November 3

This evening, Baldemar Velasquez, President and Founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, will talk about organizing in the current political climate. Under his leadership, FLOC used innovative bargaining tactics, marches, alliances with religious organizations and national boycotts to win groundbreaking gains for Midwest farm workers. This event is sponsored by a variety of local groups and is at the Pres House on the Library Mall from 4:30 to 6.

Tonight, the Ibdaa Children's Dance Troupe”, a troupe or 10 girls and 10 boys from the West Bank, will perform a concert. The troupe combines traditional "debke" dance with a modern narrative about their experiences as Palestinian refugees growing up and living in Dheisheh camp near Bethlehem. This is at the UW Memorial Theater at 7:30. For more information, check www.madisonrafah.org.

The Personal Care Items Drive continues through November 13. It is a grassroots, community-based effort to collect essential household items to be distributed at pantries in Madison, Middleton, and Monona. Donation locations include all Monona, Middleton, and Madison Public Libraries, all Madison area Michael’s Frozen Custard and Glass Nickel Pizza, UW's Morgridge Center in the Red Gym, Williamson Bicycle, First Unitarian Society, Middleton Community Bank, and the Madison Concourse Hotel. For more information or to volunteer, call Eileen Newman at 608-826-0883.