Working Group Year End Report OPIRG McMaster 2012-2013
Randy Kay 29 May, 2013
Working Groups
What a year! 16 Working Groups worth of action! Welcome to the year end reports from OPIRG McMaster’s volunteer working groups. Each year we accept applications for working groups and every year we are pleasantly surprised by the range of interesting and important issues that come to us. Our board of directors approve or deny application based on our working group policy, and each year we are happy to see returning
groups re-apply and expand on their work, some groups having 10 years invested in their project. The results of all this activity is captured in a snapshot in the following pages, I hope you take the time to explore the depth of commitment exhibited here. As a coordinator of volunteers it is a distinct privilege to work with and learn from such an engaged and diverse group of people. Their work forms the core of what OPIRG McMaster stands for: engaged citizens learning from each other and making a difference on environmental and social justice issues, each and every day. Randy Kay Coordinator of Volunteers May 2013
Working Group Networking Meeting, March 2013
Building Community
OPIRG Working Groups identify a need and then work collectively to address it. The model is based on “from the ground up� organizing, with many groups starting something where there was nothing before, filling a gap, addressing a community concern, all using nonoppressive and consensus based decision making. Everyone gets a part to be an active agent in their own community, utilizing and developing their unique skill set, and learning and taking chances together in a supportive environment.
OPIRG McMaster
Year End Report , Appendix 1
Images
Womyn’s Bike Collective Poster
Womyn’s Bike Collective Poster
Bike Polo - Womyn’s Bike Collective
Bike-In Movie night - Womyn’s Bike Collective
Pride Ride! Womyn’s Bike Collective
Fixing flats at Bike Camp Womyn’s Bike Collective
MFNSA Second Annual Corn Soup Cook-off and Halloween October 31, 2012
Six Nations Bread and Cheese Float, May 21, 2012
Elder-In-Residence Program
OPIRG McMaster
Year End Report , Appendix 2
Images, cont.
MFNSA Welcoming Powwow, September 28, 2012
Idle No More events
Holiday Sweater Day and Social, November 30, 2012
Castel Nuovo Naples, Italy
Alhambra Castle, Grenada, Spain
Trip to Toronto for Adam Beach on the George Stroumboulopoulos show, November 13, 2012
Members of Hamiltonians for Migrant Health at OPIRG AGM
Hamilton Urban Bee Keepers at hive site, west campus
Hamilton Urban Bee Keepers wins PIG Grant from OPIRG Board of Directors
OPIRG McMaster
Year End Report , Appendix 3