To submit items for this resource guide, send a brief description of the event, including date, time, place, and contact information. For organization listings, include as much contact information as possible. Deadline for listings is 6pm on Monday for Thursday publication.

All listings for ACRC refer to the Asheville Community Resource Center, located at 63 N. Lexington Ave. in downtown Asheville. Info: 252-8999

Events

Announcement • The ACRC is seeking art donations for our Jan. 30 Art Auction to benefit the ACRC. Please drop off art at ACRC or call Matt Wallace @ 252-8999.

Sun., Jan. 18 • Workshop on Economics and Spirituality by Yogic monk Dada Maheshvarananda, author of After Capitalism. 2:00-5:00 pm at 22 Ravenscroft Drive, Asheville. Suggested donation $5-10. Info: 645-7784.

Mon., Jan. 19 • Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at 11:00 am on MLK Blvd. March at 12:00 noon from MLK Blvd. at College St. to City County Plaza. Speeches in the park at 12:30 pm.

Wed., Jan. 21 • Experience India through Slides with Stories, music, and traditional food for sale. 7:00 pm, at the International Link, 87 Patton Ave. $3 donation requested. Info: 255-9104.

Sat., Jan. 24 • Bike lane clean up. Meet at 10:00 am at the Home Cooking Restaurant located in the S-turn where Lyman becomes Riverside Dr. Bring tools, gloves, and a safety vest if you have one. Vests, bags, and hot drinks will be provided. Contact Claudia Nix @ 274-2453, 255-8731 or claudianix@libertybikes.com for more info.

Sat., Jan. 24 • Southern Appalachian Bioregional Council and Celebration on how to create a more holistic, sustainable culture. 9:00 am - midnight at ACRC. Discussions, potluck, and live music. $10 suggested donation. Overnight accommodations available. Contact Ivy Lynn @ 669-2073or gatrawinn@yahoo.com for more info.

Tues., Jan. 27 • Behind Barbed Wire: Prisoners of the Bush Administration Educational Forum. Sponsored by WNC Peace Coalition and the ACLU. 7:00-8:30 pm at the Unitarian Church, 1 Edwin Pl., Asheville.

Tues., Jan. 27 • Informational meeting by Asheville NOW to organize transportation to a women’s rights march on April 25, 2004 in Washington, DC. 7:00-9:00 pm at the Grove Corner Market, in the Grove Arcade. Call Melissa @ 216-4137 for more info.

Sat., Feb. 28 • Marketing Opportunities for Farmers Conference at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC. Registration is limited and required by Feb. 12. Cost is $20, which includes lunch and a notebook of marketing resources. Registration forms and workshop descriptions available on the ASAP website at www.asapconnections.org. Call 236-1282 for more info.

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Ongoing events

Asheville Free School classes are held at the ACRC unless otherwise noted. Info: ashevillefreeschool@hotmail.com or 255-3678

Rie-ki • Info: Josh, 301-2659

Mondays • 6-9 pm Asheville Free School Life Drawing - ACRC

Third Mondays • Asheville Latin-Americans for Advancement meets. Call 277-1797 for details.

Third Mondays • Population Connection (formerly ZPG) meets. Call Greg Wilcox at 665-7531 or gwilcox@charter.net

Alternate Tuesdays • Asheville Community Resource Center collective meetings. 7pm, 63 N. Lexington Ave.

Tuesdays • Kung-Fu for Kids, 1pm. Info: Tamiko@255-3678

Tuesdays • Piano for Kids, 2-5pm. Info: Sara, 225-4501

Tuesdays • Western North Carolina Peace Coalition meets at 6:30 pm at International Link, 87 Patton Ave., Asheville. Info: Peace Line, 271-0022 or www.wncPeaceCoalition.org

Tuesdays • Food Not Bombs serves free vegan food and informal activist networking at City County Plaza, 5pm. Info: 281-4343.

Tuesdays • Beginning Spanish class with a native speaker Tuesdays, choose 12:30 or 4:00 at International Link, 87 Patton, $5 a class. 255-9104.

First Tuesdays • Community of Compassion, cannabis activist group, meets at 7pm at 729 Haywood Rd. (Fortune Building) in West Asheville. 251-0343.

First and Third Tuesdays • Western Carolinians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East meets, 9-10:30 am. Info: Ahmad Amara, 252-7710, Andrew Summers, 298-5320, or Jean Franklin, 669-5205

Wednesdays • Individual wellness consultation (the unclinic) for women & transgender people only, 6:30-9pm, ACRC.

Wednesdays • Earth First! meets, 7pm, ACRC. Call for info: 225-0814.

Wednesdays • Intro to Piano 5-6pm, Info: ACRC, 252-8999

Wednesdays • Modern and Postmodern Poetry Reading Group 6-7 PM Info: ACRC, 252-8999

Wednesdays • Women of Beat Literature Reading Group 7-8pm. Info: Anya, 254-5752

Wednesdays • Arts and Crafts (for kids) 10-12am. Info: Tamiko, 255-3678

Wednesdays • Sexism in the USA -6:30 pm, ACRC

Wednesdays • Mosaic Vortex community center membership meetings. Info: 271-7774

Wednesdays • Poet Potluck: Bring a vegetarian dish and speak your words. 7:30pm, Burnsville. Info/directions: 675-0171.

Wednesdays • Spanish language practice with a native speaker, 12:30pm at International Link, 87 Patton. 255-9104.

First Wednesdays • La Leche League toddler group meets 10am at Murphy-Oakley Rec. Center, 749 Fairview Rd. Info: 645-8579.

First Wednesdays • WNC Pagans’ Night Out, a monthly social gathering for local Pagans, Heathens, and practitioners of similar faiths. Info: 253-5667 or <www.witchesgathering.com/ceres>

Second and Fourth Wednesdays • Blue Ridge Equality Alliance (BREA) meets, 6:30pm, Wells Room, YWCA, 185 S. French Broad. Info: 252-4097 or <info@breaonline.org>

Thursdays • Piano for Kids 11-2 Sara, 255-4501

First Thursdays • Asheville Global Report Film Night Benefit, 8pm, The Big Idea, 27 Carolina Lane.

Second and Fourth Thursdays • Asheville Inn Exchange combines enthusiasm of disadvantaged young adults with nonprofit community service projects for the benefit of all. 7pm, CORE (37 Carolina Ln.). Info: 350-1900, innexchange@hotmail.com, or groups.msn.com/ashevilleinnexchange

Fridays • Women in Black stand in silence against war, 5-6pm at Vance Monument. Info: 252-4536.

Fridays • German conversation practice Fridays 1:30 at International Link, 87 Patton, $2 each. 255-9104.

Fridays • WNC Peace Coalition’s Vigil for Peace, 6-7pm, Vance Monument. Info: Peace Line, 271-0022.

Fridays • Open acoustic jam, 7pm at Capricorn Studios. Info: 686-8020

Saturday • US Foreign Policy Discussion Group, 6-7 PM Candace, 255-2914

Saturdays • Stories Galories (for kids) 4-6 PM Kate, 231-4578

First Saturday of every month • Wild Foods Walk@ the Swanannoa 4H Center. Info: Patrick, 686-3196

Saturdays • Tours and service learning projects at Earthaven Ecovillage, outside of Black Mountain. 669-3937 (visitor voice mail number, please leave a message).

Saturdays • InterFaith Vigil, 11am, Prichard Park.

Second and Fourth Sundays • Poetry Slam at Area 45 Theatre, 45 Wall St., 7:30 pm. Info: slamasheville@yahoo.com

Sundays • Beginning Spanish class, ACRC, 7pm. All levels welcome, teachers welcome as well. Info: Melody, 243-6194.

Sundays • Conversational Spanish 6-7pm. Info: Melody, 243-6194

Sundays • Wild Survival@ the Swanannoa 4H Center Patrick@686-3196

Sundays • The Bountiful Cities Project holds community workdays at the Pearson Dr. garden in Montford at noon (volunteer meeting first Sunday of month). Info: Jodi at 236-9462

Sundays • Asheville Prison Book Program meets at the ACRC, 5:30-8pm. Info: 254-3025.

Sundays • Food Not Bombs serves free vegan food and informal activist networking at City County Plaza, 4pm. Info: 281-4343.

Sundays • Capoeira class, 5pm. One class free if you bring in a copy of the AGR with this notice. Info: 232-2980 or dravenarcane@hotmail.com

Sundays • The Bountiful Cities Project Community Garden (formerly GROW) meets: grow food for the community. 3pm, Pearson street garden. Info 236-9462.

Third Sundays • La Leche League meets 4pm at WNC Breastfeeding Center, 50 Doctor’s Dr. 628-4438

Second and Fourth Sundays • Jubilee environmental team meets downstairs at Jubilee, 46 Wall St., 11am. Info 250-9116

Last Sunday of every month • Food Not Bombs monthly meeting. 8pm, 169 Hillside St. Info: 281-4343.

Other areas

Knoxville, TN

Mon., Jan. 26 •Local activists host rogram on the Hidden Destruction of the Appalachian Mountains sponsored by regional environmental activists with Katuah Earth First! 12:20-1:10 at the U. of TN Law School, room 241 and at 7:30 pm on the 6th floor of the Candy Factory on the World’s Fair site, downtown Knoxville. Free and open to the public. Contact: Meagan Carter @ 406-5899; meaganbelden@hotmail.com or Alex Solomon @ 609-9226; pyranhachick@hotmail.com

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Organizations

Active Students for a Healthy Environment (ASHE) • 236-3834 or ecology@bulldog.unca.edu

American Indian Movement Asheville • 828-628-2862 or aimasheville@hotmail.com or <www.geocities.com/aimasheville/index.html>

Americans United for Separation of Church and State • North Carolina office: 919-604-6667.

Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) • 828-649-9452 or www.asapconnections.org.

Arthur Morgan School • 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714. 828-675-4262, ams@yancey.main.nc.us & www.arthurmorganschool.org

Asheville Community Resource Center • 236-1672.

Asheville Free School • ashevillefreeschool@hotmail.com or 236-3834

Asheville Life Food Collective, 280-2555.

Asheville Prison Book Program • 254-3025.

Asheville ReCyclery • Non profit bicycle repair, 828-253-7930 37 Mulberry St.

Asheville for a Socialist Colombia • 258-0731.

Blue Ridge Equality Alliance • 252-4097 or <info@breaonline.org>

Bountiful Cities Project (formerly GROW) • Growing food for the community. Info: 236-9462.

Canary Coalition • clean air group, PO Box 1556, Whittier, NC 28789-1556

Carolina Animal Action • PO Box 19242, Asheville, NC 28815, meatstinks@aol.com. 298-4647

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association • 919-542-2402.

Carolina Interfaith Taskforce on Central America (CITCA) • Melissa Fridlin, 777-3968, citcawnc@main.nc.us, PO Box 1947, Asheville 28802

Citizens for Media Literacy • 34 Wall St. 828-255-0182.

Clean Water for North Carolina (formerly the Clean Water Fund) • Works with communities to help protect their rights to clean, safe water by providing organizing and technical assistance and statewide advocacy for swift, fair, and effective environmental enforcement. Info:251-1291, or [www.cleanwaterfund.org] www.cwfnc.org

CLOSER • Gay and lesbian group, CLOSERmail@aol.com.

Colombia Education Project • Erin Pratt, 285-8495, or email scnunez@hotmail.com

Community Supported Development • Seeks development that will maintain the quality of life in the areas in which we live and work. 253-2546 or <www.main.nc.us/csd>

Community of Compassion • Local grassroots cannabis advocacy group. Call: 251-0343; E-mail: herbmercy@aol.com; Website: <members.aol.com/herbmercy/>

Coven Oldenwilde • Local Wiccan Coven. Contact us for info about Conscientious Objector status. Call 251-0343, or visit <www.oldenwilde.com>

Dandelion Fund • Provides small grants to activist groups. PO Box 409, Asheville, NC 28802. 828-236-1994. www.dandelionfund.org

Dogwood Alliance • PO Box 7645, Asheville, NC 28802, 828-251-2525, <www.dogwoodalliance.org>

Earthaven Ecovillage • Permaculture based, off-grid, intentional community, 669-3937 (voice mail) or <www.earthaven.org> 1025 Camp Elliott Road, Black Mountain, NC 28711

eKleiwerks Natural Building • Local and international trainings in natural building; 828-252-7701; janell@kleiwerks.com

El Eco • Asheville’s only Spanish language newspaper. Share news, announcements, events, and place advertisements. Info: eleco@ncpress.net.

Environmental and Conservation Organization (ECO) • 119 3rd Ave. West, Hendersonville, NC 28792 or 692-0385

Food Not Bombs • Feeding the hungry and building community, call Jason @ 281-4343.

Free Radio Asheville • PO Box 1485, Asheville, NC 28802 or freeradioasheville@hotmail.com

Heart of the Mother/Children of the Earth: Grassroots activism for families; education, outreach, and support. Info: 828-232-0036.

Henderson County Greens • <www.greens.org/wnc> or 697-4254.

High Country Citizens for Peace and Justice (Boone) • <www.highcountrypeace.org>

International Link Community Center • 87 Patton Ave., Asheville, NC 28801. 255-9104

Just Economics • 45 Sardis Rd., Asheville, NC 28806 or 665-2198.

Katuah Earth First! • PO Box 1485, Asheville, NC 28802 or 225-0814.

Katuah MASHH (Medicine for Activists Seeking Health and Healing) • 275-6221.

The Mediation Center • 189 College St., Asheville, NC 28801-3030; 251-6089, tmc@buncombe.main.nc.us or www.main.nc.us/tmc

Mosaic Vortex • Not-for-profit youth empowerment organization. Call Breanna at 258-9395, or visit <geocities.com/mosaicvortex/>

North Carolina Citizens for Safe Food • Anti-biotech group. Subscribe to NC Safe Food Net at: <www.topica.com/lists/NC_Citizens_for_Safe_Food>

North Carolina Peace Action • PO Box 10384, Raleigh, NC 27605, billtowepa@juno.com , 919-469-0831

Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast • PO Box 7586, Asheville, NC, 28802. Contact: Mary Olson, 828-251-2060. nirs.se@mindspring.com or www.nirs.org

OUR VOICE • formerly Rape Crisis Center, PO Box 7453, Asheville, NC 28802. 252-0562

People of Faith Against the Death Penalty • WNC Chapter, 828-253-6287.

PFLAG • Gay and lesbian family group, 277-7815

PFLAG Hendersonville, 696-8250

Physicians for Social Responsibility • Lew Patrie at 299-1242 or Stan Dienst 890-1582 <patrie.wncpsr@main.nc.us>.

Planned Parenthood • 603 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, NC 28801, 252-7928.

Population Connection (formerly ZPG) • Info: Gregory Wilcox, 665-7531 or email gwilcox@charter.net

Quality Forward • Volunteer stream cleanup. Call Gretchen at 254-1776. P.O. Box 22, Asheville, NC 28802

RESULTS • citizens’ group, hunger and poverty advocacy organization. Cathy, 299-7957

San Cristóbal Committee of Asheville Sister Cities • 675-5525 or jmorgan@yancey.main.nc.us

Sierra Club, Wenoca group • 828-645-8917 or ryonen@juno.com

Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project • PO Box 3141, Asheville, NC 28802. 258-2667 <www.sabp.net>

Southern Appalachian Center for Cooperative Ownership • 12 1/2 Wall St. Ste. D, Asheville, NC 28801or 232-0632

SPARE CHANGE? Testing the constitutionality of Asheville’s newsolicitation ordinance. sparechange345@hotmail.com

Tranzmision • Transgender community/activist group. Allies welcome! 252-0023 or tranzmision@hotmail.com

Voices for Peace • c/o Brevard College, Box B-5649, 400 N. Broad St., Brevard, NC 28712

War Resisters League • 277-0758

War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee • 1-800-269-7464 or 285-0010

Western Carolina Women’s Coalition • PO Box 402, Asheville, NC 28802. 251-5986

Western North Carolina Alliance • 70 Woodfin Pl. #326, Asheville, NC 28801. 258-8737.

WNC Citizens for an End to Institutional Bigotry • PO Box 18640, Asheville, NC 28814. 669-6677. www.main.nc.us/wncceib

WNC Civil Liberties Coalition • Been violated due to Patriot Act, or care to join? Call: 697-4254 or 271-0022

WNC-Cuba Friendship Committee • George Robinson, 232-4922

WNC Green Party • meeting info: 254-5058

WNC Peace Coalition • <main.nc.us/wncpc> or email wncpc@main.nc.us Peaceline, updated daily: 271-0022.

WNC School of the Americas Watch • 254-5195

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom • PO Box 8016, Asheville, NC 28814. 299-1414 or 254-5489.

YWCA of Asheville • 185 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville, NC 28801. 254-7206. www.main.nc.us/ywca

Zim-Zam Eco-House • 277-0758

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