Monday, January 30, 2012

Upcoming events in the Asheville area this week

Occupy Asheville camp, January 29, 2012


UPCOMING EVENTS

01/30/12 DEMOCRATIC PARTY CAMPAIGN/JOB FAIR
If you would like to work or volunteer for a campaign in 2012, come out to the Bar of Soap on Merrimon Ave. near UNC Asheville between 7 and 9 PM. This event will focus on state and local races in 2012.  There will be District maps, lists of races (with declared candidates), and lots of room to discuss how to help folks find the work they want in the various campaigns this season. All of our local candidates are invited to attend as well and will hopefully be there to talk with you.  
 
02/01/12 SIERRA CLUB MEETING
River Canoeing Adventures and a brief update from Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson, about the new French Broad River paddling camps.  Social is at 7 PM and program starts at 7:15 PM.  Location is Unitarian Church at 1 Edwin Place in Asheville.

02/02/12 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/

02/04/12 MARTIN LUTHER KING BREAKFAST - BLACK MOUNTAIN
The Rev. Aubra Love is the keynote speaker for the Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast in Black Mountain, NC on Saturday, February 4, 2012, at Camp Dorothy Walls, AME Conference Center. All are invited and encouraged to attend.  For more information, please contact Tom Cannon, MLK Breakfast Committee (828)778-7166.

02/04/12 NO WAR ON IRAN DAY
A Call for a National Day of Actions Nationwide to say: NO WAR, NO SANCTIONS, NO INTERVENTION, NO ASSASSINATIONS! Plan a street protest in your location.  

02/04/12 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 @ 828-LUCK180 or Larry @ 828-225-4347 for more information.

02/04/12 PEACE CONCERT
Cecilia St. King is a Peace Troubadour (www.ceciliastking.com).  Her concert will last an hour and a half -- Saturday, February 4, 6:30 PM at Bo Thomas Auditorium at Blue Ridge Community College in Hendersonville.  She is sponsored by the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence -- is very interfaith and is being sponsored by the United Religions Initiative of Henderson County in celebration of Global Interfaith Harmony Week sponsored by the United Nations.  Do Come!

02/05/12 BUSKERS FOR CHANGE
A benefit for the buskers of downtown Asheville as well as the Asheville Homeless Network.  Performers are Matt Getman, Sparrow, Fox Black, Nathan Robicheau & Kayvon Kazemini, Drayton and more.  This event is not during your normal business hours for Rosetta's Kitchen.  Rosetta will be providing a cauldron of delicious soup.  Time is from 6 to 9 PM.

02/10/12 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH MOVIE NIGHT
The movie “A Sense of Wonder - the Rachel Carson Story” will be shown at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Asheville at the corner of Edwin and Charlotte Street.  Time will be 7 PM.  Donations accepted.  Contact David Williams for more information at devwilliams@juno.com.

02/17/12 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EVENT
Marjory Wentworth, who is the co-author of Taking a Stand, The Evolution of Human Rights, will be speaking about a book that she co-wrote with former Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience, Juan Mendez.  Méndez is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and boasts a long and fearless legal career as a human rights defender. Marjory Wentworth is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet whose books of poetry include Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity and The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle. Her award winning book Shackles, is a children's story. She is the Poet Laureate of South Carolina.  It's open to the public and free!  Starts at 7 pm.  Location is Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in downtown Asheville.

02/17/12 WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEETING
Bring a brown bag lunch around noon. The meeting will officially start at 12:30 and end about 2:00.  Physicians, health personnel and, yes, everyone; all are welcomed at our monthly meetings!  DIRECTIONS:  (Location is in vicinity of Veterans Hospital) Proceed east on Tunnel Rd./US 70 (away from downtown Asheville) to about one short block prior to the Blue Ridge Pky overpass. Turn right (south) on Pleasant Ridge Dr., then turn right on the second street, Wagon Rd., then immediate left on Birchwood Lane to #18 on the left side of the street. For more information contact Dr. Terry Clark, Chair, 633-0892 or Dr. Lew Patrie, 299-1242.

02/18/12 SKILL SHARING SCHOOL
On Saturday, February 18th, Transition Asheville's Skill Sharing Action Group is co-hosting an all day free skill share at UNCA's Highsmith Union. Please follow this link for more information and to fill out a brief questionnaire about a skill you have to offer on the 18th, other skills you have, other places you might be interested in sharing your skills, and skills you have an interest in learning more about.  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEZLM29tZjBpa3BldG9oaGFHQmNZeGc6MQ    We thank our partners for distributing this survey through their networks: Transition Asheville, Freeskool Asheville, the True Nature Country Fair, ASHE (Active Students for a Healthy Environment), the UNCA Student Environmental Center, and Wild Abundance (the organizers of the Firefly Gathering).  The School is from 9:30 to 5:30 PM and location is UNCA Highsmith Union.  For more information:  http://transitionasheville.org/event/skill-share-school  

02/23/12 MOVE TO AMEND MEETING
Time and place TBD.

02/27/12 to 03/11/12 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE USA

03/07/12 SIERRA CLUB MEETING
The Executive Director of Riverlink will discuss current initiatives, including the use of oil eating bacteria to help clean some of the French Broad riverfront soil.  Social is at 7 PM and program starts at 7:15 PM.  Location is the Unitarian Church at 1 Edwin Street in Asheville NC.

03/13/12 - 03/15/12 CARING FOR CREATION WEEKEND AT CAMP JUNALUSKA
Dr. Bill McKibben, environmental author and founder of 350.org, will be a featured presenter at Caring for Creation 2012 March 13-15, 2012, at Lake Junaluska. Caring for Creation, a faith based eco justice event, will explore ways individuals and churches can become more environmentally conscious and good stewards of God's Earth.  Named for the safe level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, 350 parts per million, 350.org is an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize a global climate movement. For over 20 years, McKibben has been environmentally active, releasing over a dozen books and various articles examining climate change.  More information at this link:  http://www.lakejunaluska.com/caring-for-creation/  

03/17/12 WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Bring a brown bag lunch around noon. The meeting will officially start at 12:30 and end about 2:00. Physicians, health personnel and, yes, everyone; all are welcomed at our monthly meetings! For more information contact Dr. Terry Clark, Chair, 633-0892 or Dr. Lew Patrie, 299-1242.

05/01/12 OCCUPY CHICAGO
Adbusters has issued a Call to Action to Occupy Chicago for the G8/NATO summit this coming May:  “Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there, Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.  And so will we.  On May 1, 50,000 people from all over the world will flock to Chicago, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month. With a bit of luck, we’ll pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.”

05/11/12 to 05/12/12 ALEC SPRING MEETING
Spring Task Force Summit Meeting in Charlotte NC.  “ALEC, ALEC, YOU CAN’T HIDE, WE WILL FIND YOU NATION-WIDE!”

05/18/12 to 05/21/12 NATO and G-8 SUMMIT IN CHICAGO
“Won’t you please come to Chicago, for the help that we can bring?  We can change the world, rearrange the world, it is dying - to get better.”

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ONGOING EVENTS
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 4:30 to 5 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.

TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 4:30 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 vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square (Asheville) 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.

OCCUPY WALL STREET ASHEVILLE
Go to www.occupyasheville.org for more information, or call 888-378-0788. Information on Occupy Asheville late breaking events:  http://occupyasheville.org/calendar/.  General Assembly will be held at 6 PM on Tuesday and Thursday and at 3 PM on Saturday.  Location TBD.

PROTEST THE DNC!
Already, organizations and Occupy movements across the country are making plans to mobilize to be in the streets of Charlotte during the DNC. For more information on the Coalition to Protest at the DNC and to find out how your organization can join, please visit http://protestdnc.org.

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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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Take action:  Sign a petition to stop SOPA and the money the vote on SOPA brings to US Congress members.

Our nation's laws can't be bought. Tell Congress to give back the MPAA’s dirty SOPA money:   

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Take action:  No immunity for mortgage banksters:

The Obama Administration has been working on a sweetheart mortgage fraud settlement with the big banks, but attorneys general in several states are pushing back.

Encourage leading attorneys general to stand strong.

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Take action:  Sign the statement letting Schneiderman know that if hejails Wall Street lawbreakers, the American people have his back.

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TRANSITION ASHEVILLE DISCUSSION GROUPS FORMING NOW

Coming soon to your neighborhood!  Learn why the transition movement is sweeping the world.  Discussion groups are forming now for the Transition Handbook and Transition Companion! The Transition Handbook is the vision for the future:  Hope instead of fear - learn how we can create the kind of future we want to see.  The Transition Companion is the latest book by Rob Hopkins, reporting on all the wonderful activities that have and are taking place in all the Transition Initiatives around the world - chock full of great ideas!

CONTACT INFO:  To join the Transition Handbook discussion Group: Contact Stan Corwin colnstash@att.net or 254-3515.

To join a Transition Companion discussion group, find the one nearest to you:

Discussion group West - contact Chas Jansen cjansen@mtsu.edu 768-1449

Discussion group North - contact Maureen Linneman reenielin@gmail.com 254-9115

Discussion Group East - contact Stan Corwin colnstash@att.net 254-3515

(Handbooks and Companion books can be purchased from Stan Corwin)

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