Thursday, September 6th, 2012

THE HISTORY OF September 6th, I'm ___________________ .

And I’m _________________. Today in 1993: Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar says Gypsies constitute a (quote) “socially unadaptable population with” (quote) "children, simply, who are a great burden on this society" endquote. Many of the Gypsies economic and social protections in Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia have gone the way of communism.

Gypsies, who call themselves the Roma, are suffering a revival of persecution marring their history in Europe since they migrated from Hindu India in the eleventh century. Jozef Pacai, mayor of the Czech city, Medzev, has suggested that the only solution is selectively killing Gypsies.

 

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

It's today’s Action Calendar!

Today from 4 to 6pm there is a Dane County Timebank Builders Workshop entitled “Creating Abundance in a Challenged Economy!”   Builders’ Workshops are a learning and leadership-building journey hosted by the Dane County TimeBank, a local mutual credit time exchange.  Today’s session is about finding and recognizing the abundant value in our community. The cost to attend is whatever you can contribute: time, money, work or other gift of your choosing.  This is at 1 South Pinckney, in the conference room just up the steps from the first floor lobby. More info at danecountytimebank.org.

Also today, from 4:30 to 6pm there will be a Picket in Support of Bradley Manning. All are welcome with signs to join in this protest - being held with similar events across the nation, at other Obama campaign offices, during the Democratic National Convention. This is a protest of the administration and military's policy of extreme punishment for whistle-blowing. For more on Manning’s case, visit bradleymanning.org.  This Picket is being organized by Madison Area Peace Coalition, VFP, Madison Pledge of Resistance, Peregrine Forum and other WNPJ member groups. This will be held in front of the Obama Campaign office, 222 State Street. For more info, email joyfirst5@gmail.com.

Tonight, there is a free public lecture at the UW Arboretum. Stacy Rosenbaum will speak on “Using Research to Conserve Rwanda’s Mountain Gorillas,” about the use of research in conservation at the Karisoke Research Center in northwest Rwanda. Rosenbaum is a PhD candidate in biological anthropology at the University of California-Los Angeles. She has spent three years in Rwanda’s forests studying gorilla social behavior. This is from 7 to 8pm at the Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Highway. More info at 263-7888 or uwarboretum.org.

Free Women, Wobblies and Brown Berets – the Fall 2012 Discussion Series on the History of Radical Urban Politics in the Midwest – begins tonight at Rainbow Bookstore. Every Other Thursday through December 20^th, this free community discussion series, co-hosted by Rainbow Bookstore and the Madison Infoshop, will explore historic episodes of radical urban political protest in the Midwest. This is tonight at 7pm at Rainbow Bookstore, 426 West Gilman. More info at 262-9036 or email jepeck@wisc.edu.