May 2017 Community Calendar

May Day Community Breakfast

Your local anarchist community invites you to celebrate two powerful holidays -- Beltane and International Workers' Day -- with food and friends!

ASURJ Do!scussion and Do-Session

We come to together to talk about racial justice work, decide what we will do this week, and then get to work in the Do-Session!

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

IWOC Speaking Event

A member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee will be giving a talk on IWOC and prison organizing.

Calling Out the Aggressor

An inquiry into how we can create healthy models for talking about and dealing with abuse and assault in alternative/radical communities.

Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance

Anarchist educator and author Shon Meckfessel presents his newest work Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be and offers new angles on a seemingly intractable debate between militancy and nonviolence.

Basic Itches

Understanding scabies, 'spaghetti fungus,' and other communicable itches common in our communities with a PA, an NP, and an herbal provider.

Taking Away the Power of Criminal Charges

Building Resilience with Herbs

Herbal medicine can be a powerful tool for building resiliency to stress, trauma and over work. Participants will discuss some of our most effective plant allies, with cultivation and medicine making tips.

Radical Reproductive Care

Reflecting a reproductive justice lens and an approach to reproductive healthcare that is critical of the white supremacist bio-medical patriarchy, this workshop provides practical tools to address common reproductive healthcare complaints.

LGBTQ Advocacy as Abolition

Discussing the importance of supporting and advocating for incarcerated folks as a part of the larger frameworks of prison abolition and queer/trans liberation.

Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night!

Letters save lives! Join Blue Ridge ABC each month for an evening of solidarity with incarcerated comrades. Celebrate their birthdays by sending words of encouragement and support.

ASURJ Do!scussion and Do-Session

We come to together to talk about racial justice work, decide what we will do this week, and then get to work in the Do-Session!

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Socialism! A Jacobin Reading Group

On the first Tuesday of every month, participants meet to discuss readings from Jacobin Magazine and from the broader Left movement.

Lunar Herbalism Part 2: The Full Moon

This is the second half of a two-part workshop taught by Chloe, from a Western Herbalist and #QueerWitch perspective. All funds raised and medicine made will go toward building a community apothecary.

All I Want to Do is Live

Trace Ramsey reads from his new book of creative nonfiction and discusses parenting while dealing with mental illness.

Polyamory Newbie Meetup

A meetup for people new to the world of ethical non-monogamy!

Blue Ridge GDC

The Blue Ridge General Defense Committee is meeting to discuss plans for resistance and solidarity.

ASURJ Do!scussion and Do-Session

We come to together to talk about racial justice work, decide what we will do this week, and then get to work in the Do-Session!

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Angry Brigade Film Night

A public film screening of Gordon Carr's 1973 BBC documentary The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group including the 1980 follow up The Persons Unknown.

The Asheville Blade Presents: Asheville's Government

Blade editor David Forbes, who's covered City Hall for over a decade, will present a rundown of how local government works, what some major current issues are, answer questions and lay out some of the most effective ways for locals to get involved.

ASURJ Do!scussion and Do-Session

We come to together to talk about racial justice work, decide what we will do this week, and then get to work in the Do-Session!

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Julian Morena & Boo Reefa

A night of quirky folk pop music, including Asheville local Brynn Estelle!

Tranzmission Prison Project Packaging Party

An open, monthly volunteer event to help prepare books and zines for mailing to prisons across the United States.

Trouble #3: Refugees Welcome

Pre-release screening of the third episode of sub.Media's new series, "Trouble".

Tarot Readings

Individual tarot readings and intuitive advice by Allison Frank, Transformative Tarot. 

Asheville FM Station Meeting

Asheville FM is a volunteer-based, grassroots community radio station broadcasting at 103.3 on the FM dial in Asheville, NC. Created by Friends of Community Radio, a 501(c)3 non-profit entity.

Queer & Trans Linux User Group

A linux and open source software enthusiasts' meetup that aims to provide a welcoming environment for queers, trans folks, women and others who want to explore technology and receive support from peers.

ASURJ Do!scussion and Do-Session

We come to together to talk about racial justice work, decide what we will do this week, and then get to work in the Do-Session!

Steady Collective Syringe Access Outreach

Comprehensive harm reduction services including distribution of educational material, naloxone, syringes, and supplies at no cost.

Participatory Organising: From Co-op to Network to Mass Movement

Organizing democratically is hard! We're hosting a conversation where we can learn together how to organize when nobody is in charge.