UPCOMING EVENTS
09/27/11 LECTURE ON LGBT MOVEMENT IN WEIMAR & NAZI ERAS
“Life was a Cabaret” is a lecture on the German LGBT movement in the Weimar and Nazi eras. This will be held at Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan Street, Asheville from 7 to 9 PM. For more information please call 274-2681.
09/28/11 MOUNTAIN PROTECTORS CAMPAIGN MEETING
For all concerned citizens who would like to help change our nuclear future and keep nuclear waste out of WNC. Meeting at 6:30 PM ending between 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM. For directions call Mary at 828-242-5621. Please note - there will be no potluck - feel free to bring your own bag dinner & eat as we meet.
09/30/11 VOTER EDUCATION/MEET THE CANDIDATES FORUM
New Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2 Herman Street, Asheville, 28801. Time is 6:30 PM, and this is presented by the African-American Caucus. For questions, contact: Eula Shaw, eulashaw@bellsouth.net or (828) 277-5625
09/27/11 LECTURE ON LGBT MOVEMENT IN WEIMAR & NAZI ERAS
“Life was a Cabaret” is a lecture on the German LGBT movement in the Weimar and Nazi eras. This will be held at Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan Street, Asheville from 7 to 9 PM. For more information please call 274-2681.
09/28/11 MOUNTAIN PROTECTORS CAMPAIGN MEETING
For all concerned citizens who would like to help change our nuclear future and keep nuclear waste out of WNC. Meeting at 6:30 PM ending between 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM. For directions call Mary at 828-242-5621. Please note - there will be no potluck - feel free to bring your own bag dinner & eat as we meet.
09/30/11 VOTER EDUCATION/MEET THE CANDIDATES FORUM
New Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2 Herman Street, Asheville, 28801. Time is 6:30 PM, and this is presented by the African-American Caucus. For questions, contact: Eula Shaw, eulashaw@bellsouth.net or (828) 277-5625
10/01/11 A DECADE TOO LONG: TWO VETERANS EXPLORE NONVIOLENCE IN AFGHANISTAN
Brock McIntosh is a student who is still in the National Guard pending his Conscientious Objection application. (His views are his own and do not represent those of the Army National Guard or any other branch of the United States military.) Jacob George served in the Army Special Forces and completed three tours in Afghanistan. After leaving the Army, he briefly returned to school before selling all of his possessions and embarking on a bike tour, A Ride Till The End, with other veterans and supporters, speaking in schools, churches, and other community spaces about his transformation toward peace and reconciliation. They recently returned to Afghanistan with a delegation from Voices for Creative Nonviolence where they joined forces with Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, who seek to encourage wide-scale, person-to-person relationships towards peace and reconciliation, with a resolute commitment to non-violence, non-killing and the well-being of ALL people. We hope to Skype with them for live conversation. Time is 6:30 to 8:30 PM and the location is Simpson Lecture Room, A-B Tech, 340 Victoria Rd., Asheville, NC.
10/01/11 GREEN PARTY MEETING
The Buncombe County GREEN Party's business meeting is free & open to the public. It will be held from 10AM to noon, upstairs in the Fortune Building, 729 Haywood Rd., West Asheville. Contact Ronald @ 828LUCK180 or Larry @ 828-225-4347 for more information.
10/5/11 SIERRA CLUB MEETING
“Sustainable transportation: a future worth creating” a discussion on energy and transportation issues. UNCA professor Dave Erb will lead the discussion, and present an overview of these issues. Social is at 7 PM and program starts at 7:30 PM. Location is Unitarian Universalist church in Asheville, at the corner of Charlotte and Edwin Streets.
10/06/11 FREEDOM SQUARE IN WASHINGTON DC
Join thousands to protest wars and injustice on the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan. Stop the machine, create a new world! More info here: http://october2011.org/statement
10/06/11 VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
Time is 6:30 PM and location is VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic Studios: 109 Roberts Street (the corner of Haywood and Roberts), Asheville. VFP CHAPTER 099: http://vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot.com/
10/07/11 ANNIVERSARY OF TEN YEARS OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
10/08/11 to 10/09/11 MARCH ON U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND
Join us on October 8-9, 2011 in South Florida and at the gates of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Florida as we demand: NO BASES, NO 4TH FLEET, BUILD BRIDGES, NOT BASES. http://soaw.org/component/content/article/39/3686-october-2011-march-on-the-us-southern-command
10/09/11 ASHEVILLE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN MEETING
The next NOW meeting will be at the Roof Garden of the Battery Park Apartments from 3 to 5 PM. Contact Debbie at AshevilleNOW@live.com for more information.
10/11/11 PRIMARY ELECTION DAY
10/14/11 MOVIE NIGHT AT U.U. CHURCH IN ASHEVILLE
This month’s movie will be “Gasland” which is about fracking in the USA. Time is 7 PM, and U.U. Church is located at Edwin & Charlotte Street. Donations accepted.
10/17/11 ASHEVILLECONNECTS
AshevilleConnects - For all members of the community: Make the best use of existing community resources by getting and giving ideas, contacts, and information to further whatever you're working on. Tap into the deep well of what we know. Join us at the Self Help Building, 34 Wall St. in 3rd floor conference room from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. To RSVP: http://ashevilleconnects.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4a3/ or call Kathleen at 231-5565.
10/18/11 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS FORUM
Candidate forum from 7 to 9 PM at Reuters Center at UNCA. This is for candidates for Asheville City Council.
10/20/11 EARLY VOTING STARTS FOR GENERAL ELECTION
10/21/11 WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEETING
The next WNCPSR monthly meeting will be 10/21/11 at the home of Steve and Beth Gilman. Brown Bag lunch at noon with meeting from 12:30 to 2 PM. Directions to the Gilman's home: ***Take Highway 70 - Tunnel Road east from downtown Asheville. (From Interstate 240 going east, take Exit 7 and turn left at end of ramp.) Go several miles and see VA Hospital on left. Just before Blue Ridge Parkway overpass, turn right at stoplight onto Pleasant Ridge Road. Take 2nd right turn onto Wagon Road. Then turn left onto Birchwood to #18 on left. ***From Interstate 40, take Exit 55, turning toward Highway 70. At stoplight turn left. Just after passing under Blue Ridge Parkway overpass, turn left at stoplight onto Pleasant Ridge Road. Take 2nd right turn onto Wagon Road. Then turn left onto Birchwood, and follow to #18 on left. Park in driveway or on street.
11/08/11 ELECTION DAY
11/13/11 to 11/15/11 LAKE JUNALUSKA PEACE CONFERENCE
The fourth annual Lake Junaluska Peace Conference, “Poverty, Abundance, and Peace: Seeking Economic Justice for All God’s Children,” will lift up some of the systemic causes of poverty and economic disparity to help participants better understand these issues and to be equipped as change agents to work for alleviating these causes of poverty for a more just and peaceful world. See http://www.lakejunaluska.com/peace/ for more information about program and registration.
11/18/11 to 11/20/11 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH IN FT. BENNING
http://www.soaw.org/
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ONGOING EVENTS
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 5:30 to 6 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square, Vance Monument
WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood Country Courthouse in Waynesville.
Asheville Cop Watch meeting at 5 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square (Ash.) on the first Friday of the month.
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the Old Courthouse in Hendersonville
SATURDAY
Transylvanians for Peace and WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility have a weekly vigil at noon in front of the courthouse in Brevard.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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You are warmly invited to the
Enshrinement of Lord Buddha's Sacred Relics
October 8, 2011, 11 a.m., at
The Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda
Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
When living beings see me as extinct,/ And make offerings to my relics far and wide,
All cherishing longing adoration,/ Thirsting in their hearts to seek me out,
Thus, all living beings surrender in their faith,/ Upright in character and gentle,
Wholeheartedly wishing to see the Buddha,/ Not sparing their body and life,
Then together with all the Sangha,/ I once again appear on the Sacred Eagle Peak.
Chapter 16, The Lotus Sutra
The Eternal Duration of the Life of the Tathagata
Dear Friends,
We are happily looking forward to receiving monks, nuns and guests from around the world --- as well as seeing you --- on Saturday, October 8 for a Ceremony to Enshrine the Sacred Relics of Lord Buddha. This ancient tradition of enshrining relics in a stupa [a Sanskrit term for what we call Peace Pagodas] was embraced and upheld by our founder, the Most Ven. Nichidatsu Fujii, in order to promote World Peace. We would welcome your presence as we celebrate this milestone in the construction of the Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda. Feel free to bring a friend or friends.
Below is the schedule for the ceremony, but please note that our Fall Work Party begins the day after the ceremony. October 9-23. Last year's tremendous effort on the foundation, followed by the pouring of a slab base and the construction of a mammoth retaining wall has laid all the groundwork (literally) for the construction of the walls of the Peace Pagoda. All skill levels welcome, appreciated and needed. We also welcome donations of food both for the guests arriving for the ceremony and for the volunteers at the Work Party.
October 8 Schedule
9:30 a.m. Begin shuttle up the hill to ceremony site (Please try to arrive no later than 10:30 a.m)11 a.m. Ceremony begins.
12 Noon Interfaith Prayers for World Peace.
12:20 p.m. James W. Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable will offer reflections on Guruji, Gandhi, and Terrorism.
12:35 p.m. Music by Joanne Steele & Lisa Deaton and by Joe Williams, Roger Webb & Kerry Brown
1:15 p.m. Lunch
For directions, please visit our website http://smokymountainpeacepagoda.org
or contact us at atlantadojo@yahoo.com
423-613-8209
404-627-8948 (cell)
Gassho san pai (With palms together, bowing three times)
Brother Utsumi
Sister Denise
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Lake Junaluska Peace Conference
November 13-15, 2011
The fourth annual Lake Junaluska Peace Conference, “Poverty, Abundance, and Peace: Seeking Economic Justice for All God’s Children,” will lift up some of the systemic causes of poverty and economic disparity to help participants better understand these issues and to be equipped as change agents to work for alleviating these causes of poverty for a more just and peaceful world.
Speakers for this year’s conference include Senator George McGovern, Dr. David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World, and Bishop Nkula Ntambo of the Katanga Conference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In keeping with the commitment of the Peace Conference to Interfaith peacemaking, the Conference will also feature an interfaith panel featuring Jewish, Muslim and Christian scholars on the topic, “Our Sacred Texts Speak to Us in Regard to Peace, Justice and Economics.”
A special session will also feature speakers on the topic of “Corporate Social Responsibility,” as the Conference looks at ways foundations, faith communities, and individuals can work for a more just economic order through responsible investing. Speakers will be Dr. Tom Stephens, Managing Director of Prescient360 Group, an advisor for many years to corporations, government, and institutions on issues of corporate responsibility, and Vidette Bullock Mixon, who will represent the United Methodist Board of Pensions socially responsible investing policies.
See http://www.lakejunaluska.com/peace/ for more information about program and registration.
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