Sunday, September 07, 2014

Upcoming events for this week in the Asheville area

UPCOMING EVENTS

09/08/14 MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE COUNTY MEETING
Time is 7 PM and location is North Asheville Library. Call Ruth at 232-2883 or email ruthachristie@gmail.com for more information.

09/08/14 FILM SHOWING BY CLEAN WATER FOR NC
Screening of “Gasland II” and fracking presentation, at the Mill Room, 66 Ashland Avenue in Asheville. Email sally@cwfnc.org for more info. Time is 11:30 AM to 1 PM. Sponsored by A Greener Day, Sierra Club, CWFNC.

09/08/14 TRAINING FOR SPEAKING OUT AT THE CULLOWHEE FRACKING HEARING
Training and Workshop: Speak out at the 9/12 Cullowhee Fracking Hearing! Location is the First Congregational United Church, 20 Oak St., Asheville. Sponsored by WNC Frack Free, CWFNC. Email sally@cwfnc.org for more info. From Snack, Don’t Frack group on facebook. Time is 6 to 8 PM. 

09/08/14 FUNDRAISER FOR PISGAH LEGAL
Hear about the great work that PLS does for our community. Time is 5 to 7 PM and location is King James Public House at 94 Charlotte Street in Asheville. Tickets are $15 at the door. To RSVP, contact Betsy Fedder at betsy@pisgahlegal.org or by phone (828) 210-3444.

09/08/14 TRANSITION ASHEVILLE 5TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Ever wonder what Asheville will be like 15 years in the future, when things are much better than they are now? Transition Asheville is celebrating our 5th Anniversary with an evening of socializing, visioning, and back-casting.  Spend a few minutes imagining a walk down an Asheville street and capturing what you see, smell, hear, feel, and sense.  We will tie those visions to a timeline to identify what changes need to happen when to make those visions a reality! Snacks will be provided;  bring some if you wish.  Contact us to join in setting up this fun and worthwhile chance to take a look at our future. Time is 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM and location is St. Mary’s Episcopal Church.

09/09/14 VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
Time is 6:30 PM and location is VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic Studios: 109 Roberts Street in Asheville. 

09/09/14 WILD SOUTH PRESENTATION
A presentation on the organization’s preservation efforts. Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse at 227 Edgewood Road off Merrimon. Time is 5 PM. Call 258-2667 for more information.

09/09/14 TRAINING ON REGISTERING VOTERS
Democracy North Carolina and Carolina Jews for Justice will lead a non-partisan training for volunteers interested in helping register voters and get out the vote in advance of the November 4 election. This training is free and open to the public.Voter training session from 6 to 8 PM. Free. Held at YWCA at 185 S. French Broad Avenue in Asheville. For more information, go to carolinajewsforjusice.org. 

09/10/14 WESTERN CAROLINIANS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
This meeting will be at 9:30 AM at Black Mountain Presbyterian Church.

09/10/14 FILM SHOWING BY JACKSON COUNTY COALITION AGAINST FRACKING
This is a free showing of the film “Triple Divide”. Time is 7 PM and location is Sylva Library Community Room. Sponsored by JCCAF - Jackson County Coalition Against Fracking. For more information, contact JCCAF@gmx.com. 

09/10/14 FILM SCREENING IN BURNSVILLE
Global leaders are meeting at the U.N. to talk about bold climate initiatives -- and tens of thousands of people from across the country will meet them in New York for the People's Climate March on September 21st, to make sure that talk leads to action. Adding to this momentum, 350 is bringing the world premiere of Disruption -- a brand new movie about the science, politics, and movement around climate change. This will be shown at Celo Community Center in Burnsville at 7:30 PM. No contact information.

09/10/14 THE CASE FOR SOCIALISM
Time is 6:30PM and location is Highsmith Student Union Room 222 at UNCA. 
Join the International Socialist Organization to discuss how capitalism perpetuates our oppression in the context of global issues: student debt, rape culture, racism, police brutality, imperialism, climate devastation. We want to build a socialist movement to get rid of the injustices of the status quo, capitalism. We have a world to win. This is a Facebook event, hosted by Asheville Socialists.

09/11/14 YOUTH OUTRIGHT EVENT
“Young Voices” will be held from 7:30 to 9 PM at the Asheville Jewish Community Center on Charlotte Street in Asheville. This is a free community event, for which reservations are strongly recommended. It will be a celebration of our LGBTQ youth, their straight youth allies, and all the adults who are committed to making their lives better. Reservations can be made at jim.faucett@youthoutright.org or by calling 828-772-1912.

09/12/14 UNCA HUMANITIES LECTURE
Grace Campbell will address “Human Rights & Global Justice” at the Humanities Lecture Hall. Time is 11:25 AM and admission is free and open to the public. This lecture compares several significant positions advanced in the current global justice debates, and explores some ways that both individuals and states can be responsive to injustice around the world.  

09/12/14 FRACKING HEARING IN CULLOWHEE
After requests from individuals, organizations and businesses in Western North Carolina, the Mining and Energy Commission has voted unanimously to hold a meeting in the western part of the state. This will be from 5 to 9 PM, and the location is Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Center in Cullowhee. Arrive by 4 PM to speak. The concern about fracking in the mountains was galvanized by the passage this summer of Senate Bill 786, which lifted the moratorium on issuing state permits for hydraulic fracturing for gas, possibly as soon as next spring. The MEC is expected to finalize the oil and gas rules before the end of 2014, with possible issuance of permits by spring of 2015. Comment deadline is September 30, 2014. Send comments by email to: oil&gas@ncdenr.gov. Or by mail to: Mining & Energy Commission, ATTN: Oil and Gas Program, 1612 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1612. 

ALSO: Carpool to this hearing from Asheville. Meet at Westgate Plaza close to TCBY. Time is 2 PM. There is a 20 minute window to sort out who is going with whom, so please arrive at 2 PM. 

09/13/14 HARD TO RECYCLE COLLECTION
This is run by Greenworks, and location is Madden ACE Hardware parking lot at 2319 US Hwy 70 in Swannanoa. Time is 10 AM to 2 PM. If you have questions, call GreenWorks at 828-254-1776.

09/14/14 RURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY
The Rural Heritage Museum at Mars Hill University has announced plans to open a new exhibition: “Our Story–This Place, The History of African American Education in Madison County, North Carolina: The Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School” on September 14. This exhibition traces the history of African American education in Western North Carolina, with a particular emphasis on Madison County, from Reconstruction through the period of Civil Rights legislation and the integration in the 1960s. The Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School played a large role in African American heritage and history in Madison County and Western North Carolina for a good part of the 20th century. Opening Reception is from 1 to 3 PM, and location is Montague Hall on the campus of Mars Hill University. Admission is free, and the exhibit will run until February 2015. For more information please call (828) 689-1400.

09/14/14 GET OUT THE VOTE TRAINING
A Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Training will be held from 3-5 PM. Come out and learn how to conduct a GOTV campaign, including phone banking, canvassing, and how to get your house of faith or organization involved. If you are interested in attending this training, please RSPV now, space is limited. The training will take place at the YWCA, 185 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville. Sponsored by Democracy NC and American Association of University Women (AAUW) of Asheville. For information and link to register, email info@democracy-nc.org. 

09/14/14 ANOTHER GET OUT THE VOTE TRAINING
Carolina Jews for Justice-West will host a Voter Registration Meeting at 2 PM at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave. in Asheville. The meeting will focus on action planning for voter registration. They will also be continuing their work of planning social justice initiatives in the areas of the environment, public education, voting rights, and respect for diversity. All are welcome.

09/15/14 SIERRA CLUB PAC FUNDRAISER
Sierra Club PAC fundraising event from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Grove Arcade, 5th floor, in Asheville.  It will be an opportunity to meet all of our endorsed candidates in Western NC and to help us raise the money we need to help them get elected.  You can make your check payable to "NC Sierra Club PAC" and mail it to: 15 Morning Star Drive, Leicester, NC 28748. 

09/16/14 AUDUBON SOCIETY MEETING
This will be held at the Reuter Center at UNCA. Time is 7 PM to 9 PM. 

09/16/12 WNC ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS MEETING 
The WNC Alliance for Retired Americans has changed to quarterly meetings.  So the next meeting will be the third Tuesday in September which will be the 16th, at 10 AM in the Kenilworth Presbyterian Church Parlor at 123 Kenilworth Road in Asheville. 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.

09/17/14 DOCUMENTARY AT UNCA
“Who Killed the Electric Car?” will be shown from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM at Rhoades/Robinson Hall 125 - SMART Lecture Hall. This is part of  National Drive Electric Week, September 15-21, 2014, which is a nationwide celebration to heighten awareness of today's widespread availability of plug-in vehicles and highlight the benefits of all-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric cars, trucks, motorcycles, and more. FREE and open to the public.

09/18/14 DOCUMENTARY AT UNCA
“Revenge of the Electric Car” will be shown from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM at Rhoades/Robinson Hall 125 - SMART Lecture Hall. This is part of National Drive Electric Week, September 15-21, 2014, which is a nationwide celebration to heighten awareness of today's widespread availability of plug-in vehicles and highlight the benefits of all-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric cars, trucks, motorcycles, and more. FREE and open to the public. 

09/19/14 LECTURE AT UNCA
Dr. Judson, Associate Professor, Department of History and Africana Studies, will present “The Contagion of Freedom: Anti-Slavery, Women’s Rights and Economic Justice” at 11:25 AM at Lipinsky Hall at UNCA.  This lecture looks at the three case studies to explore the ways that people in the United States caught a vision of freedom that would allow them to participate in a just and safe way in democracy. These different, but connected historical case studies include the struggle for the abolition of slavery and women's rights, the Wilmington massacre where democracy was betrayed, and the fight for economic and gender justice captured by the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909. Free and open to the public.

09/19/14 LECTURE AT UNCA
Lecture Presented By: Dr. Mullen, Professor, Department of Political Science - “Poverty & Plenty” is a lecture that examines the sources, manifestations and challenges resulting from extreme wealth and deprivation in the US. A key question considered is “What does it mean to simultaneously be a democratic republic and home to economic megaforces?’ Time is 11:25 and location is Carmichael Humanities Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public. 

09/19/14 MOVIE AT COURTYARD GALLERY
“Where the Green Ants Dream”by Werner Herzog  (West Germany/Australia 1984) will start at 8 PM. A desolate stretch of earth somewhere in the heart of Australia. A group of tribal Aborigines struggles to defend a 40,000 year old sacred site, the place where the Green Ants dream, against the bulldozers of a mining company. it is quickly apparent that tribal laws and customs and beliefs are very different than Western laws — and how the issue will be resolved is sticky indeed.This is at Courtyard Gallery in the Phil Mechanic Building in the River Arts District in Asheville. 

09/19/14 SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM AT UU CONGREGATION
On Friday, September 19th, we are screening the documentary, "Puzzles, When Hate Came to Town” at Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Edwin Place and Charlotte Street in Asheville. The film is at 7 PM. As civil rights for LGBT and other minority groups are won, violent backlashes have been known to increase. Today LGBT people are far more likely than any other minority group in the United States to be victimized by violent hate crimes. PUZZLES tells the story of a hate crime in a gay bar called Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, MA when a teenager entered and brutally attacked its patrons. As a result two different worlds collide, a homophobic hate crime offender and his victims. Puzzles explores the correlation between American economic desperation and homophobia, intolerance, and, ultimately, violence. Free, donations accepted.

09/20/14 GREEN GRANNIES SING FOR THE CLIMATE
Green Grannies Sing for the Climate at Vance Monument at 5 PM. Google "Singfortheclimate" and come out and sing with us! This happens on the third Saturday of every month. 

09/21/14 PEACE DAY AT UNCA
This will be from 12 to 10 PM and held on the main quad. There will be kids activities. No further information at this time.

09/21/14 MASSIVE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH IN NYC
Yes, there is a bus going to the People's Climate March from Asheville!  It will leave Saturday, September 20th around 7 AM, get to NYC in early evening, where we'll camp out in a church or school, do the march on Sunday and head home on the bus Sunday evening, arriving Asheville early Monday morning.  Cost is $125 per person, with some reduced fare scholarships available.  To donate to help others to go, contact dgenz@skyrunner.net. Go to this eventbrite page to register: http://tinyurl.com/PCM-Asheville-Bus. Please buy your tickets asap...the Boone bus has already sold out!  If you need one of the reduced fare seats, email mary olson at maryo@nirs.org. To make a donation so that more people can afford to go, send a check to Western North Carolina Alliance at 29 North Market Street, Suite 610, Asheville NC 28801. Put "Climate Bus" in the memo line. Please also send a "donation alert" email to Mary Olson at MaryO@nirs.org.

09/21/14 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.

09/21/14 SIERRA CLUB EVENT-DRIVE ELECTRIC WEEK
This is one of the 115+ events nationwide designed to showcase the speed, convenience, clean-air benefits and fuel savings of electric vehicles through ride-and-drives and other great activities. National Drive Electric Week celebration in Asheville will be at Asheville Public Works Parking Lot, 161 South Charlotte Street in Asheville. Time is 1 to 4 PM. Each celebration event will be led by local EV drivers and advocates and will include some combination of EV parades, test rides, press conferences, award ceremonies, informational booths, and more. At some events, people can even learn about options to charge plug-in cars with solar power. 

09/22/14 CLIMATE WEEK
By providing an international platform for government, business and civil society to work together on low carbon solutions, Climate Week NYC will show the world there are clear opportunities and many benefits in joining the global 'clean revolution'.

09/23/14 BUILDING BRIDGES 
The Mission of Building Bridges is to enable our community to confront and overcome racism through a continuing process of changing attitudes and hearts through education, conscious-ness raising, nurturing, and ongoing support. Our goal is to be intentional in respecting diversity within our community. For more information, see below in this email. 

09/25/14 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS CANDIDATE FORUM
Time is 6-8 PM and location is Asheville Chamber of Commerce at 36 Montford Avenue in Asheville. Buncombe County Candidates Forum. Join the League and the Chamber of Commerce as we host a forum for Buncombe County candidates. Forum panelists invited include candidates for the following offices: Buncombe County Board Commissioners (Districts 2 and 3), Buncombe County School Board (Enka, Erwin and Reynolds Districts), District Court Judge (District 28), District Attorney and Buncombe County Sheriff. Doors open at 5:30 PM. 

09/26/14 UNCA HUMANITIES LECTURE
Sarah Judson will address “Black Protest Thought” at 11:25 AM at Humanities Lecture Hall. Judson is an associate professor of history and Africana Studies. Admission is free and open to the public.
09/27/14 CAROLINAS HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZING CONFERENCE IN GREENVILLE
Organizations working on the front lines of poverty, violence, deportations, mass incarceration, ecological justice, labor and education are coming together to build up our numbers and coordinate our strategies. Action teams will train together to create action plans and community assemblies will converge to discuss the realities we are facing and commit to action. This is at the Enoree River Baptist Association Center at 421 Dallas Rd in Greenville, SC. Time is 9 AM to 6:30 PM. Cost: (Lunch included) is $35 for registration after 09/13/2014 (cheaper before), $15 for students. For more info call 864.735.5520 or email miaskari56@gmail.com.

10/05/14 RALLY TO EXPAND MEDICAID
WNC Health Advocates presents a Rally to Expand Medicaid at 3 PM in Pritchard Park. Learn why access to health care is important and why it saves money, how much money North Carolina is losing because of its refusal to accept Medicaid expansion, and what the price of non-expansion is in human terms. Voter registration will be held, so come on out and bring your friends. 

10/6/14 PISGAH LEGAL POVERTY FORUM
4th Annual Poverty Forum will be held at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Don't miss social justice advocate, attorney and author Sister Simone Campbell, SSS when she and NETWORK's other “Nuns on the Bus” roll into Asheville. 5:30 PM for cocktail reception; 7:00 PM for Forum. Tickets: $50/person Cocktail Reception and Forum; $15/person Forum Only. Reception Catered by Chestnut/Corner Kitchen Catering. For more details and to purchase tickets or contact Betsy Fedder at 210-3444.

10/6/14 MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE COUNTY MEETING
Time is 7 PM and location is North Asheville Library. Call Ruth at 232-2883 or email ruthachristie@gmail.com for more information.

10/07/14 VETERANS FOR PEACE BOOK CLUB AT MALAPROPS
We will meet the first Tuesday of each month at 7 PM at Malaprops, for a 1 1/2 hour discussion on a book related to a current political topic. The chosen book for October is ‘On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare’ by Noam Chomsky and Andre Vitchek. You may purchase the book at Malaprops (10% off list for all book clubs), or order on line as you wish, or check it out from the public library. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Bruce at bruceroth@charter.net.

10/16/14 LECTURE AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY
Lecture by Oralene Simmons, former Rosenwald School student, Great-great-granddaughter of the slave named Joseph Anderson, and the first African American admitted to Mars Hill College, and Susi Anderson, resident of Hawaii and Great-great-granddaughter of the slave-master of Joseph Anderson. Time TBA. This is part of the Rural Heritage Museum exhibition: “Our Story–This Place, The History of African American Education in Madison County, North Carolina: The Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School”. Location is Montague Hall on the campus of Mars Hill University. Admission is free, and the exhibit will run until February 2015. For more information please call (828) 689-1400.

10/21/14 MOVE TO AMEND EVENT
David Cobb, leader of Move to Amend Nationally, will speak in Asheville from 7 to 9 PM at Jubilee! at 46 Wall Street in Asheville. He will talk and answer questions about where we are and where we are headed. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Contact Ruth at 828-232-2883 for more information. Free and open to the public.

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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 1 PM at A-Hope on North Ann Street in Asheville.  
Youth Outright Poetry Night at United Church of Christ in Asheville at 5 PM

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 at 5 PM.

SUNDAY
Youth OUTright meeting from 4 to 6 PM at First Congregational United Church of Christ at 20 Oak Street in Asheville. Ages 14 - 23 only.

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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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BUILDING BRIDGES SESSION COMING UP

Our next session start date:

September 23 through Nov 18, 2014.

Time 7 pm - 9 pm

Location: AB-Tech, Ferguson Auditorium

http://www.buildingbridges-ashevillenc.org/#!

Our Mission
The Mission of Building Bridges is to enable our community to confront and overcome racism through a continuing process of changing attitudes and hearts through education, conscious-ness raising, nurturing, and ongoing support. Our goal is to be intentional in respecting diversity within our community.

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This came to me in a private email and supposedly this person is well-known in the eastern part of NC:

Ready the Ground: Usher Training for Demonstrations

As conditions change throughout our world, people-power actions – like rallies, demonstrations, vigils, and pickets – are increasing. Gain valuable skills to help welcome new participants and help keep our demonstrations peaceful, coordinated, and effective in bringing about positive social change.This in-depth, highly interactive training will prepare you to serve as an usher for demonstrations.

Ushers welcome people, provide good information, model the tone desired for the event, and handle any trouble (things that interfere with the operation of the event or with the clarity of its message). Ushers function in a welcoming, guidance, hospitality, and diplomacy role. They do not serve as enforcers or bouncers.

In recruiting ushers we look for friendly people who have good judgment, who can remain calm and effective in moments of excitement or stress, and who interact respectfully with all kinds of people.

Ushers welcome people, provide good information, model the tone desired for the event, and handle any trouble (things that interfere with the operation of the event or with the clarity of its message). Ushers function in a welcoming, guidance, hospitality, and diplomacy role. They do not serve as enforcers or bouncers.

In recruiting ushers we look for friendly people who have good judgment, who can remain calm and effective in moments of excitement or stress, and who interact respectfully with all kinds of people.

Each training offers six hours of preparation facilitated by experienced trainers and usher leaders.  You'll get a bit of theory and lots of experiential learning in an expertly designed workshop format.  Plus lunch, childcare, Spanish-English interpretation, and lots of chances to ask questions and learn from facilitators and each other.

Trainings available free of charge throughout the Triangle
Raleigh: September 13th, 2014. Teamsters Hall (6317 Angus Dr)
Chapel Hill: October 11th. Stone Center at UNC-CH (150 South Rd)
Durham: November 8th. Location to be announced
All trainings on Saturdays from 10 AM to 5PM.

To apply, please email readytheground@gmail.com or phone 919-834-2693.

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Demand disciplinary action for the officer who arrested an activist for distributing voting rights flyers

This Monday, while attending the Moral Mondays Labor Day action in Charlotte’s Marshall Park, local LGBT activist and former State Senate candidate Ty Turner was arrested for placing information about North Carolina’s early voting options on parked cars. In an outrageous violation of standard police procedure, the police demanded Turner not film the interaction, handcuffed him, refused to inform him of what law he broke and transported him to two alternate locations before actually bringing him to the Mecklenburg County Jail.

Join me in demanding the officer involved is disciplined for his unacceptable conduct. 


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