Enjoy a tiny peak at PeaceDaySF 2011!  
Alli Starr for CodePink, Pamela Parker, Dancing without Borders and James Nash!

FREE RALLY & MUSIC FESTIVAL
Civic Center Plaza 10:00 - 6:00

Amazing music, dancers, speakers and activism.
Remembering Louise Clark and Peter Berg.
Workshops on local sustainable living:
local food, composting toilets, urban farming,
earth architecture and more.
Live streaming of PeaceDay's events and the
100,000 Poets Open Mic tent!

Much thanks to the thousand plus attendees on September 24 to demand:
Peace Through Sustainability!

MUSIC LINEUP!* Lineup included 3 phenomenal Bay Area guitarists:
James Nash, Chris Rossbach & Eric McFadden!

Morning program for kids (10 to noon):
Space Pirates Feat. Anoush
Making Dinner
Ananta Fiddle-Hooper
12:30 Women Rockers: Essence, Vanessa VerLee, Ziva
2:30 Ashel Seasunz
3:15 Pamela Parker Band
3:55 Dancing Without Borders
4:10 James Nash and the Nomads
4:55 Ian Stewart Group
5:30 D'Amphibians



Sponsors: CANOW.org, 350.org, CodePink,
100,000 Poets for Change & BACORR. 
Kids' section sponsors: herchurch.org,
One World One Voice &
the Family Art Program of San Francisco. 

Who is Pamela Parker? She is a keen songwriter/composer & multi-instrumentalist, primarily on guitar & keys. A natural born soul singer who was classically trained in opera, Pamela Parker fuses her varied influences to create rock n roll chemistry. Pamela Parker emits a subtle rock edge that mirrors her inner grace.

With an all-star band consisting of legendary Eric McFadden on lead guitar and vocals (also contributing as a musical producer), other worldly Kevin Carnes (of Broun Fellinis) on drums, and (fresh from touring with Eric Lindell) standout bassist Chris Arenas, Pamela Parker is set to write the next chapter in rock herstory.

For more info on Pamela Parker, please check out her website:

www.PamelaParkerRocks.com
 

James Nash is no stranger to musical diversity. As at home with Charlie Parker and Bill Monroe as he is with Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix, the accomplished guitarist embraces the potential challenges of playing multiple genres with both joy and aplomb.

Nash’s broad vocabulary, both as scholar and stylist, has led to a genre-bending approach that has served him well for a decade as a lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter for the eclectic and virtuosic Americana ensemble, The Waybacks. Similarly, they make him a fitting helmsman for both the electric rock 'n soul grooves of The Nomads and the daredevil acoustic escapades of The NashVillains.

 

Ziva Hadar was born and raised in a small kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley in Israel. Now based in San Francisco, CA, Ziva & her band perform regularly in The Bay Area. The band, collectively known as ZIVA (zivamusic.com), combines jazz, R&B, rock, and pop references with Ziva’s powerful, versatile vocals, piano skills and dynamic songwriting. ZIVA's debut EP is scheduled to be released this Fall, 2011.

Rocks her audience with electric fiddle, cello, beats and hula-hoop in her solo show. Her musical repertoire provides a well-rounded blend of classical, soul, jazz, hip-hop, rock, celtic, middle eastern, indian classical and alternative trance styles.

BIO:
Currently, ANANTA is birthing her mini-operetta 'ELEMENTAL'. A theatrical performance piece that uses visual media, sound, voice, movement and space as she addresses the necessity of perfect balance amidst the elements that create our reality. ELEMENTAL's debut is slated for 11/11/11. Also, Her new solo album, 'Here, Just Hear' will be released 2011.

ANANTA is both the facilitator of 'Music, Meditation & Stillness Tuesdays' and the producer of the music events at The dhyana Center's 'Samadhi Shakedown Fridays'. A healthy alternative for friends and families to socialize, dance and have a community oriented good time! (www.dhyanacenter.com)

ANANTA frequents the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, Eugene and Los Angeles music scenes regularly as a solo artist. She has played with bands/artists such as Gabby La-La, Les Claypool, Jane Wiedlin, Pamela Parker, Boots Riley, Kaki-King, Jaya Lakshmi, Lost at Last, Jay Lane, Geoffrey Gordon, Tami Gosnell, Sophia Mallie, Shirley King, Joanne Rand, The Mountain Goats and Sukhawat Ali Khan.
 

Vanessa VerLee has been a staple in the San Francisco folk scene for over a decade. She's released three full length albums and preparing to release her fourth this November.
"Vanessa has a very unique songwriting flavor and delivers it with such style, determination and demeanor that she makes you feel like she's been your best friend and most trusted friend forever, " said JR McIntire, of Rhum Academy of Music. She and her husband, Jeremy Rourke, also a singer-songwriter, have play regularly at venues all over the bay area including Cafe Du Nord, The Make Out Room, Amnesia and more. Her voice has been compared to Janis Joplin and Lucinda Williams, her songwriting to John Prine and Patty Griffin, but with over 100 songs, greatly ranging in style, you never know what she'll pull out. When she's not on stage, Vanessa is also an established yoga teacher and bodyworker in San Francisco.

For those of you who have been on the planet a little longer, you will remember the guitarist Ian Stewart. Ian touched the "Bay Area Music Scene" in a big way with his "Locals Only" Live music television series that lasted for 5 years on KTVU (Channel 2). In fact, this series aired to 50 million west coast house-holds (Saturday night was its time slot in San Francisco). Ian has toured extensively as a guitarist and produced live records from many famous artists (for example "Yes" members Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood's "Conspiracy Live" and the timeless recording of Storm Large "Beautiful" which remains an all time hit getter at YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvKK8HSZDVw). Many will remember Ian's guitar playing on the "cattle call" for artists on the Locals Only show, which was the only segment where he actually appeared. He has dedicated his life to the betterment of Humankind and good positive intention.

A mainstay on the Bay Area music scene, D’Amphibians blend New Orleans grooves with original rock and funk compositions. This is music for your ass, hips, soul, and head. D’Amphibians has a bounce that will move you. The band has been together for over fifteen years, playing regular gigs at former Blake’s in Berkeley and Mick’s Lounge in San Francisco. But this is no average bar band. On any given weekend, you’re just as likely to hear them revving up a college frat house, sweating it out at an Aptos beach party, or funkifying a Napa wedding. Each member of D’Amphibians brings a myriad of musical experiences and styles to the table, but the band has found common ground with danceable funk and rock. One fan recently called them a perfect cross between the Meters and Phish.

Recently, Seasunz came out with a seminal Conscious Hip- Hop album, Earth Amplified, that touches on many of the environmental and socio-political issues of the day. Earth Amplified is now a collective that moves effortlessly between spoken word, hardcore rap, double-time flow, reggae, dancehall, funk and blues styles. What would the Earth say through Hip-Hop? AshEL SeasunZ, Ambessa the Art, Travis De Leon, and Seneca are EARTH AMPLIFIED.

These 11 year-old musicians are seasoned performers, having played together at music festivals such as Power to the Peaceful, Harmony Festival and Earth Day, as well as many smaller events. They perform original music, in addition to a repertoire of covers... their version of the White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” is not to be missed!

Workshop Leader: Roots to Fruits -- Urban farming and localvore lifestyles

Booka was born and raised in St. Louis, where her she grew up watching her mother propagate new cultivars of African violets during her early childhood, and prepare fresh, seasonal meals for the family. Her father, an architect, had a major impact on her exploration of urban design and civic planning. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Kenyon College, she lived in the Netherlands for a short while, before returning to St. Louis to begin her own jewelry design business, operating her own shop and managing the online store for four years.

Once moving to the Bay Area in 2006, she sought out ways to blend her appreciation for food, passion for social justice and natural skills as an entrepreneur. As a volunteer coordinator for San Francisco's own Slow Food Nation event, which drew half a million people, she became invested in the Slow Food Movement. She was asked to join Slow Food Berkeley, as Treasurer of the Board and served a year in this role. She was the Operations Director for Oakland's first Eat Real Festival in 2009. In 2010 she turned her attention from slow food to slow farming. While enrolled in an urban permaculture course, she helped activate the Hayes Valley Farm Project, where she continues to lead community events and fundraising initiatives that highlight simple strategies for growing your own food. She currently teaches staff and patients at the Veterans Administration Medical Center of San Francisco, as part of a Kitchen GardenSF workshop series funded by federal grants. She also teaches youth programs at local elementary schools in Potrero Hill. Booka is a certified Permaculture Designer and lives in Potrero Hill, where she nurtures her own small backyard crops, hoping next season to be able to perhaps sell them to neighborhood cafes or restaurants who may be seeking hyper-local veggies, herbs and jams. In 2011 she founded the tree-advocacy organization, Roots to Fruits, to support the planting of fruit trees in Bay Area schools and open spaces.

When she is not actively volunteering or teaching, she is a backyard landscaper, and loves to spend time writing, traveling and adventuring outdoors— foraging for mushrooms, studying native plants, cooking and occasionally making her own bacon.

Workshop Leader: Living Earth Structures -- sustainable architecture

Miguel Elliott of Living Earth Structures has spent the past 10 years sculpting beautifully crafted functional art using local earth material. He mixes sand, clay and straw with his bare feet to create a material called "Cob", which is then plastered and sealed. His specialty is creating wood-fired ovens, benches and saunas to help create a joyous community experience. His main focus these days is working to get natural building incorporated into school curriculum and teaching workshops. He has built a mobile cob & bamboo hut on a trailer, called a 'Coboose", which he has brought to the Peace Rally from his home at the isis Oasis retreat center in Geyserville. His website is www.livingearthstructures.com

Workshop Leader: Composting toilets and lifesaving and sustainable sanitation solutions

Jenny Benorden (Producer/Director) made her first film about Haiti in 2004, after the coup d’etat of Jean Bertrand Aristide, and the second in 2005, focusing on the UN killings in Cite Soleil, a small neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. In 2007 she finally traveled to Haiti for the first time, to develop a 30-minute film about SOIL, a visionary green organization working with Haitian groups to address multiple layers of human health conditions with simple, easy-to-implement technologies.

Patricia Bellasalma

Patricia Bellasalma, President of California Chapter of the National Organization for Women is an attorney whose California employment law practice included heading and supervising a legal team through all stages of a certified wage and benefit race discrimination case against the County of Los Angeles involving similarly situated Los Angeles County Police Officers, including jury and bench trials, as well as on appeal. As a college and law student, and as an attorney, the doors for positive social change expanded leading to the creation of a law practice committed to race, gender and class justice and is currently participating in the formation and running of a solutions based ehealth technology company providing electronic health management systems, low-power hardware tools and technical skills training in Nigeria and other African countries.




RAFAEL BARRAGAN & TACOLIST.COM


Rafael Barragan is the founder of Tacolist.com.
Tacolist is a free classifieds listing site with a Latin flavor. Basically… it’s your Latino version of craigslist.

The site was launched three years ago with the mission of contributing back to the needs of the community. Tacolist.com has partnered with animal rescue organizations, Latino scholarship funds and living green events. And in furthering their commitment to the environment, Tacolist.com & Rafael Barragan have joined forces with the Barefoot Eco-Runner on his Ultra-Marathon from Argentina to Alaska.

Now the team of Tacolist.com & the Barefoot Eco-Runner will continue the journey of planting trees, recycling and spreading their environmental message until they reach Alaska together.

Please welcome Rafael Barragan, founder of Tacolist.com!




Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment,beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him 'the planet's best green journalist' and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was 'probably the country's most important environmentalist.' Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.




Emily Murase and her beautiful family

Emily Murase
Emily serves as Executive Director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, where she oversees a $3.5 million budget and a professional staff of 5 to promote the human rights of the women and girls of San Francisco. Previously, she served in the first Clinton White House as Director for International Economic Affairs (1993-1994), after working for AT&T Japan in Tokyo, and later worked in the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.


BLATANT PERSONAL BIAS: Special THANK YOU to Gayle McLaughlin for braving the SF fog from her darling, Richmond! 
 


Gayle McLaughlin
 Green Party MAYOR of Richmond


As Mayor, Gayle has spearheaded and sponsored many new green and sustainability initiatives.
For example: she brought forward a policy that has waived solar permit fees for residential installations, initiated a solar thermal rebate policy,
sponsored the City’s Green Building Ordinance and its compostable Food Ware Ordinance, and helped initiate the
City’s award-winning local green job training program.

Gayle has prioritized the interests of Richmond residents, families, and small businesses.
At her monthly “Meet the Mayor” sessions, along with scheduled meetings in her office on a daily basis,
she has made herself accessible to all her constituents, whether they represent a wealthy corporation or a low-income family.
As chairperson of the Richmond City Council, she has promoted a more participatory, democratic and transparent local government.
She supported moving the Open Forum time to the beginning of the meetings to make it easier for people to participate.
She stood firm against secret back-room deals that others conducted and was congratulated by the local media for this stance.

Gayle has defended the victims of violent crime, speaking loud and clear against the rape at Richmond High and the recent church shootings, and works closely with the Police Chief and our Office of Neighborhood Safety with ongoing and new strategies to reduce all violence in the city, especially in hot spot neighborhoods. Her office sponsors, in conjunction with local groups, the Healing Circles of Hope, a program that trains facilitators and conducts support groups for many throughout Richmond who have lost loved ones to violence. She advocated for the thousands of residents evicted from their homes by bank speculators and she supported fair cause eviction policies. Gayle embraced unemployed youth desperate to learn skills and earn a salary by expanding the Summer Youth Program by hundreds. She has developed a Richmond Youth Corps providing part-time year round jobs for our youth. She voted to assist Kennedy High School and other Richmond schools with $3 million. She has defended the civil rights of Richmond’s immigrant workers trying to earn an honest day of work.

Gayle has protected the Richmond open shorelines from toxic spills, and unhealthy, ill-conceived development. She opposes urban casinos in Richmond. She initiated laws that protect residents from cell antennas microwaves, signed on as a plaintiff of the court case to stop the State of California from spraying pesticides over Richmond, and won; and she demanded that the Richmond refinery retrofit and expansion project proceed only with important safety and environmental safeguards in place.

As a Richmond City Councilmember, Gayle was the lone vote opposing Measure Q, which sought to increase sales taxes even higher in Richmond. The measure failed, and rightly so. Gayle brought the entire City Council together to require proper environmental clean-up oversight for the toxic Zeneca and UC Field Station sites on the southeastern Richmond shoreline. She championed the East Bay Regional Park District’s purchase of Breuner Marsh to build a park for Richmond residents, co-sponsored an initiative that repealed the 12-year practice of allowing Chevron to self-permit, self-inspect, and self-certify its own projects, and was a key opponent of the ill-conceived idea of a toxic crematorium proposed for North Richmond.

Gayle’s successful election to the Richmond City Council in 2004 and to the Office of Mayor in 2006, without a penny of corporate money, marked a turning point in Richmond politics, when voters selected a candidate solely on the power of her ideas and values, rather than the power of wealthy special interests.

As a Richmond resident, Gayle co-founded the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) in 2003, a gathering of Democrats, Greens and Independents coming together in progressive unity for a better and healthier Richmond. With the RPA she has worked on various civil rights, human rights, environmental health, and living wage issues to preserve and improve the quality of life of Richmond residents.

Gayle also co-founded Solar Richmond, a nationally-recognized local program promoting solar power and green jobs in Richmond, and Richmond Residents for a Responsible General Plan, a community organization committed to ensuring that the General Plan process be transparent and open to public participation

Education: Gayle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, graduating summa cum laude. Her graduate studies include psychology and education.

Gayle has a background as an educator, and professional experience in nonprofit leadership organizations promoting literacy, social justice, and environmental health. She has also been involved in nonprofit research and data-driven projects addressing the needs of disadvantaged youth.

Family: Gayle was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a working class union family. She is the middle child of five daughters. Her father was a carpenter and member of the Carpenter's Union and her mother was a factory worker and housewife. As a young activist during the 1980's, Gayle worked with the Central American solidarity movement, People United to Save Humanity (PUSH), and the Rainbow Coalition. Gayle is married to Paul Kilkenny, also a Richmond activist for social and environmental justice.

This is what an ecofeminist looks like!