Just three short day’s after North Carolina voters approved Amendment One, banning Same-Sex Marriage in the state, Asheville based Marriage Equality group, Campaign For Southern Equality, drew a crowd of hundreds to the city’s offices in protest. CSE’s “We Do” campaign brings together Same-Sex couples to city halls across the state, in order to request [...]
Our Voice, Asheville’s rape crisis services provider, holds an annual fundraiser called “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” in which men from the community-politicians, business owners, etc.-do just that.
About 20 same-sex couples have been applying for marriage licenses at the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office this month. Today, the group turned up the heat with one of the couples, Rev. Kathryn Cartledge and partner Elizabeth Eves, refusing to leave after being denied their license. They were arrested for trespassing, but were shortly [...]
Occupy Asheville has reached it’s 5th day in downtown Asheville. I covered day one of the protest with photos and audio quotes from the protesters. Today, at Prichard Park, still about 80 people met for a general assembly. I asked a few more protesters about why they have come, and how they are being perceived in the community. This [...]
Occupy Wall Street is a protest against (among other things) corporate influence in America, which began in New York City on September 17, 2011. It was originally attended by around 1,000 protestors and has continued with varying numbers up to this day. It has also inspired sister protests across the nation. Today, on October 1, [...]
Pack Square Park was crowded for Asheville’s “Go Topless” rally on Sunday, August 21st. The rally started slowly but gained enough participants to fill the fountain below Vance monument before proceeding to the grassy area beneath the birch trees for a brief speech about women’s rights. The rally finished with a march to Lexington Avenue [...]
Carrier Park hosted this first of many to come Gay Games. Too much fun was had!
The second annual Walk A Mile In Her Shoes started this year in City-County Plaza and with beautiful weather, drew 350 people to the start. Participants ranged in age from 4-90 and styles were all over the map, from casual to formal. Understated, sensible shoes were in a definite minority. This is a flash/glam event, [...]
Saturday was busy downtown, with two rallies beginning at noon. Several hundred protesters gathered at Pack Square to show solidarity with workers in Wisconsin as part of a national day of action, protests were being held in nearly every State. Another rally, The Walk for Choice WNC, was a local response to the No Taxpayer [...]
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