Sunday, May 29, 2016

Upcoming events for the week of May 29, 2016


The above peace dove came in an email from WNC 4 Peace.


UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR BY DANCEWATER

05/30/16 MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY BY VETERANS FOR PEACE
Please join your fellow VFPers and others next Monday, May 30 (Memorial Day) at the downtown Veterans' Memorial at Pack Square (to the left of the main stage). The ceremony will start at 10 AM and will be approximately 30 minutes long. It will include music, song, poetry, prayer and presentation of the VFP wreath. We commemorate those who have suffered and died in past wars but concentrate on expressing our commitment to bringing about peace in our time and for all time. Please invite your friends as well.

05/31/16 MUDDY WATER WATCH TRAINING DATES
The French Broad Riverkeeper and riverkeepers around North Carolina previously held dozens of Muddy Water Watch training programs around the state, training more than 150 volunteers and reporting hundreds of sediment runoff instances from construction sites. “The Muddy Water Watch program is a great way for people to have an immediate impact that benefits our local environment and water quality,” Carson said. “Western North Carolina’s rivers are some of our greatest treasures and economic assets. Both locals and visitors paddle, fish and play in these waters and we need to protect them.” Time is 5 to 8 PM and location is Haywood Community College, Regional High Technology Center, room 3021 at 112 Industrial Park Drive in Waynesville.

05/31/16 SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups educating and organizing white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice. Asheville SURJ hosts a weekly discussion group on risk-taking, accountability, mutual interest and how to call more white people into racial justice work. Anyone with a passion for working with white people on racial justice is welcome. Time is 10 AM and location is Firestorm Cafe & Books at 610 Haywood Road in west Asheville. Contact Firestorm at info@firestorm.coop for more information.

06/01/16 SIERRA CLUB MEETING / GREEN DRINKS
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, Danny Bernstein visited 71 park units in the Southeast and wrote the book “Forests, Alligators, Battlefields: My Journey through the National Parks of the South”. After the Sierra Club talk and slideshow, Danny will sign books and donate two dollars per book as she does at all non-profit group presentation. (Cash or checks only, no credit cards, please.)  Meeting starts at 7 PM and location is the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Edwin and Charlotte Streets in north Asheville. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Judy at judymattox@sbcglobal.net or call 828-683-2176.

06/02/16 FUNDRAISER FOR JUST US UNITED
On Thursday, June 2nd, Just Us United will hold a Speakeasy Soirée at Lex 18 from 6 to 8 PM. The event will consist of an auction and fundraiser, with live music, food, drinks, and guest speakers participating. Businesses across Western North Carolina will be helping to make sure this event is a success by sponsoring our fundraiser, or making in-kind donations. Funds from our 2016 Speakeasy Soirée would allow us to hire the necessary field staff to run a campaign in house district 118. Throughout this campaign we will engage and educate voters through phone calls, door to door contacts, mailers, and media, to elect a representative who promotes policies that are in line with the needs of North Carolina families. Just Us United is a nonprofit based in Western North Carolina that engages in a combination of voter engagement, community outreach, legislative accountability, and advocacy, with the goal of promoting policies that support North Carolina families. We are committed to accomplishing our five point plan in North Carolina: improving public education, expanding access to affordable health care, promoting safe energy alternatives, supporting fair tax reform for the middle class, and restoring competitive democracy to our state. For more information, including how to register, contact kelsey.tavares@justusunited.org.

06/02/16 CREATION CARE ALLIANCE MEETING
Creation Care Alliance General Meeting will be from 5:30 - 7 PM at First Baptist Church of Asheville at 5 Oak Street, room MB306 (upstairs). Join us as we inspire one another to good work, hear about summer opportunities and our work empowering care for creation.  We will connect with one another, explore ways to care for creation. Following our regular meeting is a Potluck Dinner with Rev. Jim Antal and the Green Team of First Congregational Church. For more information contact Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina at creationcare@mountaintrue.org or call 828-258-8737.

06/02/16 DOCUMENTARY ON 9/11 MYTHS
On the evening of Thursday, June 2, Richard Gage of “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth” will be making a presentation here in Asheville. Richard will be screening a new documentary focusing on the testimonies of Firefighters on 9/11, called “Firefighters, Architects and Engineers Expose 9/11 Myths.” Time is 7 PM and location is St. Matthias Episcopal Church at 1 Dundee Street (On Charlotte Street, downtown) in Asheville. Contact Michael at mivey67@charter.net for more information. $10 suggested donation.

06/03/16 CLIMATE ACTION WORKSHOP
Bringing hope to the climate crisis through faith and action is the purpose of the climate action workshop in partnership with the First Congregational Church. Location is 20 Oak Street in Asheville. Time is 10 AM to noon. Rev. Dr. Jim Antal is the Conference Minister and President of the Massachusetts Conference, United Church of Christ. Come to this workshop to be inspired by courageous initiatives already underway, and to consider how you and others might harness your religious communities to meet the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Email Karen Richardson Dunn at krichdunn@gmail.com for more information.

06/03/16 RURAL PRIDE SUMMIT SERIES
A day of conversations and information sharing around LGBT people, families, youth, and communities. The NC LBBT Rural Summit will be held at the Asheville Art Museum at 2 South Pack Square in Asheville. Time is 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Everyone is invited, free to the public and lunch with be served. This is hosted by the Campaign for Southern Equality, True Colors Fund, USDA, and National Center for Lesbian Rights. Must register. For more information including how to register, call 202-720-3808 or email LGBTRuralSummit@ascr.usda.gov. 

06/06/16 to 06/10/16 SUMMER SEMINAR ON ECOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
How can we think and act holistically about our interrelated challenges - ecological degradation, social inequity, and climate change - all of which find their focus around food? And for people of faith, how can we eat with a deeper sense of gratitude and communion? These are just some of the questions that will be explored in this annual 5-day course. All of this takes place in a beautiful mountain setting in one of the most diverse bioregions in the world at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa. Sponsored by the Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. More information under Wake Forest University School of Divinity. 

06/07/16 SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups educating and organizing white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice. Asheville SURJ hosts a weekly discussion group on risk-taking, accountability, mutual interest and how to call more white people into racial justice work. Anyone with a passion for working with white people on racial justice is welcome. Time is 10 AM and location is Firestorm Cafe & Books at 610 Haywood Road in west Asheville. Contact Firestorm at info@firestorm.coop for more information.

06/07/16 CURRENT EVENTS BOOK CLUB
Current events book club will discuss “The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government” by Mike Lofgren at 7 PM at Malaprops. Call Malaprops for more information. 

 06/08/16 JUST PEACE FOR ISRAEL/PALESTINE MEETING
This meeting will be at 9:30 AM at Black Mountain Presbyterian Church at 117 Montreat Road in Black Mountain. Contact Suchi at suchi1025@bellsouth.net for more information.

06/10/16 AUTHOR EVENT AT FIRESTORM
“Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better” looks at how prison tears families and communities apart, creating a rippling effect that touches every corner of our society. Through the stories of prisoners and their families, as well as her own family’s experience of her sister’s incarceration, Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans—and decimates poor communities of color—is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. The destruction does not end upon exiting the prison walls: the 95 percent of prisoners who are released emerge with even fewer economic opportunities and fewer human connections on the outside than before. Locked Down, Locked Out shows how incarceration takes away the very things that might enable people to build better lives. Time is 7 PM and location is Firestorm Cafe & Books at 610 Haywood Street in west Asheville. Contact Firestorm at info@firestorm.coop for more information.

06/11/16 PTSD TOWN HALL MEETING 
A program for all military veterans, active duty personnel, their families and supporters will be held on Saturday, June 11 beginning at 11 AM, going until 6 PM.   Location is Mission Health/AB Tech Conference Center at 340 Victoria Road in Asheville. Hosted by Vietnam Veterans of America NC State Council. Call Allan at 808.383.7877 for more information.

06/11/16 CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY MEETING
Citizens Climate Lobby meets the second Saturday of each month at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road in west Asheville. We are advocating for a Carbon Fee & Dividend, which would impose a fee on fossil fuels at point entry; this fee will be refunded to individuals and families. There is bipartisan support in Congress as this will create jobs and help grow the economy, boosting renewables. Time is 12:30 to 3 PM. For more information, contact asheville@citizensclimatelobby.org.

06/13/16 MORAL MONDAY EVENT IN SYLVA
A coalition of organizations led by the Jackson County Branch of the NAACP are coordinating a Moral Monday gathering to be held at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva on Monday, June 13, starting at 5 PM, rain or shine. Program starts at 5:30 PM. Reverend Dr. William Barber II will speak. To date, coalition partners include the Asheville, Hendersonville, Transylvania and Haywood County Branches and Working Groups of the NAACP, Liberty Baptist Church of Sylva, St. John’s Episcopal Church of Sylva, First Baptist Church of Sylva, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church of Sylva, Democracy NC, The Canary Coalition, WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility, Occupy WNC, Equality NC, WNC Jews for Justice, Jackson County Veterans Support Group, Mountain People’s Assembly and Mountain Voices Alliance. A number of organizations who are coalition partners will be setting up information tables and booths at Bridge Park. The Jackson County Branch of the NAACP will be providing voter registration forms and guidance in filling them out. Membership forms will also be available for those who may wish to join the NAACP. For more information about the event please contact Avram Friedman, 1st Vice-President of the Jackson County Branch of the NAACP, 828-631-3447.

06/14/16 OCCUPY WNC GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Occupy WNC: Corporations Ain't People! Working Group. Open General Assembly-every 2nd & 4th Tuesdays from 7 - 8:30 PM at The Sneak E Squirrel's Community Room at 1315 W Main Street in Sylva, NC. More information at (828) 351.1524.

06/15/16 GREEN DRINKS
Asheville Green Drinks is a networking party and part of the self-organizing global grassroots movement to connect communities with environmental ideas, media and action. People who are interested in environmental issues and topics meet up for a drink and occasionally listen to an expert in environment, ecology, and social justice. Location has been changing a lot lately, so call and ask where they are meeting. Time is 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Call 855-232-4723 for more information.

06/18/16  HOW DO WE FIX OUR BROKEN WORLD?
We need hope, we need change, we need justice - and we have help. In this divided world Maitreya, the world teacher, is stepping forward. His mission has begun. Mastery and his group of enlightened teachers, are here to help us reverse the damage we have done to our planet and inspired us to create a new civilization based on sharing the world’s resources and justice - the way to lasting peace. Free presentations at 2 PM at Asheville Friends Meeting at 227 Edgewood Road in Asheville NC. Please call McNair at 828-398-0609 for more information. Sponsored by Share International Southeast.

06/20/16 MUDDY WATER WATCH TRAINING DATES
The French Broad Riverkeeper and riverkeepers around North Carolina previously held dozens of Muddy Water Watch training programs around the state, training more than 150 volunteers and reporting hundreds of sediment runoff instances from construction sites. “The Muddy Water Watch program is a great way for people to have an immediate impact that benefits our local environment and water quality,” Carson said. “Western North Carolina’s rivers are some of our greatest treasures and economic assets. Both locals and visitors paddle, fish and play in these waters and we need to protect them.” Time is 4 to 7 PM and location is Madison County Public Library at 1335 N. Main Street in Marshall. 

06/20/16 UNITED 2 RESTORE DEMOCRACY
The June 20 meeting will be at the North Asheville Library on Merrimon Avenue with HB2 as the topic.

06/24/16 JUST PEACE FOR ISRAEL/PALESTINE MEETING
This meeting will be at 2:30 PM at Brooks-Howell Home on Merrimon Avenue in Asheville. Meet in the media room. We will watch “Occupation of the American Mind” then discuss how to use this powerful up-to-date documentation of the Israeli government’s contracted PR specialists marketing the hasbara (propaganda) that controls almost all of US media’s representation of the situation. Contact Suchi at suchi1025@bellsouth.net for more information.

06/28/16 OCCUPY WNC GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Occupy WNC: Corporations Ain't People! Working Group. Open General Assembly every 2nd & 4th Tuesdays from 7 - 8:30 PM at The Sneak E Squirrel's Community Room at 1315 W Main Street in Sylva, NC. More information at (828)351.1524.

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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
Showing Up for Racial Justice is from noon to 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe and Books at 610 Haywood Road in west Asheville. Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free.
Orientation session for Asheville Timebank. 4 PM at Firestorm Cafe & Books at 610 Haywood Road in west Asheville. Email help@ashevilletimebank.org for information and to register. 

WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood County Courthouse in Waynesville
French Broad Riverkeeper has a paddle-n-plant to prevent sediment erosion most Wednesdays and Saturdays. Registration required at anna@mountaintrue.org. 

THURSDAY
Political Prisoners Letter Writing at Firestorm Cafe & Books at 6 PM on first Thursday of the month. Materials provided.

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. Call 884-3435 to confirm. 
French Broad Riverkeeper has a paddle-n-plant to prevent sediment erosion most Wednesdays and Saturdays. Registration required at anna@mountaintrue.org. 

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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