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SUMMARY:RENEWABLE POWER FOR ALL – Rally!
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 5th\, 12pm ET\, to hear from powerful movement leaders\, help us deliver the names of tens of thousands of people across the country who want this government to unleash the renewable energy revolution. Bring your own visuals\, and take in beautiful movement art that brings to life our vision of a future beyond fossil fuels. \nHere’s the speakers list so far: \n\nStephen Thomas\, Clean Energy Manager\, David Suzuki Foundation\nDara Wawatie-Chabot\, Just Transition Researcher\, Iron & Earth from Algonquin Nation\nOlivia Onuk – spoken word artist from Art for Climate Justice\nDylan Trebels\, Founding Member of Electrify 613\n\nThe David Suzuki Foundation is joining forces with Atlantic Canada’s Ecology Action Center\, Electrify 613\, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment\, Climate Justice Ottawa\, Environmental Defence\, 350 Canada\, CUPE/ Green Economy Network and other organizations and grassroots allies. Be there with us to fight for the future our communities deserve. \nPOSTERS \n\nRENEWABLE\, AFFORDABLE AND SECURE POWER FOR ALL\nINDIGENOUS-OWNED RENEWABLES NOW\nCOMMUNITY-LED RENEWABLES NOW\nNO GAS ON THE GRID\nRENEWABLE ENERGY FOR OUR HEALTH\n\n/// \n⚡ÉNERGIE RENOUVELABLE POUR TOUS.TES⚡ Un rallye supportant 100% d’électricité propre d’ici 2035. \nRejoignez-nous sur la Colline parlementaire à Ottawa le 5 juin de 12h00 à 13h30\, afin d’entendre les puissant.e.s leaders du mouvement\, admirer les magnifiques œuvres d’art du mouvement qui donnent vie à notre vision d’un avenir sans combustible fossile\, et pour nous aider à transmettre les noms des dizaines de milliers de personnes à travers le pays qui veulent que notre gouvernement libère le pouvoir d’une électricité 100% renouvelable\, abordable et fiable d’ici 2035. \nParmi les intervenant.e.s\, notons : \n\nStephen Thomas\, responsable de l’électricité propre à la Fondation David Suzuki\nDara Wawatie Chabot\, jeune membre de la nation algonquine\, Iron & Earth\nOlivia Onuk\, organisatrice communautaire et artiste de Art for Climate Justice\nDylan Trebels\, conseiller en énergie et cofondateur d’Electrify 613\nD’autres intervenant.e.s seront annoncé.e.s prochainement!\n\nLa Fondation David Suzuki s’associe à l’Atlantic Canada’s Ecology Action Centre\, au New Brunswick Environmental Network\, à Electrify 613\, à l’Association canadienne des médecins pour l’environnement\, à Environmental Defence\, à 350 Canada\, à Iron & Earth\, au Green Economy Network\, à Leadnow\, au Conseil des Canadiens\, à For Our Kids Ottawa/Gatineau\, ainsi qu’à d’autres organisations et allié.e.s. Soyez des nôtres pour agir en faveur d’un avenir sans combustible fossile! \nPOSTERS \n\nUNE ÉNERGIE ABORDABLE POUR TOUS.TES\nUNE ÉNERGIE SÉCURITAIRE POUR TOUS.TES\nUNE ÉNERGIE RENOUVELABLE DÉTENUE PAR LES COMMUNAUTÉS AUTOCHTONES MAINTENANT\nUNE ÉNERGIE RENOUVELABLE GÉRÉE PAR LA COMMUNAUTÉ MAINTENANT\nPAS DE GAZ DANS LE RÉSEAU\nUNE ÉNERGIE RENOUVELABLE POUR NOTRE SANTÉ
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/renewable-power-for-all-rally/
LOCATION:Parliament Hill\, Wellington Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1A 0A9\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Climate Justice Ottawa":MAILTO:climatejusticeottawa@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Enough is Enough Province-wide day of action
DESCRIPTION:Major’s Hill Park at noon for a short rally then march. \n\nOur goal is to build community opposition to policies and priorities of governments that attack workers\, undercut public health and education\, and trap people in poverty without the wages and supports they need to buy food and meet basic needs\, all while aiding and abetting sky-rocketing rents and housing costs\, and failing to tax corporate profits.  \nIn Ottawa\, we’re planning a family-friendly event\, with music\, speakers\, tables sponsored by community groups and unions\, and a children’s play area. As well\, we’ll be marching though Byward Market\, drawing attention to our concerns and demands\, and encouraging local residents to join our movement. \n\nOver 20 other events will be held across Ontario on June 3.  RSVP here: Enough Is Enough!  \n\nContact:  ottawa@justice4workers.org or odlc@ottawalabour.org
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/enough-is-enough-province-wide-day-of-action/
LOCATION:Major’s Hill Park\, Mackenzie Ave\, Ottawa\, K1N 6Z4
ORGANIZER;CN="Justice For Workers":MAILTO:info@justiceforworkers.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230531T070000
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SUMMARY:STOP CANSEC
DESCRIPTION:CANSEC is North America’s largest arms fair. \nThe presenters and exhibitors list doubles as a Rolodex of the world’s worst corporate criminals. From Ukraine to Yemen\, from Palestine to Colombia\, from Somalia to Syria\, from Afghanistan and Haiti to Ethiopia and Libya\, no one profits more from war and bloodshed than the companies and individuals at CANSEC. \nIt’s time to show up in force to oppose CANSEC and the profiteering from war and violence it is designed to support. \nThe world is run (and ravaged) by people who wake up early. On May 31st we need to wake up earlier than them to beat them to their fair. Join us at the convention bright and early as it begins to ensure everyone showing up knows they are NOT welcome in Ottawa or to continue their deadly business as usual. \nALL OUT for a protest on May 31 2023 starting at 7:00am at the EY Centre (4899 Uplands Drive by the airport) in Ottawa. \nExhibitors this year include: \n\nElbit Systems – supplies 85% of drones used by the Israeli military to monitor and attack Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza\, and infamously the bullet used to murder Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh\nGeneral Dynamics Land Systems-Canada – makes the billions of dollars of Light Armoured Vehicles (tanks) Canada exports to Saudi Arabia\nL3Harris Technologies – now bidding to sell armed drones to Canada to drop bombs overseas and surveil Canadian protests\nLockheed Martin – by far the largest weapons producer in the world\, they brag about arming over 50 countries\, including many of the most oppressive governments and dictatorships\nColt Canada – sells guns to the RCMP\, including C-IRG\, the militarized RCMP unit terrorizing Indigenous land defenders in service of oil and logging companies.\n\nMore info here: https://worldbeyondwar.org/cansec \nThis protest is happening on unceded Algonquin territory. It is hosted by the No CANSEC coalition.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/stop-cansec/
LOCATION:EY Centre\, 4899 Uplands Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Safety\, Advancing Visions for a Decarceral City: Dispatches from Community Organizers
DESCRIPTION:Amid global calls to defund the police following the murder of George Floyd by officers in Minneapolis\, continued efforts to work towards diversion and decarceration from prisons\, and on-going concerns stemming from the expansion of state and corporate surveillance\, there continues to be a push to expand these and other forms of carcerality in the city of Ottawa located on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory. This is most evident in the year-over-year budget increases for the Ottawa Police Service (OPS)\, gentrification and the increased presence of police under the guise of “neighbourhood resource teams” in communities where poverty\, homelessness and precarious housing are a common experience\, the carceralization of public space through increases in surveillance and so-called security personnel from transit stations to sidewalks abutting sites of mass capitalist accumulation like the Rideau Centre\, and the provincial government’s push to build more prison spaces in the region that will forcibly displace people pushed to the margins from the city to a proposed site of human caging in Kemtpville\, as well as planned expansions to existing facilities in Brockville and Napanee. However\, carcerality in the form of surveillance\, coercion\, control\, displacement and even containment is not always fixed to particular spaces\, but is also mobile\, appearing in contexts often associated with care such schools\, shelters\, hospitals\, harm reduction sites\, treatment centres\, and the like where being perceived to be out of place or engaging in behaviour deemed problematic can also lead to exclusion in the Carceral City in ways that diminish our collective well-being and safety.\n\nThis event\, in the form of dispatches from community organizers\, aims to make visible how carcerality is at work\, as well as how safety is being reimagined and practiced outside of carceral frameworks in Ottawa. This intervention stems from a research project called “Resistance and Advocacy in the Carceral City” funded by an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada involving members of the University of Ottawa’s Carceral Studies Research Collective and community members involved in police\, prison\, penal and/or carceral abolitionist organizing in the city.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/reimagining-safety-advancing-visions-for-a-decarceral-city-dispatches-from-community-organizers/
ORGANIZER;CN="CPEP":MAILTO:cpep.action@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Cal Best: Sa Vie (Cal Best: His Life)
DESCRIPTION:The Workers’ History Museum and the Social Innovation Atelier invite you to the screening of the documentary Cal Best: His Life (Cal Best: Sa vie)\, about the journey of James Calbert Best\, a prominent figure in Black history in the 20th century. \nFollowing the film there will be a panel discussion with Blaise Ndala (writer in residence at Saint Paul University)\, Diana Mbonga (President of the Saint Paul Students Association)\, Claude Andrea Bonny (Journalist) and Arthur Carkner (Producer). Professors Leslie Toure Kapo and Christopher Gunter will moderate the discussion. \nAbout the Film: \nCal Best\, from New Glasgow\, NS\, co-founded PSAC and was a union leader who fought for the right to have better collective bargaining in the federal government. He went on to become a senior government official and Canada’s first Black High Commissions. A man who changed the world for the better! \nAdmission is free and refreshments will be available. \nNote that the film is in French.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/film-screening-cal-best-sa-vie-cal-best-his-life/
LOCATION:St. Paul Amphitheatre\, 233 Main Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1S1C4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ottawa ACORN Day of Action Against Developers!
DESCRIPTION:Minto Park\, Elgin/Gilmour St. \nHosted by ACORN \nThe PC Party received $250\,000 in donations from major developers in Ontario and consistently passes legislation that puts developer profits over tenants’ right to housing – JOIN ACORN TO FIGHT BACK! \nThe same developers that are funding the Doug Ford government are actively lobbying for and benefiting from Ford’s policies that destroy affordable housing (more details below). Join your local ACORN office on March 29th in taking action against local developers: \nOttawa – 12PM meeting at Minto Park (Elgin/Gilmour St) before marching to the Taggart office. Taggart has donated $30\,000+ to the PC Party and was responsible for the demovictions at 142 Nepean St. \nBrampton – 2PM meeting outside City Hall at 2 Wellington St W\, and then marching to the Pulis Office. Pulis recently bought an apartment building with the goal of mass evicting tenants & demolishing their homes. \nLondon – 1PM meeting outside 1154 Adelaide St. N. Members will be doing outreach on the impact of Ford’s Rent Control Loopholes and Bill 23 while highlighting local predatory developers. \nToronto – 2:45PM meeting at Cafe Landwer (165 University Ave). Members will be going to a developer’s office whose new development site has no proposed affordable housing. \nHamilton – 12PM at Gore Park. Members will be doing outreach on the devastating impacts of Bill 23. \nMORE INFO ON FORD’S PRO-DEVELOPER PROFITS & ANTI-TENANT POLICIES: \nSince becoming Premier in 2018 and being re-elected in 2022\, Doug Ford has: \n\nRemoved rent control on all buildings built after Nov 15th\, 2018\nRemoved development charges that developers pay to municipalities to fund essential municipal services like roads\, sewers and public transit\nWeakened an affordable housing policy called ‘inclusionary zoning’ to only 5% affordable housing in new developments near public transit for only 20 years\nChanged the definition of affordable housing to 80% of average market rent which is not affordable!\nThreatens to take away the power for cities to require developers to replace the affordable housing they demolish for condos & luxury rentals\nAND MORE!\n\nMore info: https://www.facebook.com/events/242120718245487
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/ottawa-acorn-day-of-action-against-developers/
LOCATION:Minto Park\, 315 Elgin Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Show up for Trans Kids!
DESCRIPTION:OCDSB head office\, 133 Greenbank Road \nCall for support from Community Solidarity Ottawa \nIn recent weeks\, we have seen a number of anti-trans activists attend and school board meetings across Ontario in order to spread fear and hatred towards trans youth\, including at the OCDSB. \nMultiple anti-2SLGBTQIA+ figures have announced their plans to speak and disrupt at the upcoming OCDSB meetings on March 28 and April 4\, where they will surely take the opportunity to grandstand and spread transphobic speech. \nWe’ve seen what happens when anti-trans hate is allowed to flourish. As such\, we also plan to be there to show support for 2SLGBTQIA+ students and show that we won’t tolerate anti-trans hate in our community. \nWe are encouraging members of the community to come to these meetings in person to show support for trans and gender diverse students. \nWe are encouraging those who attend to show up early\, to take up as much space in the meeting room as possible\, and to wear either pink\, or apparel that shows your support for 2SLGBTQIA+ students. If you don’t have any pink in your wardrobe\, we will be providing pink scarves and bandannas that you can wear. \nAdditionally\, if you would like to speak out against anti-trans hate and in support of policies that affirm and support trans and gender diverse students\, you can request to speak at these meetings by filling out this form. \nMore info: https://www.communitysolidarityottawa.ca/events/show-up-for-trans-kids
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/show-up-for-trans-kids/
LOCATION:OCDSB Head Office\, 133 Greenbank Road\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
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LOCATION:McNabb Community Centre\, 180 Percy Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1R 6E5\, Canada
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