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Madison Activist Calendar from 2/19/2024

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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. 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?

Mon. Feb. 19^th 12:00 Noon State Capitol Rotunda – No Reason to Celebrate Our Current President Vigil and Leaflet! Join others to tell the White House about your opposition to Biden’s policy of defending, allowing, and abetting Israel’s crimes in Palestine. At 12:30 pm there will also be a walk down State St. for further leafletting on UW’s Library Mall. For more info: warabolition@...

Tues. Feb. 20^th 3:00 pm UW-Madison’s Library Mall. Hands Off Rafah Rally!

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:

Fri. Feb. 23^rd 12:00 Noon Sen. Baldwin’s Office (30 W. Mifflin) Action opposing U.S. emergency supplemental assistance to Israel. Followed at 2:00 pm by a walk to Rep. Pocan’s Office (10 E. Doty St.) to thank him for his previous votes against supplement assistance to Israel and to urge him to continue to do so. For more info: warabolition@...

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?

Mon. Feb. 26^th 6:30 – 8:00 pm Corner of N. Frances and W Dayton St. Lights up for Palestine Vigil – before the Journey Freedom concert. More info? Visit:

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 3:00 pm Madison College, Rm. A2025 – Truax Campus (1750 Wright St.) Watchdogs: The Role of Political Commentary in Our Democracy – talk with John Nichols, national correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of the Capital Times. Part of the Writer's Life Lecture Series. Nichols is a prominent figure in political journalism, known for his insightful commentary and in-depth analysis of American politics. He has covered a wide range of political issues, from grassroots movements to presidential campaigns, with a keen focus on social justice and progressive values. More info? 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 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Sacred Heart School (545 N. Oak St. in Reedsburg) 12^th Annual Food Fair and Farmers Market! Dozens of local food vendors, non-profit displays, plus educational workshops. More info? Visit:

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: