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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, which is is the process of relocating.
Events
Center, free. Info: 259-9216.
Sun., Oct. 10 • Colombia's first Afro-Colombian
congresswoman, Zulia Mena, will speak at the French Broad Food Co-op,
5:30pm, 90 Biltmore Ave. Mena is a leader of the Black Women's Network,
works with people displaced by war in Colombia, and will describe the
impact on the Colombian people of the US's Plan Colombia. Free.
Mon., Oct. 11• Zulia Mena (see above) will speak
at Warren Wilson College's Cannon Lounge in the Gladfelter Student Center,
7pm, free.
Mon., Oct. 11• World Affairs Council of WNC
presents a debate on US foreign policy from the Republican and Democratic
perspectives. 7:30pm, lower level Reuter Center, Campus Drive, UNC Asheville.
$5. Info: www.main.nc.us/wac.
Tues., Oct. 12 • The Asheville Mural Project,
sponsored by Arts2People (www.arts2people.org), begins its first large
scale (196 foot) mural on the wall in the Lexington Park parking lot at
N. Lexington Ave and Hiawasee/Woodfin Sts. No artistic skills required,
all welcome to participate. Info: Kitty Love 232-0076, skypeople@mindspring.com.
Wed., Oct. 13 • A benefit for the Asheville
Global Report!! Stella Blue in downtown Asheville. Musical performances
by Machine Drum, Pomme De Terre, and T.bot MerKaTroiD; spoken word by
various artists; plus visual projection by Black Box Studio. $7 cover.
Info: 236-3103, resonantathletics@yahoo.com.
Thurs., Oct. 14 • Deadline for applications
to fill Asheville City Council city board or commission vacancies. Vacancies
include: ABC Board, Board of Adjustment, Civic Center Commission, Film
Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission, and Recreation Board. For
more info about vacancies and to request an application, contact City
Clerk Maggie Burleson 259-5601, mburleson@ashevillenc.gov.
Mon., Oct. 18 • Meet the Candidates forum and
debate for Buncombe Co. Commission Chair and Commission seats, 7pm, Renaissance
Asheville Hotel. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Info: 258-8223,
www.abc.nc.lwvnet.org.
Tues., Oct. 19 • Tutor training begins at International
Link, downtown Asheville. International Link needs volunteers to tutor
immigrants in English. Info: Annie, 255-9104.
Thurs., Oct. 21 • The first Strive Not to Drive
planning meeting for 2005, 8:30 - 10pm, West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Rd.
Info: Linda Giltz, 251-6622 x109, linda_g@landofsky.org.
Other Areas
New Bern, NC, Oct. 6-8 • 2nd Annual Growing Economies with
Community Design Summit. The focus of the event is helping communities
to grow and develop while protecting the environment, enhancing community
character, and strengthening local economy. Info: www.ncsmartgrowth.org/events/2004Summit
St. Louis, MO, Oct. 8 • Second Presidential Debate, Washington
University. Protests planned. Info: www.debatethis.org.
Knoxville, TN, Oct. 11 • Picketing at the offices of National
Coal Company, which is involved in mountain top removal at Zeb Mountain,
TN. Noon. Info: Katuah Earth First! (423) 522-6527, zorgonus@yahoo.com
Tempe, AZ, Oct. 13 • Third Presidential Debate, Arizona State
University. Protests planned. Info; ww.debatethis.org.
Seattle, WA, Oct. 14-17• NW US Social Forum, bringing together
activists working on issues of social justice, economic justice, and environmental
sustainability throughout the NW region, info: www.nwsocialforum.org.
Another World Is Possible!
Dunlap, TN,Oct. 16 • Protest against the Ku Klux Klan. The
KKK is having a rally in Dunlap, TN at noon, central time, at the Sequatchie
Co. Courthouse on Main St. Dunlap is at the junction of state highways
111, 28, and 127 outside of Chattanooga. Info: johnjef@bledsoe.net, 865-522-6527.
Washington, DC, Oct. 17• Million Worker March, uniting organized
labor, unorganized workers, anti-war & community organizations and
interfaith allies. Info: millionworkermarch.org.
Tues.Oct. 19 • National Day of Action for Energy Independence
from Fossil Fuels. Events planned at state universities in Knoxville,
TN, Greensboro, NC, and Chapel Hill, NC. Info: ww.energyaction.net.
Ongoing events
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
Third Mondays• Mission Hospitals Gay and Lesbian Employee and Friends
Support Network, 7:30 pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, Info: mhglesn@yahoo.com.
Tuesdays • Food Not Bombs serves free vegan food and informal activist
networking at City County Plaza, 5pm. Info: 281-4343.
Tuesdays • Free workshops at The Matrona, 85 Beverly Rd. W. Asheville.
Info: 775-1501, ancientheart@aol.com.
Tuesdays • Recovery, Inc., a free peer-to-peer recovery group, meets
at 7pm. Info: www.ashevillehomeless.org, 254-7449.
Tuesdays • Peace Vigil at Pack Square 5-6pm, Everyone welcome.
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 • 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>
Alternate Thursdays • ACRC collective meeting, French Broad Food
Coop, 7pm. Info: 252-8999.
First and Third Thursdays • Veterans for Peace, Friends Meeting House,
Edgewood Rd, 6:30pm. Info: 689-8463
Fridays • Women in Black stand in silence against war, 5-6pm at Vance
Monument. Info: 252-4536.
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
First Saturday of every month • Wild Foods Walk @ the Swanannoa 4H
Center. Info: Patrick, 686-3196
Second Saturday of every month • Bountiful Cities Project workday
at Pearson Dr. garden, Montford, 10 am - 4 pm.
Fourth Saturday of every month • Bountiful Cities Project workday
at Dr. George Washington CArver Edible Park, 10 am- 4 pm.
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.
Sundays • Free, organic, fair-trade coffee served in front of the
Charlotte St. Starbucks. 12:30 pm. Info: nobucks@riseup.net
Sundays • Free Spanish class. All levels welcome. Come learn/teach
with us. 5pm. Info: Joseph at 277-0758 or Melody at 232-6805.
Sundays • Asheville Homeless Network board meeting, 4pm, City County
Plaza, in association with FNB. Free and open to all. Info: www.ashevillehomeless.org,
254-7449.
Sundays • Wild Survival @ the Swanannoa 4H Center Patrick@686-3196
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
Alternate Sundays • Tranzmission meeting, 42 West St., 7pm. Info:
350-8866.
Alternate Sundays • Women’s and Transgender Health Collective
meeting, 42 West St., 7pm.
Alternate Sundays • Free Radio Asheville collective needs help with
DJs, money, equipment, and love. 6pm French Broad Food Coop
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
Second and Fourth Sundays • Poetry Slam at Area 45 Theatre, 45 Wall
St., 7:30 pm. Info: slamasheville@yahoo.com
Last Sunday of every month • Food Not Bombs monthly meeting. 8pm,
169 Hillside St. Info: 281-4343.
Rie-ki • Info: Josh, 301-2659
United Way’s 2-1-1 of Asheville and Buncombe County is a non-emergency,
24-hour community services information line. Call 2-1-1 and reach a referral
specialist who assesses your needs and determines the service provider
best equipped to handle your request. It’s free and confidential.
A Spanish-speaking referral specialist is available from 3 to 7 pm, Mon.-Fri.
(From a cell phone, payphone, or hotel/motel room, call 252-HELP.) www.211wnc.org
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Washigton DC • Apr. 21-25 • Mobilization against the IMF/
Worl;d Bank. Sponsored by the 50 Years Is Enough Network. Info: www.50years.org,
list@50years.org.
Washingon DC • Sun., Apr. 25 • March for Women’s Lives
to support reproductive freedom and justice for all women. Info: www.marchforwomen.org,
or (202)349-3838. Catch the NOW bus leaving from Asheville! Deadline is
Apr. 19. Info: 216-4137.
Organizations
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 (ACRC) • 252-8999
Asheville Free School • ashevillefreeschool@hotmail.com or 255-3678
Asheville Life Food Collective, 280-2555.
Asheville NOW • Join us in the fight for Women’s Equality. PO
Box 8733, Asheville NC, 28814, (828) 285-0565.
Asheville Prison Book Program • 281-0887.
Asheville ReCyclery • Non profit bicycle repair at the Asheville
Community Resource Center, 828-253-7930
Asheville Inn Exchange • Non-profit youth shelter + community service
projects = a better Asheville! 350-1900, innexchange@hotmail.com, or groups.msn.com/ashevilleinnexchange
Blue Ridge Equality Alliance • 252-4097 or <info@breaonline.org>
The Bountiful Cities Project: community gardens for social justice and
sustainability. • PO Box 898 Asheville, NC 28802 Info: 257-4000.
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
Children Of Earth • Educational support group and grassroots activism
for families. Working together to defend our sacred birthrights. Affinity
group, meetings, newsletter, etc. Info: 828-232-0036 or childrenofearth@riseup.net
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
Education In Action • Youth action for social justice. Info: Eric,
828-350-0419, email: eric@educationinaction.org or web site: www.educationinaction.org
eKleiwerks Natural Building • Local and international trainings in
natural building; 828-252-7701; janell@kleiwerks.com
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, freeradioasheville@hotmail.com,
or www.freeradioasheville.org
Heart Of The Mother • Educational support group and grassroots activism
for mothers and other women. Welfare Warriors, Mother Warriors Voice Newspaper,
Mother Earth Spiritual Gatherings, World Birth Magazine, etc. Info: 828-232-0036
or allmyrelations@wildmail.com
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 www.internationallink.org
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
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
new solicitation ordinance. sparechange345@hotmail.com
Tranzmision • Transgender community/activist group. Allies welcome!
281-4343 or tranzmision@hotmail.com
Veterans for Peace Chapter 99 • PO Box 1577, Waynesville, NC 28786.
Info: 689-8463
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 Carolinians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East • PO
Box 563, Asheville, NC 28802. Info: Ahmad Amara, 252-7710, Andrew Summers,
298-5320, or Jean Franklin, 669-5205
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 Free Trade Coalition • Info: 350-0815
WNC Green Party • meeting info: 254-5058
WNC Peace Coalition • Mission: “We are a coalition of groups
and individuals promoting nonviolent solutions to world conflicts.”
Peace Line: 271-0022 / E-mail: Peace@wncPeaceCoalition.org / Website:
www.wncPeaceCoalition.org
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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