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Chico Peace Vigil In the News Tonight for Trayvon!

Chico Peace Vigil stands up for Trayvon! Check out tonight's news story. Its about justice.

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4th of July Celebration in Chico

The 4^th of July Chico Celebration at One-Mile 2013

We arrived at, a cool, 7:40 am and set up at spaces 29, 30, and 31.  This was the most impressive exhibit of the Peace Panel Project yet!  11 matching easels with 3 – 2’ x 4’ panels each, many of them new, revised, or nearly new.  Fresh off our show at the Wildflower Music Festival, we showed a softer side then we did here last year, trying to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.  We left our smash-mouth Panels at home.  Thanks to Bill Mash and Lakshmi, a new friend named Doug, Greg and all the friends that stopped by we had a good show. 

Chris Nelson bicycled by in Guantanamo garb, with her signs to remind people of the injustice there.  Standing in her orange jump suit and black hood that had to be hot!

  

It’s fun to watch some passersby, occasionally, get hooked into reading every word of several Panels.  We sold some books; had discussions; got signatures on petitions (including No on Sit & Lie); opened some eyes.  Photography got underway prior to most viewers’ arrival.  Folding up the Project, in the sun, at 1 pm on this 4^th of July proved to be a challenge.  It was so hot the exertion took another day to recover from.  It was HOT!  How hot was it?  Damn Hot!

The Wildflower Music Festival 2013

Wildflower Music Festival  6/29/13

“Beautiful and poignant” were the words I overheard one of the staff of the Wildflower Music Festival 2013, use to describe the Peace Panel Project to her relatives, as she walked them past where our exhibit had just been.  Chuck, Bill and I were just finishing folding up the exhibit and it felt good to hear her say that, as I saw them walk by.  I had never thought of the Peace Panel Project in those terms, but they seemed reasonable and complimentary.   

This exhibit was a little different.  We had been asked to put on a “kid friendly” show, so we left all the real controversial and scary panels at home.  It’s interesting, as the Peace Panel Project matures, with five years under our belt, and over 70 large panels to choose from, we are able to customize each show to be appropriate to the target market.  With the goals to educate and inspire activism, now it is even more fun, to see how well we can refine our display, to appeal to a particular audience. 

We unveiled four new Panels today, Doubt Is Creative, Free Lynn Stewart, John McCain don’t join the military, Respect Ecuador, plus a major update on What Can I Do. 

From 11 am to 4:30 pm we enjoyed the fun music and kid noises in the background as we engaged attendees and other vendors, who stopped by, with our messages of peace, nonviolence, Better World Shopping and Project Censored.

We sold some books, a few peace buttons, had some good conversations, and made some great contacts with local teachers that expressed interest in our topics as the subject of a guest lecture visit to their classrooms.  It was a good day.  

Free Lynn Stewart!

What good is the "Bill of Rights" without civil rights lawyers?  Sign the petition!  Call the Director!

Respect Ecuador

How soon we forget the grief we have visited on our neighbors to the south.  See Ruses For War by Quigley.  The Peace Panel Project offers it at 10% off the marked price.