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.
Join Independent Jewish Voices, Students for Justice in Palestine, the Carleton University Human Rights Society, and the Carleton University Students Association for a Vigil for Gaza. (See Instagram slides for event schedule) Location: Vincent Massey Park, Right across the foot bridge next to Richcraft Hall Keynote speaker: His Excellency Rieaz Shaik, South African High Commissioner
NO TYRANTS/NO KINGS is an international day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve threatened Canada's sovereignty, disrupted international trade, detained tens of thousands of people (including Canadians) in ICE concentration camps, cracked down on free speech, detained people for […]
Let’s gather and engage with our questions and feelings about: -sex after the death of a loved one. -the disenfranchised grief of polyamorous and kinky relational loss. -how pleasure and erotic energy can support our mourning. -changes in desire as death approaches for ourselves or a loved one. -cultural expectations of how a widow should […]
Envie d'une discussion autour de l'économie sociale afin de démystifier ce type de développement territorial? 30 minutes de présentation, 30 minutes de questions. Et une heure de réseautage et de célébration de l'économie sociale Formation gratuite d'une heure ouverte à toutes les personnes curieuses, entrepreneures ou non. Lien d'inscription https://airtable.com/app1zPNwSVOYdYd7Z/pagTbAu1TUkSlZCPl/form?prefill_Activites=recrNj8zTLgMOCc0A&hide_Confirmation=true
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.
