Daily Kos Connects Asheville

Saturday, September 26, 2015
Daily Kos Connects Asheville
LOCATION: US Cellular Center in the Banquet Hall
87 Haywood Street • Asheville, North Carolina

Grow our network, unite our progressive communities, help win elections!

Join us for a day of progressive strategizing and camaraderie with Big Orange flavor. In a day-long seminar, learn how our Connect! Unite! Act! team used the Daily Kos forum to help affect change in North Carolina state politics. Participants will focus on organizing from the ground up. You'll also get a chance to meet the blog's founder, Markos Moulitsas and some Daily Kos writers, such as Joan McCarter, Meteor Blades, Denise Oliver-Velez and others.
8:00 AM - Registration and continental breakfast provided
9:00 AM - Interviews with NC NAACP lawyer Al McSurely and Activist and Filmmaker Bree Newsom
Noon - Lunch included 
1:00 PM - Interviews with NC Dem Party Chair Patsy Keever, Scrutiny Hooligans’ blogger Tom Sullivan, local radio host Jeff Messner, The Urban News publisher Johnnie Nelson-Grant, Democratic State Sen. Terry Van Duyn, City Councilman Gordon Smith, citizen activist Barry Summers and Campaign Zero activist DeRay McKesson
5:00 PM - After party at nearby Lexington Avenue Brewery, 39 North Lexington Avenue.
You'll need a wristband from the day event to get in.

$30 registration fee required for Saturday's events
Seating is limited to 200.
Parking at US Cellular

Pre-Events:
Friday, September 25, 2015
11:00 AM Friday Fish Fry - Fish sandwiches $7, includes chips & soda!
12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Rev. William Barber II, president of the NC NAACP, will welcome Daily Kos to Asheville and speak about the Moral Monday Movement, blessing by Reverend Edwards, introduction by Denise Oliver-Velez, vocal performance by Yara Allen.
Church opens at noon. 
St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church,
44 Hildebrand Street - 2.5 miles from Crowne Plaza; 0.6 miles walking distance from Crowne Plaza shuttle drop-off near US Cellular.
 • No charge for this event but donations to the church welcome.

Friday, September 25, 2015 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Rev. William Barber II, president of the NC NAACP, was was inducted into the traveling exhibition of 52 inspiring portraits of courageous Americans titled Americans Who Tell the Truth on September 19, 2015. Please join us as we walk through this superb gallery of amazing Americans documented in portraiture by famed artist, Robert Shetterly. YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market Street (0.5 mile walk from St. James AME Church) $10 donation suggested for this labor of love.

Friday, September 25, 2015
5:30 - 8:30 PM
No-Host Mixer, The Bywater, 796 Riverside Drive (2.5 miles from hotel and US Cellular) 

Post-Event:
Sunday, September 27, 2015
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
No-Host Brunch, Crowne Plaza, 1 Resort Drive, Overlook Restaurant

Logistics:
Hotel providing the best rate:
Crowne Plaza, 1 Resort Drive
Double-bed rooms available:
Thursday, 09/24/15 - $129.00 plus 11% tax
Friday, 09/25/15 - $209.00 plus 11% tax
Saturday, 09/26/15 - $209.00 plus 11% tax
Reservations: 888-211-7755
Mention KOS as the group code.
Hotel Airport Shuttle cost:
14.5 miles from AVL Airport Hotel Shuttle to/from AVL Airport $20 per person, each way. Flight details must be provided to hotel 72 hours in advance notice for arrivals, 24-hour notice for departures.
Hotel Shuttle to US Cellular $5 per person, round-trip.
Drop-off location is 0.2 mile walk from US Cellular. 

—Neeta Lind
Director of Community
Daily Kos

Questions? Need a scholarship? Email Neeta Lind