Madison Area Peace Coalition - Economics

Oct 1 Save Our Services Rally

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:20:28 -0500

Date:

Past - Thursday, October 01 2009 at 5 pm

Location:

WI State Capitol

Sponsored By:

MAPC, AFSCME locals 171 and 68

Contacts:

barn: 442-8822


	The WI state budget passed in July slashes aid to schools, local governments, and state agencies. There is an alternative. Rescind the tax cuts on corporations and wealthy people. Close the loopholes that let large, profitable companies pay no state income tax. Join us and let the WI legislators know that we, the people, refuse to continue to be abused by the unfair disbursement of our tax money!

Dec 1 Fair Trade Fair

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:18:53 -0600

Date:

Past - Saturday, December 01 2007

Location:

MATC downtown,

Sponsored By:

Community Action on Latin America

Web Site for more information:

www.calamadison.org


	Do all your holiday shopping at the 11th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival - "Fair Trade Education & Gifts Made by Real People Making Real Wages." Fairly-traded goods available from around 50 local groups. Products in the past included a wide variety of gifts of all types, of course fairly-traded coffee tea and chocolate, olive oil, holiday cards, textiles, pottery, and music. MAPC will have a table selling cards and peace calendars.

Sep 25 Stop The War Machine- Turn Off the Tap

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:36:43 -0500

Date:

Past - Tuesday, September 25 2007 from 6 to 9 pm

Location:

MATC-Downtown Campus, 211 N. Carroll St., Madison

Sponsored By:

Truth and Alternatives to Militarism in Education (TAME), Madison Area Peace Coalition, Iraq Vets Against the War - Madison

Contacts:

Vicki at (608) 807-4406, or info@tamewisconsin.org

Web Site for more information:

T.A.M.E


	An Anti-War Counter-Recruitment Forum Excerpts from the documentary film "Ground Truth" (showing recreitment and boot camp experiences) will be screened at 6:00 pm. The actual forum speakers will begin at 6:30 pm. Features: Army veteran Aimee Allison and activist editor David Solnit, authors of Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War and Build a Better World; and Navy veteran Todd Dennis, Wisconsin coordinator of Iraq Veterans Against the War. The event is free and open to the public. With enlistments down and no end in sight to the illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the military has stepped up its recruitment efforts, especially among lower income youth and people of color. Recruiters often offer flase promises of opportunity while minimizing the risks to those who enlist. Concrete community-based efforts to counteract this are growing around the country. Speakers and Allison's book Army of None, is a recently released hands-on guide to stem the flow of young bodies as fuel for the war machine. This forum is for all hose looking for a meaningful way to get involved to oppose U.S. illegal wars, including parents, educators, teachers and especially students. In addition to the Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 25th, there will be a free Direct Action Workshop with Aimee Allison & David Solnit on Wednesday, Sept. 26th, in the cafeteria of MATC downtown, 211 N. Carroll St. (the same building where the forum will take place on Tuesday). These events, organized by MAPC and TAME, are also endorsed by the Iraq Veterans Against theWar-Madison, the Campus Anti-War Network, and the Veterans for Peace Clarence Kailin Branch - Madison

Sep 4 Labor Fest Madison

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:21:32 -0500

Date:

Past - Monday, September 04 2006 from noon to 5:30 pm

Location:

Labor Temple grounds, 1602 S. Park St.

Sponsored By:

South Central Federation of Labor

Web Site for more information:

South Central Federation of Labor


	This year’s LaborFest features two of Madison’s three best bands (according to ratings by Madison Magazine), along with lots of attractions for kids and an extensive menu of good food, beer and soft drinks which will be served throughout the event. This year there will be a special *Welcome and Salute to the New Immigrant Movement* at 1:45 p.m. A collection will also be taken up for the families of immigrant workers jailed following an ICE/INS raid in Whitewater, August 8. Musical entertainment begins at 12:30 p.m. with the rousing rhythm and blues of LaborFest regulars, the Andy Linderman–Mel Ford Band. At 2:30 p.m. Madison’s Phat Phunktion takes the stage with some of the best funk and jazz sounds in the Midwest. Special events for kids will include balloons, face painting, and piñata and performances by Madison magician Scott the Great at 1 and 3 p.m. Menu items include the ever fabulous Italian sausages, corn on the cob, and Louisiana-style rice and beans, along with hot dogs, soda and beer. There are rumors that AFL-CIO's John Sweeney will address the group, and Governor Doyle will pay a visit around 3pm. Also see: National Day of Action for Legalization and a Moratorium on Deportation

Sep 2 "Move Forward Not Out"

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:28:22 -0500

Date:

Past - Saturday, September 02 2006 from noon to 2 pm

Location:

Boys and Girls Club, 4619 Jenewein Drive, Madison.

Sponsored By:

Madison ACORN, Allied Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Association

Contacts:

ACORN Madison : 277-0655; Allied Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Association: 274-941; MJohnson7@wisc.edu


	"Move Forward Not Out" Rally and March for Self Determination in Allied Drive Neighborhood Recently, Mayor Cieslwwicz announced plans to buy nine apartment buildings on Allied Dr.and redevelop them. Madison ACORN, ALlied Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Assoc. and a colation of social justice groups are organizing a rally to express the community's demands for low-income housing, jobs and safety as the neighborhood prepares for redevelopment. The Sept. 2 rally, occurring one week prior to the community design meeting, is intended to empower Allied Dr. residents and inspire the city to take creation of low-income housing there seriously. Residents of the area have asked for members of the Madison community to march with them in solidarity on Sept. 2nd and show their support for self-determination for the neighborhood. - Matt Johnson, 256-3402 MJohnson7@wisc.edu. Note: Madison Area Peace Coalition endorsed this event at its last general meeting.

Apr 18 War Profiteering Talk by Jeffrey St. Clair

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:59:00 -0500

Date:

Past - Tuesday, April 18 2006 at 7 pm

Location:

UW Humanities Building, Room 1111

Sponsored By:

International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books

Contacts:

For more information, please email spieper@wisc.edu or call 294-5961.

Web Site for more information:

http://www.counterpunch.org/


	Hear author and journalist: Jeffery St. Clair, co-editor of CounterPunch and author of Grand Theft Pentagon: Takes of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror, will be in Madison as part of a national book tour. Jeffery St. Clair is an award-winning investigative journalist, co-editor of political newsletter CounterPunch and author on nine books, including Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature and Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia. From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars, Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't work for use against an enemy that no longer exists. St. Clair shows how many of the biggest arms contracts were literally inside jobs, negotiated by Pentagon generals who later went to work for the very same corporations that were awarded the contracts. Sponsored by International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books

Apr 10 Immigrant Rights Rally

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:28:05 -0500

Date:

Past - Monday, April 10 2006 from 10:30 am to 1 pm

Location:

Brittingham Park (West Washington Avenue & Park Street), march to Capitol Square

Sponsored By:

The Madison mobilization for immigrant rights “April 10 Organizing Committee” includes many community, religious, civil, human and immigrant rights’ groups, labor unions, businesses and individuals.

Contacts:

Alex Gillis, 608-345-9544(cell); 608-467-0475 (hotline); alex@vocesdelafrontera.net, Geovani González, 608-575-5606; mexkalito_21@yahoo.com, Salvador Carranza, 608-438-9502 (cell); salcandresen@yahoo.com


	A National Day of Action. A Day Without Latinos. Rally for Immigrant Rights! Recognizing that the USA is a nation of immigrants, join the Madison mobilization for immigrant rights “April 10 Organizing Committee”* in a massive rally to: * Stop the anti-immigrant House Resolution 4437 (H.R. 4437) * Stop Wisconsin Senate Bill 567 (SB567) * Protest the passage of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 69 (AB69) * Stop all attacks against immigrants * Stop criminalization of immigrant communities We demand comprehensive immigration reform, including: * A path to citizenship, not a temporary guest worker program * Family reunification measures * Worker protections * Full rights for all immigrants! Converge at Brittingham Park at 10:30 a.m. (West Washington Avenue & Park Street). March to State Capitol Program: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. *The Madison mobilization for immigrant rights “April 10 Organizing Committee” is comprised of many community, religious, civil, human and immigrant rights’ groups, labor unions, businesses and individuals. Sponsoring organizations: LUChA, Voces de la Frontera, La Movida 1480AM, WORT Spanish Programs, etc…