UPCOMING EVENTS
05/17/12 CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY DAY IN NC
Action for Children NC will host a day of advocacy at the NC General Assembly, training on key issues, special guest speakers.
05/17/12 SAFE ALTERNATIVES FOR FUTURE ENERGY CAROLINAS MEETING
The time will be 6:30 PM and the location is Wall Street Coffee Shop in downtown Asheville. We are concerned citizens from WNC collaborating to STOP the WS Lee Nuclear Plant in Gaffney, SC, just 60 miles from Asheville. ALL ARE WELCOME. For more info contact: Laura at Lsredoak@gmail.com or Kris at krissysjake@gmail.com.
05/18/12 WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEETING
The next WNC PSR monthly meeting will be at a private home near the VA Hospital. Brown Bag lunch at noon with meeting from 12:30 to 2 PM. Everyone is welcome. Please go to www.wncpsr.org for more information, which includes how to get there and other details.
05/19/12 - 05/21/12 NATO 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.” G-8 SUMMIT MOVED TO CAMP DAVID.
05/19/12 BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE – COMMEMORATING THE NAKBA
Al-Awda and the Muslim American Society (MAS) of Charlotte would like to invite you to “Beautiful Resistance”- Commemorating the Nakba Through Theatre and the Arts, with Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour. This will be held at the MAS Center at 4301 Shamrock Drive in Charlotte. Time is 6 PM. For more information: Khalid Hijazi at sumood67@yahoo.com.
05/20/12 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN MEETING
No further information.
05/17/12 CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY DAY IN NC
Action for Children NC will host a day of advocacy at the NC General Assembly, training on key issues, special guest speakers.
05/17/12 SAFE ALTERNATIVES FOR FUTURE ENERGY CAROLINAS MEETING
The time will be 6:30 PM and the location is Wall Street Coffee Shop in downtown Asheville. We are concerned citizens from WNC collaborating to STOP the WS Lee Nuclear Plant in Gaffney, SC, just 60 miles from Asheville. ALL ARE WELCOME. For more info contact: Laura at Lsredoak@gmail.com or Kris at krissysjake@gmail.com.
05/18/12 WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEETING
The next WNC PSR monthly meeting will be at a private home near the VA Hospital. Brown Bag lunch at noon with meeting from 12:30 to 2 PM. Everyone is welcome. Please go to www.wncpsr.org for more information, which includes how to get there and other details.
05/19/12 - 05/21/12 NATO 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.” G-8 SUMMIT MOVED TO CAMP DAVID.
05/19/12 BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE – COMMEMORATING THE NAKBA
Al-Awda and the Muslim American Society (MAS) of Charlotte would like to invite you to “Beautiful Resistance”- Commemorating the Nakba Through Theatre and the Arts, with Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour. This will be held at the MAS Center at 4301 Shamrock Drive in Charlotte. Time is 6 PM. For more information: Khalid Hijazi at sumood67@yahoo.com.
05/20/12 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN MEETING
No further information.
05/20/12 ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE MEETING
The next platform meeting will celebrate the founding of the Ethical Culture movement (May 15, 1876) with "Ethical Heroes – From Jacob Riis to Eleanor Roosevelt" presented in reader theater style Sunday, May 20th, 2:00-3:30 PM, at the Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road in North Asheville. The play written by Ethical Society of Boston member, Stanley Wayne, features seven ethical heroes and will be performed by members of the Ethical Society of Asheville. There will be a discussion period following the presentation. Following the meeting, there will be time for informal conversation. All are welcome!
05/20/12 HOMEWARD BOUND FUNDRAISER
Paul Robeson through His Words & Music will be performed by Derrick McQueen at NC Stage Company 15 Stage Lane (off Walnut St., across from Zambra) in Asheville. Tickets $50. Time is 5:15 for refreshments and 6 PM for the preformance. Go to www.hbofa.org or 828 258-1695 x254 for more information. Indicate “Tickets” in the purpose line if you donate online.
05/20/12 BEAUTIFUL ACTS OF RESISTANCE
Charlotte Friends Meeting would like to invite you to “Beautiful Acts of Resistance” talk. The program will include a light breakfast, along with a brief description of Al-Rowwad's activities and conversation with Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour. Time will be 8:45 to 9:45 AM at Charlotte Friends Meeting at 570 W. Rocky River Road in Charlotte. More information at jwilda@yahoo.com.
05/23/12 SAFE SCHOOLS FOR ALL COALITION MEETING
Safe Schools for All Coalition is a local coalition of organizations and individuals that meets four times a year to collaborate on ways to educate about bullying in our community. The next meeting is Wednesday, May 23 at Buncombe County Central Office. The coalition highly recommends the viewing of the movie Bully, which is rated PG13. Now showing at Carmike theatres, it is a great way to start a conversation about perpetrators, targets, bystanders and advocates with tweens and teens. For more information, contact Deborah Miles at dmiles@unca.edu.
05/26/12 OCCUPY MEMORIAL DAY
From 12 to 3 PM, there will be music, info tables from several Occupy Asheville working groups and the Really, Really Free Market. Donations will be accepted and split between the Beloved House and the Occupy Asheville arrestees who face court costs and fines. A General Assembly will follow this event.
06/02/12 VETERANS FOR PEACE FILM SHOWING
The film "Hidden Battles" will be shown by WNC Veterans for Peace, Chapter 099 at the North Asheville Public Library. Time to be announced.
06/03/12 ASHEVILLE LISTENING PROJECT
This is a community conversation on public safety called “Do You Feel Safe in Your Community?” will feature Asheville Police Chief William Anderson and Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan, with respondents from the African-American, Latino, GLBTQ, and Neighborhood Watch communities. The presentations and conversation among the panelists will be followed by facilitated small group conversation among all present, in the manner of the Listening Project. The program will take place on Sunday evening, June 3rd, from 7-9 PM at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Avenue, Asheville, 28804. It is free and open to the public.
06/02/12 to 06/06/12 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL WEEK
The Alliance for Appalachia's "End Mountaintop Removal Week" will be in Washington DC this June 2-6th, 2012. http://ilovemountains.org/wiw
06/14/12 OCCUPY HENDERSONVILLE CAMP
This camp will run from 6-14-12 to 6-17-12. More information on their Facebook page.
08/08/12 - 08/12/12 VFP NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MIAMI FL
09/03/12 DNC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHARLOTTE
This event goes until 09/08/12. 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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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 on the first and third Sundays.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square, Vance Monument
Occupy Asheville Meet Talk Act Nonviolent Affinity Group meets at 4:30 PM at the Chocolate Lounge (second floor) at 10 South Lexington in Asheville. Contact earthsun2@gmail.com for more info.
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 City Hall 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://www.occupyasheville.org/events/
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