Famed anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg tops a list of speakers
slated for the eighth annual Progressive Festival in Petaluma on
Sunday, Sept. 25 from 11 a.m.to 6 p.m. in downtown Petaluma’s
Walnut Park. The S.F. Mime Troupe will perform “Doing Good,” and
there will be live music and more than 80 booths of social justice,
environmental, labor and community groups. The West County will be
represented by speakers Lynn Hamilton of the Town Hall Coalition
and Progressive Democrats of America, and Dave Henson of the
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.
Imagine the size of the ants
An event touted as the “The World’s Largest Picnic will
celebrate the opening of Oakville Grocery’s San Francisco location
in The Cannery at Del Monte Square at noon on Thursday, Sept. 29.
The picnic is open to the public and will feature free picnic
basket lunches for all attending while supplies last. Picnic guests
“can be some of the first to experience the wine country without
leaving San Francisco” according to Oakville Grocery officials. We
are told you should keep an eye open for the thousands of picnic
baskets being given away on Sept. 29 throughout the Bay Area.
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