Comedy Night for Your Rights! Ft. Kristina Wong and Hari Kondabolu Thurs...
WPIRG Presents: COMEDY NIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS! Celebrating WPIRG’s 40 Year Anniversary presenting social and environmental justice programming on campus Thursday March 6, 2014, Doors 6:30PM Show 7Pm,...
View ArticleJob Posting: Project Coordinator
Position: Rainbow Reels Queer Film Festival Project Coordinator Position Type: Contract, part-time Start Date: March 10, 2014 Rainbow Reels is a 3 day-long annual Queer Film and Arts Festival and has...
View ArticleNominations for the WPIRG Social Justice Awards
ON OUR 40TH ANNIVERSARY, WPIRG IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE CREATION OF THE WPIRG SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST AWARDS! To mark our 40th anniversary, the Waterloo Public Interest Reseach Group (WPIRG) is...
View ArticleWPIRG 2013-2014 Operating Budget
Many of our members have recently requested that WPIRG publish our operating budget for the 2013-2014 year, and we’ve listened! To view a breakdown of our operating budget, please click here.
View ArticleAnnual General Meeting
Thursday, April 3, 6pm - SLC Multipurpose Room At the AGM, all WPIRG student and community members – that’s you! – come together to help WPIRG transition into a new year by: 1. Electing new members to...
View ArticleWPIRG’s 2014 AGM Agenda
WATERLOO PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AGENDA SLC Multi-Purpose Room Thursday, April 3th 2014 – 6pm to 8:15pm 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER [2 minutes] 2. LAND RECOGNITION [2...
View ArticleWebsite Re-Design!
Our website is getting a make-over. You may see the odd broken link or missing data while it is being worked on. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience.
View ArticleRainbow Reels 2014!
During May 9-11, 2014, the Rainbow Reels Queer & Trans* Film Festival will be taking place in Waterloo at Princess Twin Cinemas. This year’s festival will include six films, a night of...
View ArticleCinema Politica Summer 2014 Film Series
WPIRG and Princess Cinema are teaming up this summer to present the Cinema Politica Summer 2014 Film Series with the theme of “Piracy, Privacy and the Fight for Online Freedom.” We will be showing a...
View ArticleMembers Meeting – Thursday, July 17 @ 5:30pm
Last Members Meeting of the summer and it is an important one! The WPIRG Board of Directors needs your feedback on a number of key decisions that will shape how WPIRG works and what we do in the...
View ArticleJob Posting: Digital Archives Coordinator
WPIRG is hiring a student to digitize physical archives documenting our exciting 40-year history! Working with the full-time Staff, the Digital Archives Coordinator will digitize relevant portions of...
View ArticleEmployment Opportunity: Coordinator of Projects
WPIRG is seeking a personable and organized individual with a demonstrated commitment to social and environmental justice to fill the full-time permanent position of ‘Coordinator of Projects and...
View ArticleBoard of Directors Statement on SLC Lease Termination
16 July 2014 WPIRG Forced to Move out of SLC The WPIRG Board of Directors would like to inform our members and volunteers that the Federation of Students (Feds) has terminated WPIRG’s lease for our...
View ArticleWPIRG @ the People’s Social Forum (Aug. 21-24)
Join WPIRG & travel to Ottawa this August for 2014’s landmark gathering of progressive organizations and grassroots social justice movements, the Peoples’ Social Forum. WPIRG is arranging...
View ArticleAamer Rahman – The Truth Hurts w/ the KW Poetry Slam (Sept. 10)
WPIRG is happy to present a free event featuring stand-up comedian Aamer Rahman (formerly of Fear of a Brown Planet) and the KW Poetry Slam. Join us as we kick off another Fall term of social and...
View ArticleNew Office Hours and Location
WPIRG continues to search for a permanent on-campus office. In the meantime, we have made the following temporary arrangements: Office Hours Engineers Without Borders-UW has graciously offered to host...
View ArticleFall 2014 Fee Refund Information
Due to our recent move from the SLC, refunds for the Fall 2014 term will be available in Engineering 5 inside the AECON Atrium (top of the E5 main stairs). Refunds will be available Monday to Friday...
View Article“Get to know WPIRG” September Event Series
Interested in finding out more about WPIRG? Looking to volunteer? Drop by any of these events to meet other students who are already active with WPIRG and find out what we have planned for the term.
View ArticleCinema Politica Fall 2014 Film Series
Check out these great independent award-winning films put on by WPIRG and Cinema Politica! Each term we run a series of films at the Princess Cinema in uptown Waterloo (off the iXpress). Discussions at...
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