The above photo is of the recent edition of War Crimes Times. If you want to read it on line, go to this link.
UPCOMING EVENTS
07/16/12 MOVE TO AMEND MEETING
Springing forward from Saturday's Take Back Democracy event, our Move to Amend followup meeting will be on Monday, July 16, 7 PM in Asheville's Unitarian Universalist Church. The specific location is to be in the lower level in the Religious Education space; please enter through either of the lower level doors on the west side or the north side of the building. Please do not enter upstairs as a large choral group will be rehearsing in the upstairs fellowship hall, so entering upstairs would be disruptive to them.
07/17/12 RUN-OFF ELECTION IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY
All precincts will be open for voting. Democrats will vote for Commissioner of Labor, and Republicans will vote for Lieutenant Governor, Commissioner of Insurance, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction and for the 11th Congressional District candidate. Unaffiliated voters who asked for an unaffiliated or Libertarian ballot in the primary will not be eligible to vote in this run-off election.
07/18/12 FIXING THE FUTURE: FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION
This movie screening and panel discussion will be held at Carmike 10 at 121 River Hills Road in Asheville and the time is 7:30 PM. What does local economic innovation look like in action? Which business models are connected to movements for environmental & social justice? Join the WNC Cooperative Alliance in exploring these questions (and more!) at a special screening of Fixing the Future, a new documentary hosted by David Brancaccio. Following the screening, audiences will enjoy an exclusive onscreen video panel with guests Bill McKibben, Majora Carter, Mike Brady and David Brancaccio. Cost to see the movie is $9.75.
07/20/12 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. All are welcome at PSR meetings. For more information on the meeting, go to http://www.psr.org/news-events/events/wncpsr-july-2012-meeting.html
07/23/12 ASHEVILLE EARTH SABBATH CELEBRATIONS
This event is hosted by NC Interfaith Power and Light. Time is 7 PM and the location is St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Charlotte Street in Asheville. Earth Sabbath Celebrations are interfaith, contemplative and experiential services which utilize community building exercises, readings from many faith traditions, music, video, ritual, movement, chant, guided meditation and other modalities to reach deep into the grief and love we feel for our Earth and help both salve and energize our spirits so we can continue the work of restoration and repair on behalf of all creation. http://www.ncipl.org/content/what_we_do/
07/23/12 SPECIAL VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
The membership of Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 voted to hold a special meeting on July 23rd, Monday night at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be at the Phil Mechanic studio in the River Arts District. The purpose of the meeting is to consider Barbara Scott's motions concerning the Israeli, Palestinian conflict. This meeting will only take up the motions concerning this topic. Only members of VFP099 (Regular and Associate) will be eligible to vote on the motions, but all people are welcomed to the meeting. Dr. Tony Bing will begin the meeting with his presentation to help the members make their decision about the motions. Fifteen to twenty minutes of discussion will follow on his presentation and then we will vote on the motions. There will be no other business brought to this meeting. We must be out of the building by 8:00 pm.
07/26/12 MINDFUL OCCUPATION MEETING
Mindful Occupation/The Icarus Project: Friends Make The Best Medicine. The next Mindful Occupation meetings are scheduled for Thursday, July 12 and Thursday, July 26th at Wall Street Coffeehouse, 6:30pm. If anyone has any questions, feedback, or wants to expand on any of these ideas, please feel free to do so. In the meantime, be well. Contact Faith at faithrhyne@gmail.com. www.mindfuloccupation.org
08/02/12 VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
Time is 6:30 PM and location is VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic Studios: 109 Roberts Street in Asheville. VFP Chapter 099: http://vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot.com/.
08/03/12 SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVIE AT UUCA CHURCH
Our next UUCA Social Justice film will be shared with Transition Asheville at 7 PM on Friday, August 3rd. “In Transition 2.0” is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localizing their economies and setting up community power stations. It’s an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding to uncertain times with solutions and optimism. In a world that is awash with gloom, here is a story of hope, ingenuity and the power of growing vegetables in unexpected places. Movie is 65 minutes. Location is UUCA Church at Charlotte & Edwin Streets in Asheville.
08/04/12 GREEN PARTY MEETING
The Buncombe County GREEN Party's business meeting is free & open to the public. It will be held from 10 AM to noon, upstairs in the Fortune Building, 729 Haywood Rd., West Asheville. Contact Ronald @ 828-LUCK-180 or Larry @ 828-225-4347 for more information.
08/08/12 - 08/12/12 VFP NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MIAMI FL
09/02/12 MARCH ON WALL STREET SOUTH – CHARLOTTE
09/03/12 DNC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHARLOTTE
This event goes until 09/08/12. 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
09/14/12 - 09/16/12 SOUTHERN GREEN LIVING EXPO
http://southerngreenlivingexpo.com/
09/21/12 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
Join us in Asheville on Friday, September 21st, 2012, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, for the 3rd Annual International Day of Peace! Peacetown Asheville and Local 099 of Veterans for Peace, Mountain Area Interfaith Forum and other groups are sponsoring this event. Contact Rachael at rachael_bliss@yahoo.com if your organization would like to be a sponsor. Sponsorship is $50.
09/22/12 GLOBAL FRACKDOWN!
07/16/12 MOVE TO AMEND MEETING
Springing forward from Saturday's Take Back Democracy event, our Move to Amend followup meeting will be on Monday, July 16, 7 PM in Asheville's Unitarian Universalist Church. The specific location is to be in the lower level in the Religious Education space; please enter through either of the lower level doors on the west side or the north side of the building. Please do not enter upstairs as a large choral group will be rehearsing in the upstairs fellowship hall, so entering upstairs would be disruptive to them.
07/17/12 RUN-OFF ELECTION IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY
All precincts will be open for voting. Democrats will vote for Commissioner of Labor, and Republicans will vote for Lieutenant Governor, Commissioner of Insurance, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction and for the 11th Congressional District candidate. Unaffiliated voters who asked for an unaffiliated or Libertarian ballot in the primary will not be eligible to vote in this run-off election.
07/18/12 FIXING THE FUTURE: FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION
This movie screening and panel discussion will be held at Carmike 10 at 121 River Hills Road in Asheville and the time is 7:30 PM. What does local economic innovation look like in action? Which business models are connected to movements for environmental & social justice? Join the WNC Cooperative Alliance in exploring these questions (and more!) at a special screening of Fixing the Future, a new documentary hosted by David Brancaccio. Following the screening, audiences will enjoy an exclusive onscreen video panel with guests Bill McKibben, Majora Carter, Mike Brady and David Brancaccio. Cost to see the movie is $9.75.
07/20/12 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. All are welcome at PSR meetings. For more information on the meeting, go to http://www.psr.org/news-events/events/wncpsr-july-2012-meeting.html
07/23/12 ASHEVILLE EARTH SABBATH CELEBRATIONS
This event is hosted by NC Interfaith Power and Light. Time is 7 PM and the location is St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Charlotte Street in Asheville. Earth Sabbath Celebrations are interfaith, contemplative and experiential services which utilize community building exercises, readings from many faith traditions, music, video, ritual, movement, chant, guided meditation and other modalities to reach deep into the grief and love we feel for our Earth and help both salve and energize our spirits so we can continue the work of restoration and repair on behalf of all creation. http://www.ncipl.org/content/what_we_do/
07/23/12 SPECIAL VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
The membership of Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 voted to hold a special meeting on July 23rd, Monday night at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be at the Phil Mechanic studio in the River Arts District. The purpose of the meeting is to consider Barbara Scott's motions concerning the Israeli, Palestinian conflict. This meeting will only take up the motions concerning this topic. Only members of VFP099 (Regular and Associate) will be eligible to vote on the motions, but all people are welcomed to the meeting. Dr. Tony Bing will begin the meeting with his presentation to help the members make their decision about the motions. Fifteen to twenty minutes of discussion will follow on his presentation and then we will vote on the motions. There will be no other business brought to this meeting. We must be out of the building by 8:00 pm.
07/26/12 MINDFUL OCCUPATION MEETING
Mindful Occupation/The Icarus Project: Friends Make The Best Medicine. The next Mindful Occupation meetings are scheduled for Thursday, July 12 and Thursday, July 26th at Wall Street Coffeehouse, 6:30pm. If anyone has any questions, feedback, or wants to expand on any of these ideas, please feel free to do so. In the meantime, be well. Contact Faith at faithrhyne@gmail.com. www.mindfuloccupation.org
08/02/12 VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
Time is 6:30 PM and location is VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic Studios: 109 Roberts Street in Asheville. VFP Chapter 099: http://vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot.com/.
08/03/12 SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVIE AT UUCA CHURCH
Our next UUCA Social Justice film will be shared with Transition Asheville at 7 PM on Friday, August 3rd. “In Transition 2.0” is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localizing their economies and setting up community power stations. It’s an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding to uncertain times with solutions and optimism. In a world that is awash with gloom, here is a story of hope, ingenuity and the power of growing vegetables in unexpected places. Movie is 65 minutes. Location is UUCA Church at Charlotte & Edwin Streets in Asheville.
08/04/12 GREEN PARTY MEETING
The Buncombe County GREEN Party's business meeting is free & open to the public. It will be held from 10 AM to noon, upstairs in the Fortune Building, 729 Haywood Rd., West Asheville. Contact Ronald @ 828-LUCK-180 or Larry @ 828-225-4347 for more information.
08/08/12 - 08/12/12 VFP NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MIAMI FL
09/02/12 MARCH ON WALL STREET SOUTH – CHARLOTTE
09/03/12 DNC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHARLOTTE
This event goes until 09/08/12. 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
09/14/12 - 09/16/12 SOUTHERN GREEN LIVING EXPO
http://southerngreenlivingexpo.com/
09/21/12 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
Join us in Asheville on Friday, September 21st, 2012, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, for the 3rd Annual International Day of Peace! Peacetown Asheville and Local 099 of Veterans for Peace, Mountain Area Interfaith Forum and other groups are sponsoring this event. Contact Rachael at rachael_bliss@yahoo.com if your organization would like to be a sponsor. Sponsorship is $50.
09/22/12 GLOBAL FRACKDOWN!
Following regional/international meetings in Marseille (The Alternative World Water Forum - March 2012) and in Rio (Peoples' Summit - June 2012) as well as discussions with many groups, there is a growing consensus among the anti-fracking movements around the world that we need a global anti-fracking day to mobilize locally and to build solidarity among our movements. The local, regional and national groups in the United States have chosen a day to do a massive national 'frackdown' in the United States - 22 September 2012.
10/07/12 PROSTEST THE WAR ON AFGHANISTAN
protest the Afghanistan War, NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, LA (no website yet). This war has been going on for 11 years.
11/08/12 - 11/11/12 LAKE JUNALUSKA PEACE CONFERENCE
The fifth annual Lake Junaluska Peace Conference, "Love in Action: the Transformative Power of Nonviolence," will draw upon the lessons of nonviolent campaigns and their leaders who discovered a force that can change the world. Participants will explore the principles and learn the applications of nonviolence as taught by Gandhi, King, and many spiritual leaders who offered this alternative paradigm for resolving conflict, achieving justice, and building peace. For more information visit us at www.lakejunaluska.com/peace
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ONGOING EVENTS
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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 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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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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FROM PEACE ACTION:
I don't find myself agreeing with the Washington Post's editorial board all that often. What used to be known as a liberal newspaper has become more and more conservative, especially on war and peace issues, over the years.
But, Monday's lead editorial was a nice surprise over my morning coffee. 13 Minutes to doomsday outlines what should be a no-brainer, the case for the U.S. and Russia to take our nuclear weapons off hair-trigger, launch-ready alert. Of course we at Peace Action want all nuclear weapons abolished worldwide, by 5:00 this afternoon if possible! But de-alerting is one of the single most effective steps we could take to reduce the danger of nuclear war.
The title of the editorial, 13 Minutes to Doomsday, refers to the time a president would have to make a decision to launch our nuclear missiles in response to a report that the US is under nuclear attack. Not a lot of time to prevent doomsday. Today, you can prevent doomsday before it's too late. To quote the Post, "the president will soon sign off on instructions to the military to implement the posture review," referring to the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, which set overall current U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Tell the President to take action to decrease the likelihood of an accidental or hasty decision to launch a nuclear attack. Over two decades after the end of the Cold War, this simple step of "de-alerting" nuclear weapons is long overdue.
Humbly for Peace,
Kevin Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action
Kevin Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action
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Subject: Don't Clinch Fracking in NC with Fractured Voting Rule
I signed a petition to The North Carolina State House which says: "No political party, by using unfair voting practices, should be allowed to push through and clinch a bill to which the majority of House members and their constituents are opposed.
Correct the vote on the override of “fracking bill” S820 and change NC’s House Rules to give members sufficient time to vote and confirm their votes before results are announced." Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://signon.org/sign/dont-clinch-fracking?source=s.em.cp&r_by=181732
Thanks!
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