Punch Up Collective

Citywide Protest for Renoviction Protections
2024-09-10 18:00 (America/Toronto) | 110 Laurier Avenue W, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON, K1P 1J1, Canada
Evictions for renovations are often unnecessary or simply cosmetic so the owner can jack up the rent. That’s why we are protesting outside city hall so Ottawa city councillors CAN’T IGNORE the fact that we need REAL protections.

Join the BIG protest to demand city council stops corporate landlords from destroying affordable housing and protect tenants by passing a renoviction bylaw.

Community Rally in Defence of the Bank Block Tenants
2024-09-10 08:00 - 21:30
227 Bank St, Ottawa
Join the rally on Tuesday morning to help our neighbours fight back against our commodified housing system.
The Bank Block Tenants are also looking for donations for their legal defence fund:
https://bankblocktenants.ca/donate
more info on the Bank Block Tenants can be found on their website and on their Instagram

Return-to-office solidarity rally/ Rassemblement de solidarité contre le retour au bureau
2024-09-09 07:30 - 08:30
Let’s mark September 9 with a bang to remind the employer that we will not back down!
Join the biggest remote work rally to date alongside members from ACFO, CAPE, PIPSC, PSAC and other federal unions!
September 9 may be the beginning of the new three-day-a-week in-office mandate, but for all of us it’s also the point of no return when it comes to return to office.
All unions will be converging on IRCC – the department with one of the most developed interunion local organizing committees driving the telework campaign.
Let’s show the employer our collective resolve!
When: Monday, September 9
Time: 7:30-8:30 am ET – please be sure to still meet your in-office work hours – come for as little or as long as you can!
Where: 365 Laurier Ave W – in the quad between Jet-S & Jet-N towers
Refreshments: Coffee and donuts will be provided
Campaign apparel: Some unions will have return-to-office campaign forest green t-shirts to hand out if you don’t have one – feel free to wear your own green!
***Soulignons le 9 septembre avec éclat pour rappeler à l’employeur que nous ne reculerons pas!
Participez au plus grand rassemblement sur le télétravail à ce jour avec des membres de l’ACAF, de l’ACEP, de l’IPFPC, de l’AFPC et d’autres syndicats fédéraux!
Le 9 septembre marque peut-être le début de la présence obligatoire au bureau trois jours par semaine, mais c’est aussi le point de non-retour en ce qui concerne le retour au bureau (RAB).
Tous les syndicats se rassembleront devant l’immeuble d’Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada, le ministère dont le comité local d’action intersyndical est l’un de ceux qui ont le plus grand nombre de pétitionnaires dans le cadre de la campagne sur le droit au télétravail.
Montrons à l’employeur notre détermination collective!
Date : Lundi 9 septembre
Heure : De 7 h 30 à 8 h 30 (HE) – Assurez-vous de respecter votre horaire de travail au bureau – Joignez-vous à nous pour le temps que vous pouvez!
Lieu : 365, avenue Laurier Ouest, dans le quadrilatère entre les tours Jet-S et Jet-N
Rafraîchissements : Du café et des beignets seront offerts.
Vêtements de campagne : Certains syndicats auront des t-shirts vert forêt pour la campagne de retour au bureau à distribuer si vous n’en avez pas – n’hésitez pas à porter votre propre vert !

Ottawa Labour Day March and Picnic
2024-09-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier, Ottawa
March leaves Ottawa City Hall (Lisgar Street side) at 12:00pm sharp.
March Route: South on Elgin Street to Gladstone Avenue, West on Gladstone Avenue to McNabb Park (corner of Gladstone Avenue and Bronson Avenue).
Picnic commences when March participants arrive at McNabb Park (approx 12:45pm).
Picnic includes: BBQ (Hot dogs, corn-on-the-cob, melon pieces, drinks). Live music, face painting, bouncy castle, wading pool with life guards. Everything free.

International Day of Protest Against ABA 2024 - Ottawa
2024-08-31 17:00 - 18:00 | Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
August 31st will once again mark the 7th International Day of Protest Against ABA. An international day of action for Autistic self-advocates and allies to organize in their opposition to Applied Behaviour Analysis.
Applied Behaviour Analysis was pioneered in the 1960s by Ole Ivar Løvaas, who spoke at length about his dehumanizing perspective on Autistic people, oftentimes physically assaulting, electrically shocking, and restraining Autistic children. ABA takes behaviours, oftentimes harmless cultural differences such as eye contact avoidance and stimming, and provides rewards and punishments accordingly. Even in its gentlest forms, it is Skinnerian manipulation that teaches a child to place the approval of their peers and authority figures over their own well-being. Many Autistic people refer to ABA as “Autistic Conversion Therapy”, and for good reasons. Ole Ivar Løvaas co-authored a study with George Rekers on gay conversion therapy, and Autistic people are disproportionally LGBTQ2S+.
For these reasons and the lived experiences of Autistic people, we will be hosting a protest on August 31st outside the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights at 5PM EST to make our voices heard, and call upon Ottawa City Council to make the following actions:
1. Prohibit businesses from providing Applied Behaviour Analysis to minors within city limits.
2. Cease the Mayor and members of Ottawa City Council’s associations with organizations that will defend the use of Applied Behaviour Analysis.
3. Implement further measures to work towards the abolition of ABA in the City of so-called Ottawa
In the event that Ottawa Police show up, here is a document detailing your rights when interacting with police: https://ccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Know-Your-Rights-Booklet.pdf

International Overdose Awareness Day - End the Stigma
2024-08-30 11:00 - 13:00 | Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Join us Friday – End the Stigma!

Anatomical Venus Book Launch
2024-08-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Perfect Books, 258 Elgin Street, Ottawa, K2P 1L9
Join us at Perfect Books to launch Courtney Bates-Hardy’s new book, Anatomical Venus. It’s a visceral collection of poems that invoke anatomical models, feminine monsters, and little-known historical figures.
Featuring readings by Christine McNair and Margo LaPierre. Hosted by Frances Boyle.
Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (ChiZine Publications, 2016), and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). She has been shortlisted for the Elgin Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is queer, disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets.
Christine McNair has published two collections of poetry –Conflict (Book*hug, 2012) and Charm (Book*hug, 2017). She is the winner of the Archibald Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the City of Ottawa Book awards. Her hybrid literary non-fiction memoir Toxemia is forthcoming with Book*hug in fall 2024. She works as a book doctor in Ottawa.
Margo LaPierre is a freelance literary editor and writer of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Her second poetry collection is forthcoming with Guernica in Fall 2025. She won the 2021 Room Poetry Award and the 2020 subTerrain Fiction Award and was shortlisted for Editors Canada’s 2024 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. She is Arc Poetry magazine’s newsletter editor and a member of the Ottawa-based poetry collective VII.

Ottawa Run for Palestine 10th Annual Charity BBQ
2024-08-25 13:00 - 20:00 | Vincent Massey Park, Heron Road, Ottawa
Join us on Sunday, August 25 @ Vincent Massey Park (sections C & D) for our Annual charity BBQ in collaboration with the Association of Palestinian Arab Canadians (APAC), the Palestinian Student Associations’ at both Carleton University and Ottawa U and the Palestinian Student Coalition!
Halal BBQ for sale: prepared and served by Sultan supermarket & meatshop.Join us on August 25, 2024 (new date!), from 1-8 PM at Vincent Massey Park (Sections C and D) for our Annual Charity BBQ, where all proceeds go towards helping Gaza through numerous Isalmic relief projects.
Enjoy BBQ (Mashawi) by Sultan Supermarket and Meatshop, Refreshments and coffee and tea station by Second Cup,a knafeh station, Cotton candy and Popcorn for salefacepainting and HennaSports games and activities for the kids,And most importantly, a registration station for the Ottawa Run For Palestine 9th Annual 2K, 5K, 10K walk/Run taking place on Sep 14th @ Hogs Back Park)

Bring your friends and family for a day of delicious food and community spirit.
**Please note that due to the genocidal war on our people in Gaza, we will not be holding our yearly dessert competition, any Palestinian entertainment, or bouncy castles for our kids We will provide sports activities and coloring stations with a mepeoplessage of hope to the people of Gaza, in particular to children.It will be an opportunity for our community to spend some time in solidarity, gather, heal, bond, and reflect.**
Let’s make a difference together!

Justice for Workers Ottawa Summer Camp!
2024-08-24 09:30 - 15:00
Struggling to get your workplace organized? What makes a good organizer? What strategies have been proven to win time and time again?
Want to learn how to make your efforts unstoppable?
Skip the sunburn Saturday August 24th and join Justice for Workers Ottawa’s ‘Summer Camp’ at 233 Gilmour St. from 9:30am-3pm for a day full of workshops specific to worker organizing! Learn about building a fighting labour movement, practical strategies, writing resolutions, effective outreach and follow-up, and much more!!
Program:
9:30am-10:00am:
Welcome and registration
10:00am-11:00am:
How do we build a fighting labour movement?
In order to win demands we need a strong multi-racial working class movement that unites union AND non-union workers. How do we get there?
11:00am-12:00pm
Rise together!: Transnational labour solidarity
Workers’ lives don’t end when they leave the workplace. Sometimes workers deem it necessary to take collective action outside the workplace. What are practical steps workers can take towards this?
12:00pm-1:00pm
LUNCH
1:00pm-2:00pm
Dotmocracy: Justice 4 Workers Demands
Learn about the 10 demands that guide Justice4Workers in fighting for decent work for unionized and non-unionized workers.
2:00pm-3:00pm
Building capacity: Effective outreach & follow-up
If movements don’t grow they can’t successfully leverage collective power to win their demands. Outreach and follow-up are critical in bringing people into the movement. What are the practical steps we can take to bring people into the fight for decent work?

Ottawa Trans March
2024-08-23 18:00 | Bank & Gladstone
Please join us on August 23rd at 6pm for the 2024 Ottawa Trans March!
More details – including a community meeting to discuss our demands, speaker announcements and other details will be announced in the coming days and weeks!

Training Session - Speak out Against LRT Cuts!
2024-08-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
We need to pack the Transit Commission meeting in September with as many people as possible speaking out against the new LRT schedule cuts!
Learn how to craft and deliver a public delegation and how to sign up to speak at our training session – R.S.V.P. today!

Pride is Political: Harm Reduction & Transforming Justice
2024-08-19 10:00 - 17:00 | PSAC Building, 233 Gilmour Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Final workshops: Engaging in Practices of Harm Reduction Using Liberation Frameworks AND/OR Transforming Justice As an Everyday Practice
Access considerations:
😷 Masks required- designated area for eating/ masks off
Wheelchair accessible
Water/ snacks available
Hybrid event/closed captioning for virtual attendees
👥 Peer support

Fierte dans la Capitale Pride 2024
2024-08-17 - 2024-08-25 | Various
Listen. Learn. Act.
Capital Pride’s Four foundational pillars are to Educate, Advocate, Celebrate and Connect. For our 2024 festival, we have decided to highlight our pillar of advocacy, focusing on listening, learning, and taking action.
Listen – To listen is to recognize the importance of acknowledging the diverse experiences within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, thus fostering understanding and empathy. This inclusive approach acknowledges intersecting identities and unique challenges, enhancing solidarity and effective advocacy.
Learn – to learn is to acknowledge the invaluable contributions and sacrifices of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, whose resilience and activism have driven progress. Honoring this legacy preserves our history, offers inspiration, and highlights the ongoing struggle for equality and justice.
Act – to act is to bring attention to the ongoing fight for equality, justice, and inclusion by amplifying marginalized voices and advocating for their rights. It encourages active participation in advocacy to create a more equitable society where everyone can live authentically and without fear of discrimination.
Ultimately, “Listen. Learn. Act.” serves as a call to action for all individuals to actively engage with the past, listen to the voices of those who have been marginalized, and work together towards a brighter and more inclusive future. It embodies the spirit of resilience, activism, and hope that defines the 2SLGBTQIA+ community’s journey towards liberation and collective empowerment.

Pride is Political: Homecoming
2024-08-14 15:00 - 23:00 | Parkdale Public Market, 366 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 1G8, Canada
A space to celebrate and center the voices and existence of QTBIPOC folks. Ending the night with an outdoor screening of Paris is Burning.

Event Schedule
Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
3 – 4:30 pm Wellness Space

3:00 – 3:45 – Aly
3:45- 4:30 – Jacqui

4:30 pm – 5 pm break/ chill time

Individual activities/ compression time
Julia, Amira, and Mars from YSB hosting
Face painting, button making, art station

5 pm – 9 pm Music provided by Parkdale Park concert series
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Banner Making Workshop with Casper (Masks required)
9:05 pm – 10:35 pm: Outdoor Film Screening: Paris is Burning (Directed & Produced by Jennie Livingston)

Pride is Political: Community Care and Outreach
2024-08-12 12:00 - 18:00 | Kind Space, 400 Cooper St., suite 9001, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Community Care and Outreach Using Anti-Carceral Practices Within Anti-Violence Movements
12 PM – 2 PM
This workshop offers a collaborative space for participants to engage deeply with anti-carceral organizing and co-create effective strategies to counter systems that harm and oppress communities. It explores how institutional systems, including those that claim to offer care, can perpetuate harm and co-opt community-based initiatives and movements. By connecting these issues to broader social movements, such as Pride, the workshop fosters an interactive environment where participants can engage with the content, share their experiences, and collectively develop actionable strategies to advance anti-carceral and abolitionist goals, focusing on mutual support and care.

Co-create strategies to challenge harmful systems through anti-carceral organizing
Examine how institutions, including those offering care, perpetuate harm and co-opt community initiatives.
Emphasize mutual aid, support, care, and most importantly, joy in organizing

Access considerations:
😷 Masks required – designated area for eating/ masks off
♿️ Wheelchair accessible
💧 🍫 Water/ snacks available
👂 Peer support and space available

Re-politicizing Queer Activism: Perspectives on Collective Action and Radical Inclusion
4 PM – 6 PM
Speakers:
Mars and Caprice from Youth Services Bureau (YSB) Queer Youth Action Committee
Sinda Garziz from Centretown CHC/ LGBTQIA Newcomer Group
Menasheh from Queers 4 Palestine
Community Solidarity Ottawa
Join us for an engaging panel discussion:
“Re-politicizing Queer Activism: Perspectives on Collective Action and Radical Inclusion.”
This event will delve into the current state of community activism, advocacy work, rights-based movements, anti-fascism, and their intersections with queer activism.
Topics include:

Personal experiences of advocacy and the importance of global solidarity in local movements

Reflections, thoughts, and experiences from various activists
The current state of queer organizing and the challenges faced

Reflections on what works, what doesn’t, and how these movements intersect with other social justice causes

Strategies for organizing with diverse groups
The meaning of collective action, solidarity, and what liberation entails
Inclusion of migrant justice perspectives and reflections on representation in activist spaces
Strategies for engaging younger people in activism, centring queer joy and advocacy, and making activism more accessible

Join us to explore these critical issues and more in an inclusive environment.

Solidarity Softball
2024-08-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Brewer Park, Brewer Park, 210 Hopewell Ave, Ottawa, K1S 2Z5
Softball game to raise fund for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. This event includes the game and a social picnic after. Family and pet (well trained and leashed) friendly event! Bring your own picnic snacks, drinks will be provided.

Prisoners’ Justice Day 2024
2024-08-10 11:00 - 13:00 | University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave East, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N6N5, Canada
Location: Room 215D, Jock Turcotte University Centre, 85 University Private (University of Ottawa), Ottawa

This year CPEP, the Millhaven Lifers’ Liaison Group, Mothers Offering Mutual Support, and OPIRG/GRIPO have come together to commemorate Prisoners’ Justice Day (PJD) with a teach-in about its history, how it has evolved, and how the demands could be met today.
We invite all members of the Ottawa communities to come and talk, share stories, experiences, and learn from each other.PJD has always been a day of mourning and somber reflection for some, and a day of action and inspiration for others. It is in this spirit that we invite everyone to come together with us, on this particular day.
Background:On August 10th, 1974, Eddie Nalon, a prisoner and advocate, died in the segregation unit at the Millhaven Institution (a maximum security prison built in 1971 just outside of Kingston, Ontario). His death sparked outrage among the prisoners at the penitentiary, as well as hunger strikes, and prison reform initiatives. On the one year anniversary of his death, the first Prisoners’ Justice Day was organized, sparking what has become an international day of condemnation and commemoration of deaths in custody and segregation, as well as national campaigns for prisoners’ rights across prisons. Many people around the world have been inspired by the political action of these prisoners and organized for a better world.
On August 10, 2024, we plan to commemorate and reinvigorate the struggle for prisoners’ rights inside and outside prisons, by talking about the history of PJD and what it meant for people then, how it has evolved over the years, what it means for people now, and what we want it to be moving forward. We also hope that this event can also serve as the first planning meeting for the 50th anniversary of PJD in 2025. If you are someone who thinks deeply about the carceral/police state, or are interested in how to get involved and explore alternatives to caging humans, we invite you to join us for a thoughtful discussion amongst community members.
We gratefully acknowledge that this event is happening on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Anishinaabe and Algonquin people. We also acknowledge the overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island in the criminal justice system. This system also disproprotionately affects many marginalized individuals and negatively impacts all communities.

Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival 2024
2024-08-06 16:00 - 2024-08-11 21:30 | DARC Microcinema, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, K1N 7B9, Canada
Celebrating Indigenous Arts in Algonquin TerritoryOttawa, Canada • August 6-11, 2024@ Club SAW, Arts Court Theatre & Studio, Gallery 101, DARC, Axeneo7
Asinabka Festival13th EditionAUGUST 6-11, 2024
Highlights:•.60+ Indigenous Films @ Arts Court Theatre• Opening Night Outdoor Concert & Film Screenings @ Club SAW• Art Gallery Crawl @ Gallery 101 / DARC / The Asinabka Office• Indigenous Music Showcase @ Art’s Court Theatre & Black Box Studio• Filmmaker Q&A’s, Artist Talks, Industry Events, and Free Events
The 13th annual Asinabka Festival is excited to present the best contemporary Indigenous film, music, and arts from Canada and around the world. The Festival takes place in person over 6 days and with 17 separate film programs, including 8 feature films, and over 50 short films.
The FULL SCHEDULE available on our website now!:asinabkafestival.org
See the following sites for accessibility and visitor information:https://asinabkafestival.orghttps://artscourt.ca/visitor-info-enhttps://g101.ca/gallery101https://axeneo7.qc.ca/en
Chi-Miigwech / Thank You to The Canada Council for the Arts for their ongoing funding and support. We’d also like to thank all of our festival partners including the Arts Court, ICCA, SAW, DARC, Gallery 101, AXENÉO7, CHUO, LiVE 88.5, Carleton University, Wairoa Festival, Ottawa Festivals, and the Embassy of Mexico.

Emancipation Day March/Marche de Jour de l’émancipation
2024-08-01 11:45 - 13:00 | Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
August 1 is Emancipation Day, a time to reflect on the legacy of the enslavement of Black and Indigenous peoples in Canada, celebrate the strength and perseverance of Black communities across the country, and demand an end to ongoing anti-Black racism in Canadian society and in the federal public service.
The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) will join the Black Class Action Secretariat (BCAS) and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) in a march from the Human Rights monument on Elgin Street in Ottawa to the offices of the Privy Council on the corner of Sparks and Wellington to demand accountability after recent reports detailing the persistent culture of anti-Black racism in the highest civil service office in the country. This is a critical moment in the fight against racism in our society.
Join us and bring your colleagues and friends!
Date: August 1
Location: Meet at the Human Rights Monument by Ottawa City Hall on Elgin Street to march over to the Privy Council offices
Time: 11:45 am
Other union members and members of the public at large are also invited to join in to show their solidarity for Black federal public sector workers.
***Le 1er août est le Jour de l’émancipation, une occasion de réfléchir à l’héritage de l’esclavage des Noir·es et des Autochtones au Canada, de célébrer la force et la persévérance des communautés noires partout au pays et d’exiger la fin du racisme anti-Noir·es dans la société canadienne et dans la fonction publique fédérale.
L’Association canadienne des employés professionnels (ACEP) et l’Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada (AFPC) se joindront au Secrétariat du recours collectif noir (SRCN) et à la Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (Coalition des syndicalistes noir·es) pour marcher du Monument des droits de la personne, rue Elgin à Ottawa, jusqu’aux bureaux du Conseil privé, à l’angle des rues Sparks et Wellington, afin de demander des comptes au gouvernement à la suite de la publication de récents rapports détaillant la culture persistante du racisme anti-Noir·es à la plus haute instance de la fonction publique du Canada. C’est un moment crucial pour la lutte contre le racisme dans notre société.
Joignez-vous à nous et amenez vos collègues et vos ami·es!
Date : 1er août
Endroit : Rendez-vous au Monument des droits de la personne près de l’hôtel de ville d’Ottawa sur la rue Elgin pour marcher jusqu’aux bureaux du Conseil privé.
Heure : 11 h 45
D’autres membres de syndicats ainsi que le grand public sont également invité·es à se joindre à la marche pour manifester leur solidarité envers les travailleuses et travailleurs noirs du secteur public fédéral.

Harmony Circle for Palestine with Albert Dumont and Yipeng Ge
2024-07-25 18:30 - 20:00
Register for the event here:
https://forms.gle/NoHkLqvzhfwseScr5
EVENT DETAILS
Join us for a conversation about Palestine, between Spiritual Advisor and Elder Albert Dumont and Dr. Yipeng Ge, primary care doctor and public health practitioner. In November 2023, Dr. Ge was suspended from his medical residency at the University of Ottawa for pro-Palestinian social media remarks critical of Israel. A petition demanding his reinstatement received over 65,000 signatures, indicating widespread support for Dr. Ge and raising concerns about free speech and the right to criticize government policy without risking professional repercussions. You can read more about this here.
After the formal conversation, we will open up the meeting for a Sharing Circle where all participants are invited to ask questions or share what is on their heart.
With this Harmony Circle, we want to create a safe space for people, especially youth, to:
* learn more about the current genocide happening in Palestine
* express their pain at the injustice of the situation
* feel that they have a voice and are not being silenced
* dive deep into the practice of unlearning and learning
* create harmony within our communities
We will end the Harmony Circle with concrete social justice actions we can take to help. This is an invitation to do something in a time of great suffering, devastation and emotional turmoil.
To register for this free, online event, please fill out this Google form:
https://forms.gle/NoHkLqvzhfwseScr5
The event will take place over Zoom. A link will be sent to you the day of the event.
Session Standards:
* This event is for people who are curious, open to learning and unlearning and believe in social justice
* There will be zero-tolerance for violent, abusive, or racist comments
* Everyone in attendance agrees that first and foremost, we stand to defend a human being’s right to live in a peaceful and secure space

Collaborative zine making night at the Ottawa Trans Library
2024-07-25 18:00 - 21:00 | Ottawa Trans Library, 1104 Somerset St. West, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 3C8, Canada
Come work on zines with us as we work on the next issue of The Dragon Flyer, the Ottawa Trans Library’s community zine. Write, draw, scan, cut, and paste with us on our community zine or your own project, or just come hang out with us. We are collecting stories, jokes, poems, art, and more from the trans and non-binary community in Ottawa and our friends and families.
The zine workshop is a collaborative event to discuss, share, and work on zines together.
Come tell your story.We will provide paper, templates, and whatever art supplies we have. No experience necessary. All ages welcome, children under age 13 must be accompanied by an adult.
Masking and testing the day of the event is encouraged. Accessibility note: There are two stairs at the door entrance. We have a ramp we can bring out for the door on request. There’s a washroom but it’s not large enough for many mobility devices.

LGBTQ+ Book Club
2024-07-20 13:00 - 14:30 | 312 laurier Ave
A safespace for queer book lovers and readers!
We (usually) meet the 2nd and 3rd Saturday of every month, our Instagram:
(openpagesbookclub_)
posts the updates!

Cinema for Palestine: Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora
2024-07-18 18:00 - 20:00 | DARC Microcinema, 67 Nicholas St, Ottawa, K1N 7B9, Canada
DARC is honoured to present Cinema for Palestine, a screening of films from Cinema Politica’s Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora collection 🇵🇸
Join us on July 18th to watch the collection, curated by Palestinian filmmaker Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, which features films that explore the refusal of right of return to the Palestinian homeland and the bitter irony of living inside Canada’s settler-colonial state.
Make sure to attend this FREE screening in the Microcinema to support Palestinian storytellers and independent filmmakers telling these important stories and sharing a look into the experiences of displaced Palestinians.

Solidarity Rally for Local 1541 Members
2024-07-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Best Theratronics, 413 March Road, Ottawa, Canada
Enough is Enough!
Come join Lana Payne, Unifor Nat President and Samia Hashi, Ont Reg Dir. in standing in solidarity with our siblings who have been on strike since May 1st.
Bring your flags, horns and whistles!
https://www.unifor.org/…/solidarity-rally-local-1541…
https://www.unifor.org/…/support-best-theratronics…

Book Launch: Crossdresser // Accept Yourself Or Die
2024-07-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Venus Envy Warehouse, 329 Catherine St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 5T4, Canada
Join us for the launch of a double volume, two books in one, both by trans Ottawa-based writers!
About the book:
Imogen Reid’s Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary to Trans Punk travels from small-town Northern Ontario, to the Missionary Training Centre in Provo, Utah, to basement shows in Ottawa. It’s a story about staying stubbornly human in a world that wants to destroy you, and also about how weird it is going door-to-door trying to convert people to Mormonism.
Crossdresser: Growing Up Trans in the 1990s and 2000s, by Kat Rogue, explores what it does to a closeted trans girl to grow up saturated in the transmisogyny of 1990s pop culture and to come of age online, and how she managed to build her own relationship to femininity despite that. It argues that crossdressing, femme, and transness are more closely linked than some people think, and that Ace Ventura: Pet Detective really could have been great without all the transmisogyny.
The books are published by Sheer Spite Press back-to-back for a double gut-punch of heartfelt, angry, and funny reflections on transfemme coming of age.
Copies of the book will be for sale, but the event is free to attend.
Masks are required and will be provided if you need one!
The front door has a portable ramp (29″ wide). Once inside, the warehouse is a single level with concrete floors. The washroom door is 30.5″ wide, There is a support rail next to the toilet, and a wall-hung sink with space under it.

Kebaowek Algonquin First Nation Takes Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to Court to STOP the Near Surface Disposal Facility!
2024-07-10 11:30 - 13:00 | Supreme Court of Canada, 301 Wellington Street, Ottawa, K1A 0J1
As we know, the so-called Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River is actually going to be an above-ground megamound for a million cubic metres of the nuclear industry’s radioactive waste. It’s located is to be less than a kilometre from the Kichi Sibi (Ottawa) River. Kebaowek First Nation says no: it is not a good solution for this toxic waste disposal for MANY reasons, BUT the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) approved it a few months ago with NO independent environmental or expert design assessment!

You are requested to join the Kitchissippi-Ottawa Valley and Ottawa chapters of the Council of Canadians at a support rally for Keboawek, on the opening day of this judicial review hearing:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2024, 11:30 AM to 1PMSUPREME COURT BUILDING301WELLINGTON STREET OTTAWA, ON K1A 0J1

There will be a media conference, followed by comments from Indigenous and community leaders.
NOTE: This is a FEDERAL COURT hearing but it has just been moved to Supreme Court building.

WHAT TO BRING: —> your homemade signs about Indigenous rights and nuclear waste concerns—> clothes for the weather—> a bagged lunch (or be prepared to have a late one)

INTERESTED TO CARPOOL from Renfrew County? Email to kitchissippiottawacocchapter@gmail.com if you have a ride to offer or if you need one.

CAN’T MAKE IT ON JULY 10th? Please please please donate whatever you can afford to help Kebaowek with the costs of taking on this court case. RavenTrust is a charitable organization that raises funds for Indigenous Peoples’ cases to “enshrine environmental justice” because “their victories protect us all.” Donations to RavenTrust for the Kebaowek case are tax receiptable: <https://fundraise.raventrust.com/give/587812/#!/donation/checkout.>

WANT MORE INFO ON THIS? Visit our website at <https://kovcouncil.wordpress.com/7000-generations-nuke-safe/> …If you can’t find what you want to know there, email us at the address above with your questions or post them below. Thanks, Miigwetch, Merci.

Miigwechiwendam: so grateful for the courage and determination of the Original Peoples of the Kichi Sibi watershed, who are defending their sacred river for all of us. CNL has to come up with a better design and location AFTER it does valid consultation with the First Nations who have never surrendered their homeland here.

Palestine Solidarity Poster Sale at the Arlington Art Market
2024-07-06 10:00 - 15:00 | Arlington Art Market, Arlington Avenue between Bank and Kent, Ottawa, ON, Canada
11x17in prints of all 29 @flyers_for_falastin posters from the Posters for Palestine exhibition at @gongfubao will be for sale
All proceeds after production costs will go to the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Committee to support their work in building a global mass movement to defeat Israeli apartheid
More Arlington Art Market info:
When: Saturday July 6
Where: Arlington Avenue between Bank and Kent, and on the Glashan Public School grounds
When: 10am – 3pm

LCBO workers are on strike - join a picket in solidarity!
2024-07-05 00:00 - 2024-07-20 00:00 | Multiple Locations
The information below is sourced from Horizon Ottawa and Justice for Workers:

Horizon Ottawa:
Show your solidarity with striking LCBO workers by joining them on the picket!
OPSEU union members are standing up against the privatization of alcohol sales and fighting for more permanent work. Local workers will be striking at several LCBO stores across the city from 9am to 8pm – use locator tool to find a picket near you:
https://www.campaigndashboard.app/opseuregion4/
Justice For Workers:

The Ottawa LBED picket line finder lists picket options. Current priorities include 1980 Bank Street (just south of Walkley) and 1100 Polytek Street especially from midnight to 8am. Both sites have picket lines 24 hours a day, seven days a week. OPSEU 498 covers an area west of the city and has been operating a picket line at Terry Fox and Campeau (small plaza) daily starting at 10:00am.

The Justice for Workers LCBO toolkit continues to provide great resources for strike support.
LBED has its own email tool at KeepItPublic.ca plus lots more info and links about the strike. Talk to neighbours and friends about the importance of good jobs in every Ontario community, and the benefits of a crown corporation bringing in $2.5 Billion a year to pay for hospitals, schools and other services.

Support LCBO Workers! Keep LCBO Public!
2024-07-04 17:30 - 18:30 | LCBO, 953 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Support LCBO workers! Keep LCBO Public! Join us!

Palestinian Tatreez Keychain Workshop
2024-07-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Kind Space, 400 Cooper St., suite 9001, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Join Oasis and @tatreez_by_yasmen for a Tatreez workshop at kindspace (400 Cooper street) on July 2nd, 6-9pm.
Everyone will create their own Palestinian Tatreez Keychain that they can bring home from the event. Please register here so we can bring the right amount of materials for everyone!
This will be a PWYC event and all proceeds will be donated to Sudan and Palestine relief funds. This event is masked, and masks will be provided at the door.
