of Sandy Hill (TOSH), we recognize the need for neighbourhood-based tenant organizing that […]
Join us for a powerful documentary screening of "The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya", about the imprisonment of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a prominent doctor and chief of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza who has been detained in Israeli prison for over 10 months. We will also be holding a discussion with Carleton University […]
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum to Ottawa for the launch of his brand new book, We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics. "Jonathan Rosenblum's illuminating account of Kshama Sawant's decade as Seattle's first and only socialist city councilmember […]
This reading group continues SftP’s tradition of running a reading group alongside our local organising, and the goal of this series is to better link our collective education with collective action, bringing together members to deepen our shared understanding of science, power, and liberation. Developed and maintained by the Science for the People – New […]
The keynote speaker is Alex Neve, 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer and the former Secretary General for Amnesty International Canada. There will also be a presentation by Don Bayne, Lawyer for Hassan Diab who will speak about the sham French trial, held in absentia, the declared Dr. Diab guilty. There will be a Q & A.
WHO AND WHAT? Join us for an evening with award-winning and best-selling author and scholar Robyn Maynard (@policingblack) as she launches the revised and expanded edition of her book “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present” (published @fernpub) on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe Territory | in Ottawa. Following her […]
Join us on October 30 as we welcome Dr. Karena Shaw to discuss political ecology and her most recent research. Register: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/U5mu565bSIeAQ91Ndl1UEg#/registration
Landlords in Ottawa are kicking out long-term tenants under the false excuse of “renovations”— just to jack up the rent. That’s a renoviction! Thanks to tenant organizing by ACORN members across the province, Ottawa is finally developing a bylaw. So, to make sure this bylaw protects us where it counts, ACORN is consulting with the […]
Join Carleton University's Department of History for a talk by Cynthia Miller-Idriss as she discusses her latest book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. What two things do most violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are […]
