Madison Activist Calendar from 3/29/11 
 
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Resistance Continues in Wisconsin - All Sorts of Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly Activities Planned this Week!

Each Day 12:00 Noon State Capitol Rotunda - Solidarity Sing-A-Longs!  To join on Facebook, visit:  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194837067222612&index=1

Tues. March 29th  All Day!  State Capitol   Sign In Protest! Under orders from Gov. Walker, the Dept. of Administration has imposed new draconian rules about protest signs in the Capitol outside the "designated protest area."  Some have even received citations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZ_uGucZCQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL    Of course, the whole state is a free speech zone, which is why folks will be gathering on Tues. to exercise their right to political expression in our house.   The goal is to force the Capitol Police to issue as many citations as possible to facilitate a court challenge - if you don't use your rights, they will be taken away! 

Each Thurs.  8:00 am State Capitol. Ohm the Dome… It is YOUR house!

Fri.  April 1^st  9:45 am  Hamilton St. entrance – State Capitol.    King of Fools Capitol Celebration!  Join the delegation from Fools & Clowns, Local 1, as we deliver a crown and scepter to Governor Scott Walker and read out the formal proclamation declaring him King of the Fools. The proclamation reads in part: “In the greatest fool tradition, he has willingly brought scorn and ridicule down upon himself. His comments and actions are so outrageous as to be comical. Clowns and fools everywhere should tip their hat to... this consummate pro. He acts just like a king. He doesn’t get bogged down by bureaucratic details like democracy and he makes up the rules as he goes." The fool delegation will also distribute clown noses to Republican Senate members. “If you are going to act like a clown, you really should dress like one.” In addition they will leave a 24 hour timer for Senate Leader Fitzgerald, who has gotten into trouble of late because of his scheduling snafus. Please come properly attired!

Fri. April 1st  5:00 pm  Labor Temple (1602 S. Park St.) Workers of Wisconsin Unite - for an evening of Fun and Solidarity!  Featuring refreshments, poetry by M.L. Liebler, photo exhibit by David Giffey, labor cartoon exhibit by Huck/Konopacki.  Panelists:  
Peter Rachleff, "Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement" ; Jane Slaughter "Troublemakers Handbook 2"; Joe Burns, "The Revival of the Strike" (forthcoming); Steve Early, "The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor"Plus remarks from special guest, Humberto Montes de Oca  Luna of the Mexican electrical workers’ union (SME).  44,000 electrical workers in Central Mexico have been locked out of their jobs since October 10, 2009, when the government of Felipe Calderon, closed the public utility co. Luz y Fuerza del Centro with the aim of privatizing this nationalized corporation and destroying the powerful and militant Mexican Electrical Workers Union (Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas, or SME). Learn about the history of this union and how it has spearheaded the resistance movement across Mexico against NAFTA, privatization, union-busting and the entire corporate neoliberal agenda.  This is a kick-off event for the Madison Labor Notes TroubleMakers' School on Sat. April 2nd (see below).

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Sat. April 2^nd 9:00 am – 4:00 pm  Madison Labor Temple (1602 S. Park St.)  Madison Labor Notes TroubleMakers' School.  $25 includes lunch.

Registration at:  http://www.labornotes.org/madison#reg

Union busting, the governor's attack on public employees, concession demands, layoffs, threats to Social Security and pensions, increased health insurance costs, contracting out, furloughs, wage freezes, free trade deals, tax giveaways to the rich, tuition increases, wars, charter schools, sustained high unemployment, runaway shops, Right to Work...did we leave anything out?

Working people are under assault and the assault will continue until we put an end to it. The protests at the Capitol have shown what working people are made of.

That’s the idea behind the Madison Labor Notes Troublemakers School. How do we build on the protests, protect what we have—and lay the foundation to fight for more? Led by experienced labor activists, our workshops will explore strategies to fight back and give you the hands-on skills to make it happen.

The idea is not just to talk about problems for a day and then go home, but to come up with specific plans in some areas, so that we can go out Monday morning and get to work organizing to build on what we've done. There will be ample time to assess what we've gained through our unprecedented activism of the last month.

Workshops include:

• Public Sector Workers and How to Fight Back (twice)
• Organizing Contract Campaigns in the Great Recession
• Labor-Campus-Community Solidarity
• Organizing: Nontraditional Approaches
• Immigration, Racism, Labor Movement History
• Art for Mobilization
• Media Engagement and Your Local
• Econ 101: Is Capitalism Working for Workers?
• Workers: Know Your Rights!
• Labor’s Electoral Strategy: Are We Getting What We Paid For?
• Building a Member-to-Member Union

Interpretation and childcare will be provided.

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Sat. April 2^nd 1:00 pm  Meet at Urban Outfitters on State Street for the Zombie Walk to the State Capitol!  Uuugghhh.... BrAiNZ....ahhhgggg...... UuuuuUUUuurrrr-rrggggghhhh.... partee..... cAKe!!! BRAYNEZ.... Gggguuhhhh.....   For more details, check out the Facebook event:  Zombie Walk Against Scott Walker

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Sat. April 2nd  UW-Madison Law School  - 2011 NLG Midwest Regional Conference:  The People's Law in Action.  Featuring the following panels on Saturday, April 2nd: 

Workers’ Rights Are Human Rights: Advocating for Labor in a Time of Austerity

Featuring: Joel Rogers (Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs, and Sociology and Director of COWS, a think-and-do tank on high-road development. Newsweek had identified him as one of the 100 living Americans most likely to affect U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century), Sangita Nayak (organizer at 9to5, a grassroots organization in Milwaukee that has been instrumental in policy changes on issues affecting low-wage women for over two decades), and Sally Stix (attorney with over 30 years experience practicing employment and labor law in Chicago and Madison). Moderated by Ben Manski (Wisconsin attorney, pro-democracy advocate and Executive Director of Liberty Tree, a national strategy center dedicated to building a democracy movement for the U.S.A.). 

From Activism to Incarceration: The U.S. Government’s Criminalization of Dissent

Featuring: Bruce Nestor (past President of the National Lawyers Guild currently representing activists subpoenaed and targeted in the recent FBI raids across the Midwest), Shahid Buttar (civil rights lawyer, hip-hop & electronic MC, and Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee located in Washington, DC), andBruce Ellison (attorney for members of the American Indian Movement accused of crimes from events surrounding Wounded Knee, including Leonard Peltier). Moderated byMolly Armour (Midwest Regional Vice President for the NLG currently representing one of the activists subpoenaed before the Chicago grand jury).

Immigrant Communities Under Attack: Defending Civil and Human Rights

 
Featuring: Mary Meg McCarthy (Executive Director of Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), one of the nation’s leading immigrant and human rights advocacy organizations), Christine Neumann-Ortiz (Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera, one of Wisconsin's leading immigrant rights group), and Rocio Molina (Madison-area immigration attorney currently working at RISE law center). Moderated byNebula Li (third year law student at the University of Chicago Law School active on LGBT and immigration issues).

Piecing Together Peace: Countering Israeli Apartheid Through Action 

Featuring Jennifer Loewenstein, (UW Faculty), a speaker from Minnesota's Break the Bonds Campaign, an organization calling for the state of Minnesota to support the breaking of economic ties with the state of Israel, and moderated by UW Law's own Samir Jaber. 

Keynote address by Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate.  Dohrn was a national leader of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and the Weather Underground, and was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List for over a decade.  For more information and to register, go here: http://nlgchicago.org/regional-conference/

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Sun. April 3^rd  12:00 Noon  Barrymore Theater (2090 Atwood Ave.)   Forward Wisconsin Fest!  Featuring free solidarity music and hosted by the IATSE Local 251 Union Stagehands!  Acts include:  1:00 pm  Johnny McKenna; 2:00 pm SpareTime Bluegrass Band; 3:00 pm Cork ‘n Bottle String Band; 4:00 pm Ken Lonnquist; 5:00 pm  
Yid Vicious; 6:00 pm Stephanie Rearick; 7:00 pm Mike Felten; 8:00 pm The Apologists; 9:00 pm The Kissers.

Mon. April 4^th  5:00 pm  State Capitol  From Memphis to Madison:  Honor History, Make History Rally!  Join us as we commemorate the anniversary of the date in 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers demanding their dream: The right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life. The workers were trying to form a union with AFSCME.  Michelle Shocked is the featured performer and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with other union leaders, will be speaking.  Join us in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin where well-funded, right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights for which Dr. King gave his life. 

Mon. April 4^th 7:00 pm  Location TBA  Community screening of the 1992 documentary "At the River I Stand” about MLK's involvement in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and his assassination.  Hosted by the Community Labor Alliance.

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CALL-OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE CAPITOL OCCUPATION   - It’s Our History We’re Making, So Let’s Write It! 
 
The Madison Infoshop invites you to collaborate on a ‘zine compiling people's stories of the Capitol Occupation in Madison that began on February 15th, 2011. Add your stories, essays, photos, art, poetry, ...song lyrics, etc. Speak from personal experiences inside and outside of the Capitol, because WE ARE THE MEDIA! 
 
Deadline for submissions: April 22nd, Earth Day    ‘Zine debut: May 1st, May Day 
 
Ideas for submissions: 
 
- personal narratives, testimonials, and group writings 
- social theory, thoughts, and reflections surrounding the occupation 
- artwork 
- transcribed interviews or oral histories 
- song lyrics or poetry 
- lessons learned from group assemblies, organizing, etc. 
- inside/outside strategies 
- photographs 
- infrastructural set-up, obstacles, and successes 
- organizing outside of the occupation/downtown 
 
Please keep your submissions under 750 words and include exact times/dates if you can. 
If you can lay out your own piece, please do! We will be printing on folded-over 8 1/2" x 11" paper, so you can lay out individual pages on sheets 5.5" x 8.5". Please keep in mind copy quality and margins, and limit yourself to 4 pages. We are flexible on length, especially if you have a group collaboration. 
 
Physical pieces can be submitted to the Madison Infoshop. You can drop off submissions during open shop hours, or mail it to: 
 
Occupation Zine c/o The Madison Infoshop 
1019 Williamson Street #B, Madison, WI 53703 
 
Or, email your piece to:   occupationzine@gmail.com 
 
We can answer questions about layout, content, etc. We can use your help with layout, formatting, printing, and/or distribution, so get in touch if you can help! 
 
OCCUPY EVERYTHING! INVITE EVERYONE! 
 
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Riverwest: a Rhapsody – Play with Music by E. Theis 
 
Broom Street Theater (1119 Williamson St.)   March 4th – April 10th 
 
Fri. and Sat. shows at 8:00 pm   
Sun. matinee at 2:00 pm  
 
One neighborhood, wrestling with racial integration.  Holton Ave. to the River, Hipsterdom to Kingdon Come…    Tickets $9.00  (Sun. matinee $6.00)  Info?  www.bstonline.org(http://www.bstonline.org/) 
 
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Tues. March 29th  4:00 pm  UW-Madison, Rm. 206 Ingraham Exporting Policy: the Growth of Global Edu-Businesses – talk with Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, Univ. of London.  Sponsored by the A.E. Havens Center.  Info?  http://www.havenscenter.org/

Tues. March 29^th 6:30 pm  City County Bldg. (210 MLKJ Blvd.)  Madison Common Council will vote on a new zoning code for the City of Madison.  In that document is co-op friendly language that MCC and other housing coops fought to include in the new code.  This language vastly expands the areas of the city where co-ops can be built, and is crucial to growing the co-op movement here in Madison!  However, on Tuesday we are seeking several key changes to the current draft to make it even more co-op friendly, and additionally our chief opponent on the council is introducing language that would strip all of the existing pro-coop language from the draft code.  We need you and other co-op allies to attend and register in support of "co-op friendly zoning language." 

Tues. March 29th  7:00 pm  UW-Madison Law School, Rm. 5246  Addressing Expanded Corporate "Rights: in Elections - A Corporation Running for Congress?  Back in the day, corporations could only influence politics with high-paid lobbyists and backroom deals. But now, thanks to the Supreme Court and its Citizens United decision, corporations are "persons" too and have constitutional rights. So shouldn't they be able to take the final step, and run for public office?  Well, that's just what Murray Hill, Inc. decided to do. Please join us and hear the story of Murray Hill, Inc.'s run for Congress, as told by its campaign manager and designated human representative, Eric Hensal. All interested humans and corporations are welcome to attend.  Hosted by Central Wisconsin Move to Amend. 

Tues. March 29^th 7:00 pm UW-Madison, Grainger Hall (975 University Ave.)  UW-Madison professor Charles Snowdon will talk about his experiments on monkeys. 

Wed. March 30^th 9:00 am – 4:30 pm  State Capitol   Lobby Day for the Wisconsin Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (WNIRR) - dedicated to promoting the rights and dignity of immigrants and refugees.  Info?  #358-0565  or www.vdlf.org

Wed. March 30^th 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm  201 S. Gammon Rd. (near the entrance to Memorial High School).  Vigil on the Budget!   Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will be having a discussion regarding budget issues with MATC folks, leaders from Dane county, and state legislators.  Comments will be given to Gov. Walker following the discussion. Let your voice be heard!

Wed. March 30th 7:00 p.m. Baraboo Arts Bldg. (323 Water St. in Baraboo).   Building 
Local Resiliency for an Uncertain Future – talk with Nancy Langston, UW-Madison Professor of Forestry & Wildlife Ecology.  Synthetic chemicals and climate change 
are teaming up to trigger profound changes in Lake Superior and the surrounding watershed.  Langston’s research examines how communities connected to Lake Superior 
cope with current ecological degradation and their strategies to adapt to an uncertain future and factors they cannot control.  Part of the Baraboo Range Preservation Association’s ongoing 2011 Cabin Fever series. 
 
Wed. March 30th  4:00 pm  UW-Madison, Rm. 8417 Social Sciences. Neo-Liberal Networks of Education Reform: Ideology + Influence = Profit – talk with Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, Univ. of London. Sponsored by the A.E. Havens Center.  Info?  http://www.havenscenter.org/

Sun. April 3^rd  James Reeb Unitarian Congregation (2146 E. Johnson)  Food, Faith, and Earth Day  -Building Communities.  Panels, workshops, keynote speech at 1:30 pm Make Bread Not Bombs with Prof. John Leonard, Edgewood College.  5:30 pm family style dinner catered by Underground Kitchen Collective - $12 suggested donation.  For more info and to register, visit:  www.sustaindane.org

Mon. April 4^th 6:30 pm  Madison Infoshop (1019 Williamson St.)  Madison Infoshop volunteer collective meeting.  New volunteers always welcome.  Help keep your local activist resource center alive and kicking!  Info?  #262-9036  www.madisoninfoshop.org

Tues. April 5^th  Election Day – vote early, vote often!

Sat. April 8^th 4:00 pm  Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Is Capitalism Ecologically Sustainable? – talk with Kim Scipes, member of the National Writers Union, who has been active in the labor movement for 25 years and is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University North Central.   Cosponsored by the South Central Wisconsin Socialist Party and the Peregrine Forum.  Info?  #442-8399

Sat. April 8th 5:30 pm  Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Socialist Potluck – featuring Kim Scipes, discussing his recent book, The AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?  Please bring a dish or drink to share.

Sun. April 9th  8:30 – 11:00 am Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.) Madison Hours 
Pancake Breakfast!  Co-hosted by Wisconsin Books to Prisoners.  The  pancakes  
are organic and vegan. You can get 'em plain or with nuts and/or fruits. There's oven- 
roasted potatoes, organic fair trade coffee, oj, live music, friends and neighbors, etc..  
Best of all, it helps keep local currency healthy in Madison, WI!! Just $8.50 for Adults, kids eat free. Up to 1/4 HOUR is accepted per admission. 
Info? www.madisonhours.org

Sun. April 10th  1:00 pm:  Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Eco-Socialism: a Model and a Strategy for Getting There – discussion with Kim Scipes,   Cosponsored by the South Central Wisconsin Socialist Party and the Peregrine Forum.  Info?  #442-8399

Tues. April 12^th  7:00 pm Anderson Auditorium – Edgewood College  Arab Revolts in the Middle East and North Africa – Causes and Significance.  Talk with Prof. Seif Da’Na, University of Wisconsin-Parkside.  His most recent sociological publications are "The Second Contradiction of Zionism", Hizbollah's War of Position: The Arab Islamic Revolutionary Praxis", and "The War on Gaza and Future of Political Islam". In addition to his scholarly publications, Professor Da'Na writes commentaries for Aljazeera Net and other Middle Eastern Newspapers.  Hosted by the United Nations Association of Dane County.  Info?  http://unadane.com/

Thurs., April 14^th  7:00 pm  Anderson Auditorium, Edgewood College.  We Belong to the Land.   Actor and writer Bruce Bradley gives a captivating performance of his adaptation of the inspirational autobiography of Father Elias Chacour. Father Chacour has been working for peace in Israel/Palestine for the past 45 years.  Against overwhelming odds, he established the multicultural Mar Elias School in Ibillin, where Christians, Jews, Muslims and Druze are educated side-by-side without regard to religious or ethnic denomination. Refreshments will be served.  There will also be time for questions after the performance. Proceeds form the evening will be donated the the Desktop Project at Mar Elias, part of Father Chacour's continuing endeavor to bring peace through education. Sponsored by Pilgrims of Ibillin.  Info?  608-643-8026. 

Wed. April 20^th  6:00 pm Just Coffee (1129 E. Wilson).  Earth Week Celebration!  Featuring local food potluck, music from Thistle and the Thorns and Breakaway (Froseph) from Winona, MN, as well as an outdoor screening of the Dr. Seuss classic, the Lorax, after dusk.  Bring your best friends, a dish or drink to share (we’ll provide the popcorn), your dancing feet, and a cozy blanket!  Info?  #262-9036 

Sat. May 14^th  5:30 pm  Wilmar Center (953 Jenifer St.)  Socialist Potluck – featuring a panel discussion on the Cooperative Economy: A Path to a Fair, Secure, and Better Future for All.  Speakers will include representatives from Union Cab, Community Pharmacy, Union Technology Coop, and the Madison Infoshop.  Please bring a dish or drink to share.

Each Thurs. 7:00 pm  Ambrosia Co-op (225 E. Lakelawn Place) Grassroutes Caravan Soular Ride meeting.  Come out to plan and design our mobile bicycle village that will travel together in intentional community to the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair in Custer, WI this June! 
 
Each Thurs. 8:00 pm  UW-Madison Memorial Union, LGBT Center (800 Langdon St.)  
Queer Student Alliance meeting.  
 
First Thurs of the month.  Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) meeting.   For specific  
time and location, contact:  todd@ivaw.org 
 
First and Third Thurs. of every month.   Motherfools Coffeehouse (1101 Williamson St.)  
East Timor Action Network (ETAN) meeting.  Info?  #244-4563 or  
madison@etan.org  or www.aideasttimor.org 
 
Third Thurs. of every month.  Madison Zen Center (1820 Jefferson St.)     
Monthly Meeting of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship!  Everyone is welcome. 
You don't have to be a Buddhist to participate!  Info?  kathy@derene.com 
 
Third Thurs. of the every month.  Social Justice Center (1202 Williamson St.)   
Meeting of the South Central Local of the Socialist Party.  Info? #238-1266.  
 
Last Fri. of Every Month.  5:30 pm   State Capitol & W. Washington Ave. Critical 
Mass Bike Ride. Reclaim the streets from autocracy!  Info?www.madisoncriticalmass.org 
 
Each Sat. 4:00 – 5:00 pm  WYOU airs Third World Issues on channel 95 and channel 991.  
The program can be viewed online by going to WYOU.org and clicking on STREAM.  Info?  
rdattoe@facstaff.wisc.edu 
 
Each Sunday - 11:00 am  WORT-FM, 89.9 FM.  “Her Turn” -a women's news and  
public affairs program, featuring news and critical analysis from a feminist perspective.  
Followed by Her Infinite Variety, a program of women's news and culture, featuring music,  
interviews and calendars. The show regularly features progressive and left music and  
announcements.  Info? #256-2001 
 
Each Sunday  6:00 pm UW-Madison Memorial Union (check Today in the 
Union TITU for exact location)  Meeting for Street Pulse, Madison's Homeless 
newspaper.  Street Pulse engages and challenges various aspects and issues 
regarding homelessness and poverty. Through the newspaper, we provide jobs for 
homeless individuals as vendors as well as providing a means for members of the 
homeless community to express themselves. We welcome all and need help in many 
areas including advertising, PR, finance, writing, photography, fundraising, 
and production.  Info?  #920-810-0972 or visit:  http://www.madisonstreetpulse.org/index.php. 
 
Each Sunday - 5:00 pm  WORT, 89.9 fm. “Third World View” - news &  
analysis from a critical left, anti-interventionist and anti-imperialist 
perspective.  Info? #256-2001