Are you looking for a great opportunity to upgrade your wardrobe with a sustainable twist?! Check out the upcoming Free Market Giveaway dates for 2025! We are always looking for volunteers to help with the program! It’s a great way to make connections with OPIRG Peterborough and be proactive in the community. Keep looking out … Read more
Join us July 15 & 29th, August 12 & 26 from 6-8 pm to read the first-ever English translation of the novel, The Trinity of Fundamentals by Wisam Rafeedie! 📖 We will learn about Rafeedie’s experiences hiding from the occupation alongside the twenty-two-year-old Kan’an’s unshakable commitment to the Palestinian cause. Rafeedie went from hiding in … Read more
On Thursday, April 25 OPIRG Peterborough is hosting an Emergency Community Forum at Emmanuel United Church at 3 pm to inform our community about the current risk to our programming. What is Happening After 20 years of operating in Sadleir House, OPIRG Peterborough has been told by Sadleir House staff and board that we have … Read more
🌸 Spring has sprung in Peterborough ! Join us on April 2nd from 12-2 pm at the event space room 1.17 in Trent university for an amazing FREE MARKET event hosted by OPIRG Peterborough! 🌼🛍️ Don’t miss out on the chance to discover unique treasures. You can also bring any items you have to donate! … Read more
Do you like free things, reducing waste and sharing with your community? Spread warmth and kindness while reducing your impact on the environment! Join us in a FREE clothing exchange Saturday January 27th, from 11 am – 2pm at the Emmanuel United Church. The Free Market is a program that has been running for over … Read more
Do you like free things, reducing waste, and sharing with your community?! Join us on Monday, June 18th for our upcoming Free Market pop-up! The Free Market is a program that has been running for over 15 years, it allows for members of the Peterborough community and students to have access to basic necessities, such … Read more
Do you like free things, reducing waste, and sharing with your community?! Join us on Saturday, January 21st at our upcoming Free Market giveaway! The Free Market is a program that has been running for over 15 years, it allows for members of the Peterborough community and students to have access to basic necessities, such … Read more
Prisons are a colonial imposition on Indigenous lands and continue to perpetuate settler-colonial warfare against Indigenous peoples. An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide is compromised of the work of Indigenous scholars and organizers to address the need for an explicitly Indigenous, anti-colonial abolitionist analysis of the penal system. The guide emphasizes the necessity of defunding the … Read more
Indigenous knowledges are crucial to ensuring life will be sustained and continued. We must acknowledge the significance of Indigenous knowledge, voices, traditions, and sciences to environmental justice. Justice for Indigenous peoples and environmental justice are interconnected and one cannot occur without the other. Through this series, we hope to highlight how environmental justice through localized … Read more
OPIRG Peterborough and BLM Nogojiwanong are hosting Dr. Wilburn Hayden, PhD Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the School of Social Work at York University, to discuss the ‘Omission and Exclusion of Black People in Canada’s Past: Canadian Enslavement and Participation in the Trans-Atlantic Black Slave Trade.’ The talk is an examination of the ethos … Read more