UPCOMING EVENTS
06/12/11 FOLD 1000 PAPER CRANES FOR JUDITH HALLOCK
Fold a paper crane and fulfill a wish: Judith Hallock, lifelong peace activist in Asheville, is dealing with inoperable brainstem cancer. Help Judith fulfill her wish for 1000 paper cranes for peace at event tonight at The Hop on Merrimon Avenue from 6 to 8 PM.
06/12/11 ASHEVILLE NOW MEETING
Asheville NOW members will meet at the Havana's Restaurant in downtown Asheville for our monthly meeting. We are planning to have a meal provided for the homeless women veterans who are able to come. Now is your time to meet and greet the women for which Asheville NOW is working to provide a permanent shelter. [Time was not specified for this meeting.]
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.
06/14/11 DEMOCRACY NORTH CAROLINA
Democracy North Carolina Cut the Strings! Summer Tour - Tues, June 14 - 6-8 pm at French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 S. Lexington Ave. RSVP to (704) 957-3105. The meeting is an opportunity to meet with other progressives, discuss the regressive, special interest bills passing through the NC Legislature and help us create a plan to “cut the strings” that connect big money corporate interests to our elected officials.
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. If you have any questions, please email Brent Laurenz at laurenz@nccve.org or call 919-783-8811, or Kathleen Balogh at kmbalogh52@gmail.com or call 828-275-8366.
06/16/11 COMMITTEE TO STOP FBI REPRESSION
As a part of a National Day of Action in Solidarity with Carlos Montes (a longtime Chicano activist and active member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression) we are showing the HBO movie "Walkout", based on the true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts. The movie will be at Firestorm Cafe & Books on June 16th at 8:30 PM. Carlos is featured in this movie. Discussion afterwards. More info here:
http://www.stopfbi.net/take-
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 17: 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! More info here: http://october2011.org/
11/18/11 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH IN FT. BENNING
http://www.soaw.org/
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ONGOING EVENTS
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 5:30 to 6 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square
WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood Country Courthouse in Waynesville.
Asheville Cop Watch meeting at 5 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square in Asheville
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the Old Courthouse 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.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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Mountain Protectors for a Nuclear Free WNC Present:
GREG OLSON and THOMAS RAIN CROWE
An evening of Music and Poetry for the Earth Firestorm Café - Saturday, June 18th
48 Commerce Street, Asheville, NC 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Mountain Protectors for a Nuclear Free WNC will be presenting an evening of information, music, and poetry at Firestorm Café. Tables will be set up to educate the audience on President Obama’s Blue
Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future and to promote an email campaign to the BRC to express our concerns about the potential transport of high level nuclear waste through our region and the possibility of a high level nuclear waste repository in our area. Original music will be provided by multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer Greg Olson and original poetry by Thomas Rain Crowe. The theme will be “Music and Poetry for the Earth”. Donations will be collected in support of the campaign and the café. www.NoNuclearWasteInWNC.com
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 5:30 to 6 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square
WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood Country Courthouse in Waynesville.
Asheville Cop Watch meeting at 5 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square in Asheville
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the Old Courthouse 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.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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Mountain Protectors for a Nuclear Free WNC Present:
GREG OLSON and THOMAS RAIN CROWE
An evening of Music and Poetry for the Earth Firestorm Café - Saturday, June 18th
48 Commerce Street, Asheville, NC 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Mountain Protectors for a Nuclear Free WNC will be presenting an evening of information, music, and poetry at Firestorm Café. Tables will be set up to educate the audience on President Obama’s Blue
Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future and to promote an email campaign to the BRC to express our concerns about the potential transport of high level nuclear waste through our region and the possibility of a high level nuclear waste repository in our area. Original music will be provided by multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer Greg Olson and original poetry by Thomas Rain Crowe. The theme will be “Music and Poetry for the Earth”. Donations will be collected in support of the campaign and the café. www.NoNuclearWasteInWNC.com
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