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
OPIRG Brock Events
PETITIONS & CALLS TO ACTION
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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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January 18-20 - Looking Within: Anti-Black Racism and the GBV Sector in Canada
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January 18 - ENVISIONING BLACK WOMANHOOD IN ART AND POETRY
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January 18 - Building Alternative Futures of Work
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January 18 - MLK & the Labor Movement
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January 18 - Prepared for the struggles ahead? Trade unions in the European Union during the COVID-19 pandemic
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January 18 - MLK Community "To Seek Justice" Event
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January 18 - Building Alternative Futures of Work
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January 19 - SLCC MLK 2021Panel; Racial Inequality, Economic Injustice, and Reparations
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January 19 - Racial Literacy as a Pathway to Healing with Lion's Story
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January 19 - Defiance: Queerness in a State of Illegality
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January 19 - Blackness and Race in Mexico: A Discussion
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January 19 - The Union Comes to Town: A Labor History of Willow Run
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January 19 - Taking Action: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Conservation
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January 19 - Disability (is not a bad word)
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January 19 - Defiance: Queerness in a State of Illegality
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January 20 - NIAGARA BASED EVENT - Engaging Your Members Amidst COVID
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January 20 - NIAGARA BASED - Art Speaks: Charlie Petch’s Introduction to Poetry, Performance and Artivism
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January 20 - Organizing Community-Led Food Distribution
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January 20 - How can we bring sexual harassment policies to life within our organisation
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January 21 - NIAGRA BASED EVENT - A Song Is A Little Fire: The Artist as Activist (Art Speaks 2021)
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January 21 - Durag Discussions: Supporting Sex Workers
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January 21 - Social Justice Speaker - Raising AntiBias/AntiRacist Children Erica Snowden
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January 21 - Allyship in Action: Creators Holding Travel Brands Accountable
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January 21 - "Migration, Equality & Racism. 44 Opinions" BOOK LAUNCH
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January 21 - The State of Reproductive Rights
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January 21 - A New Oregon: Building Solidarity with Black and Indigenous Communities
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January 21 - Environmental Justice Seminar: Climate Change, Pollution & Social Justice
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January 21 - Standing Rock: Decolonizing Creative Practice within Environmental Justice
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January 21 - An African Path to Disability Justice
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January 21 - Tenant Union Organizing Training
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January 21 - Understanding Ableism: Nothing About Us, Without Us!
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January 22-23 - 23rd Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit
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January 22 & 29 - Dissecting Race and Racism - 2 Sessions
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January 22 - Sitting With Discomfort: Racism and Intersectional Oppressions
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January 22 - Anti-Oppression and the Body
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January 23 - OUR BODIES, OUR LIVES - the Struggle to Save Women's Reproductive Rights
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January 23 - Transformational Change: Building a Mental Health Emergency Service
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January 24 - Queerness & Islam Panel
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January 25 - Indigenous Stewardship & Environmental Justice: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke
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January 25 - 'Compton's Cafeteria': in conversation with Susan Stryker
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January 25 - Front Lines of Gender Justice (Lisa Sangoi (Movement for Family Power) and Ericka Brewington, Drug Testing of Pregnant People and Newborns)
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January 25 - Toward Reproductive Justice and Reproductive Self-Determination
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January 25 - Ethical Storytelling: An Anti-Oppression Toolkit for Creators
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January 25 - Abolition, Deinstitutionalization, and Decarceration in the Pandemic
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January 26 - Beyond Limits Presents Andrew Gurza: Disability & Sex
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January 26 - Mutual Aid Reading Group
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January 26 - Frantz Fanon: an Introduction
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January 27 - Historic Activists
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January 27 - The Colonialism-Depression Link: A Talk with Alicia Elliott
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January 27 - The Power of the Arts and Humanities: Meet SFU's 2020-21 Shadbolt Fellows
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January 27 - Balancing AntiRacism, Current Events, Politics in Romance with Alexa Martin
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January 27 - CLP - The Gendering of Constitutionalism
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January 27 - Union Values and LGBTQ+ Worker Experiences
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January 27 - Hello Culture Remix: Are You Experienced? Digital and Queer Culture
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January 28 - From Platitudes to Gratitude: A Land Acknowledgement Workshop
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January 28 - Liberation Through Abolition: Our Approach to Teaching and Learning
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January 28 - Building power: Centering anti-racism and anti-oppression practice
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January 28 - Activism: How To Be The Ultimate Digital Activist
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January 28 - Anti-Racism Workshop
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January 28 - EVC Presents: Docs & Dialogue - Abortion Past Present and Future
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January 29 - Sexualized Violence, Transformative Justice & the Shift Away from Criminalization
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January 29 - Antiracism and Whiteness Training for White LGBTQ Helping Professionals
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January 29 - Feminist Perspectives on Neurodiversity and Neuronormativity
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January 29 - Feminist Perspectives on Neurodiversity and Neuronormativity
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January 29 - International Seminar On Pedagogical Approaches in all Subjects
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January 30 - TransformAsian
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January 30 - Tough Talk: Telling Difficult Stories Through Zines
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January 31 - COVID, Racism and the Far Right
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January 31 - Surviving Burnout from Ableism & Racism in the Pandemic - #LiberatingWebinars
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February 1 - Organizational Communication: an anti-oppressive communication workshop
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February 1 - Front Lines of Gender Justice (Khiara Bridges (UC Berkeley Law), Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality)
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February 3 - African-Soviet Encounters: New Histories of Russian Racism & Anti-Racism
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February 4 - Language Learning & Teaching: On Anti-Coloniality As Teaching
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February 4 - ln Search of Our Black Queer Ancestors
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February 5 - It’s Time to Act: Activism at Every Age
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February 5 - Understanding Racism, Oppression and Allyship in Health and Wellness
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February 6 - Anti-Racism for Activists
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February 6 - The Politics of Disability Roundtable - Disability & Ableism
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February 8 - Front Lines of Gender Justice ( Julie Suk (CUNY Graduate Center), Equal Rights Amendment)
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February 8 - Queering the Conservatoire: Beyond the diversity checklist- Session 1
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February 9 - Queer Histories and Presents
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February 8 - A BRIEF HISTORY OF DRAG KINGS
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February 10 - Queer Dialogue: Identity Priorities: Embracing your Intersectionality
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February 10 - Queer Dialogue: Identity Priorities: Embracing your Intersectionality
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February 11 - Unsilencing, Unnaming, and Institutional Transformation
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February 11 - Social Justice Movements in the Changed Reality of the Pandemic and Beyond
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February 11 - Racial Justice Through Collaborative Programs and Projects
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February 11 - Radical Self-care in an Era of Activism: A Virtual Salon
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February 12 - adrienne maree brown on Pleasure Activism: A Live Online Conversation
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February 15 - Front Lines of Gender Justice (Farah Diaz-Tello (If/When/How), Reproductive Justice)
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February 15 - Queering the Conservatoire: Beyond the diversity checklist- Session 2
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February 16 - Workshop on Queer Studies and Queer Histories
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February 17 - A Queer Talk On Queer History
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February 19 - The Queer Art of Surviving a Pandemic: An Online Workshop with Popo Fan
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February 20 - Anti-racism in Britain: Histories and Trajectories
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February 20 - Coldest Night Of The Year 2021
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February 21 - Permaculture: Social and Environmental Justice
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February 22 - Front Lines of Gender Justice (Clement Lee (Sex Workers Project), Justice for Sex Workers)
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February 25 - Queer disabilities during the pandemic
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February 27 - Fighting for anti-racist workplaces - Stand Up To Racism & TUC conference
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March 22 - Online Facilitation Through an Anti-Oppression Lens with AORTA
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April 7 - Aunt Lute x POC United Presents the Panel: Creating Our Own "Table"