Fair Trade Trent is working towards several exciting actions this semester! Projects include Transfair's Fair Trade Towns Initiative, campus awareness campaigns, and monitoring the implementation of Trent's ethical purchasing policies.

The group meets regularly as needed and are always welcoming new members! Email cjcenten@gmail for more information or if you'd like to be included in our mailouts. 

SAGE peacefully opposes the renewed focus on nuclear energy and the mining of uranium in Ontario, and is an advocate for safe and renewable energy sources.

SAGE is comprised of a group of concerned Ontario citizens who peacefully oppose the renewed focus on nuclear energy and the mining of uranium in Ontario, and is an advocate for safe and renewable energy sources. SAGE members share a concern for the environment, the future of humanity, social equity, and the responsible management of public funds.

SAGE activities focus on exposing the drawbacks and costs of nuclear energy in the light of renewable energy options. SAGE also recognizes the short and long-term hazards of uranium mining as major pitfalls within any nuclear energy strategy.

SAGE networks with other anti-nuclear and environmental groups across Ontario and Canada.

For more information contact goSAGE@yahoo.ca
and check out our website: www.gosage.net

         The primary goal of the Free Market Collective is to provide a space for the redistribution of donated clothing and other items to members of the Trent and Peterborough communities. At the Free Market "store" people can come in and take as much as they want for free, without donating anything. This is not a bartering or trading system, but rather a space where items that are no longer needed by one person can be redistributed to those who need (or want) them.     

The Free Market is an initiative begun by a small group of Trent students in 2005, who wanted to promote the values of reusing and recycling over discarding and "re-consuming". By opening the Free Market 'store', they were able to serve the environmental purpose of reducing waste materials through reuse, and the social justice purpose of providing free goods to those who need them. The name name plays off the neo-liberal concept of free-market.

For the past few years, The Free Market, opporated in the basement of  Sadleir House, 751 George St N. Open several days a week and run by student and community volunteers, the Free Market is always stocked, with donations coming in daily. In addition to keeping the space open, The Free Market organizes numerous additional events each year.

The Free Market receives only $100 per year from OPIRG-Peterborough as a working group. Even faced with this economic barrier, The Free Market remains committed to providing items free of charge. The Free Market is a wildly successful initiative that encourages reuse and aims to reduce stigma around using other people’s used items. Students and community members have shown great interest in The Free Market, exemplified by their abundant donations and their enthusiastic reuse of the goods available.

            All members of the Trent and Peterborough communities are welcome and invited to come and take items free of charge.

2009 Hours of Operation (until Dec 2009):  

Mon-Fri: 1-5pm

 

2010 Hours of Operation (starting Jan 2010):  

Mon-Tuesday: Closed

Wed: 3-5

Thursday and Friday: 1-5

Weekends: closed

The Free Market is always looking for volunteers who could donate 2 hours a week to keep the project going. There is no phone at the Free Market or email address currently being used for the Free Market, so if you would like to be a part of this project or would like more information, please contact Yolanda in the OPIRG office call 741-1208 or email opirg@ trentu.ca.

Amnesty International - Trent University Chapter

Mission Statement

We are part of a global movement of over one million people from over 150 countries who are determined to stop the abuse of human rights.

We demand freedom for all prisoners of conscience – people imprisoned for their beliefs, origins, colour, gender or language, provided that they have not used or advocated violence.

We demand fair trials within a reasonable time for all political prisoners.

We demand that the death penalty be abolished, and that the torture and ill treatment of all prisoners be stopped.

We demand an end to all political killings and 'disappearances'.

We call on both governments and armed opposition groups to respect human rights.

Amnesty International is free from outside influence. It is not controlled by any government, religion, or any other organization. It does not take sides in political conflicts. The movement is funded by its members and by donations from the public. AI does not ask for nor does it accept any money from any government.

Whenever human rights violations that fall within AI's mandate take place, we demand their end – without exception.

Our Objectives

1. Support Amnesty International through fundraising.

2. Create awareness in the public through education about the human rights abuses occurring around the globe.

3. Wage our own letter writing campaign on pressing human rights issues.

Please contact Trent.AI@ hotmail.com to get involved.

For more information on our current campaigns please check out: www.Amnesty.ca