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Also on Thursday, Phillip Kitcher will speak about "Science, Religion, and the Difficulties of Democracy", 7:30 at the Chazen Art Museum (used to be the Elvejhem).
Leslie Savan likes to talk about talking and, like, what a big deal it is. Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like...Whatever. Friday, October 20 6:00 - 7:00 PM Venue: Avol's Bookstore.
Two big names, Jane Hamilton and Ted Kooser grace the stage on Friday, October 20 8:00 - 9:00 PM Venue: Orpheum Theatre: Main
Dick Ringler and Norman Gilliland will present an excerpt from Ringler's Beowulf - The Complete Story - A Drama on Saturday, October 21 11:00 - 11:45 AM Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture. Ringler is perhaps the preeminent Beowulf scholar in the world - and guess where he teaches - UW-Madison.
WPR Live is your chance to see To the Best of Our Knowledge recorded on Saturday, October 21 12:30 - 4:00 PM Venue: Memorial Union Theater
James Yee has a story to tell that will chill you to the core. A Muslim army chaplain, Yee was assigned to represent Islam to his fellow servicmen and the media. Later, he was assigned to Gitmo. The government decided he might be a turncoat, stuffed him in solitary confinement for 76 days, and leaked the story to the press. Saturday, October 21 2:00 - 3:30 PM Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture.
Bill Lueders discusses his new book Cry Rape about the infamous rape case in Madison where the victim was raped, then deceived by the police and ultimately prosecuted for insisting she was raped. Sunday, October 22 4:00 - 5:30 PM Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
At 9:30AM and at 4PM today the cable gave fifteen minutes broadcast time to a religious commercial against gay marriage and to encourage people to vote for the amendment to restrict marriage in Wisconsin to a religious definition of marriage.
ReplyDeleteI should not have to pay to support of such advertising on a PEG cable channel. I must subscribe to the cable if I am to watch the city council and the school board meetings in Monona. I should not be required to pay for a sectarian religious advertising campaign to ban people from forming household units in Monona. People in Monona should be free to live freely, so long as they are not injuring themselves or others in doing so.
Religious advertising and political sermons should not be part of a public broadcast service if opposing positions are not presented in an equal and fair manner, giving other considered points of view a chance to be heard, and not giving privelege to any sect or church or temple or mosque, etc.
Monona cable presents a sect in Waukesha and this 'Church & State' advertisement against gay marriage. This is not a proper use of Monona Cable.