Anarchist Neighborhood:Asheville
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Asheville is a city with strong libertarian currents despite a general shortage of anarchist organizing. The city's history as a progressive center began at least as early as the 1930s with the establishment of the Black Mountain College, one of America's most fabled experimental institutions in art education and practice.
In recent years, Asheville has been called the "New Freak Capital of the U.S." by Rolling Stone, "a New Age Mecca" by CBS News' Eye On America, and the "most vegetarian-friendly" small city in America by PETA.
Topics of concern in Asheville include development (gentrification and the resulting increase in housing costs), police brutality, racial and economic segregation and a poor job market.
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Organizations, Groups and Projects
- Asheville Copwatch, an informal copwatch program
- Asheville Homeless Network, America's only stand-alone membership organization for homeless people
- Asheville LETS, a Local Exchange Trading System (see Mutualism)
- Asheville Linux Users' Group (LUG), meets monthly at noon on the first Saturday at Firestorm Cafe & Books
- Asheville Permaculture Guild (temporarily defunct)
- Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective
- Blue Ridge Black Cross, recently formed chapter of the international Anarchist Black Cross
- Firestorm Cafe & Books, a worker-owned infoshop
- Katuah Earth First!, local branch of EF! (temporarily defunct)
- Prison Books
- Rising Tide, local chapter of the radical climate change org
- Scapegoat Theatre Collective, theater for non-traditional audiences, for the benefit of the community
- Southern Appalachian Center for Cooperative Ownership, a consulting firm that helps set up worker-owned businesses
- Tranzmission
Alternative Media
- Asheville Global Report
- Asheville Indymedia (defunct)
Other Local Resources
Local Networking
- Asheville Alerts (via Riseup.net), a community mailing list for anarchists, libertarians and other anti-authoritarians living in the Asheville area
- Asheville Indymedia List (via Riseup.net), a mailing list for discussion among people involved with indymedia work in and around Asheville, NC.
- WNC Linux Users Group, a mailing list for users and promoters of the open source operating system, Linux.
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