Thursday, November 18, 2010

This evening the Mount Horeb Area Sustainability Network hosts a screening of “FLOW: For Love of Water” followed by “Holy Land, WI”. “FLOW” looks at the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with a focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. “Holy Land, WI” is a short film by Meredith Beck Sayre about the possible fate of fifteen effigy mounts that are under a farmer’s feet after the farmer no longer tends the land. This is at Mount Horeb United Methodist Church, 9542 County Road South in Mt. Horeb. Call Marcia Hartwig at 437-7811 or Carolyn Kelly or Frank Fetter at 437-6733 with questions.

This evening, the Peregrine Forum sponsors a discussion entitled “Palestinian and Arab Nationalist Resistance to Zionist Colonization". This is in room 407 at 122 State Street at 6:30. Call 442-8399 for more information.

This evening, the Industrial Workers of the World hold their monthly Madison General membership Branch. This is at Just Coffee, 1129 East Wilson Street, at 6:45. For more information, call 255-1800 or 262-9036 or email anthonycollin@gmail.com

Tonight, Project Lodge hosts the Crosshatxh Poetry Show featuring Madison Poet Laureate Fabu, Pushcart Prize nominee Traci Brimhall, activist and poet Angie Trudell-Vasquez, national slam champ William Giles, and host and curator Laurel Bastian. There is a suggested donation that goes to support the Wisconsin Books to Prisoners Project. This is at Project Lodge, 817 East Johnson Street, at 7. Check theprojectlodge.com for more information.

Tonight, the Student Labor Action Coalition and United Students Against Sweatshops host “Sweatshops and Solidarity: Worker Speak Out Event”. Former sweatshop workers from Alta Gracia in the Dominican Republic and UW-Madison campus workers tell about their struggles for living wages and worker representation. This is in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, at 7:30. Check slac.rso.wisc.edu for more information.