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SUMMARY:Sick from Genocide - Ottawa Protest
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, January 6\, at 5:30PM to answer the global call from doctors and healthcare workers who are sick of genocide and the continued targeting of healthcare workers and institutions in Gaza.\n\n\n\nWe have watched in horror as “israel” laid siege to Kamal Adwan Hospital\, leaving it nonfunctional. One week ago\, the lOF stormed the hospital\, forcibly removing all patients – even those on life support-and setting the facilities afire. Patients had to walk with their medical equipment to the Indonesian Hospital as this was the last operational hospital in the North of Gaza. Hospital director\, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya\, and the remaining Kamal Adwan Hospital staff have vanished into the sinister shadows of the zionist prisons. Now\, the occupation is ready to do the same to Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp.\n\nEvacuation orders have been issued and airstrikes are imminent.\n\n\n\nThe IOF has repeatedly targeted hospitals in the past 15 months\, beginning with the bombing of Al Ahli Hospital. Against all odds and with almost no resources\, doctors\, nurses\, and healthcare workers have kept rebuilding the infrastructure needed to give Palestinians in Gaza at least some of the treatment they need. But it is clear that “israel” will not stop until they have completely crippled the healthcare system. We will not let these crimes go unpunished or unseen.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/sick-from-genocide-ottawa-protest/
LOCATION:Human Rights Monument\, 220 Elgin Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250114T190000
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SUMMARY:Queer Death Salon - Remembering Our Dead
DESCRIPTION:Queer Death Salon is a community space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ people to come together to discuss death\, dying and grief. It is a facilitated drop-in discussion space\, with the purpose of building connection\, skill\, and resources for 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigating end of life in our personal lives and in our communities. \nTuesday\, January 14 at 7 p.m. EST\nRemembering Our Dead \nParticipants will be led through an optional creative exercise with the intent to explore grief\, (dis)connection to the deceased\, and will have the opportunity to share about their people who have died and the impact it has had on them. \nPlease bring art supplies if you have them available to you. This can be paper\, paint\, crayons\, markers\, collage supplies\, textile arts etc. \nWe are not holding ourselves to a false idea of perfection\, this will be an exercise in expression and all skill levels and abilities are welcome. \nParticipants are encouraged to bring their own questions\, stories\, and complexities to share.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/queer-death-salon-remembering-our-dead/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Queer Community Deathcare":MAILTO:queercommunitydeathcare@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250115T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250207T163000
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SUMMARY:Gaza Remains: The Story
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition by the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit\, State of Palestine invites you to journey through the history\, culture\, and resilience of Gaza. In the face of an unrelenting genocide and years of struggle and hardship against Israeli apartheid\, the exhibition celebrates the enduring spirit of Gaza’s people. \nOrganized by:\nIndependent Jewish Voices Carleton\nStudents for Justice in Palestine Carleton\nCarleton University Human Rights Society \nLocal Sponsors:\nCarleton Department of Sociology and Anthropology\nCarleton Feminist Institute for Social Transformation\nCarleton Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies\nJoint Chair in Women’s Studies as Carleton and UOttawa\nDr. Seyda Ipek\, Carleton University\nGongfu Bao\nOttawa Run for Palestine
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/gaza-remains-the-story/
LOCATION:The Wing (4th Foor Nideyinan – former University Centre)\, Carleton University\, 1125 Colonel By Drive\, Ottawa\, K1S5B6
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ORGANIZER;CN="Students for Justice in Palestine Carleton University":MAILTO:sjpcarleton@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250116T130000
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction and How We Imagine Climate Futures
DESCRIPTION:This event is online: Register here for the link \nOften science fiction depicts the climate future as unlivable\, or as barely survivable only through an intensification of “capitalist realism” – everything is for sale\, only the rich have access to technologies sufficient for minimal comfort\, and Earth ecologies are in continual free-fall or already destroyed in service of profit. In this conversation\, we discuss science fictional imaginings of livable collective futures. We put two recent texts (Ruthanna Emrys’s A Half-Built Garden and M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhabi’s Everything for Everyone) in conversation with an older non-dystopian imaginary (“P.M”’s bolo’bolo). \nAlexis Shotwell is theory and science fiction fan\, functional potter\, and she bike rides in all weather. Alexis has been part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton since 2012 and cross-appointed to Philosophy and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies. Kilian Jörg is a philosopher and artist based in Vienna and Berlin whose research focuses on ecological epistemology and the intersection of art and philosophy.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/science-fiction-and-how-we-imagine-climate-futures/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250118T143000
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SUMMARY:Tenant Organizing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will be hosted on January 18\, 2025 @2:30pm in Centretown. The location will be sent to those who register!\n \nThis event will provide a basic introduction to tenant organizing\, including an explanation of what a tenant union is\, the concrete steps that tenants can take to form one\, and some lessons learned from other tenant struggles. We will also go over some examples of tenant organizing from the past few years\, and conclude with a workshop talking about immediate next steps to support tenants organizing in their buildings. Our goal is not just to analyze the problem\, but to help people take action
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/tenant-organizing-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250118T150000
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SUMMARY:Meet and Greet and Meet the Author Watch Party - Hot Mess
DESCRIPTION:Join For our Kids Ottawa/Gatineau parents on Saturday January 18 for a casual meet and greet at 3 pm and stay to watch the online conversation and Q&A with author Sarah Marie Wiebe at 4 pm\nWe will gather in the Desjardins Room at St Paul’s University\, at 95 Clegg St\, starting at 3pm. We’ll spend some time mingling before joining the online event from 4pm-5:15pm. The room is wheelchair accessible and has bathrooms. We’ll provide snacks. \nAs part of Veganuary\, we also encourage you to bring your favourite vegan (or vegetarian) recipes to share (particularly ones that are kid-friendly)\nHot Mess is the story of mothering amidst a climate crisis to shape futures that will flourish under the politics of care. Blending vulnerability with analysis\, Wiebe discusses how community and care are essential for us to address the climate crisis and to thrive in our changing world. Each chapter is its own vignette – feel free to join if you’ve read only part of the book\, or if you’re interested in exploring these themes.\nIf you have capacity to help with running this event\, please contact sara.parkes@gmail.com. We appreciate your support.\nAbout the author:\nDr. Sarah Marie Wiebe (she/her) grew up on unceded Coast Salish territory in British Columbia\, BC\, is the mother of a three-year old and an author of the recently published Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawai’i\, Mānoa as well as a Co-Founder of the FERN Collaborative. Her research focuses on community development and environmental sustainability. At the intersections of environmental justice and public engagement\, her teaching and research interests emphasize political ecology\, policy justice and deliberative dialogue. As a collaborative researcher and filmmaker\, she worked with Indigenous communities on sustainability-themed films including To Fish as Formerly. She collaborated with artists from Attawapiskat on a project entitled Reimgining Attawapiskat which is a companion website to her recent book Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat. Dr. Wiebe is also the author of Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (2016). For more about Dr. Wiebe’s research see: https://www.sarahmariewiebe.com/.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/meet-and-greet-and-meat-the-author-watch-party-hot-mess/
LOCATION:Social Innovation Atelier\, 95 Clegg St\, Ottawa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250119T160000
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SUMMARY:Ottawa South Community Mending Circle - January
DESCRIPTION:Come learn from our volunteer Mending Mentors\, who will show you how to repair or hem your favorite garments\, give advice on simple sewing projects\, and help with sewing machines. All skill levels are welcome.\nWhat to bring:\n Item to work on such as a garment\, cushion\, curtain\, blanket – see below for details on the types of projects with which we can assist you.\n (Optionally) Sewing supplies such as needles\, thread\, or cloth for patching. If you do not have your own supplies\, you can use ours!\n (Optionally) Your sewing machine. If you do not have a sewing machine\, you can learn hand mending or use one of our machines.\n A willingness to learn.\nWhat we offer: We can coach you on making simple repairs (e.g. seams\, small tears\, buttons\, darning of socks\, opened seams\, patching)\, visible mending\, repair of knitted or crocheted garments\, hemming\, and answer basic questions about using sewing machines. If you have something to patch\, please either bring some cloth for the patch or contact us in advance with the colour and material type required.\nWhile we are here to help\, some projects may be outside our abilities. In particular\, we are not able to help with leather or zippers\, significant clothing alterations/big sewing projects/clothing re-designs or broken sewing machines. If you are unsure\, please contact us via FB message or on our webiste (www.osean.org) with the details in advance (pictures encouraged!).
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/ottawa-south-community-mending-circle-january/
LOCATION:Social Innovation Atelier\, 95 Clegg St\, Ottawa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250121T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250121T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom (Concordia University Press\, 2024)\, edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe
DESCRIPTION:Registration Link: https://carleton.ca/fist/cu-events/reading-the-room/ \nJoin us Tuesday\, January 21\, 2025 at 6:30pm\, for the official launch of Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom (Concordia University Press\, 2024)\, edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe. This groundbreaking collection brings together first-hand experiences from gender and sexuality studies classrooms\, offering profound insights into the transformative power of pedagogy. \nThe event will be hosted at FSS 4004\, 120 University Private\, Ottawa\, ON K1N 9A7 and will feature conversations with contributors and a panel discussion that delves into the book’s key themes: navigating power dynamics in the classroom\, addressing debates around “trigger warnings” and “cancel culture\,” and creating equitable and inclusive learning environments. Panelists include: Natalie Kouri-Towe\, Gulzar R. Charania\, Kelly Fritsch\, Dan Irving\, and Megan Rivers-Moore. \nThis event is hosted by the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies\, University of Ottawa and the Feminist Institute for Social Transformation\, Carleton University with support from the Joint Chair in Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.\nRegistration Link: https://carleton.ca/fist/cu-events/reading-the-room/ \nLight snacks will be provided and copies of the book will be available for purchase!\nBook Description: \nFirst-hand experiences from gender and sexuality studies classrooms that add depth to a topic often distorted by the media. \nThe contemporary post-secondary classroom has become a flashpoint in public debate on gender and sexuality\, giving rise to controversies over gender-inclusive policies\, “trigger warnings\,” and “cancel culture” that have been misrepresented by opportunistic and divisive voices within and outside of the education sector. However\, gender and sexuality studies scholars have long engaged in these debates over pedagogy\, and closer study of gender and sexuality classroom practices reveals constructive and transformative ways of learning that grapple with power\, conflict\, discomfort\, and safety in the classroom. \nReading the Room collects candid discussions on classroom experiences from instructors and students throughout Canada to provide guidance to educators on often-fraught issues relating to gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, disability\, and decolonization. Working from a place of coalition building\, this volume is a frank\, insightful\, and pragmatic invitation to share different pedagogical practices with educators in a range of academic disciplines. \nContributors to this volume discuss an array of topics including asymmetrical power relations between students and teachers\, how students and professors learn from each other\, how to negotiate conflict in a classroom\, and how to be self-reflective about methods of teaching and learning. They also consider debates around trigger warnings and students’ expectations\, discuss methods for curriculum selection and pedagogical practices\, reflect on what it is like to embody a subject one teaches\, and show how university equity\, diversity\, and inclusion work is often offloaded to overburdened racialized students and precariously employed staff. \nA thoughtful and generous work\, Reading the Room shows how teachers and students can navigate the difficulty and discomfort of contentious topics and learn more from each other.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/book-launch-reading-the-room-lessons-on-pedagogy-and-curriculum-from-the-gender-and-sexuality-studies-classroom-concordia-university-press-2024-edited-by-natalie-kouri-towe/
LOCATION:FSS Building\, Room 4004\, University of Ottawa\, 120 University Prvt.\, Ottawa\, K1N 9A7
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Burnt by Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Burnt by Democracy: Youth\, Inequality\, and the Erosion of Civic Life\, a powerful new book by Carleton University Sociology Professor Jacqueline Kennelly. The evening will feature a panel discussion with the author\, leading scholars\, and youth activists\, alongside performances by young musicians. \nWednesday\, January 22\, 7:00pm – 8:30pm\nIrene’s Pub\, 885 Bank Street\, Ottawa\nRSVP on Eventbrite \nAgainst a vivid and often heart-breaking backdrop of stories from young people struggling to survive and thrive under conditions of ever-expanding state retrenchment and inequality\, Burnt by Democracy makes a timely and impassioned plea for protecting and strengthening democracy by truly levelling the playing field for all.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/book-launch-burnt-by-democracy/
LOCATION:Irene’s Pub\, 885 Bank St\, Ottawa\, ON
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Urban Youth Research":MAILTO:info@urbanyouthresearch.ca
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250123T180000
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SUMMARY:Disability Justice and Queer Crip Curation
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Department of History\, Cultural Mediations\, and the School for Studies in Art and Culture\, join Kenny Fries for an evening discussing the intersections between queer and disability histories. We will explore depictions of “the perfect body” in queer communities\, and how individuals who identify as both queer and disabled have been integrating these histories through art. \nLocation: 2017 Dunton Tower
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/disability-justice-and-queer-crip-curation/
LOCATION:Dunton Tower\, Carleton University\, 1125 Colonel By Dr\, Ottawa\, K1S 5B6
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SUMMARY:Yes\, it is a genocide
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn talking points from anti-Zionist Jews on how to counteract Zionist gaslighting ?\nWell\, some Palestinian solidarity allies organized an information session on Thursday\, January 23rd\, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa at 404 McArthur Avenue! The event is free of charge.\nThe presentation will consist of video footage of prominent anti-Zionist Jews like Norman Finkelstein\, Ilan Pappé\, Gabor Maté\, Naomi Klein\, Miko Peled and many others calling out the actions of the Zionist entity for what it is: a genocide. \nGuest speakers will be former MP for Gatineau\, Richard Nadeau\, who also participated in a parliamentary mission to Gaza and the West Bank in 2009\, as well as Nir Hagigi\, president of the Carleton University chapter of Independent Jewish Voices.\nSo please attend the event to learn – and unlearn – from anti-Zionist Jews of conscience.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/yes-it-is-a-genocide/
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa\, 404 McArthur Avenue\, Ottawa\, ON\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Independent Jewish Voices Ottawa":MAILTO:ottawaijv@protonmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250128T210000
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SUMMARY:Labour for Palestine - Ottawa Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:If you are a unionized worker\, part of a union\, and want to see the labour movement take action in solidarity with Palestine\, please join us at our next in-person chapter meeting. Help us strategize for the next year to make it clear that Palestine is a labour issue and our solidarity must be global. \nWe will share the location by email. Sign up here.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/labour-for-palestine-ottawa-chapter-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Attend Court in Person and On-Line for Final Submissions in Abousfian Abdelrazik's Torture Lawsuit
DESCRIPTION:Join us in court January 28-30 in Ottawa or online as closing submissions are presented in the lawsuit over Canada’s complicity in the overseas detention\, torture and exile of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik.\n\nTo register online to observe proceedings\, visit: https://cas-satj.zoom.us/…/WN_fSbwmniiRZ2f7_T7xFLkGg\n\nTo receive court location details for Ottawa\, contact tasc@web.ca\n\nAbousfian Abdelrazik is “the victim of a series of gross injustices attributable directly or indirectly to Canadian state actors\, including arbitrary and illegal detention\, prolonged solitary confinement\, torture\, and forced exile and separation from his home and young children. These breaches of the Plaintiff’s fundamental human rights were flagrant\, extreme and continuous over a period of six years. Most egregiously\, many senior Canadian officials were fully aware that Canada could have ended the Plaintiff’s cruel and unjust ordeal at any moment by simply securing a flight home to Montreal. In this action\, he seeks redress and compensation that vindicates his Charter rights and is proportionate to the unprecedented seriousness of this wrongful state conduct.” (from his lawsuit)\n\nCanada has a loathsome history of rendering Muslim citizens to torture abroad and being complicit in their torture. The case of Abousfian Abdlerazik is the first time such a case is scheduled for a trial.\nWhen a combination of civic action and a court action successfully brought him home in 2009\, Abdelrazik told the Globe and Mail a “ chilling account of six years of imprisonment and forced exile abroad… Mr. Abdelrazik recounted stories of interrogation and alleged torture. He told of Canadian Security and Intelligence Service agents laughingly saying “Sudan will be your Guantanamo” when he begged to be allowed to return home.\n\nHis ordeal – described as Kafkaesque by the federal court judge who ordered him repatriated – is far from ended. But the Harper government made it clear that Mr. Abdelrazik couldn’t expect any support in his efforts to remove his name from the UN list.\nMr. Abdelrazik said one of the two CSIS interrogators was the same agent who questioned him at his home two days before he flew to Khartoum in March of 2003. Mr. Abdelrazik said he had called the Montreal police to get the CSIS agents to leave.\n\n“One of them\, he turned and said to me\, ‘You will see…’ ” he said.\n\nAlthough CSIS denies it arranged for Mr. Abdelrazik to be imprisoned in Sudan\, heavily redacted government documents say he was arrested “at our request\,” meaning Canada’s.\nAfter months in solitary with little food and occasional torture\, Mr. Abdelrazik said one day his Sudanese jailers told him the “Canadian muhabarat want to talk to me\,” using the feared Arabic term for secret police.\nMr. Abdelrazik says he was taken to a room with a table laden “with cakes and fruits and juice and bottles of water\,” but before he could say anything\, one of the CSIS agents said\, “Remember I told you in Montreal that ‘You will see\,’ … and now\, you will see.”\n\nMr. Abdelrazik said he begged to be allowed to go home and offered to face any charges the agents wanted to press.\n“I am not going to help a terrorist\,” the CSIS agent replied\, according to Mr. Abdelrazik. The agent added that Mr. Abdelrazik was “Sudanese\, not a Canadian\, and should stay in Sudan forever.”\n“My country doesn’t need you\,” the CSIS agent said. After the two left\, Mr. Abdelrazik said the worst period of torture and abuse began.\n\nStay in touch at Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture\, tasc@web.ca
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/attend-court-in-person-and-on-line-for-final-submissions-in-abousfian-abdelraziks-torture-lawsuit/
LOCATION:Downtown Ottawa
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SUMMARY:Breaking Social - documentary screening
DESCRIPTION:Oxfam Canada is organizing a free screening of Breaking Social\, a documentary by award-winning Fredrik Gertten\, at the Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa. The film explores global patterns of kleptocracy and extractivism\, weaving threads between global uprisings\, shared anger and courageous action.\nAdmission is free\, but seats are limited. Please reserve your spot!\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/…/breaking-social-mayfair…
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/breaking-social-documentary-screening/
LOCATION:The Mayfair Theatre\, 1074 Bank St\, Ottawa\, K1S 3X3\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Oxfam Canada":MAILTO:info@oxfam.ca
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