Calendar of Upcoming Events Prepared by WNC Peace Colation

PEACE VIGILS

Sunday, 4:30 to 5 PM All Souls Episcopal Church [Biltmore Village]
Tuesday, 5 to 6 PM Vets for Peace Vigil [Vance Monument]

Wednesday, 4:30 PM Haywood Neighbors for Peace at Waynesville Post Office

Wednesdays, 5:30 PM Votive Mass for Peace at St. Mary Episcopal Church in Asheville

Friday, 5 to 6 PM Women in Black Vigil [Vance Monument]
Saturday, 12 to 1 PM Transylvania County Vigil for Peace [County Courthouse]

Other: Tuesday, 6 PM Run for Peace; Run for Impeachment at Vance Monument


OTHER EVENTS

01/20/07 Progressive Democrats of North Carolina meet at 11 AM at Elon University in Burlington, NC. This is followed by the annual NC Democratic Party State Executive Committee meeting at noon. For more information, see http://www.progressivedemocratsnc.org

01/20/07 Sustainable Energy Conference at Brevard College from 9 AM to 4 PM. For more information, schedule, and registration details, visit: http://www.brevard.edu/admissions/energy_conference.asp

01/20/07 Mountain Greens meeting at 10 at Earthfare. Contact David at ireland.dw@juno.com to confirm time and place.

01/27/07 Massive March on DC for a MANDATE FOR PEACE by United For Peace and Justice and Code Pink. A BUS IS BEING ORGANIZED FROM ASHEVILLE BY VETS FOR PEACE. For more information please see announcement above.


MARCH ON WASHINGTON EVENTS FROM UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

01/28/07 Training day by United for Peace and Justice

01/29/07 Lobby day with United for Peace and Justice - Register Here: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/modinput4.php?modin=121

02/03/07 to 02/05/07 Department of Peace National Conference in DC. See www.thepeacealliance.org for more information.

02/05/07 The "Occupation Project" starts in DC. The Occupation Project is a campaign of sustained nonviolent civil disobedience to end the Iraq War. They will engage in nonviolent civil disobedience at the offices of Representatives and Senators who do not publicly pledge to vote against additional war funding. This is organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence at www.vcnv.org

02/06/07 WNC Peace Coalition meeting to plan for the upcoming PEACE RALLY on March 24, 2007. Time is 7 PM, at Unitarian Universalist Church. Please enter on the north side.

02/10/07 NAACP Major Legislative rally in Raleigh.

02/17/07 President's Day Weekend in DC to close down the SOA. Weekend starts with a dinner at the SOA Watch office at 7 PM, followed by all day training on 02/18/07, lobby training on 02/19/07 and lobbying on Capitol Hill on 02/20/07. For questions regarding registration and logistics, please contact Emily Nelson at the national office by phone or by email at enelson@soaw.org.

02/20/07 WNC Peace Coalition meeting to plan for the upcoming PEACE RALLY on March 24, 2007. Time is 7 PM, at Unitarian Universalist Church. Please enter on the north side.

03/06/07 WNC Peace Coalition meeting to plan for the upcoming PEACE RALLY on March 24, 2007. Time is 7 PM, at Unitarian Universalist Church. Please enter on the north side.

03/17/07 Peace March and Rally in Fayetteville.

03/20/07 WNC Peace Coalition meeting to plan for the upcoming PEACE RALLY on March 24, 2007. Time is 7 PM, at Unitarian Universalist Church. Please enter on the north side.

03/24/06 Peace Rally in Asheville

04/15/07 to 04/22/07 National Shopping Boycott to show Bush that we don't want to "go shopping" to support his war. Endorse this action at http://www.impeachthepresidentnow.com


ANNOUNCEMENTS

The National Dept. of Peace Conference in DC will be held Feb. 2-6 2007

We have several people from District 11 here in WNC attending. Part of their agenda will be to visit with Congressman Shuler, Senator Dole and Senator Burr in their offices in Washington DC. We need letters from you to be hand delivered! Please take some time and write some letters. One to each ( Shuler, Dole, Burr) would be great, one to any of them would be o.k. too. Brief and personal are best. Let's send them a big message - it's time to get behind this bill (DOP HR 3760 in the House and S 1756 in the Senate)!!! Even if you have already contacted them- do it again!! We would love to send 100 letters- Get your letters to me, or send them to Laura. She needs them by the 31st of Jan.

Mail letters to:

Laura Sorensen
40 Green Valley Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

• A National Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Organizing Conference Call on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Please join us to learn more, to share plans, and to offer one another support. If you want to join the conference call, contact us at: training@declarepeace.org

• A National Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Organizing Meeting on Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, for those attending United for Peace and Justice's March on Washington and Lobby Day (January 27-29). Location: Bethesda Chevy-Chase High School, 4301 East-West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland Let us know if you will be attending: training@declarepeace.org

• A National Week of Nonviolent Action Training: February 17-25, 2007. Contact us to organize a Nonviolence Training session: training@declarepeace.org