Youth Action Against The War March 20

FIGHT THE WAR MACHINE - GET ORGANIZED, GET INVOLVED, AND GET IN THE STREETS!

If you want to participate in this day of action, or are on spring break and want to endorse the call to support those students who are taking action, please email march20antiwar@hotmail.com or visit www.march20antiwar.blogspot.com

UNC-Asheville Socialist Unity League of SDS: Walk-Out at 11:30, Rally, March Downtown

(via: the ever relevant Ron Jacobs @ MrZine)

Doll-A-Rama

3 for the Natives & Visitors

* Everybody's talking 'bout it. DILO - A Day In The Life Of Ashvegas, aka Asheville. With photos.

from the flickr website:

Hey all. There are so many wonderful photogs out and about in Asheville that i thought it might be fun to see if we could get as many flickr maniacs together as possible and do one of those "Day in the Life of" projects.

We pick a day - 24 hours - and shoot it. Maybe we have a theme. "Interpret Ashvegas." Maybe not. We should try for spring or early summer.

Then we load all the photos to a flickr group. Maybe we print some of the ones we like the most and do a little show at one of the umpteen galleries around town.

What do you think? What are your ideas? Anybody interested?
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If you'd like to participate, check it out. The plans are: Meet, greet, plan, shoot, drink...? as Edgy Mama put it. If you live someplace else, Flickr is a good place to learn more about Asheville. I visit it often.

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* Another place you can visit online that the locals also enjoy is the newly updated Mountain Xpress, Asheville's best alternative weekly newspaper. It's all blogged out and interactive now.

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* And the third link for you is the Asheville IWANNA. It's a Classified Newspaper for ASHEVILLE and WNC. The natives snap it up each week when they're looking for a good deal.

2 arrested as Rising Tide protests North Carolina power plant

Local residents braved the frigid cold this morning perched atop a billboard, to protest Progress Energy’s proposed oil fired plant.They unfurled an enormous banner reading, “Burning Oil Ain’t Progress – No New Power Plant in Woodfin!” The residents are part of Rising Tide North America, a group dedicated to fighting the root causes of climate change. The protest lasted over three hours until local police and fire department forced them down.

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Reading The Names

Hello, friends.

Sunday March 18 starting at 1:00 pm, Touchstone Gallery at 318 N. Main St.
in Hendersonville, (outside of Asheville, NC) will host a Reading of the Names of American troops killed as part of it's on-going installation "Portrait Iraq Freedom"

Seating is limited, so bring a chair or cushion if you plan to stay for the
entire event which is estimated to take approximately 3 hours since there
will likely be nearly 3300 names to read at that time.

Solstice @ Botanical Gardens

WINTER SOLSTICE On Thursday, December 21 from 3:30 to 5 PM, all are invited to a celebration of the Winter Solstice. The event will be held at The Botanical Gardens at Asheville in Sunshine Meadow and will feature participatory music and dance, poetry, prayers and shared silence. Festive seasonal costumes, drums and rattles are encouraged! Also, wear warm clothing.

Music and dance and hot drinks at 3:30 PM Ritual begins at 4 PM. Ritual ends at 5 PM on this shortest day of the year The event is produced by Earth Celebrations, which for 2 years has been independently holding public gatherings at BGA on the Equinoxes and Solstices.

The intent of these seasonal celebrations is to inform our knowledge of who we are, where we are and what is our part in the great web of life. These are co-created events that charge no fees and occur "rain or shine." Donations are received on behalf of the Botanical Gardens at Asheville.

For Earth Celebrations contact: Cathy Holt, 252-3054; Mary Stair 254-0943. No RSVP necessary _

Touch Samadhi - Unconditional

unconditional NYE | TOUCH Samadhi

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ACRC - Asheville Community Resource Center

The ACRC houses many organizations dedicated to social change. They include:

The Asheville Prison Books Program - free literature and materials
The Women’s/Transgendered Health Project - information and support
The Asheville Free School - Free classes and workshops
The Asheville Global Report - news under- or unreported by mainstream
Katuah Earth First! - local chapter of the environmental movement
The Re-Cyclery bicycle collective - workshops on maintenance and repair
The Jab Jab Self Defense Collective - share skills and create awareness

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Silver Drummer Girl & Andie MacD

Movie star and Asheville resident Andie MacDowell (left) enjoys a street performer who plays drums briefly and bows each time someone tosses money into the basket in front of her. The action occurred on a balmy afternoon last Friday on Haywood Street across from the Flying Frog Café. The day after Thanksgiving brought numerous shoppers to downtown Asheville. Staff Photo by KYM LUTZ

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Anti-SOA Circus Troupe

from my inbox:

Subject: SUPPORT CALL for Upcoming Anti-SOA Circus Troupe at UNCA, Nov 12

A GOOD EVENING TO ONE AND ALL!
In behalf of the Traveling Bonfires and UNCA's Students for a Democratic Society, I'd like to invite you to a very significant and urgent show on NOVEMBER 12, SUNDAY, 7pm at UNCA's Alumni Hall. The show is called "WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS" by a touring group called CARDBOARD CHAOS (Uncle Sam's Little Global Circus). This is the Asheville leg of an annual East Coast tour to help shut down the US Army School of the Americas. It features a provocative mix of circus stunts, puppetry, political satire and original music. The show is FREE; donations collected at the show go to Cardboard Chaos' tour
fund.

Meantime, The Bonfires also requests any form of help or donation--little cash or spare change, extra accommodation to our visitors etc--to help us make this event a fulfilling, enjoyable and relevant community effort. You can either email me back or call Marta Osborne at 505 0476 for more info.

In case you want to see us, we will be at Pritchard Park this Saturday, OCT 28, from 4pm to 10pm--for The Bonfires' annual Halloween family dance-concert/gathering, "BONFIRES FOR VAMPIRES: Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park, Year 3." Touch Samadhi's family of DJs will be spinning records, and we will be giving out free gifts and goodies to kids. GRACIAS!

--Pasckie Pascua

Blissful Rituals

about blissful rituals
In the early winter of 2004, Blissful Rituals was created as an offering to the Asheville community. The focus of Blissful Rituals is to offer healing massage and body treatments using the purest substances available. Organic oils and happily harvested herbs are the ingredients in all massage and body treatments. All products used are without any chemical solvents or preservatives whatsoever. Using only natural substances for cleansing and rejuvenation sends strong positive messages to the mind, body, and spirit that we are in harmony with nature. Thus, we are honoring ourselves, each other and The Earth at the same time.

about lara narayani
In 1992, Narayani began to spiritually awaken when she started practicing Yoga and meditation. Realizing there was a higher calling to be discovered, she embarked on a journey to find her true work in the world. In 1997, she moved to New York to focus her studies on massage at The Swedish Institute for Massage Therapy. Staying focused on spiritual studies, she recieved certification as a Yoga Instructor through the Integral Yoga Institute in 1999. Narayani also has studied a variety of ancient healing practices, including: Kabbalah, Native American Sweat Lodge and Medicine Wheel Teachings, West African Dance, Soul-Point, Qi-Gong for enlightenment, Ayurveda, Both DONA and Wholistic Doula training in Asheville. Through practicing healing arts from various cultures, we tune into the simple laws of nature and realize that all life is connected and thus sacred. Inspired by this truth, Blissful Rituals was created as an offering to the Asheville community in 2004. In 2006, Narayani completeed an intensive training in Ayurvedic Beauty Treatments and hands on techniques at the well respected Ayurvedic Institute. She continues to learn and teach around the US to share the simplicity of healing.

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Bonfires For Peace

Pritchard Park halloween trance party 10/28 - link

Yellow Door

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Samhain Rite

What: Asheville's 12th Annual Free Public Witch Ritual -- theme: Creatures of the Night
When: Halloween, Tuesday, Oct. 31st from 8 p.m. "until"
Where: Unity Center of Christianity, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Rd., Fletcher, NC at Oldenwilde.

This year's Samhain theme is Creatures of the Night, and thousands of costumed monsters, dark fairies, and sexy Witches are expected to descend on the Blue Ridge Mountain area. Features include a kids' Creepy Carnival, a maze trance dance for adults, Witchy music spun by The Poles bandmember Eli Jeremiah, balefires, fire-spinning, and local dance troupes Baraka Mundi and the Asheville Movement Collective.

"Folks of all ages and faiths are welcome to thrill to the beauty of the night with us and work magic so everyone will thrive till Spring," Lady Passion concludes.

Samhain XII flyer and a map to the Unity site are at: oldenwilde.org
Lady Passion and *Diuvei may be reached at: (828) 251-0343.

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