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Madison Activist Calendar from 1/26/2024

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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!

Fri. Jan. 26^th 10:30 am UW-Madison Library Mall, followed by 11:00 am march and rally WI State Capitol Ceasefire Now – International Day of Protest Against War Crimes in Gaza! More info, visit:

Tues. Jan. 30^th 2:00 pm UW-Madison Social Sciences Bldg Rm. 8147 (1180 Observatory Dr.) - and also via Zoom! How We Save Us: Rethinking Strategy and Collective Action in US Politics – with Maurice Mitchell, Working Families Party. Hosted by the UW Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Raised by Caribbean working-class parents, he began organizing as a teenager and never stopped. In the wake of the police murder of Mike Brown, Mitchell relocated to Ferguson and helped build the Movement for Black Lives. He went on to co-found and lead Blackbird, a movement anchor organization, and in 2018 took the helm of the Working Families Party. For more info and to register for the Zoom link, visit:

Thurs. Feb. 1^st 6:30 pm WILPF Book Circle - Virtual Discussion of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall. Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed’s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge. For Zoom registration, call #608-609-7961 or email: wilpfmadison@...

Wed. Feb. 7^th 8:00 am – 9:30 pm Linden CoHousing (107 Sutherland Ct.) Gather the Community' Breakfast – hosted by WILPF-Madison! Join us for a homemade buffet breakfast (veggie meal with vegan options upon request) and to hear about Just Money with Mary Sanderson of the Alliance for Just Money! Somehow a mighty human invention, money, has been twisted away from human and planetary needs. Eco-systems are being ransacked. Between interest, inflation and taxes, we all are serving the billionaires and fearing the next crash. Fortunately that secret twist has been identified and it is fixable. Mary Sanderson will pinpoint the problem and invite us to work for a historically grounded plan that addresses it directly. She will also introduce vibrant allied projects modeling how money can work for the common good. Cost for the breakfast is a sliding scale $10 - $20. To RSVP, please email: wilpfmadison@...

Wed. Feb. 7^th 6:30 pm UW-Madison Union South, Marquee Cinema (1308 W. Dayton) UW Havens Wright Center Social Cinema presents: The Stroll (HBO films 2023)! When Director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. With so few options to earn money to survive, Kristen, like many transgender women of color during this era, began sex work in an area known as “The Stroll” in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan, where trans women congregated and forged a deep camaraderie to protect each other from harassment and violence. Reuniting her sisters to tell this essential New York story from their first-hand experiences, Kristen’s intimate narration and interviews bring an astonishing array of archival material of bygone New York from the 1970s through the early 2000s to life. Post screening discussion with Warren Scherer (War), Assistant Dean & Director of the Gender & Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC) at UW-Madison. For more info, visit:

Thurs. Feb. 8th 12:00 pm Capitalist Crises, Capitalist Transitions – online Zoom discussion with

Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Hosted by the UW Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Streeck’s research areas are comparative political economy and institutional change in capitalist economies and societies. His most recent books include Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice (with Ruth Dukes) and How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System. For more info and to register for the Zoom link, visit:

Thurs. Feb. 8^th 7:30 pm Crystal Corner (1302 Williamson St.) 20th Annual Bob Marley Birthday Party and Food Pantry Benefit! Join us for a community dance party to shake away the winter blues and support Healthy Food for All Dane County. Featuring DJ Kayla Kush, DJ El Serpentine, and the Real Roots Rockers Band. Suggested donation of $5 at the door with a non-perishable food item ($7 without). Plus a raffle with lots of prizes! More info? Visit:

Sat. Feb. 10^th 1:00 pm UW-Madison Library Mall (700 block of State St.) STOP THE HATE: BUILD PEOPLE'S UNITY – Rally and March! This emergency event is in direct response to the neo-Nazi “Blood Tribe” march and attempted recruitment rally that was held in Madison on Nov. 18th, 2023. This same terrorist organization menaced an LGBTQ community event in Watertown last year. These attacks (encouraged by fascist politicians and their corporate bosses) continue to create a climate for hate. Our public institutions and public spaces need to be defended from the likes of the "Blood Tribe,” the "Proud Boys” as well as think tanks like the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation that oppose free thought, truth and diversity, worker's rights, unions, safety laws, healthcare for all, environmental safety and any regulations that infringe on rich people's profits. Join us (and bring your friends, neighbors, fellow students and co-workers) to resist the hate and participate in this proactive action to continue building a stronger, more engaged people's movement in Madison and beyond. More info? Visit Facebook:

Wed. 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:

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:

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: