Madison Activist Calendar from 7/10/2023

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This calendar is brought to you by the friendly volunteer collective of the Madison Infoshop, c/o Social Justice Center, 1202 Williamson St., Madison, WI 53703. As a volunteer run collective serving the greater WI community, we also offer a safe organizing space with a wide range of activist resources including books, zines, periodicals, videos/DVDs, art supplies, topical files, graphics, megaphones, and button makers.

The Madison Infoshop is whatever is members wish it to be! Currently, we host a variety of ongoing reading groups, film discussions, radically inspired cultural events, and the monthly Really Really Free Market.

Mon. July 10^th 4:00 pm Brittingham Park (829 W. Washington Ave.) Madison Area Cooperative Housing Alliance (MACHA) Summer Social! Join us for snacks, conversation, and to connect with the cooperative housing community! Bring a dish or drink to share, or just bring yourself! All welcome - family friendly! More info, visit the Facebook event:

Mon. July 10^th 6:00 pm Village Co-Housing (1104 Mound St.) Arcatao Speaks Out! Join the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) for a report-back from their recent solidarity delegation to El Salvador and a discussion of the current human rights struggle there. Young people in particular are being arrested without cause, put in prison without warrants, and being denied access to lawyers as well as other basic civil liberties. More info?

Mon. July 10^th 7:00 pm Sun Block: Utility Proposals Darken Rooftop Solar Outlook! Join 350 Wisconsin for a virtual conversation via Zoom with Michael Vickerman, Clean Energy Deployment Manager for RENEW Wisconsin, about about Madison Gas and Electric’s and Alliant Energy’s proposals to raise rates and alter net metering for solar customers. For many years, homeowners and businesses have been using the sunlight that falls on their rooftops as a source of electricity. Rooftop solar systems operate in parallel with the utility grid, allowing customers to export energy they don’t use to the utility. A billing mechanism called net meteringsupports such systems by enabling rooftop solar owners to bank their unused electricity and receive the retail energy credit for the excess energy generated. But, MG&E and Alliant are now seeking permission from the Public Service Commision (PSC) to replace net metering with compensation schemes that raise bills for those with solar panels and also threaten community-wide initiatives to replace fossil fuels with cleaner energy options. For more info and to register for login details, visit:

Sat. July 15^th 10:00 am – 11:00 am Dane County Farmers’ Market, State Capitol Square (N. Hamilton and E. Mifflin) Return of Puppet Man- Flash Mob with 350 Wisconsin! See how Chase Bank customers get turned into puppets on a string when their money is used to bankroll Big Oil – but then they become aware and break free! Check out some amazing costumes, choreography, and street theater for climate action! More info?

Sat. July 15th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Goodman Community Center (214 Waubesa St.) Open House Assembly with Madison Tenant Power! Help us build a movement for housing justice led by and for tenants. Whether you are a long-time member of Madison Tenant Power or a tenant interested in shaping the future of renter’s rights in Madison, join us for an all-day forum on our ongoing fight for safe living conditions in Dane County. Lunch provided; masks required. To RSVP, please visit: ? More info, visit the Facebook event:

Sun. July 16^th 11:00 am Brittingham Park (829 W. Washington Ave.) Anti-Racist Change & Community Building in Dane County Family Reunion! Join Families for Justice for a gathering of people and organizations working to create anti-racist change and community in Dane County! Working together, we can create community, build capacity, and make change. More info, visit the Facebook event:

Fri. July 21^st 6:00 pm First Unitarian Society (900 Univ. Bay Drive) Refugee Benefit Dinner – hosted by Four Lakes Welcome Corps. Join us for a festive and family oriented event, featuring a speaker from the national office of Welcome Corps and other guests. Suggested donations are $35 per adult and $15 per child, and all refugees are invited to attend without charge. The dinner, featuring a variety of international foods, will be one of the last steps for the group to complete their application to sponsor a family. To register and for more info, visit:

Sat. July 22^nd 10:00 am – 8:00 pm First United Methodist (203 Wisconsin Ave.) Wisconsin Justice Summit - hosted by Building Unity! Our goal is to create a statewide strategic unity plan for dramatically shifting the political climate in Wisconsin with focused statewide actions for peace, justice, sustainability, and democracy. More info, visit the Facebook event:

Sun. July 23^rd 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Demetral Park Shelter (601 N. 6th St.) Potluck for Safe Skies Supporters! Join others who have been working so hard for the past 3+ years to oppose the F-35s coming to Truax Airfield to celebrate our movement, commiserate, and energize for the future. More info?

Sat. July 29^th 12:00 Noon – 5:00 pm Warner Park (2930 N. Sherman Ave.) Disability Pride Festival! Music, dancing, adaptive athletics, exhibitors and talks about the lives of people with disabilities, planned by disabled people. More info? Visit the Facebook event:

Thurs. Aug. 3^rd 6:30 pm The Nutmeg’s Curse - Virtual Book Club Discussion hosted by the Women’s Int. League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) – Madison Chapter. Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean in search of a coveted spice. The book argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with desire for spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. To receive the Zoom login details, please email: wilpfmadison@...

Sun. Aug. 6^th 6:30 pm Tenney Park – John Wall Family Pavilion (402 N. Thornton Ave.) Lanterns for Peace 2023! Join us for this family friendly event to commemorate the lives lost in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 77 years ago and make sure that such nuclear attacks never again take place. We remember the past, so that we can envision and work for a peaceful, just and nuclear-free future. After creating lanterns, there will be a program at 7:30 pm and then a launch of lanterns at dusk (7:45 pm) You are welcome to mail in your lantern if you cannot be in attendance. Please wear a mask if you are unvaccinated and maintain social distancing. More info?