Our 3300+ members in 58 countries include Melanie, Patti LaBelle, Melba Moore, Pete Seeger, the New Rascals, Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute, the Dalai Lama, Holly Near, Country Joe, Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams, Jean Houston, Dennis Kucinich and Barbara Lee.
Dear musician, performer, artisan, poet, author, producer or venue:
The Butterfly Gardeners and Woodstock Nation are inviting you to become a part of Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace (MFAWP).
Performers, artists, DJs, musicians, producers, music venues and festivals from around the nation, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, can have a very special role in cocreating world peace and transformation through the performance arts.
Our 3300+ members include Melanie, Donovan, Patti LaBelle, Melba Moore, Pete Seeger, the New Rascals, Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute, the Dalai Lama, Holly Near, Country Joe, Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams, Jean Houston, Dennis Kucinich & Barbara Lee to mention just a few. See the entire listing at: Member List - Click Here
For the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock, we did a butterfly release at West Fest in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Sunday, October 25, 2009. Please see www.2b1records.com/woodstock40sf
I am hoping you will respond and have us list you on our website as a member if you resonate with our mission statement & goals. We ask for a contribution of at leat one dollar, but no one is refused for lack of funds. You can also join as a regular member if you like. Please see our membership below.
In your reply, please include your full name and the name of your band or performance group, website address and any group affiliation or position you hold. You may want to include your mailing address and phone number, but that is optional. Please include at least your city, state and zip code as that helps us to regionalize our mailing list.
We can then either send you our Bay area events calendar or our national and world updates and also keep you abreast of any special happening that may be in your area.
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace was founded to produce and help promote events, concerts and festivals that support environmental, peace and justice projects and organizing with the goal of raising consciousness and global transformation. We support election reforms such as campaign financing, clean elections and the abolition or reform of the Electoral College. We also endorse and support Congressman Kucinich's proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace (www.house.gov/kucinich/action/peace.htm), raising the issue of corporate responsibility, protecting the Earth and old-growth forests, raising global consciousness, helping indigenous causes, increasing funding for art and music programs, ending the cycle of violence and abuse that is rooted in our male dominator culture and acknowledging artists and musicians as an important ingredient to transforming and improving our lives.
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace (MFAWP) have been endorsed by Congressman Dennis Kucinich to promote a concert to support his proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace (Please see Department of Peace and Dennis Kucinich and The Peace Alliance
On January 24, 2002, the board of MFAWP endorsed the initiative to ban Space Based Weapons after being asked by the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) to extend our proposed concert to endorse the Space Preservation Act and Space Preservation Treaty. It would ban space-based weapons in all 190 Nations and is also sponsored by Dennis Kucinich.
On January 4, 2003, the director of ICIS Vancouver, Alfred Webre, had this to say. "We totally embrace and support Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace and your concert to raise awareness for U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich Department of Peace Act. As you know, Dennis recently spoke here in Canada at the CUSP Conference in Toronto. His "Sacred Mission" speech endorsed the Space preservation Treaty Conference, banning all space weapons. Please see: Peace in Space
On April 19, 2003 Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace organized a nude peace photo made of 53 couples spelling out the message Make Love Not Warfor out compilation peace CD. This occurred on Baker Beach in San Francisco exactly one month to the day that the War on Iraq first began. This occurred on Baker Beach in San Francisco exactly one month to the day that the War on Iraq first began. Please see Make Love Not War for story and pictures.
Info on the CD at: CD Info
In addition to our interest in the environment and world peace, our campaign will also cover election reforms such as campaign financing and the abolition or reform of the Electoral College, reforming the criminal justice system and the three strikes law, making the office of public defender an elected position, raising the issue of corporate responsibility, protecting the Earth and old-growth forests, raising global consciousness, supporting and developing sustainable communities, helping indigenous causes, increasing funding for art and music programs, ending the cycle of violence and abuse that is rooted in our male dominator culture, and acknowledging artists and musicians as an important ingredient to transforming and improving our lives.
We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
May Peace Prevail on Earth!
Alan Moore
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace - Director and founder
You can join for as little as $1. Get more info at Join and Info
In 1993 a National Geographic magazine article proclaimed that a butterfly
can with a flap of its wings, change the world and that the ripple it sends out
can spawn a hurricane. Acting in the spirit the Butterfly Gardeners Association has become a catalyst for helping to co-create a culture of world peace and global harmony by working with children and adults at a very personal level. Our common and innate love for butterflies has resulted in the bringing together of thousands of
individuals and organizations all working in concert for positive global change with a
keen focus on the interconnectedness of children, butterflies and nonviolence.
Through the development of innovative educational and community projects and
by promoting events and festivals that inspire citizens to act at the local
level, we are able to arouse consciousness to the need of conserving and creating
natural habitats for not only butterflies, but for other wildlife as well and
whose very existence depends on them.
We are also exploring and researching the mystery of the butterfly's
therapeutic, spiritual and cultural effects on humanity.
Since butterflies also serve as environmental indicators, they are excellent
ambassadors for raising environmental awareness. Our programs promote the
installation of butterfly gardens, children's environmental education, reading and
nonviolence programs. Being that butterflies have these innately
inspirational and spiritual qualities, their effect on children, as well as adults and
seniors, is nothing less than miraculous.
We are working a
U.S. cabinet level Department of Peace, whose goals include the creating of a
national peace and nonviolence curriculum for school children and adults,
programs to address the cycle of abuse and violence that threaten domestic and
community environments, as well as finding new solutions to resolve international
conflicts. We are also interested in working to increase funding for school
art and music programs.
Highlights over the last 11 years have included:
Releasing butterflies at the Seventh Annual World Peace Festival with Pete Seeger in Amenia, New York for the World Peace
Prayer Society
Being invited to present the World Peace Candle to Kofi Annan at the United Nations
Involving over 10,000 children in the San Francisco Bay Area to raise butterflies as an Earth Day
project in 1999
Getting President Bill Clinton
to proclaim January first an International Day of Peace
Some of our goals include:
1) public education on the life cycle of
butterflies, what we can do to reverse butterfly decline, and how to attract
butterflies, hummingbirds & other wildlife to local gardens
2) teaching that the
stewardship of butterflies is linked to such serious issues as the misuse and
overuse of pesticides, global warming, ozone depletion, habitat and rainforest
destruction, genetically engineered food production (which may impact human health)
and have all been shown to have impacts on butterfly populations. In this
sense, butterflies have become the foremost indicator species (the canary in the
coal mine) for most of the world's environmental problems
3) to use
people love of butterflies as a means to foster nonviolent behavior and both
cultural and biodiversity in our targeted populations.
Some of our objectives are to:
1) have 50,000 men, women and children
annually attend our programs at schools, clubs, nursing homes and other institutions
2) get 1000 volunteers to plant butterfly gardens at homes, schools, parks
and other locations and to help in our outreach
3) provide plant & source lists
for establishing home or public butterfly gardens to 500 schools, 1000 homes
and 100 public butterfly gardens and exhibits
4) partner with a minimum of
250 other groups and organizations that have similar goals and projects
5) have
1000 children in the Santa Rosa School District raise and release 1000
butterflies for the Health and Harmony Festival and participate in our Art for the
Sky Project which will create a large butterfly and dove that will be
photographed from an airplane over the festival,
6) have the members of MFAWP perform
at a minimum of 500 events a year and bring our message to a larger community
audience
7) have the members of MFAWP and the BGA through Project
Chrysalis entertain at a minimum of 100 hospitals, hospices, schools, juvenile youth
facilities, senior centers and other community institutions.
If you want to contribute time or money for this please message us on MySpace or visit us at http://www.butterflyspirit.org
Message from Daniel and Abigail Storm of The Woodstock Nation Foundation
Butterfly Magic at Monterey Summer of Love 40th Anniversary
My interview with Daniel Eggink of the Woodstock Nation Foundation
is right after the clip of Wavy Gravy.
Visit the Summer of Love producer’s page at IE Artists
Also check out The Woodstock Museum
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We're the Enemy by John Kasper Chris Chandler / On MySpace
Something In The Air But Not On The Airways
We're the Enemy by John Kasper
What's Happening? Bless my eyes this morning! Wanted to turn you on to a new site where you can upload your music, listen to new music for free and vote for your favorite independent artist! You can win Cash Prizes. Its awesome. Our song "Gold" is currently in 4th place! Check it out on OURSTAGE.COM Also, I would love to share with a fresh little jam that I just came up with.
Greetings Musicians for Peace! I LOVE What you're doing 4 this World,bringing LOVE,PEACE,HARMONY & Most of ALL-"MUSIC"Back 2 The 60's& Also The Music of Today....We Can Always Show ALITTLE More LOVE & PEACE Back 2 "THE GARDEN"-With Respect & Butterflies,MELINDA AND CORNEILUS Singer/Songwriters
"Lying across her chaise-lounge Trying to slip away She's escaped into a dream world Creating her own day...
Dreamily she rolls mascara on Strangely her eyes transform Into a pair of butterfly Wings taking her above the storms Wings taking her above the storms"
(From my song 'Melt Into Your Heart's Beating Drum')
I am very proud and excited to be a member of your group... let the magical journey continue!
Respect staff @ Musicians For Peace, continued success with your quest to spread knowledge about world peace to the masses. When you get a chance you should come back to my page and checkout the song on my music player I produced dedicated to the herb called "Lytro" by music artist NP The Truth feat. Luv Fyah, Bagett.
SoulSeekers Vallejo CA Paranormal Group Make sure to watch Oprah show Wed at 4PM me and my little one danced the Thriller on the 24th at six flags it may be aired!!!!
Hello! I am pleased to let you know that I have moved into Number 40 on ReverbNation for UK Folk! Also, my interview with Banana Peel Radio in Vancouver has been Podcast for all to enjoy-just go here: http://www.bananapeelradio.com/gough.htm and click to listen. Warm Regards, Juliet XX
Lovely to meet you Alan in Golden Gate Park @ Westfest. Was a great day out! Beautiful weather, just wished it went for three days.
I arrived to the festival in an interesting way... was in my fool jester's garb, curly shoes and all... caught a taxi to Golden Gate Park...saw some Hare Krishnas... asked where the festival was...got out of the taxi as they said 'Follow us....' went up and down a hill, then along some winding path and as soon as i get there...i meet Leon Hendrix (Jimi's brother)... Was a magical way to arrive... Guess it's all part of the fool's journey... certainly is a long and winding road with more than enough bumps along the way.
THANK YOU DEAR ONE FOR INVITING ME TO ENTER THIS LOVELY PLACE YOU WORK SO HARD AT AND ARE SO VERY DEDICATED TO! I LOVE BEING HERE & LONG TO MEET & GREET. STAY SAFE AND WARM FROM THE STORM. THIS ONE AND OTHERS! LOVE TO YOU~
My Sisters and Brothers....it is a high Honor to be counted among your ranks....and I look forward to many years of working to change this world into something beautiful, free, and vibrant for everyone on the planet...like the butterflies....Together we can do this.....Together we can live in Peace....Together We Are One...!!!...
Hugs from this humble Cherokee Song Carrier
Aho..!!.. dla yi ga Blue Jay of the Truemusic Tsalagi Song on the Wind
Brother can you spare a buck? Marijuana Music Award Winning Songs, "Light 'Em Up" feat. Afroman and "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" now available on itunes & CD Baby.
In 1993 a National Geographic magazine article proclaimed that a butterfly
can with a flap of its wings, change the world and that the ripple it sends out
can spawn a hurricane. Acting in the spirit the Butterfly Gardeners Association has become a catalyst for helping to co-create a culture of world peace and global harmony by working with children and adults at a very personal level. Our common and innate love for butterflies has resulted in the bringing together of thousands of
individuals and organizations all working in concert for positive global change with a
keen focus on the interconnectedness of children, butterflies and nonviolence.
Through the development of innovative educational and community projects and
by promoting events and festivals that inspire citizens to act at the local
level, we are able to arouse consciousness to the need of conserving and creating
natural habitats for not only butterflies, but for other wildlife as well and
whose very existence depends on them.
Highlights over the last 11 years have included:
