Friday, July 13th, 2012

THE HISTORY OF July 13th, I'm ___________________ .

AND I’m ___________________ . Today in 1979: An accident at United Nuclear Corporations Church Rock Plant in New Mexico leads to a 94-million-gallon flood of low-level radioactive waste in the Puerco River.

The waste contaminates drinking wells and livestock on the Navajo reservation.

 

Friday, July 13th, 2012

It's This Weekend’s Action Calendar!

Tonight at 6pm, Rainbow Bookstore, 426 West Gilman, hosts Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions, with three artist-writer-researchers of the Compass Collaborators. Everywhere around our multi-state Midwest you see the global dimensions of our regional political struggles—in the enterprise zones of Chicago’s suburbs, in the food security initiatives growing out of Detroit’s decay, in the coal and corn-filled barge traffic on the region’s great rivers, in the campaigns for indigenous rights across the Great Lakes, and in our own anti-austerity Wisconsin Uprising. But how do we wrap our heads around the dizzying array of spatial scales, intersections of power, and particularities of place evident in our contemporary landscape of political struggle? More info at 257-6050 or midwestradicalculturecorridor.net

Sunday, The East Side Club is celebrating its 100th year with a fantastic musical line up and a Key West style sunset celebration. Proceeds from the event will benefit Operation Fresh Start. An outdoor setting on the water overlooking Madison’s Capitol under blue skies and a beautiful sunset create the stage for the day. Doors open at noon.  Come and enjoy great food, including a pig roast, tropical cocktails served at the Tiki Bar, a tropical shirt contest, giveaways and plenty of other activities. There is a cost for this event. More info at madisonkeywestfest.com.