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Updates about upcoming events in Asheville & WNC to resist the Trump/Musk administration. If you know about an event that's not posted here, let me know!

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Unconfirmed reports of ICE in Asheville today. I donโ€™t have any other details, yet, please share if you do. Stay vigilant and stay safe.

10.06.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Waynesville, here's your call to action for June 14th:

30.05.2025 08:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Asheville, here is your call to action for the next nationwide protests on June 14: No Clowns, No Kings! 1:30-3:30 in Pack Square Amphitheater, and this'll be a fun one - essentially an anti-Trump carnival! Family-friendly fun, a chance to raise money for a good cause, and let your voice be heard!

30.05.2025 08:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Go McDowell County!! Pride is a celebration, but it also started as, and remains, now more than ever, a protest!

30.05.2025 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Not sure if anyone is organizing for this in WNC specifically, but it's a statewide call to action and Tillis DOES have a field office in Hendersonville - would be great to see folks show up there this afternoon!

30.05.2025 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tuesday 6/3 is the last chance (for this budget year...but we all know when things get cut, they don't usually come back) to show up for your public schools and turn up the pressure on the commissioners to make sure our kids, families, and educators get what they need!

30.05.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Updated version of Weekly Recurring Pro-Democracy Protests Around WNC flyer! Let me know if I'm missing any! Kudos to Weaverville for adding their own - next Thursday will be their first one, let's make sure they have good turnout!

30.05.2025 08:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Will also soon have news about a Brevard protest, but C.E. owns a total of 7 McD's in WNC. Would love to see ppl protest at the Spartanburg Hwy location (or any other), but don't want to send anyone there alone - pls lmk if you want to protest there (any day/time)! (3/3)

28.05.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bring your friends, bring your signs, and be ready to explain to potential McDonald's customers why there's a protest on that particular bit of sidewalk - we have had many conversations that have convinced people to eat (and spend their money) elsewhere! (2/3)

28.05.2025 22:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tomorrow is Thursday, another chance to protest Chuck Edwards' business interests! Just look at how Elon Musk has changed his tune - this type of protest works! (1/3)

28.05.2025 22:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Make gravestones with us THIS Saturday! Join us to help make poster board gravestones for the die-in portion of the May 18 rally* we are co-sponsoring with Indivisible Asheville. Come pitch in....and grab a beer while you are there!  ...

Please come out to Highland Brewing in East Asheville tomorrow afternoon to help prepare for the die-in that will be taking place as part of Asheville's May 18th protest & meet likeminded folks! redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/make-...

09.05.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ›‘ NO KINGS DAY: Mass Protest and March on June 14 ๐Ÿ›‘ On Saturday, June 14, weโ€™re standing up for democracyโ€”and standing against the authoritarian turn our country is facing.๐Ÿ“ Start Location: New Courthouse, 200 N Grove Street๐Ÿ•™ Meet at 10:00 AMย to march ...

Hendersonville - we have details for your call to action on June 14th! From the Henderson County Democrats: www.myhcdp.com/post/no-king...

(Asheville, details are coming soon!)

09.05.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Postcard pop-up this evening (Wed May 7)! Iโ€™ll be at Hi-Wire Brewing (Big Top/Biltmore Village location) w/ supplies to write postcards to our elected officials & info about upcoming protests and groups organizing locally, from 4:30pm until the end of their trivia night (~8:30pm). Come join me!

07.05.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recurring pro-democracy protests around WNC! If you're involved in organizing any of these and want me to add/change anything here, please let me know, and of course, if there are more recurring protests in the area, I'd be happy to add them! Just figured it'd be easier to share all in one.

05.05.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Postcard-writing party for Hendersonville on 5/16!

05.05.2025 00:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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May day! May day! Postcard Writing Meetup Join us to write postcards to our elected reps in the US Congress and Senate to let them know we are paying attention...and are concerned about what we are seeing.  This is a way to make noise a...

Gather with likeminded folks on 5/20 to write some postcards to our representatives! More info here: redwineblue.controlshift.app/events/may-d.... And whenever you write to them, alone or w/ a group, donโ€™t forget to include their home addresses (available as part of voter registration at ncsbe.gov)!

04.05.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Asheville, your next call to action is Sunday, May 18th!

04.05.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A reminder of weekly events in WNC - these are happening EVERY WEEK in Hendersonville, Black Mountain, and Waynesville, so even if you canโ€™t make it this week, mark your calendar for the next one!

04.05.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Call to action especially for Hendersonville folks!

04.05.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And regardless - one person with a sign can be all it takes so Iโ€™m sorry he didnโ€™t stick around!

01.05.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve been at this one holding a sign since 4:45 so not sure how thatโ€™s possible!

01.05.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Where are you?

01.05.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Low turnout today but Iโ€™m in front of the upward rd one and I know thereโ€™s at least one person at the 4 seasons location!

01.05.2025 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing, see you Thursday!

29.04.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Asheville Community Resistance! Small but growing! Last week we had about 20 people which made the sidewalk in front of the first location pretty much filled up, hence the second location, and weโ€™re going to be handing out flyers at the Hvl May Day protest to hopefully get some folks there that way!

29.04.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Starting this week, protests against Chuck Edwards' business interests are expanding to a second location! Join us every Thursday from 5pm-7pm and encourage people to spend their money elsewhere until he remembers he works for the people of WNC and not Donald Trump or Elon Musk!

29.04.2025 04:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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May Day protests across WNC! Hendersonville at 1pm in front of the courthouse, Asheville at 3pm in Pack Square, and more in Boone, Sylva, etc.!

29.04.2025 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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TOMORROW, Friday 4/11, HANDS OFF OUR UNIONS! Protest at the Asheville Federal Building at noon!

10.04.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next national day of action is 4/19 - Asheville will once again be gathering in Pack Square!

09.04.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Get ready to join us tomorrow (and get very Thursday!) from 5pm-7pm in front of Chuck Edwardsโ€™ McDonaldโ€™s franchise on Four Seasons Blvd (right off the highway in Hendersonville) and if youโ€™re lucky, one of these signs could be yours!

09.04.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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