Art by Shepard Fairey
UPCOMING EVENTS
10/14/13 KATUAH EARTH FIRST GREEN SCREEN
KEF Green Screen - Every second Monday of the month, Katuah
Earth First shows videos on relevant environmental struggles. Time is 6 PM and
location is Firestorm Café & Books.
10/14/13 MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE COUNTY
MEETING & FILM SHOWING
The DVD “The United States of ALEC” will be shown on Monday,
October 14th, at 7 PM at the North Asheville Library. This film is about the
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the most influential
corporate-funded political force of which most of us have never heard.
ALEC is a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action groups
aimed to increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.
Donations accepted. Contact Tom at 828-674-3046 for more information.
10/14/13 ASHEVILLE
CANDIDATE FORUM
The Asheville Downtown Association will be hosting a City
Council and Mayoral Candidate Forum on October 14 from 5:30-7:30pm in The
Century Room at Pack’s Tavern in Asheville.
Candidates will be asked a series of questions regarding issues in Downtown
Asheville. The Asheville
Downtown Association’s Issues Committee will formulate questions based on what
stakeholders feel is important to Downtown Asheville and come from answers to a
two-question survey. The survey will be open until Wednesday, September 25.
10/15/13 LECTURE ON NEW NC VOTING REGULATIONS
This will be with Dr. Chris Cooper and Sarah Zambon.
Location is West Asheville Library at 7 PM. Sarah Zambon is the Education and
Outreach Coordinator for the League of Women Voters Asheville-Buncombe County.
10/15/13 ASHEVILLE
CANDIDATE FORUM
The Asheville Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
will host a forum for Asheville
mayoral and City Council candidates. Meet and greet is from 6 PM to 6:25 PM and
the forum from 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM. The format will be question and answer with
each candidate giving a short opening and closing statement.
10/15/13 TRANSITION ASHEVILLE
POTLUCK
Join us for our monthly gathering over a meal of nourishing
food that we share, and brain candy for desert! This month, Jeanie Martin will
discuss the permaculture principle "Use and Value Diversity". When we
diversify the elements in our permaculture system (and diversify the
connections between the elements), we create many more opportunities for a
diversity of yields, of genetic information, as well as creating multiple
avenues for meeting our most critical needs. Don't forget your covered dish
(and serving utensil)! Location is Community Action Opportunities at 25 Gaston Street,
and time is 5:30 PM to 7 PM.
10/16/13 CORNEL WEST AT UNCA
Dr. Cornel West, author of Race Matters and Democracy
Matters, reflects on the role of race, gender and class in American society.
Professor at Union Theological Seminary and professor emeritus at Princeton University, West regularly appears on
CNN and the Colbert Report and is co-host of the progressive radio show “Smiley
& West”. Time is 7:30 PM and location is the Sherrill Center,
Kimmel Arena. This is free and open to the public.
10/16/13 GREEN DRINKS EVENT
Join us Wednesday October 16th at 6 PM at the Green Sage
Coffeehouse and Cafe for a celebration of the upcoming United Nations Day with
speakers Jim Barton and Lynn Failing representing the United Nations
Association Western North Carolina Chapter. Location is the Green Sage Café in
downtown Asheville,
and the time of the presentation is 6 PM, with socializing to follow. Open to
all.
10/17/13 EARLY VOTING STARTS
10/17/13 FIGHTING BACK AGAINST VOTING SUPPRESSION
The Western Chapter of the ACLU-NC and the UNCA Chapter of
the ACLU-NC is hosting a "Fighting Back against Voting Suppression"
event on Thursday, October 17, from 7:30 PM to 9 PM at UNCA Carmichael Humanities
Lecture Hall. Panelists are Christopher Brook, Legal Director of ACLU-NC, Sarah
Zambon, Education and Outreach Coordinator, LWV-Asheville-Buncombe County
and Tyrone Greenlee, voting rights activist and Director of Christians for a
United Community. For more information contact Christopher at
cbroook@acluofnc.org.
10/17/13 BENEFIT FOR LGBT ELDER ADVOCATES
The film “Before You Know It” will be shown at the Fine Arts
Theater as a benefit for the LGBT Elder Advocates of WNC. Time is 7 PM on
10/17/13 and 1 PM on 10/18/13. Tickets are $10 for general admission, and $7 at
the matinee. There are an estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual
Americans over the age of 55 in the United States. These older adults
may face exacerbated challenges including heightened levels of discrimination,
neglect and exclusion. A wine and cheese reception will be held before the film
on Thursday, October 17th at 6 PM at the Blue Spiral 1. Tickets for the
reception and film will be $20. For more information, email Rebecca at rebecca@landofsky.org
or call 828-251-7438.
10/17/13 NUCLEAR INFORMATION RESOURCE SERVICES EVENT
Mary Olson, Southeast Director for Nuclear Information
Resource Services (NIRS) will give a presentation on “Nuclear Waste, Are You In
It's Path?” A new Environmental Impact Statement on our nation's nuclear waste
stored at nuclear power plants has been drafted by the NRC. It evaluates
the environmental impacts of temporary waste dumps across America until a
federal repository can be built, but unfortunately omits critical information.
This is a transportation nightmare that would run over WNC! But that's
just one of problems we face: 10 nuclear reactors ring Asheville, close enough to be harmed in the
event of a high-level waste fire. Come hear the facts from a veteran advocate
and learn how you can speak out by mail or at a NRC public hearing in Charlotte this November
4th. (PSR, NIRS and SAFE Carolinas are sponsoring a bus to Charlotte at a cost of
$15) Contact Laura for more info Lsredoak@gmail.com.
Time is 6:30 PM and location is North Asheville Library.
10/17/13 FILM AT UNCA AS PART OF NO BULLYING MONTH
As part of No Bullying Month, join the Student National
Education Association in viewing the film “Bullied” followed by a discussion on
best practices. Attendees will also learn about the many free resources from
Teaching Tolerance. Time is 6:30 PM, and location is the Intercultural Center
at 114 Highsmith Student Union, UNCA.
10/17/13 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, 123 Kenilworth
Rd. 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 at dick@dickandnorma.com.
10/17/13 IRANIAN POSTERS ART EXHIBITION AT UNCA
There will be a poster exhibition and a film screening at
UNC Asheville at Ramsey Library. From 6 PM to 7:30 PM, there will be a
reception for Dr. Hamid Dabashi (Columbia
University) at the Ramsey
Library Glasshouse. At 7:30 PM, there will be a poster lecture by Dr. Dabashi.
At 8:30 PM, there will be a screening of “This is Not A Film” at the Whitman
Room. This film documents a day in the life of prisoner Jafar Panahi, banned
for 20 years from film making in Iran.
The film was smuggled out of Iran
in a USB stick hidden in a cake. Posters will be on exhibit at Ramsey Library
from October 1 through November 8, 2013.
10/18/13 IRANIAN POSTER ART EXHIBITION AND FILMS
A groundbreaking exhibition examines three discrete but
interrelated aspects of Iranian art of the 1960s through 1980. Organized by the
Flood Gallery, Courtyard Gallery and UNCA, “In Search of Lost Causes” presents
over 125 never before exhibited works— revolutionary posters, film screenings
and black-and-white photographs—and is on view at UNCA Library and the
Courtyard and Flood Galleries at 109 Roberts Street in Asheville from Oct 17th
through November 29th, 2013. “In Search of Lost Causes: Images of the Iranian
Revolution: Paradox, Propaganda, and Persuasion” introduces American audiences
to modern Iranian art while shedding light on the many ways visual culture both
reflected and affected the 1960s and 1970s, two decades that saw dramatic
changes, including the politicization of Islam and the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Opening will be from 6 to 11 PM at Phil Mechanic Studios. Hamid Dabashi,
PhD will be giving a lecture in the gallery on Oct. 18th around 7:30 PM. Oct
18th film at the Courtyard Gallery is “Chicken and Plums” which starts at 8:30
PM.
10/19/13 GREEN GRANNIES SING FOR THE CLIMATE
Green Grannies Sing for the Climate at Vance Monument
at 5 PM. Google "Sing for the climate" and come out and sing with us!
This happens on the third Saturday of every month.
10/19/13 IRANIAN POSTERS ART EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATION
There will be a poster exhibition and a presentation and a
book signing by Dr. Hamid Dabashi at 7 PM at Firestorm Café & Books at 48 Commerce St, Asheville.
Posters will be on exhibit at Firestorm Cafe & Books through October 2013.
10/20/13 ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE MEETING
“Living Green, No Longer Homeless! - A Sustainable Approach
to Addressing Homelessness” will be presented by Timothy Sadler, a local social
justice and environmental activist and entrepreneur at the Sunday, October 20th
meeting of the Ethical Society of Asheville, 2:00-3:30 PM at the Friends
Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road in Asheville. Sadler will give an overview of
Eagle Acres, a project that he is involved with that is a sustainable community
for homeless veterans of the U.S.
military. There will be a discussion period following the presentation.
Following the meeting, there will be time for informal conversation. All are
welcome! For more information contact: asheville@aeu.org or call 828 687-7759.
10/21/13 MINI-WORKSHOP AT MALAPROPS
This is at 7 PM at Malaprop's Bookstore, downtown:
Introducing the handy minibook, "HeartSpeak: Listening & Speaking from
the Heart" by Cathy Holt & Joy Smith, along with a mini-workshop.
Contact Cathy at 828-545-9681 for more information.
10/22/13 TRAPPED BY POVERTY, TRAPPED BY ABUSE
Pisgah Legal Services will hold their Third Annual Poverty
Forum featuring Kim Gandy, President and CEO of the National Network to End
Domestic Violence. This forum will explore the link between domestic violence
and poverty, and the importance of access to justice for victims. Cocktail
reception is at 5:30 PM and forum starts at 7 PM. $50 for reception and forum
and $15 for forum only. Location will be Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Contact Pisgah
Legal Services for more information.
10/23/13 HEARTSPEAK: LISTENING & SPEAKING FROM THE HEART
HeartSpeak: Listening & Speaking from the Heart with
Cathy Holt, first of 4 classes at the Jewish Community Center, 236 Charlotte
St. Move from conflict to connection, learn heart coherence, hear the need
behind any "no" in this highly interactive, experiential class; $60
includes private, confidential coaching session. To preregister:
cathyfholt@gmail.com or 828-545-9681. Time is 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
10/23/13 GIRL RISING MOVIE
From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins and
the award-winning producers of The Documentary Group and Vulcan Productions,
strategic partner, Intel Corporation, and distribution partners CNN Films and
Gathr, comes “Girl Rising” - an innovative new feature film about the power of
education to change a girl – and the world. These girls are each unique, but
the obstacles they faced are ubiquitous. Like the 66 million girls around the
world who dream of going to school, what Sokha, Suma, Ruksana and the rest want
most is to be students: to learn. And now, by sharing their personal journeys,
they have become teachers. Watch Girl Rising, and you will see: One girl with
courage is a revolution. Beaucatcher Theater at 7:30 PM.
10/24/13 CENTER FOR DIVERSITY EDUCATION LECTURE AT UNCA
I invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Delpit at UNC
Asheville with support from Center for Diversity Education and the UNC
Asheville Education Department. She will be speaking, in part, about her most
recent book “Multiplication is for White People” and how a teacher's
unconscious bias limits the opportunities for students of color. Time Is
7 PM and location is Mountain View Room, Sherrill Center UNC Asheville. For
more information email Andrea Martinez atamartine@unca.edu.
10/25/13 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. Physicians, health personnel and everyone; all are welcomed
at our monthly meetings!
10/26/13 FREEDOM FUND & AWARDS BANQUET
Asheville Branch NAACP Annual Freedom Fund & Awards
Banquet will be a 7 PM at Tried Stone Missionary
Baptist Church
at 100 Carroll Avenue
in Asheville.
This is a celebration of their 80th Anniversary. Early reservations through
October 18 are $35 per person and $45 thereafter. Invited guest speaker is Rev.
Dr. William Barber II, president of the NC NAACP. For more information or to
purchase tickets, call 828-281-3066.
10/28/13 ASHEVILLE
EARTH SABBATH CELEBRATION
The Earth Sabbath Celebrations are contemplative and
experiential services which utilize community building exercises, readings from
many faith traditions, music, video, ritual, movement, chant, guided meditation
and other modalities to reach deep into the grief and love we feel for our
Earth and help both salve and energize our spirits so we can continue the work
of restoration and repair of and with the Creator and creation. Time is 7 PM
and location is St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Asheville. Free.
10/28/13 TRANSITION ASHEVILLE
PROGRAM
Dynamic Governance Introductory Series (Part 1) will be from
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Handmade in America gallery. Whether the
results we want are profits for a business, solving a community problem, or
more effective fundraising, when we work in groups we always use some system
for steering the process toward results. Consensus often feels impossibly
lengthy, and Roberts Rules leaves people feeling marginalized or unengaged. The
Transition Asheville Common Table uses “Dynamic Governance” because it is an
energizing and efficient method for making decisions in such a way that each
participant is enabled to tale part as a unique individual on the basis of
equality. The Dynamic Governance Institute founded by Tracy Kunkler and
Michelle Smith has supported the Common Table in implementing this
transformational means of innovating new social and organizational structures.
This first session will teach you “paradigm shifting” decision-making tools and
meeting formats for committees, boards, organizations, or networks of
organizations to remain very organized and efficient, while inviting people
from a breadth of perspectives and styles to participate effectively. The
workshop will be fun and interactive; offering tools you can try right away.
This information came from Facebook.
10/29/13 SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM AT UU CHURCH
On Tuesday, October 29th, there will be a screening the
documentary, "The United States of ALEC", an important film about
corporate political influence at the state and national level. This screening
is on Tuesday rather than the customary Friday. The “United States of ALEC”
reports on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of us
have never heard of – ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. A
national consortium of state politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC
presents itself as a “nonpartisan public-private partnership”. But behind that
mantra lies a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to
increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge. The
location is the Unitarian Universalist Church on Edwin Street in Asheville. The film is at 7 PM. No
charge, donations accepted.
10/29/13 ASHEVILLE
HEARING ON EPA’S CARBON POLLUTION RULE
Join the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, WNC Alliance,
Sierra Club and WNC Green Congregations, and Climate Parents at the Cathedral
of All Souls in Biltmore
Village for a Citizens’
Climate Hearing from 5:30 to 7:30 PM to give testimony to the EPA in support of
carbon limits on new power plants. There will be food, educational
opportunities and fun as well. Come one, come all. Kids are welcome.
10/29/13 PISGAH LEGAL BENEFIT
In support of Pisgah Legal's work to end domestic violence,
clothing designer Julia Monet, or "J. Monet" and Magnolia Ray
Restaurant are hosting a
fashion show. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and J. Monet hopes
raise awareness and "spread loving, healing, joyful energy." The
event begins at 5:30 PM at Magnolia Ray restaurant just north of Asheville.
10/30/13 GREEN DRINKS
Join us Wednesday October 30th at 6 PM at the Green Sage
Coffeehouse and Cafe for a talk on “Population Issues” by, President & CEO
of Population Connection, John Seager. Population Connection’s mission
statement relates, “Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people
everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population
organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to
stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s
resources.”
11/01/13 LAST DAY FOR EARLY VOTING
11/01/13 MOVE TO AMEND EVENT - GO, GRANNY D PLAY
We want to let you know about an inspiring event that Move
to Amend Buncombe County
is sponsoring. Asheville actress Barbara Bates
Smith will bring “Go, Granny D”, her one-woman show about Doris
“Granny D” Haddock, to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville on
Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. Smith’s performance, accompanied by musician
Jeff Sebens, tells the inspiring story of 90-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock,
who blazed a 3,200-mile trail across America in 2000 for campaign
finance reform. The performance is open to the public; a suggested donation of
$10 is requested, but all are welcome. Childcare will be provided, please
call Nick Andrea at cyc@uuasheville.org by October 21. To learn more
about Move to Amend, contact Lew at 828-299-1242.
11/03/13 FIFTH ANNUAL EAT AT MIKE’S DINNER AND AUCTION
WNC Health Advocates (WNCHA) is hosting its 5th Annual Eat at
Mike's Dinner! WNCHA is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to offer
comfort and support to people with illness and disability, to new mothers and
families, and to advocate for access to quality health care for all. Join us
for our 5th annual signature fundraiser! Ticket price of $25 includes dinner
from some of your favorite local restaurants and farms. A silent auction will
feature items from local crafters and artists. For more information call
828-243-6712. Time is 5:30 PM to 8 PM and location is First Congregational UCC
Church in Asheville.
11/04/13 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION MEETING IN CHARLOTTE
Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting for
comments. The location is Hilton
Charlotte University Place in Charlotte. There will be a bus from Asheville to Charlotte.
This bus will leave Earthfare Parking Lot at 2:00 PM and return at midnight.
Cost is $15, with some scholarships available. For reservations: Mary Olson at
242-5621 or maryo@nirs.org; or contact Laura at 545-4443 or
Lsredoak@gmail.com.
11/05/13 ELECTION DAY
11/10/13 FIRST ANNUAL CIDERFEST BY WNC GREEN BUILDING
COUNCIL
The WNC Green Building Council is hosting the 1st Annual
CiderFest NC. Four of Western North Carolina Cidermakers will participate
in the festival held at the Echoview Fiber Mill at 76 Jupiter Road, Weaverville
on Sunday November 10th, 2013 from 1 PM to 5 PM. WNCGBC Members $10 and
Non-members $15. Kids are FREE. Day of the event ticket cost: Members $15 and
Non-member $20. For more information about WNC Green Building Council,
CiderFest NC, or to learn how to be a cash sponsor of the event, please contact
Nina at 828.254.1995.
11/11/13 ARMISTICE DAY
11/16/13 TO 11/17/13 DRONE CONFERENCE IN DC.
Drones
Around the Globe: Proliferation and Resistance, Washington DC
11/18/13 MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE COUNTY MEETING
Time is 7 PM and location is North Asheville Library.
11/19/13 CONCERT AND RECEPTION TO HONOR LOCAL ACTIVISTS
Charlie King and Karen Brandow are musical storytellers and
political satirists. They sing and write passionately about the extraordinary
lives of ordinary people. This Perelandra Studio Concert will be held in east Asheville on November
19th. 6 PM reception with Charlie and Karen. 7 PM Concert. Both the
reception and the concert will celebrate Asheville
area participation in the Walk for our Grandchildren and Moral Mondays. Email
hras@humanrightsaction.net or or call 314-374-7446 to arrange for tickets which
are $20 (only advance tickets available).
11/19/13 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TO TALK AT UNCA
In this talk, “From Mozart to Murder: A Holocaust Survivor
Muses About Radical Evil” Professor Walter Ziffer will relate his personal
encounters with such evil (genocide) to a number of attempts by scholars to
explain how such monstrosities come into being, considering our human genetic
potentials for such, as well as situations that trigger these potentialities to
transform into acted atrocities. Time is 7 PM and location is Lipinsky
Auditorium at UNCA.
11/22/13 to 11/24/13 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH CONVERGENCE ON FORT BENNING
11/22/13 SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM AT UU CHURCH
The November 22nd film will be the award-winning film
"Chasing Ice". More information to follow.
07/24/14 TO 07/27/14 VETERANS FOR PEACE ANNUAL CONVENTION
This will be held at UNCA.
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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 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the City Hall
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
Third Saturdays – Asheville’s
Green Grannies invites the public to “sing for the climate” at Vance Monument.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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Greenpeace is hiring two Field Organizers in North Carolina to work
on our campaign for clean energy and just, affordable rates. Are you a
tenacious strategist, primed to organize against the biggest utility company in
the country? Are you ready to join a growing movement to protect North Carolinians from powerful corporate interests? Do
you want to build power working alongside communities in the increasingly
pivotal American South? Are you ready to start NOW?
Greenpeace, alongside many other organizations, is a leader
in the fight for clean energy and just, affordable rates in North Carolina.
Even as electricity demand is flat for residential customers
and small businesses, Duke Energy is promoting additional dirty power plants so
they can increase their profits. Evidence shows that cleaner and cheaper
options exist for North Carolina.
Instead of continuing needless investments into outdated technology, Duke
Energy could save North Carolinians around 57%
on their energy bills in the next two decades by switching to energy efficiency
technologies and renewable energy resources. Join our team and help make this a
reality.
The positions are located in Raleigh and Charlotte.
For more information, and to apply, please visit:
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US
SENATE AND US HOUSE ON RECESS
OCTOBER 14 -- OCTOBER 21
SCHEDULE YOUR LOBBY VISIT NOW
WHILE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES ARE HOME
NC PEACE ACTION ED. FUND
Contact Bill Towe at billtowepa@juno.com for further
information or to let him know of your plans to visit US Senators or
Representatives.
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