Thursday, September 22, 2011

Today is the second annual Celebrate South Madison Festival at the South Madison Farmers' Market, 2300 South Park Street at the Villager Mall. This free family event offers all the goodness of the South Madison Farmers' Market, plus food, arts, crafts, kids' activities, and live music. The market begins at 2:00, Festival events are from 4:00-7:00. For more information, contact Jodi Wortsman at 260-8098.

Avol’s Books is sponsoring the Leftwing Literary Forum discussion of “Yonnondio”, the long-lost and hauntingly timely novel written in the 1930’s by Tillie Olsen about poverty and human endurance in the Great Depression. This is at 6:30 pm at Avol’s Books, 315 W. Gorham St. Call 442-8399 for more information.

Tonight at 7:00 pm “Global Crisis; Global Resistance – the Revolt Against Capitalism and the Socialist Alternative” will be presented by Linda Fischer, a leading socialist activist from Hamburg, Germany and organizer with the Committee for a Workers’ International. This is at 7pm at the UW-Madison Memorial Union; check Today in the Union (TITU) for exact location. Call (952)465-5307 for more information.

The City Clerk's Office will hold Voter ID information session on requirements of the new Voter ID law & how to obtain a free ID for voting purposes from 6:30-7:30 pm at the Alliance Church, 602 Acewood Blvd., in the lower level. Call the City Clerk’s office at 266-4601. More sessions will be held throughout Madison through December. To schedule a presentation for your group, contact the Clerk's Office.