Defending community infrastructures : CHUO and OPIRG at uOttawa

Good morning,

I’m writing this just before going to uOttawa for a last push of flyering and talking with students.

Two of the questions on their ballot this week, as part of the annual general elections for undergraduate students, are on re-establishing student levies for campus/community radio station CHUO 89.1 FM and for OPIRG-GRIPO, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group at uOttawa.

I’ve been part of the Restore CHUO campaign, and I wrote a long-form piece about both after the Ottawa Citizen rejected the op-ed I sent for them to publish.

Please take a moment to read my piece (at least the op-ed part) and if you know any uOttawa students and can reach them before 6pm today, please let them know to vote (they vote online, so it is very quick and hassle-free for them to do).

Also to note: what I wrote goes beyond this particular campaign, and there is some good activist history in there.

“Future in Peril for PIRG and Campus/Community Radio at the University of Ottawa"