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Madison Activist Calendar from 3/18/2024

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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 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:

Thurs. March 21^st 10:00 am – 4:00 pm UW-Madison Library Mall (700 block of State St.) Palestine Mothers’ Day Commemoration! Join Students for Justice in Palestine and Madison Rafah Suster City Project to remember those mothers and children martyred in Gaza. There will be a mobile art installation, sidewalk chalking, educational leafletting, somber vigil with poetry and obituary reading, as well as a donation drive for baby’s clothing (0-24 months) and small teddy bears. For more info and to sign-up as a volunteer, visit:

Thurs. March 21^st 7:00 pm Barrymore Theater (2090 Atwood Ave,) Wild & Scenic Film Festival – Where Activism Gets Inspired! Hosted by the River Alliance of Wisconsin. Tickets are $24.50 in advance. For more info, visit:

Mon. March 25^th 6:00 pm Madison Central Library, Rm. 301 (201 W. Mifflin St.) Israelism – movie screening and discussion. Hosted by Madison Rafah Sister City Project and Jewish Voice for Peace Madison. When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. More info, visit the Facebook event:

Tues. 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:

Tues. April 2^nd 5:00 pm WI Historical Society (816 State St.) Opening reception for the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit with a talk: Dissent and Resistance Within the Armed Forces - featuring Susan Schnall, national president, Veterans for Peace; Ronald L. Haeberle, former Army photographer of the iconic My Lai Massacre photographs; David Cortright, Professor Emeritus and special advisor for policy, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, author and editor of over 20 books including Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War. For more info, visit:

Tues. April 2^nd 6:00 pm Leopold’s Books Bar Caffe (1301 Regent St.) Barons! – book event with author, Austin Frerick, fellow at Yale Univ. and expert on agricultural and anti-trust policy. His book, Barons, is the story of seven titans of the food industry, their rise to power, and the consequences for workers, eaters, and democracy itself. Hosted by the WI Farmers Union. More info?

Thurs. 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 5^th 12:00 Noon WI Historical Society (816 State St.) A War Without End: Legacies of the American War in Vietnam and Among American Veterans with Ngo Xuan Hien, communications manager, Project RENEW; Chuck Searcy, co-founder and international advisor to Project RENEW; Heather Bowser, founder of Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance, advocacy for offspring of Vietnam Veterans exposed to Agent Orange. Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit. For more info, visit:

Tues. April 9^th 8:00 am – 5:00 pm UW-Madison, Union South (1308 W. Dayton) The WI Idea Conference! - hosted by the Morgridge Center for Public Service. This year’s theme, ”Community University Partnerships for Stronger Communities,” intends to build understanding and highlight examples of robust community university partnerships, while also increasing capacity for such partnerships and strengthening bridges between UW and Wisconsin communities. This event is great for community-oriented academics, as well as community members in the public or nonprofit sector. Breakfast and lunch included. To register and for more info, visit:

Tues. April 9^th 7:00 pm WI Historical Society (816 State St.) Screening and discussion of the movie: The War At Home with with director Glenn Silber. Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit. For more info, visit:

Wed. April 10^th 7:00 pm WI Historical Society (816 State St.) Screening and discussion of the movie: Sir! No Sir! with director David Zeiger. Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit. For more info, visit:

Sat. April 13^th 9:30 am – 11:30 am Garver Feed Mill – south entrance (3241 Garver Green) Earth Month Cleanup – hosted by Sustain Dane and Ian’s Pizza! Join others for a spring cleanup in the Starkweather Neighborhood. When trash washes into lakes, rivers, and streams it not only harms fish and other aquatic wildlife, but it makes it difficult to boat, fish, or swim. Help us pick up our neighborhood to prevent this pollution from reaching our waterways. We will provide gloves, trash bags, hand sanitizer, plus a pizza slice for volunteers! Please RSVP by visiting:

Sat. April 13^th 1:00 pm Farley Center (2299 Spring Rose Rd. near Verona) The Dine' and Uranium!

Presenters, Omie Baldwin and Cathy Middlecamp, will tell not one but two stories, as the title suggests. But these quickly converge, because uranium ore was found on the land of the Dine’ in the Four Corners Area of the United States. Omie Baldwin will speak about the Navajo People’s cultural history, where and how they lived, past and present, how they needed work, and the mining facilities nearby in which they found work. Cathy Middlecamp will talk about three reasons why we took uranium out of the ground, what happened when we did, and some more general stuff about radioactivity and “radiation.” Who are these people and what are the stories of their land? What is uranium and what are the stories of uranium miners in the past? What new chapters in the story are being written today? We promise more questions than answers together with a lively romp through stories of our (slightly) radioactive planet. For more info, visit:

Sun. April 14th 7:00 pm WI Historical Society (816 State St.) Screening and discussion of the movie: The Whistle Blower of My Lai, documentary on the Kronos Quartet’s making of the opera My Lai, plus live performance by Vanessa Vo, Kronos Quartet soloist with traditional Vietnamese instruments. Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit. For more info, visit:

Tues. April 16^th 5:30 pm WI Historical Society (816 State St.) A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey From War to Peace – discussion with Le Ly Hayslip, author of the memoir, When Heaven and Earth Changed Place, with interlocutor, Norman Stockwell. Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit. For more info, visit:

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:

Sun. April 21^st 2:00 pm WI Historical Society (816 State St.) Screening and discussion of the movie: Hunting Wartime, directed by Samantha Farinella. This documentary exposes the mistreatment of patriotic Native American soldiers while they served in Vietnam and upon their return to the United States. Introduced by Samantha Skenandore, tribal advocate. Part of the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit. For more info, visit:

Sun. April 21st 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Common Ground – online screening and discussion with Pat Skogen, hosted by the Christine Center! From the filmmakers of Kiss the Ground comes the follow-up documentary, Common Ground, winner of the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, which explores how regenerative agriculture can help heal the soil, our health and the planet. The discussion will be facilitated by Pat Skogen, long-time Wisconsin Farmers Union leader, educator and organic dairy farmer, who is a fierce advocate for family farms and rural communities and works to organize against the growing number of CAFOs invading Wisconsin’s countryside. The film can be watched online prior to the discussion between April 19^th and 21^st. For more info and to register, visit:

Tues. April 23^rd 8:00 am – 10:00 am Spark Building, Starting Block Cafe - 3^rd Fl. (821 E. Washington Ave.) Sustainable Breakfast Series: Fashion with a Purpose – hosted by Sustain Dane! Join us for a networking breakfast, followed by a panel discussion on alternatives to fast fashion, where we will learn from local experts about more sustainable apparel options like clothing made from hemp fiber, thrift stores, and the steps brands take to minimize impact. For more info and to register, 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:

Sun. May 19^th 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Warner Park (2930 N. Sherman Ave.) WORTstock 2024! WORT 89.9 FM is back for another spirited celebration of community radio! Enjoy live music in a variety of styles, food and craft vendors, info tables, arts and crafts, games, a prize raffle and the WORT Boutique. Plus, the Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild returns for the 20th Annual No Crap on Tap! Live performers include: 12:00 Noon Son del Atlantico (Afro-Colombian) 1:20 pm Strings to Roam (bluegrass and roots) 2:40 pm BlueStem Jazz presents Undisclosed Sims (psych jazz) 4:00 pm Roscoe Foster & The Rascal Theory (blues) and 5:30 pm Boiled in Lead (Celtic rock from Minneapolis) with Special Appearance by FORWARD! Marching Band! More info? Visit: