It's that time of the year again.
No! not final projects and essays time! No! not longingly starring out of the library window studying for exam time No! not moving out of your student apartment time/spring cleaning!

It's OPIRG VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION time! and this year it will be celebrated with FREE BOWLING!!!!

OPIRG is a volunteer run not-for-profit. We only exist because of all the time and work that are wonderful, hardworking, creative volunteers give to us. It's time to say THANKS!!!

Please join us at the merritton community centre, 4 park avenue, this wednesday march 31st from 7-10pm for snacks and an activist bowling tournament. We will also be giving out awards to three folks: outstanding community, undergraduate and graduate volunteer - IT COULD BE YOU! so you'd better show up!

also - we will be carpooling folks from campus and downtown. Please let me know if you have a car, or need a ride - opirgbu@gmail.com

Sex work activists are arguing Canada's Criminal Code provisions in relation to
sex work are a form of gender based discrimination.
Do Canada's laws make sex workers' lives more dangerous?

PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING:

Valerie Scott - Plaintiff in the current constitutional challenge
Kara Gillies - Maggie's Prostitutes' Community Project
Deb Nancen - Terry's Evergreen Addiction services
Lime Jello and River Redwood - Big Susies
Ebru Ustundag - Assistant Professor, Brock University

THURSDAY MARCH 11th
6:00-8:30
Market Square

The OPIRG Downtown Info Shop needs volunteers!! We are looking for folks for many different tasks to keep the Info Shop running smoothly. We need a couple of volunteers for regular 'shifts' at the info shop (in order to keep the shop open 6 days per week). We also need people for many other tasks including:

-Postering -weekly
-Tabelling at music and solidarity events (free entrance to events!!)- a few times per week
-fundraiser planning- monthly
-General shop maintenance (ie. renovations, painting, cleaning, making displays ect.) - a few times per month
-Making or reproducing sales items (ie. zines, patches, buttons) - twice per month
-updating blog- few times per month
-Making awesome posters- 1 or 2 per month
-running workshops- whenever possible
-running free school classes- starting mid-January
-Operating Info Shop- two days per week, 5 hour shifts.

We need volunteers for all of these as soon as possible. If you have a specific interest or skill that you think would be helpful in running a really good shop, please don't hesitate to email Randi at opirginfoshop@gmail.com.

Randi will be running a volunteer training session on Saturday December 19th from 1pm-2:30pm at the Info Shop (73 St.Paul st, St.Catharines).

If you are interested in getting a formal introduction to the Info Shop, please come! (please RSVP before Dec 16th). If you are available to start volunteering before that, contact Randi and she will set you up!!!

The OPIRG Downtown Info Shop is currently open Wed to Sat from 12pm-5pm--come and visit us in our new cool spot!

DIY Screen Printing

November 19th, OPIRG InfoShop, 73 St. Paul Street, 5-7pm
learn how to silk screen the easy way! no chemicals needed, just your creativity!

Emulsion Screen Printing

November 26th, OPIRG InfoShop, 73 St. Paul Street, 5-7pm
A bit more complicated, but in the end, a heck of lot more exciting!!!!

Zines and Zine Making

December 3rd, OPIRG InfoShop, 73 St. Paul Street, 5-7pm
Counter culture's favourite reading material. No anarchist bathroom should be without one! Check out our zine library and learn how to make your own.

Buttons, Stickers and Banners

December 10th, OPIRG InfoShop, 73 St. Paul Street, 5-7pm
Get your message across!

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

OPIRG House of Horrors

Wednesday October 28th - Sunday November 1st - OPIRG Radical Infoshop 73 St. Paul Street
Genetically Modified Food, the International Arms Trade, Violence Against Women - OH MY!

OPIRG will be turning their radical infoshop into a veritable house of horrors, spotlighting some the most heinous social and environmental injustices we live with daily. Want to participate by setting up your own socially relevant scary display? Want a private tour, led by an opirg volunteer? To set up a display, or book a tour for your class, friends, colleagues or family please contact randi at opirginfoshop@gmail.com

Devil's Night Critical Mass

Friday October 30th, 5:45pm - Montebello Park
Come in costume! decorate your bike! At minimum wear a silly hat (or decorate your helmet!). After party at the OPIRG radical Infoshop/house of horrors
Critical Mass St. Catharines is part of the global movement to reclaim the streets for person powered modes of transportation: bicycles, skateboards, rollerblades, wheelchairs, unicycles, pogo sticks!!!! It is an act of community building, a rallying call for a city dedicated to sustainable transportation, and most importantly an opportunity to meet folk who love bikes!
We meet at 5:45pm on the last friday of every months at Montebello Park and take to the streets! No one is the leader of Critical Mass, so get out there and start telling people all about the coolest monthly alternative transportation event in town! Make your own posters, contact various media outlets. This is participatory democracy in action!

Halloween OPIRG Fundraiser

Friday October 30th, 7pm - Radical Infoshop, 73 St. Paul Street
we do the mash! we do the monster mash

The most informative halloween party in niagara! Bobbing for organic locally grown apples, costume contest! Rumour has it that Harper, Obama and the rest of the G8 might even show up to talk about unjust debt and trading policy, global warming, poverty in Africa, the proliferation of AIDS due to medicine patents and other horrors associated with globalization!