NATO protest

Counter – Summits and Forums:
May 12-13: The People’s Summit will convene at Occupy Chicago Headquarters, 500 W. Cermak in Chicago.
http://www.peoplessummitchicago.org/
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May 18 – 20 – Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice Coordinated by AFSC and others
http://www.natofreefuture.org/2012/02/conference-agenda/
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Monday May 7th – Why Should We Care?
https://www.facebook.com/events/158090697652805/
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May, 10 @ 6 PM – Know Your Rights Training for (NATO) Protesters by NLG
https://www.facebook.com/events/380699338638789/
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Friday, May 18 – 7:00 PM -A conversation with Vijay Prashad: Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
High Concept Labs (1401 West Wabansia Avenue, Chicago)
https://www.facebook.com/events/432916026719121/

Marches:
May 18 – NNU March against G8 / Robin Hood Tax
11am, Daley Plaza
http://www.facebook.com/events/180493272068416/
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May 20: March and Rally to Protest NATO, starting at noon at Petrillo Bandshell. The Iraq Veteran’s Against the War (IVAW) will be marching with us in solidarity. At the end of the march, within sight and sound of McCormick Place, members of IVAW will conduct the closing ceremony where they will return their medals to NATO. It will be a moving event, and not to be missed.
http://cang8.wordpress.com/

Resistant Cultural Events:
May 18 @ 9 PM – Leftist Lounge: Party For Peace
https://www.facebook.com/events/258925230873126/
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May 19 @ 8 PM – This Land is our land! a centennial celebration of Woody Guthrie by PORTOLUZ:
http://www.portoluz.org/event.php?event_id=29

Occupy Themed Actions
May 12 – 21
https://www.facebook.com/events/295772130492710/

Mon, May 14 – Education / Transportation
http://www.facebook.com/events/303602976380565/303607953046734/

Tue, May 15 – Immigration: No Human is Illegal
http://www.facebook.com/events/420395744645472/

Wed, May 16 – Foreclosure : Housing is a Right: No Evictions,
No Foreclosures!
http://www.facebook.com/events/282715025152220/

Thu, May 17 – Environment
Sat, May 19 – Health Care / Occupy Chicago Day of Action
Mon, May 21 – Democracy
http://www.facebook.com/events/352562164806601/

NATO Protest

An ad-hoc group of folks has been working to put together a workshop series in the run-up to the NATO protest. They will take place on Saturday, May 12, 1-6 PM at Rainbow Bookstore. The descriptions are below. We are looking for groups willing to add their names to a list of endorsers for the workshops and help turn people out to them.

Workshop descriptions:

1:00-2:30 PM
Security Culture and Street Safety
Presented by the Madison Infoshop
Keep yourself safe at the NATO protests and beyond! Learn the basics of a security culture and how to keep yourself and others safe in protest. Members of the Madison Infoshop will cover what to wear, what to bring, how to minimize injury from “less-than-lethal” weapons, and more.

2:30-4:00 PM
Know Your Rights and Legal Resources
Presented by Victor Forberger, National Lawyer’s Guild
Protests, demonstrations, civil disobedience, and interactions with police – A discussion of your constitutional rights when engaged in first amendment speech and protests and interacting with police officers.

4:00-6:00 PM
Why We Oppose NATO: A Public Forum on the history and present functions of the multi-national military force and armed enforcer of the current global order.
Panel with Michael Johnson, Allen Ruff, and others
What is NATO? How has its role evolved over time? Whose interests does it serve? Was it ever truly a defensive coalition based on the notion of “collective security,” from its Cold War origins to the present? These and other questions will be addressed by Progressive Dane’s Michael Johnson; US historian, Allen Ruff, and others.

Zines at Madison Infoshop Kiosk and Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative

Madison Infoshop has two locations !

The main location is 1019 Williamson Street (Nature’s Bakery building basment)
The Kiosk location at Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative (426 West Gilman)

A Zine needs a good home

InfoShop Kiosk at Rainbow Books

May Day

Hey Infoshoppers,

May 1st is two things:

1. An ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures. May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European pagan and the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.

2. International Workers’ Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the international labor movement and left-wing movements. It commonly sees organized street demonstrations and marches by working people and their labor unions throughout most of the world. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. It is also celebrated unofficially in many other countries.

In Madison, WI, there are some events happening (more in relation to the second definition):

Tues. May 1^st  5:00 pm State St. Corner of the State Capitol.

May Day Rally for International Workers Day!  We are the 99% – Recall the 1%  No Cuts, No Austerity, Not One More Concessions To Big Money.  Restoration of ALL Labor Rights to ALL Workers.  Roll Back All Wage And Benefit Cuts.  Jobs For All – National Plan to Create Jobs, Now! No More Criminalization of the Poor – Equal Rights to All.  From Spain to Greece to Egypt to Wisconsin!

Tues. May 1^st 6:30 pm  Goodman Library (2222 S. Park St.)

Local author Jane Anne Morris on “Gaveling Down the Rabble: How ‘Free Trade’ is Stealing Our Democracy – with local author and corporate anthropologist, Jane Anne Morris.This discussion is part of the Jane Addams Book Club series, sponsored by the Madison Branch of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

And, for all you Anarchist/anti-authoritarian types, check out:

http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_the_work_ethic#Anarchism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_the_work_ethic#Anti-work

http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/perlman/sp001702/repro.html

Cheers to the Wingnut Collective!

Recently the Wingnut Collective filed for their FOIA file and received a lovely present from Richmond Cops, in the form of anti-protest guides on crowd control.

Check the article here and follow the Wingnut Collective’s blog. The Madison InfoShop collects Wingnut’s newsletters.

The Beehive Design Collective

The Madison Infoshop is proud to welcome the Beehive Design Collective to Madison, WI. The Beehive Collective already did a presentation at the Ambrosia Cooperative House last week with a small intimate audience.

Their presentation at UW- Madison is the True Cost of Coal. A large mural depicting Mountain Top Removal and the resistance that goes against such an ecological devastating practice. The mural is well detailed with so many stories inside the larger story. The Beehive Collective presents to the audience the story behind each little section of the overall mural. A section of the True Cost of Coal was used as a cover for the Earth First! Journal’s 30th Anniversary issue (Vol 1).

What: The True Cost of Coal

When: 04/20/12 @ 7:00pm

Where: UW-Madison, Union South (TITU)

Call: 262-9036

 

 

Urban Agriculture Bike Tour

Urban Agriculture Bike Tour
Markets and Gardens
With FH King Students for Sustainable Agriculture & others, meet 10 am, 4/20, UW Memorial Union. 262-9036

When: 04/20/12
Call: 262-9036

More Information:

Fri. April 20th 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Meet up at UW-Madison Memorial Union.

Stops will include: Troy Gardens, backyard chicken coops, rooftop gardens, and finish up at Eagle Heights Community Garden for a local food potluck!

Hosted by FH King Students for Sustainable Agriculture, Madison Infoshop, Family Farm Defenders, and with generous funding from the Associated Students of Madison (ASM). Info? #262-9036

Earth Week Events

 

We have a pirate-booty load of events for Earth Week! The Beehive Collective will be showing their art ‘The True Cost of Coal” with Thistle and Thorns 

April 2012 Events

John Zerzan will speak at Rainbow Books Coop on April 15 at 2 p.m.

Derrick Jensen is speaking at Union South 1308 W. Dayton Street in Madison, Wisconsin, onTuesday, April 17^th starting at 6:00 p.m.

Activist Oral History Project needs volunteers

Become a volunteer with the Activist Oral History Project. The Madison InfoShop and Rainbow Books are starting an oral history project that documents major radical activism in the Madison and Wisconsin area.

We will be having a interviewer training Monday, April 16 from 6-7 pm at Rainbow Bookstore 426 Gilman Street, Madison. We will start with interviewing activists from the Crandon Mine fight and the Madison Tenants Union.

Contact colinrgillis(at)gmail(dot)com for more information.

What is Green Anarchy?

What is Green Anarchy ?

Anarchist John Zerzan will be in Madison, WI to talk about reconnecting to the natural world. He’s an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, anti-technology, anti-work, anti-state philosopher all rolled into one. Zerzan is host of Anarchy Radio in Eugene, OR and former editor/collective member of Green Anarchy magazine.

Zerzan will be Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative Sunday April 15 at 2 PM for a conversation/Q&A. It will be an informal and short talk of his most recent trip to India to meet anti-authoritarians with questions afterward.

This is a free event, but donations are greatly appreciated. Zerzan is receiving no funding to speak in Madison, WI but he is getting a UW-Stevens Point grant to speak there the day after the Madison, WI event, which covers mostly his travel costs.

http://www.facebook.com/events/355355227843581/

www.rainbowbookstore.coop/node/14976
www.johnzerzan.net
www.johnzerzan.net/radio/

http://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchy-madison