campaigns
Since the very beginning OPIRG Carleton and its working groups have led campaigns on and off campus that have had massive impacts. Whether it was bringing recycling to the Carleton campus or boycotting Pepsi for peace in Burma, we will continue to learn from our past to take action in the present and work to reimagine our futures!
Community Campaigns
FREEDOM FOR ALL PALESTINIAN STUDENTS
Organized by:
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
OPIRG-Carleton joins the global call to urge the immediate freedom of imprisoned Palestinian students and the protection of Palestinian students’ right to education, right to political expression and involvement and right to determine their own futures. The Israeli occupation has targeted Palestinian students and, specifically, the Palestinian student movement and Palestinian student organizations for harsh repression and political detention and imprisonment.We join together to call for action and support for Palestinian students behind bars, including:
Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, including Israeli academic institutions, which are fully complicit in the systematic deprivation of Palestinian rights.
Ending all military and economic aid, military transactions, joint projects and direct funding to the Israeli occupation regime by governments around the world.
Challenging “normalization” programs that aim to legitimize Israeli occupation -- this is an attempt to legitimize the criminalization and targeting of Palestinian students.
Organizing to build direct links of solidarity with Palestinian students and the Palestinian student movement, to ensure that they will not be isolated from their global community of support despite all attempts by the Israeli occupation.
Read the full sign-on statement.
call for solidarity with the palestinian community
Organized by:
Students for Justice in Palestine @ CarletonU
“The worldwide outpour of support for Palestine and its people is historic and reflects a turning tide. We have immense hope that the occupation will end within our lifetime, but only if we reject complacency. We cannot become desensitized to Palestinian death. We cannot stop speaking up against the occupation. The Palestinian struggle for liberation is not a trend and we must maintain pressure. We must pressure our institutions and our government to end their complicity in international human rights violations. So we are calling on the Carleton community to publicly and formally condemn Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and commit to solidarity with it’s Palestinian students, faculty and staff who many of are affected directly by the heightened violence imposed by Israeli military forces on the people of Palestine.”
Read the full Open Letter & Sign the Petition
Black Square: A Year and A Day
The Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition (OBDC) is calling on city officials to advocate for the following demands:
1. Maintain the freeze on Ottawa Police budget and increase funding into social programs.
2. No police in contested Indigenous territories.
3. End dynamic entry, mental health checks, and sexual assault by police. 4. End discrimination against Indigenous & Black students in schools.
5. Immediate end of Student Resource Officer program. 6. Removal of thin blue line flag in front of Ottawa Police Association Building
7. Increased funding for Indigenous and Black students.
8. Increased funding to fight the public health crisis of systemic racism.
9. End racism in healthcare systems and public services.
10. Rename the Sir John A. MacDonald Parkway
Read the Black Square: A Year and A Day press release here.