On the mainstage at Spearhead's Power to the Peaceful Festival in Golden Gate park, Blackalicious gets the crowd hopping on a gray day with powerful, funky, hip-hop.

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It was a sunny and beautiful day for thousands of people to gather in Golden Gate Park for the 2005 Power to the Peaceful Festival.

This is the drawing of the week for September 4-10, 2005.

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collaged by Todd Berman, self-portraits facilitated by Lauren Girardin, with essential help from Joshua Packman, Jake Ide, Amy Gotta, Mia Rovegno, and Kalub among others.

We asked people at the 2004 Power to the Peaceful Festival to draw themselves on paper with markers. Then we collaged those portraits onto canvas in a painting of the event.

The painting was completed by Todd and is now in the care of Spearhead's Guerrilla Management.

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There's nothing quite like the vibe you get at the annual 9-11 Power to the Peaceful Festival in Goldent Gate Park. The first few years of the event were held in Delores Park in support of the prison moratorium movement. Now the event promotes, and exemplifies, peace and draws a bigger crowd each year with terrific music and truthful speakers.

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Nothing says San Francisco like a Spearhead Show or a good political protest. I look forward all year to the Power to the Peaceful concert.

All who were there will tell you that the 5th annual Power to the Peaceful concert/peace rally at Golden Gate Park was a moving experience. Spearhead has a way of bringing thousands of people together to enjoy the music and good vibes. A .Giant Peace Dove (part of an international project), flew over the crowd. This show was so much more effective than a peace rally where shrill organizational representatives speak at the choir.

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Sat Santokh gave a wonderful speach at the 2002 Power to the Peaceful rally in Golden Gate park.

He discussed the importance of having love for all our fellow humans, then said, "Every morning I look at a picture of George W. Bush and I think, 'can I find love in my heart for this man?'"

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Michael Franti and Angela Davis in a discussion at City Arts and Lectures. "If you imagine a world without prisons, you imagine a world with meaningful education."

This drawing is on the program from the event which was written by my friend, Mitch Goldman, who also got us our tickets for the event.

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Angela Davis at the Herbst Theater for a City Arts and Lectures discussion with Michael Franti. The event would have been much more interesting had the interviewer sat back more and allowed Franti and Davis to talk more with each other.

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Michael Franti at Herbst Theater for a City Arts and Lectures discussion with Angela Davis.

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Franti sings Bomb the World after his discussion with Angela Davis at the Herbst Theater.

"...All Bombing is Terrorism, no matter who is doing it,
please tell me the reason behind the colors that you fly...
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace. You Can Bomb the

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