UPCOMING EVENTS
10/08/13 ELECTION DAY FOR PRIMARY IN CITY OF ASHEVILLE
10/08/13 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/
10/08/13 PRESENTATION & DOCUMENTARY ON US MILITARY
EXPANSION
There will be a free public presentation and documentary on US military
expansion into the Asian-Pacific region. This will be at Pack Memorial Library,
Lord Auditorium, in downtown Asheville.
Time is 7 to 9 PM. Presenter will be Kenneth Ashe, with Veterans for Peace
Chapter 099. He will speak about his 2012 trip to South Korea as
an international peace activist. The documentary will be “The Ghosts of Jeju”
which covers the struggle against the Nave base on Jeju Island.
Sponsors are Veterans for Peace Chapter 099, New South Network of War
Resisters, WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility and Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom. For more information, call 828-301-6683.
10/08/13 BANNED BOOKS WEEK
Banned Books Week Lecture with Nancy Lewis - Tuesday,
October 8th at 7 PM at the Weaverville Library – will feature Anne Frank's
"The Diary of a Young Girl" has sold millions of copies and has been
translated into dozens of different languages, becoming the most widely read
first person account of the Holocaust. It has also, however, according to the ALA, become "one of
the most commonly banned and challenged books." Retired Professor of
English and Weaverville resident Nancy Lewis will discuss how Anne Frank's
"Diary" came to be written, how it was discovered, and why it is so
frequently banned. For more information call the library at 250-6482.
10/08/13 ASHEVILLE
TOOL LIBRARY TALK
Time is 6 PM to 8 PM and location is French Broad Food
Co-op. Please join the Asheville Tool Library for a community discussion about
the new Tool Library, Tools and how this organization can serve the greatest
breadth of our community. This informal gathering will be a great opportunity
to add your two cents about what tools and services we should supply and to
learn how to get involved with this volunteer lead mission driven project.
There will be food and drink provided! Contact Librarian@ashevilletoollibrary.org
for more information.
10/09/13 GREEN DRINKS
Join us on Wednesday at 6PM at the Green Sage Coffeehouse
and Cafe for “Meet the Candidates” an evening with our mayoral and city council
candidates. This will be a great opportunity to get to know the candidates and
where they stand on environmental issue before you cast your vote. Each
candidate will start by saying a few remarks about their views on and approach
to environmental issues and what they think our environmental challenges are in
Asheville.
Mayoral candidates: Manheimer, Miall, Ramsey. City Council Candidates:
Bothwell, Lanning, Smith, Wainscott, Wisler. Time is 6 PM and location is the
Green Sage Café at 5 Broadway
Street in downtown Asheville.
10/10/13 to 10/12/13 NC NAACP STATE CONFERENCE IN ROCKY
MOUNT NC
10/11/13 FREE EMPATHY CIRCLES
Free Empathy Circles at Earthfare Westgate. All are welcome,
share the joy and comfort of giving and receiving compassionate listening. www.heartspeakpeace.com. Time is 7
to 9 PM. Contact Cathy at 828-545-9681 for more information.
10/12/13 HARD TO RECYCLE EVENT
Time is 10 AM to 2 PM. Location is Arden Presbyterian
Church, 2215 Hendersonville Road,
Asheville. Hard bulky Plastics,
Styrofoam, Electronics, Blankets, Batteries, Cooking Oil and much more.
Asheville GreenWorks has a webpage for H2R information. Questions – call
254-1776 or email info@ashevillegreenworks.org.
10/13/13 MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO
Email: nogmoasheville@yahoo.com /Twitter: @MarchAsheville/
The October date is for the SECOND March Against Monsanto. WE THE PEOPLE will
be Marching and raising our voices against this enormous threat to our GLOBAL
food supply~ see ya there for the March and the AMAZING Street festival/Rally
we have planned for after~ yes Asheville,
let's ROARRRRR!! Time is 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM and location is Pack Square.
10/13/13 POVERTY SIMULATION AT UNCA
An experience with “Walking Poor Simulation” will give you a
deeper understanding of the challenges facing the working poor in WNC. Focus on
individual and systemic challenges. This will be at UNCA Sherrill
Center and
pre-registration is required. Contact Jane at 828-274-9354.
10/14/13 KATUAH EARTH FIRST GREEN SCREEN
KEF Green Screen - Every second Monday of the month, Katuah
Earth First shows videos on relevant environmental struggles. Time is 6 PM and
location is Firestorm Café & Books.
10/14/13 MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE COUNTY
MEETING & FILM SHOWING
The DVD “The United States of ALEC” will be shown on Monday,
October 14th, at 7 PM at the North Asheville Library. This film is about the
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the most influential
corporate-funded political force of which most of us have never heard.
ALEC is a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action groups
aimed to increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.
Donations accepted. Contact Tom at 828-674-3046 for more information.
10/14/13 ASHEVILLE
CANDIDATE FORUM
The Asheville Downtown Association will be hosting a City
Council and Mayoral Candidate Forum on October 14 from 5:30-7:30 PM in The
Century Room at Pack’s Tavern in Asheville.
Candidates will be asked a series of questions regarding issues in Downtown
Asheville. The Asheville
Downtown Association’s Issues Committee will formulate questions based on what
stakeholders feel is important to Downtown Asheville and come from answers to a
two-question survey.
10/16/13 CORNEL WEST AT UNCA
Dr. Cornel West, author of Race Matters and Democracy
Matters, reflects on the role of race, gender and class in American society.
Professor at Union Theological Seminary and professor emeritus at Princeton University, West regularly appears on
CNN and the Colbert Report and is co-host of the progressive radio show “Smiley
& West”. Time is 7:30 PM and location is the Sherrill Center,
Kimmel Arena. This is free and open to the public.
10/16/13 GREEN DRINKS EVENT
Join us Wednesday October 16th at 6 PM at the Green Sage Coffeehouse
and Cafe for a celebration of the upcoming United Nations Day with speakers Jim
Barton and Lynn Failing representing the United Nations Association Western
North Carolina Chapter. Location is the Green Sage Café in downtown Asheville, and the time
of the presentation is 6 PM, with socializing to follow. Open to all.
10/17/13 FIGHTING BACK AGAINST VOTING SUPPRESSION
The Western Chapter of the ACLU-NC and the UNCA Chapter of
the ACLU-NC is hosting a "Fighting Back against Voting Suppression"
event on Thursday, October 17, from 7:30 PM to 9 PM at UNCA Humanities Lecture
Hall. Panelists are Christopher Brook, Legal Director of ACLU-NC, Sarah Zambon,
Education and Outreach Coordinator, LWV-Asheville-Buncombe
County and Tyrone
Greenlee, voting rights activist and Director of Christians for a United
Community. For more information contact Christopher at cbroook@acluofnc.org.
10/17/13 BENEFIT FOR LGBT ELDER ADVOCATES
The film “Before you know it” will be shown at the Fine Arts
Theater as a benefit for the LGBT Elder Advocates of WNC. Time is 7 PM on
10/17/13 and 1 PM on 10/18/13. Tickets are $10 for general admission, and $7 at
the matinee. There are an estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual
Americans over the age of 55 in the United States. These older adults
may face exacerbated challenges including heightened levels of discrimination,
neglect and exclusion. A wine and cheese reception will be held before the film
on Thursday, October 17th at 6 PM at the Blue Spiral 1. Tickets for the reception
and film will be $20. For more information, email Rebecca at
rebecca@landofsky.org or call 828-251-7438.
10/17/13 NUCLEAR INFORMATION RESOURCE SERVICES EVENT
Mary Olson, Southeast Director for Nuclear Information
Resource Services (NIRS) will give a presentation on “Nuclear Waste, Are You In
It's Path?” A new Environmental Impact Statement on our nation's nuclear waste
stored at nuclear power plants has been drafted by the NRC. It evaluates
the environmental impacts of temporary waste dumps across America until a
federal repository can be built, but unfortunately omits critical information.
This is a transportation nightmare that would run over WNC! But that's
just one of problems we face: 10 nuclear reactors ring Asheville; close enough to be harmed in the
event of a high-level waste fire. Come hear the facts from a veteran advocate
and learn how you can speak out by mail or at a NRC public hearing in Charlotte this November.
(PSR, NIRS and SAFE Carolinas are sponsoring a bus to Charlotte) Contact Laura Sorensen for more
info Lsredoak@gmail.com, Time is 6:30 PM and location is North Asheville
Library.
10/18/13 IRANIAN POSTER ART EXHIBITION AND FILMS
A groundbreaking exhibition examines three discrete but
interrelated aspects of Iranian art of the 1960s through 1980. Organized by the
Flood Gallery, Courtyard Gallery and UNCA, “In Search of Lost Causes” presents
over 125 never before exhibited works— revolutionary posters, film screenings
and black-and-white photographs—and is on view at UNCA Library and the
Courtyard and Flood Galleries at 109 Roberts Street in Asheville from Oct 17th
through November 29th, 2013. “In Search of Lost Causes: Images of the Iranian
Revolution: Paradox, Propaganda, and Persuasion” introduces American audiences
to modern Iranian art while shedding light on the many ways visual culture both
reflected and affected the 1960s and 1970s, two decades that saw dramatic
changes, including the politicization of Islam and the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Opening will be from 6 to 11 PM at Phil Mechanic Studios.
10/21/13 MINI-WORKSHOP AT MALAPROPS
Malaprop's Bookstore, downtown: introducing the handy
minibook, "HeartSpeak: Listening & Speaking from the Heart" by
Cathy Holt & Joy Smith, along with a mini-workshop. Contact Cathy at
828-545-9681 for more information. Time is 7 PM.
10/22/13 TRAPPED BY POVERTY, TRAPPED BY ABUSE
Pisgah Legal Services will hold their Third Annual Poverty
Forum featuring Kim Gandy, President and CEO of the National Network to End
Domestic Violence. This forum will explore the link between domestic violence
and poverty, and the importance of access to justice for victims. Cocktail
reception is at 5:30 PM and forum starts at 7 PM. $50 for reception and forum
and $15 for forum only. Location will be Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Contact Pisgah
Legal Services for more information.
10/23/13 HEARTSPEAK: LISTENING & SPEAKING FROM THE HEART
HeartSpeak: Listening & Speaking from the Heart with Cathy Holt, first of 4
classes at the Jewish Community Center, 236 Charlotte St. Move from conflict to
connection, learn heart coherence, hear the need behind any "no" in
this highly interactive, experiential class; $60 includes private, confidential
coaching session. To preregister: cathyfholt@gmail.com or 828-545-9681. Time is
6:30 to 8:30 PM.
10/23/13 GIRL RISING MOVIE
From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins and
the award-winning producers of The Documentary Group and Vulcan Productions,
strategic partner, Intel Corporation, and distribution partners CNN Films and
Gathr, comes “Girl Rising” - an innovative new feature film about the power of
education to change a girl – and the world. These girls are each unique, but
the obstacles they faced are ubiquitous. Like the 66 million girls around the
world who dream of going to school, what Sokha, Suma, Ruksana and the rest want
most is to be students: to learn. And now, by sharing their personal journeys,
they have become teachers. Watch Girl Rising, and you will see: One girl with
courage is a revolution. Beaucatcher Theater at 7:30 PM.
10/26/13 FREEDOM FUND & AWARDS BANQUET
Asheville Branch NAACP Annual Freedom Fund & Awards
Banquet will be a 7 PM at Tried Stone Missionary
Baptist Church
at 100 Carroll Avenue
in Asheville.
This is a celebration of their 80th Anniversary. Early reservations through
October 18 are $35 per person and $45 thereafter. Invited guest speaker is Rev.
Dr. William Barber II, president of the NC NAACP. For more information or to
purchase tickets, call 828-281-3066.
10/28/13 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. Free.
10/29/13 SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM AT UU CHURCH
On Tuesday, October 29th, there will be a screening the
documentary, "The United States of ALEC", an important film about
corporate political influence at the state and national level. This screening
is on Tuesday rather than the customary Friday. The “United States of ALEC”
reports on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of us
have never heard of – ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. A
national consortium of state politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC
presents itself as a “nonpartisan public-private partnership”. But behind that
mantra lies a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to
increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge. The
location is the Unitarian Universalist Church on Edwin Street in Asheville. The film is at 7 PM. No
charge, donations accepted.
10/29/13 CITIZENS’ CLIMATE HEARING
Join the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, WNC Alliance,
Sierra Club and WNC Green Congregations at the Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village for a Citizens’ Climate Hearing
from 5:30 to 7:30 PM to give testimony to the EPA in support of carbon limits
on new power plants. There will be food, educational opportunities and fun as
well. Come one, come all.
10/29/13 PISGAH LEGAL BENEFIT
In support of Pisgah Legal's work to end domestic violence,
clothing designer Julia Monet, or "J. Monet" and Magnolia Ray
Restaurant are hosting a
fashion show. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and J. Monet hopes
raise awareness and "spread loving, healing, joyful energy." The
event begins at 5:30 PM at Magnolia Ray restaurant just north of Asheville.
10/30/13 GREEN DRINKS
Join us Wednesday October 30th at 6 PM at the Green Sage
Coffeehouse and Cafe for a talk on “Population Issues” by, President & CEO
of Population Connection, John Seager. Population Connection’s mission
statement relates, “Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people
everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population
organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to
stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources.”
11/03/13 FIFTH ANNUAL EAT AT MIKE’S DINNER AND AUCTION
WNC Health Advocates (WNCHA) is hosting its 5th Anuual Eat
at Mike's Dinner! WNCHA is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to offer
comfort and support to people with illness and disability, to new mothers and
families, and to advocate for access to quality health care for all. Join us
for our 5th annual signature fundraiser! Ticket price of $25 includes dinner
from some of your favorite local restaurants and farms. A silent auction will
feature items from local crafters and artists. For more information call
828-243-6712. Time is 5:30 PM to 8 PM and location is First Congregational UCC
Church in Asheville.
11/04/13 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASTE MEETING IN CHARLOTTE
Invitation from WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility,
Nuclear Information Resource Service and SAFE Carolinas:
Get on the bus to speak out on radioactive waste. This will be an afternoon
departure to Charlotte from Asheville for the purpose of public comments
at the evening meeting. We started Mountain Protectors when the Dept of Energy
had the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future - to do
one thing: send comments to the BRC. We did--and it was effective! BRC staff
was very clear that Asheville
/ WNC were NOT volunteering to take the nation's high-level waste. Contact Mary
at 828-242-5621 for more information or to reserve a seat on the bus. Bus
leaves from Earth Fare at 2 PM and returns about midnight.
11/05/13 ELECTION DAY
11/10/13 FIRST ANNUAL CIDERFEST BY WNC GREEN BUILDING
COUNCIL
The WNC Green Building Council is hosting the 1st Annual
CiderFest NC. Four of Western North Carolina Cidermakers will participate
in the festival held at the Echoview Fiber Mill at 76 Jupiter Road, Weaverville
on Sunday November 10th, 2013 from 1 PM to 5 PM. WNCGBC Members $10 and
Non-members $15. Kids are FREE. Day of the event ticket cost: Members $15 and
Non-member $20. For more information about WNC Green Building Council,
CiderFest NC, or to learn how to be a cash sponsor of the event, please contact
Nina at 828.254.1995.
11/11/13 ARMISTICE DAY
11/16/13 TO 11/17/13 DRONE CONFERENCE IN DC.
Drones
Around the Globe: Proliferation and Resistance, Washington DC
11/18/13 MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE COUNTY MEETING
Time is 7 PM and location is North Asheville Library.
11/22/13 to 11/24/13 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH CONVERGENCE ON FORT BENNING
11/22/13 SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM AT UU CHURCH
The November 22nd film will be the award-winning film
"Chasing Ice". More information to follow.
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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
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
Third Saturdays – Asheville’s
Green Grannies invites the public to “sing for the climate” at Vance Monument.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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How to Submit Your Comments To The Nuclear Regulator
Commission about nuclear waste.
If you cannot attend the hearing please fax, email or mail
your comments, referencing docket NRC 210-0246.
EMAIL: rulemaking.comments@nrc.com
Secretary,
US NRC
Washington,
DC 20555-0001
Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudication Staff
FAX: Secretary, NRC 301-415-1101
Written Comment Period Ends on November 27th
FACTS TO CONSIDER for your Comments: Reference Docket ID #
NRC-210-0246
Waste Confidence Generic EIS
1) STOP MAKING NUCLEAR WASTE!
2) Mix Oxide Fuel (MOX): the waste from this technology
should not be considered in the EIS because the development and implementation
has not been completed or licensed. The waste from MOX is not the same
composition as uranium spent fuel.
3) Small Modular Reactors (SMR): the technology is not fully
developed or licensed and should not be included in the Environmental Impact
Statement.
4) Transporting nuclear waste across our United States
to temporary waste dumps is irresponsible and dangerous; these interim sites
could become final and are not made for this purpose.
5) The NRC is once again trying to con us into believing in
actions that are NOT possible: A) a repository available by 2050 B)
institutional control forever more C) replacing storage containers every 100
years forever more
6) The EIS only address one federal repository and our
current 70,000 metric tons of nuclear waste surpasses capacity at the failed Yucca Mountain.
7) Spent fuel pool leaking & contamination: Fuel pool
leaks contribute to the rampant soil and ground water contamination at nuclear
reactor sites. More than 100 reactor sites have contaminated ground water
already through routine operations. The Fukushima
site is teaching us daily what a nuclear site without an in-tact cooling system
looks like, and how it results in catastrophic levels of water contamination.
8) The metal on the outside of a highly radioactive nuclear
fuel rod will spontaneously burn if exposed to air. Once the outside is
burning, the inside (highly radioactive, 1% plutonium) will also burn. If a
fuel pool drains down, it will burn. The NRC has long known about pool risks
for decades, reporting in early 2001 that a HLRW fire could cause around 25,000
latent cancer fatalities as far as 500 miles downwind.
9) Nuclear waste should not be stored in pools for longer
than 5-10 years. NRC needs to stop allowing over crowded spent fuel pools and
require safe dry cask storage at reactor sites. An improved method of Harden
On-Site Storage (HOSS) at reactor sites must be implemented.
10) Keep the court’s ban on nuclear licensing. There is no
safe storage option for nuclear waste; there is no safe dose of radiation.
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More details at www.nirs.org Look for the page on Nuclear
Waste & Waste Confidence
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