Tag: Live and Let Live Fund
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Join the Webinar! Funding Health, Advancing LGBTIQ Equality: Why the Global Fund Matters Now
Hello all members, OPSEU/SEFPO’s Live and Let Live Fund invites you to Join the HIV Legal Network and the Stephen Lewis Foundation on September 17, 2025, for a vital conversation on why the Global Fund’s replenishment is crucial for LGBTIQ health and rights worldwide. REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR: English: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/funding-health-advancing-lgbtiq-equality-why-the-global-fund-matters-now-tickets-1618750679859?aff=oddtdtcreator French: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/financer-la-sante-et-defendre-legalite-pour-les-personnes-lgbtiq-tickets-1688568988299?aff=oddtdtcreator What to expect: Learn how…
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Convention 2024 Silent Auction
Download PDF Raffle tickets 1 for $5 3 for $10 8 for $20 15 for $30 April 25-26 8 am – 6 pm April 27 8 am – 11 am – Last chance to buy tickets Marketplace: MTCC (300 level) silentauction@opseu.org Open on Wednesday, April 24 from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. to receive items…
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Register for the Stephen Lewis Foundation Presentation!
Promoting Health and Human Rights in Partnership with the Stephen Lewis Foundation Join us Wednesday, April 3rd from 7:00-8:00 PM for a special presentation by the Stephen Lewis Foundation for OPSEU/SEFPO members! They will showcase our impactful partnership and how you can get involved and directly contribute to their mission. Register for the free event…
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World Day of Social Justice: fairer jobs for a fairer future
OPSEU/SEFPO is well known as a social justice union – it’s at the very heart of what we do. Each year on February 20, OPSEU/SEFPO commemorates the World Day of Social Justice. The UN has chosen “achieving social justice through formal employment” as this year’s theme. Employment plays a crucial role in reducing poverty, inequality…
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OPSEU/SEFPO commemorates World AIDS Day
Every December 1 since 1988, as a global community we come together to commemorate World AIDS Day, remembering all those who live with HIV/AIDS and those who have lost their lives to the virus. HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the world’s most serious public health challenges. With millions of people affected…
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OPSEU/SEFPO’s Live and Let Live Fund supports the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
2020 Impact Report now available! SLF 2020 impact report for OPSEU OPSEU/SEFPO’s Live and Let Live Fund supports the Stephen Lewis Foundation every year. With an annual donation and a silent auction at Convention, we are supporting the foundation’s work helping communities affected by AIDS in Africa. The Stephen Lewis Foundation is a progressive, feminist…
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World AIDS Day 2020: Standing in solidarity and claiming our shared responsibility
On December 1st, we commemorate World AIDS Day to remember all those who live with HIV and AIDS, and those who have lost their lives to this disease. This week also marks Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week; a week to raise awareness of this disease among Indigenous Peoples and to reduce the stigma of HIV and…
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Celebrating World AIDS Day
December 1 is World AIDS Day and OPSEU is gathering with families, friends, and lovers who remember those whom they have lost to HIV/AIDS. In their memory, we support the Stephen Lewis Foundation in ensuring that resources are delivered to the grassroots organizations that are turning the tide of HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa. This is in…
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World AIDS Day: OPSEU hails advances – and calls for more
This year marks three decades since the first World AIDS Day was observed in 1988. Click here to download a pdf of this message. It was a bleak time. The first International AIDS Conference had been held just three years before. A cure seemed like a pipe dream. The only available treatment, AZT, often carried…
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Solidarity Funds Call for Board Member
In 2004, the OPSEU Executive Board approved the setting up of two distinct solidarity funds – The Live and Let Live Fund and The Social Justice Fund. There is currently a vacancy on the Board of the Funds and all interested OPSEU members are invited to submit a Statement of Interest. The current Board will…
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OPSEU Silent Auction is not silent about HIV/AIDS
Message from the Board of the OPSEU Live and Let Live Fund We send a huge thank you to all who supported the Live and Let Live Silent Auction at the 2018 Convention. The Silent Auction raised over $17,000, the most successful auction ever. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Marisa Stagliano and…
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OPSEU shares international solidarity with Guatemalan midwives
The OPSEU Social Justice Fund Board met this month with Indigenous midwives from Guatemala who are visiting Canada for the very first time. These midwives are members of a delegation that includes two doctors, Dr. Jorge Ariel Diaz Ordonez, director of the Maternal Child Health Centre, and Dr. Iris Gamez, Project Coordinator. Their visit to…
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Message from OPSEU President on World AIDS Day 2016
“AIDS is no longer just a disease; it is a human rights issue.” Those were the words of Nelson Mandela, delivered before a mass rally in Cape Town on the eve of World AIDS Day, 2003. They are as true today on World AIDS Day 2016, as they were 13 years ago in South Africa.…
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Bangladeshi garment workers still waiting for full compensation
1,138 garment workers died in the Rana Plaza factory collapse on April 24, 2013, the deadliest disaster in the history of the global garment industry. Two years later and the 2,500 injured workers, 200 orphaned children, and hundreds more left destitute have received only 70 per cent of what is owed to them through the…
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Donate to OPSEU’s Live and Let Live Fund on World Aids Day
On World Aids Day donate to OPSEU’s Live and Let live Fund On December 1, join people around the world marking World AIDS Day, “Working Together for an AIDS-Free Generation”. Since 2003 OPSEU has made HIV/AIDS our primary international issue and established the Live and Let Live Fund. Our union is a proud supporter of…
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Social Justice Fund Application
The OPSEU/SEFPO Social Justice Fund supports organizations fighting for human, economic, labour and political rights. The Social Justice Board uses the following criteria to prioritize funding proposals: Groups that organize to build power to create systemic change Secular approach to issues and organizing Projects directed by those most impacted Opportunity to partner with equity and…
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Join the AfriGrand Caravan tour
From September to November, the Stephen Lewis Foundation will travel across Canada with African grandmothers and granddaughters orphaned by AIDS. OPSEU’s Live and Let Live Fund supports the tremendous work of the Foundation and encourages all locals to get involved in the AfriGrand Caravan in your community. Join the AfriGrand Caravan tour as it comes…
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Solidarity Funds Golf Tournaments
2009 OPSEU Charity Golf Tourney Big winner at OPSEU Charity Golf Tourney June 3, 2009 Jacques Senechal, Local 556 was the grand prize winner at OPSEU’s 1st Annual Charity Golf Tournament. Plans for next year’s event are under way. First annual golf tourney held The First Annual OPSEU Enterprises / Live and Let Live Fund…
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New Boards elected for Social Justice and Live and Let Live Funds
The OPSEU Social Justice Fund was set up to support international solidarity projects. As public sector workers we want to strengthen the global movement against privatization and exploitation of workers and build linkages with workers and vulnerable communities in developing countries. We have supported community and union projects in Malawi, South Africa, the Democratic Republic…