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"Imagine Peacefest"

 The 5th annual event will be held Saturday, September 18, 2010
Library Plaza, downtown Salt Lake City
Art Displays, Music, Films, Discussions

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Imagine Peacefest is a program of Blue Sky Insitute
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3rd Annual Imagine Peacefest
2nd Annual Imagine Peacefest
1st Annual Imagine Peacefest

4th Annual "Imagine Peacefest"

 Saturday, September 19, 2009
Library Plaza, downtown Salt Lake City

Organizations that tabled were:
Blue Sky Institute
People for Peace and Justice of Utah
Whatever You Imagine
Westminster Roots and Shoots

Mt. Olympus Roots and Shoots
Free Speech Zone
High Road for Human Rights
Human Rights Education Center of Utah
The Mormon Worker
Northern Utah Peace Alliance
Salt Lake American Muslim Festival
Utah State Death Penalty Abolition, Amnesty International USA
Uthans for a Just Peace in the Holy Land

See photos of the Opening Ceremony here.

See photos of tabling and people here.

See photos of the amazing peace tree here.

UTAH PEACE JAM performed in the amphitheater:

See photos of Utah Peace Jam here

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Artists who performed:
Gary Stoddard
Leraine Horstmanshoff
Andy Monaco
Rich Wyman
Leo Ego
The Stoddard brothers
Skylar Stoddard

THANK YOU to Gary Stoddard
creating and organizing UTAH PEACE JAM!

Downstairs in Library
noon to 5:00pm ~ Art Display

See photos of the exhibit here.

Two films were shown at 2:30pm in the Library Auditorium:
World Peace, a short film Produced by Dan Fahndrich Productions Creation in Multimedia

The feature film about Erica Fernandez, an amazing youth who is from Oxnard California and stopped a liquified natural gas plant from being put off the shore in her community.

When Erica found out that a liquefied natural gas facility was proposed for the coast of Oxnard and Malibu with a 36-inch pipeline routed through low-income neighborhoods, she was outraged. She worked in concert with the Sierra Club and Latino No on LNG group to mobilize the youth and Latino voice in protests and public meetings. She organized weekly protests at the BHP Billiton offices in Oxnard, met regularly with community members, marched through neighborhoods that would be most impacted, reached out to the media, and brought more than 250 high school students to a critical rally. Her passionate testimony at the California State Lands Commission meeting was quoted in news articles, and helped convince the Commission to vote to deny the project. Next, she helped convince the California Coastal Commission to vote 12-0 against the project, and worked on a letter writing and phone call campaign to the Governor asking him to veto the project, just as the commissioners did. Erica’s community organizing and dogged determination played a crucial role in helping her community to resist a multinational billion-dollar corporation.