October 31

Monday at noon on this pledge drive addition of A Public Affair host

Norm Stockwell speaks with Greg Palast, producer of the DVD "Bush Family Fortunes," author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," and other publications. Call 256-2001 for details or to pledge.

Monday evening Peaches Lacey of the WORT shows Dusties Storm and the Eight O’Clock Buzz hosts the Access Hour. Call 256-2001 for details or to pledge.

Monday donations are being accepted for Pakistani earthquake victims. Specifically they need baby clothes and items, sweaters, coats, blankets, gloves, mittens, sleeping bags and tents. These can be taken to the Madison Urgent Care Clinic at 6200 Nesbitt Road. Call 658-2811 for details.



Today through Thursday a video van known as "Tiger Truck" is making an extended appearance in Madison to expose the horrors of primate vivisection committed at the University of Wisconsin Primate Lab. This is at 6:15 each day outside the University Primate Lab, twenty two North Charter Street. Call 257-2100 for details.



WORT’s pledge drive (Thirty years in your ears) runs until November fifth. There is still a need for phone answerers. Volunteers for these positions and other donations will be met by lots of gratitude, a warm fuzzy feeling and yummy free food. To volunteer or donate call 256-2001.



The Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin is helping to address the hunger in Madison with their "Thanksgiving Basket Program". Each basket will contain enough food for a Thanksgiving meal for households needing assistance. For details about donating call 246-4730. To get help call 246-4357 (or 246-HELP).

To assist hurricane survivors call Habitat for Humanity at 255-1549 or mail donations to P.O. Box 258128, Madison WI 53725-8128. To help farm families call the Family Farm Disaster Fund at 1.800.FARM-AID or log on to www. Farmaid.org. Also to help "victim animals" call the Humane Society at 1-888-259-5431.

October 28

This afternoon, Professor Kathryn Sikkink, of the University of Minnesota gives a talk entitled "Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work?" This is the first lecture in the Global Futures series on globalization and is in Room 5243 of the Humanities Building, 455 North Park Street, at 3:30.

This evening, the South Asia Forum hosts Mukhtara Mai, who will give a talk entitled “Rape and Honor Crimes in Pakistan”. . In the tribal areas of Pakistan, tribal councils take precedence over both Islamic and secular state laws. Mai will tell her story of being gang raped by order of the tribal councils. This is in the Red Gym on Langdon Street at 6:30. Check www.mukhtarmai.com for more information.

This weekend, Henry Vilas Zoo hosts its annual Halloween Celebration featuring children’s activities and a haunted tunnel. This is at the Zoo on Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 4 with a scarier haunted tunnel on Saturday night from 6 to 9.

Sunday night, Edgewood College’s Human Issues and Campus Ministry host Jose Alas, executive director of the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America. He will give a talk entitled “Faith, Land, and the Peasant Struggle in Central America”. This is free and open to the public in the Washburn Heritage Room of Regina Hall on the Edgewood Campus at 7. For more information, call EC Human Issues at 663-2889.

October 27

This evening, the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and the South Central Federation of Labor hold a prayer vigil for the Clean Power Janitors. Supporters are gathering to draw attention to the poverty wages and anti-union intimidation faced by janitors that work for Clean Power. Representatives from a variety of faiths will speak about society’s obligation to practice and pursue economic justice. This is at American Family Insurance, 6000 American Parkway, at 5. For more information, call Patrick Hickey at 255-0376 or 770-6639.

This evening, the Tenant Resource Center celebrates 25 years of service to the community. The Center helps renters and landlords who need help under understanding rights and responsibilities and provides access to conflict resolution and eviction prevention resources. The event features food, music by Oncken Jazz Expression, and a silent auction of good provided by local businesses. This is at the Brass Ring, 701 East Washington Avenue, from 5 to 7. For more information, call the Center at 257-0143.

This evening, Action in Sudan holds a meeting at the Memorial Union at 6:30. Check Today in the Union for the room location.

Tonight, the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Contemporary Issues Committee continues its events for Hurricane Katrina Week. Tonight’s forum is on the geological, civil and environmental engineering aspects of the hurricane, including levee construction and rebuilding with UW Professors, local authors, and government officials. This is in room 6210 of the Social Science’s building, 1180 Observatory Drive, at 7. For more information, call Matt Rink at 812-240-4860 or email him at mjrink@wisc.edu.

Tomorrow morning, there is the “Children’s Health Policy Forum: Producing and Measuring Quality Health Care for At Risk Kids” Featuring Keynote Speakers Winston F. Wong, Clinical Director of Community Benefit Kaiser Permanente national Program Office and Nikki Highsmith, Senior Vice President Center for Health Care Strategies. This is in the Health Sciences Learning Center’s Alumni Hall auditorium, 750 Highland Avenue, from 8 to noon. For more information, check wccf.org/CPF or call284-0580 x303.

October 26

Wednesday evening
Community Action on Latin America and others present "Broken Families and Broken Promises." It is a presentation by Jose Isabel (Chabelo) Membreno. He is a visiting community organizer with CCR in El Salvador. CCR is a grassroots campesino movement in Chalatenango, El Salvador. This is at 7:00 in the Pres House, 731 State Street. Call 251-9280 for details.

Wednesday at noon
on this pledge drive edition of A Public Affair host Esty Dinur speaks with Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate School professor of sociology and political science, author most recently of "The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism." Call 256-2001 for details or to donate.


WORT’s
pledge drive (Thirty years in your ears) runs until November fifth. There is still a need for phone answerers. Volunteers for these positions and other donations will be met by lots of gratitude, a warm fuzzy feeling and yummy free food. To volunteer or donate call 256-2001.

A new charity
has been set up to investigate, report and help children Of Iraq particularly regarding effects of depleted uranium, injured or killed in United States raids, malnutrition or abuse. Contact for details.


Wednesday, October twenty sixth, 2005


Wednesday evening
Progressive Dane holds a general membership meeting. Particularly they will vote to approve the revised County Platform and revised Candidate Agreement. This is at the downtown public library, 201 West Mifflin Street at 6:30. Call 257-4985 for details.

Until October
thirty first donations are being accepted for Pakistani earthquake victims. Specifically they need baby clothes and items,sweaters, coats, blankets, gloves, mittens, sleeping bags and tents. They can be taken to the Madison Urgent Care Clinic at 6200 Nesbitt Road. Call 658-2811 for details.

The Community Action Coalition
for South Central Wisconsin is helping to address the hunger in Madison with their "Thanksgiving Basket Program". Each basket will contain enough food for a Thanksgiving meal for households needing assistance. For details about donating call 246-4730. To get help call 246-4357 (or 246-HELP).

The University of Wisconsin
, Madison School of Ecology hosts an art exhibit entitled "Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory". It is about how for years textile artists around the world have broken with tradition to depict their personal experiences of modern warfare. This is at 1300 Linden Drive through December eleventh. Call 262-8815 for details.

The Home Chore Volunteer Program is seeking volunteers to help older people by doing household chores, such as yard work or snow shoveling that may be difficult for them, making living at home impossible. Call 223-3100 for more information, or, to volunteer.

October 25

Tuesday morning
Dane County Senior Centers and others host the next in a series of workshops concerning Medicare Part D. It will focus on enrollment procedures and how to choose from the various plans that are offered in Wisconsin. This is in the Warner Park Community Recreation Center at 10:30. Call 224-0606 extension 329 for details.

Tuesday at noon
on a pledge drive addition of WORT’s A Public Affair host Willy Becker talks about the stolen election of 2004 with Mark Crispin Miller, New York University professor and author of "Fooled Again, The Bush Dyslexicon. Call 256-2001 for details or to donate.

October 24

Monday at noon
on a pledge drive edition of WORT’s A Public Affair host Mike Moon speaks with Howard Zinn, author of many books including "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train". Call 256-2001 for details or to donate.

Monday evening
the Wisconsin Historical Society presents Doctor David Shulman, Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He will speak on "Peace on the Ground in Israel and Palestine: A Personal Account." This is in the Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium at 5:30. Call 262-9224 for details.

Monday evening
the Madison Plan Commission considers the Report of the Board of Estimates on TIF funding for Kipp. Progressive Dane’s economic task force recommended improvements in TIF operations. More citizen participation and other issues will be considered. There is a public hearing at 6:00 in Courtroom 2E of the City County Building. Call 257-4985 for details.

Monday evening
on a pledge drive addition of The Access Hour Glenn Mitroff hosts a preview of Dane County’s "Positive Youth Involvement Week" with youth activists and adult leaders who participate in the "Youth Resource Network". That’s at 7:00. Call 256-2001 for details or to donate.

Monday evening
the Madison Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and others present the next film in the Radical Social Justice Film series. The next screening is "The Drilling Fields", a documentary about the exploitation in Ogoniland by Shell Oil and the Nigerian dictatorship. This is at 7:30 in the Memorial Union. Call 262-9036 for details. See Today in the Union for the room location and a complete calendar.

October 21

This afternoon, Professor Hugh Campbell of the University of Otago in New Zealand holds a talk on “Chasing the Green Dollar: Sustainable Agriculture Under Neoliberalism”. This is in room 1111 of the UW’s Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall, at 1:30.

Tonight, the Peregrine Forum and Upper Midwest Peace ReachOut hosts the premier of two new documentaries: "Operation Veteran Freedom" covering the historic March 2005 demonstration in Fayetteville, N.C. outside of Ft. Bragg, and "Iraqi Civil Resistance", also produced in March 2005, with interviews and footage of the growing nonviolent and secular grassroots movement against the U.S. occupation and theocratic authoritarianism. This is at 616 South Brearly Street, at 7. For more information, call 442-8399.

Tomorrow, the Cesar Chavez Center participates in a National Day of Action Against Police Brutality in Milwaukee. The event includes a unity march to the 6th Street Bridge led by people who have lost loved ones to police brutality. Carpools will leave Madison in the morning. The event begins in Milwaukee at the Caesar Chavez Center, 719 South 6th Street, at 10 am. For more information or to car pool, call 262-9036.

Tomorrow evening, the Alliance for Animals hosts a Vegetarian Dinner and Silent Auction. This features a vegan buffet, gifts donated by local businesses, and a Halloween Costume Contest. There is a cost, which benefits the Alliance for Animals. This is at the WilMar Center, 953 Jenifer Street, from 5 to 8. For more information, call 257-6333 or check www.allanimals.org.

Sunday afternoon, there is a public tour of the Kupfer Ironworks Building to learn of Madison’s industrial past and the blue-collar neighborhoods on the east side. There is a ticket charge and is at 149 Waubesa Street from 2 to 5. For more information, call 241-8020.

Sunday afternoon, the Citizen’s Coalition on Nanotechnology with faculty from the UW’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center holds Madison’s First Science Café on nanotechnology. Sam Gellman, a research scientist at the UW will give a short talk on nanotechnology followed by an informal question and answer period. This is at Roman Candle, 1054 Williamson Street, at 3. For more information, call 216-0327 or 843-5377.

Sunday afternoon, Clean Elections Wisconsin holds a meeting at the WilMar Center, 953 Jenifer Street, from 4 to 6. For more information, check www.wicleanelections.org.

Sunday evening, Saint Mark’s Lutheran Church hosts a fundraising Salvadorian Dinner. Jose Isabel Membreno, a visiting community organizer in El Salvador, will give a presentation that will be followed by a Latin music sing along. There is a suggested donation, which benefits the Madison Arcatao Sister City Project and Family Farm Defenders. This is at Saint Mark’s Lutheran Church, 605 Spruce Street, at 6:30. For more information, call 251-9280.

October 20

This afternoon, John Merrill of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. State Department gives a talk entitled “What Do We Really Know About North Korea?” This is in room 5120 Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue, at 4.

Tonight, the Incarceration Coalition hosts analysis and discussion on what can be done to address the problems in Wisconsin’s prisons. Walter Dickey and Ada Deer are among panelists who will help audience participants visualize the problems and solutions. The discussion is open to all participants. This is part of Prison Awareness Month. The forum is in room 19 of Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, from 6 to 8. For more information, call 469-5540 or email driley@aclu-wi.org.

Tonight, the Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative hosts Kari Lydersen, author of the recently released Out of the Sea and Into the Fire: Latin American-US Immigration in the Global Age. In the book, she follows the effects of globalization on Latin American immigrants and their fight to survive in the United States. This is at the Bookstore, 426 West Gilman Street, at 7. For more information, call 257-6050 or check www.rainbowbookstore.org.

Tonight, Edgewood College holds a screening of the film “Rana’s Wedding”. This drama explores the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the eyes of a young woman who, with only ten hours to marry, must negotiate her way around roadblocks, soldiers, stone throwers, overworked officials to her lover. This is part of the “Finding Hope in Unexpected Places” series and is in Anderson Auditorium at Edgewood on Monroe Street at 7. For more information, call 663-3233.

Tonight, there is a screening of the documentary “Invisible Children” about the brutal conflict in northern Uganda. This is in room 1220 of Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue, at 7. For more information, call 332-6733.

Today through Sunday, Campus Organizers host a conference entitled “Democratizing Education”. The purpose of the conference is to plan nationally coordinated actions in defense of higher education because of skyrocketing tuition and public spending cuts. It features panel and workshop presentations from American, Canadian, and Mexican organizers. For more information, including times and locations, check www.democratizingeducation.org.