Announcing the Winner of the Dawn Gugler Activist Training Award!

admin April 18, 2019 April 18, 2019

Congratulations Ben!! We’re so happy that you are this year’s recipient of the Dawn Gugler Activist Training Award. So much gratitude to Dawn’s family and to all the folks who contributed to this fund for making it possible for us to continue honoring Dawn’s legacy at OPIRG.

OPIRG Guelph is located on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron/Chonnonton, the Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize the significance of the Dish with One Spoon Covenant to this land and offer our respect and gratitude to all of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island who have stewarded, loved & defended this land for centuries.

In stating this, we acknowledge that we are here as a result of blood that has been shed through colonization, which continues to be the lived experience of Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Colonialism is a current ongoing process, and we need to be accountable for our present participation in that process.