Madison Activist Calendar from 2/20/12

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This calendar is brought to you by the friendly volunteer collective of the Madison Infoshop!

We are a non-hierarchical freespace and activist clearinghouse that needs
your support to survive and flourish.  Check out our free lending library
(videos, books, periodicals, zines), our other community resources (fax
machine, computers with internet access, art supplies, theater props, graphix
and stencils, megaphones, and button maker). We also host meetings and help
organize events.

Madison Infoshop, 1019 Williamson, St., Madison, WI 53703  
tel. 608-262-9036   www.madisoninfoshop.org

Disclaimer:  According to official UW-Madison policy only those UW
events that are sponsored by an academic department are open to the general
public.  Otherwise they are limited to UW-Madison students, staff,
faculty, and/or members of registered student organizations. 

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Mon. Feb. 20^th 11:00 am – 1:00 pm  Grace Episcopal Church (116 W. Washington) Prison Justice: Kick-off for the 11x15 campaign!  We’llmeet at the church and then go to the Capitol Rotunda for the press conference at 12:00 Noon.  Our goal:  to have a safer, healthier state by reducing Wisconsin's prison population to 11,000 by 2015.  Wisconsin's over- incarceration has serious human, community, moral and financial costs. Join policy makers, spiritual leaders and professionals to hear the compelling case for more responsible, moral and effective policies.  Info?  608-270-9711.

Tues. Feb. 21^st 6:30 pm Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Screening of Plunder, the Crime of Our Time - Danny Schechter dissects Wall Street fraud (2010, 100 min). Presented by the 99% Film & Discussion Forum.  Info?  #442-8399.

Wed. Feb. 22^nd 6:30 pm Outreach (600 Williamson St.)  Q Cinema presents: Markova: Comfort Gay (2000, 97 mins, Philippines)  The dramatized true story of Walter Dempster Jr aka Markova, a flamboyant,witty and sensitive older man looking back on his life as a cross-dresser, nightclub performer, and most tragically, as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.  Info?  qcinemainternational@...

Sun. Feb. 26^th 2:00 pm Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America – a conversation with Joanne Griffith about her new book.  Introduced by WORT volunteer Jim Carrier, author of the Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement.  Info?  http://www.redefiningblackpower.com/

Mon. Feb. 27th 6:00 pm  Madison Infoshop (1019 Williamson St.)   Madison Infoshop Collective Meeting!  Find out how you can get involved in keeping your local activist resource center alive and kicking!  New volunteers always welcome.  Info?  #262-9036  www.madisoninfoshop.org

Mon. Feb. 27^th  7:00 pm  Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Weston A. Price Foundation - Madison Chapter meeting - Nutrient-Dense Foods - Education & Activism – followed by

Farm Sales.  Info?  #221-8696 or http://my.madison.com/Groups/Madison_WAPF

Tues. Feb. 28^th 6:30 pm  Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  The 99% Film & Discussion Forum presents:  The Shock Doctrine: Disaster Capitalism in Action (2009, 78 min).  Info?  #442-8399. 

Wed. Feb. 29^th  11:30 am (meet at the corner of King St. and the Capitol Square)  Rat Purge of the WI Capitol!  Join the Pied Piper and friends on F29 as we flush the rats out from their corporate suites and lobbyist dens around the Square.  In particular, we will be focusing on the vermin feeding off ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) – the ones responsible for all sorts of filthy legislation now greasing the skids for everything from factory farms and charter schools to voter suppression and taconite mining in our fair state. Folks are encouraged to wear their favorite medieval pied piper and rat catcher attire – wannabe rats are also welcome! This is part of similar actions happening in over 50 cities across North America.   Info?  #262-9036  www.shutdownthecorporations.org   You can also join the Pied Piper event on Facebook.

Wed. Feb. 29^th 6:30 pm   UW-Madison Memorial Union (Check Today in the Union TITU for exact location)  Rebellion & Intervention, Libya, Syria, and Other Cases: What Should Be the Attitude of the Peace Movement and the Left? Sponsored by by the UW Sifting & Winnowing Club.  Info?  #230-6640.

Thurs. March 1^st 7:00 pm Rainbow Bookstore (426 W. Gilman)  Jackpine Savages, Bolt Weevils, and Solidarity Tractorcades – History of Radical Rural Protest in the Midwest!  Join the Madison Free School and the Madison Infoshop for the fourth session in a ten part series, focusing on the 1933 WI Milk Strike and the Midwest Farmer Labor Movement of the 1930s.  Suggested readings will be provided.  Series will run biweekly though mid May.  Info?  jepeck@... or #262-9036  You can also get more info, including links to readings via the Facebook event. 

Sat. March 3^rd 5:30 pm Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  21^st Annual Marquette Neighborhood Chili Dinner Benefit – all proceeds to benefit the MNA Scholarship Fund.  Featuring live music by the Kristy Larson Honky Tonk Trio.  $10 for adults, $6 for children.  Info?  #257-4576

Fri. March 9^th  4:30 – 7:00 pm  St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (605 Spruce St.) Celebrating Women’s Struggles – First Annual International Women’s Day Dinner!   Featured speakers and performers include:  Fabu, International Women Students, Clare Norelle, Sandra Rybachek, and Lisa Williams.  Info?  #255-2337

Sun. March 25^th 12:00 Noon – 4 pm  Token Creek Eco-Inn (3919 Gray Rd. in DeForest)  Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop and Scion Exchange!  Hosted by the Madison Area Permaculture Guild & Madison Fruits & Nuts.  Do you wish your ornamental crabapples had large juicy apples? Maybe your fruiting apple tree is too much to handle and you wish you had a crabapple. These are just a couple of reasons to practice the age old art of grafting. For centuries, people have been changing fruit trees to suit their needs, and you can too! In this class, we will begin with a comprehensive presentation on several approaches to grafting. Then we will each graft and take home two semi-dwarf trees of your choice (apple, pear or plum). Root stocks and scion wood (fruit tree cuttings) provided. If you have a sharp knife bring it, but there will be some available.  Info?  http://www.tokencreekecoinn.com/workshops/fruit-tree-grafting-and-scion-exchange

Sun. March 25^th  1:00 – 3:00 pm  Aldo Leopold Nature Center (300 Femrite Dr. in Monona)  Maple Syrup Fest!   This year's event will feature ten stations set throughout the nature center grounds that will lead visitors, at their own pace, through the history of maple syruping and related craft and activities. Naturalists will tap the maple trees on the nature center grounds and collect sap in buckets to make the syrup. See the sap boil over a roaring fire as it concentrates into "liquid gold". When the sap is boiled, the sap's naturally occurring water evaporates as steam, leaving the sap and its sweetness to concentrate into maple syrup.  Other highlights include: Tap and Taste real Maple Tree Sap; Test your "Nature Smarts" with Maple Syrup Trivia; Increase your Knowledge of Trees with "Build-A-Tree" Game; Learn from a Real "Tapper" how Maple Syrup is made Today and the Old-Fashioned Way; Tour the Rustic Children's Shack; Take part in Cooking Demonstrations with Early Pioneer Settler Women;  Enjoy Ice Cream Sundaes topped with Pure Maple Syrup!  Cost is for members: $6/person (children and adults) or $20/family – for non-members: $7/person (children and adults) or $25/family.  Info?  http://www.naturenet.com/alnc/events/maple_fest.html

 

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Thurs. March 29^th – Sun. March 31^st  UW-Madison, Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.)

Art in Protest – An Arts Festival Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of the Wisconsin Uprising!  Info?  #262-2112 or  schoolforworkers@...

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Regular Meetings & Events:

Each Day 12:00 Noon State Capitol Rotunda - Solidarity Sing-A-Longs!  To join on Facebook, visit:  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194837067222612&index=1

Each Monday (except federal holidays) 12:00 Noon -1:00 pm   Peace vigil at corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd & Doty St. in front of U.S Post Office. All Welcome! Bring your peace signs/banners!  Info? mbspeace1@...

First Monday of the month.  6:30 pm. Northside Family Restaurant (1200 N Sherman Ave) Friendly Supper Club - monthly interracial dinner, since 1986, all ages welcome. 
Info? #249-5979

Fourth Monday of the month.  7:00 pm  Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) Madison Chapter meeting.  Opportunity for consumers to meet local farmers who are interested in providing  natural, pasture-raised, raw and whole foods. Info?  #221-8696   www.madison.com/communities/madison_wapf

Second Tuesday of the month.  7:15 pm Anderson Auditorium, Predalin Hall,  Edgewood College.  Monthly meeting of the Dane County Chapter of the United Nations Association -USA.  Info?  rdattoe@...

Third Tuesday of the month.  6:00 pm  Social Justice Center (1202 Williamson St.) Monthly Potluck of Madison Hours - your local currency community!   Bring a dish to pass and meet other Hours' members.  Info?  www.madisonhours.org

Second and fourth Tues. of the month:  6:30 pm Wilmar  Center (953  Jenifer  St.)
Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) meeting.  Info? www.madpeace.org

Each Wed. 4:00 pm   Rainbow Bookstore (426 W. Gilman)  Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (WBTP) meeting!  Join others interested in getting quality reading material and educational opportunities to those who are behind bars.  Donations of new softcover books are also most welcome.  Info?  #257-6050

Each Wed.  7:00 pm, WORT-FM, 89.9.  “Queery” - a locally produced LGBT program with news and cultural programming, followed by This Way Out, an international LGBT news magazine at 7:30.  Info? #256-2001

Second Wed. of the month.  6:00 pm  Taqueria El Pastor (2010 S Park St.) Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) – Madison Chapter meeting.  Info?  #846-5217 or mhsanderson@...

Third Wed. of the month.  7:00 pm  UW-Madison Red Gym . Monthly General Meeting of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers -  Madison.  Info?chart@...

First and Third Thurs. of every month.   7:00 pm Motherfools Coffeehouse (1101 Williamson St.).  East Timor Action Network (ETAN) meeting.  Info?  #244-4563 or 
 www.aideasttimor.org

Third Thurs. of the every month.  2:30 pm  Social Justice Center (1202 Williamson St.)  Meeting of the South Central Local of the Socialist Party.  Info? #238-1266.

Last Fri. of Every Month.  5:30 pm   State Capitol & W. Washington Ave. Critical Mass Bike Ride. Reclaim the streets from autocracy!  Info?www.madisoncriticalmass.org

Each Sat. 4:00 – 5:00 pm  WYOU airs Third World Issues on channel 95 and channel 991.  The program can be viewed online by going to WYOU.org and clicking on STREAM.  Info?  rdattoe@...

Each Sunday - 11:00 am  WORT-FM, 89.9 FM.  “Her Turn” -a women's news and
public affairs program, featuring news and critical analysis from a feminist perspective.
Followed by Her Infinite Variety, a program of women's news and culture, featuring music,  interviews and calendars. The show regularly features progressive and left music and announcements.  Info? #256-2001

Each Sunday  6:00 pm UW-Madison Memorial Union (check Today in the Union TITU for exact location)  Meeting for Street Pulse, Madison's Homeless newspaper.  Street Pulse engages and challenges various aspects and issues regarding homelessness and poverty. Info?  #920-810-0972 or visit:  http://www.madisonstreetpulse.org/index.php.

Each Sunday - 5:00 pm  WORT, 89.9 fm. “Third World View” - news & analysis from a critical left, anti-interventionist and anti-imperialist perspective.  Info? #256-2001

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