Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

THE HISTORY OF July 3rd, I'm ___________________ .

And I’m ___________________. Today in 1989: the United States Supreme Court, in Webster versus Reproductive Health Services, allows states to restrict access to abortion. The case involved a Missouri statute that banned the use of public funds or public utilities to perform abortions except to save a woman's life. In addition, the preamble to the law states that life begins at conception.

The decision will intensify legislative battles across the nation over control of women's bodies. Anti-abortion warriors have not only used legal means to obstruct a woman's right to an abortion. At their instigation, between 1977 and 1989, seventy-seven family-planning clinics have been torched or bombed. Clinic employees have been beaten, taken hostage and killed.

 

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

It’s today’s Action Calendar!

Madison Early Music Festival celebrates the early music of North America with a series of six public concerts between July 7 and July 14 in Mills Concert Hall - in the Humanities Building on the UW-Madison campus.  Concerts start at 7:30 p.m. and feature Anonymous 4, the Rose Ensemble, Chatham Baroque, and the Rose Ensemble.  Find all the details and ticket info at madisonearlymusic.org.

On Tuesday, July 17^th, join the Clean Lakes Alliance and tour one of the Yahara Pride Farms – the Ripp Dairy Valley Farm and the community manure digester in Waunakee, which produces power for 2,500 homes. The tour will leave 8020 Excelsior Drive at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 17th.  The tour is open to the public but reservations are required. Please email info@cleanlakesalliance.com by July 10th.

Savory Sunday is seeking volunteers. Operating since 2005, Savory Sunday has been serving up free, fresh, hot meals each Sunday at 2pm at James Madison Park. To sign up as a volunteer, go to savorysunday.org .

Every weekday at noon the “Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice” hosts a “Solidarity Sing-a-long” at the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Song books will be provided. Call 250-9240 for details.