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Madison Activist Calendar from 2/5/2024

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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. 5^th 11:30 am Univ. Ave. and Lake St. Transit Equity Day 2024! Advocates will gather for for a Day of Action on Public Transportation as a Civil Right at the closed bus stop. Supporters will hold signs, distribute statements, and thank bus drivers. We are celebrating a belated birthday for Rosa Parks (her birthday is Feb. 4th). Advocates call for a first-rate transit system with both rapid and local buses that better balance the goals of ridership, coverage, accessibility, environmental sustainability, and organizational efficiency. They call for a transit system with equitable access everywhere, including to infill, old and new peripheral developments. They call for drastic cuts to our emissions of greenhouse gasses and conversion of our economy to renewable non-emitting energy sources. Public transit is a public service, not a business. Its purpose is to get people where they need to go and should not focus primarily on ridership or profit. Frequent service without reasonable access to people of all abilities is not transit equity. BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) service should enhance, rather than be at the expense of, local routes. We want more transparency in the budgeting of public transportation. More info? Visit the Facebook event:

Mon. Feb. 5^th 7:00 pm Climate Justice, Resident Science, and the Chicago Heat Mapping Project – Virtual Zoom Event Hosted by 350 Wisconsin. Speakers include: Lonette Sims, chair of the People’s Response Network (PRN) and Dr. Howard Ehrman, PRN co-founder. In collaboration with the City of Chicago and others, PRN received a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to involve resident scientists in creating a map of localized measurements of temperatures. The project found a differential of 22 degrees between different neighborhoods on July 28, 2023. Under-resourced, redlined African American and Latino neighborhoods experienced the most dangerous temperatures, with the greatest concentrations of heat islands and far less green infrastructure or air conditioning. Lonette and Howard will talk about their experiences working with community organizations, labor unions, and resident scientists to show the award-winning film: Cooked: Survival by ZipCode, about the 1995 deadly Chicago heatwave (the worst in US history) and to create the heat map for Chicago. They will also give an overview of the project and share ideas about how their findings can save lives. For more info and to register for the Zoom link, visit:

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 4:30 pm UW-Madison Science Hall, Rm 180 (550n N. Park St.) Reading with Yanya Ashour, Palestinean Poet. Ashour is an emerging poet known for his profound and moving reflections on the human experience of those living in Gaza. Ashour arrived in the U.S. last Sept. but is no longer able to return to his homeland. There is a Palestinian dinner following the reading, but registration is required, 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:

Fri. Feb. 9^th 5:00 – 6:30 pm Law Park on Lake Monona, near intersection of John Nolen Dr. and Williamson St. Lights Up With Palestine! Join Madison Rafah Sister City project and others to hold up Ceasefire Now and Free Gaza signs for passing night traffic.

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:

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.

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)! 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. Find out what you can do to influence what the next Farm Bill ends up looking like. 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:

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:

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:

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:

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: