Welcome to OPIRG Brock!
Founded in 1988, OPIRG Brock is a social, economic, and environmental justice organization based in St. Catharines, Ontario. With strong connections established at Brock University, in 2018, OPIRG Brock moved into investing more time and energy into supporting and expanding community initiatives outside the campus to further ensure a broader support network of activism through the region.
Defunded in 2018, in the last two years has vastly expanded our programming and community connections. To keep this work going, we need your help with funding. To become a member, a sustainer, or to donate - click the button below!
OPIRG Projects & Events include the following:
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Niagara Skills Network (coming soon!)
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Abolish the NRP & Build Community Alternatives Coalition (coming soon!)
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Public Board Meetings
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Niagara Social Justice Coalition
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Community Resource Publications
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Consulting with community groups
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Anti Oppression Workshop Series
PETITIONS & CALLS TO ACTION
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End Canada’s support of the war on Yemen and ongoing weapons exports to Saudi Arabia
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Canada halt arms shipments to Saudi Arabia immediately (House of Commons Petition)
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Petition on addressing anti-choice imagery in Canda: e-2977 (Civil and human rights)
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Support the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team inclusion @ 2022 World Games, Birmingham, USA
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Stop the Prime Ministers Path Statue Project - UPDATE: Links to WL Documents now available
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Minister Maryam Monsef, Please Stand up for Indigenous Women and Girls with Disabilities
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Enforce legislation to end racially motivated 911 calls in Ottawa
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We Demand Police-Free Schools Ontario Wide! #PoliceFreeSchoolsONWide
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Reinstate Ryerson University's Homelessness in Canadian Society Course (CINT908)
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Change the name of Sir John A. Macdonald Hall to Patricia Monture Hall, Queen's University
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Bob Kroll - leader of MPLS police union - is violent and racist. He has to go.
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2020 Vancouver Police Department Budget - Call For Action - DEFUND NOW
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DEFUND AND DISARM POLICE (change.org petition)
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“Defund the police, for social justice” LAPD (change.org petition)
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Decarcerate Arizona: Criminalization and Incarceration Are Not Public Helathcare Solutions!
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Governor Ducey & Director Shinn: Don’t Let Our Loved One’s Die in Jail
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#JusticeforBre: Police officers who killed Breonna Taylor must be FIRED.
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Raise ODSP OW Shelter and Basic Needs Allowances Now (LeadNow Petition)
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Support Depopulation of Canadian Prisons & Cease the Spread of COVID-19
SUPPORT FUNDING AVAILABLE
FUNDRAISERS NEEDING DONATIONS
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Maggie's Toronto: COVID-19 Black Sex Worker Emergency Survival Fund
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People's Healing Fund - Emergency Fund (BIPOC healing practitioners. incl. body workers and sex workers
Updated free webinars, online events, in person rallies & events, streaming sites, petitions, support funds, online fundraisers, & resource lists
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WEBINARS & ONLINE EVENTS
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February 28 - NIAGARA BASED OPPORTUNITY DEADLINE - Join the OUTniagara Regional Advisory Committee!
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February 28 - A Discussion on Reparations
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February 28 - Farmers' Protest: Resistance & Repression in India
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February 28 - Take the Plant, Save the Planet: Workers and Communities in the Struggle for Economic Conversion
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February 28 - Parenting and Supporting Non-Binary and Trans Loved Ones
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February 28 - QueeReading Together: Reading and responding to LGBTQ2S writings together
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February 28 - Disability Justice & Access-Centered Pedagogy in the Pandemic
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February 28 - Living through Black History
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March 1 - Disability Day of Mourning
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March 1 - Black Mental Health Day Panel Discussion
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March 2 - NIAGARA BASED - Healthy Relationship Series: Starting a Relationship & Technology
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March 2 - Rethinking our Futures: "Collective Voices for Digital Decolonization"
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March 2 - What are Microaggressions?
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March 2 - POW - Working with sex workers since 1990
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March 3 - Indigenous Enough Series: Teddy Syrette
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March 3 - Building Power in Our Communities
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March 3 - The Profits of Slavery and the Wealth of Universities
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March 3 - Open Space for Antiracism: Exploring Racism while White + Jewish- March '21
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March 3 - 3R: Sex Worker Rights Awareness Event
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March 3 - After Abolition--Looking Back and Looking Forward (March Discussion)
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March 3 - Organizing for Racial Justice After the Inauguration
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March 3 - CARE-WORK Symposium Closing Keynote Lecture by Silvia Federici, Ph.D.
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March 3 - So You Want to Create a Race, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team
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March 3 - What Remains: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Videogames, and an Empire in Play
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March 3 - Dis-section: Disability inclusion in the LGBTQ+ community
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March 4-5 - Social Work , White Supremacy, and Racial Justice Symposium (Part 3)
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March 4 - NIAGARA BASED EVENT - Black Minds Matter with Julie Christiansen
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March 4 - NIAGARA BASED EVENT - Black Self Love (BIPOC only)
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March 4 - Maplehurst Hunger Strike: What Is Going On Inside?
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March 4 - Not Your Model Minority: The Art and Activism of Renee Tajima Peña
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March 4 - Social Work , White Supremacy, and Racial Justice Symposium
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March 4 - Unions & Social Movements: From Defund the Police and Beyond
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March 4 - Indigenous Speakers Series presents Dr. Evan Adams
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March 4 - The Global Activists Shaping the Future of Abortion Access
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March 4 - Shut It Down! Grassroots Stories of Prison Abolition from Across the U.S.
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March 4 - #WAMI2021 Panel: Imagining a Decarcerated Louisiana
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March 4 - Language Learning & Teaching: On Anti-Coloniality As Teaching
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March 5 - NIAGARA BASED EVENT - Jerk Seasoning & Curry Powder
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March 5 - Black and Beyond: Black Empowerment, Liberation & Joy
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March 5 - Ricky Varghese & Benjamin Weil, Privilege, Race & Imagined Immunities in the Time of COVID
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March 5 - Student Leadership Series: Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression 101
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March 5 - “Building Together”: Prison Organizing in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
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March 6 - Women Human Rights & Resistance
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March 8 - Black, Feminist and Queer Anarchy
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March 8 - Harm Reduction Tips for Trans Folks
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March 8 - Indigenous Sovereignty, Anti-Racism, & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting
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March 8 - Womxn Act for Climate Justice - International Women's Day Online Event
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March 8 - Don't stop me now: Songs of resilience
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March 8 - Interviewer Effects in Demographic and Health Surveys Abortion Data
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March 8 - Women and COVID-19: Equity and marginalisation during the pandemic
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March 9 - Mariame Kaba: Chicago Reparations and the Fight for an Abolitionist Future
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March 9 - Black Like Us
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March 9 - Introduction to Intersectional Environmental Justice
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March 9 - Abortion is Everyone's Problem: The Urgency of Intersectional Repro Rights
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March 10 - Not Your Model Minority: The Art and Activism of Renee Tajima Peña
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March 10 - Decolonizing: Placing Indigenous People into the Conversation
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March 10 - Tenille K. Campbell with Joshua Whitehead
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March 10 - IWD 2021 - The Evolution of the Revolution
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March 10 - Abortion Protests and Struggles for Reproductive Justice in Latin America
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March 10 - Dismantling the Stigma: SWARM collective on sex work in the UK
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March 10 - 3R: Sex Worker Rights Awareness Event
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March 10 - Fanm Rebèl: Excavating the Histories of Haiti's Women Revolutionaries
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March 11 - NIAGARA & OPIRG - Solidarity is Not a Metaphor
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March 11 - On Decolonizing Therapy: A Live Online Conversation with Jennifer Mullan
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March 11 - Transformative Justice in the Apocalypse: Beyond Survival One Year Later
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March 11 - Policing the Womb
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March 11 - Making Space: Stories of Disabled Youth in the GTA (Part One)
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March 11 - Recognizing Ableism: A Workshop on Disability, Inclusion, and Empowerment
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March 12 - Decolonization and Rematriation: Cultivating Roots for Connection & Healing
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March 12 - Queer Directions Symposium: Indigeneities & Sexualities
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March 12 - Anti-Racism: (Un)comfortable Conversations in Education
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March 12 - Student Leadership Series: Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression 101
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March 12 - Fighting for Sex Workers' Rights: A Panel Discussion
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March 12 - Anticapitalism and Care with Silvia Federici and Camille Barbagallo
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March 13 - Critical Resistance Intro Workshop Series: Intro to the PIC & Abolition
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March 13. - Three Dads and a Baby: Ian Jenkins on Poly Parenting
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March 14 - 'District 15' + 'Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock' Watch Party
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March 16 - Creating Trauma Informed Spaces - Consent at Trent
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March 16 - Landscapes of Environmental Justice: Bridging Past and Present
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March 17 - Anti-oppression 101 workshop
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March 17 - NEA Big Read Phoenix: Indigenous Land Acknowledgments
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March 17 - Black Lives Matter at School: Early Childhood Edition
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March 17 - What is Environmental Justice?
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March 17 - 3R: Sex Worker Rights Awareness Event
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March 17 - Read & Resist: Celebrating International Women's Day
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March 18 - Visions of Abolition: Black Women's Fight to End Mass Incarceration
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March 18 - My Gender is Black?: The Speculative Refusals of Black Queer/Trans/Feminism
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March 18 - QUEER TRIVIA: QUEERING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
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March 19 - Student Leadership Series: Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression 101
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March 19 - Columbia HRLR Symposium on Sex Workers' Rights, Advocacy, & Organizing
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March 20 - The Intersection of Anti-Racism and Trauma Informed Practices
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March 22 - Online Facilitation Through an Anti-Oppression Lens with AORTA
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March 23 - NIAGARA BASED EVENT - Counter-protesting in Niagara
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March 23 - How to Search for Residential School Records
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March 23 - Why relations?
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March 24 - Ki Kikiikidowininaand Maamawi' opiwin: Aboriginal Languages Symposium
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March 24 - Jesse Wente: New Understandings: Diversity, Inclusion and COVID
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March 24 - White Supremacy and the Far Right in North America and the UK
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March 24 - SAFE ZONE TRAINING for Homeless Service Providers
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March 25 - Reflecting on Racism & Discrimination: An Overview of Canadian Slavery
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March 25 - The Future of Roe v. Wade -- (Live Event)
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March 25 - It's here and it's queer, The Queens' English, The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary!
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March 26 - Queen's Conference on Indigenous Reconciliation 2021
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March 26 - Exploring Anti-Blackness in Canada
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March 26 - Student Leadership Series: Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression 101
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March 26 - On anti-Black and anti-Chinese sentiments
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March 27 - AGM & Public Meeting: What the pandemic taught us about abortion care
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March 28 - Transphobia
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March 29 - Student Workers Will Not Pay for the Housing Crisis!
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March 31 - NIAGARA BASED EVENT - Rochelle BushSelf-Liberated and Famous: Fugitive Freedom Seekers Escape to Niagara
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March 31 - Women in Sustainability - Eco-Ableism: Disabilities & Environmentalism
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March 31 - TRAUMA AWARENESS 101 TRAINING - Hypothermia Program & FC CoC
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April 1 - NIAGARA BASED OPPORTUNITY DEADLINE - 2021 Arts Awards Nomination Form
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April 1 - "And what shall we do, we who did not die?": A Reckoning with June Jordan
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April 1 - Language Learning & Teaching: On Anti-Coloniality As Teaching
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April 2 - Crystal Fleming "The White Supremacy of Cultural Sociology: Toward a Critical Race Assessment"
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April 5 - Not Your Model Minority: The Art and Activism of Renee Tajima Peña
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April 6 - Relationalist ethical impulse amidst colonial violence
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April 6 - Riot and Refrain: Saidiya Hartman
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April 6 - Relationalist ethical impulse amidst colonial violence
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April 7 - Addressing MMIWG Data Gaps | Indigenous Perspective on Microbial Research
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April 7 - Aunt Lute x POC United Presents the Panel: Creating Our Own "Table"
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April 8 - In Dialogue: Smithsonian Objects and Social Justice
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April 9 - Racing Past-Presence: Anti-Black Racism and Black Resistance in Higher Ed
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April 10 - Critical Resistance Intro Workshop Series: Intro to the PIC & Abolition
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April 10 - Empowering Trans POC
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April 21 - Race & Anti-Black Racism in America
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April 22 - Sex, Love and Aging: Realistic and Resilient
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April 29 - As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice
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May 18 - Decolonizing Palestine Solidarity Politics & the Commitment to Relationality
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May 28 - 2021 Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies Research Conference “Healing, Care, and Resistance”