Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread for Sunday, August 28th. We try to get together every weekend to share with everyone what we're all up to in Western North Carolina and beyond.
We hope this group and others serve to invigorate us locally and regionally here on Daily Kos, building on the sense of community that's grown through our online engagement.
DKos Asheville and other local and state groups can give us all a better sense of connection, a better understanding of who we stand with, work with and share with. We hope this local and wider community can help leverage our orange passion for progressive politics to move the county forward.
Following is the Daily Kos Mission Statement and we are proud to be part of this movement, on the keyboards and on the ground.
Daily Kos fights for a progressive America by empowering its community and allies with information and tools to directly impact the political process.
Please jump the fold for exciting events in Asheville.
DKos Asheville October Meet Up
What: A Daily Kos meet up for DK members and interested parties before the Moral Mountain Monday rally in downtown Asheville.
When: Monday, October 24th — 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where: Asheville
Why: Connecting face to face, sharing information, getting inspired and adding to the crowd that is there to support Reverend Barber the week early voting starts.
Food: Restaurant TBD
Fun: Yes
Family: Yes
Attendees:
randallt, Joieau, davehouck, Lamont Cranston, SteelerGrrl, SteelerGuy
Maybees:
Click here to add your name
Mountain People’s Assembly
From Mountain People’s Assembly
Join us for Mountain Moral Monday 2016 at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville.
When: Monday, October 24 – 4-6 pm
Where: Pack Square Park/Roger McGuire Green
Who: Keynote speaker Rev. Dr. William Barber, President NC-NAACP
If you would like to volunteer for this inspiring event, please email us here.
St. James AME Church Auction Update
Our community’s relationship with the North Carolina NAACP has developed in many ways. We have become strong allies in the Moral Monday movement with Kossacks attending marches and rallies, we have a member working directly with NCNAACP on statistical legal issues, and we held a productive conference last year that included an auction for St. James AME Church in Asheville.
In an effort to continue this relationship, we are assisting St. James in another auction for the church that anyone can participate in.
There are a few items up and the church women are adding new stuff everyday. So if you want to help spread our local DK Love, please consider bidding or donating.
It will be running till September 22nd.
Sorry so late this weekend, but I have a note from my doctor power company. As I was about to publish yesterday, lightening hit something down the line and we didn’t get power back till 4:30 this morning.