UPCOMING EVENTS
12/17/13 WNC ALLIANCE
FOR RETIRED AMERICANS MEETING
The Western North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans
meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at the Kenilworth Presbyterian
Fellowship Hall at 123 Kenilworth
Rd in Asheville.
Time is 10 AM. The ARA is a statewide organization of retired union members and
their friends and families. We are non-partisan and open to everyone who is
concerned about the need for jobs which pay a living wage, as well as those
issues which affect all of us. FMI contact dick@dickandnorma.com.
12/18/13 ASHEVILLE
GREEN DRINKS
Join us at 6 PM at the Green Sage Coffeehouse and Cafe for a
presentation on Green Building Council’s “Living Building Challenge” by Emily
Coleman-Wolf, Project Architect for Padgett & Freeman Architects and Stephens
Smith Farrell of Stephens Smith Farrell Architecture. For networking,
socializing and Green Drink specials please arrive early (5:30 PM). The
presentation will begin at 6 PM. See you all there!
12/20/13 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.
Call Lew at 299-1242 to make sure this meeting was not cancelled for the
holidays.
01/06/14 FAST FOR JUSTICE
This is a fast to promote justice for the inmates of Guantanamo.
01/08/14 WESTERN CAROLINIANS
FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST MEETING
This meeting of Western Carolinians for Peace and Justice in
the Middle East will be held at Black Mountain
Presbyterian Church at 9:30 AM. Contact Beth at elizakeiser@aol.com for more
information.
01/09/14 EMPATHY PRACTICE GROUP
HeartSpeak and Empathy Practice Group starting Thursday,
Jan. 9, 7-9 PM. Location is 386 Kenilworth Rd. at Digges. Drop in, love
offering encouraged. Want to learn skills of communicating and listening from
the heart? Need a safe space to practice the language of feelings and needs?
For more information contact Cathy Holt, 828-545-9681 or cathyfholt@gmail.com.
01/11/14 VIGIL AND PROCESSION MARKING 12 YEARS OF GUANTANAMO IN DC
01/14/14 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/
01/15/14 SIERRA CLUB MEETING
Chuck Pickering is the President of Agriculture and Land
Planning at Biltmore Estate. He will discuss sustainability initiatives at
Biltmore and their corporate goals of environmental preservation. Time is 7 PM
(program starts at 7:15) at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
(corner of Charlotte & Edwin). Contact: judymattox@sbcglobal.net, or
828-683-2176 for more information.
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ONGOING EVENTS
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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 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
Women in Black have a monthly vigil at 5 PM at Vance Monument
in Asheville
(first Friday only)
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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