November

Wednesday, November 2: 6:00 p.m. Charlottesville City Council Candidate Forum: Fry's Spring Neighborhood Association, Cherry Ave. Christian Church.

Tuesday, November 8: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Election Day in Virginia.

Friday, November 18: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Virginia Organizing will hold its eighth annual Social Justice Bowl at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 Rugby Road, in Charlottesville. Please join us for a soup and bread supper and a short entertaining program, honoring local fighters for social justice. Then take your beautiful hand-crafted bowl, donated by a local potter, home with you. Tickets are on sale at Timberlakes Drug Store and Quest Bookshop and cost $25. Or you may send checks to Virginia Organizing, 703 Concord Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

Your support is helping expand community organizing in Virginia, as we push for policy reforms which will directly benefit low-income and working families. Please consider sponsoring individuals who would like to attend but cannot afford to do so. The sponsorships are $25 each. Please contact Sally for more information at 434-984-4655 x229 or at bastian@virginia-organizing.org.

Sunday, November 20: 3:00 p.m. The Annual Meeting of the Blue Ridge Virginia Chapter of the UNA at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church - Unitarian Universalist, at 717 Rugby Road, Charlottesville. This will be our last meeting until February 2012.

The program will be a presentation by Bob McAdams, titled "Reflections on a Community Envisioning Peace Process." Bob recently organized widespread community support for the International Day of Peace (September 21) that focused on envisioning the peace process