Friday, October 8, 2010

Sunday morning, Madison Hours hold its monthly Pancake Breakfast. All pancakes are organic and vegan with nuts or fruits. The breakfast also features oven-roasted potatoes, organic fair trade coffee, orange juice, and live music. Madison HOURS promotes local trade through local currency. This is at the Wilmar Center, 953 Jenifer Street from 8:30 to 11. Check madisonhours.org.

Sunday, as part of the Global Work Party, 350.org holds the Parade for the Planet and Sustainability Fair. It's open to all students, congregations, businesses, agencies, non-profits, neighborhoods, and families in the Madison area who have been taking steps to reduce carbon emissions. This is at Lisa Link Peace Park on State Street from noon to 4. Check for more details check paradefortheplanet.org.

Sunday is the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, the world’s largest day of practical action to fight the climate crisis. Organizers from The Natural Step Monona and Project Home are hosting a letter-writing campaign, “Pressing Our Leaders for Action, Now”. Organizers want citizens to create over 350 letters by helping with whatever obstacle is in their way and will assist putting their ideas into words. This is at the Monona Public Library, 1000 Nichols Road, from 1:30 to 3:30. Check www.350.org/monona for more details.

Sunday night, the People's History Peace Project and the Wisconsin Network For Peace & Justice holds a screening of an updated version of the 1997 film Citizen Soldier: an Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. A Q&A with the director Dennis Mueller and comments from historian, Paul Buhle follows the documentary. This is at Michelangelo's Coffee House, 114 State Street, at 7. Call 442-8399 for more information.

Sunday, there is a screening of “Lawyer Charged with Committing Poetry”. It is a multi-media one-person show featuring human rights attorney Eric Sirotkin. Committing Poetry follows free speech zones, police riots, and poets in the classroom and the streets who band together in support of their First Amendment right to self-expression in a post 9/11 world. This is in the Class of '24 Reception Room at the Memorial Union at 7. Email srleondard@wisc.edu for more information.