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2 | Breaking out of the Ivory Tour: Creating an Authentic Feminism for Women of Color and the Resurgence of the Women’s Liberation Movement | Jessica Garraway | 1-2 pm | HUM 2101 | I will be discussing the need for the feminism to become more relevant and assessable to women of color and working class women To do this the movement cannot simply pay lip service to supporting the struggles of indigenous women, women of color and working class women. It must confront and aim to dismantle White Supremacy and the Capitalism. I will use examples from instances where feminist movement in the west has disregarded the experiences and views of non-middle class white women (ex: the slut walk and backlash from black women) and I will be discussing an event that occurred on August 26th in White Clay NE called the Women’s Day of Peace which I attended and did media for. This event exemplified true solidarity from white women to indigenous women, acts if embraced could breathe new life into the movement for women’s liberation. |
3 | InfoShops 101 | John Peck | 1-2 pm | HUM 2131 | What is an infoshop? How do they function as an autonomous organizing space and activist resource clearing house? Join collective volunteers with the Madison Infoshop to talk about the legacy and future of infoshops, their critical role in archiving our own people's history, and how they can support broader radical movements for social change. |
4 | What's your damage? - zine edition | Sarah B | 1-2 pm | HUM 2111 | What started as an open-mic invitation for Madisonians to return to their teenage years and read aloud from old journals and locker notes returns as "What's Your Damage- ZINE EDITION!" Please show up with your best (or worst) short feature from your early years-the more embarrassing the better. Let's all remember our awkward first steps in zine and self publication together! Time limit approximately 3 minutes. Registration appreciated so we can slot people in: email sb@bellethecat.com to reserve your spot. |
5 | Identifying and Dismantling Male Supremacist Behaviors and Attitudes in Our Daily Practice of Organizing | Thistle | 2:30-3:30 pm | HUM 2101 | This will be a place to meet and greet, brainstorm ideas, share personal stories, and get organized against male domination and patriarchy in our lives. Thistle Pettersen will lead a discussion of feminism struggling and emerging in the male-dominated anarchist scene in the Midwest using examples from email exchanges and facebook comment threads in a power point presentation. Pettersen has been active and organizing in largely anarchist circles since 2004 when she marched in a grassroots village of resistance to the two-party political system in the United States. The Democracy Uprising march went from Boston, where the Democratic National Convention was held in 2004, to New York City, for the RNC. In between the two major events, village participants practiced mutual aid, cooperation and consensus decision-making along the route, sleeping at churches, in parks and anywhere that would open their doors to a group of folks marching to resist the American electoral political system. Four years later, she initiated a similar trek, this time on bicycles, from Madison where the People's Networking Convention (PNC) was held to the RNC in St. Paul. She currently works with activists fighting in solidarity with the Palermo's undocumented workers' struggle and in the new anti-mining group in Madison, MAMA (Madison Action for Mining Alternatives). She is a regular volunteer at the Madison Infoshop, a non-hierarchical activist resource center located on the infamous Willy Street in Madison. The focus of our discussion will be specifically on the liberation of female folk and how our struggle relates to radical organizing in the Midwest. A short anarcha-feminist reader called Musings on Manarchy in the Midwest will be handed out. This workshop is open to all genders and is meant to be an open-minded, supportive place to talk about the oppression women face in social change activism. |
6 | Make a Zine with Ladydrawers! [CANCELLED] | Ladydrawers / Anne Moore | 2:30 - 3:30 pm | HUM 2131 | Come learn about race, economics, gender and media with the Ladydrawers! We'll discuss our findings on rates of hire, pay and content in the comics industry, all while completing a Ladydrawers zine that we'll show you how create after the presentation. |
7 | Breaking Free in Wisconsin | Ran Domino | 2:30 - 3:30 | HUM 2111 | "Breaking Free in Wisconsin": A discussion of similarities and differences between the scenario in the detourned "Tin-Tin" parody "Breaking Free" and the events of February and March 2011 in Wisconsin, and how zines and comic books can efficiently educate and inspire. Copies of "Breaking Free" will be available beforehand at the Madison InfoShop table. |
8 | Using Zines to Empower Prisoners | Anthony Rayson | 4-5 pm | HUM 2101 | My workshop will focus on the application of zines as a means of anarchist-driven free school education, specifically its importance working with and for prisoners. |
9 | Writing and Reading Behind Bars | John Peck | 4-5 pm | HUM 2131 | Why is it so dangerous to have a book or share a zine if one is locked up? If knowledge leads to empowerment, then offering literature to the oppressed can be very threatening to the powers that be. Join volunteers with the WI Books to Prisoners Project for a discussion of prison zine writing and ongoing efforts to get educational materials into the hands of those who really need them. |
10 | Dismantling White Supremacy: A Decolonial Anti-racist Training | Nathan Adeyemi | 4-5 pm | HUM 2111 | 1. The concept of "whiteness" as a cultural tool of oppression. 2. The history of white supremacy especially in the u.s. context from the extermination of indigenous people and the creation of institutional forms of racial control from chattel slavery to modern day mass incarceration and systematic marginalization of people of color. The ongoing genocide against the indigenous survivors of the original american holocaust. 3. How racism is essential to the functioning of colonial economic and political systems. 4. Debunking the ideas of "color blindness" and "reverse racism" 5. The development of white allies. 6. The importance of building alliances between oppressed communities. 7. Strategies for fighting back at the personal, social, and systemic levels. |
11 | The Grassroutes Caravan, Going the Distance by Bicycle to Take Back Our Lives (and have some fun!): | Thistle & Seth | 4-5 pm | HUM 2115 | Grassroutes Caravan bike villages have been going the distance from Madison to exciting destinations in the Midwest since 2008 when we geared up and headed to the Republican National Convention held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Many adventures and missions have ensued since then including a jaunt to Detroit, for the US Social Forum and to Custer, for the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair. Most recently, the Cycles of Revolution: Brake the Banks! village traveled to the NATO protests in Chicago. GRC's intend to create an atmosphere of respect, mutual aid and cooperation within our village. To that end, we especially invite feminists to be part of co-creating this magical mobile land we travel and fly in on our bikes to fight the systems of oppression and hatred in us and all around us. The GRC is intended as a safe place for women to be with each other and express themselves without fear, and for all oppressed groups to feel safe. Come learn more about our history and see the zines and DIY art we have made through the years. We invite you to come celebrate this hardy Madison-fed radical institution. Seth Tristan Jensen gives a lot of energy to creating earth based rituals and building the kind of people powered movement we need to bring the atmospheric carbon concentration below 350 parts per million. He wishes he had more time to devote to mobile villages, and maybe with your help he will. Thistle Pettersen is one of the starting members of this mobile village-creating process who does professional childcare work and is an anarcha-folk musician living in Madison. We invite workshop participants to come see a short power point presentation about our history and to begin a discussion of where the GRC could go next! |