RESOURCE GUIDE

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EVENTS

UNC Asheville will celebrate Women's History Month throughout March with 17 programs including a film festival and a 12-part Brown Bag Lunch lecture series focusing on UNCA's Women's History Month events. Guests are invited to bring a packed lunch. All Brown Bag Lunch talks held at 12:15pm, Laurel Forum, Karpen Gall, free. Info: 251-6419

Sat., Mar. 12: 12th Annual Organic Growers School for Gardeners and Farmers, at Blue Ridge Community College near Flat Rock. Organic growing and permaculture workshops, homesteading and rural living classes, and a seed exchange and trade show. All-day conference is $35 for those who pre-register by Mar. 1. Children’s Program and college students: $30. Registration after March is $50. Registration for the half-day hands-on workshops is an additional $5 per workshop and requires pre-registration by Mar. 1. Info: (828) 369-2375 or (828) 258-3387.

Tues., Mar. 15: The League of Women Voters will hold an information and discussion meeting titled “Living in the Nuclear Heartland” 7:30-8:30am at the YWCA on S. French Broad Avenue in Asheville. We who live in this region need to know what it means to have radioactive materials passing through our area. The transit supports the United State’s nuclear weapons production and nuclear power industries. The event is free and open to the public. Bring your own breakfast; coffee will be provided. Info: Kathleen Balogh, 251-6169 before 5pm, 626-2695 after 5pm; kbalogh@buncombe.main.nc.us

Mon., Mar. 14: As the water agreement draws closer to ending, June 30, 2005, Buncombe County Govt. is attempting to draw the attention of the public to the seriousness of the dissolution of this agreement. We urge citizens to visit our website (www.buncombecounty.org) and learn more about how this issue will impact them -- water rates could drastically increase; forced annexation could be implemented. 6:30pm, 5th Floor Courtroom in the Buncombe County Courthouse in downtown Asheville. Info: Kathy Hughes, (828) 250-4105

Mon., Mar. 14: UNCA Humanities Lectures: "Green City-States," Dr. Brian Hook, 11am, UNCA's Lipinsky Auditorium, free. "Africa During Europe's Medieval Period," Dr. Dolly Jenkins-Mullen, 11am, UNCA's Humanities Lecture Hall, free. Info: 251-6808.

Tues., Mar. 15 The League of Women Voters will hold an information and discussion meeting titled “Living in the Nuclear Heartland” 7:30 am – 8:30 am at the YWCA on S. French Broad Avenue in Asheville. The event is free and open to the public. Bring your own breakfast; coffee will be provided. Info: Kathleen Balogh, 251-6169 before 5 pm, 626-2695 after 5 pm; kbalogh@buncombe.main.nc.us

Fri., Mar. 18 The UNCA Women's History Month keynote address by artist and writer Kathryn Temple, 4:30pm, Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall. Free. Info: 251-6419.

Sun., Mar. 20: Global Day of Action for Peace and to End War and Occupation at Asheville’s City-County Plaza. Rally 2pm. Walk 4pm. For more info call the Peace Line at 271-0022, Anne Craig at 252-4536, or Peggy Guy at 674-3230. This is a non-violent event with city permits. Sponsored by the WNC Peace Coalition, Asheville War Resisters League, Fools of Conscience, Peace and Earth Committee of the Asheville Friends Meeting, Veterans for Peace, and others.

Tues., Mar. 22 Benefit Show for the ACRC at Akumi, 28 Wall St., Bands include: Heinous Bitch, Burning Doobage, The Bite, $5 suggested donation.

Thurs., Mar. 24, Fri., Mar. 25 The fifth annual UNCA "F-Word Film Festival: A Celebration of Images By and About Women (But for All Audiences)" will screen six different feminist documentaries, 7pm, UNCA Humanities Lecture Hall. Panel discussions with UNCA faculty and students will. Suggested for mature audiences only. Free and open to the public. Info: 251-6419.

Wed., Mar. 30 A screening of "Killing Us Softly 3," which takes a critical look at gender representation in advertising, will be held at 4:45pm, UNCA's Ramsey Library Whitman Room, free. Info: 251-6419.

Sun., Apr. 3: The Bountiful Cities Project, Asheville's urban garden organization, will celebrate spring with their 3rd annual Birdhouse Auction Fundraiser at the Grey Eagle. Local artists’ birdhouses will be on display at 3:30, with a reception at 5:30 and a live auction starting at 7:00. Donated entries can be dropped off at the ACRC, 16 Carolina Lane, in Asheville, Wed. through Sun. from 12 to 6pm. Info: 254-5195 or PO Box 898, Asheville, NC, 28802

Fri., Apr. 15 Environmental round-table discussion co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Dept. of UNCA in collaboration with Asheville Earth Day Celebration. Info: www.ashevilleearthday.org.

Sat., Apr. 16 3rd annual Asheville Earth Day Celebration, City/County Plaza, 1-10pm, food, vendors, music, environmental awareness, fun! Info: www.ashevilleearthday.org.

OTHER AREAS

Fayetteville, NC, Mar. 19: for the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, military families, veterans, communities, congregations and activists from around the country will march to voice their opposition to the war in Iraq. Fayetteville is home to Ft. Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the US. Info: Liz Seymour, (336) 709-9014 or hobbldhoy@aol.com; Lou Plummer, (910) 433-9053 or lou.plummer@mac.com

Sun., Mar. 20 Southern Organizers' Gathering in Fayetteville In conjunction with the first national conference of Iraqi Veterans Against the War, we will convene a Sunday gathering of activists and organizers to discuss next steps and how we can continue to build our movements. Info: www.ncpeacejustice.org

Cincinnati, OH, Apr. 8-10 Global: Reclaiming Community and Environment conference on globalization, U. of Cincinnati, free food, housing available. Info: cincyglobal@yahoo.com, www.geocities.com/cincyglobal

Carboro, NC, Sat., May 7 The first annual Carrboro Book Fair will take place at the Artscenter (300-G East Main Street). Info: Ethan Clauset, Internationalist Books: 919-942-1740, www.internationalistbooks.org

ONGOING EVENTS

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

Third Mondays • Mission Hospitals Gay and Lesbian Employee and Friends Support Network, 7:30 pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, Info: mhglesn@yahoo.com.

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 - Asheville Homeless Network meets at 11am at The Perch, inside Grove Corner Market at the Grove Arcade. All homeless people and interested citizens are welcome. Visit our website for updates and other information: www.ashevillehomeless.org or call 254-7449

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

First and Third Tuesdays • WNC Peace Coalition meets. Call peace line for info: 271 - 0022

Wednesdays • Transmission meetings, 7pm, 2nd floor of Grove Street Market 225-2820

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

Third Wednesdays • La Leche League of Boone meets, 10:30am, Grace Lutheran Church, 115 E. King St., Boone. Focus is on breastfeeding, childbirth, and the new baby at home. Babies, children, mothers-to-be, and any other women interested in breastfeeding are welcome. We also offer telephone help, a lending library, and a bimonthly magazine. Info: Beth (828) 765-4661, Dana (828) 262-5316.

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>

First Thursdays of every month at the Friend’s Meeting House. 6:30 Veterans for Peace Business meeting. Info: 400-1145

Second and Fourth Thursdays • Asheville Community Resource Center meetings at the French Broad Food Co-op. 7pm. Warm weather: meet at picnic tables. Cold Weather: meet upstairs in the Movement and Learning Center.

Third Thursdays • The Asheville Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force meets, 5:30pm, Buncombe County Training Room on College St. (Between the Board of Elections Offices and Tripps). Info: www.frenchbroadrivermpo.org.

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 Spanish class. All levels welcome. Come learn/teach with us. 5pm. Info: Joseph at 277-0758 or Melody at 232-6805.

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, location in flux, call for directions, 7pm. Info: 350-8866.

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.

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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 ReCyclery • Non profit bicycle repair 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, animalaction@bellsouth.net. 298-4647

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association • 919-542-2402.

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.

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

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

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

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

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! • “No compromise in defense of Mother Earth” katuahfirst@hotmail.com -- PO Box 1485, Asheville, NC 28802

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

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

The Peace Park Project – Plans to build the Iraq Wall, composed of an engraved stone for each US soldier who dies. Info: www.iraqwall.org

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@buncombe.main.nc.us.

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

Salud Con Dignidad • a local immigrant and migrant farmworker health rights project. Help form a healthcare network for all, regardless of legal status, language, culture, or skin color. Info: 254-5509, 866-291-5944 (toll-free).

Salud Con Dignidad • un proyecto local sobre las derechas de la salud de los agricultores. Ayuda en la formación de un red de salud para todos, no importa qué condición como inmigrante, lengua, cultura, o color del piel. Llámenos: 254-5509, 866-291-5944 (gratis).

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

Tranzmission • Transgender community/activist group. Allies welcome! 225-2820 or tranzmision@hotmail.com

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

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 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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