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!

OPIRG Brock is electing a new Board of Directors. Our board is responsible for deciding what big research projects and events we take on, managing our two staff members and making all financial decisions for our chapter. The board operates under the mandate of anti-oppression and comes to all their decisions through the method of consensus decision making. This ensures that we provide an inclusive and fully participatory environment where everyone feels empowered to articulate their ideas.

Volunteering on our board of directors provides students and community members with valuable experience managing and administrating a not-for-profit organization. If you are interested in employment prospects in the not-for-profit sector, sitting on our board is extremely helpful for future opportunities.

Sitting on the board involves attending biweekly meetings, as well as taking responsibility for one of nine portfolios. The nine portfolios are: BUSU/BUSCI relations, Finance, Staff relations, Provincial Representative, Resource centre management, Publicity and media outreach, Correspondence (letter writing campaign, petitions etc), Fundraising, Downtown Infoshop liaison.

If you are interesting in applying, please find a nomination form at opirgbrock.org/forms . Also, please submit your answers to the following questions:

1. What experience do you have volunteering with OPIRG? ( or generally in the non-profit sector if you are new to OPIRG)
2. How do you feel about consensus decision making?
3. What issues do you feel should be at the forefront of OPIRG Brock’s research?
4. Explain public interest research.
5. What portfolio are you most interested in and why?

Applications are due by September 30th. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at opirgbu@gmail.com or call 905 688-5550 x 4430.

JOIN US

for this year's Transportation Celebration for International Car Free Day, Sept 22nd. The event will be held at the Market Square on King St, from 5pm to 9pm. We have plans for food, music, arts and crafts, information tables, bike workshops, and BMX demos!

FREE YOURSELF FROM CAR DEPENDANCY!

STOP GLOBAL WARMING!

BECOME AN ACTIVE CITIZEN!

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