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The Petaluma Progressives are a local, grassroots, political education and action group. In addition to hosting The Progressive Festival each year, we have held public protests and vigils, lobbied elected officials, done work in our local schools, endorsed and worked on progressive candidates' campaigns, hosted one night a month at the Friday Night Film series at the Foundry Wharf, etc. etc. Our monthly meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month, at 7 pm, downstairs in:  Copperfields Books, 140 Kentucky Street, Petaluma.
All are welcome.
The Petaluma Progressives, P.O. Box 37, Petaluma, CA 94953 Tel. 707.763.8134

The Petaluma Progressives Present:

Coming this September 26th, the Thirteenth Annual Progressive Festival

Sunday, September 26th, 2010, 12-5pm

Walnut Park, downtown Petaluma, CA

Featuring Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Alice Walker's creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terrorism, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional kinships among women, among men and women, among humans and animals, and embraces the redemptive power of social, spiritual and political revolution.

Other Speakers Include:

RICHARD HEINBERG - Peak oil, energy, and climate change expert


CYNTHIA BOAZ - Consultant on Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action
 
MIKE PRYSNER - War veteran, anti-war activist, co-founder of March Forward
 
NORMAN SOLOMON - Media activist, author, anti-war organizer

JANET KOBREN - Participant on the flotilla to Gaza
 
TOM GAFFEY - Director of The Phoenix Theater, Petaluma's Teen Center

and much more, click here to see all details

The event is produced by the Petaluma Progressives and is sponsored by KPFA 94.1 FM (kpfa.org), the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County, The Bohemian (bohemian.com) and the Committee for Immigrant Rights (immigrantrightssonoma.org), Sonoma County (peaceandjusticesonomaco.org). It takes place at Walnut Park, Petaluma Blvd South and D Street, downtown Petaluma. It is free to the public.

Many Social Justice, Environmental, Labor, and Community Organizations will have Informational booths/tables. Your group's fee helps defray costs of the festival (we have no outside funding).  Only $25-$50, sliding scale, $75 for commercial booths.

To reserve space, please send your check to:

The Petaluma Progressives
P.O. Box 445
Petaluma, CA
94953

For more info, call 707.763.8134

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Directions

From San Francisco and points south - Take 101 North, get off at the Petaluma Blvd. South exit, and go straight for about two miles. Walnut Park will be on your left, at the corner of D Street and Petaluma Blvd., right in downtown Petaluma.

From Santa Rosa and points north - Take 101 South, get off at the Petaluma Blvd. North exit. Turn right at the light and go about two miles, through downtown Petaluma to D Street. Walnut Park is at the corner of Petaluma Blvd and D St., on your right.

Parking - There is parking on the streets surrounding the park, or at the public parking facility on C Street, between 1st and 2nd St.