Farmer's Market 6/4/16

The Peace Panel Project shared a booth with Chico Tree Advocates at the Farmer's Market. It was a good day. David made some good sounds. His dog slept.

Less pollution, David Swanson and Daniel Ellsgerg

Yesterday was a day and a half! Woke up at 4:30 am and headed to Napa. Scored an '82 Chevy Luv diesel mini pick up! My days of needing to go to the gas station are numbered. You all know one of the main hits on the planet is burning gasoline. From now on, all I will need is old cooking oil, (bio-diesel). No to multi national corporations and no war required. Then I went to the S.F. Library and got to hear a discussion between 2015 Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Swanson and Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame. It was inspiring! Check out davidswanson.org
Link to the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s2agOZgcrE

What I got out of the event with David Swanson and Daniel Ellsberg was, among other things, 1. We are fighting 7 wars now, 5 with boots on the ground. With drones we are making more enemies than we are killing. 2. Let's make war and war profiteering shameful. 3. Take our protests to the media headquarters. The offices of your local newspaper if they are lying. 4. It is sad that 55,000 Americans died in Vietnam, but don't forget 6 million Asians died too. Based on a lie. 5. One of the ways we are paying for our over militarized foreign policy is the gradual normalization of the militarization of our home town police. We are at a point where our militarized police see us as the enemy instead of fellow citizens. 6. Protests have a good effect.

Farmer's Market

The Peace Panel Project shared a booth with the Chico Tree Advocates, Saturday, at the Farmer's Market, under the old Magnolia tree. We were spreading the word about the up-coming City Council vote on whether to fund the City Tree Crew more or not. You know we have lost more trees than have been planted recently. Let's call our City Councilors and ask them to fund the tree crew more! We need more pruning and planting! 
The second photo is a recent shot at 20th & Fair St.s

From Nonviolent Communication

Sierra College

We helped promote the local peace group, the Peace & Justice Center of Nevada County, at our recent exhibit at Sierra College in Grass Valley.  We had some great discussions, sold some books, it was a great day.  Then we packed up and had a great exhibit the next day at Butte College in Oroville.  And all this was preceded by two Career Builder presentations at Paradise Hi in Paradise.

Pancakes for Peace

Pancakes for Peace was fun!  Seeing old friends; lots of conversation; the egg hunt!  Wow, when is the last time you saw 60 - one to six year olds running pell mell with Easter baskets?  

We got to unveil 7 new Peace Panels and we got a good response.  The weather was good; we had a great time.

Butte County Move To Amend

The Butte County chapter of Move To Amend is underway!  Thanks to Leila Roberts and Colleen Kingsley a small but enthusiastic group is forming to do our part to amend the Constitution to legalize democracy.  Future meetings to be announced.