Yemeni artists protest drone strikes in this photo taken by Michael Shank during his recent trip to Yemen. Picture came from email from FCNL.
UPCOMING EVENTS
05/12/14 MOVE TO AMEND BUNCOMBE COUNTY MEETING
Ginny Lentz will talk about her experience going
door-to-door for the MTA “We the People Listen” campaign. All are welcome. Time
is 7 PM and location is North Asheville Library. Contact Ruth Christie at
ruthachristie@gmail.com.
05/12/14 FOOD POLICY COUNCIL WATER CLUSTER MEETING
The newly formed Water Cluster of the Food Policy Council
will hold its second official meeting to select our priority actions out of the
ideas brainstormed in the forming meeting and the first meeting. We have
identified 25 actions and consolidated them into six categories: education of
the public, investigation, working with the City, working with other clusters,
working with the general public, and events. Come join our group and help
us choose what to work on first to identify policy and propose innovative
solutions to improve local water systems as they relate to food. Time is 11:30
AM to 1 PM and location is Earthfare at Westgate in the back room.
05/13/14 SPEAK YOUR PEACE LUNCHEON
The Mediation
Center invites you to our
Speak Your Peace luncheon on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. The luncheon features Brad
Heckman, Chief Executive Officer of the New York Peace Institute one of the
nation’s largest conflict resolution services. Brad will discuss how his
work establishing the first community mediation centers in the post-Soviet
region has influenced the vision and work of New York Peace Institute. A
Peacemaker of the Year Award will be announced, and we will acknowledge winners
of our Draw Your Peace art contest for youth. Tickets are $50. For more
information, contact Valerie Collins at 251-6089 x 212 or email valeriec@mediatewnc.org.
05/13/14 VETERANS FOR PEACE MEETING
Time is 6:30 PM and location is VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic
Studios: 109 Roberts Street
in Asheville.
05/13/14 CHILD WATCH TOUR
On Tuesday, May 13, the 2014 Child Watch Tour participants
will better understand the transportation challenges faced by many low-wage
working parents as they try to meet their families' basic needs. We will
explore the individual stories and the policy decisions that define our public
transportation systems in Buncombe
County. During the
morning, participants will ride a city bus. At lunch we will hear reports from
the morning, learn about transportation policy, and have a panel discussion
with City and County staff, community volunteers, and advocates. Full day tour
from 8 AM to 1 PM costs $15. Lunch-only option is $10. For information or to
find out how to register online, please contact Jodi at
JodiF@childrenfirstbc.org or Greg at GregB@childrenfirstbc.org or call
828-259-9717.
05/13/14 EAST WEST ASHEVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE
Updates on neighborhood crime and arrests, short-term rental
zoning changes, ongoing projects and new art. Come meet your neighbors, get
connected to events and get active! RSVP or questions to
eastwestneighborhood@gmail.com. EWANA is the East West Asheville Neighborhood
Association in Asheville, North Carolina. It is a neighborhood within
West Asheville defined as the area between I-240 and the French Broad River.
Neighbors come together as EWANA to meet each other, help each other and take
collective action for a better quality of life in our historic, diverse, and
unique part of town. Time is 7 to 9 PM and location is Hall Fletcher
Auditorium.
05/14/14 WESTERN CAROLINIANS
FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST MEETING
Time is 9:30 AM and location is Black Mountain Presbyterian
Church. We will be discussing “Zionism Unsettled” (available from Presbyterian
Books online at $10), chapters 1-5. Contact Beth at elizakeiser@aol.com for
more information.
05/14/14 GREEN DRINKS MEETING
Join us Wednesday May 14th at 6 PM at the Green Sage
Coffeehouse and Cafe for a presentation about The Built Environment and Nature.
Richard Louv coined the term “Nature Deficit Disorder” in his bestselling book,
Last Child in the Woods. In our technological age, children and adults alike
are connecting online, not outdoors. According to the research, “direct
exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the
physical and emotional health of children and adults. What can we do to
reconnect our built environment with Nature? Many opportunities exist to
design our homes and landscapes to provide spaces to reconnect. Our
panelists include, Kevin Ward (Southeast Ecological Design), Chuck Marsh
(Useful Plants) and Victoria Schomer (Green Built Environments) each will
provide an overview based on their disciplines as builder/designer,
landscape/permaculture and interior design.
05/15/14 RADIATION TODAY LECTURE AT UNCA
Dr. Perry Sprawls will offer an interesting talk on
radiation in our lives today. There are different types of radiation, and with
the exception of light, it is invisible. That often gives it a mystic
characteristic and a cause for concern because of our natural “fear of the
darkness” and things we cannot see. When we become more familiar with the
radiation in our lives today, knowing its characteristics, where it comes from,
how it is used in modern society, and its effects on the human body, we can
make intelligent decisions and live in harmony with this part of our
environment. In this program we review the different types and sources of
radiation, their benefits to individuals and society, and the actions to
minimize risks. Perry Sprawls is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Emory University,
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, with over 50 years of experience
in the use of radiation for medical purposes. Free and open to the public, this
talk is offered in collaboration with the WNC IEEE. Time is 7 to 8 PM and
location is the Reuter
Center at UNCA, Room
102A. Contact Perry at olli@unca.edu for more information.
05/16/14 ENVIRONMENTAL LECTURE AT RIVERLINK
Dr. Frank Kalinowski will address “Environmental Legacies:
Politics, Policy and American National Character” from 3 to 5 PM. He is a
retired professor from Warren
Wilson College
and an author. Location is Riverlink offices at 170 Lyman Street in the River Arts
District in Asheville.
05/17/14 RALLY FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION IN HENDERSONVILLE
Can you join us for a Three County Rally For Public
Education? The NC Legislature keeps passing laws that hurt our local public
education. They've cut our teachers' salaries, removed their tenure, reduced
the number of aides and teachers, and increased class size. We expect lots of
folks to come from all three counties -- Henderson, Buncombe, and Transylvania -- to resist this terrible legislation.
We're meeting at 11AM on Saturday, May 17th, at the Henderson County Courthouse
at 200 North Grove Street.
Then we'll march to the Henderson Historic Courthouse, at 1 Historic Courthouse Square. Bring a
friend! Bring your kids! Bring a sign! Bring two signs! (Speakers include
Meredith Licht, Melissa Mauer, Dot Marlow, Robyn Pass,
Don Bryant, George Six, and Frank Gerrard.)
05/17/14 GREEN GRANNIES SING FOR THE CLIMATE
Green Grannies Sing for the Climate at Vance Monument
at 5 PM. Google "Singfortheclimate" and come out and sing with us!
This happens on the third Saturday of every month.
05/17/14 CLEAN UP THE FRENCH BROAD
Come out on May 17 to help WNCA and our friends at
Headwaters Outfitters at the 23rd annual spring French Broad River
cleanup. We’ll provide breakfast, lunch and good music! This event is free, but
spaces are limited and a reservation is required. Call Headwaters Outfitters at
(828) 877-3106 for more information and to reserve your spot.
05/18/14 MALCOLM X FESTIVAL IN GREENVILLE SC
Hours are 2 PM to 8 PM and location is Cleveland
Park (East Washington Street & Cleveland Park Drive)
in Greenville SC.
05/19/14 FIRST MORAL MONDAY FOR 2014 IN RALEIGH
No information on buses from Asheville at this time. Join us for the 1st
Moral Monday of the 2014 NC Legislative Session! Come to Raleigh and let legislators know we have not
gone away - and we will continue to pay close attention to every decision they
make. Cost is sliding scale - $20-40 with some scholarships available. We will
meet at 11:30 AM and the bus will depart by noon, returning about 11 PM.
Reservations must be made by 5 PM on Thurs., May 15. For information, email info@mountainmoralmonday.org.
05/20/14 AUDUBON SOCIETY MEETING
The mission of the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society (EMAS) is
to promote an awareness and appreciation of nature, to preserve and protect
wildlife and natural ecosystems, and to encourage responsible environmental
stewardship. EMAS hold meetings at the Reuter Center
(Room 102) on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 PM. The meeting is free and
open to the public. Contact Lew at olli@unca.edu for more information.
05/20/14 FUNDRAISER FOR HOMINY CREEK GREENWAY
Join Friends of Hominy
Creek Greenway for a gathering at Unity Church
(130 Shelburne Road, Asheville) to support YOUR greenway! Food,
beer, raffle, slackline, cornhole, scavenger hunt! Come celebrate, find out
what improvement projects we're working on and help us to raise money for those
projects! We look forward to seeing you there! Time is 5 to 8 PM.
05/20/14 THE ICARUS PROJECT
Please join co-founders of The Icarus Project and the
Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective for an open community workshop and
skill-share on practices, projects, and perspectives that empower individual
and collective healing in a crazy world. Come explore alternatives to the
traditional language and worldviews of biological psychiatry and learn about
The Icarus Project, a radical mental health support network, online community,
and alternative media project by and for people struggling with extreme states
that often get labeled as mental illness. Time is 4 to 6:30 PM and location is
Eagle Street Coffee Emporium at 39
South Market Street in Asheville. Contact radmadasheville@theicarusproject.net
for more information.
05/20/14 HEART SPEAK & EMPATHY PRACTICE GROUP
HeartSpeak & Empathy Practice Group with Cathy Holt.
Share giving and receiving empathy, and practice communicating feelings &
needs in a supportive space. Every third Tuesday from 7:30-9 PM. Drop in; love
offering appreciated. Location is 386
Kenilworth Road at Digges. For more information,
call 828-545-9681.
05/23/14 GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO
This is the first anniversary of the second time President
Obama promised to close Guantanamo
prison camp. A few individuals have been released in the past year, but more
than 150 prisoners remain - none of whom have been convicted of a crime in a
court of law.
05/23/14 STRIVE NOT TO DRIVE TRANSPORTATION STORY SLAM
This is at Clingman Café at 242 Clingman Avenue in Asheville. It begins at 7 PM and goes until
8:30 PM. No further information.
05/24/14 BENEFIT FOR ASHEVILLE
HOMELESS NETWORK
Location is Adam Dalton Distillery at 251 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville. Time is 7 to 8 PM. Peace Jones and
The Klmberley White Project will be playing.
05/29/14 MORAL MOVIE FILM SERIES
The NC NAACP in partnership with Working Films and The
Mountain People's Assembly presents: The Moral Movies Film Series. From April
through July, film screenings will occur once a month in at least 8 cities
across the state including Asheville.
The series will help build the energy and maintain the momentum of the Moral
Monday/Forward Together movement. On Thursday, May 29th, we are screening the
documentary, “American Winter” - the second of the four films in the series.
Please join us and representatives of the NC AFL-CIO for the screening and
discussion. “American Winter” is a documentary feature film that follows the
personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression. Years after the recession began, millions of
families are struggling to meet their basic needs and many formerly middle
class families are finding themselves in financial crisis, and needing
assistance for the first time in their lives. Meanwhile, the social safety net
that was created to help people in difficult times has been weakened by massive
budget cuts, creating a perfect storm of greater need and fewer resources to
help vulnerable families. The film is at 7 PM. Location is the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Asheville at Edwin Place and Charlotte Street.
05/30/14 WESTERN CAROLINIANS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST MEEING
Time is 3:15 PM and location is Brooks Howell House on
Merrimon in Asheville.
We will discuss the rest of the “Zionism Unsettled” book. Contact Beth at
elizakeiser@aol.com for more information. Contact Beth at elizakeiser@aol.com
for more information.
05/29/14 FILM SCREENING AT UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
IN ASHEVILLE
The “Moral Movies” series will continue with “American
Winter”. This is sponsored by the Mountain People’s Assembly in collaboration
with the NAACP and Working Films. The intent of the series is to ‘jumpstart
community dialogue on social, economic and environmental issues relevant to the
state of North Carolina.
There are seven other NC cities also screening films. Donations accepted.
05/31/14 ASHEVILLE
SHARE FEST
Please join us for a day filled with stuff swaps, skill
shares, entertainment, workshops, repair cafe, Seed Exchange, Collaborative Art
Projects, Pay it Forward Healers and much more. REAL Cooperative and Share
Asheville are teaming up with local organizations and projects with support
from Sharable and Center for a New American Dream to host Asheville's first ShareFest to celebrate and
support local sharing initiatives, collaborative consumption and the
preservation of the commons! This event will be completely sourced from the
community and we welcome you to participate in shaping it from start to finish.
We are looking for: Partners, coordinators, volunteers, workshop presenters,
activity facilitators, and more! Got questions? Contact
tom@realcooperative.org. Time is 11 AM to 5 PM and location is 76 Biltmore Avenue
in Asheville.
06/02/14 DINNER WITH PROGRESSIVES
Dinner with Progressives is a social outlet for thoughtful
people in Asheville NC. The gathering includes time to eat
together and then enjoy presentations which focus on solutions for a brighter
future. This happens on the first Monday of the month. Dinner is at 6 PM and
the speaker/program is at 7 PM. This will be at the Green Sage Coffeehouse and
Cafe in south Asheville.
Contact Cheryl at ctorengo@gmail.com
for more information.
06/10/14 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/.
06/14/14 TRIP TO THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
IN GREENSBORO
This trip departs from the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville Central Office,
165 South French Broad Avenue,
in the rear parking lot. Boarding the bus will happen at 6:30 AM, leaving at 7
AM. We will return to Asheville
at 6PM. There will be one stop for breakfast on the road and lunch at Williams
Cafeteria on A&T’s campus for the afternoon meal. $60 Per Person – transportation
and admission only, meals at your expense. May 30, 2014 is the full payment
deadline. This is sponsored by The A&T University Alumni Association of
Asheville. Send Check or Money Order to: A&T Asheville Alumni Chapter, PO Box 2272, Asheville,
NC 28802.
For more information contact: William Edward Young, Jr., Chapter President at
828.251.2964.
07/24/14 TO 07/27/14 VETERANS FOR PEACE ANNUAL CONVENTION
This will be held at UNCA. More information to follow.
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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 1 PM at A-Hope on North Ann Street in
Asheville.
Youth Outright Poetry Night at United Church
of Christ in Asheville at 5 PM
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
at 5 PM.
SUNDAY
Youth OUTright meeting from 4 to 6 PM at First
Congregational United Church of Christ at 20 Oak Street in Asheville. Ages 14 - 23 only.
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ACTIONS AND READINGS
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From Veterans for Peace, Chapter 099:
The 2014 International Veterans For Peace Annual Convention
will be in Asheville, NC hosted by VFP Western North Carolina
Chapter 99 from July 23-27, 2014. Volunteers are welcome to participate. For
info contact Gerry Werhan at gwerhan@gmail.com.
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are urging people to write instead of call. Of course, to us that means - call
again, call often and keep calling! Call at 202-418-1000 or 888-225-5322.
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