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Hello friends and members of the Madison MAN (Mutual Aid Network) Cooperative!

We have a lot to share today, so we're gonna bullet point it and have you click some links for more info.

• Events coming up! Want to offer or request stuff for Supper Clubs or swaps? Fill in this spreadsheet. We'll use the same link for every month.
  • Monday 4.21 Supper Club 3:30-6:30 at the WilMar 953 Jenifer St.
  • Tuesday 4.22 North and East Garden Tour, meet at SJC at 4pm sharp
  • Monday 4.28 4-5pm Peace Practice at SJC 1202 Williamson feat. Narcan training
  • Tuesday 4.29 4-7pm South Garden Tour ending at a Party at Cindy's! All are welcome
  • Monday May 5, 5:30-7pm
 Monthly Swap at SJC
  • May date tbd: Mutual Aid for Accessible Housing Workshop
  • ShareFest June 8 2-5pm
 at SJC
  • HUMANs Solidarity Summit June 14-15, hosted from SJC. 
• Join if you haven't yet! If you've already joined please add and reply to offers and wants at our marketplace. This is how we really do mutual aid :) Also, click on the 'global' search at each page to see how we're connecting with trashnothing.com and other networks. You can find much more free stuff now!
• Help wanted: We need help with some things to make the Madison MAN work better for everyone. You'll earn hours for your time! Email info@madisonman.coop if you'd like to help, or reply to the wants we're posting.
  • Membership team - help with outreach to current and potential members, or some related admin
  • Gardeners, especially for the North and East sides of Madison
  • SJC pantry pickup - weekly, on own time. Pick up at Second Harvest on Dairy Drive. Also anytime Friday pickups at Willy St. Coop.
  • Greeters for the front desk at SJC. Good people skills necessary.

  • Madison MAN board members. Monthly 1-hour meeting plus optional committee work.

     

Thanks for reading this much, and please come to anything that interests you at our calendar here.

Hope to see you soon!

How would you like to be involved in Everywhere Gardens?

Do you have space in your yard for more gardening?
Do you want to do some gardening in your neighborhood?
Do you want to teach or learn new garden-related skills?

Join us! It'll be fun and (literally) fruitful.

And thanks to member Hannah for making a beautiful flyer for us. Please feel free to distribute it among your friends and neighbors.

On Tuesday April 29, starting at 4pm. we'll do our Southside gardening tour ending with a party and supper club at Cindy's on Seminole. 

People who want to can meet at Social Justice Center and drive over together. Then we'll meet up at Cindy's where some people will likely already be working on her garden bed, we'll tour the sites with Sue's permaculture-informed eyes, and then eat and socialize at Cindy's. Music is an option, too 😊 4-7pm

Hope you can all make it! And meanwhile, plan on every Tuesday at 4 at SJC and online here https://ca.meet.coop/syb-qar-wz9-f48

 

hello friends

There are many ways to be involved with the Madison MAN (Mutual Aid Network) Cooperative. The best is to add and reply to offers and wants, and go ahead and make the exchanges or collaborations that make your life better, more enjoyable, more fruitful.

And also, come to our events and meetups! They're all on our calendar here.

The first and third Tuesdays of the month at 2pm we host Dream Time online, with people from our global HUMANs network.

Tomorrow, Tue 4.1, at 4pm, we have our last planning meeting for Everywhere Gardens, before shifting gears to work days.

Sunday 4.6, 10am-12noon, our HUMANs networks is hosting an Offers and Needs market online. 

Monday 4.7 is our swap at SJC, 5:30-7, focusing on seeds and seedlings but everything is welcome (good condition only, please).

We also host a few peace practices at different times in different places, and more. 

Hope to see you soon,

Stephanie

Hello friends! 

Today, 3:30-630 at the WilMar Center 953 Jenifer, is our Supper Club. Let's make it a swap too, bring good-quality items you'd like to pass on to others. 

If you want to make offers or requests, or say what you're bringing to Supper Club, use this handy lil spreadsheet. Or just show up! 

Monday March 17, 3:30-6:30 at the WilMar Neighborhood Center 953 Jenifer St

Supper Club 

The third Monday each month, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Neighborhood Center. If you have any extra ingredients, bring them. We'll make a Stone Soup-style meal that will feature a healthy vegan entree plus other treats based on what's available. 

3:30-4 Create menu, get additional supplies, and get ready to cook. 

4-5 Cook together. Teachers and learners and grunt-workers all welcome, and everyone doesn't need to work. It's a great time to chat with neighbors, learn things together, whatever you like. 

5-6 Eat together 

6-6:30 Pack extra food in to-go containers, clean up

Earn MAN hours for helping out, take home some food.

Special thanks to Marquette Neighborhood Association for sponsoring Supper Club!

Tomorrow (Tue 3.18) at 4 we'll do more planning for Everywhere Gardens, at the Social Justice Center 1202 Williamson.

Mon. April 7 is our next swap at the Social Justice Center, and we'll focus on seeds and seedlings among anything else you'd like to swap.
 

There's lots of other stuff on our calendar and we'd love to see you at some of it!

and, as ever, don't forget to add and reply to offers and wants here at the marketplace. 

Thanks for reading this

 

Spring is almost upon us and we're looking forward to seeing you at one or more of our many upcoming events.

Tuesday at 4pm we'll meet at the Social Justice Center (SJC) 1202 Williamson St. to get organized for our Everywhere and EveryBody Gardens project. join us! Email info@madisonman.coop if you need to join online, otherwise we'll just be in person.

Saturday and Sunday March 15-16 we host the HUMANs international Solidarity Summit right from our home base at SJC. 

Saturday at noon we'll have a virtual Supper Club, where we're inviting people around the world to have a meal and a chat together. We'll also share a bit about the Supper Clubs we do here, and hear from other people about their own community building practices. 

We need help! Can you bring some food to share? We're doing something between potluck and feeding people, and need members to help with the food. We'll gladly offer you MAN hours for helping, and we can also reimburse for ingredients. Please email to let us know if you're able.

Monday March 17 3:30-6:30pm is our regular Supper Club at the WilMar Neighborhood Center. Join for part or all! Bring spare ingredients, help cook, or just come to eat and chat. All are welcome!

And last but not least, please remember to enter and reply to offers and wants at our marketplace.

Thanks for reading and enjoy the spring weather,
the Madison MAN Cooperative

Hello friends

We have a couple upcoming events we'd like you to know about here, and we'll send more detailed updates later.

Monday March 3, 5:30-7pm at the Social Justice Center 1202 Williamson St. 

Stuff Swap

What kinds of things do you want to trade? I'd like to bring vegan food to share (like a big pot of lentil soup to divide up, some baked goods), and would like to receive the same and/or veggies and other ingredients, clothes. Other things that can be easy to exchange are small appliances, books, and music. What do you want to give and receive? here's a spreadsheet to add your things or ideas. One tab there is for the potluck, and the other is for the swap. We'll be happy to help you use it if it's confusing.

Monday March 17, 3:30-6:30 at the WilMar Neighborhood Center 953 Jenifer St

Supper Club 

The third Monday each month, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Neighborhood Center. If you have any extra ingredients, bring them. We'll make a Stone Soup-style meal that will feature a healthy vegan entree plus other treats based on what's available. 

3:30-4 Create menu, get additional supplies, and get ready to cook. 

4-5 Cook together. Teachers and learners and grunt-workers all welcome, and everyone doesn't need to work. It's a great time to chat with neighbors, learn things together, whatever you like. 

5-6 Eat together 

6-6:30 Pack extra food in to-go containers, clean up

Earn MAN hours for helping out, take home some food.

 

 

 

hi there Looking for free stuff, or have some to offer? We're partnering with some cutting edge cooperative tech people to start connecting different networks of offers and needs together, and they just made it happen with trashnothing.com. You can search the offers and wants with the 'global' setting and find things this way. I used the keyword 'trashnothing' but play around, look for the types of things you want. And - hope to see you at Supper Club today.

Monday Feb. 17, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Neighborhood Center 953 Jenifer St.

Mutual Aid Supper Club

Bring a friend! Pop in anytime - you're welcome to drop in for a quick bite or to stay and visit the whole time.

We make menus based on what's available, cook together, share a meal from 5-6, then package some food to go and clean up. 

Have some extra potatoes, garlic, other perishables or canned foods you need to use up? Contribute them to the meal, and we'll do a Stone Soup-style menu based on what comes in, including contributions from Healthy Food For All.

While some people cook, others can learn more about Peace Practice, or do some collective dreaming and planning for future Supper Clubs or other cool projects. The only limits are imagination and participation. Well, those aren't really limits are they?

--- and don't forget, mutual aid is an action, or a bunch of actions, that create the network we can rely on when other people are making artificial scarcity --

Enter and reply to offers and wants! Including: we have wants posted for help with shaping our tech tools, help with communications, hosting outreach events, etc. We have some fun active work groups you can be part of or you can work on your own, and earn hours for helping the MAN work better for you...
 

-- last, but not least --- 

We'll be hosting the HUMANs Solidarity Summit from the Social Justice Center on March 15+16 and you're invited to be with us.
Sat. March 15 at noon we'll have a Virtual Supper Club where we'll share lunch while also connected with other communities doing the same, wherever they are, and other individuals finding community with all us humans sharing a meal and casual chat, with Kurt Roskopf (Milwaukee) kicking us off with a 12 o'clock Shakedown of music and movement. A big variety of fun and learning, come for part or all, in person or online. And we'll record to share later!

Thanks for reading this far

 

Hello dear members of the Madison MAN (Mutual AId Network) Cooperative, 

Let's make 2025 the year that mutual aid turns around the uglier trends of the world. Yes, we can, and most humans ultimately want the same thing - to live in peace and abundance. We can create common ground and support each other to get through lean times, and have fun doing it!

1. Sunday January 19 join members Madison Area Permaculture Guild for a training in Nonviolent Communication, more info below
2. Monday January 20 join us for Supper Club! 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Center 953 more info below
3. Enter and reply to offers and wants! Including: we have wants posted for help with shaping our tech tools, help with communications, hosting outreach events, etc. We have some fun active work groups you can be part of or you can work on your own, and earn hours for helping the MAN work better for you...

And now for the details on each upcoming event:

Slow PDC Daylong Introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) 
Date: Sunday, January 19, 2025

Location: Aubergine 1226 Williamson St.
Time: 10:00am with a light potluck brunch (time to get settled; bring something to pass if you are inspired to do so). The training will begin at 10:30am.  At 12:30pm we will take a 15 minute break and, then at 12:45pm, continue the practice.  We will take a half-hour break before returning at 3:15pm and finish about 5:15pm. 

Cost: Like all our workshops, we offer a sliding-scale fee for participants:
• Supporting fee: $150
• Standard fee: $90
• Scholarship: pay what you feel able & financially comfortable to pay
 

Please be prepared to pay at the event. We prefer checks or cash, but will also be accepting credit via square at the event.

Please RSVP at PermacultureWorks.org & indicate in the comments how many children, at what ages, will you bring?

(https://permacultureworks.org/posts/75144677?utm_source=manual)

If you have not joined Permaculture Works, you may need to join to RSVP. Permaculture Works is a no cost, local, private social networking space focused on permaculture. We don't manipulate with algorithms or sell any data.

Bring a friend! Pop in anytime - you're welcome to drop in for a quick bite or to stay and visit the whole time.

We make menus based on what's available, cook together, share a meal from 5-6, then package some food to go and clean up. 

Have some extra potatoes, garlic, other perishables or canned foods you need to use up? Contribute them to the meal, and we'll do a Stone Soup-style menu based on what comes in, including contributions from Healthy Food For All.

While some people cook, others can learn more about Peace Practice, or do some collective dreaming and planning for future Supper Clubs or other cool projects. The only limits are imagination and participation. Well, those aren't really limits are they?
 

Hope to see you soon! Also, feel free to come to other events at our calendar, or be in touch with how we can help make the Madison MAN work for you.

Take care and happy new year (yes we can still say that),

Stephanie on behalf of the Madison MAN Coop