06/09/11 MTN PROTECTORS CAMPAIGN MEETING
For all concerned citizens who would like to help change our nuclear future and keep nuclear waste out of WNC. Meeting at 6:30 PM. For directions call Mary at 828-242-5621
06/10/11 ASHEVILLE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM
"Permaculture: The Growing Edge" is an antidote to environmental despair, a hopeful and practical look at a path to a viable, flourishing future. The film introduces us to inspiring examples of projects, and includes a visit to David Holmgren homestead, tracking deer with naturalist Jon Young, sheet mulching an inner-city garden with Hunters Point Family, transforming an intersection into a gathering place with City Repair and joining mycologist Paul Stamets as he cleans up an oil spill with mushrooms. Permaculture is a sustainable system of earth care that offers solutions to many of our grave environmental problems and a hopeful, proactive vision of change. Time is 7 PM and location is UU church in Asheville, corner of Charlotte and Edwin.
06/11/11 PIEDMONT FILM AND DISCUSSION ON TORTURE AND THE USA
"So, Should We Just Turn Away?" - June is Torture Awareness Month and Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church in Charlotte has planned an event in conjunction with Charlotte Friends Peace and Social Concerns Committee. This is event is done with support from NC Peace Action, NC Veterans for Peace and NC Stop Torture Now. They will present a film and discussion of our response to the problem of US sanctioned torture of political prisoners. Time is 7 PM. Presenters and discussion leaders are Christina Cowger director of NC Stop Torture Now and Edie Garwood of Amnesty International. The event will be at the Quaker Meeting House, 570 W. Rocky River Road, Charlotte, NC. For more information contact Mimi Davis, davisxyz@hotmail.com or call 704-499-3918.
06/11/11 RALLY AND DAY OF ACTION ON BLAIR MOUNTAIN IN WV
More information on this event here: http://marchonblairmountain.
06/13/11 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE PLANNING MEETING
Time is 6 PM and location is First Congregational Church of Christ in Asheville. Contact Rachael for more information at rachael_bliss@yahoo.com.
6/15/10 ASHEVILLECONNECTS
Held at YMI Historic Drug Store on 39 Market St. from 9 to Noon AshevilleConnects is a local initiative to strengthen the Asheville community by making good use of existing resources and tapping our
creativity. For more information & to RSVP, go to this link: http://ashevilleconnects.
06/16/11 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EVENT
Redistricting movie “Gerrymandering” will be shown with discussion afterwards. They are joining with NC for Redistricting Reform. Come and learn how redistricting will affect you. The event is free and
the time is 6 PM and location is the Reuter Center at UNCA.
06/17/11 WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MEETING
Lunch will be eaten at noon, and meeting starts at 12:30. Location is NIRS office at 45 Riverview Drive, please park on the street. This meeting is open to all, and a short program is usually included.
Please go to www.wncpsr.org for more information, which includes how to get there and other details.
06/17/11 FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE SERIES AT COMMON LIGHT MEETINGHOUSE
June l7: A Force More Powerful (Part I) - The first part of this powerful PBS documentary covers Gandhi's nonviolent campaign against British colonialism, the US civil rights movement, and South African activists' use of nonviolence against apartheid.
June 24: A Force More Powerful (Part II) -The second part covers the Danish nonviolent movement against the Nazi occupation, Poland's Solidarity movement, and the nonviolent overthrow of Pinochet in
Chile.
July 1: Bringing Down a Dictator - Inspired by the writings of Gene Sharp, the American scholar of nonviolence, a group of students organized a nonviolent movement that helped to oust Milosevic.
July 8: Pray the Devil back to Hell - Ordinary women. Extraordinary courage. This is the story of a nonviolent movement organized by the women of Liberia against the brutal regime of Charles Taylor.
July 15: Budrus - An amazing account of one family's leadership of a movement to prevent Israel's Separation Barrier from slicing the Palestinian village of Budrus in half.
July 22: The Singing Revolution - The people of Estonia had no weapons but their inspiration and their singing culture. They sang their way to freedom from Soviet domination.
Time is 7:30 PM. Location is Common Light Meeting House in Black Mountain. This is presented by Daniel O. Snyder, PhD, who is a private practice pastoral counselor in Asheville and Black Mountain. He has been studying and teaching nonviolence since l974 and since 2004 has taught a variety of workshops on peacemaking at Common Light Meeting place. Dan is offering this summer's series of films and discussions, and clinics for the purpose of helping nonviolence toward its "tipping point," supporting awareness of a force that could transform the world. To register or to find out more, email Mahan Siler at jahan222@bellsouth.net or call 828- 298-9509.
06/18/11 MTN PROTECTORS FOR A NUCLEAR FREE WNC
This event will be held at Firestorm Cafe in Asheville from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM. It will be an evening of information, music, and poetry. Music by Greg Olson and poetry by Thomas Rain Crowe. Theme is “Music and Poetry for the Earth”.
06/22/11 to 06/26/11 US SOCIAL FORUM IN DETROIT
06/22/11 to 06/25/11 WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE EVENT IN DC
http://www.witnesstorture.org/
06/23/11 to 06/26/11 WILD GOOSE FESTIVAL
Justice, spirituality, music and art in Shakori Hills, NC. More information at http://www.wildgoosefestival.
08/20/11 PROTEST THE “OTHER WARS”
Please note also that the 2nd annual BLACK IS BACK conference held last weekend in DC has called for August 20 actions to protest the "other wars," i.e. the US backed wars and corporate proxy wars on the African continent, the occupation of Haiti, the war on the Black community in the U.S., and the ever more militarized operations on the U.S. Mexican border.
10/06/11 FREEDOM SQUARE IN WASHINGTON DC
Join thousands to protest wars and injustice on the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan. Stop the machine, create a new world! http://october2011.org/
11/18/11 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH IN FT. BENNING
http://www.soaw.org/
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