Asheville

American Indian Movement (AIM) - Asheville
The local organizers for the American Indian Movement.

Arthur Morgan School
An innovative boarding and day school whose aim is to help each student grow into a confident and responsible young person. Instead of learning to compete, students learn to cooperate, care for themselves, their world and each other.

Asheville Community Resource Center
Volunteer coalition of local community members and organizations working toward social change in our community, our society, and our world. 828.252.8999

Asheville Global Report
A weekly newspaper that consistantly covers news and events that are left out of the corporate media.

Asheville Recyclery
Non profit bicycle repair shop. 828.253.7930

The Bountiful Cities Project
Works to create on urban land, beautiful community spaces that provide food in abundance and foster a learning environment for social justice and sustainability. For more information, call 828.236.9462.

Community of Compassion
We are a coalition of individual citizens of Asheville and Buncombe Co., North Carolina, who are making our city a "community of compassion" toward the medicinal, industrial, and spiritual uses of cannabis -- also known as marijuana and hemp.

Community Supported Development
A diverse group of Asheville and Buncombe residents who seek development that will help maintain the quality of life in the areas in which we live and work.

High Country Citizens for Peace and Justice
A peace and justice organization formed in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001 and the military actions of the U.S. against Afghanistan.

International Link
A resource and support center for Ashevilles foreign born population as well as a cross cultural center.

The Matrona Foundation
Committed to providing empowering educational opportunities, community service programs, and being an impetus for social change. We host free holistic health classes on tuesdays and a food share pantry. For more info: 828.775.1501 or ancientheart9@aol.com

The Mediation Center
A place for creative resolution of disputes between parties. We also teach conflict resolution skills to youth and adults.

The Indie
Asheville's independent newspaper that continues breakin' barriers. If you are submitting an article for Free Voices, you may consider submitting to The Indie as well.

The Mosaic Vortex
Our mission is to create a loving, supportive share center for the disadvantaged youth in a free environment for self expression and inspiration.

Mountain Area Information Network
A non profit internet access organization providing full first ammendment protected services, forums, and interaction.

Out in Asheville
Your online resource for the GLBT community, also available free in print in the Asheville area.

Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Asheville: 828.277.7815
Hendersonville: 828.696.8250

People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
828.253.6287

Sheville
Online community home for lesbians and their friends.

Wildroots
A collectively stewarded land project, focusing on bringing people together to share skills for rewilding and reconnecting to nature, and affect cultural change from a biocentric perspective.

Women In Black - Asheville
We are part of a worldwide network of women who are committed to peace with justice and who actively oppose war and all forms of violence. Women in Black is a means of mobilization, not an organization. We stand in silent vigil in public squares dressed in black to represent our sorrow.

Western North Carolina Peace Coalition
The Western North Carolina Peace Coalition formed in response to the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. People from local groups came together with the desire to put forward non-violent responses to the situation as well as to decry the calls for war.

 

 

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