Color along the Blue Ridge Parkway in October 2013.
UPCOMING EVENTS
EARLY VOTING GOING ON NOW!
10/21/13 MINI-WORKSHOP AT MALAPROPS
Monday, Oct. 21, 7pm 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.
10/21/13 COST OF POVERTY EXPERIENCE
A ‘cost of poverty’ experience will include a poverty
simulation event to educate the public on low-income issues first-hand. Held at
Biltmore Baptist
Church at 35 Clayton Road in Arden. Free, and time is 6 to 9 PM. Info and
registration at avl.mx/01q.
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.
10/22/13 ASHEVILLE
CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS
Under new business, the Asheville city council will vote on whether or
not to support a resolution to start planning a transition off of the Asheville
Coal Plant and supporting a clean energy economy. There will also be resolution
concerning civil liberties, dealing with unwarranted oppressive behaviors on
the part of police towards undocumented immigrants. Both issues need people to
support them, so come to the City Council meeting and lend your support.
Meeting starts at 5 PM and it is held at City Hall.
10/22/13 VEGAN FILM SCREENING AND FORUM
A panel forum and film screening will focus on vegan diets
for personal and planetary health. Held at Jubilee Community at 46 Wall Street in Asheville. $5 suggested
donation, time is 7 to 9 PM. Info at jubileecommunity.org.
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.
10/23/13 ASHEVILLE
GREEN DRINKS
Join us Wednesday October 23rd at 6PM at the Green Sage
Coffeehouse and Cafe for a presentation on “Asheville Beyond Coal” by local
Beyond Coal Organizer, Emma Greenbaum. 150 COAL PLANTS RETIRED! Asheville
Beyond Coal is part of a national movement to retire coal fired power plants
and move to clean, renewable energy. Let’s make Duke Energy’s Asheville coal plant #151! Presentation is at
6 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 at atamartine@unca.edu.
10/24/13 WNC CHAPTER OF UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION EVENT
We hope you can attend our UN Day Event: “WATER IS LIFE!”
This is a United Nations Day Benefit and Celebration. There will be music,
poetry and stories of water, featuring Free Planet Radio, poet-author Laura
Hope-Gill, and special guests. Location is White Horse, Black
Mountain at 105 Montreat Road in Black Mountain.
Time is 7 PM. Donation is $10.
10/24/13 REALLY SCARY MOVIE: GASLAND
Prepare for Halloween by seeing the FREE (and true) horror
documentary about fracking. All across America, rural landowners have
received lucrative offers from energy companies wanting to lease their
property. Reason? The companies hope to tap into a reservoir dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of
natural gas.” Hidden beneath these offers lie massive dangers to soil, water
supply, and humans. Josh Fox’s 2010 production has won multiple awards and
national media attention. Location is First Congregational UCC Church and time
is 7 PM.
10/24/13 MIND THE GAP TOUR
The Children First/CIS Mind the Gap tour will call attention
to issues that hinder the success of families in poverty. Donations not
requested. Info and registration at 259-9717. Time is 3:30 PM.
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. Cost is $45. 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.
10/29/13 FORUM ON ‘AFTER TRAYVON MARTIN’
Representatives of a broad group of community organizations
have come together to continue the community conversation about the law and law
enforcement in our neighborhoods. "After Trayvon Martin: Where Do We Go
From Here?" Our next forum is at 6:00 PM at the Shiloh Community Center.
We need your participation in this important community conversation. The
program will begin at 6pm and will include both small group roundtable
conversation and large group interaction with Sheriff Van Duncan and Chief
William Anderson. Our focus remains community safety. What is the role of
community members and what is the role of law enforcement in creating safe
communities? For more information email Carol at crhesq@gmail.com. Sponsored by
A-B Community Relations Council, Asheville Branch NAACP, Asheville Police
Department, Asheville Parks and Recreation, A-B Institute of Parity
Achievement, Baptist Minister’s Union, and
more.
10/30/13 ASHEVILLE
GREEN DRINKS
Join us Wednesday October 30th at 6PM at the Green Sage
Coffeehouse and Cafe for a fascinating talk on “Population Issues” by President
& CEO of Population Connection (formerly ZPG), John Seager. Learn what you
can do by educating yourself on the root cause of this critical issue. Rapid
population growth impacts all areas of human life and the environment. It
intensifies water and food shortages and wreaks havoc on ecosystems through
overfishing, deforestation, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.
Because of population growth the natural systems are necessary to our survival
are being swiftly and severely disrupted.
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 healthcare 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 at
242-5621 or maryo@nirs.org; or contact Laura at 545-4443 or Lsredoak@gmail.com.
11/05/13 ELECTION DAY
11/06/13 RESCHEDULED – DR. CORNEL WEST LECTURE
Cornel West has had to reschedule his public lecture at UNC
Asheville due to a family emergency. The public lecture, originally scheduled
for October 16 in Kimmel Arena, will now take place at 7:30 p.m., on Wednesday,
November 6, in Kimmel Arena at UNC Asheville's Sherrill Center.
For more information, visit the university's Cultural Events website or call
828.251.6674.
11/06/13 HOWARD ZINN READ-IN
Please join the Asheville
branch of the International Socialist Organization on November 6th at 6:00 PM
at the Pack Memorial Library (Ground Floor, Activity Room) to preserve the
incredible histories of people fighting for their rights, their lives, and a
better world. “A Peoples History of the United States” by Howard Zinn has
been a definitive text for educators, activists, and revolutionaries on the
Left for more than three decades. For more information, contact
Asheville-socialism@googlegroups.com.
11/11/13 ARMISTICE DAY
11/12/13 VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
Time is 6:30 PM and location is VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic
Studios: 109 Roberts Street
in Asheville.
VFP Chapter 099: http://vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot.com/
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 TALKS 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.
02/08/14 H K on J MARCH IN RALEIGH
All Roads Lead to Raleigh
for Historic Thousands on Jones
Street on February 8th. In 2014, Raleigh will host the
largest people's assembly yet. Thousands of people from across North Carolina, and across the United States, will assemble on Jones Street, to
protest the immoral, unconstitutional, mean spirit that has taken over the
Peoples House. Organized by the NC NAACP.
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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
14 October 2013
For More Information: Rev. Dr.
William J. Barber, President, 919-394-8137
Atty.
Irving Joyner, Legal Redress Chair, 919-682-4700
For Media Assistance: Laurel
Ashton, Field Secretary, 828-713-3864
Two days ago, on Saturday morning, to the largest civil
rights gathering in Eastern North Carolina in decades, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber,
II presented his annual "State of Civil Rights in North Carolina"
report to the North Carolina NAACP. He heaped praise on the tens of thousands
of North Carolinians who participated in the 13 Moral Mondays at the Peoples
House on Jones Street
in Raleigh to
expose the tea party's extreme legislative policies. He thanked the local
peoples assemblies that brought the Forward Together Movement into every corner
of the state, at simultaneous assemblies in the 13 U.S. Congressional Districts
at the same hour, 50 years ago, that Dr. Martin Luther King urged the 1963
participants to take the March on Washington back home in the South, to
accelerate the long, hard work of dismantling racism back home. And he
listed the dozen Moral Mondays that have been held around the state, and
several that are planned in the near future--as well as Moral Monday groups
becoming activated around the nation.
Dr. Barber did not just report to the huge crowd of NAACP
leaders, representatives from the 150 partners in the Historic Thousands on Jones Street, and
other state leaders attending the NC NAACP's 70th State Convention. As is
his practice, he laid out a vision for the work of the organization and the
Moral Monday/Forward Together Movement it leads over the next period.
The State of NC
Civil Rights in 2013 ~ by William J. Barber, II
1. Calling for a Special Redemptive Legislative Session: As
the seasons of Hanukkah and Advent begin, clergy and other people of conscience
will peaceably petition Governor McCrory to call a Special Redemption Session
during this Season of Redemption and use the power of his office to persuade
the legislators to rescind their decision to strip medicaid from 500,000 North
Carolina families and unemployment benefits from 170,000 North Carolina
families. The Forward Together Movement will work through Thanksgiving and
Hanukkah getting signatures for the petition.
2. Mass Moral Monday on December 23rd: The Moral
Monday-Forward Together Movement will gather in Raleigh
on December 23rd to either celebrate Gov. McCrory's redemptive decision or to
continue our protest as witnesses to the loss of Medicaid and Unemployment
Benefits for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians.
3. Informational Pickets at Art Pope's Stores: At the
Convention, NC NAACP passed a resolution to get approval from the National
NAACP to set up an informational picket campaign at Maxway and Roses stores,
owned by state employee Art Pope, Gov. McCrory's Budget Director. The public
education pickets will connect McCrory's Budget Director's family fortune that
he used to finance extremist campaigns by tea party politicians and the cuts
Mr. Pope made in his state budget to harm the poor and help the rich.
4. Supporting Education Justice Lawsuits: The North Carolina
Constitution guarantees all children the right to a sound basic education. The
NC NAACP will join with other civil rights and education organizations to file
lawsuits challenging the McCrory-Pope-Tillis-Berger cuts to public education as
unconstitutional.
5. Stepping up the Fight Against the Monster Voter
Suppression Bill: The Moral Monday/Forward Together Movement will fight against
the "worst voter suppression bill in the country" at our court
houses, our polling booths, and in the streets. The goal is to make
sure the Monster Voter Suppression Bill is found unconstitutional by the 2014
election.
6. Voter Registration and Education: The Moral Monday/Forward
Together Movement will do voter registration and education across the state, in
rural towns and urban cities, in preparation for the November 2014 election.
7. All Roads Lead to Raleigh
for HKonJ8 on February 8, 2014. In 2014, Raleigh
will host the largest people's assembly yet. Thousands of people from
across North Carolina, and across the United States,
will assemble on Jones Street,
to protest the immoral, unconstitutional, mean spirit that has taken over the
Peoples House.
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Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and
largest civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States
and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities.
The NC Conference of NAACP Branches is 70 years old this year and is made up of
over 100 Adult, Youth and College NAACP units across the state, convenes the
more the 150 members of the Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) Peoples Assembly
Coalition, and is the architect of the Moral Monday & Forward Together Movement.
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Nuclear Regulatory Public Hearing on Waste: Monday, Nov 4 in
Charlotte
Meeting 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Hilton
Charlotte University Pl, 8629 J.M. Keynes Dr., Charlotte,
NC 28262
A BUS from Asheville
to the meeting will leave at 2pm. from Earthfare (Westgate Parking Lot), to be
back around midnight-- $15 per seat.
We need your help to fill this bus!
WHY is this meeting / mobilization important?
The U.S. NRC has been told by a federal judge to do an
environmental impact statement on storing the most highly radioactive waste
(fuel rods after they have been removed from a reactor core). Strangely, this
"look" has never been done before because NRC had always said
"the Department of Energy is going to take this waste; it is only
temporary here and it is safe, no impact." The judge said "Not good
enough" and directed NRC to look at short term including fuel pool fires,
and to look at middle term (assuming a repository is built) and also to look at
what if there is NEVER a repository. This is the best chance that
the public has ever had to speak out on radioactive waste policy / regulation /
generation / end of generation (5 reactors closed this year, and 5 proposed
reactors have been canceled).
Contact: Mary Olson, 828-242-5621, maryo@mirs.org
(Nuclear Information and Resource Service),
http://www.nirs.org/
Contact: Laura Sorensen, 828-545-4443, Lsredoak@gmailcom
Pre-register to speak at the hearing by calling
301-287-93-92 or emailing WCRegistration@nrc.gov no later than Nov 1.
If you can't attend, fax: Secretary,
US NRC, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Rulemaking &
Adjudication Staff, Docket# 210-0246
or email: rulemaking.comments@nrc.com, docket #
210-0246
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