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Madison Activist Calendar from 9/17/2024

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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 episodic reading groups, film discussions, and radically inspired cultural events. The Madison Infoshop is whatever its members wish it to be!

Wed. Sept. 18^th 8:00 am – 9:30 am Linden Co-Housing (107 Sutherland Ct.) Community Breakfast with Rep. Francesca Hong – hosted by WILPF-Madison! Learn about taking action and standing up to injustice from an elected official. Rep. Hong will specifically talk about the boycott, divest, sanction (BDS) movement in the context of Wisconsin. Vegetarian breakfast buffet – suggested donation $20. To RSVP, please email: carol.wilson.622@...

Sat. Sept. 21^st 10:00 am – 4:00 pm and Sun. Sept. 22^nd 9:00 am – 11:00am Social Justice Center (1202 Williamson St.) HUMAN’s Global Solidarity Summit – hosted by Mutual Aid Network! We'll serve food and have some participatory art activities too. Join the fun in person or online. More info? Visit:

Sat. Sept. 21^st 10 am – 12:00 Noon Catholic Multicultural Center (1862 Beld St.) U.N. International Day of Peace Discussion – hosted by the UNA of Dane County and facilitated by Sam Romano, with a special focus on the upcoming UN Summit of the Future which hopes to provide a blueprint for a re-energized and more effective U.N. in light of current global crises.

Sat. Sept. 21^st 4:30 pm Performing Arts Pavilion (116 Brodhead St. in Mazomanie) Bread and Puppet! The internationally celebrated company visits the Midwest with its visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Believing that theater is a basic necessity like bread, the company frequently brings its work to the streets for those who may not otherwise go to the theater. Its shows are political and spectacular, with puppets often on stilts, wearing huge masks with expressive faces, singing, dancing and playing music. Suggested donation $10 -$25. For more info:

Mon. Sept. 23^rd 6:00 pm Madison Central Library – Rm. 301/302 (201 W. Mifflin St.) Antiwar Film Series: A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path of Demilitarization / Una Paz Audaz. This documentary explores how Costa Rica abolished its military and the peace dividends that they have reaped. We will show the film in two rooms, so you can watch it in Spanish or English – your choice. Small group discussions to follow the screening. More info? Visit:

Tues. Sept. 24th 8:30 am – 9:30 am Holy Wisdom Monastery (4200 Cty Hwy M in Middleton) Sustainable Breakfast Series: Net Zero and Beyond at Holy Wisdom Monastery! Join Sustain Dane for a tour of their facility including their LEED platinum Monastery building, 300 kW solar array, and newly reopened geothermal heated/cooled retreat and guest house. Speakers include: Toby Grabs, Director of Operations at Holy Wisdom Monastery and Mark Hanson, Director of Sustainable Services at Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction, Inc. For more than 70 years, the Benedictine sisters have cared for the Monastery land rom restoring the former farmland to native prairie and savanna to earning the title of highest-rated LEED-NC building in the US to date. By the end of 2024, the Monastery will produce 100% of their energy needs onsite from renewable resources. With that, they will be the only net zero energy retreat in Wisconsin and one of only a handful in all of North America. To register, visit:

Mon. Sept. 30^th 6:00 pm UW-Madison Memorial Union (800 Langdon St.) Faculty - Student Roundtable Discussion on Humanity, Warfare and Peacefare! Along with UW-Madison students, Professor Nam C. Kim will share an anthropologist- archaeologist's view of the history of warfare and share family connections to armed conflict. He’ll discuss warfare/peacefare throughout human history. Peacefare is a counterpoint to warfare. Culture allows for war and peace. It takes cooperation to avoid or prevent war, and the archaeological record shows that societies make huge investments in conflict avoidance, ceremonies to prevent war, marriages for alliance building, trade as a political alliance, and signaling peaceful intentions to outsiders. UW-Madison student Charlene Huynh is winner of the 2024 Waging Peace in Vietnam Essay Contest - she will read her winning essay and be part of the panel discussion. She majors in Sociology and Communications Arts. Venerable Sophea Kai is a PhD student in the Department of History, where his research interests are history, religion, despicable wars, Asian Americans and multiracial interaction. UW-Madison student Axell Boomer is the winner of the 2024 Beinecke Award, and works with the UW Nonviolence Project. He will share his work on Resurrection City, the encampment created in 1968 in Washington, DC by the Poor People’s Campaign, and how civil rights and anti-war organizing were interrelated.

Thurs. Oct. 3^rd 6:30 pm Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver – virtual book discussion hosted by WILPF! Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, Demon Copperhead is the story of an Appalachian boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. For more info and to receive the Zoom link, email: wilpfmadison@...

Sat. Oct. 19^th 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Friends Meeting House (1704 Roberts Ct.) Mobilize: Creating a Collective Shift from Militarism to a Culture of Peace and Environmental Justice - WNPJ’s Fall 2024 Assembly! In-person event with virtual satellite parties statewide. Please join the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice as we explore the connection to the cost of war on people and the environment and how we unite to build a culture of peace. Includes presentations by the winners of this year’s Peacemaker Award! If you would like to host a virtual satellite party in your community, contact: dena.eakles@... For more event details as they emerge, visit:

Sat. Oct. 19^th 2:30 – 5:30 pm WI State Capitol Celebrate Democracy Rally! Hosted by Wisconsin Grassroots Network, Building Unity, and many others. For more details as they emerge, visit:

Sat. Oct. 26^th 7:30 pm and Sun. Oct. 27^th 2:00 pm ArtLitLab (111 S. Livingston) No Regrets! Albert Camus and Edith Piaf in the French Resistance! Camus and Piaf were both in the French Resistance, though in different ways. We will hear from Camus' editorials from the underground resistance journal Combat, and hear many of Piaf's now iconic songs. Free! More info? Visit the Facebook event: