QPIRG McGill

Neighbourhood Solidarity
2026-03-24 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Arts W-25, 853 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Canada
At a time where police violence, modern surveillance tactics, and the criminalization of migrants are intensifying, how do we work collectively to prepare to take care of each other, communicate with each other, and organize together? In the face of late fascism and global oppression, across borders and movements, it’s more important than ever to build networks to act from and foundations of care that support our shared goals.
This workshop provides a facilitated discussion reflecting on the common struggle, offering practices of collective preparedness and tangible actions that we can take to be stronger together locally in the face of broad structural oppressive factors. We will be discussing neighbourhood solidarity groups as a form of resistance. This includes knowing your neighbours and supporting them when police/anti-immigration procedures/landlords are at their doors, alternative communication methods, and mutual aid food and resource projects.
Join us for this crucial workshop on March 24th at 5:30pm!
Arts Building, W-25
853 rue Sherbrooke O
5:30-7:30pm
Accessibility:
The Arts Building is accessible by wheelchair via the Leacock Building (855 rue Sherbrooke O). There are accessible bathrooms on the ground floor of the Leacock Building.

Manthan Film Screening
2026-03-25 18:30 - 20:30 | McConnell Engineering, Room 12, 3480 rue University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Join us on March 25th from 6:30 pm at McEng 12 alongside South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), QPIRG-Concordia, and the Association of McGill University Support Employees (AMUSE) to watch MANTHAN (1976). This film is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary dairy cooperative movement that transformed India from a milk-deficient nation to the world’s largest milk producer. It is also India’s first crowdfunded film, produced by 500,000 dairy farmers who contributed two rupees each toward the production. Afterwards, organizers from SADAC will lead a discussion on labour, gender, caste, and community organizing in India.
MANTHAN (1976)
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Runtime 134 minutes
VOSTA
McConnell Engineering, Room 12
3480 rue University
Accessibility:
The McConnell Engineering building is wheelchair accessible via the doors closest to rue Milton, just past the Milton Gates to enter McGill campus.

Tatreez Workshop
2026-03-26 18:00 - 20:00 | QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library, 3516 Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2H7, Canada
Join us on March 26, from 6-8 PM in the QPIRG McGill Alternative Library to learn the basics of Tatreez embroidery. Tatreez is a Palestinian embroidery tradition that has been passed down through generations that carries stories of land, identity, and resistance.
This beginner-friendly workshop will be guided by local Palestinian Suzane Obeid, and will create space to learn about the significance of this cultural practice in preserving memory, identity, and as a form of resistance against erasure and ethnic cleansing.
All materials will be provided, and no prior experience is necessary. Hot drinks and sweets will be served.
Registration link here
QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library
3516 Avenue du Parc

Panel on Palestine Organizing
2026-03-27 18:00 - 20:30 | SSMU Ballroom, 301-3480 rue McTavish, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Join us on March 27th for a panel on local Palestine organizing. As the Zionist entity continues to bomb Gaza and launch violent incursions into the West Bank, and with the United Nations Security Council approving a plan for US occupation of the Gaza strip, it is more important than ever that we build unity and collective power to struggle against complicity here in the imperial core.
In this discussion with local organizers, we will reflect on coalition building, how the movement has changed in the past few years, and how Palestinian liberation is tied to other movements, ultimately moving towards a clearer, more realistic idea of what genuine “re-building” could look like.
This discussion will be moderated by Stefan Christoff.
Stefan Christoff is a media maker, community activist and artist living in Montréal. Stefan hosts the radio program Free City Radio, broadcasting weekly on nine community stations in Canada and shared globally as a podcast (Spotify + Apple Podcasts). Stefan makes music with many people globally, including Anarchist Mountains, Aidan Baker, Adriana Camancho, Aidan Girt, Lori Goldston, Nicolás Jaar, Sessa and Nour Sokhon. Stefan is on the board of the Immigrant Workers Centre in the Côte-des-Neiges district of Montreal, contributes organizationally to Cinema Politica, is a regular contributor to Radio AlHara in Palestine and coordinates support for the Sounds of Places residency at The Wonder Cabinet in Palestine. Stefan is also a street artist and works with the Social Justice Centre and is currently a graduate student in history at Concordia University in Montreal.
Panelists:
Figs (she/her) is a Palestinian-Lebanese community organizer, activist who’s an involuntary settler in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.
Since the early 2000s, she’s been involved in different forms of BIPOC solidarity, most of it for Palestine.
To her, every action is a step closer to living in a free Palestine.
When it’s time, she wants to be buried under an olive tree there.
Manuel Tapial is a Spanish-Canadian activist, coordinator, and social movements researcher based in Montreal.
With over two decades of experience in grassroots organizing and international solidarity work, he has coordinated transnational advocacy initiatives focused on refugee rights, humanitarian access, and international justice — including the Spanish campaign Rumbo a Gaza and, more recently, the Canadian delegation to the 2025 Global March to Gaza.
In Canada, he works with community-based organizations such as Palestine Vivra, contributing to public advocacy, political education, and movement-building efforts that connect local struggles — from housing justice to migrant rights — with broader international campaigns.
His research and organizing focus on the dynamics of popular movements, sovereignty, and civil resistance in contexts of displacement and conflict.
Samar Alkhdour originally hailed from Gaza, Palestine. In 2016, she earned the Fulbright scholarship to study International Development at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, USA, focusing her studies on Women, Gender and Sexuality. She worked in Gaza as interpreter/translator for eight years in the field of human rights. Samar tirelessly worked to bring her 13-year-old daughter Jana to Canada. Tragically, just two weeks before the Canadian government informed her that Jana was finally eligible to enter the country in January 2024, Jana was murdered by the IOF. Devastated by her loss, Samar channeled her grief into activism, organizing a daily sit-in outside the office of Marc Miller, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Her actions sparked broader protests against Canada’s complicity in the occupation of Palestine, expanding to target other political figures, businesses and academic institutions that support or benefit from the oppression of the Palestinian people. Samar was subjected to unlawful arrests, detention, and police brutality in the past year just for being a voice for justice, not only honoring the memory of Jana but also shining a spotlight on the complicity of those perpetuating the suffering of her people and other peoples.
Tara Al-Alami is a Palestinian writer and organiser from occupied Jerusalem and occupied Yafa. She is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC).
Amy Darwish is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based community organizer, involved in housing, migrant justice and Palestine solidarity struggles. Over the past decade, she has been a member of Tadamon, the Israeli Apartheid Week organizing committee and more recently, Papineau for Palestine.
Location
SSMU Ballroom
3480 rue McTavish, room 301
6-8:30pm
Doors at 5:30pm, panel begins at 6pm. We will have a short break at 7pm.
Accessibility:
The SSMU Building is wheelchair accessible. There are gender-neutral bathrooms on the second and fourth floor.

Annual General Meeting 2026
2026-04-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Arts Building W-120, 853 Sherbrooke Ouest, room W-120, Montreal, Canada
Birds of a feather, flock together, it’s time for the QPIRG-M Annual General Meeting!
We really ruffled some feathers this year! McGill students, Working Group members, and community members are warmly invited to come take a bird’s eye view of QPIRG’s activities this past year.
Come for a free dinner and to learn more about our fee levy increase, right-wing backlash to our activities, our Working Groups, and legal intrigue……
Thursday, April 30, 6-8pm
Arts Building, room W-120 (853 Sherbrooke O)
Hybrid Zoom option available – register here.
The Arts Building is wheelchair accessible via the Leacock Building (855 Sherbrooke O).
We will also be electing new and returning Board Members at the AGM! Board members play a crucial role in the operations and programming of QPIRG. Learn more

1982 Film Screening
2026-05-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Arts W-25, 853 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Canada
Join QPIRG-McGill for a screening of 1982 (dir. Oualid Mouaness) on May 26th from 6-9pm in ARTS W-25. 1982 follows the story of Wissam, a young boy who tries to tell his classmate Joanna that he has a crush on her, during the 1982 zionist invasion of South Lebanon.
QPIRG-McGill will also be collecting donations for displaced communities in Lebanon during the ongoing zionist aggression. Cash will be collected at the screening for Roots of Resistance, a grassroots mutual aid initiative supporting displaced communities in Lebanon through direct aid, food distribution, and collective solidarity. Rooted in community care and resilience, their work supports people facing ongoing violence, displacement, and economic hardship.

PANEL: History & Current Struggles in Prisons in Canada
2026-08-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Teesri Duniya Theatre, 251 avenue des Pins O, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1R6, Canada
This panel is an introduction to both historical and current anti-carceral work, with representation from people with lived experience as well as organizations that work towards abolition. We seek to offer a broad overview of abolitionist work by mapping out connections between different struggles, from solidarity with sex workers, to prisoner justice, to police abolition, to pan-Africanism.
Speaker bios TBA.
Prisoners’ Justice Day is an annual day (August 10) memorializing the people who have died in prison the previous year; this tradition started in Millhaven prison (Bath, ON) in 1975, with 11 demands, including the right to meaningful work with fair wages, to vote, to open visits and correspondence, and more.
This event will kick off our programming series for Prisoners’ Justice Day, which culminates with a vigil on August 10th at Parc Vinet. Check out our Instagram (@pjd___mtl) or qpirgmcgill.org/pjd/ for more information on our other programming.

Cette table ronde propose une introduction aux luttes anti-carcérales, tant historiques qu’actuelles, avec la participation de personnes ayant une expérience vécue et d’organisations abolitionnistes. Nous souhaitons offrir un large aperçu du mouvement abolitionniste en établissant des liens entre différentes luttes, de la solidarité avec les travailleuses du sexe, à la justice pour les personnes incarcérées, à l’abolition de la police et au panafricanisme.
Biographies des intervenants à venir.
La Journée de la justice pour les prisonnier·ère·s est reconnue chaque année le 10 août. Cette journée commémore les personnes décédées en prison l’année précédente. Cette tradition a commencé à la prison de Millhaven (Bath, Ontario) en 1975, avec 11 revendications, dont le droit à un travail valorisant et équitablement rémunéré, le droit de vote, le droit aux visites et à la correspondance, et bien plus encore.
Cet événement lancera notre programmation pour la Journée de la justice pour les prisonnier·ère·s, qui culminera avec une veillée le 10 août au parc Vinet. Consultez notre compte Instagram (@pjd___mtl) ou notre site web qpirgmcgill.org/pjd/ pour plus d’informations sur nos autres activités.

Radical Cyanotype Printmaking and Picnic (Wild Pride)
2026-08-08 14:00 - 17:00 | Parc Lafontaine
RAD CYANOTYPE PRINTMAKING & PICNIC
In collaboration with @wildpridemontreal and @ckutmusic
Come make cyanotype prints and hang out at Parc Lafontaine on August 8 at 2pm! ☀🌿🌈
Printmaking materials and snacks will be provided!

CONCERT: Until The World Collapses
2026-08-09 19:30 - 23:30 | La Sotterenea, 4848 blvd Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, H2T 1R5, Canada
UNTIL THE WORLD COLLAPSES is a noisy rock/industrial/electronic concert raising funds Prisoner Correspondence Project, a solidarity group that works to build community with queer and trans people in prison.
Join us for PNOOM, QUINTON BARNES, HRT and help us keep going for another year.
August 9, doors 7:30/show at 8 PM
La Sotterenea (4848 blvd Saint-Laurent)
$15-25 PWYC, NOTAFLOF.
18+
https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/until-the-world-collapses-pcp-fundraising-concert-2026-08-09-la-sotterenea-montreal-bebca3

Prisoners' Justice Day
2026-08-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Union United Church, 3007 rue Delisle, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
LOCATION CHANGED DUE TO WEATHER
August 10th, 5:30 PM
Union United Church
3007 rue Delisle
Join us for our annual commemoration of Prisoners’ Justice Day. Every year we gather to honour those who have died in prison, hear from people who have been incarcerated, and celebrate prisoner resistance. This year is no different. There will be speeches and an open mic.
Free Them All!
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Rejoignez-nous pour notre commémoration annuelle de la Journée de la justice pour les prisonnier·ère·s. Chaque année, nous nous réunissons pour honorer la mémoire de celleux qui sont mort·e·s en prison, écouter les témoignages de personnes incarcérées et célébrer la résistance des prisonnier·ère·s. Cette année ne fait pas exception. Des discours et une scène ouverte sont prévus.
Libérez-les tous !

Kanatenhs - When the Pine Needles Fall
2026-08-26 18:00 - 20:00 | JA DeSève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada
Film Screening with director Katsi’sakwas Ellen Gabriel
Join QPIRG-McGill for a screening of When The Pine Needles Fall, a documentary short directed by Katsi’sakwas Ellen Gabriel and based on her award-winning book. The documentary tells the story of the Kahnesatake Resistance, when the Kanien’kehà:ka community set up a barricade in response to the planned expansion of a golf course and were met with extreme state violence.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Ellen Gabriel. Light refreshments will be provided.
Cinema J.A de Sève, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W
Accessibility
The cinema is wheelchair accessible from Maisonneuve Boulevard, with four spaces at the back for audience members using wheelchairs. The doors to the cinema are not automatic.

True North - Film Screening
2026-08-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Cité des Hospitalières Chapel, 251 Avenue des Pins, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Join us on Friday, August 28th for a screening of Michèle Stephenson’s 2025 feature documentary “True North”!
The film chronicles the history of Black people in Canada with a focus on the period of Resistance in the 1960s. Showcasing rare audio and visual footage of the 1968 Black Writers Congress that took place here at McGill University and the ensuing 1969 Occupation of Sir George Williams Campus (now Concordia University). Contextualizing these events within a broader global Black Liberation movement, the documentary seeks to disprove claims that Canada, historically and presently, does not have a racism problem.
We are honoured to have the director Michèle Stephenson join us virtually for a post screening Q&A session! This event is free and open to the general public!
Cité des Hospitalières Chapel
251 Avenue des Pins O
Accessibility
Cité des Hospitalières Chapel is not wheelchair accessible.

Vitamin Pink, Bloodfarts, and the Vauxhalls @ Kawalees
2026-08-29 20:30 - 2026-08-30 00:00 | Kawalees, 5175A Avenue du Parc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 29th at Kawalees 🎸🤸💖 For our community event, Rad Frosh will be welcoming Vitamin Pink, Bloodfarts, and The Vauxhalls for one big night of awesome music, friendship, and good times ‼️ This show is open to froshies and the general public. Discounted tickets for froshies can be purchased with your general frosh ticket. Can’t wait to see you there…
Thank you to our co-presenter CKUT 90.3 FM
General tickets
Doors 8:30pm, show at 9pm
Kawalees (5175A Avenue du Parc)
Accessibility
Kawalees is not wheelchair accessible.

24 heures ou plus & Night Shift: Film Screening
2026-09-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Critical Media Lab, 3460 rue McTavish, Room 108, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
FREE FILM SCREENING
QPIRG McGill is partnering with Syndicat Général and the Critical Media Lab to host an evening of films centered on the labor movement in Québec!
Tuesday, September 15th, 5:30pm
Critical Media Lab McGill University
Peterson Hall, Room 108
3460 McTavish St
NIGHTSHIFT
2026
Chloe Damm
7 minutes
English
An ethnography of the late-night bar staff at Brasserie Benelux, Nightshift explores the unique lifestyle imposed by night shift work. Featuring interviews with bartenders and bussers, the film inquires into the impact of nightshift work on one’s physical and mental health, as well as the alternative social norms of the bar at night.
24 heures ou plus
1973
Gilles Groulx
113 minutes
français avec sous-titres anglais
A radical documentary capturing the energy of the labor movement in Québéc in the early 1970s, a time when Québéc’s three largest unions— CSN, FTQ, and CEQ— came together to take a stand against the Québéc government. Groulx exposes the evils of consumer society in the context of workers’ rights, offering a Marxist critique of the capitalist ethos.
