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Madison Activist Calendar from 2/12/2024

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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, art supplies, topical files, graphics, megaphones, and button makers. We also host a variety of ongoing reading groups, film discussions, and radically inspired cultural events. The Madison Infoshop is whatever its members wish it to be!

Mon. Feb. 12th 6:00 pm Goodman Community Center (214 Waubesa St.) Baobab Trees and the Biodiversity of Madagascar! Humanities in Community presentation with Nasi Karimi, PhD research scientist at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Biology Instructor at Madison College. Situated in the Indian Ocean, off the east coast of Africa, Madagascar is home to unique and extremely diverse flora; almost 90% of the plants are found nowhere else. Some of the most iconic plants of Madagascar are the baobab trees. As some of the largest and oldest tree species in the world, they are biological wonders that dominate the landscapes on which they are found. Unfortunately, a variety of threats impact these trees including deforestation, shifting agriculture, and pressures from climate change including increased wildfires and extreme droughts. Come hear about the majestic island, its iconic trees, and the conservation efforts. More info, visit:

Mon. Feb. 12^th 7:00 pm Mt. Horeb Community Center (107 N. Grove St. in Mt. Horeb) Making a Planet-Friendly Farm Bill – hosted by Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWAPP)! Also, available virtually through 350 Wisconsin via Zoom. Speakers include: Darin Von Ruden, third-generation dairy farmer and president of Wisconsin Farmers Union; Margaret Krome, policy program director at Michael Fields Agriculture Institute; and Mike McCabe, Mike McCabe of Blue Jean Nation and member of the regenerative agriculture team for 350 Wisconsin. The federal Farm Bill isn't just vitally important to farmers, it impacts every American community—urban, suburban and rural. This massive legislation shapes national policies dealing with everything from nutrition and hunger to climate change and natural resource conservation. Hear how a new Farm Bill can be turned into a force promoting agricultural practices that are good for farmers, the land, air and water quality, consumers, and future prospects for life on our planet. To register for Zoom login details, visit: For more info, visit the Facebook event:

Tues. Feb. 13^th 12:00 pm The Alchemy of Organizing: Turning Insecurity Into Solidarity – online Zoom discussion with Astra Taylor, writer, filmmaker and organizer. Hosted by the UW Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Taylor is the director of numerous documentaries and the author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, and The People’s Platform (winner of an American Book Award), among other works. Her latest book is the co-authored Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, co-written with Leah Hunt-Hendrix. For more info and to register for the Zoom link, visit:

Tues. Feb. 13^th 6:30 pm Review of Local Regulations and Moratoriums for CAFOs in Wisconsin – virtual webinar with Adam Voskuil, staff attorney at Midwest Environmental Advocates (MEA) Hosted by the Clean Water Action Council of Northeast Wisconsin. To register for login details, visit:

Thurs. Feb. 15^th 12:00 pm Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land – virtual online lecture with Prof. Taylor Brorby, Univ. of Alabama. Explore the connections between extractive economies, targeting the LGBTQ+ community through book banning and censorship, and the role of storytelling to transform the systems in which we live as well as ourselves. Hosted by the UW-Madison Nelson Institute. For more info and login details, visit:

Sat. Feb. 17^th 11:00 am – 4:00 pm UW-Madison’s Union South, Marquee Theater (1308 W. Dayton) Waste Less Film Festival – featuring at 11:00 am Plastic China, then at 1:15 pm by How to Let Go Of the World. Followed by a panel discussion with local environmental activists. Tickets are $15 for each feature film ($10 for students). For more info and a link to buy tickets, visit:

Mon. Feb. 19^th 10:30 am Attic Angel Community (8301 Old Sauk Rd.) What Does Lake Ice Seasonality Tell Us About Climate Change? Because human observers have recorded the dates of ice on and ice off on many lakes around the world, lake ice provides a view of what is happening, often well before direct climate measurements of temperature were available. In Wisconsin and other states some records began as early as the 1850s. So what do these records tell us? In this Badger Talk Emeritus Prof. John Magnuson, founder of the UW Center for Limnology, will talk about the changes and variability in ice cover in Wisconsin lakes from the 1850s to the present. He will also discuss the value of lake ice to us largely for cultural reasons and as a measure of what is happening to climate. Info?

Wed. Feb. 21st 6:30 pm UW-Madison Union South, Marquee Cinema (1308 W. Dayton) UW Havens Wright Center Social Cinema presents: The 50 (LvL films 2022)! At a time when the California state prison system was dangerously overcrowded, and more than 85% of its inmates were involved in drug uses, one unlikely program looked inward for the answer and took a chance on 50 men serving life inside. Post screening discussion with Kevin Mullen, UW Assistant Professor of Continuing Studies and the Director of Adult Education for the UW Odyssey Project. For more info, visit:

Thurs. Feb. 22^nd 6:00 – 8:00 pm First United Methodist (203 Wisconsin Ave.) Building Unity Gathering! Join other Madison-area lovers of peace, justice, sustainability, and democracy. Share fellowship. Bring your supper, if you wish. We will offer coffee, tea, and light refreshments. Learn about what others are doing to build our movement, and share in the possibilities of our CommUNITY. For more info, visit the Facebook event:

Sat. Feb. 24^th 1:00 pm WI State Capitol Stand With Ukraine – United for Victory Rally! Today marks the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Join us in solidarity with the people of Ukraine as they face a full-scale invasion, bravely defending their sovereignty and the principles of freedom and democracy. More info? Visit the Facebook event:

Sun. Feb. 25^th 10:00 am Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society (2010 Whenona Dr.) Political Dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinean Conflict. This Badger Talk will explore the ups and downs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over time, the current strategies of the participants, and where it is likely to go from here. Presenter is UW Prof. Nadav Shelef, Israel Studies and Political Science. His current projects focus on understanding how homelands change and the conditions under which religious parties moderate their positions. Info?

Wed. Feb. 28^th 6:30 pm UW-Madison Union South, Marquee Cinema (1308 W. Dayton) UW Havens Wright Center Social Cinema presents: The Body Politic (2023)! Our protagonist is Brandon Scott, a young Mayor who grew up during Baltimore’s most troubling years and sets out, with unyielding idealism, to change the course of his battered and beloved city. Scott is elected Mayor amid the George Floyd uprising, and he introduces an ambitious plan for violence reduction and police reform that he promises will lower the city’s murder rate. Post screening discussion with Anthony B. Cooper, Sr., Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Reentry Services with the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development nd Christopher Lau, Assistant Clinical Professor and Co-Director of The Wisconsin Innocence Project Clinic. For more info, visit:

Sat. March 2^nd 11:00 am Gathering (location TBA) followed by 12:00 Noon March to WI State Capitol. Poor People’s Campaign – Mass Statehouse Assembly! Let's join together to demand living wages, voting rights, healthcare, fully-funded public education, a healthy environment, clean water, affordable and decent housing, an end to war and militarism, an end to poverty, and more! March 2 will be a simultaneous day of direct action at statehouses all across the country. We aim to bring together thousands of poor and low-wealth people and their allies to demand a moral agenda from our lawmakers at the state level. For more info, visit the Facebook event:

Mon. March 4^th 7:00 pm Friends Meeting House (1704 Roberts Court) EcoEanxiety, Climate Grief and Solastalgia – talk with Mirtha Pacheco, hosted by 350 Wisconsin. Also available via Zoom. Mirtha Pacheco is the Outreach Program Coordinator with the Loka Initiative of the UW’s Center for Healthy Minds. The Initiative’s mission is to “support faith-led environmental and climate efforts locally and around the world by helping build capacity of faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions, and by creating new opportunities for projects, partnerships and public outreach.” For more info and to register for login details, visit:

Thurs. March 7^th 6:30 pm American Prison: a Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment – virtual WILPF Book Circle conversation. In this shocking 2018 book expanding upon an earlier Mother Jones’ series, Shane Bauer examines the history of incarceration looking back at his own time working at the Winn Correctional Center in LA then operated by Corrections Corporation of America (now CoreCivic) For login details, email: wilfpmadison@...

Sat. March 9^th 10:00 am Prairie Cafe Family Abolition Reading Group – hosted by the Middleton Hill TranAnarchists Collective. Is our love finite? Must we only exchange care by compulsion? Join us with our unbridled, unconfined, unrestrained love and desire to discuss the seminal essay of Voltairine de Cleyre on the societal harms and personal violation of marriage and monogamy. We will also discuss a short piece of biographical material on Voltairine de Cleyre written by her (totally platonic, no feral love or connection whatsoever, very straight) friend Emma Goldman as context for De Cleyre's rhetoric and experiences. Here are links to the readings: Why is marriage a violation? It deeply restrains the resolution of interpersonal dynamics to something based on preserving a "product"--the nuptial vow--rather than the needs of people, and creates duties out of social relationships that could be a sustainment of an unsustainable joy. It encourages the patriarchal domination over birthing bodies, treating peoples' joyous, contradictory, and vulnerable experiences as mere means to reproduction. And finally, it forces us to love finitely, rather than sharing unfathomable queer desire however is consensual and being made the closer to those we love precisely by the fact that we are not alone in loving. We do not own each other. Let that release, shatter, and satisfy you.

Mon. March 18^th 12:00 Noon Siege Creep: Waste, Airbnb, and Speculation Between Israel/Palestine and Athens – virtual talk with Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Bard College. In the occupied West Bank waste and its infrastructures become braided into people’s senses of ethics, self, and possibilities for alternative futures. Crossing the Mediterranean, Israeli and Palestinian investors are turning Athens apartments into stories of Greek homes that have been turned into Airbnb listings as a mode of maintaining partial attachments under prolonged austerity, a process she calls “controlled alienation.” Together these two projects offer answers to two main questions: How do destructive conditions—be they ecological, political, or economic—remake socialities and relations? And how do people harness the material and semiotic properties of infrastructures to make their everyday lives workable—that is, livable—under conditions of duress? For login details, visit: