2009 Speakers

After being raised on Dominoes Pizza and Brady Bunch re-runs, Doug Fine’s method of journalistic investigation was to strap on a backpack and travel to five continents; to the nooks where the world’s monied media venues weren’t sending their people. These venues tended to be delighted to have a whippersnapper beam back colorful dispatches for poorly-remunerated publication as long as he didn’t identify himself as an employee of said venues. Complicated insurance ramifications for torture treatment might ensue.

In the old days, a Medicine Show meant wonder, laughter, shenanigans, and a bit of magic. The show came to town in a horse drawn wagon and a crowd gathered immediately. After the performance, the cast peddled medicines or other nostrums. Dr. Atomic's Medicine Show updates this American tradition. The "medicine" peddled by this roguish group is a message about peace, justice, and environmental sanity. Through raucous skits, music, and adopting a vaudevillian style, Dr. Atomic educates while they entertain. You will laugh at the absurdity, yet realize how dangerously close Dr. Atomic actually comes to reality!

We are collaborative artists co-creating positive evolution through conscious music, poetry, dance, art, culture, and celebrating creative expression to spread hope for positive change. Hosted by Ishi and Iana with the inspire tribe including: Marv Ellis, live Caribbean drum and dance, Weapons of Mass Progression, Flamenco, and other fair family talent.

“Crossing The Event Horison: Jamie Janover presents the Unified Field Theory of Nassim Haramein”

Learn about Nassim Haramein’s lifelong journey into the geometry of spacetime, which has lead to a coherent understanding of the fundamental structure of the universe and our existence in it.  In this presentation, Jamie Janover will take you on a journey through humanity’s evolution, exposing the changes necessary to produce a Unified Physics; a unification of not only the four forces of nature, but also evolution and the occurrence of consciousness.  Haramein's theory demonstrates as well a parallel between ancient codes in documents and monuments.  This all-encompassing theory may prove to be one of the most important discoveries of our time.

A Note from Jamie Janover, lead emissary for Nassim Haramein:

Jo Ann Baumgartner is director of the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA) whose mission is to promote a healthy, viable agriculture that protects and restores wild Nature. She is co-editor of Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-Based Agriculture and the author of many WFA Briefing Papers. Before joining WFA in 2001, she worked on dairy, fruit, vegetable, and fiber production issues, was senior research editor for Life on the Edge, a book of California's rare wildlife species, and an organic farmer for over a decade. She has a keen interest in the conservation of native species for their own sake, and the connections between farms and larger ecosystems.  That's partner Sam Earnshaw in the photo with her.

Johnny Lake is the current Chairman for the State of Oregon Commission on Black Affairs, which works for the implementation and establishment of economic, social, legal, and political equality for African Americans and Blacks in Oregon.  Johnny is a trainer in programs focused on leadership, diversity, community-building, and cultural competency.  Johnny is a teacher, writer and storyteller with a Masters in Education and Administration.  He is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Leadership.  He is currently the Assistant Principal at Churchill High School.

With a background in science from UC Santa Cruz, Jonathan studied with acclaimed English gardener, Alan Chadwick.  Frey Vineyard’s first winemaker, Jonathan fermented his first barrel of wine with grapes from the family vineyard in 1979.  Jonathan served as an inspector and developer of organic processing standards for California Certified Organic Farms (CCOF) in the 1980’s.  As Frey Vineyards general manager, he promotes techniques for achieving the  highest standards of organic agriculture and winemaking.  Jonathan is pleased that his four children are all involved in the family business.  He also studies alternative energy technologies and is a co-founder of REDI (Renewable Energy Development Institute) in Willits, CA.

www.freywines.com

Center for Sacred Studies Co-founder and Spiritual Director, Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, Ph.D) is an internationally renowned spiritual advisor and teacher of earth based ways of prayer. Her background includes education in cross-cultural spiritual practices, social services program development, training at the Jung Institute in Switzerland, and extensive international travel. She has devoted her life to bringing unity to the planet, by facilitating the development of alliances between individuals who are the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional Medicine ways. She and the CSS staff convened the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and continue to organize and raise funds for the Grandmother's global work for world peace and unity.

After graduating with an English degree from Earlham College in Richmond, IN, Katrina Frey headed west and apprenticed with British  biodynamic/French intensive horticulturist, Alan Chadwick, in northern California.  There she met her husband Jonathan Frey, and together in 1980 they founded the first organic winery in the US, Frey Vineyards.  Katrina is the Director of Sales and Marketing, and also serves as the president of the board for Demeter US, the certifier for Biodynamic® farms.  She was the fundraiser for Mendocino County’s successful ban on GMO’s.  Katrina has been a featured speaker for organic farm issues at the Natural Products Expo East, the All Things Organic show and the Sustainable Brands conference.  She is an avid perennial gardener and beekeeper.  You can read her blog about bees at www.freywines.com.

Forest Campaign Director, Rainforest Action Network

Lafcadio has more than 20 years of experience working in a variety of roles and institutions in North America and the Asia-Pacific region on, market-based conservation approaches and private sector sustainability, policy analysis, institutional development, community-based natural resource management and conservation economies, and biodiversity conservation. He worked for 10 years as a campaign coordinator with Greenpeace Australia Pacific and three years as a Senior Program Officer with the US AID-funded Biodiversity Support Program in Indonesia. He started his career as a volunteer with the Institute for Appropriate Technology Development a local Indonesian community development NGO in central Java and has authored three publications on related issues.

Laura "Piece" Kelley-Jahn recently opened for the Dalai Lama in Seattle.  She was Seattle’s Grand Slam Champion (Hip Hop competition) for 2004-2005.  Her contribution to Seattle's richly diverse musical scene has earned her a place in the archives of Seattle's Experience Music Project museum.  She has been featured in the documentary Underground Poets Railroad.  In 2007, Piece will be performing her one woman show "Two Sided See Through Mirror".  Piece has worked with the Power of Hope and compiled several full length compilations featuring young artists through this Seattle based non-profit organization.

Spain. Cuba. Jamaica. California. This extraordinary group of musicians mixes grooves and melodies from Flamenco, Reggae, Cuban Son, and North American Folk. To the stage they bring the mysterious and passionate world of Flamenco, combined with the driving, full sound of a salsa band. LoCura creates an original blend of irresistible, high energy music that bridges cultures and transcends borders. Mesmerizing flamenco footwork and solid bass lines, fiery guitar and hard-hitting percussion support rich vocals with soaring harmonies, creating a vibrant collage of sound and movement. Emotionally charged music that ignites a pulsating dance party, provides food for the soul and uplifts the spirit...a sound track to feeling alive!

The American Indian poet known as Luke Warm Water was born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, and is a Lakota (Sioux). Luke has featured at poetry venues throughout the United States and in Europe, and has won Poetry Slam competitions from Oregon to Germany. He was the first spoken-word poet to be awarded an Archibald Bush Foundation individual artist fellowship in literature. Luke’s poetry appears in the book Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (2008), published by Michigan State University Press. He will release his next book Selected & New Poems (1999-2009): A Decade of Malformation in late 2009. Luke currently resides in Oakland, California.

LYNX, an innovative singer songwriter who was born and raised in the mountains of Colorado, has been playing music and performing since the age of 7. Now at the age of 23, she has been breaking new ground on the live music scene.

Her style consists of an eclectic blend of folk music, hip hop and electronica. Her talents include guitar playing, singing, rhyming, live looping and outrageous beat-boxing with a message behind it all that deals with world issues today including climate change and social justice.

She has already spread her style of folky hip hop and live looping technology from Washington State to So-Cal, the Colorado Rockies to Virginia, Minnesota to British Columbia. She has jammed with and opened for acts like RAHZEL, MATISYAHU, THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, RUSTED ROOT, BASSNECTAR, KID BEYOND, THAT 1 GUY AND MORE!

Hussein the Tragic Mulatto: In the tradition of Maroon Zikr, Following up on Brer Rabbit and Coyote were Going There, We Be Goin’ There with Hussein the Tragic Mulatto, an American Morality Play. The Tragic Mulatto motif, similar to the film world’s Magic Negro motif, is articulated from out of the Souls of White Folk, at least those who are Indigenously Challenged. Mulatto is the slaver term for a first generation “black” white mix, the imagined mixture of the civilized white man, imposed by rape on the body of the black enslaved woman. Therefore in their imaginations the tragedy was that the superior intellect of the European was trapped in the draft animal of the African. In our morality play, Hussein is an American with a vision, who has answers for the problems of a nation and the world. But similar to Cassandra before him, he is not believed to be truly American, because he is Black.