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Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week March 1-7, 2010!
First launched in Toronto in 2005, IAW has grown to become one of the most
important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar. Last year, more
than 35 cities around the world participated in the week's activities, which
took place in the wake of Israel's brutal assault against the people of Gaza.
In Toronto, IAW 2009 featured a full week of events kicked off by Palestinian
activist and writer Omar Barghouti.

IAW 2010 takes place following a year of incredible successes for the Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the global level. Lectures, films,
and actions will highlight some of these successes along with the many
injustices that continue to make BDS so crucial in the battle to end Israeli
Apartheid.

Peterborough Israeli Apartheid Week schedule will be available soon at
our web page: http://peterboroughcps.blogspot.com/

For more information, please visit IAW website www.apartheidweek.org

or contact Peterborough Coalition for Palestinian Solidarity for
information on how to get involved:
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In Solidarity,
Peterborough Coalition for Palestinian Solidarity
 
Free Market & Food Cupboard drop off bin at Bata!

OPIRG's Free Market now has a drop off bin permanently located at the entrance of Bata Library. When you have clothes, household goods, books or non perishable food... drop it off in the Free Market bin at Bata Library, Trent University.

All donated items will be taken to the Free Market, located at Sadleir House, to be given away at no cost to whoever needs the items. OPIRG's Food Cupboard and Free Market are both located at Sadleir (751 George St. North)

 Please join in and donate!  

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Free Documentaries: Wednesday Nights @ 7pm!!

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Come out every Wednesday for a free documentary film, presented by OPIRG (and often co-hosted by other social justice and environmental organizations). Students and non-students alike are invited! Wheelchair accessible (from parking lot doors).

The documentaries start at 7pm in Sadleir House, 751 George St. North.The documentary and the organic popcorn are free, but donations are happily accepted!

For more information contact OPIRG at 741-1208. Special thanks to the Trent Film Society

Upcoming Movies in 2010:

 

Feb 10th: Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm

Passion and Power tracks the controversial history of the electro-magnetic vibrator from the Victorian era – when doctors used the device to treat so-called hysterics – to the postfeminist present, as we bear unfortunate witness to the passage of reactionary laws banning its sale in several states.

 

Feb 17th: Reading Break

No Movie

 

Feb 24th: Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car? investigates the events leading to the quiet destruction of thousands of new, radically efficient electric vehicles. Through interviews and narrative, the film paints a picture of an industrial culture whose aversion to change and reliance on oil may be deeper then its ability to embrace ready solutions.

March 3rd: The Fight for True Farming

In this documentary, crop and animal farmers in Quebec, the Canadian West, the US Northeast, and France offer solutions to the social and environmental scourges of factory farming. Driven by the forces of globalization, rampant agribusiness is harming the environment and threatening the survival of farms. The proliferation of GMO crops is a further threat to biodiversity, and also to farmers’ autonomy. In Europe and North America, a current of resistance brings farmers and consumers together; the groups insist that it is possible, and indeed imperative to grow food differently. The Fight for True Farming is a film of grim lucidity and irrepressible hope.

 

March 10th

No film

 

March 17th: Diamonds of War- Africa's Blood Diamonds

Hosted by investigative reporter Dominic Cunningham-Reid, this National Geographic TV special follows the international trade of illegal diamonds along a danger-filled route from Sierra Leone to Antwerp. Much of the footage is disturbingly authentic, culled via hidden cameras and surveillance photos. It is clear throughout that Cunningham-Reid and his crew are in grave danger as they article the tie-in between diamond smuggling and the financing of terrorists.

   

March 24th: Darfur Diaries: Message from Home

Darfur Diaries: Message From Home is a brutally honest inside look into the current tragedy befalling the Darfur region. Filmmakers Adam Shapiro, Jen Marlow and Aisha Bain filmed the personal stories of those affected by the horrors in the Darfur region. This documentary serves not only to educate the world about the genocide being committed on a daily basis, but also as a message that we as a global society must come together and make a difference by helping those who are suffering.  

 

March 31st: The Agronomist

A profile of Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist, Jean Dominique. It includes: historical footage of Haiti's vivid and tumultuous past; interviews with Dominique, himself and with Michele Montas--his heroic wife, life-long love, and extraordinary partner; and incorporates footage shot before Dominique's assassination on April 3, 2000.

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What is OPIRG?
Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) Peterborough

Established in 1976, OPIRG Peterborough is a campus-based, community-oriented, non-profit organization committed to research, education and action on social justice and environmental issues. Each year, OPIRG staff and volunteers organize speakers, films, conferences, publications and campaigns on a wide variety of topics that fit within our mandate. We also offer skills development workshops and research-for-credit opportunities.

A volunteer board of directors works with one full-time staff person to administer the office and resource library, develop programming, allocate resources, and network with other campus and community organizations. The OPIRG board uses a consensus decision-making process and meets fortnightly during the school year. Board members are elected annually and usually serve a two-year term.

OPIRG Peterborough is an autonomous member of Ontario PIRG, a provincial network of eleven PIRGs. In August of 2005, OPIRG Peterborough became incorporated under the province of Ontario.
 
33 Years of Action in Peterborough(and counting!)
 
For more than three decades, the Peterborough Chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) has been pursuing social justice and environmental activism on the Trent campus and the Peterborough community. During this long history, OPIRG has worked on a wide range of issues and has seen its alumni go on to contribute to other social justice and environmental movements after they leave Trent. Today, OPIRG continues to be a dynamic organization where many Trent students learn the skills and knowledge they need to be active citizens. 

OPIRG-Peterborough is a campus-based, community oriented non-profit organization that receives its core funding from a refundable nine dollar levy that is paid by all full-time Trent undergraduate students. It was founded in 1976 by a campus-wide referendum. That year, it was called PeterPIRG and it was founded by a five dollar levy. In 1986, the levy was brought up from $5 to $7 and again in 1991 from $7 to $9. 

The PIRG movement originated with the consumer activist Ralph Nader during the early seventies, as he encouraged students on university campuses in the United States and Canada to create campus-based organizations that could facilitate the teaching and use of activist skills by students. In 1973, the first Ontario PIRG was established and today there are 11 PIRGs  at universities across Ontario and several across the country.
 
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