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Photos of the All Species Samba Parade at the North Country Fair in Arcata CA - and the Wake The Dead Concert. Celtic Music and Grateful Dead Songs. EXCELLENT!


Official Website: http://sameoldpeople.org/

The North Country Fair is an annual two-day festival held on the Arcata Plaza in Arcata, CA the third full weekend in September.
Samba Parade at the North Country Fair in Arcata - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Samba Parade at the North Country Fair in Arcata - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Samba Parade at the North Country Fair in Arcata - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Samba Parade at the North Country Fair in Arcata - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Samba Parade at the North Country Fair in Arcata -Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Inflatable Dolphin at the All Species Samba Parade in Arcata CA - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

The Mothers of Pearl in Arcata All Species Parade - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan
The Mothers of Pearl in Arcata's All Species Parade 

Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan
Arcata, CA Samba Parade with Dancing Skeleton Puppet

and that same night... Wake The Dead Concert... 

Celtic arrangements of Grateful Dead Songs... Quite Good.
Arcata, California - Wake the Dead Concert - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan
Wake the Dead Arcata, California Sept 2015
http://www.wakethedead.org/
Arcata, California - Wake the Dead Concert - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan
Wake the Dead  at the Creamery Building Arcata Playhouse.
http://www.wakethedead.org/events/
Celtic Grateful Dead Music in Arcata Sept 2015
Wake the Dead Celtic Grateful Dead Music in Arcata Sept 2015


Wake the Dead Celtic Grateful Dead Music in Arcata Sept 2015

Wake the Dead Celtic Grateful Dead Music in Arcata Sept 2015

Wake the Dead Celtic Grateful Dead Music in Arcata Sept 2015
Wake the Dead Celtic Grateful Dead Music in Arcata Sept 2015

the All Species Parade, Arcata, CA - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan
All Species Parade in Arcata, CA
the All Species Parade, Arcata, CA
The Sign says KAPOW! Un-Dam the Klamath
Note the Hardhats and Dynamite Blasting Plunger.


the All Species Parade, Arcata, CA - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

the All Species Parade, Arcata, CA

the All Species Parade, Arcata, CA - Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan
Stilt Walking Kids in the All Species Parade, Arcata, CA

Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan

Arcata, California - Dancers, Drummers, Music, Art, Celebration and Parades - Photographs by gvan42 Greg Vanderlaan
Inside the Parade... I was compelled to Dance...

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Virtual Tour of Eureka and Arcata, California - Humboldt State University - Redwood Forests - Beaches - Six Rivers - Highway 101 - Kinetic Sculpture Race - Samba!

 Fun Things to do in Eureka and Arcata, California

In Northern California Near Oregon.

Humboldt State University Samba Parade Band performing Live On Campus in Arcata, California
Samba Parade on Campus

My Brother and I at the Old Fisherman Statue in Eureka, CA
My Brother and I at Woodley Island Marina in front of The Maritime Memorial for Sailors Lost at Sea.

The Madaket was a ferry boat that retired when they built the bridge to Samoa... Now it has narrated cruises exploring Humboldt Bay... The captain tells us the history of what we see.


Other places to visit:
The North Jetty. Breakwaters that Protect the Channel into Humboldt Bay From the Pacific Ocean. Bring sensible shoes so we can walk to the end where the dolos are... be aware that sometimes the waves are so large that it would be dangerous to walk on the jetty... but you can watch from the top of the sand dunes.


Mount Saint Mercy Retreat
Located Way Out In the Woods on
Highway 211 Between the Avenue of the Giants and Historic Ferndale. 


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I remember Going to Anti Vietnam War Protest Marches... Including a Candle Light Parade Down Main Street Los Gatos With My Parents... I'm Glad that They Raised Me to Be in Favor of Good and Opposed to Evil...

And then My  Facebook Group Commented!

MWWW: My family was there, too!

DS: I remember going to the candlelight parade

CC: I remember watching the coffins coming off of the military planes each night...so incredibly sad

NM: I was there too; what year was the candlelight event?

SCB: We went every Christmas Eve, walked, held candles and sang songs. I was young and actually thought it was a part of celebrating Christmas. One Christmas Eve I asked my mom where my candle was that I would be holding and she told me the war was over. I didn’t really understand they were related. I remember being sad that we weren’t going to march anymore as it was one of my favorite parts of Christmas. (I obviously did not understand) My dad was the head of the Peace Center in Los Gatos. I still remember looking at a dove holding an olive branch necklace there that I had wanted. At 20 years old I had that symbol tattooed on me. The only tat I have and I have never regretted it. I’m glad to see that others also remember this.

JM: I was born and raised in Los Gatos, and knew nothing of these candlelight vigils. I enlisted in March 1965, before I had heard of Vietnam. A friend and I tried to hitchhike to Selma, to join Martin Luther King in his march from Selma to Montgomery for Negro voting rights. We got busted as runaways, and my dad suggested if I really wanted to help our country, maybe I should consider joining the military.
After Vietnam, it may seem strange that someone working for Civil Rights would join the military, but my grandfather fought in WWI and WWII and my dad was a Navy pilot in WWII and the Korean War. Eisenhower and JFK had used US troops to desegregate the South. I was very gung-ho.
I breezed through Basic Training, top 5% of Advanced Electronics training, volunteered for Jump School - and right about then, LBJ send the first US combat troops to Vietnam. I got my paratrooper wings and volunteered for helicopter pilot school. I was going all the way.
But, then I started talking to Special Forces troops who had come back from Vietnam, bragging about kicking prisoners out of helicopters at 1,500' to get other prisoners to talk, flying over villages shooting everything that moves (adding to the "Body Count"), and calling our supposed allies "Gooks".
I started researching what we were doing there in the first place and found that we were supporting a corrupt Catholic government in a Buddhist land. The monks who set themselves on fire, who I thought were protesting the godless Commies, were actually protesting the oppressive US backed South Vietnamese government. The Vietnamese people fought for their independence from the Chinese, the Japanese, and the French, and now the US, who took over from the French, after they refused to give up their colonies after WWII.
By March 1966 I had determined that the war had shattered my ideals of an honorable military, and I could not participate in it. To make a very long story short, at my court martial I quoted from the Nuremberg Trials that soldiers had a right and duty to oppose a war they felt to be illegal and immoral. But, at the time, there were no regulations for someone who enlisted to declare themselves to be a Conscientious Objector.
After a total of one and a half years of honorable duty, two years AWOL, and a year in jail, I was released in September 1969.
In 1974 I received a Presidential Pardon as acknowledgement of my sincere opposition to the war.
I don't know what years those vigils were, but I'm glad to hear about them. I was estranged from my parents and almost all my friends - I was just too early being against the war. In the end, most friends and family recognized I was on the right side of history. I finally got out in September 1969, just as many were still fighting against the war or dying for it. At the start of the Iraq War, I joined Veterans for Peace, and helped to organize Arlington West Memorials, spoke at colleges, and rallies. Since Vietnam too many wars for oil and politics - too many deaths, grievous injuries, and wasted trillions, for nothing.

AB: Jon, your family and friends should be very proud of how you have conducted yourself throughout your adult life. If they don't, it's on them...NOT you! Great job.

JL: Gregory, did you also spit on our soldiers too?

KK: that wasn't protesting....we carried signs and marched and sang and held anti war concerts and wrote letters to the govt!

KK: what you are referring to was assault...not protesting~

KK: we carried flowers and solicited PEACE!....cue: Are You Going to San Francisco~...feel free to sing along~

JM: The spitting legend was BS - there's a book called Spitting Image, that details when the story first started circulating - well after the war. He also details all the versions of the story. I walked down Telegraph Ave in Berkeley in March 1966, in my full paratrooper dress uniform - got some strange looks, but no disrespect.
The most common form of the story was that a soldier arrived from Vietnam, landing in SFO, and while walking down the terminal a young hippie chick comes up to him and spits in his face, (there are a couple of version of what she said), and said, "You're a baby killer".
It never happened. The anti-war movement was for peace, not confrontation, mostly following MLK and Gandhi's non-violence, except for small radical groups, that gave the real peace movement a bad name.

JL: If you were in the service you would sing a different song. No problem with MLK, was Gandhi a U.S. citizen?

LM: Jon Monday I disagree. I was spit on at the bus station in San Francisco on my return from Vietnam. After arriving in San Jose, taking a cab home, when the can driver founded out I just got home from Nam, he pulled over and threw me out of his cab. You…See More

GT: Funny how it was ok to protest back then..but not now

SL: Cook It was OK to protest back then - pretty much everybody was against the war. It was not OK to harass the troops. They were subject to the draft and had limited choices (prison or leaving the country) other than serving. The lack of support for them was horrible.

KK: me too!

ABG: I assume that it is the protest against stay-at-home and related guidelines to which you refer. If so, you are clearly comparing apples to dog shit (oranges are WAY too similar). On the one hand, people were protesting a long term conflict (it w…See More

AB: In case its not obvious, you hit what is probably my largest peeve. I'm even more amazed that since you're only a year younger than me, you should have been affected by the draft as well. I had 4 years of my life disrupted that I could never get back. And, I was lucky that after being drafted, I was able to get into a job that kept me in the States during my service. To this day, I am especially sensitive to how poorly people in the service were treated before, during and after Vietnam. NEVER has there been a time in our history where the people who served during those years have been disrespected and shit on like Vietnam era veterans. End of rant.

JM: Beg to differ, the peace movement embraced Veterans and provided services for homeless and drug addition.Counseled people facing the draft how to get out, and counseled soldiers how to get out as a CO. Right through the late 60s, 70s, all the way to the Iraq and Afghanistan war, the peace movement has supported active duty and veterans with love and recognition. Veteran For Peace is one such group. Those who ignored the returning troops were not the people who protested against the war.

AB: I think you misunderstood what I said. Where did you think I was accusing war protesters of treating veterans badly? Granted it's been almost 50 years ago but I do have some memories of people in uniform being harassed as war mongers and baby killers during some protests. Any group is going to have at least a few "bad eggs" but they were a small minority. In any case, they aren't the ones about whom I was referring.

MB: Do you remember the sit-ins that we had on the front lawn when we refused to go to classes?

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and then I Said: 

I Realize that it is Difficult to Believe Now BUT... There Were People That Actually Thought The Vietnam War Was a Great Idea! REALLY! I'm NOT Making this UP. 

During the Late 1960s The Majority of Americans BELIEVED the Government and Supported the War... OBEY! Said Lyndon Johnson and The Sheeple Obeyed... Sir, Yes Sir! Then Years Later THEY WOKE THE F*CK UP! Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding... REALITY CALLING! As a Matter of Fact, in 1968, Richard Nixon Campaigned Promising to End the War... With Honor... and then he Kept the war going until 1973... Classic "Say One Thing and Do the Opposite." 

I Grasp the Concept. DOW Chemical was Making a Fortune Selling Napalm and Agent Orange. Hughes Aircraft was Making a Fortune Selling Helicopters... and the List Goes On and On and On... Corporations selling Bandages to the Military need wounded soldiers to increase sales... Corporations Selling Meals Ready To Eat and BOOTS and Guns and Bullets and Jet Airplanes... Our Own FMC sold Machine Guns that shot Winged Needles and the World Famous Bradly Fighting Vehicle... It's all part of the Strategy of BLOW UP RANDOM COUNTRIES FOR CORPORATE PROFIT!




anti-war Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan

Chart of American Deaths Per War  by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan

Chart: Where the Notes are on the Piano and Guitar - by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan


SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent's Home in Los Gatos, CA - In the Sixties, They Raised Funds to Pay for Freedom Riders in the South. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home.html

I Remember That We Had a Black Man Talk. My Folks PACKED The House With People and Took Donations. 

In General, The Civil Rights Movement was Successful. President Lyndon Johnson Signed Laws That Allowed Black People to Vote and Live in White Neighborhoods. My Parents Helped!

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-signs-civil-rights-act

Years Later I Bought a Condo in a Black Neighborhood near Washington DC. There was a DEEP DISCOUNT if You Chose a Black Neighborhood. The Same Condo in Virginia cost $39,000 but in Beautiful Oxon Hill, Maryland the Price was $26,000. It Turns Out That the Peter, Paul and Mary Lyric is Accurate. "They Say that Property Values Will Go Right Down if The Family Next Door is Blue." --- I Selected the Discount. Because I Don't Care What Color My Neighbors Are. at Least I'm Not Going to PAY EXTRA For White Neighbors... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SywxNX6u_s


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Where Are the Really Great Parties? Free, Wonderful Events. The Date and Location is Provided for Fun, Fun, Fun for the Whole Family... Please Add Your Favorites in the Comments Section...

I like to Promote Worthy Events. For Example: The Rainbow Gathering, Kinetic Sculpture Race, North Country Fair and Humboldt Folklife Festival. Please Share Info and I'll Blog Your Suggestions. Email me... gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]com Thanks....
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Here is the Latest List of FREE and Wonderful Events!
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North Country Fair in Arcata, California. In September Every Year... All Species Parade, Samba Parade and free live Bands... Official Website: http://www.sameoldpeople.org/
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Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens, Los Angeles, CA 3500 Adams. they are open for visits from 1AM-3PM Tuesday - Friday.
http://www.peacelabyrinth.org/
Find a Labrynth near you...
www.labyrinthlocator.com
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Link to The Rainbow Gathering:
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/sites/annual-site.html
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Kinetic Sculpture Race: Bicycle powered ART Vehicles. Arcata to Eureka to Ferndale over land, sea and sand. Free to attend. Bring your bicycle to ride along.
http://kineticgrandchampionship.com/
http://www.kineticsculpturelab.com/
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Humboldt Folklife Festival: A Free outdoors Concert in Blue Lake, California with about 20 folk bands...
http://www.humboldtfolklife.org/
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Nimbin Mardi Grass: May 4th 2013 in Australia
http://www.nimbinmardigrass.com/
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Mayday... Mayday! Global Celebration of Spring... also International Workers of the World Unite Day... also... Happening in your own town 5/1 every year... Just before Sinko de Mayo.
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An alert reader suggests:
The Burning of Zozobra [old man gloom] in Santa Fe, New Mexico. September 2013. It is a giant paper effigy of a man symbolizing worry. People bring papers with their troubles written on them to the puppet and all papers are added to the pyre. Once your troubles have been burned, participants feel relief.
Alert Reader said: "I always had mixed feelings about being in a crowd of people shouting, "Burn him, burn him!" But I did like the symbolism. My then husband donated paper from his recycling center at least one year to help construct Zozobra."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zozobra
Fiestas de Santa Fe has been held since 1712.
http://www.santafefiesta.org/

The same basic concept as "Burning Man" in the Nevada Desert near Reno.
They burn a statue of an MAN symbolizing whatever you want it to symbolize.
http://www.burningman.com/
The same basic concept as "Bohemian Grove" in the Sonoma County, California.
They burn a statue of an OWL symbolizing cares.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
The URL {website address] who.ru would be a great name... 
If you liked The Who's Music and lived in the former Soviet Union...
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An alert reader recommends:
Mardi Gras in New Orleans on February 12th 2013
http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/
The Parades and Costumes are Superb.
Many drum and dance troops compete to be the best.
The Inspiration for the song "Aiko-Aiko".
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An alert reader recommends:
The Bay to Breakers Footrace in San Francisco, California. May 19th 2013
People dress up in whimsical costumes and run, walk or roll from the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Except for the "Salmon" who swim upstream by running the course from the ocean to the bay...
http://baytobreakers.com/
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"HanfParade" Legalization of Hemp Parade in Berlin.  Last year it was 11th August. A yearly Event: The demonstration started at 1 p.m. on Alexanderplatz, "World Time Clock" next to Station Alexanderplatz with the motto "Freiheit, Gesundheit, Gerechtigkeit" (Freedom, Prosperity, Justice).
http://en.hanfparade.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanfparade
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SXSW Festival March 8th-17th Austin Texas.
Music and Seminars. A unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.
http://sxsw.com/
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Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, California April 27th, 2013
Farcical and Flamboyant!
http://pasadenadoodahparade.info/
Truckin, Like the Doo-Dah Man... Lyric from The Grateful Dead...
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/truckin.html
A reference to the song "Camptown Races" by Steven Foster... or... maybe a tip of the hat to the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band who experienced DADA in their performances...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band
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Bristol Festival of Nature in England. 15th and 16th June 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Festival_of_Nature
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The Great Reno Balloon Race is a hot-air balloon race held each September in Reno, Nevada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Reno_Balloon_Race
http://renoballoon.com/
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Free Entrance Days in the National Parks
America's Best Idea - the national parks - is even better when it's free!
Mark your calendar for these entrance fee-free dates in 2013:
January 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
April 22-26 five days during National Park Week
August 25 National Park Service Birthday
September 28 National Public Lands Day
November 9-11 Veterans Day weekend
http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparks.htm
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SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE FESTIVAL: 6/29 - 6/30
While the parade is the historical highlight of Pride, it's the parties surrounding this weekend that truly capture the SF spirit.
http://sfpride.org/
http://www.metrowize.com/san-francisco-festivals-guide
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The Peace and Love Festival is located in Borlänge, Sweden 25th-29th June
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival Washington DC June 26–June 30 and July 3–July 7 - every year... 
An international exposition of living cultural heritage annually produced outdoors on the National Mall of the United States in Washington, D.C., by the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
http://www.festival.si.edu/
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Truckers Christmas Parade, Eureka California
On the second Saturday evening of every December, thousands of people line the streets of Eureka and delight at the spectacle of huge trucks adorned in holiday lights.
http://www.redwoods.info/showrecord.asp?id=3710
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Cinco de Mayo Parade and Festival San Jose California May 5th. Celebration on Mexican Culture and Heritage. There is always a Carlos Santana Tribute Band. Yes, THAT is Mexican Culture. So is Jerry Garcia. Mariachi!
http://www.sanjose.com/attractions/festivals/
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Chinese New Year Parade San Francisco February 23rd.
Dancing Dragons and firecrackers...
http://www.chineseparade.com/
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Earth Day: Celebration in Every City Worldwide.
If NOT celebrated in your city, get busy and make it so.
April 22nd.
http://www.earthday.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
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Swimming in the Chico Creek at the "One Mile" Pool. in California

Friday Night Music in the Park. Chico. Local Bands play Every Week in the Summer. Starts May 17th. Chico is in the Central Valley of California a hundred miles North of Sacramento. It is a remote College town and truly it's own world.
http://www.downtownchico.net/events/dcbaevents/fnc
https://www.facebook.com/fridaynightconcerts
The Series usually Starts with Jeff Pershing Band. World Beat/Positive Message.
Video of "Dancing Beneath the Stars"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6EotzN45s
Listening makes a person happy... Conga Line Dance.
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Chico Velo Bicycle Race. Wildflower Tour April 28th. Chico California
http://www.chicovelo.org/main/
The terrain of Chico is completely flat and is ideal for bicycles. Most college students prefer to not own a car as parking near CSUC is expensive and annoying. Most sidewalks have ramps to ease bicycle traffic. Everything is within bicycling distance. The town has Chico Creek bisecting it and Bidwell Park was donated to provide an open green space forever by the founders of the town.
http://bidwellpark.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidwell_Park
The Park is open 24 hours a day and has a giant swimming pool made by erecting a dam across Chico Creek. In the Summer, daytime temperatures often exceed 110 degrees Fahrenheit and swimming at night is a blessing.
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Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk. Free Galleries, bands, refreshments... About 5PM on the second Thursday of each month, local artists are invited to display their work inside many of the businesses and buildings along Spring and Main Streets in Los Angeles between 4th and 6th streets.
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Maritizi Sirbu: THE SUMMER SOLSTICE PARADE, SANTA BARBARA, CA, USA, JUNE 21 EVERY YEAR THAT IS THE DAY OF SUMMER SOLSTICE

Maritizi Sirbu: EARTH DAY, SANTA BARBARA, CA, USA, IT STARTED IN SANTA BARBARA, CA, USA, OVER AN OIL SPILL IN 1969
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Thanks, I added your events to my blog post. Earth day is special here also... for years, we had a Sustainable Living Fair at Humboldt State University. Sadly, it was stopped by funding cuts.
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Who said: "I KNEW there was something they weren't teaching us in school" attributed to Jerry Garcia about his first LSD Experience?

At the end of the movie "Orange Sunshine" there was a lot of interviews with the members of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love...

One man made that statement... I can't find any verification on the internet using Google Search...
Maybe it was said by someone else... It's possible that the man interviewed was simply confused about history...

http://www.orangesunshinemovie.com/

https://www.relix.com/articles/detail/q-a-with-jerry-garcia-portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-tripper

For me it was a profoundly life changing experience. It has a lot to do with where I am now and why I’m here and why I do what I do and it all fits in and it was all happening as I was making the decisions to become who I am, you know what I mean? So it all steered me directly into this place. - Quote from Jerry Garcia


The last thing I want to ask you about, this is sort of an odd question but it’s a simple one: Why are you giving me this interview?
I want to be able to say to people in this time, with the big “Just Say No” where everybody is so roundly against drugs, that, hey, not all drug experiences are negative. I would like for that minority voice to be heard. Some drug experiences are quite positive and can be life-enhancing and can be pleasant and can be not dangerous and don’t necessarily promote criminal activity.
One of the quotes that I read was that you realized there was more than we’d been allowed to believe.
Yeah.
Who allows us?
That’s what I wonder. Who is the guy, where does it say, even in the ten commandments, “Thou shalt not get high. Thou shalt not change your consciousness” ? Who says? The way I understood it, it was helpful to change your consciousness sometimes.


Read more: https://www.relix.com/articles/detail/q-a-with-jerry-garcia-portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-tripper#ixzz58QzrA276

A Million Trips Later, What was LSD All About? Was it a Recreational Drug? OR Was it More Like a Telephone that Allowed People to Call GOD DIRECTLY?

Was it a Significant Event in The History of The World or as Trivial as a Roller Coaster Ride? We Did Get a Lot of Excellent Rock Music Songs. Is it Even Possible to Buy a "Stairway to Heaven" anymore? 

My Opinion: It Awakened Me to The POSSIBILITY of True Enlightenment. I Realized That There Were WORTHY Goals in Life... and That I Ought To Put Some Effort into...

Creating Art, Writing Music, Writing Fiction and Publishing a Political Opinion Blog... Marching in Anti-War Protest Marches... Campaigning Against Evil Political Candidates... and IN GENERAL... Living a Moral Life... Not Doing Evil... That SOUNDS OBVIOUS But... So Many "Corporate-Corporate" Greed Freaks DID NOT TAKE A TRIP AND DID NOT GRASP THESE SIMPLE CONCEPTS... SAD... 

I Took Jobs That Made a Difference... I Did Work That Made the World a Better Place to Live EVEN THOUGH Doing Evil Paid More Money! For Example: Early in My Career as a Draftsman, I Designed Weapons for the US Air Force... but... After I Got Laid Off, I Chose to Design Mail Sorting Machines for the United States Postal Service... AND WAS MUCH HAPPIER! Doing Evil All Day Every Day is NOT A Great Way To Live... 

I Have Noticed that People Who Had the Psychedelic Experience Turned Out to BE NICE, KIND and HAPPY.
Sadly, CORPORATE GREED FREAKS Missed Out on "The Sixties..." 

The CIA Project MKULTRA Concluded that LSD Had No Value as a "Weapon of War." Does it Have a Value as a "Weapon of PEACE?" In General, Populations that Took LSD Turned Out To Be LESS VIOLENT than Similar Groups... Acidheads are often interested in Art, Music, Poetry, Organic Farming, Love, Peace, Ecology... GEE, What If Everyone Was Like That? 

We are Seeing a Movement to Legalize Magic Mushrooms... What About LSD and Peyote? What IF We Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics FIRST and then Recreational Psychedelics Later. The Main Advantage to Legalization is there Would Not Be the FEAR of Getting Arrested as a Setting for Your Trip. I Have Experienced that Tripping WAY OUT IN THE WOODS has a FREEDOM aspect to it. On Occasions where My Friends and I Were the Only People for Miles Around... We were More Relaxed than Tripping in Public. 

ANOTHER Massive Advantage is that the Chemical Fabrication of LSD Would be Better Quality. Often, Illegal Chemists Make a Substandard Product OR Sell an Entirely Different Chemical (DOM) and Call it "ACID" - I Have Spoken with People that Took DOM (sometimes called STP) and their Three Day Trip was Frightening and Awful. We Would Certainly Reduce the Number of Trips to the Emergency Room with Quality Control. 

What about all the recent talk about embracing Death? 
Will We Be Grateful?


Peace Cube - Illustration - gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan


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