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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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Through Thurs. May 31st Social Justice Center (1202 Williamson St.)
Protest Art and Photography
Exhibit! Featuring over 100 pieces of
art and photography created by Michael Martin and Michael Matheson to protest
the Walker
administration.
For more info, visit the Facebook
event: http://www.facebook.com/events/399004613472446/400506223322285/
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Through Sat. June 30th UW-Madison
Memorial Library (700 block of State St.)
Madison Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with an
exhibit of artifacts and photos from the collections of
the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. For more info, visit the Facebook event:http://www.facebook.com/events/338490816206555/
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Mon. May
28th 1:00 pm James Madison
Park at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Memorial near the Gates of Heaven
Synagogue. Clarence Kailin Chapter of
Veterans for Peace Memorial Day Event – speakers, refreshments,
solidarity. Info? books24u@aol.com
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QUEER
SHORTS 7!
Thurs.
May 31 through June 9 Bartell Theatre (113
E Mifflin)
This year Stage Q will offer 11 short plays, from the touching to the
hysterically funny (the show skews heavily towards comedy) and including themes
of sex, love, science
fiction, fantasy and ducks. The playwrights are from all over the country
including WI.
local playwright.
Performance dates and times are:
Thursday, May 31, 7:30 pm
Friday, June 1, 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 2, 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 3, 2:00 pm
Thursday, June 7, 7:30 pm
Friday, June 8, 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 9, 8:00 pm
Tickets are $10 for Thursday and Sunday performances, and $15 for Friday and
Saturday performances. Reservations are available by calling 608-661-9696, ext
3, or by visiting www.stageq.com.
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Sat. June 2nd 9:30 – 4:00 pm Fitchburg Community Center
(5520 Lacy Rd. in Fitchburg)
Effective Messaging – Skills for Grassroots Factory Farm Organizing. Workshop hosted by the Sustain Rural
Wisconsin Network (SRWN) Join us
for this highly interactive format, built around air and water quality issues,
quality food production, and the adverse impact of industrial agriculture. Each
participant or team will be asked to have in mind 1 to 3 real life local
situations to which they would like to apply the media training tips that they
intend to implement in 3 months and 6 months. A goal of the workshop is that
actions conceived during the workshop will be useful upon return to your
community. Workshop presenters
include: Patti Lovera and Alex Beauchamp
of Food and Water Watch. Cost is $10.00
per person if sent in by May 15th 2011. $15.00 if
registering at the door. To register please email: call.srwn@gmail.com
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Sun. June 3rd 4:00 – 6:00 pm UW-Madison, Rm. 1309, Medical School (750 Highland Ave.) Health Care to Die
For: Racial Disparities in the United States – talk with Dr. Timothy Shaw, MD,
FACS – UW-Madison. Dr. Shaw will be presenting data based a
recent book: Punishing Race by Univ. Minnesota Law Professor, Dr. Michael
Tonry. He will explore the affect how these disparities interact to
affect Black American Society and contribute to poorer healthcare and inequal
justice. Dr. Shaw will discuss recent trends in sentencing and racial disparities
in Wisconsin,
in particular. Info? Wisconsin.pnhp@gmail.com ******************************* Wed.
June 6th – Thurs. June 7th UW-Madison, Pyle Center
(702 Langdon St.) Madison Cooperative Business Conference: Growing Jobs through Co-Op Ownership!
Wed. June 6th
9:00 am Pre-Conference Workshop
- Small business succession planning and use of cooperative conversions as a
way to maintain thriving businesses under employee ownership upon retirement of
the business owners.
4:00pm – Reception
Thurs. June 7th
8:00 am Breakfast
8:45 am Welcome – Paul Soglin,
Mayor, City of Madison
9:00 am Keynote – Roy Messing, Program Coordinator; OH Employee Ownership Center
9:45 am Madison’s Cooperative Economy
10:30 am Cooperatives 101/Co-op Start-ups
11:15 am Financing Cooperatives
12:00 pm Lunch
12:30 pm Cooperative Resources
1:30 pm Cooperatives in the Food System
2:15 pm Cooperatives in Health Care
3:15 pm What can cities do? Cooperatives
& economic development in Quebec
Michel Clément, Development
Coordinator; Cooperative Development Management, Department of Economic
Development Innovation, and Innovation; The
Richmond California Cooperative Initiative Discussion
4:00 pm What can Madison
do? – Facilitated Discussion
Registration is $40 for both days or $25 for
individual days. Online registration at:
https://secure.uwex.edu/semtek/register/reg_register.cfm?sessionid=W12T4134009997&groupid=ARG
For other info, visit: http://www.cityofmadison.com/business/coopConference/schedule.cfm
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Colombia Summer Film Series!
Thursdays
June 7th – July 26th 6:30 pm
UW-Madison,
Rm. 206 Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Dr.)
This series introduces the subject of Colombia
by presenting all sides of the country: environment, drugs, political history
(Plan Colombia),
youth, political violence (the Patriotic Union), forced displacement and more.
The films will be discussed before and analyzed after each screening. The
post-screening discussion will make connections between what was seen in the
movie and other aspects of Colombian society that are not directly expressed in
the movie. For each presentation there will be a representative from CSN who
will lead the discussion.
June 7: The War We Are Living: Women, War and Peace in Colombia
June 14: Impunity
June 28: Who Shot My Brother?
July 12: No Podemos Guardar Silencio
July 19: Plan Colombia
July 26: El Baile Rojo
HHosted by the Colombia Support Network
(CSN) and the UW Latin American, Caribbean,
and Iberian Studies (LACIS) Program. Info? csn@igc.org
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Sat. June 10th 8:30 – 11 am Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.) Pancakes for Peace and Solidarity! Join us for this family-friendly fundraising
event for the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. Music &
great cakes to benefit WNPJ’s work (www.wnpj.org) , plus a gathering place to
talk about the June 5th election! Suggested donation of $10/adults and
$5/kids, with a sliding scale option. Info? info@wnpj.org
Tues. June 12th 6:30 pm Wilmar
Center, Mendota
Rm. (953 Jenifer St.
– enter on Brearly St.) Europe and
the Struggle Against Capitalist Austerity – discussion hosted by the Socialist
Party of South Central Wisconsin. Info? #231-3015
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Fri. June 15th – Sun. June 17th Custer, WI
26th Annual Midwest
Renewable Energy Fair!
The Energy Fair brings over 20,000 people from nearly every state in the
U.S.
and several countries around the world to learn, connect with others and ready
them for action at home. The Energy Fair is the nation’s longest running energy
education event of its kind! This year’s
fair features over 275 exhibitors and over 200 workshops, plus a Clean Energy
Car Show, Green Home Pavilion, Green Building Demos, Live Auctions, Keynote
Speakers, Live Music, Great Food, Craft Beer, and more!
Tickets for adults are $15 for one day, $35 for the entire weekend, with
discounts for youth and seniors (kids are 13 are free!)
Bus from Madison
on Sat. June 16th is being offered through Willy St. Co-op – for
ticket details call: #251-6776.
Other buses are available from La Crosse, Green Bay and Milwaukee.
For a full schedule and bus details, visit: https://www.midwestrenew.org/energyfair
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Thurs.
June 21st 4:00 – 6:00 pm US Bank Conf.
Rm. (1 S. Pinckney on the Capitol Square) Builders’
Workshop #2 – Building Blocks & Bridging Barriers! Learn more about
where timebanking fits in the big picture of community resiliency and
human-scaled economics, where Dane County TimeBank fits in
the global movement toward economic justice and how to get around obstacles. We will identify
various barriers we face, as individuals, organizations and projects, in making
timebanking and related tools work for us. Then we’ll explore how we knock them
down and/or work around them. Info? http://assets.danecountytimebank.org/Builders_workshop_calendar.pdf
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July 6th – 8th Lake
Monona Water Walk 2012
Led by First Nations Ojibwe Grandmother, Josephine
Mandamin(http://lakemononawaterwalk.org/about/grandmother-josephine-mandamin/), and William
Waterway Marks(http://lakemononawaterwalk.org/about/william-waterway-marks/). Mandamin has walked around all of the Great Lakes and is featured in the documentary Waterlife(http://www.ourwaterlife.com/). Marks
is the author of The Holy Order of Water and Water Voices from Around
the World(http://www.watervoices.com/), a UN affiliated compilation of writings from 77 renowned
leaders, such as Kofi Annan and Dr. Jane Goodall. Other activities include a welcome event with
live music, a festival in Winnequah Park that includes a
Winnequah Park Water Walk for young families, a Water Expo with Exhibitors,
Vendors, Science projects, and Water Art, an outdoor movie screening of Waterlife(http://www.ourwaterlife.com/),
an All Traditions Water Blessing, and a community potluck. Dozens of exhibitors and presenters from
water and sustainability organizations will offer hands-on activities,
literature, education and other outreach to the public.
Info? http://lakemononawaterwalk.org/
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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@charter.net
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
First
Tues. of the month: 6:30 pm 122 State St. – 4th Fl. Conference
Rm. Madison
Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) meeting. Info? www.madpeace.org(http://www.madpeace.org/)
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@facstaff.wisc.edu
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
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@hotmail.com
Third Wed. of the month. 7:00 pm UW-Madison, Red Gym (716 Langdon St.)
Monthly General Meeting of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Info? charkt@charter.net
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(http://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@facstaff.wisc.edu
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
