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SUMMARY:Rally Against Carleton's Gag Order
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, December 2 at 2:30PM in front of Richcraft Hall (besides the Gandhi Statue)\, where the University community will be protesting against the proposed Institutional Impartiality Policy. President Wisdom Tettey and the Governance Committee of the Board of Governors have refused to withdraw or significantly amend the policy\, and it will be coming to the Board for approval during the December 2nd meeting. \nDATE: Tuesday\, December 2\, 2025\nWHEN: 2:30PM\nWHERE: Outside Richcraft Hall\, where the Board will be meeting \nMedia and photographers will be present. If you do not wish to be photographed\, please mask up. \nThe proposed Institutional Impartiality Policy prevents all academic units\, including the administration\, faculties\, departments\, institutes\, and centres of the University\, from issuing any stance on public\, political\, or academic issues. The matters of debate that will be under the scope of this policy will be decided case by case\, but can be assumed to include discussions of Equity\, Divestment\, and Inclusion; matters related to Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; investments in fossil fuels and the climate crisis; and provincial or federal infringement on student and faculty rights\, among others.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/rally-against-carletons-gag-order/
LOCATION:Richcraft Hall\, Carleton University
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SUMMARY:Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: A conversation with Alex Himelfarb
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a vital discussion with Alex Himelfarb about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge. Alex will be joined in conversation by Kevin Skerrett from the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. \nFor forty years\, neoliberalism has dominated political thinking in Canada. But as inequality grows\, the climate emergency worsens\, and global power shifts\, it’s clear that neoliberalism’s basic tenets – privatization\, public service cuts\, tax breaks for big business\, and corporate deregulation – have failed to meet today’s challenges. \nIn Breaking Free of Neoliberalism\, Alex Himelfarb traces how these ideas became entrenched in Canadian governance and explores how we can chart a new course. Drawing on his experience as a public servant and policy thinker\, Himelfarb calls for a renewed understanding of the public good and the crucial role government must play in shaping a just and sustainable future. \nCo-sponsored by the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University and the Canadian Union of Public Employees. \nAlex Himelfarb joined the federal public service in 1981 after a decade teaching at the University of New Brunswick. He was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council in 2002 and served three Canadian Prime Ministers until his appointment as Ambassador to Italy. After his retirement from public service in 2009\, he led the School of Public and International Affairs at York University’s Glendon College until 2014. Alex has served on and chaired numerous NGO boards and advisory committees\, including the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives\, the Coalition to End Homelessness\, the Atkinson Foundation\, and WWF Canada. \nThis event is free and open to all. Please RSVP to help us know how many guests to expect. Doors open at 6:30pm.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/breaking-free-of-neoliberalism-a-conversation-with-alex-himelfarb/
LOCATION:Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre\, 290 Lisgar Street\, Ottawa
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SUMMARY:Sudan: A Crisis Ignored
DESCRIPTION:The war in Sudan began in 2023. Half and million Sudanese civilians have been killed and 12 million more made refugees. Human-engineered famine is rampant\, and warring parties use sexual violence\, executions and kidnappings as weapons of war. The wholesale devastation of infrastructure leaves civilians with collapsing services and little protection.\nWhere is the international community? Where\, specifically\, is Canada?\nJoin us for a live conversation with Amani Khalfan\, Inter Pares program manager for Sudan\, to hear about the deteriorating situation in the country\, what Canada could be (but isn’t) doing to help and how our local partner organizations are managing through it all.\nPlus\, we’ll talk about what actions you can take to help.\n November 26\, 2025 12 p.m. EST Facebook livestream
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/13936/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251203T180000
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SUMMARY:Teach In: The Shaky Gaza Ceasefire Deal
DESCRIPTION:Join us at SAW gallery on Wednesday\, December 3\, at 6PM for a teach-in and exhibit about the history of prisoner exchanges and their important role in the ceasefire deal.\n\nAs we watch this supposed ceasefire in effect\, we must understand the role our prisoners play. For two years\, we have seen the importance of prisoner exchanges in ceasefire negotiations\, but many of us may not understand why. Together\, we will learn about these prisoners and why it is important to keep showing up until they are all free.\n\nRegister here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/teach-in-the-shaky-gaza-ceasefire-deal-tickets-246475
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/teach-in-the-shaky-gaza-ceasefire-deal/
LOCATION:SAW Gallery\, 67 Nicholas Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1N7B9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Collaborative zine making night at the OTL
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe zine workshop is a collaborative event to discuss\, share\, and work on zines together. \nCome 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. \nMasking 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.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/collaborative-zine-making-night-at-the-otl/
LOCATION:Ottawa Trans Library\, 1104 Somerset St. West\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1Y 3C8\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Ottawa Trans Library":MAILTO:info@ottawatranslibrary.ca
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with David McNally - Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, December 6th\, David McNally will be in Ottawa to discuss his latest book\, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. He will be in conversation with Adrian Harewood\, Professor of Journalism at Carleton.  \nTime: 7-8 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM)\nLocation: The Atelier of the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop\, at Saint Paul University. The Atelier is accessible from 95 Clegg Street\, the street adjacent to the University.\nOrganized by Octopus Books (Copies of the book will be available for purchase at $47.99.) RSVP: https://octopusbooks.ca/events/3862520251206\nCo-sponsored by the Atelier of the Mauril- Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop and the institute of Political Economy at Carleton University \nAbout the Book\nSlavery and Capitalism provides the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. \nKarl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians\, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature\, planter records and diaries\, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim for enslaved labor in the plantation system as capitalist commodity production. \nWeaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class. Unlike those scholars who insist that enslaved people were too sensible to set their sights on liberty\, he highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom and reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \nAbout the Author\nDavid McNally is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston\, where he directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. He is the author of seven previous books and more than sixty scholarly articles. David is also the founding editor of Spectre\, a journal of Marxist theory\, strategy and analysis. \nReviews\n“With rich and well-chosen evidence\, McNally establishes the ways in which the history of enslavement is best understood within Marxist categories. He writes of unspeakable exploitation and human drama in a frame that never loses track of constant resistance.”—David Roediger\, author of An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education \n“David McNally’s deft application of Marx’s theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery’s political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved—the chattel proletariat—not as ‘constant capital’ or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers.”—Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class \n“Slavery and Capitalism powerfully employs Marxist categories to provide new insights into the capitalist nature of New World slavery\, the lives and labor of the enslaved\, and\, fundamentally\, their resistance.”—Pepijn Brandon\, Professor of Global Economic and Social History\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, and lead investigator of Amsterdam’s historic connections to slavery \n“What a remarkable book. Grown from the theoretical soil of C.L.R. James\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, and Sylvia Wynter\, Slavery and Capitalism nourishes readers with example after thrilling example of how to think dialectically. McNally’s archival evidence tells stories he uses to make a compelling\, cumulative argument about class composition centered on the chattel proletariat. Suggesting critical elements of internationalism\, the book invites methodological extension and substantive debate to connect his cases to the vast South Atlantic world where most enslaved people lived\, worked\, and fought. Fresh historical understanding of past social reality can refocus contemporary political analysis of racial capitalism. McNally sharpens dynamic awareness of highly differentiated sectors and regions of value production and social reproduction—the overlapping and interlocking realities where people self-consciously make freedom by remaking place.”—Ruth Wilson Gilmore\, author of Abolition Geography \n“This is that rare object—writing that is scholarly and gripping\, crammed with insight and the engaging detail of the best history writing. Reframing the non-debate about race and class to return to questions of agency\, McNally reminds us that the question is how to become free.”—Gargi Bhattacharyya\, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/book-launch-with-david-mcnally-slavery-and-capitalism-a-new-marxist-history/
LOCATION:Atelier of the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop\, at Saint Paul University\, 65 Clegg Street\, Ottawa\, K1S 1C4
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SUMMARY:Protest and Sit-in at CBC
DESCRIPTION:We’re holding a protest and sit-in outside the CBC Ottawa building (181 Queen St)\, on Monday December 8\, 12PM-2PM\, to hold our national public broadcaster accountable and demand they cover the latest Arms Embargo Report — Exposing the U.S. Loophole: how Canadian F-35 parts and Explosives Reach Israel. \nWhy we’re taking action: \nThe report\, released on November 18\, exposes a pipeline of ongoing shipments of explosives and military aircraft parts from Canada to the US and then on to lsrael. \nThe government hasn’t been able to refute the claims. In conjunction\, Parliament is currently debating Bill C-233. If passed\, it would take real steps toward ending Canada’s export of military goods and technology to Israel via the U.S.. but the public has barely heard about it. When a national public broadcaster ignores a report with clear\, irrefutable evidence of Canada’s war crimes\, people must step in to make the issue visible. \nClosing loopholes that allow Canadian military exports to keep flowing to Israel requires public pressure\, and public pressure requires public information. \nThat’s why we’re gathering where the media can’t ignore us\, outside the CBC headquarters in Ottawa. When you and your comrades show up in numbers\, we shift what is possible. \nCBC! Tell the Story! Canada Arms Human Rights Violators \nWhat you can do: \nBring people with you — community members\, coworkers\, neighbours\, friends. Share this call on your social channels. Come ready to chant\, hold signs\, and take up space! \nLearn more and take action to close the loophole enabling military exports to flow from Canada to Israel via the U.S. at: armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopholes
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/protest-and-sit-in-at-cbc/
LOCATION:CBC Ottawa\, 181 Queen St\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Alex Neve: Renewing human rights in a fractured world
DESCRIPTION:Join CBC’s 2025 Massey Lecturer Alex Neve for a discussion of his book Universal\, hosted by Ottawa University’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre in partnership with the Centre for International Policy Studies. \nFree registration required \nAt a time of a deepening climate crisis\, genocide and mass atrocities\, and the rapid rise of hate and divisiveness around the world\, his five lectures explored what we need to collectively do to renew and strengthen the vital promise of universal human rights. Marking International Human Rights Day\, Alex’s talk will offer an overview of the lectures\, including the fractured state of our world and a hopeful way forward. He will be joined by four other members of the uOttawa community\, reflecting on what universality means in their human rights work and studies: \n\nMayyu Ali – Rohingya refugee\, poet and human rights defender\nAnne Levesque – Holder of the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights & Associate Professor\, French Common Law Program\, Faculty of Law\, Common Law Section\, University of Ottawa\nValeria Navarette – Master’s degree candidate\, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)\, University of Ottawa\n\nAlex Neve is a visiting and adjunct professor in international human rights law at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University\, and a Senior Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He served as Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada from 2000 – 2020. He is a lawyer\, with a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. Alex is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has honorary doctorate of law degrees from the University of New Brunswick\, the University of Waterloo and St. Thomas University.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/alex-neve-renewing-human-rights-in-a-fractured-world/
LOCATION:FSS Building\, Room 4007\, University of Ottawa\, 120 University Private\, Ottawa\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Pique - Winter Edition '25
DESCRIPTION:Not your average holiday-season party\, Pique winter edition returns to Arts Court on December 13\, 2025 with a unique and eclectic program celebrating underground music\, forward-thinking art and bold performance. Designed for discovery\, community connection and radical self-expression\, Pique brings together some of the boldest ground-breaking artists from across Canada to experiment and engage with the local artistic community. \nThis season\, Pique features emergent innovators in the fields of pop-avant garde\, ambient-electronic\, contemporary installation\, afro-rap\, and more. They include genre-fluid electronic producer Korea Town Acid\, ethereal club angel Monsieurmadam\, electrifying R&B/noise artist Quinton Barnes\, Afrobeats scene stealer Banggz\, global south sound selector TRINIDADDY\, fractal ambient brainfeeder 16:9 ratio\, cyborgian new media artist Ajeebsir\, anti-disciplinary installation collaborative Sabrina Ferrari & Evalyn Shields\, and eclectic songwriter Sandour. \nPlus\, back by popular demand\, Pique will host the Queertopia kiki ball presented by Legendary Mother Maldita and Yéila Siriano\, welcoming legends and leaders from ballroom scenes across Canada to not only host a ball\, but also mentor emerging ballroom artists through skill-building workshops presented by MAX Ottawa. Community members can sign up to walk the ball here. More information about workshops coming soon. \nTickets to Pique are pay-what-you-can (PWYC)\, with sliding-scale and subsidized options available. Our PWYC ticket keeps the festival open to everyone while inviting those who can pay more to help cover the cost for others. Every contribution above the minimum goes directly toward fair artist pay\, inclusive programming\, and supporting independent culture in Ottawa. \nFeaturing performances\, exhibitions and interactive presentations by 20 participating artists\, Pique winter edition is not to be missed!
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/pique-winter-edition-25/
LOCATION:Arts Court\, 2 Daly Ave\, Ottawa\, ON K1N 6E2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Sound My Heart Makes
DESCRIPTION:Join Albert Dumont for the launch of his latest book The Sound My Heart Makes.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/book-launch-the-sound-my-heart-makes/
LOCATION:Christ Church Cathedral\, 414 Sparks Street
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SUMMARY:Demand Warming Centres!
DESCRIPTION:Warming centres are an absolute need. If the city won’t act\, we will.\n\n\n\nJoin us at Minto Park (Elgin St./Lewis St.) on Sunday\, December 14th at 5 pm to make our demands loud and clear.\n\n\n\nShelters are at maximum capacity. The City insists that there is room for everyone\, and that no one who calls 311 for a place to stay warm will be turned away.\n\n\n\nPeople are being turned away. Even people with a shelter bed are left to wait in the cold for hours – because our city does not have 24 hour warming centres.\n\n\n\nIt is the city’s responsibility to ensure that nobody dies from homelessness. While they delay and insist existing shelters are enough\, we have no choice but to do what we can.\n\n\n\nWe need your help! We need:\nVISIBILITY: Share this and spread the word.\nSUPPORT: Show up in numbers on December 14th and/or make a cash donation\nWARMING SUPPLIES: Bring donated blankets\, tarps\, and sleeping bags to give to people who need them.\n\n\n\nPeople are suffering in the freezing cold right now.\n\nWe don’t have the luxury of time. A cold weather plan that actually meets the needs of unhoused people in Ottawa must be activated immediately to prevent cold-related deaths and injuries. We cannot stand by while people suffer.\n\n\n\nTo learn more\, visit linkt.ree/wtwp.ottawa. If you want to get involved organizing with us\, email wtwp-ottawa@proton.me
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/demand-warming-centres/
LOCATION:Minto Park\, 315 Elgin Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Module 3 - What is Science? P1
DESCRIPTION:This is module 3 of a reading group series. Follow Register link for more details! \nThis 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.\nDeveloped and maintained by the Science for the People – New Haven Chapter\, this curriculum investigates how Marxism\, science\, and capitalism intersect — and how these forces shape both knowledge and the material conditions of our world. Through discussion and reflection\, we’ll consider what it means to reclaim science as a tool for social transformation.\nScience for the People ‘Canada’ has grown\, both in number of chapters and membership\, and now is a crucial moment to clarify our strategic goals and direction. This series is one way we can do that together.\nAll members\, new and old\, are warmly invited. Each module will include two readings; participants are encouraged to complete both\, and facilitators will provide summaries to guide discussion. Note:\nTo help foster an atmosphere of comradely curiosity:\nPlease come prepared with:\n– One open-ended question about the readings to share with the group\n– One response or connection to organizing you have done or would like to do locally\nModule meetings will occur monthly on Monday evenings at 8pm EST.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/module-3-what-is-science-p1/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251216T203000
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SUMMARY:Psychic Death and Transitions
DESCRIPTION:Badly Licked Bear loves death. As a transsexual person\, as an Indigenous person\, as an adoption survivor\, as someone who works with the knowledge of the body and of bodies\, death is a constant companion in her work. \nParticipants will be held in exploring psychic deaths\, what it means to be “once dead and twice born\,” and how our sexuality often skirts\, confronts\, plays with\, or outright embraces death.\nWhat does it mean to bring death and the process of death consciously into one’s daily life and practices? \nQueer 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. \nParticipants are encouraged to bring their own questions\, stories\, and complexities to share.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/psychic-death-and-transitions/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Demand Warming Centres Phone Zap
DESCRIPTION:With the cold weather hitting Ottawa early this year\, concerned residents are raising the alarm about the City’s abandonment of unhoused residents. The city has responded to the freezing temperatures by pointing to their existing policies and claiming it is enough. But these same policies left unhoused neighbours to die in the cold earlier this year. And with renovictions\, and austere social policies\, we see unhoused neighbours freezing in the streets. \nJoin Horizon\, the Disability Justice Network of Ontario\, and the What’s the Winter Plan team for a virtual phone zap session where we will get together online\, go over the details of what our city is lacking\, and then spend some time calling the offices of City Councillors to make sure they hear our concerns.
URL:https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/demand-warming-centres-phone-zap/
LOCATION:Online
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