Madison Activist Calendar from 7/18/2023

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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.

Tues. July 18^th 8:00 am – 10:00 am Spark Building, Starting Block Cafe - 3^rd Fl. (821 E. Washington Ave.) Pollinators and Their Impact on Our Ecosystem – Conversation with UW Entomology Prof. Claudio Gratton. Part of the ongoing Sustain Dane Breakfast Series. To register, visit:

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. Lots of excellent speakers, including: Judge Everette Mitchell,
State Rep Francesca Hong, Emily Park of 350 Wisconsin, Rev. Jerry Folk of the Interfaith Peace Working Group, State Rep Darrin Madison, State Rep Supreme Moore Omokunde, and Montre Moore with the NAACP. 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?

Mon. July 24^th 7:00 pm Bank Customers for Climate Justice – virtual training hosted by 350 Wisconsin. Do you bank with Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, or Citibank? Or do you have close friends or family who do so? These four banks loan billions to the fossil fuel industry. If we bank with them, our money is being used to fund climate chaos. We’re inviting bank customers — and friends and family of bank customers — to come to this training to learn how to meet with local branch managers to send a message up to the bank CEOs who are ultimately responsible. For more info and to register for login details, visit:

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:

Sun. July 30^th 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Madison (location TBA) Embodying Resource Workshop – with Lizzie and Miriam, who developed this offering to practice being in more direct relationship with the impacts of class in our bodies, lives, and communities. We are calling this workshop “Embodying Resource” with the understanding that “resource” can be access to money, but also access to social capital, training and education, land, power, choice, h’story and more. For more info, and to register visit:

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?