UPCOMING EVENTS
MORAL MONDAYS IN RALEIGH: Across
from the legislative building (16
W Jones St) in Raleigh. Organized by the NAACP.
Contact: info@naacpnc.org. Link to Asheville bus (by
Democratic Party) on Moral Mondays: https://secure.actblue.com/page/bcdpmoralmonday.
Cost is $20.
07/15/13 DISTRICT ONE COMMUNITY MEETING IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY
On Monday July 15th, 6-7 PM at Pack Library, your Buncombe
County Board of Commissioners is coming to District One to hear directly from
constituents. This meeting will be an opportunity for citizens to share ideas,
concerns and questions with their county elected officials. Commissioners will
be there to listen and respond. We hope you will find some time in your summer
schedule to be a part. Hosted by Holly Jones and Brownie Newman.
07/16/13 MOVE TO AMEND PUBLIC PROGRAM
David Cobb, National Spokesperson for Move to Amend, will
speak on “A Call to Action against Corporate Rule” at Lord Auditorium at Pack
Library, Haywood Street,
Asheville. Doors open at 5 PM,
speaker at 5:30 PM and Q&A session at 6:30 PM. Learn about the nationwide
campaign to amend the Constitution to return corporations to their earlier
state when they were not given the rights of citizens, when money wasn’t speech
and Congress could regulate money in politics. Find out what YOU can do to help
make this happen. Light Refreshments will be served. For more information call:
(828) 232-2883 or (828) 674-3046. More information below.
07/16/13 ASHEVILLE
BEYOND COAL VIDEO RELEASE PARTY
Please come help us celebrate! Asheville Beyond Coal
campaign invites you to our new video release, featuring Asheville’s 4-star certified Green
Restaurants, French Broad Chocolate Lounge and The Green Sage! Time is 5:30 PM
and location is the Chocolate Lounge on Lexington Avenue in Asheville. Information from Facebook, no
contact information.
07/18/13 TOWARDS COLLECTIVE LIBERATION TOUR
Join us for a book tour and author event with longtime
organizer and activist Chris Crass, with the release of his new book,
"Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis,
and Movement Building Strategy." The book is for activists engaging with
dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for
visionary systemic change. It offers lessons for transformative organizing
through a firsthand look at the challenges and the opportunities of anti-racist
work in white communities, feminist work with men, and bringing women of color
feminism into the heart of social movements. Time is 6 PM and location is
Firestorm Café and Books in Asheville.
07/19/13 to 07/29/13 SUMMER HEAT AND WALK FOR OUR
GRANDCHILDREN
http://www.2013walkforourgrandchildren.org/
Contact Steve at earthsun2@gmail.com or Richard at firepeople@main.nc.us
for more information.
07/19/13 MICHAEL DANFORTH COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD LUNCHEON
Time is 1 PM to 2:30 PM and location is Kenilworth
Presbyterian Church at 123
Kenilworth Road in Asheville. WNC Health Advocates honors Laurey
Masterton with its Second Annual Michael T. Danforth Community Service Award.
Laurey is a three-time cancer survivor with an indomitable spirit. She is a
living-wage-certified employer and her company serves healthy, nutritious and
delicious food. She has given selflessly to her community and works to educate
the public about healthy food and about cancer. The cost of this event is $22,
and you can get tickets here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6870952203/
07/19/13 to 07/21/13 REGIONAL GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
CONVERGENCE
This is organized by the Move to Amend movement, and will be
held in Charlotte, NC. More information at http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/charlotte_2013_convergence
07/19/13 PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEETING
Physicians, health personnel and everyone; all are welcomed
at our monthly meetings! Bring a brown bag lunch around noon. The meeting will
officially start at 12:30 and end about 2:00 PM. DIRECTIONS: (Location is
in vicinity of Veterans Hospital) Proceed east on Tunnel Rd./US 70
(away from downtown Asheville)
to 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. For more information contact Dr. Terry Clark, Chair, 633-0892 or Dr. Lew
Patrie, 299-1242.
07/19/13 WALK FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN
This event is locally organized and is a walk from Camp David to Harper’s Ferry to the White House, where
they will join in the Summer Heat protest. See 2013walkforourgrandchildren.org
for more information. And all through walkers from Camp David to White House or
Harpers Ferry to White House should register
asap. Do this through email walkforgrandchildren@gmail.com. Please do this
ASAP. See below for more information.
07/22/13 ASHEVILLE
EARTH SABBATH CELEBRATION
The Earth Sabbath Celebrations are 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 of and with the Creator and creation. Time is 7 PM
and location is St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Asheville.
07/24/13 COMMUNITY
BUILDING & ECOLOGICAL
REGENERATION
Join Asheville Green Drinks Wednesday July 24th for a
presentation on community building and ecological regeneration! We need to take
seriously ideas like, “live locally” and “it takes a village to raise a child.”
As noted systems thinker Margaret Wheatley said, “Whatever the problem,
community is the answer.” Living locally enhances our local economy, the
quality of our food (grown locally), and it has us commute and thus pollute
less. Time is 6 PM and location is The Thirsty Monk at 92 Patton Avenue in Asheville. Come early or stay late for
community networking.
07/26/13 OUR VOICE EVENT
Nourish the Soul – Traveling Postcards. Please join us on
Friday July 26th from 1:00 – 3:00 at Homewood
(19 Zilcoa Street)
as we welcome Traveling Postcards founder, Caroline Lovell, and create handmade
works of art and inspiration to be shared with women that have experienced
sexual violence. We are so thankful to Event Coordinator and Sponsor, Lynn
Karegeannes, who is helping arrange the event and share her experience working
with Traveling Postcards. Attendees will have the assistance of local artists,
if needed, in creating their own personalized works of art with messages of
hope, healing, and empowerment. Coffee and desserts will be served. Proceeds
from the event benefit Our VOICE and Traveling Postcards. For more information or
to be a sponsor of “Nourish the Soul – Traveling Postcards”, please contact us
at (828) 252-0562. Tickets are $20 per person and can be purchased through the
link on this website: http://www.ourvoicenc.org/news/nourish-the-soul-traveling-postcards/
07/27/13 SUMMER HEAT AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Protest by 350.org.
08/07/13 SIERRA CLUB MEETING
Join us Wednesday August 7th for a presentation by Bob
Wagner and Julie Mayfield, WNC Alliance’s co-directors, who will talk about
various community efforts occurring around smart growth and transportation,
including a deeper focus on the I-26 Connector Project. Smart Growth is a set
of design principles that, among other things, encourages the development of
compact, pedestrian-friendly communities, provides transportation and housing
choices, encourages mixed-use development, and preserve and enhances downtowns
and other urban centers. Environmental, design, and transportation advocates
have long advocated smart growth, but health and aging advocates in Asheville are now picking
up the baton. Hear about their efforts and what we hope to accomplish
working with them. Programming begins at 7:00 PM. Location is Unitarian
Universalist Church at the corner of Charlotte and Edwin Streets in Asheville
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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 County Courthouse in Waynesville
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe
Police Brutality Council (discussion) at 11 AM at Firestorm
Cafe
FRIDAY
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
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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07/16/13 Organizer of National Move to Amend Campaign to
Speak in Asheville
Move to Amend of Buncombe County, the local chapter of the
national organization working to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling that
“corporations are people,” will host David Cobb, one of the national
organizers, from 5-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 16, at Pack Library in downtown
Asheville. The meeting is free and open to the public, and will include light
refreshments and an open Question & Answer session.
The 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United V. FEC
opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending on elections. Mr. Cobb
will speak on the history of the court decision and how it impacted the
elections of 2010 and 2012 and will continue to do so in the future. He will
also address ways that communities can work to abolish “corporate personhood”
and reestablish a government of, by, and for the people.
“Corporate personhood is not an inconsequential legal technicality,”
says Mr. Cobb. “The Supreme Court ruled that a corporation was a ‘legal person’
with 14th Amendment protections before they granted full personhood to African
Americans, immigrants, natives, or women.”
Move To Amend is a grass-roots organization that was
established to overturn the Citizens United decision as well as an earlier
ruling, Buckley v. Valeo, which declared that money is speech.
Fifteen states and hundreds of cities and counties around
the country have passed resolutions calling on Congress to amend the U.S.
Constitution to restrict the rights of human beings to human beings, reflecting
both the original language of the Declaration of Independence (“We the PEOPLE”)
and the original intent of the Constitution, when laws throughout the nation
barred corporations from all but a narrow range of activities. North Carolina communities that have passed such
resolutions include Asheville, Chapel Hill, Durham, Franklin, Greenville, Highlands, Raleigh,
Sylva, and Orange
County.
Doors will open for the July 16 event at 5, for sign-in and
light snacks. David Cobb will speak at 5:30. For more information about MTA Buncombe
County, contact Ruth at
828-232-2883 or at ruthachristie@gmail.com.
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July 22, 2013 – July 27, 2013 2013 Walk
for Our Grandchildren
The science is clear. We must keep the majority of remaining
fossil fuels in the ground. As NASA climatologist Jim Hansen has written,
mining the Canadian tar sands means game over for the climate.
The new State Department study “cooked the books” on the
impact of Keystone. The time is NOW for us to liberate our children and
grandchildren from fossil fuels, beginning this year with the rejection of the
Keystone XL pipeline. The buck stops at the President’s desk.
We must remind the President that stopping the Keystone XL
pipeline from being built on US
soil is one vital step which he can take unilaterally. He has spoken eloquently
in the State of the Union about our personal
responsibility to act on climate change. His words about our duty towards our
children and the future are clear: “This is our first task, caring for our
children… If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how,
as a society, we will be judged.” Our responsibility as citizens is to hold the
president accountable to his own words.
So together we walk, children and adults, from Camp David, Maryland to Washington, DC,
to tell President Obama and other policy makers that enough is enough. We must
keep the majority of fossil fuels in the ground. We demand climate action now!
Our arrival at the White House will coincide with Summer Heat, a week of
action across the nation to address global warming and carbon pollution. Washington, DC
will be at the epicenter of those efforts. We will walk in order to grow a
strong spirit of discontent and nonviolent resistance for all to draw upon who
will be engaged in this work.
The Walk itself will be a profound request and prayer for
moral vision, determination, and courage to President Obama and all national
and international policy makers. The Keystone XL pipeline must not be
constructed across United States
territory. We must do our part in trying to preserve Alberta’s boreal forest and the indigenous
lands and peoples that tar sands mining is exploiting. We must keep the vast
majority of coal, tar sands, shale oil and natural gas in the ground so that we
leave our grandchildren the legacy of beautiful land, pure water and a stable
climate, which we inherited from our ancestors.
As we walk, we look forward to talking to the people in the
communities along our route. We will be listening for their concerns and ideas
about how together we can respond to the dangers posed by fossil fuels. And we
will take their message with us to the White House.
The Walk will conclude at the White House on Saturday July
27, with ceremony and non-violent protest as we deliver our message of Climate
Action NOW to President Obama. Cost of the walk is $30 day for day hikers, $150
for through hikers, with scholarships available.
Supports of this event:
350.org
Sierra Club (both national and the Maryland Chapter)
Chesapeake
Climate Action Network
Energy Action Coalition
Environmental Action
iMatter – Kids vs Global Warming
Greater Washington
Interfaith Power & Light
Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
Maria Gunoe, 2009 Goldman Prize recipient
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Not happy about what is going on in Raleigh, then contact this guy:
Office of the Governor
20301 Mail
Service Center
Raleigh,
NC 27699-0301
Phone: (919) 814-2000
Fax: (919) 733-2120
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From NAACP:
In 1955, a young black man in Money, Mississippi, went to the store to buy some
candy. Fifty-seven years later, another young black man in Sanford, Florida,
did the same. Both trips led to a murder — one of Emmett Till and the other
Trayvon Martin.
It wasn't right when it happened in 1955, and it wasn't
right in 2012. Responding to these injustices was a focus of my address to the
104th annual convention of the NAACP tonight. I spoke of the need to keep our
convention theme in our minds and hearts — "We shall not be moved."
Here's how we do it:
Standing for justice requires courage, but I am confident we
have no shortage of that.
Courage is a group of young NAACP leaders channeling their
hurt and frustration over an appalling verdict into a decisive call to action:
to stop the violence. Whether on the South Side of Chicago, or a gated
community in Sanford, Florida, we must end gun violence, no matter
what the perpetrator looks like. It's Rosa Parks refusing to get up from her
seat, and Medgar Evers refusing to take his. Titans of our civil rights
movement who stood their ground, and who we celebrate this year on the 100th
anniversary of her birth, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. And
courage is refusing to allow two black boys to be vilified for walking while
black, and rejecting the notion that our children are seen as potential threats
instead of the loving sons and daughters we raise them to be.
Thank you,
Roslyn BrockChairman, NAACP National Board of Directors
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