Walk A Mile in Her Shoes

This event already happened Saturday morning. Sorry to be late but definitely wanted to document this worthy cause.

Join the hundreds of Asheville and Buncombe County men who are dedicated to ending sexual violence in the second annual "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" on Saturday April 30th at 9:00 am at City County Plaza. Register yourself or a team online today at www.walkamileasheville.org

This is part of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes ® - The International Men's March Against Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence and is a benefit for Our VOICE, the Buncombe County Rape Crisis and Prevention Center.

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Looking For Evolver Asheville Group Organizers

Our regional coordinator made the big move to NYC and we are now looking for bold, daring evolutionaries to organize monthly "Spore" gatherings in the region. If you're interested in kick-starting the evolution in Asheville, just send an email to jonathan((at))evolver((dot))net with "Asheville Coordinator" in the subject line.

Evolver Asheville

STONEWALL RALLY ASHEVILLE JUNE 27th!

Asheville's Annual Stonewall Commemoration Rally will be held at the end of this month. Please join us for a momentous celebration in honor of those who laid the groundwork for the contemporary LGBTQ movement during the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City!

There will be speakers, performances, a permited sidewalk march, and of course an ice cream social. Following the days events will be an after party to remember with live music, drag, dance troupe and burlesque performaces and a dance party into the night.

Join in with your partners, friends, allies, family, and neighbors! Feel free to dress for the occasion by bringing out your best flare or just your own fabulous self! Please use your community contacts to forward this widely and let's come together for the best Stonewall Rally Asheville has ever had!

This year's theme is Super Queeros! We will be honoring our community's very own super hero legends of the past!

Here's the Info:

Saturday June 27th!

Day events location: Prtichard Park, downtown Asheville
5:00 Rally with speakers and music
6:00 Permited sidewalk march, we have signs, but you can also bring your own signs and rally cries!
7:00 Ice Cream Social with music at Pritchard Park

Afterparty events location: Hookah Joes (behind Hairspray)
Event begins at 9:00 and we can admit under 21 with prior coordination with organizers

Performances include:
Blondie Coverband (Durham, NC with ex-members of Roxotica-long time supporters of Stonewall and Tranzmission events)
Sparkle Rainbow Ponies of Death (local rockers!)
Burlesque and Drag Performers by Asheville's finest Tranzmission Drag Troupe
Talon Dance Troupe
DJ dance party to follow!

Stonewall Commemoration Rally organizers

for more info contact: Louise138@gmail.com

Your Chariot Awaits

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UNCA's Students for a Democratic Society UPDATE

UNCA's Students for a Democratic Society is bringing Elaine Brown to Asheville! She will be speaking on UNCA's campus in the Humanities Lecture Hall @ 7:00pm, Oct 30th.

Throughout the last four decades, Elaine has been committed to and organized significant efforts toward effecting progressive change in the United States. In addition to Black Panther Party leadership, Elaine has continued to actively work for social change. Much of her recent work has been focused on radical reform of the criminal justice system and related efforts.

This event is free for the Public, if there is any question contact: Charla at 828-243-6065

The 2008 National Convention

Latest SDS Convention Updates:

This summer, from July 24-28, join SDSers from around the country for our Third National Convention! SDS has grown in numbers, in organizational capacity, and in prominence over the past year, and it’s time to celebrate those successes and decide how to move forward as an organization. We left the second convention, and the subsequent ratification process, with several excellent instruments that have served us quite well, including many of the National Working Groups, the SDS News Bulletin, and more.

We still do not have a formal national structure yet, however, and it’s time to ask, once again, how do we organize ourselves? How do we make SDS as horizontal, diverse, and accessible as possible? How do we spread out national work and empower more people to take on leadership? How can we better provide support for chapters around the country? In short, how can we become a truly effective organization that can seriously challenge the power structure of this country, and work towards building a truly democratic society?

Join us in College Park, MD to discuss these questions and more, to build skills, to network, and build our organization! We’re working on travel stipends, so don’t let a lack of funds get in the way of participating in this important event!

Folks are encouraged to arrive on Thursday, July 24th and depart Monday, July 28th. Although all decision making will start July 25th and end the evening of July 27th, there will be social events and good times July 24th and possibly an action July 28th.

Equality Asheville

Join the Coalition for Equality and concerned citizens July 15-19 for a week of educational, eye-opening, powerful & fun activities for Western North Carolina to learn about the harmful realities of "Reparative Therapy", which aims at changing one’s sexual orientation.

A Community Response to the Exodus International Conference being held at Ridgecrest Conference Center during the same dates.

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Coalition for Equality, P.O. Box 2612, Asheville, NC 28802 - 828-669-6677

This has been going on all week so apologies for being a little late getting this information.

UNCA SDS

This summer UNCA SDS will be hosting Action Camps from August 15th-17th! Please join our google group if you want to help organize!

Also, the SDS National Convention is coming up! Several of us are heading up to College Park July 24th-27th!

TIME FOR OUR POWER

Welcome to the inaugural Time for Our Power! "Women Bringing Change to the World" Conference, which will be held in Asheville, North Carolina.

JUNE 20 - 22, 2008

The purpose of this 3-day event is to provide a forum for women of all ages, and ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to gather, learn, grow and become inspired to personally and collectively bring powerful, positive and much needed change to their own lives and to the world.

Time for Our Power! will feature speakers, panelists and workshop leaders from a wide variety of fields: environmental, political, international affairs, business, medical, spiritual, personal growth and the arts.

So many amazing performers and speakers that will be at the event so let me leave you with a few names.

Jane Fonda , Keynote Speaker

Glenis Redmond

Julia Butterfly Hill

Starhawk

Grandmother Red Leaf will oversee the SUMMER SOLSTICE event.

Pangea Day

It's Pangea Day
Local time: May-10-2008 14:00 EDT

4 Hours. 24 Films. A New Way To See The World
Thousands of people around the world will gather before their computers Saturday to view four hours of "Pangea Day" programming, brought to you by independent filmmakers, celebrities and the folks that organize the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference.

...for the past two years, Pangea Day was planned as a way to bring the global community together. Over 2,500 independent films were submitted and the organizers picked out 24 short pieces that will be aired. There will also be music and celebrity talks, given by the likes of Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova.

PANGEA DAY | LIVE FEEDS

**CELEBRATING IN DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE @ 2:00 PM EST** ALSO AT THE FLOOD GALLERY AND AT FIRESTORM CAFE--48 Commerce St**

2-4pm, May 10th, 2008
Firestorm Cafe & Books
48 Commerce Street

On Saturday May 10th, Asheville will join thousands of cities around the world for Pangea Day, a program of powerful films, visionary speakers and uplifting music. The program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas and mobile phones in seven languages. In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, Pangea Day plans to use the power of film to bring the world a little closer together.

Asheville residents are invited to participate in this historic event locally at Firestorm Cafe & Books, a new community event space located at across from the downtown Post Office on Commerce Street.

For more information on Pangea Day, contact Laura Galloway at (212) 260-3708. For more information on Firestorm Cafe & Books, contact info@firestormcafe.com. link

What's New @ Earthaven Ecovillage?

Earthaven is always bustling with new people and new building projects. And you can make reservations for the guided tours they have on Saturdays. This year they're planning to sponsor workshops in Qigong, The Power of Manifestation, Homeopathy, and Plant Wisdom.

News From The Ecovillage

Five Icelandic Sheep have arrived at Brian and Farmer's Gateway Farm. They are considered good breeds for milk, meat and wool. In April we expect a group lambing.

Michaeljon is rebounding wonderfully from bypass surgery, having only just come back from a trip to Machu Picchu, with Kiesa, when we were all surprised by his sudden illness.

Village Terraces neighborhood cleared another three-plus acres of land on the west side of the complex. And Martha and Finch moved into their downstairs flat next door at "Pokeberry Hill."

2008 Calendar Listing of Events

Courses
Permaculture Design Course: 7 Weekends at Earthaven Ecovillage
with Patricia Allison, Chuck Marsh, and Rudy Ballentine M.D.
April 18–20, May 17–18, June 21–22, July 19–20, August 16–17, September 13–14, October 11–12,

Email: Permaculture@earthaven.org or call (828) 664-7632 or visit http://www.patriciaallison.net/.

Internships
Sustainable Life Skills Permaculture Internship at Earthaven Ecovillage
with Patricia Allison, Chuck Marsh, and Rudy Ballentine M.D.
April 12th thru June 15th, September 1st thru November 8

Email: Permaculture@earthaven.org or call (828) 664-7632 or visit http://www.patriciaallison.net/.

Camps
Camp Katuah – Residential Permaculture Summer Camp for boys and girls, 7-15 years old near Raleigh, NC at William B. Umstead State Park.

Session One - June 30 - July 6 for campers 7-11 years old
Cost for Session One is $450

Session Two - July 21 - August 3 for campers 11-15 years old, or entering 6th - 10th grades
Cost for Session Two is $900
Email: info@campkatuah.org or call (828) 664-7632 or visit http://www.campkatuah.org

Click here for more class information!

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Guerrilla Girls in Asheville

Guerrilla Girls Talk / Performance
Monday, March 31, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Asheville Community Theatre
$18 general admission, $16 Museum Members, $14 students

During this event, the famous feminist masked avengers will talk about their work, philosophy of activism while campaigning against an appalling lack of ethics in the art world.

Go to http://www.ashevilletheater.org and click on the 'buy tickets now' button to reserve your seat.

Monkey Bizness with the Guerrilla Girls
Hands-On Workshop
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 10:00 a.m. – Noon
Asheville Art Museum
Cost: $20 general admission, $15 students

Space is limited for this event and advance registration is required.

To register please contact Nancy Sokolove at the Asheville Art Museum, 828.253.3227, ext. 120.

A founding member of the Guerrilla Girls will lead visitors through the chaotic process of brainstorming, collective give-and-take and larger group input that has helped these anonymous art activists perfect their in-your-face work during the past 20 years. As participants ‘aestheticize their anger,’ they may get some career advice about ethics and the art world along the way.

Asheville Indymedia

Asheville Indymedia has just gone global this week and it's really off to a respectable beginning. The time is overdue for Asheville to have a global voice, (of which there are over 170 autonomous local collectives all around the world) and this is one way to do that.

Anyone can post news to the AIMC website, including text, photos, audio, and video. News appears on the open publishing newswire on the right side of the website. The AIMC editorial working group decides what news is important and pressing enough to deserve to be featured in the center-column and what news needs to be hidden or deleted, all the while keeping the Editorial Guidelines in mind, which are posted on the website and decided on democratically by the AIMC collective.

Asheville Indymedia is truly independent. No corporation owns AIMC, no government manages the organization, no single donor finances the project. AIMC is not the mouthpiece of any political party or organization. People involved with Indymedia have a wide variety of political and personal viewpoints.

Go have a look around. You may want to contribute to the newly launched Asheville Indymedia.