News, events, updates from the city and more!
MO’ MEETINGS
Meeting: Board of Assessors
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019 at 10:30 am
Location: City-County Building 210 Martin Luther Jr. Blvd Room 101
NEWS
City
Madison is booming but needs adequate housing, street car services – – State Journal editorial from 100 years ago – State Journal
Mayor calls ATC response to questions about substation explosion, ‘wholly inadequate’ – WKOW.com
County
None?
Schools
‘Game changer’: More high school students study at MATC for free under expanded partnership – State Journal
Girls in Aviation event teaches young girls about field dominated by men – State Journal
UW campuses not spared from e-cigarette trend with some reporting vaping symptoms – State Journal
Other/Mixed
Going Electric: As battery-powered vehicles catch on, policymakers, utilities grapple with roles – State Journal
Momentum keeps building for fair maps – State Journal
Inequity discussion, free tech support part of Digital Inclusion Week Oct 7 – 11 – Cap Times
People living in Milwaukee homeless camp told to leave – Channel3000.com
Evers issuing 1st Wisconsin pardons in 9 years – WKOW.com
Bill Lueders: Tony Evers can do better on openness – State Journal
TENNY LAPHAM NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING ON SALVATION ARMY
DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORS GET TOGETHER
CITY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS FREE TRAININGS FOR 2020
FITCHBURG COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The City of Fitchburg is updating its Comprehensive Plan.
This Plan will guide the City as it grows over the next 10 years.
The City wants to hear from you to ensure the Plan update reflects the needs and wants of the Fitchburg community.
So……tell us how the City should grow!!
Tell us what is important to you!!
The City wants to hear from you on things like:
Neighborhood safety
Access to healthcare and childcare
Access to educational and employment opportunities
Development of a neighborhood “center” and park space
Types of businesses that you want in your neighborhood
Or anything else that you think will make your neighborhood and the City of Fitchburg a better place for you and your family to live, work, and play!!
A meeting will be held at Aldo Leopold Elementary School, 2602 Post Road, at 6:30 p.m., October 10 to discuss all of these things.
Food will be served at the meeting!!
UPCOMING DEMOLITION
Please be advised that Joe Krupp will be filing a demolition permit application on November 6, 2019 for Plan Commission review that calls for a Office 2 sty or lg. located at 6225 University Ave Madison, WI 53705 to be demolished. For more information regarding this forthcoming application, you may contact the applicant, Joe Krupp, Prime Urban Properties, 2010 Eastwood Dr. suite 201 Madison, WI 53704 at joe@primeurbanproperties.com or (608)233-6000.
If you have any questions about the Plan Commission demolition permit approval process, please contact the City of Madison Planning Division at (608) 266-4635.
CHIEF WAHL SPELLS OUT WHAT’S NEXT FOR MPD
Followers of MPD and those with an interest in public safety in Madison may be wondering what happens next, now that Chief Koval has retired. In most parts of the country, the Mayor would conduct a search process, then select and hire the next Chief. Wisconsin, however, is a bit unique. Wisconsin law requires most cities to have a Police and Fire Commission (PFC). The PFC is made up of five citizen volunteers (appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Common Council) who serve five-year terms. They are responsible for all hiring and promotional decisions in a City’s police and fire departments. This includes selecting and hiring the Chief. The PFC will establish what the selection process will look like, who is eligible to apply, and will ultimately choose Madison’s next police chief.
Conducting a search and selecting a Chief does not happen overnight. When Chief Wray retired, the entire process took about seven months. A number of variables can impact that timeline; it is of course more important to do the process right than to do it quickly.
I have the privilege to serve as Acting Chief during this period while the PFC identifies and selects the next permanent Chief. The community can rest assured that MPD will not miss a beat during this process. The men and women of the department will continue to deliver high quality service to the public, and MPD will remain committed to our mission statement and core values.
FINAL ROUND OF BRUSH COLLECTION BEGINS MONDAY, OCTOBER 14
The Streets Division will begin the final guaranteed round of brush collection of the year on Monday, October 14, 2019.
Residents who wish to utilize the curbside brush collection service this year should have their brush to the curb prior to October 14.
Placing brush to the curb after October 14 risks it not being collected until regular brush collection operations begin again in the spring of 2020.
Upon conclusion of the final collection round, brush collection personnel will be reassigned to assist with leaf/yard waste collection and other duties
Brush Collection Guidelines
When placing brush out for collection , be sure to have the cut ends all facing the same direction and piles should be four feet away from obstructions like fire hydrants and street signs.
Brush piles should be kept separate from leaf/yard waste piles. Brush collection and yard waste collection are different operations. Piles of brush and yard waste mixed together will not be picked up.
Pickup Schedule Map
Residents who wish to minimize the length of time it sits at the curb should use the Pickup Schedule map on the Streets Division’s brush website, www.cityofmadison.com/brushcollection.
Once on the Pickup Schedule map, Madison residents can enter their address in the upper left corner of the page. This will zoom the map into their immediate neighborhood.
If the map for the neighborhood is shaded green for Pickup Pending, then crews will be around very soon, so residents must get brush to the curb at that time to take advantage of the collection opportunity. The map is updated at the end of each workday, so residents using the map should check it regularly.
Drop-off Sites
Madison residents and taxpayers can also bring one load of a brush a day to either Streets Division drop-off site. Brush loads brought to a drop-off site may not exceed 5’ x 8’, which means the brush load would fit into the bed of a standard pick-up truck or small trailer. Loads that are too large will be denied use of the drop-off site and directed to use the brush processing center.
The sites are located at 1501 W. Badger Rd. on the southwest side and 4602 Sycamore Ave on the east side. Contractors may not use these drop-off sites.
The Sycamore and Badger sites are open seven days a week from 8:30am to 4:30pm and until 8:00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These hours of operation will remain in effect until December 8, 2019.
Brush Processing Center
Contractors, as well as residents, can bring brush they have cut to the brush processing center at 121 E. Olin Ave to be chipped for a per-ton fee. Additional information about the brush processing center, including hours of operation and fees, can be found on the Streets Division website, or by contacting the center at 608-266-4911.
Additional Information
Additional information about brush collection, including a short video that explains brush collection operations, can be found on the Streets Division’s brush website, www.cityofmadison.com/brushcollection.
Residents can also call the brush collection hotline at 608-267-2088 for curbside collection time estimates that are updated weekly, or call the Streets Division office that services their neighborhood. Residents that live east of South Park Street, and that includes the isthmus, should call the east side Streets Division at 608-246-4532. Residents that live west of South Park Street should call the west side Streets Division at 608-266-4681.
For more information about all other Streets Division solid waste collection operations, please visit our website, www.cityofmadison.com/streets.
HEMP HARVEST WORKSHOP
Thank goodness for todays beautiful sun and a reprieve from all this rain!
It’s harvest time, and for us at New Americana Farm that means hemp! We grew and are currently harvesting four strains of Cannabis specifically developed for its high CBD content and terpenes which give the plant its fragrant and complex flavor. While CBD is all the craze now, we at New Americana Hemp, LLC are also interested in whole plant applications for hemp in homesteading use, such as fiber, or as sustainable and insulating building materials such as hempcrete. It is certainly an amazing plant to behold, and if you haven’t seen one in all its majesty at full maturity and still in the ground, now is your time!
We are a small scale Permaculture farmstead located in Evansville, WI which is just past the Dane/Rock County line. Our farm is located just 15 miles south of Madison on Hwy 14 and the same distance north from Janesville.
We are asking for your support during this crucial time in our fledgling operation, when quick harvest is crucial to product quality. We believe in the spirit of social permaculture and we believe we have a good plan to reciprocate your investment in our community. The fee to attend helps us with overhead and gives us some seed money to further get our crop to market. You will receive more than the cost of attendance in raw product!
Attend our 3 hour Hemp Harvest Workshop at New Americana Farm where you will receive:
- A one-hour farm tour highlighting our hemp production practices and 2019 growing lessons learned.
- Participate in small scale, homestead style processing of hemp for flower and fiber. Over the remaining 2 hours we will process a whole plant(s) for flower, as well as save traditionally less used plant parts such as the water leaves for art projects and decoration, and B grade flowers for infusions, tinctures and teas.
- Take home approx.. 14 grams of high quality flower product in its raw, wet and “sticky” form, which you can dry in your own home or gift to CBD loving friends. (NOTE: wet weight will dry to approximately a third of it’s live/wet weight depending on the strain.)
- PLUS…. fill a half pint jar with B grade quality material that can be used for butter, teas or culinary and wellness experimentation.
- AND…. save up to 10 Cannabis leaves of your choice to use in art projects, crafting or spiritual practices that celebrate the beauty of the majestic leaf form we all know so well! (Suggestion: Bring a book or paper for pressing leaves immediately to preserve their beauty and prevent damage to their fragile edges.)
- Participants in our Hemp Harvest Workshop will also receive a free invitation to New Americana Farm’s Hemp’s-giving Festival in November, where we will have demo’s, art projects, samples and celebrate community! Attendees will be have the chance to purchase bulk product at wholesale rates.
- ATTENTION: You may not further process or package any of the raw products received in this educational workshop for retail sales, including consumption in human and animal foods, but may only use them in your own home per current state and federal statutes. You will receive a notification sheet for home use from our farm as well as our farmers license number & “Fit for Commerce” certificate proving this is CBD and is below the .3% THC threshold for hemp classification.
$30
Workshops are on the following dates:
Thurs Oct 10th 3-6 pm
Friday Oct 11th 3-6 pm
Saturday Oct 12th 9-12 am and 2-5 pm
Sunday Oct 13th 9-12 am & 2-5 pm.
Register for this event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hemp-harvest-workshop-tickets-75578420089
Contact Amy at 608-354-7264 or email newamericanafarm@gmail.com for any questions or to pay at the door. We will provide directions to our farm after registration due to the nature of this sensitive crop.
Hope to see some MAPG faces next week!
Amy Jensen
New Americana Farm
MADISON ACTIVIST CALENDAR FOR THIS WEEK
Madison Activist Calendar from 10/7/19
To post events or announcements for future listings, please contact: jepeck@wisc.edu
For an online version of this calendar, please visit:https://madinfoshop.wordpress.
This calendar is brought to you by the friendly volunteer collective of the Madison Infoshop, 1202 Williamson St., Madison, WI 53703https://madinfoshop.wordpress.
We are a non-hierarchical freespace and activist clearinghouse that needs your support to survive and flourish. Check out our free lending library (videos, books, periodicals, zines), our other community resources (art supplies, theater props, graphix and stencils, megaphones, and button maker). We also host meetings and help organize events.
Ongoing Free Exhibits at the UW Chazen Museum of Art (800 Univ. Ave.)
Through Jan. 5th Fabrice Monteiro: The Prophecy! Fabrice Monteiro creates characters that emerge from oil slicks, garbage dumps and dry landscapes, and then photographs them to deliver a warning and empowerment message to humanity. The colorful series unquestionably awakens the collective consciousness. Monteiro’s goal is to continue his project around the world and thus involve all cultures and all continents in a dialogue on a global scale.
Also through Jan. 5th Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials! Featuring contemporary artwork investigating the complex cultural and material nexus that is “Plastic.” Organized around the curatorial concept of entanglement – which describes the literal entanglements of animals and plastic detritus as well as the plasticity of global networks – the exhibition assembles artistic investigations of humanity’s reliance on a material that is at once ubiquitous and, for that reason, virtually invisible. Featuring an international array of emerging and mid-career artists, Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materialsargues that plastic globally entangles categories of the aesthetic, the ethical, the material, the technological, and the critical.
For more info, visit: https://www.chazen.wisc.edu/
Mon. Oct. 7th 12:00 Noon Dane County Extension Office (5201 Fen Oak Dr.) Screening of the film Los Lecheros – Undocumented in America’s Dairyland, followed by a discussion hosted by Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Info? #608-224-3706
Mon. Oct. 7th6:30 pm Social Justice Center (1202 Williamson St.) Monthly meeting of the Madison General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Find out how you can dump the boss off your back! Info? https://www.facebook.com/
Tues. Oct. 8th 4:00 pm UW-Madison, Rm. 6191 Helen C. White (600 N. Park St.) Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs – lecture with Colin Gordon, the F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Hosted by the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Info? Visit: https://havenswrightcenter.
Tues. Oct. 8th 8:00 am – 6:00 pm UW-Madison Institute for Discovery (330 N. Orchard) CRISPR Con – Conference on Gene Editing! Join us for aunique forum bringing diverse voices together to discuss the future of CRISPR and related gene editing technologies across a variety of applications in agriculture, health, conservation, and more. CRISPRcon sparks curiosity, builds understanding, and highlights societal histories and other context relevant to decisions on gene editing technologies. $25 for students and general public (inlcudes breakfast & lunch) To register and for more info: https://crisprcon.org/
Tues. Oct. 8th 9:00 am UW-Madison, Education Building, Rm. 159 (1000 Bascom Hill) How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education – talk with Prof. Rebecca Tarlau, Penn State Univ. Info? Check out the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
Tues. Oct. 8th 12:30 pm UW-Madison, Rm. 206 Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Dr.) Role of Community Organizing to Confront Climate Change & Forced Migration in El Salvador – 2019 U.S. El Salvador Sister Cities Speaking Tour with Felicia Mijango and Zulma Tobar of the Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES. More info? Visit:https://lacis.wisc.edu/event/
Tues. Oct. 8th 7:00 pm UW-Madison Arboretum (1207 Seminole Hwy.)Cultural Significance of Nature and Gardening to Indigenous Tribal Peoples – talk with Diana Peterson, PhD candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW–Madison! Part of the Fall 2019 series onIndigenous Knowledge Inspired by the Land. More info? Visit the Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/
Wed. Oct. 9th 4:00 pm UW-Madison Institute for Discovery (330 N. Orchard St.) Making Abolition Geography: Social Justice Organizing in Local, State, and International Perspective. – Lecture by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and American Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Part of the Humanities Without Boundaries Series. More info? Visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
Wed. Oct. 9th 4:00 pm UW-Madison, Rm. 6191 Helen C. White (600 N. Park St.) Home Inequity: Race, Housing, and Wealth in St. Louis since 1940 – lecture with Colin Gordon, the F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Hosted by the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Info? Visit: https://havenswrightcenter.
Wed. Oct. 9th 7:00 pm Edgewood College, Anderson Auditorium (1000 Edgewood College Dr.) Eradicating Peace: The Other Side of the Colombian War on Drugs – talk with Leider Valencia and screening of theshort documentary film, The Coca Trap/Non-Narcos: Colombia’s coca growers fight for alternative to their trade. Leider Valencia is the Colombian National Coordinator of the Growers of Coca, Poppy, and Marijuana (COCCAM), which is trying to find alternative crops to grow that will give them a living wage to support their families. Through his perspective as a campesino organizer, Leider will discuss forces threatening the Colombian peace process in rural areas and how movements in the U.S may contribute to solidarity in action. COCCAM emerged with the objective of promoting the implementation of point 4 (Solution to the problem of illicit drugs) of the peace accords in Havana. Paramilitaries have assassinated more 38 leaders participating in this movement. This Witness for Peace speaker tour touches on the grassroots efforts by Afro-Colombians, campesinos and indigenous peoples working towards alternative sustainable development in areas hard-hit by the internal armed conflict as well as fumigations and forced eradication/militarization. These struggles come in the aftermath of the 2016 peace accords between FARC and the Colombian government as well as a staggering number of assassinations against environmental, land and indigenous rights defenders. These leaders will discuss the recent Minga in Cauca, Colombia which was met by tremendous violence by the state security forces leaving at least 16 people dead. The speaker will discuss the various forces threatening the Colombian peace process and how movements in the U.S may contribute in defending it. Info? spastor@edgewood.edu
Thurs. Oct. 10th 12:00 Noon – 1:30 pm UW-Madison, Rm. 275 Moore Hall(1575 Linden Dr.) Grocery Story: The Promise of Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants – book talk with author, Jon Steinman. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery store—the epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Grocery Story makes a compelling case for the transformation of the grocery store aisles as the emerging frontier in the local and good food movements. Jon’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion with local food coop workers and experts: Emily Ambrose, Equal Exchange; Patrick Schroeder, Willy Street Grocery Cooperative; and Wynston Estis, CDS Consulting Co-op. Hosted by UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, the Center for Co-ops, and FH King Students for Sustainable Agriculture.
Thurs. Oct. 10th 6:30 pm Madison Central Library, Rm. 104 (201 W. Mifflin) Concentration Camps at the Border: Personal Stories & Resistance – a talk by Leila Pine! Activist Leila Pine will give a report from the front lines of struggle for rights and survival at the US-Mexico border. As a retired journalist and lawyer, Leila has extensive background working with immigrants and asylum-seekers both locally and in Tucson, AZ where she does intensive humanitarian aid and border justice work. Hosted by the Peregrine Forum. More info? Visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
Thurs. Oct. 10th 7:00 pm UW Madison, Memorial Union’s Geat Hall (800 Langdon St.) Land Stories: Voices of the Past, Present, and Future – Jordahl Public Lands Lecture! This special storytelling event will feature diverse voices sharing personal stories about the importance of public lands. From stewardship to recreation, be a part of this meaningful discussion that will highlight public lands and the impact they have on our lives. Speakers include: Althea Bernstein, Curt Meine, James Edward Mills, Ali Muldrow, Jackson Nesbit, and Bill L. Quackenbush; plus members of a recent community interactive workshop willsharing their own short stories they developed. More info? Visit:https://nelson.wisc.edu/
Thurs. Oct. 10th 7:00 pm State Historical Society (816 Langdon St.) A roundtable on Laboring Bodies with Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Graduate Center CUNY), Sarah Besky (Brown) and Sasha Turner (Quinnipiac U).Hosted by Interrogating the Plantationocene: A UW-Madison Mellon Sawyer Seminar. More info? Visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
Fri. Oct.11th 6:30 pm Willy St. Co-op West ( 6825 Univ. Ave. in Middleton) Go Bananas for Fair Trade! Where is Fair Trade? What is Fair Trade?… and Where are we now? Join us during Fair Trade and Co-op Month for a multi-stakeholder panel featuring how global food movement organizations and businesses are working to build equitable, cooperative supply chains. Understanding and seeing transparent supply chains is a massive challenge for many consumers, buyers, and producers. Willy Street Co-op, Equal Exchange, and Fairtrade America are three organizations working to build more transparent and equitable supply chains. From 5:00 – 6:00 pm there will also be a celebration of the world’s largest fair trade produce display with banana and chocolate pairings. Info? Visit: https://www.willystreet.coop/
Sat. Oct. 12th 9:30 am – 9:00 pm Overture Center (201 State St.) 7th Annual Latino Art Fair! Kids in the Rotunda performances by Angela Puerta, along with art activities with Sahira Rocillo at 9:30 am; 11:00 am, and 1:00 pm; Visual art exhibits, market and children’s activities in the promenade Terrace from 2:00 – 7:00 pm; Local Latinx Poets at 3:30 pm and 4:45 pm in Promendae Hall, Listen Local Performance by Acoplades Latin Project from 4:00 – 6:00 pm; and at 7:30 pm in the Capitol Theater – Mariachi Herenci de Mexico performance (tickets are $28 for this event). More info? Visit: https://www.overture.org/
Sun. Oct. 13th 9:30 am – 11:30 am 1220 Fordem Ave. Never Again – Then and Now: Lessons from the Post 1945 Anti-Concentration Camp Movement – discussion with historian, Emma Kuby! Kuby will discuss Nazi camp survivors’ postwar activism against cruel internment systems around the world. How did survivors define “concentration camps” in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s? Why did they insist that the Nazi case could and should be compared to ongoing abuses? What does their struggle teach us about today’s detention crisis here in the US? And was “Never Again!” ultimately an effective framework for their activism? Kuby is an Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University and the author of Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945. Hosted by Congregation Shaarei Shamayim. More info? Visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
Sun. Oct. 13th 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Wilmar Neighborhood Center (953 Jenifer St.) Grand Re-Opening Celebration! Be the first to see our beautifully restored community gathering space, our expanded youth programming space, and our new fitness center! Local snacks and refreshments, including a 1:00 pm champaign toast. Tours will be offered throughout the day. More info? Visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
Sun. Oct. 13th 6:00 pm Orpheum Theater (216 State St.) The War at Home – Special 40th Anniversary Screening of the Academy Award Nominated Directory with Co-Director, Glenn Silber! Fifty years ago, activists across the country spoke out against the war. The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a massive demonstration and teach-in across the United States (including 15,000 demonstrating in Madison and several Wisconsin cities) against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It took place on October 15, 1969, followed a month later by the National Moratorium in Washington on Nov. 15, 1969, attracted more than 500,000 antiwar protesters, which many active-duty GIs in Vietnam supported. These events are among the many important events of the Antiwar Movement documented in the War at Home film, which had its World Premiere at the Majestic Theater in Madison on October 12, 1979. Co-Director, Glenn Silber will be in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a panel discussion on the Lessons and Legacy of the Antiwar Movement, moderated by John Nichols. Hosted by the Progressive Magazine. Info? Visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
