Photo from an email from United for Peace & Justice
UPCOMING EVENTS
12/08/13 IRANIAN POSTER ART
“Lost Causes: The Iranian Poster Art” (23 posters) will be
at the Courtyard Gallery until December 13th. “These posters from the
Iranian Revolution were an act of resistance and creation,” says Carlos Steward
of the Courtyard Gallery. “It sought out ways in which the arts could engage
social and political concern. This period of Iranian visual culture is an archival
record of the social and political problems that were emerging. It serves as
the artistic pre-history to the Iranian Revolution of 1979. In Search of Lost
Causes teaches us more about modern Persian art and helps us understand how a
country that was heralded as a paragon of universal modernization underwent an
Islamic Revolution with a message steeped in local imagery, demanding an
idealized return to the past and to democracy.”
12/10/13 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/
12/10/13 NUCLEAR INFORMATION RESEARCH PARTY
NIRS Southeast invites you to a party and film. This will
begin at 7:30 PM at Firestorm Café & Books in downtown Asheville. The film is “The Ultimate Wish:
Ending the Nuclear Age” by Kathleen Sullivan. Film features Dr. Arjun
Makhijani, Mycle Schneider and Mary Olson. Free and open to the public,
donations accepted for Nuclear Information Resource Service. For more
information, call Mary at 828-252-8409.
12/10/14 UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
12/10/13 RIVERLINK MEETING
RiverLink will host a meeting to meet the developer and
review plans for a proposed housing project on Amboy Road. Held at RiverLink’s warehouse
studios at 170 Lyman Street
at 6 PM. Free to attend.
12/11/13 ASHEVILLE
GREEN DRINKS
Join us Wednesday December 11th at 6 PM at the Green Sage
Coffeehouse and Cafe to celebrate International Mountain Day featuring Western
North Carolina Alliance’s Ecologist & Public Lands Director, Bob Gale, and
Field Biologist, Josh KellyFor networking, socializing and Green Drink specials
please arrive early (5:30 PM). The presentation will begin at 6 PM.
12/12/13 SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
The film will be “The Next American Revolution” and will be
shown at 6:30 PM. Location is the First Congregational UCC Church at 20 Oak Street in Asheville. In the manner
of TED talks, Gar Alperovitz describes the economic system, already taking
form, that will follow corporate capitalism and state socialism. Informative
and optimistic in outlook, he shares some American economic structures, mostly
local, that are part of our national history and currently in place but
overlooked by corporate media. This will be a first showing, with others to
follow early next year.
12/13/13 SOCIAL
JUSTICE FILM AT UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
The December film will be the award-winning film
"Gasland, Part II". The time is 7 PM and the location is
Unitarian Universalist church at Edwin and Charlotte Street in Asheville. In this explosive follow-up to his
Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor
to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now
occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide). GASLAND PART II, which
premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, shows how the stakes have been
raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing
our nation today. The film argues that the gas industry’s portrayal of natural
gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells
inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and
endangering the earth’s climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In
addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox's
words "contaminating our democracy". Donations accepted.
12/14/13 KXL PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE TRAINING
Local organizers are planning trainings for the Pledge on
November 23 and December 14. These will take place at the Asheville Friends
Meeting House (Quakers) at 227
Edgewood Rd in Asheville (between Merrimon and UNCA). Time
will be 9 AM to 1 PM. This is organized by 350 Asheville, the Rainforest Action Network, and
CREDO Action. This is the Pledge: If President Obama succumbs to industry
pressure and reneges on his promise to green light the Keystone XL only if it
does not contribute to global warming (spoiler alert: it does), then citizens
will take action to hold him to his word by occupying Federal Buildings and
other key locations in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience. More information at http://act.credoaction.com/sign/kxl_pledge.
For more information on the trainings or to register for them, please contact
Debbie at dgenz@skyrunner.net or call 828-216-2018.
12/14/13 END TIMES MIXER FROM TRANSITION HENDERSONVILLE
Free! Sponsored by Transition Hendersonville Saturday, this
party will start at 7 PM and location is Bischoff Lodge at Lutheridge in Arden, NC.
Live Music with Pam and Don McMahon from Straight from the Heart and Friends.
Celebrate the end of cheap oil, the 3,000-mile Caesar salad, the half empty
glass. CELEBRATE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY that invests wisely in people, plants,
natural resources, justice and FUN! BYOB/snacks. Two live bands to dance the
night away. For information, call Diane at 696-9969.
12/15/13 CONTRA FOR CONSCIOUSNESS DANCE
This is a benefit for the Pine Ridge Reservation Nasula:
Intercultural Service Learning. Contraversial and calling by Beth Molaro.
Location is Bryson Gym at Warren
Wilson College.
6:30 PM for lesson, dance is 7 to 10 PM. Suggested donation is $5 - $25.
12/17/13 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 at 123 Kenilworth
Rd in Asheville.
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@dickandnorma.com.
12/18/13 ASHEVILLE
GREEN DRINKS
Join us at 6 PM at the Green Sage Coffeehouse and Cafe for a
presentation on Green Building Council’s “Living Building Challenge” by Emily
Coleman-Wolf, Project Architect for Padgett & Freeman Architects and
Stephens Smith Farrell of Stephens Smith Farrell Architecture. For networking,
socializing and Green Drink specials please arrive early (5:30 PM). The
presentation will begin at 6 PM. See you all there!
12/20/13 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.
Call Lew at 299-1242 to make sure this meeting was not cancelled for the
holidays.
01/06/14 FAST FOR JUSTICE
This is a fast to promote justice for the inmates of Guantanamo.
01/08/14 WESTERN CAROLINIANS
FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST MEETING
This meeting of Western Carolinians for Peace and Justice in
the Middle East will be held at Black Mountain
Presbyterian Church at 9:30 AM. Contact Beth at elizakeiser@aol.com for more
information.
01/11/14 VIGIL AND PROCESSION MARKING 12 YEARS OF GUANTANAMO IN DC
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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
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
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
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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Forever Free: The Slave Deeds of Buncombe County
October - December 31, YMI Cultural Center, 43 Market St.
This exhibit has traveled from the Register of Deeds to Pack
Memorial Library and is now at the YMI. Included in the exhibit are
original books from both the register of deeds and the clerk of court who
detail the sale and inheritance of enslaved people prior to 1865. These
resources are also available on line for student primary source document
research.
Cohabitation Records of Buncombe County
Now ONLINE
Following the Civil War, African American people who had
lived as married people during slavery, though were not allowed to marry, were
encouraged to go to the Register of Deeds and record the years that they had
been as a married couple. These were called Cohabitation Records. Two months
ago Drew Resinger began the work to have these records, now in the archive in Raleigh, digitized so that they could be brought back and
made assessable to Buncombe
County residents.
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