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Madison Activist Calendar from 3/4/2024

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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. March 4^th 7:00 pm Friends Meeting House (1704 Roberts Court) EcoAnxiety, 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:

Tues. March 5^th 9:00 am – 3:00 pm WI State Capitol, Gar Hall Rm. 413 North HER Story Event – hosted by FREE and WISDOM in advance of International Women’s Day. Learn more about what you can do to end the shackling of incarcerated, pregnant women & girls & ensure dignity before, during & after child birth through WI's first Prison Doula Program. Advocate using your lived experiences for improved housing health care, birth experiences & dignity for incarcerated women & girls as well as women in reentry. For more info and how to register, email: peggy@...

Tues. March 5^th 5:30 pm Chrysalis (1342 Dewey Ct.) Shared Threads: Stories that Weave Us Together - 2^nd Annual Storytelling event for building community and collective healing. Araceli Esparza of Midwest Mujeres Collective will emcee. The event will also be livestreamed via Facebook. For more info and to register, visit:

Wed. March 6^th 5:00 pm McPike Park (202 S. Ingersoll St.) Tony Terrell Robinson Celebration of Life. Join the Social Justice Center (SJC) and other friends and relatives of Tony Terrell Robinson on the 9th anniversary of his passing. The evening will feature guest speaker Ajani, mural dedication, lantern release, and a walk to Tony's former home at 1125 Williamson St. The celebration of life concludes with a moment of silence at 6:38 p.m. RIP Tony Terrell Robinson!

Thurs. March 7^th 9:00 am – 4:00 pm WI State Capitol Day of Empathy: Transforming Supervision in WI! Join us for the largest national day of action for criminal justice reform. Uplift your voice alongside justice impacted people, families, and allies to discuss with WI legislators how supervision (probation, parole and extended supervision) should be changed to transform our state towards public safety and thriving communities for all people. There will be a panel, a supervision simulation and educational visits to legislative offices. For more info and to register, 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.

Sat. March 9^th 10:00 am WI Transit Riders Alliance Annual Meeting – virtual event! After a brief introduction, we will hear about FlexRide Milwaukee from Dave Steele, Executive Director of MobiliSe. With time for Q&A before ur annual meeting. For more details and to register, visit:

Sat. March 9^th 1:00 pm Goodman Community Center (149 Waubesa St.) Activism Fair for Public Schools! What kind of staffing do MMSD students and schools need to thrive? Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) wants to bring families and educators together to share concerns about class size, staff shortages, and the resources needed for the schools our students deserve. We'll discuss how we can act collectively to make our schools better places to learn and work. For more info and if you need interpretation services, email: madteachersinc@...

Sun. March 10^th 3:00 pm Elver Park Neighborhood Center (1201 McKenna Blvd) Activism Fair for Public Schools! What kind of staffing do MMSD students and schools need to thrive? Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) wants to bring families and educators together to share concerns about class size, staff shortages, and the resources needed for the schools our students deserve. We'll discuss how we can act collectively to make our schools better places to learn and work. For more info and if you need interpretation services, email: madteachersinc@...

Thurs. March 14^th 3:00 pm UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, 5^th Fl. (1300 Linden Dr.) Flax to Linen in Wisconsin: From Folklore to the Future – talk with Leslie Schroeder of Wisconsin Linen Revival. Come learn about the effort to provide access to locally and sustainably grown flax and processed linen to benefit local farmers and economies, build community, and shorten the journey from seed to shirt. Info?

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:

Mon. March 18^th 6:00 pm Defending Wisconsin's Sacred Waters from Dangerous Mine Proposals

- virtual presentation with Dr. Al Gedicks has been instrumental in uniting Wisconsin’s tribes with grassroots rural mine opponents to form winning coalitions. He will discuss new plans for exploratory drilling for copper and gold deposits northwest of Medford mark the beginning of yet another round in the fight to protect Wisconsin’s waters. Meanwhile, Back 40 Mine opponents remain vigilant. Hosted by the Sierra Club. For more info and to register, visit: =

Mon. March 18^th 6:00 pm Worker Justice Wisconsin Annual Meeting – virtual event! Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of WJW and to learn more about its partnerships with community, faith, and labor allies. For more into and login details, visit:

April 2nd – April 20^th WI Historical Society (816 State St.) Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit! During America’s War in Vietnam, tens of thousands of GIs and veterans created a robust movement in opposition to the war. Yet its history is largely unknown. This exhibit (along with its companion book) show how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffeehouses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. It’s time to set the record straight. More info? Visit:

Wed. April 4^th 6:30 pm Hell of a Book, A Novel by Jason Mott – virtual WILPF Book Circle conversation. An African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Jason Mott's novel and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: since his novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. For login details, email: wilfpmadison@...

Fri. April 19^th – 26^th UW-Madison Earth Fest 2024! – hosted by the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies! Includes a kickoff celebration on Fri. April 19^th from 1:00 – 6:00 pm at the Discovery Institute (330 N. Orchard St.) For a full schedule and registration details, visit:

Tues. April 23^rd 5:00 pm Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (227 State St.) Bad River: a Story of Defiance – screening and discussion of the newly released documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Mary Mazzio. Reception before the film at 6:00 pm followed at 7:45 pm by a panel with Mike Wiggins, Patty Loew, Runninghorse Livingston, and David O’Connor. To register, visit: For more on the film itself, visit:

Sat. April 27^th 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Madison Central Library (201 W. Mifflin) 2024 Madison Print and Resist Zinefest! Join dozens of regional artists, writers, print-makers and advocates for a day-long festival of transformative, and transgressive DIY publishing and printmaking. Various makers will be present and ready to share their work with the Madison area community. Drop in throughout the day to see their work and learn more about this long-standing art form. The event is free to attend and open to the public, keeping in mind that artists will not be censored and some content may not be suitable for children. Madison Print & Resist will comply with all public health recommendations active on the date of the event, even if not mandated at the time, there will be strong encouragement for social distancing and mask wearing. More info, visit the Facebook page: