Free Films - Native Cinema

 

Native Cinema Showcase Shorts 2025

November 21–28, 2025

All shorts are available to stream free November 21 (5 PM ET) to November 28, 2025 (5 PM ET).

The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. This year, the museum highlights an array of film shorts featuring a diverse range of Indigenous stories and perspectives.

STREAM HERE.

Friday Food Drive

This Friday, 11/21 from 9 am to 2 pm, Habitat for Humanity + Planned Parenthood of Western Wisconsin are hosting a food drive at Hogan Admin Center, 807 East Ave S. 

All donations will support WAFER and School District pantries.

Habitat for Humanity's ReClaim team is currently salvaging material from Hogan before it's demolished. When you come to donate food, you'll receive a ReStore discount coupon as well as a first glance at some treasures from Hogan! We are able to sell select items onsite, like original brass door pulls. 

Please help spread the word! 

Hope to see you there. 

Natalie 

Natalie Heneghan (she/her)

Community Outreach Director

Habitat for Humanity of the Greater La Crosse Region

Day of Remembrance

 

Each year on November 20th, The Center hosts a gathering of those who wish to recognize Trans Day of Remembrance. It takes place in honor of all our transgender sisters, brothers, and siblings who have lost their lives to transphobic violence. We conduct a roll call of lives lost that year and observe a moment of silence for those who lost their lives.

Thursday, Nov. 20, 5 to 8 p.m.

Pump House Regional Arts Center

119 King St.

and

Remembrance Walk at 3 p.m., UWL Clock Tower

Friends of International Students

What is it?

The LFIS Friendship Family Program, in cooperation with UW-La Crosse, Viterbo University, and Western Technical College, is not a live-in program but rather to promote cross-cultural understanding by fostering relationships between international students and La Crosse area residents. You, as a member of the local community who are familiar with how things function in the U.S., will be able to cultivate relationships with students from other countries, enabling you to expand upon your personal experience by learning more about the ways of life in other countries and vice versa. Friendship families may help make the student’s transition into American life go more smoothly. This is often an enjoyable and rewarding experience for both families and students.

What Is Expected?

You should contact your student(s) after you are matched and invite them to your home for a meal or on an outing (shopping, touring, et cetera). You may invite them to spend American holidays with you, birthday celebrations, outings to historical sites, occupational and professional experiences, sports events, and elementary, middle and high school programs.

MORE DETAILS HERE: https://lfis.info/family-apply

Please Note:

• Families are not expected to support students financially or to board these students at your home, nor are you expected to become involved in any legal issues (immigration or other issues) they may experience while in the United States.
• Families that apply for this program are expected to make a commitment to the student until the end of their first academic year, unless they are an exchange student and leave before that.
• Prospective families are expected to undergo a mandatory basic background check for the safety and comfort of our international students and Friendship Families. No substitutions will be accepted. Every individual in the home who is over the age of 18 years must complete the background check. If anyone in the home has been charged with, convicted of, pleaded guilty or no contest to, or forfeited bail for any criminal conduct under law or ordinance, and the nature of the charge or conviction is incompatible with the responsibilities of a friendship family, we reserve the right to deny placing an international student with that family.
• The family authorizes the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to obtain criminal records about adult members of the family from any source.
• During the course of the Friendship Family assignment, the family agrees to notify the International Education & Engagement (IEE) LFIS liaison, no later than the next day when any member of the family has been convicted of any crime or has been or is being investigated by any governmental agency for any act or offense. If the family fails to abide by this, we have the right to immediately terminate the family’s participation in the Friendship Family Program.
• By signing this form, you acknowledge that you will inform the International Education & Engagement (IEE) LFIS liaison below, of any criminal convictions, pleas of no contest, or pending criminal investigations or household changes since the time of your last background check.

Speak Out on Data Centers

 From Sierra Club

Good news: Legislation proposed to address data center risks

Legislation has been proposed by Senator Habush Sinykin and Representative Angela Stroud that would address some of the major concerns about data centers. This legislation requires data centers to be transparent about their energy and water use, meet strong labor and environmental standards, and use at least 70% renewable energy. It also ensures they pay their fair share and prevents costs from being pushed onto regular customers.

Sent your message here.

Learn more about data centers and those pushing back
Join us on Monday to learn more about the risks data centers pose and what communities are doing in response. Wisconsinites are ramping up their fight against unchecked data center expansion—from DeForest to Port Washington. Learn about the environmental and health impacts of data centers, how to inform your neighbors, and how to get involved.

November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
RSVP to attend the Zoom here.

Want to do even more? Announcing our new Action Nights!
Starting in December, the Wisconsin Chapter will host monthly Action Nights where you can gather with others and take action on some of the most pressing issues. Data center protections will be one of the topics at our first-ever Action Night.

Action Night
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
5:30–6:30 PM
RSVP here for the Zoom link.

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For more about how data center fever threatens to undo climate action and environmental protection gains, read Future data centers are driving up forecasts for energy demand and U.S. Data Centers Could Consume as Much Water as 10 Million Americans by Decade’s End