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.

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • From Turtle Island to Palestine: Challenging Canada’s Perpetuation of Settler-Colonial Violence 🇵🇸 🧡

    University of Ottawa 75 Laurier Ave East, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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 […]

  • Street medics workshop – Fight to win series

    135 Eddy street, Gatineau 135 Eddy street, Gatineau

    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 […]

  • Centretown Tenant Power Official Launch

    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 […]

  • Film screening: The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

    Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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 […]

  • Book launch: We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System:

    Octopus Books 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, Canada

    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 […]

  • Science for the People ‘Canada’ The Social Production of Science online reading group

    Online

    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 […]

    Free

  • Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab. Almost 20 years of Violated Human Rights

    Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa

    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.

    Free

  • Policing Black Lives (2nd ed) – Book launch with Robyn Maynard

    SAW Gallery 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    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 […]

  • Political Ecology with Dr. Karena Shaw (Zoom)

    Zoom

    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

  • ACORN’s Renoviction Bylaw Consultation with City Staff

    404 McArthur Ave, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    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 […]

  • Book launch: Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism

    Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa

    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 […]

  • Ottawa South Chapter to Protest Hazelview Properties

    2850 Cedarwood Drive 2850 Cedarwood Drive

    Renters who live in Hazelview Properties run rentals are fighting back against lack of repairs, frequent elevator shutdowns, pest issues and more!