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On Saturday, September 8th, Musician and Filmmaker, Michael Franti
with Guerrilla Management present the 9th Annual 911 Power to the
Peaceful Festival at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. PTTP also
features morning yoga, an open-air art gallery, a healing arts tent,
a DJ tent, vendors and food booths, eco village, kid's zone, bicycle
coalition, and social, environmental & political organizations
tabling & forums.
The Festival began humbly in 1998 as an international day of art
and culture in support of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. The
name and date ”911” were chosen to call attention to
the emergency status of Mumia's impending execution and drew roughly
6,000 people to the Mission's Dolores Park. In 2000, PTTP expanded;
showing support for all prisoners on death row, and speaking out
against the exponential growth of the prison industrial complex.
When the attacks of September 11th, 2001 occurred, the festival
took on a new significance, serving both as a day of remembrance
for the lives lost in the tragedy as well as a day in which Northern
Californians called for and end to all bombing around the globe.
The 2002 and 2003 events offered a space for healing and compassion
for all the people killed or displaced by terrorism and the war
on terrorism. By this time, the festival had outgrown Dolores Park,
and was resituated in the lush mile acre of Speedway Meadows in
Golden Gate Park, with over 20,000 people attending. In 2004 the
festival was themed "Stand up and be Counted", encouraging
people to get out and vote. Last year's festival, themed "Bring
'Em Home" emphasized that the best way to support our troops
is to bring them home now and drew upwards of 50,000 attendees participating
in a day of music, art and social justice.
PTTP Festival has been graced with inspirational performances by
Michael Franti and Spearhead, KRS-One, String Cheese Incident, Saul
Williams, Keller Williams, Blackalicious, Alice Walker, Ram Dass,
Talib Kweli, Amy Goodman, The Coup, Digital Underground, Woody Harrelson,
Lyrics Born, Anti-Flag, Jello Biafra and Angela Davis and many others.
VIEW
the PTTP 2006 site
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