Friday, November 20, 2009

This evening at Centro Hispano, there will be a rally for the “campaign for peace”- calling for an end to youth violence and institutionalized violence against youth. This will be held from 5:30 to 8pm at 810 West Badger Road. For more information, call Veronica or Mario at 255-3018.

This evening at 6 pm there will be a Trans Monologues and Vigil at A Room of One's Own bookstore, 307 West Johnson Street. The Trans Monologues are a night of theater, poems, songs, monologues, and all other creative expressions of transgender identities. Following the Monologues, a vigil will be held to remember and honor members of the community who have lost their lives.

Saturday, the Madison Institute presents a Progressive Roundtable presentation by Jane Anne Morris on “Corporate Personhood: Taking Stock.” Corporate anthropologist and Madison resident and author, Ms. Morris maintains that "corporate personhood" permeates our economy, politics, and society, yet many people are at best only vaguely aware of its consequences. She will discuss the implications to our democracy of this dubious legal concept. This is 9:00 am to 12 noon at Capital Lakes, 333 West Main Street in Madison. More info at 238-5489.

Saturday at 4 pm is the Trans People of Color Film Festival. This will be held at the LGBT Campus Center, at the UW Memorial Union, with back-to-back showings of Cruel and Unusual, Still Black, and Paris is Burning. More info at lgbt.wisc.edu/trans

Saturday, join friends and family of Clarence Kailin to celebrate and build upon his imposing legacy of community activism. Kailin, a son of Madison whose lifelong commitment to social and economic justice led him to become one of the first to take up arms against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, recently passed away at age 95. The Clarence Kailin Memorial is at 6:30 pm at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive.

Sunday at 6:00 pm, there will be a free screening of Rebels With A Cause - the feature documentary about the Students for a Democratic Society. This is at the Madison Infoshop, 1019 Williamson Street.