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North Carolina Open Thread: NC Supreme Court, Medicaid report, Indian news, Executive orders [1]
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Date: 2025-01-19
On Saturday, Jan. 18, thousands of people are expected to rally for The People's March in Washington, D.C. and cities nationwide, including Asheville.
A local rally will take place from 10 a.m. to noon in Asheville's Pack Square Plaza. This demonstration is called "People's Voice Asheville: A Day of Signs and Hope."
Per the People's March website, under the same organization as the Women's March, this event aims to "amplify the voices of the People's March and demonstrate our commitment to the same principles of justice and equality."
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This march will reportedly largely be in protest of President-elect Donald Trump, as well as GOP policies.
North Carolina has joined some other states that will raise flags to full staff on President-elect Donald Trump's Inauguration Day, despite the traditional mourning period following a former president's death.
After the death of a former president, federal flag code dictates that flags should be flown at half-staff for 30 days. After former President Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29 at age 100, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation to lower flags to half-staff for the standard period.
Several state officials have announced plans to temporarily disregard the proclamation on Inauguration Day, which coincides this year with Martin Luther King Day. The date falls on Jan. 20, within the 30-day mourning period.
Trey Adcock, executive director for the Center for Native Health, believes history was made when around 20 Cherokee people gathered at an undisclosed location deep in Nantahala National Forest in late 2024 to continue fostering the long-developing costewardship between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Natural Resources Department (EBCI NRD), the Center for Native Health (CNH) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
“As far as we know, this is the largest gathering of Cherokee people in this place together since the removal period, which to me is really meaningful,” says Adcock.Central to that day’s conversation was the topic of Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge, also referred to as TEK.
“The Forest Service recognizes the importance of Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge,” says Maria Dunlavey, a Nantahala National Forest botanist involved in tribal forestry projects since 2019. “We have guidance to incorporate it into decision-making. We also know that TEK isn’t static; it’s an evolving body of observations, oral and written knowledge, practices and beliefs, and it’s owned by tribes. By investing in the Cherokee relationship with the land, we’re investing in that knowledge.”
And the knowledge runs deep.
“The health of Indigenous peoples is inherently tied to the well-being of the land we call home. For so many people, there’s no connection with culture when there’s no access to land,” says Bonnie Claxton, program officer for CNH Land and Wellness.
Rhyming is a passion — as well as bread and butter — for Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Asheville’s eternally exuberant, purple top hat-wearing children’s hip-hop artist.
This month, the Grammy Award-winning musician — also known as Cactus — channels his celebrated songwriting skills into a new community educational offering, the Imaginarium: Flip the Script!, a rhyme-writing workshop and performance series for local youths.
The project, generally designed for ages 7-17, launches at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at AyurPrana Listening Room in West Asheville. The choose-your-own-adventure, eight-week program consists of weekly classes combined with performances culminating in a capstone community hip-hop show with the whole Secret Agent 23 Skidoo crew.
The concept merges rhyme-writing techniques and 23 Skidoo’s unique brand of uplifting playfulness and creativity with elements of a classic rites-of-passage journey. An underlying objective is to offer local kids tools for healing and growth in the wake of Tropical Storm Helene.
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Nov 11, 2024 Tomorrow's Cost is both a eulogy and blueprint for tomorrow, featuring many musicians from the Asheville music scene and shot in the devastation from the recent storm. In the wake of Hurricane Helene, the Western North Carolina community rose to the challenge and came together as a beacon of light, showing the nation how it's done. We put aside our differences and helped each other out as a community, everyone pitching in when and how they could. But we are still trying to make it happen, and could use your help. Please consider donating at www.belovedasheville.com, one of the most trusted and reputable organizations serving WNC, or at www.floodbackart.com to help the art, music, and creative communities of WNC. Thank you!!!Rap by Secret Agent 23 SkidooSinging by Whitney Moore & Juan HolidayGuitar, Violin & Viola by Matt WilliamsBass by Ben BjorlieSaxophone by Jacob RodriguezTrumpet by Alex BradleyTrombone by Kyle SnufferBeat by Justin AswellProduced by Matt Williams & Secret Agent 23 SkidooWritten by Whitney Moore, Matt Williams, & Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
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