Sunday, September 23, 2012

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Monday, September 24th, 2012

THE HISTORY OF September 24th
 
TODAY IN 1953: Twenty-three Korean-American prisoners of war, who have refused to be repatriated to the United States during a United Nations prisoner exchange, are turned over to India by the North Korean command.

The U.S.soldiers issue this statement: "We love our country and our people. . . . Unfortunately, under present conditions in America, the voices of those who speak out for peace and freedom are rapidly being silenced. We do not intend to give the American government a chance of silencing our voices too.


Monday, September 24th, 2012
It's today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight on the Access Hour, Paul Warner presents a program of original music and poetry. This is tonight at 7pm right here on WORT, 89.9fm.

This afternoon, the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Madison will host a Global House Party with the support of the UW Peace Corps Recruiting office at the University Club, 803 State Street, from 4 to 7pm. The event is open to the public, especially volunteers from Peace Corps’ 139 countries, and community members interested in becoming future Volunteers.  The event is free to UW students, and there is a small entry fee for all others. Contact Kate at 271-2822 for info, or visit rpcvmadison.org.

Tonight there will be a Madison Area Bus Advocates Meeting.  Special Guest is Renee Callaway, Rideshare Coordinator at the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board. Discussion will focus on Transportation Demand Strategies. This is from 6 to 8pm in the Dining Room of the Capitol Lakes Community Center, 333 West Main Street. More info at busadvocates.org

Mark your calendars to attend the citywide neighborhood conference scheduled for Saturday, October 13. The 2012 Mayor’s Neighborhood Conference will be a dynamic event for community leaders to share, network, and take steps to ignite ideas in our networks of neighborhoods. The full-day event will feature hands-on workshops covering neighborhood organizing, neighborhood-based projects, and ways to connect in the community. Contact Linda at lhorvath@cityofmadison.com or 608-267-1131 with questions.

Friday, September 21st, 2012

THE HISTORY OF September 21st
 
Today in 1638: in the final act of the Pequot War, English officials and their Native American allies in Connecticut divide the surviving seventy two Pequots and enslave them. The Puritans had lived under an uneasy truce with the Pequots, but they wanted them out of the way so they could take their land. Using the murder of a white trader and Indian-kidnapper as an excuse, the English attacked Indians on Block Island two years ago.

Realizing that battle with tribal warriors was only one way to destroy their will, the colonists have turned to a terrorist strategy of massacring non-combatants. Before today’s slave deal, the war concluded with an English attack on a Mystic River village, where troops led by Captain John Mason killed at least six hundred Pequots.


Friday, September 21st, 2012

It's This Weekend’s Action Calendar!

Tomorrow, there will be a free introduction to Tao Shiatsu from 10:30am until noon at the Tao Shangha Center, 2330 Willard Avenue. More info at 257-4663 or taosanghamadison@gail.com.

Saturday morning, the film "The Garden" will be shown. This screening is part of series co-sponsored by the Economic Democracy Collaborative, the Madison Institute, and Peregrine Forum of Wisconsin in preparation for the Economic Democracy Conference to be held at Madison College in October. Tomorrow’s film is at 10am in the Grand Hall at the Capitol Lakes Retirement Center, 333 West Main Street. For more info, call 608-442-8399.

Tomorrow night, DeForest Area Progressives' Global Frackdown Action will host a social evening with a screening of Gasland, Josh Fox's Academy Award-nominated film. This will be Saturday at the DeForest Progressives' Headquarters, 6610 Lake Road in Windsor. Social at 6:30pm, movie at 7, and conversation at 8:30. For more info, call Mary at 239-0173.

Saturday, there will be an Earth Dance 2012. Starting at 3 pm with opening drums and circle dance; then at 6pm, an internationally synchronized prayer for peace; and at 9pm, closing drum circle and open dancing begins. Audience participation and dancing appreciated! There is a suggested donation, with proceeds to benefit Madison’s Center for Resilient Cities.   This will be at the Center for Conscious Living, 849 East Washington. More info at mylovingspirit.com

Sunday is the 10th Anniversary of Olbrich’s Thai Pavilion and Garden at Thai Fest. Enjoy traditional Thai dancers from the Thai Cultural and Fine Arts Institute of Chicago, learn about the Loy Krathong festival with demonstrations by the UW-Madison Thai Student Association, and more. All activities are free and will take place in the Thai Garden. This is Sunday from noon to 4pm at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, 3330 Atwood Avenue.  For more info, call 246-4724 or visit olbrich.org.

Thursday, September 20th, 2012


THE HISTORY OF September 20th, I'm ___________________ .

And I’m ___________________ . Today in 1830: the first so-called "Negro Convention of Free Men" is held in Philadelphia. The convention calls for a boycott of slave-produced goods and encourages free-produce organizations. The most active of these will be the “Colored Females Free Produce Society”. It will seek to overthrow the economic power of slavery one bolt of cotton and teaspoon of sugar at a time.

Supported by the abolition movement, the boycotts of slave produced goods, will publicize non-slave merchants and provide goods to members. They will refute the argument that boycotts ultimately hurt slaves. The movement elevates black women activists such as Frances Harper and Grace Douglass.


Thursday, September 20th, 2012

It's today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight, the Aldo Leopold Foundation presents “Imagining Nature: Writing about Life on Earth”. Author Scott Russell Sanders will read selections from his books illustrating how his own understanding of nature was formed, and discuss how writing might help us to envision a way of life that meets human needs while honoring and protecting Earth. There is a potluck at 5pm, and the presentation begins at 6. This is free, and will be held at at E13701 Levee Road in the rural township of Fairfield, Wisconsin. More info at aldoleopold.org.


Tonite at Rainbow Bookstore is the “Fall 2012 Discussion Series on the History of Radical Urban Politics in the Midwest.”  This week’s topic will be “1886 Hay Market Riot in Chicago, Milwaukee’s Bay View Massacre.”  Suggested short readings will be made available the week before each topic.  A more detailed bibliography is also available upon request.  This is tonite at 7 at the Bookstore, 426 West Gilman. For more info, email jepeck@wisc.edu or call 262-9036.

Literacy Network offers free tutors and English as a Second Language, or ESL, classes to adults throughout Madison and Dane County. The Fall 2012 schedule for ESL classes is now available. Some classes require registration. All are offered free of charge. There is free childcare offered for some classes. In addition to classes and tutors, Literacy Network also offers a computer lab, lending library, and online resources for adult learners. For more info, visit litnetwork.org or call 244-3911.

Wisconsin election officials are reaching out to voters this fall, speaking to groups around the state about “Voting 101: Back to Basics.” The Government Accountability Board created the Voting 101 speaker series to help Wisconsin voters learn what they need to know for the November General Election.  The G.A.B. is partnering with local election officials, community organizations, and elected officials to identify voter groups who are interested in hosting an event. For questions about the speaker series or to schedule an event, please contact Voter Services Specialist Meagan at 266-8175 or email meagan.wolfe@wi.gov

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012



THE HISTORY OF September 19th, I'm___________________ .

And I'm ___________________ . Today in 1952: the United States bars film pioneer Charles Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England, where he presented his film, "Limelight". A product of London slums, Chaplin has been the United States’ greatest success story. But his movies, especially "Modern Times", which satirized the dehumanization of people in the mass production of objects, have aroused government suspicion, and agents have been assigned to watch him.

The media, meanwhile, are hounding him for his political activities and private life, making his life in the United States intolerable. Chaplin and his family will retire to a Swiss chateau. There he will comment: "America is so terribly grim in spite of all that material prosperity. They no longer know how to weep. Compassion and the old neighborliness have gone, people stand by and do nothing when friends and neighbors are attacked, libelled and ruined."


Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

It’s Today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight, the film "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" will be shown. This screening is part of series co-sponsored by the Economic Democracy Collaborative, the Madison Institute, and Peregrine Forum of Wisconsin in preparation for the Economic Democracy Conference to be held at Madison College in October. Tonight’s film is at 7pm in the Grand Hall at the Capitol Lakes Retirement Center, 333 West Main Street. For more info, call 608-442-8399.

Also tonite, there is a Volunteer Advocate Training at the Workers Rights Center.  If you are interested in volunteering at the WRC, or just want to know more about your rights, you will learn about basic labor laws that cover workers in Wisconsin and some of the strategies and tactics that the WRC uses to help workers protect their rights. This will be at 6pm at 2300 South Park Street,  room 115. For more info, email worker1@sbcglobal.net or call 255-0376

Tonight, learn more about Disability Pride Celebrations and about how YOU can help make this happen in Madison. This is tonight from 5 to 7pm at Access to Independence, 3810 Milwaukee Street. The meeting is wheelchair accessible and will be ASL interpreted. To increase accessibility for all, please refrain from wearing any scented products. For more info, email  disabilitypridemadison@gmail.com or call Sara at 695-0551.

Tuesday, September 18th

THE HISTORY OF September 18th, I'm ___________________ .

AND I'M ___________. TODAY IN 1968: Mexican federal troops occupy National University in Mexico City, taking three thousand prisoners, including professors and parents. Two months ago, Mexican students organized a huge commemoration of Fidel Castro's July 26th Movement and the Cuban revolution. Police dispersed the demonstration, killing at least ten.

The same evening, police broke into and destroyed the Communist Party office. On July 27th, a protest strike extended to all universities and high schools. Demands included constitutional rights, an end to police repression, and a release of political prisoners. The students, in alliance with poor workers, will make a last stand in the suburb of Tlatelolco, which will leave twenty dead and seventy five wounded.


Tuesday, September 18th , 2012

It’s today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight in Janesville, a Save the Wisconsin Retirement System Town Meeting will be held.
Discussion items include: solving the national retirement crisis with the WRS, an update about the health of the WRS pension, and recommendations for its future. This will be from 5:15 to 6:45 pm at United Auto Workers Local 95, located at 1795 Lafayette Street in Janesville. This is sponsored by your union and the Wisconsin Coalition for Retirement Security. For info or directions, call Paul at 414-520-1752 or email pfsickel@gmail.com.

Tonight, the Waunakee chapter of Rebuild the Dream is hosting a teach-in on cleaning up Dane County's lakes and waterways. The featured speaker is Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission Chair Melissa Malott. This is at 6:30 pm at the Waunakee Village Center, 333 South Madison Street in Waunakee. For more info, call Tim at 358-7213 or email kiefer.timothy@countyofdane.com.

Help raise funds to construct a primate sanctuary by participating in an online auction fundraiser during the month of September! Visit primatesincauction.com and bid on a variety of items donated by local artists and businesses. Proceeds will benefit Primates Incorporated, a local nonprofit organization raising funds to construct an enriching primate sanctuary in southern Wisconsin. Learn more at primatesinc.com.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Monday, September 17th, 2012


THE HISTORY OF September 17th, I'm ___________________.

AND I'M ___________. TODAY IN 1900: A hundred thousand Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners go on strike. After the Molly Maguire trials in 1876, unionism disappeared from the state's five hundred square miles of hard-coal fields. English-speaking workers were replaced by workers from twenty different nations. Suspicious of each other, they appeared almost impossible to organize. But led by Johnny Mitchell in 1898, the United Mine Workers quietly began a campaign.

The miners' average annual wage is two hundred and fifty dollars a year. They are paid by the ton, which Pennsylvania defines as two thousand four hundred pounds but, which mine operators have increased to as much as four thousand pounds. Responding to public pressure, the nation's Republican Party leaders will force the railroads, which own the coal fields, to increase wages by 10 percent.



Monday, September 17th, 2012
It's today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight on the Access Hour, Brian Bieniek presents a program to honor Jimi Hendrix. This is tonight at 7pm right here on WORT, 89.9fm.

The public is invited to the art showcase Gems, featuring local artists’ interpretations of special people and places and presented by the Northside Artists Group. An opening reception will be held at the Warner Park Community Recreational Center, 1625 Northport Drive, on Friday, September 28th, from 5-7 P.M. The show runs today through November 18. For more information contact David at 442-6958.

The YWCA Madison is dedicated to providing safe, affordable housing and shelter; education and training for finding, changing or maintaining a job; Racial and Restorative Justice programs to create a more inclusive community, and Girls Inc. to inspire girls to be strong, smart and bold. For more info on how you can help, please call YWCA Madison at 608-257-1436 or visit ywcamadison.org.

The Parental Stress line helps prevent child abuse by connecting parents who are stressed or feeling alone with volunteers who talk with them by phone. Training is necessary. Call 241-4888 extension 26 for details.

The Insurgent Radio Kiosk is a five minute pre-recorded segment featuring a commentary, this-day-in-history, and a calendar of daily events. Events must be low cost or non-profit and of interest to people in and around the WORT listening area and where other media might not highlight. Email announcements at least one week before the event to kioskevent@wort-fm.org.


Friday, September 14th, 2012



THE HISTORY OF September 14th, I'm ___________________ .

AND I'M ___________________ . Today in 1883: Birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger is born in Corning, New York. In Sanger's time, many women die of self-induced abortions or raise large families in misery. Doctors refuse to provide contraceptive information, and postal laws prohibit disseminating it through the mail.


Sanger will lead a nationwide crusade and write a column in the Socialist paper, "The Call". Her column will openly describe genitalia, reproduction and contraception, insisting that sex is natural and good. Sanger will open the first birth-control clinic in the United States and fight continuous, highly publicized obscenity charges.

Establishing an organization that will evolve into Planned Parenthood, she'll smuggle diaphragms into the country and help illegally manufacture contraceptives. Sanger words reflect her determination: “No woman can call herself free who doesn't own and control her own body.”


Friday, September 14th, 2012

It's This Weekend’s Action Calendar!

14 South Artists presents its 9th Annual Fall Studio Art Tour tomorrow and Sunday, from 10am to 4pm.  Thirty-two artists will be showing their work and greeting the public in eighteen working studios and galleries throughout Brooklyn, Oregon, Evansville, Blanchardville, Paoli, Verona and Stoughton.  For more information about the tour, and to view an interactive map of the studio and gallery sites, visit 14southartists.com or call 206-1396.

Tomorrow is the 29th Annual Hill and Valley Antique Auto and Americana Show in Cross Plains. This will be a celebration of America’s heritage and history represented through historic displays and demonstrations of crafts and skills including blacksmithing, wagon wheel making, quilting, spinning, lace making, and sauerkraut making. Come to check out the antique and classic cars and trucks, steam and gas engines and tractors, horse drawn vehicles and antique fire engines.  This is tomorrow from 6:45am to  4:30pm at Baer Park, 2820 Military Road in Cross Plains. More info at crossplainschamber.net.

Sunday there will be a Climate Organizing Workshop. This workshop is for both experienced activists and people new to the climate movement, and will focus on skills development, team building, and strategic planning. You'll come away with skills that will both bolster your local work and empower you as part of the broader climate movement. The workshop is free and lunch will be provided. This is Sunday from 9am to 5 pm at Arboretum Cohousing, 1137 Erin Street. Please RSVP to Dave at: d-spitzer@tds.net

Thursday, September 13th, 2012



THE HISTORY OF September 13th, I'm ___________________ .

AND I'm ___________________ . Today in 1971: there is a breakdown in negotiations between officials of New York State's Attica Prison and inmates. The inmates have seized a cell block and taken thirty two guards hostage.

A thousand National Guardsmen, state troopers and local police storm the facility. A rain of bullets slaughters thirty-two of the prisoners and nine of the hostages. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who has refused to take part in bargaining, supports today's attack.



Thursday, September 13th, 2012

It's today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight, this week’s topic of Madison Socrate's Cafe is "Are the Mean Streets of Madison Mean Just Here? Or Also in Other Localities?"  Socrate’s Cafe meets every Thursday night at 7pm in the Upper Level of Redamte Coffeehouse, 449 State Street. Please contact Richard at 257-8869, or Andrew at 512-7319 for more details.

Tonight, the film "Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S." will be shown. This documentary cen­ters around the the­ory that mass incar­cer­a­tion has become "The New Jim Crow." Through inter­views with people on many sides of the criminal justice system, this doc­u­men­tary aims to answer and pro­voke ques­tions on an issue walled-off from the public's scrutiny. There will also be a discussion with director and producer Matthew Pillischer. This is tonight at 7pm at Madison College South, 2238 South Park Street. More info at 608-492-1053

This Saturday, join Cat Care Clinic for an afternoon of laughter and purrs at Stand-Up for Cats, celebrating the Clinic’s 25th year. Stop in for a free, family friendly stand-up event and raffle to benefit Dane County Humane Society’s Friends of Felines. Spend your Saturday afternoon with some of Madison’s best and most feline-friendly comedians. This is Saturday at 2pm at High Noon Saloon, 701 East Washington Avenue. For more info, contact Cat Care Clinic at 608-833-9750.”

 

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012


THE HISTORY OF September 12th, I'm___________________ .

AND I'M ___________________ . Today in 1932: Nearing starvation after county authorities cut off relief, unemployed workers in Toledo, Ohio, march on grocery stores and take food. All over the country starving people are taking direct action instead of waiting for government help.

Aunt Molly Jackson, who will become active in Appalachian labor struggles, pulls a gun on her Toledo storekeeper when he objects to giving her credit. Jackson will recall telling the shop owner: "Martin, if you try to take this grub away from me, God knows that if they electrocute me for it tomorrow, I'll shoot you six times in a minute."

When she gets home, her seven children are so hungry they grab the raw dough out of her hands and stuff it into their mouths before she can bake it.

 



Wednesday, September 12th, 2012

It’s Today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight, Mike Boehm of the Madison Quakers, Inc will show slides of multiple projects that have made a real difference in peoples’ lives in Vietnam. This event includes a performance by Moldy Jam. Madison Quakers Inc. has built four primary schools, funded over 100 houses for victims of Agent Orange, provided loans to more than 3,000 women ,and funded a new water project. This is at 7pm in the Common Room at Arboretum Cohousing, 1137 Erin Street. Donations to the Madison Quakers Inc. will be accepted and refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to info@mqivietnam.org.

Tonight, the film "Coming Home: E. F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy" will be shown. This screening is part of series co-sponsored by the Economic Democracy Collaborative, the Madison Institute, and Peregrine Forum of Wisconsin, in preparation for the Economic Democracy Conference to be held at Madison College in October. Tonight’s film is at 7pm in the Grand Hall at the Capitol Lakes Retirement Center, 333 West Main Street. For more info, call 608-442-8399.

Tonight, Rock County Progressives will present an Educational Forum: “The Impact of 'Citizens United' on Elections”. Speakers include Lori Compas, candidate for state senate against Fitzgerald in the recall elections; and Jim Beane, from South Central Wisconsin Move to Amend. A cheese and cracker reception begins at 6 and speakers and discussion will be from 6:30 to 7:45pm. This is tonight at Basics Food Cooperative, 1711 Lodge Drive in Janesville. More info at rockcountyprogressives.net.
 

Tuesday, September 11th , 2012


THE HISTORY OF September 11th, I'm ___________________ .

AND I'M ___________. TODAY IN 1973: The democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende falls to a bloody U.S.-supported military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet [au-GOOS-toh PEE-no-shay]. The dictator immediately will kill or "disappear" hundreds.

In coming years, thousands more will disappear. On September 19th, 1974, U.S. intelligence sources will reveal that striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabilizing the Allende government, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA.

 



Tuesday, September 11th , 2012

It’s today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight, The Natural Step Monona screens the film Dive! at Green Tuesdays. The film shows our country's careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, highlighting dumpster divers who salvage thousands of dollars’ worth of edible food from behind Los Angeles supermarkets. Special presenter, Chris Brockel, Food and Gardens Division Manager with Community Action Coalition, will share a local effort to reduce food waste. This is a free presentation tonight at 6:30 pm at the Monona Public Library, 1000 Nichols Road in Monona.  The complete calendar of Green Tuesdays & Thursdays events is on The Natural Step Monona website at tnsmonona.org.

Literacy Network offers free tutors and English as a Second Language, or ESL, classes to adults throughout Madison and Dane County. The Fall 2012 schedule for ESL classes is now available. Some classes require registration. All are offered free of charge. There is free childcare offered for some classes. In addition to classes and tutors, Literacy Network also offers a computer lab, lending library, and online resources for adult learners. For more info, visit litnetwork.org or call 244-3911.

The Women, Infants and Children Nutrition program offers a wide variety of services, food and nutrition information to help keep pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants and children less than five years of age healthy and strong. For details call 267-1111.


 

Monday, September 03, 2012

Monday, September 10th, 2012


THE HISTORY OF September 10th, I'm ___________________.

And I’m ___________. Today in 1985: Salvadoran guerrillas capture Ines Guadalupe Duarte Durin, the daughter of President Jose Napolean Duarte. The kidnaping will draw criticism from European and Latin American governments, but an October 24th prisoner exchange will win freedom for twenty rebel leaders and wounded insurgents.

The guerrillas will release photographs and tape recordings that indicate a certain sympathy for the rebel cause from Seora Duarte Duran. This will drive a wedge between President Duarte and his backers in the army and oligarchy.
 
Monday, September 10th, 2012

It's today’s Action Calendar!
Tonight is the Madison Infoshop Volunteer Collective Meeting!  Find out how you can get involved and help keep your community activist resource clearing house alive and kicking.  New volunteers are always welcome.  This is at 6pm at Madison Infoshop, 1019 Williamson Street.   More info at 262-9036 or madisoninfoshop.org

Tonight’s Access Hour on WORT features Jessica Maus, who will be discussing 15 years of Pagan Pride Day in Madison, and previewing Madison Area Pagan Pride 2012. This can be heard tonight at 7pm on WORT, 89.9fm. More info at 256-2001.

Help raise funds to construct a primate sanctuary by participating in an online auction fundraiser during the month of September! Visit primatesincauction.com and bid on a variety of items donated by local artists and businesses.  Proceeds will benefit Primates Incorporated, a local nonprofit organization raising funds to construct an enriching primate sanctuary in southern Wisconsin. Learn more at primatesinc.com.

Pick up an issue of Street Pulse, Madison's Homeless cooperative newspaper, for a suggested donation from vendors located on State Street, Capital Square, Willy Street Coop, and in other locations. Street Pulse seeks innovative ways to alleviate and raise awareness of homelessness and poverty.  For more information or volunteering opportunities, go to madisonstreetpulse.org.