UPCOMING EVENTS
11/07/11 OCCUPY WALL STREET ASHEVILLE
Go to occupyasheville.org for more information, or call 888-378-0788.
11/08/11 ELECTION DAY
11/08/11 MUSLIM AWARENESS PROJECT AT WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
“Religious Diversity and Tolerance within the Islamic State: Reflections on a Fulbright study in Morocco and Tunisia, summer 2011”. Visiting Guest: Dr. Rodger Payne, Chair, Department of Religious Studies for UNCA. 5:45 p.m. Mierke Dining room/Gladfelter. For questions, email: spirituallife@warren-wilson.
11/08/11 NUCLEAR WASTE CAMPAIGN MEETING WITH WNC ALLIANCE
In order to create some continuity and stability in the effort, folks are looking at an affiliation with an existing group -- Western NorthCarolina Alliance (WNCA) has expressed interest in this possibility as well. The meeting will be at 5:45 PM and anyone interested in learning more about the possibility of affliation with WNCA is welcome to join us. The WNC Alliance office is at 29 N. Market Street, Suite 610 in Asheville. Contact Mary at maryo@nirs.org for more information.
11/09/11 KEYSTONE PIPELINE & OCCUPY WALL STREET UPDATE
Keystone XL Pipeline & Occupy Wall Street: Updates from the Front Line will be held on Wednesday, November 9, from 6-8pm, at Jubilee! Community Center, Wall St, Downtown Asheville. Facilitators: Kendall Hale & Bob Hanna, and sponsorship: Jubilee! Gandhi Team.
11/10/11 HOPE TO HOME FUNDRAISER
You may have heard of Home Free Bagels, which is a local for-profit business making (delicious) bagels & employing folks who are or have been homeless. Its goal is to reinvest its profits back into the community, so in addition to hiring HOPE to HOME clients (2 so far), it also supports HOPE to HOME financially. Home Free Bagels has just made a short documentary about its work, and HOPE TO HOME AND JUST ECONOMICS will be co-hosting a special premiere of the film along with a reception next Thursday evening. Time is 7 PM and this will be held at Fine Arts Theatre in Asheville. $5-$10 sliding scale admission.
11/11/11 11:11:11 WORLDWIDE DEMONSTRATION
Occupy the Streets. Occupy the World.
11/11/11 MOVIE NIGHT AT UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
“Economics of Happiness " will be the next film for the Social Justice Committee Film Nite at 7 PM. "The Economics of Happiness offers a unique global perspective on a movement that is often reduced as being too small. Not so. The film tells the story of a grassroots movement for localization that is bubbling up from the cracks of a faltering global economy, in every corner of the world. These are the real 'green shoots' to be hopeful about." - Anuradha Mittal. Donations appreciated! Contact David Williams for more information devwilliams@juno.com
11/12/11 THE ASHEVILLE LISTENING PROJECT
The Asheville Listening Project is a coalition of individuals from widely different backgrounds united in the belief that by listening to one another's stories, relationships can be built across lines that often segregate our community. The second gathering of the Asheville Listening Project is scheduled to meet at First Baptist Church of Asheville. At this meeting we will explore the things for which we are grateful, and what the vision for a good life looks like. Time is 7 PM. To request childcare, please RSVP to jmichael@fbca.net by noon on Thursday, November 10.
11/13/11 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN ASHEVILLE MEETING
We will have our last Asheville NOW meeting for the 2011 calendar year at the Roof Garden of the Battery Park Apts in Asheville. Put in code 0810 at the front door and you will be buzzed into the building. Take the elevator to the top floor. We are asking that you bring a light snack to share. We will provide Tea for the beverage. Time is 3 to 5 PM.
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/
11/15/11 MUSLIM AWARENESS PROJECT AT WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
“Faces of Islam Part II” Visiting Guests: Muslim Students Association, UNC-Asheville. 5:45 p.m. Mierke Dining Room /Gladfelter. For questions, email: spirituallife@warren-wilson.
11/17/11 ASHEVILLECONNECTS
AshevilleConnects - A meeting series to support your current project or passion by tapping existing community resources. Time is from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Location is 34 Wall Street in the Self Help Building, 3rd floor conference room (building entrance is 2 doors to the left of Laughing Seed restaurant). Cost: $15.00 Mail a check made out to AshevilleConnects to: 34 Wall St., Suite 401, Asheville, NC 28801. RSVP by Nov. 15th by using the RSVP tab on the website: http://ashevilleconnects.
11/18/11 to 11/20/11 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH IN FT. BENNING
http://www.soaw.org/
11/18/11 FOOD POLICY COUNCIL FOR ASHEVILLE
The follow-up to the October 21st convening: this is a participatory, action-oriented forum for identifying and addressing barriers to food security in our community. Please join us to continue the work of crafting community-wide policy to create a more just, abundant, and food-secure future for Asheville and Buncombe County. Time is 4 to 6 PM and the location is Wilma Sherrill Center at UNCA. More info: http://www.mountainx.com/
11/20/11 ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE
“Mirror Neurons and Empathy: Why People are Good With or Without God”will be presented by James R. Tobin, MD at the Sunday, November 20th meeting of the Ethical Society of Asheville, 2:00-3:30 PM, held at the YMI Cultural Center, in the Old Drugstore at the corner of Eagle and Market Streets. Tobin is a retired pediatrician and statistician who has lived in Asheville since 2003 and is a member of and the treasurer of the board of the Ethical Society of Asheville. His talk will cover non-self-centered compassionate behavior and its connection to empathy. He will introduce mirror neurons, the newly discovered neurophysiologic underpinning of empathy and discuss the presence of empathy at birth and how it can be reinforced or diminished by environmental factors and the implications of this to how we raise our children and how we live our own lives. For more information contact: Asheville@aeu.org, www.aeu.org, ethicalsocietyasheville@gmail.
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