9/12/2004: The 6th annual 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival was held on Saturday, September 11th, as over 20,000 people jammed into Golden Gate Park's Speedway Meadow, from 11AM to 6PM. The day kicked off with yoga in the park at 10am. “Stand Up and Be Counted” was the theme for this year's festival- part of its mission was to engage people to get to the polls and vote. The hosts on stage were dj's from KPFA's Hard Knock Radio, and the show was broadcast live on KPFA from 2-6pm. The festival featured an open-air art gallery of visual artists, a healing arts tent offering massage and yoga, guerrilla theater, a DJ tent, green commercial vendors and food booths, alternative fuel-sourced vehicles and demos, a kid’s zone, bike parking, and info tables of an array of social, environmental and political organizations. Lineup More about the event: Live performances by Spearhead, String Cheese Incident, Gift of Gab, John Butler Trio, and Xavier Rudd had folks dancing between alternating sunshine and fog. Amy Goodman, Medea Benjamin, Mario Africa, Barbara Lubin, Dennis Kucinich, and a host of Youth Speaks! poets kept things flowing between sets. Despite a 45-minute interruption in the show due to a blown power generator, folks seemed to enjoy the afternoon, check out the dozens of community organizations and “peace/green vendors”, and just hang out—who could complain for a completely free show? Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 8


An afterparty was held that night at Space 550 (550 BARNEVELD (between Industrial & Oakdale St. in Bayshore SF), beginning at 10:00PM. The afterparty featured three rooms of music, ranging from live musicans to breaks, house, downtempo-dub, deep soul, and more. The main stage was a "911 All Star Jam" with Michael Franti and Spearhead, Fire Performance by Blaze & Co., and a variety of decorations and visuals. A Social Justice Forum was planned for Sunday the 12th.
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