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Author Meets Readers – Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence

Irene's Pub 885 Bank St, Ottawa, ON

Register here: https://fpga.youarein.ca/author-meets-readers-apr24 Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has disproportionately harmed the poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women in […]

Global Day of Action for Gaza

Human Rights Monument 220 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA GAZA IS CALLING WE MUST ANSWER Friday April 25, 2025 Human Rights Monument 5:30pm Join us on Friday, April 25, at 5:30 at the Human Rights Monument to answer the global call to action from the journalists, doctors, and civil society of Gaza. For 18 months, the people of Gaza have been subject to […]

Barrhaven Mutual Aid Meetup

Online

Bi-weekly meeting for Barrhaven Mutual Aid. This meeting will be to discuss potential actions for us to take as a community and conduct basic feasibility tests

Free

Ottawa May Day March 2025

Confederation Park Elgin at Laurier, across from City Hall, Ottawa, ON, Canada

As a longstanding international holiday, May Day is a day to celebrate the collective power of all who labor – paid and unpaid, formal and informal, in care work and field work – all of the activities that sustain us and our community. It’s a day to recommit to forging solidarity across borders against exploitation […]

Beats & Boards Games Night!

The Grove 280-18 Louisa street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Queer + Social – DJ del Pilar spinning low-decibel Afrohouse/beats, funk & RnB. We’ll provide some classic board games – feel free to bring your own! Canteen with non-alcoholic drinks, inc beer, cocktails, & seltzers. This is a covid-safer event. ❤️ N95 or equivalent are required. Some free masks (overhead straps) will be available at […]

YINTAH Film Screening

The Grove 280-18 Louisa street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Please join us for a free screening of YINTAH , the documentary about a decade of Wet'suwet'en resistance. When: May 4th 2025 from 1-4 PM Where: The Grove - 18 Louisa St Unit 280. This event will be mask-mandatory. We ask that any eating or drinking take place outside of the space/in the hallway. KN95/N95 […]

NO OTHER LAND – A community-led film screening and panel discussion

St. Paul Amphitheatre 233 Main Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

We are pleased to invite you to a special screening of the Oscar-winning documentary, "No Other Land", followed by a community-led panel discussion to unpack the film’s powerful themes and explore what they mean in the context of Palestine today. Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025 Location: Saint Paul University Amphitheatre, 233 Main Street, Ottawa Doors […]

Queer Death Salon – Loss by Overdose or Tainted supply

Zoom

Join us for a virtual gathering for people who have lost someone or multiple people to overdose and tainted supply and who are loooking to share space with people who have experienced similar circumstances. These kinds of losses carry particular griefs related to stigma, invalidation of the loss, failure to 'save' a loved one, guilt, […]

Free – $30

Defending Dissent: Bursting the Bubble By-law Panel

PSAC Building 233 Gilmour Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Members of the Defend Dissent Coalition have been meeting to organize opposition to a proposed “bubble by-law” in Ottawa. City staff are currently studying options for banning protests within a certain distance of “vulnerable social infrastructure” like schools, healthcare facilities, and religious buildings using a similar by-law recently passed in Vaughan as a model. Organizations […]

Book Launch: Red Flags by David Camfield

Octopus Books 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, Canada

Join us for the launch of Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left by author, social justice activist, and labour studies prof David Camfield. David will be joined in conversation by queer activist and labour organizer Genevieve Latour. Tues May 13th, 7pm-8pm. Doors open at 6:30pm. Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave. RSVP via email: events@octopusbooks.ca An […]

Queer and Trans Solidarity With Palestine

St. Paul Amphitheatre 233 Main Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Join us for a community event (panel discussion with invited speakers) to learn about queer and trans solidarity with Palestine! May 16, 2025 • 7pm - 9pm Doors open at 6:30pm St. Paul University Amphitheatre, 233 Main St. Featuring: Maša Davidovic (Ottawa) Maria Fakhouri (Ottawa) Natalie Kouri-Towe (Montreal) Speakers at this event will address the […]

Blocking for Events

Online

Community Solidarity Ottawa will share its current methodology for neutralizing far right agitators at events, and protecting event attendees. There will be an opportunity for general discussion among attendees, allowing them to ask questions, discuss current trends in far right tactics and rhetoric, and exchange tips and tricks for neutralizing their attempts to harass and […]