Lake Geneva's Moonbat Gathering

UW-Madison's Havens Center organized Wisconsin Radfest 2005 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin last week and I missed the actual event. The Havens Center is part of the UW-Madison’s Department of Sociology which makes it a Wisconsin taxpayer funded aspect of our general commitment to “higher education”. The center exists for the expressed purpose of proposing utopian alternatives to activists. You can’t make this stuff up.

“The traditional tasks of critical social thought have been to analyze the sources of inequality and injustice in existing social arrangements, to suggest both practical and utopian alternatives to those arrangements, and to identify and learn from the many social movements seeking progressive social and political change.”

“The Havens Center seeks to promote progressive social and political change through engagement with the activist community in Madison and beyond. The principal vehicle for this effort is RadFest/Midwest Social Forum, an annual conference for progressive activists and academics held the weekend after Memorial Day.”

For any one seriously wanting to understand the left the Radfest Program (PDF) is a guided tour of the clumped aggregate of dislikes and concerns that the socialists want to knit into a grand theory of HOW WE SHOULD LIVE. As an extra bonus it includes a wonderful listing of Wisconsinites working to achieve “radical” change in the Badger State.

I don’t know how people decide which sessions to attend. Ed Garvey is talking about how to create a “people’s legislature” while next door the Madison Area Democratic Socialists talk about how to defeat Wal-Mart. Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager making the case that women should rule the world or three UW-Whitewater Professors discussing how horrible it is that Ward Churchill was protested. Finally from a purely tactical standpoint, how does one decide between learning to organize mobile home parks or how to effectively use race in campaigns. After all in the real world, the democrats don't care what utopian dream you believe as long as you vote them into power.