Butterfly Gardeners Association
San Francisco Bay Area Board

Cheryl A. Magill
Stop LFAS Worldwide Network
1556 Halford Avenue, Box 322, Santa Clara, CA 95051
(408)516-9716
http://listen.to/lfas
camagill@email.com, cheryl@manyrooms.org

Thank you, Earth Society Foundation for the Earth Day 2000 Award!

On behalf of the Stop Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Worldwide Network, we're proud to have our work recognized by your auspicious organization. Thank you for helping us to make a difference!

This is a description of what might seem to be a self-confessed armchair activist; an overview of the many distractions which have kept me well-occupied while sitting at the phone and being put on "hold."

Such is the nature of everyone's business dealings. There will be the occasional delay while you're on the phone. And if you just happen to be seated in front of a keyboard when it happens, well.... Ever notice that the words "hold" and "upload" rhyme?

Over a two year period of time, I found I could use these static, idle moments to coordinate a world-wide protest. On average I gave it about an hour a day. Sometimes more. Sometimes less. And then there were those odd moments when after being put on "hold;" I took full advantage of the fact that I have two phone lines.
"Can you hold?"
"Sure, I'll upload now!"

This has been the peculiar process involved in protesting a matter of a global impact. For, in the name of the nation's defense, the Navy proposes to radiate up to 80% of the world's oceans with low frequency active sonar (LFAS). You think I'm joshing? The percentage is accurate. And the Navy has also applied for a "take" permit which would allow it to harass and kill endangered marine life incidental to the operation of this contraption. And it should be executed by four ships around the globe!

And the Navy would do it too. That is, of course, unless somebody stops 'em.

Well... we all have our distractions. Another one of mine has been to create an Internet Index of Library-like links. There are over 300 Internet Links which pertain to LFAS on my web site. Just click on the logo below to see for yourself.

All of this was done to organize a protest against the Navy's deployment of LFAS in the hopes of preventing the introduction of this destructive acoustic technology into the waters we call home.

And I also did the following:

Coordinator of the Stop LFAS Worldwide Network and recognized by the Earth Society Foundation for their most recent Earth Day Award.

Guest speaker, and a flustered one at that!

Jeff Rense's program on February 29th when the lawsuit was announced by attorney Lanny Sinkin & Dr. Marsha Green.

Honolulu Church of Light programs March 26th & April 2nd

KKUP - 12:MIDNIGHTISH - 4/4/2000 w Tony

Coordinated/promoted guest appearances for Benedick Howard, Diver Jay R. Murray and John LaForge for an interview with Jeff Rense in 1999.
Also coordinated Benedick Howard for 3 other talk show programs in 1998.
Interfaced w/journalists & researchers investigating STOP LFAS as both a political grassroots movement and an environmental necessity.
Guest: Laura Lee Show, Jeff Rense Show on the moral imperatives of Stopping LFAS - both programs were in 1999.
Spoke at the California Coastal Commission Workshop on LFAS
Wrote numerous articles re: LFAS which were featured on newsgroups, the IGC website, the SIGHTINGS web site, on Jean Hudon's Newsletter & Website, in the Newsletter for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology & private web sites.
Posted similarly to the Honolulu Church of Light & also spoke as invited guest.
Attended San Pedro Open House regarding the Navy's presentation of LFA Sonar.
Presented w/Benedick Howard to the Great Whales Foundation in Malibu and also presented a luncheon discussion to the Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce.
Sustained group interaction/dynamics w/cetacean groups & environmental organizations.
Responded to US Navy's DEIS & NMFS "Take & Harass" application.
Participated in one of the most dynamic grassroots campaigns in the history of the Internet.

David Seaborg
Children of the Manhattan Project
1888 Pomar Way, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
(925) 938-9206
davidseaborg@juno.com

David is an evolutionary biologist and environmental organizer. He is the head of the Glenn Seaborg Greater Lafayette Open Space Fund to preserve open space in the Bay area. The fund is in memory of his dad who was one of the discoverers of plutonium. He speaks out on nuclear issues and social change. He founded the Children of the Manhattan project with Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson, who's father worked as a geologist in the Manhattan Project.

Environmental organizer and founder and President of the World Rainforest Fund to save tropical rainforest. He organized the U-turn Society in San Francisco in 1997 with the focus of turning our destruction of the planet around by 180 degrees, hence the society's name.

Award-winning nature photographer and poet. He lectures on science and environmental issues. He originated the theory that organisms act as feedback systems with respect to their evolution. He has been to 30 countries and is in Who's Who In America.

Thomas Takashi Tanemori, MA.
Silkworm Peace Institute
3371 Moraga Blvd. #100, Lafayette, CA 94549
(925) 284-2201
silkwormPI@aol.com
http://www.silkworm.org

Less than a mile from ground zero, seven year old Thomas Takashi Tanamori's life was shattered when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. The bomb killed both his parents, most of his close relatives virtually all of his friends. Only the day before, he was a happy child laughing and playing, possessing very little knowledge about the war his country was engaged in. Now, he would experience life as a starving orphan in the ashes of postwar Japan.

Bitterness and anger against the United States filled Mr. Tanamori's heart. At the age of 18 he immigrated to the country that took so much away from him. Filled with hatred and revenge, he still hoped for a better life in this new country.

Over time, he began to experience Americans as individuals rather than a foreign government. He found peace and healing in transforming his hatred into love and his desire for revenge into forgiveness. Like most Americans, he enjoyed a successful life. He got married, raised a family and became a citizen. He became a Baptist Minister, educator and writer, and later he owned a restaurant.

In 1987 he experienced yet another reminder of his painful past. He discovered he was losing his eyesight as a long-term consequence of the bombing in Hiroshima. Today, he is almost totally blind. However, he has vowed not to lose sight of the important things in life--love and peace.

He has dedicated the remainder of his life to serving others and has founded the Silkworm Peace Institute to make the world a safer and more peaceful place to live. The Institute is named after the silkworm, honored in Japan for producing delicate fibers that are transformed into the most exquisite fabric on earth - silk. Silk was also responsible for the development of commerce and trade that first brought East and West together.

Professional Profile

* Exceptional communication skills; dynamic, articulate speaker.
* Insight into subtleties of cultural, economic and political differences with proven ability to foster mutual understanding and respect.
* Strong combination of experience and education in international relations, business, economics, sociology and philosophy.

Professional Experience

Public Speaking / Educating:

* Appeared on CNN, German International Radio & Television and numerous American and Japanese television and radio programs addressing diversity issues and cultural sensitivity.
* Represented and promoted an international peace foundation through a variety of media; social educational programs, books, presentations, art exhibits and news articles.
* Developed and presented lectures and educational workshops to business and community groups focusing on, cross-cultural understanding and respect.
* Acted as catalyst to further the "military-to-peace" conversion at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
* Founded the Silkworm Peace Institute that is committed to promoting peace, healing and cultural understanding both in the U.S. and abroad through showcasing the experiences and journeys of individuals and groups who are on the path of transforming revenge and anger into peace and forgiveness.

International Marketing / Public Relations:

· Received $30,000 grant from the Foreign Market Development Export Incentive Program for promotional efforts in Japan.
· Coordinated and facilitated negotiations between California delegates and Japanese officials debating issues regarding rice cultivation and export.

Stessa Thompson
Global Retreats
212 Laurel Street Suite 208, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 471-0272 Fax (831) 471-2077 VM 831-457-9754 x586
stessa@globalretreats.com
http://www.globalretreats.com

Bio: Stessa Thompson has committed her life work to inspire health, sustainability and creativity. She is the original founder of Global Retreats Inc., an information portal whose mission is to support Quality of Life resources by providing the largest network of retreats and speakers in the world. Ms. Thompson has worked as Assistant and Associate Producer for over 200 large and small events. She was international liaison to foreign delegates for the Monterey Bay International Trade Association and formed distribution channels for natural products to Asia, Australia, and New Zealand for her previous company, Thompson & Associates.

Currently, Ms. Thompson is forming Gaia Song Foundation whose mission is to produce conferences, forums, seminars, workshops, hands-on training, film, music, entertainment and media to train, educate and inspire healthy lifestyles and sustainability practices. She is now planning a conference for 2002, on Ecological Building, Sustainable Living and Community Models and a documentary film project on sustainable communities. She has most recently been consultant to large land developers researching and developing plans to implement alternative energy sources in their housing projects, and is consultant to retreat centers for business development and marketing.

Ms. Thompson holds a Masters degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California. She has lived and traveled in over 12 countries, where she had the opportunity to experience first hand indigenous practices in art, religion, and community. She wrote ethnographies for University of California and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia while studying Indonesian dance and language. She is also a certified hypnotherapist and has developed course work for massage and hypnotherapy practitioners implementing pranic healing techniques. She is a dance choreographer, performance artist and writer.

Don Marx
Community Peacemakers
2908 Madeline Street #100, Oakland, CA 94602
office (510) 987-3337 fax (510) 530-1527
compeace@concentric.net
http://www.compeace.org

Bio: Don Marx is the Executive Director of Community Peacemakers, a California grassroots, 501(c)3 nonprofit and in copartnership with Bay Area educational and spiritual centers and social groups, organizes and facilitates programs and events that support common dreams of living in a time of peace, without violence and with equal and social justice.

His organization offers communities, neighborhoods and families the collective tools, skills and resources to make a real difference in how we all can see, deal and work with the issues, causes and solutions surrounding Social Conflict by the way of Education, Activism and Rebuilding Community.

By using his hands-on organizational leadership, cheer-leading and event facilitation skills and talents, Community Peacemakers and its networking alliances will cosponsor ongoing and custom tailored events and programs.

He is a peace activist and is associated with such groups as the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Oakland-based Mindfulness, Diversity and Social Change Sangha, Zen Peacemaker Order of New Mexico.

He is a leadership and organizational trainer and administrator for (3) Michigan County Vocational Skills Programs involving 150+ professionals and (11) Development Programs for over 20,000+ students and adults. He holds a MA.Ed in Alternative Education with specialties in Career Development and Training, Michigan Universities.

He is also a Professional Educator, Corporate Trainer, Facilitator and Public Speaker for 26 Years in Michigan and California. His experience includes Secondary, Adult and Work-study Programs in the public and private sectors and is past President and Certified Toastmaster of Oakland and Bay Area-California Clubs, and the Organizing Team of the Bay Area Facilitators Guild.

Don is a former CO-President of Klout for Kids, the Children's Support Network of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California (Network includes 65+ organizations, civic groups and governmental units that support the health, safety and well-being of children)

His current and former participation includes the Action Coalition For Global Change-San Francisco "Creating San Francisco as Model City for the 21st Century," Bay Area Peace Center and Community Network, Caring Community Network-Oakland, Children's Advocacy Forum-Fremont, Families Against Violence Network, Jenny Lin Foundation and Defensive Living Faires and Education Programs, Karla Zimmerman Foundation, Northern California YWCA's, Peace-on-the Streets-Richmond, Redwood Heights Community Center of Oakland, Resources for Youth Network, San Francisco-Bay Area Nonviolence Coalition, Stand for Children, United People's Assembly-San Francisco, Parents of Murdered Children.

AJ (Tony) McGettigan
New Consciousness Rising / Vibrational Voyage Radio Program 91.5 KKUP
5667 Snell Avenue, #135, San Jose, CA 95123
(408) 450-1915
aj@ncrising.com, ampub@earthlink.net
http://www.ncrising.com

Bio: Anthony J. McGettigan has been exploring the vibrational landscapes of consciousness for more than 25 years. His voyage has included formal training in Psychology and Religious Studies (California State University, 1985). Since completing his formal education, he has spent 17 years independently researching the dynamics of awareness, the processes of healing, and the wider dimensions of human beingness.

Tony's approach to research is experiential and shamanic. His organic path of investigation has included ways of indigenous wisdom, such as
the Mayan Solar Initiation, various forms of Medicine Wheel practice,
and the sacramental use entheogenic plants. He is also knowledgeable both with astronomy and astrology.

As an introspective investigator, Tony has discovered inspiration in a
broad range of spiritual perspectives. Through more than two and a half decades of practice, he has developed a fluency with the vibratory
language that speaks quietly in the qualitative peculiarities of all
forms and conditions.

Tony McGettigan is an ontological adventurer and an activist for the
exploration of consciousness. Using philosophy and poetry in an engaging and entertaining way, he addresses the difficulties we collectively face in our world today. He has no dogma to apply, but he sincerely hopes to magnify a conversation that more fully and creatively expresses the beauty of the living universe in which we all participate.

AJ McGettigan is the author of A Voyage in Consciousness, Ecstasy of the Everyday Experience, Experiential Cosmology, and creator of the
Vibrational Voyage radio program.

Amara Rose
Live Your Light Foundation
VM (415) 328-5591
amara@liveyourlight.com
http://www.liveyourlight.com

Resources for creating quantum change * Life purpose coaching * Telegatherings * Business alchemy * Tapes/CDs

Bio: Amara Rose is deeply committed to guiding others through personal and professional transformation by catalyzing others to live their highest intention. Her work is a confluence of spirituality, wellness, and life purpose, focused through the lens of personal and planetary evolution. Adapt at bridging the mainstream and metaphysical, she offers life purpose coaching, telegatherings that explore the various stages of spiritual development, playshops on topics such as Building Manifestation Momentum, and her signature Eve-o-lution Discovery Salons, which are co-creative wisdom circles for facilitating the sacred reunion of our feminine and masculine energies. Amara is the author of the inspirational CD/cassette, "What You Need To Know Now--A Road Map for Personal Transformation," available through her website, http://www.liveyourlight.com.

Adept at bridging the worlds of mainstream culture and metaphysics, Amara worked in corporate communications for ten years before launching a successful marketing and public relations business in San Francisco in 1989. As her spiritual awakening intensified, this phase of her life dissolved. After reimagining her own life, she created Live Your Light Foundation to "midwife" others through the transformational doorway. Her articles and essays regularly appear in business, health and new thought publications and e-zines, including InnerSelf.com, PlanetLightworker.com, SpiritSite.com, phenomeNEWS.com, NAPRA ReView, Yoga Journal, The Inner Edge,The San Francisco Chronicle, Common Ground and Psychic Reader.

She holds a bachelor's degree in social welfare from Penn State University, the Professional Certified Coach credential (PCC) from the International Coach Federation, and a Ph.D. from the Universe in multidimensional healing. Her direct experience with the constellation of body/mind/spirit healing modalities includes, in part, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayur-Veda, naturopathy, hypnotherapy, network chiropractic, herbology, chi kung, yoga, Feldenkrais, and various forms of vibrational medicine.

Along the way, she immersed herself in the esoteric arts, cross-cultural wisdom, deep ecology and many spiritual disciplines. She trained in heart-centered public speaking with Lee Glickstein, founder of Speaking Circles International; enjoyed five years of improvisational comedy classes with Terry Sand (some of the best "basic training" for being a coach that there is!), and studied for four years with the Mayan Order, a lay ministry dedicated to teaching spiritual principles and their practical application in daily life.

Other profound influences include The Four-Fold Way training with Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.; The Option Process® training developed by Barry and Samarhia Kaufman; the "Love, Sex and Intimacy" workshops offered through the Human Awareness Institute, and "Power, Passion & Prosperity: From Surviving to Thriving" with Rosalyn L. Bruyere. But the ultimate training was living the initiation from the inside out. This is Amara's story: http://www.liveyourlight.com/mind/Learning.html (Learning to Live My Light).

Her personal metamorphosis also involved a name change. Want to read more about that? http://www.liveyourlight.com/mind/ARoseByA.html (A Rose By Any Other Name).

Amara grew up in Paramus, New Jersey, a town that might have coined the phrase, "When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping." People from across the globe come to shop at the Paramus malls (seriously!) Having once lived the mall mentality, Amara now passionately invokes and inspires seekers to grow beyond old beliefs and behaviors--to leap joyfully into your full potential and service as a multidimensional being of Light!

Doug Harris, MA
Athletes United for Peace
office (510) 273-9235
http://www.athletesunitedforpeace.org

Doug, an NAIA All American basketball player at Central Washington University (1983), led the nation in field goal percentages his senior year. He played professionally in the Philippines, Argentina, Spain, Greece and Italy. Shortly after his basketball career, he joined Athletes United for Peace as a volunteer in 1989, while completing his Bachelor of Arts in Humanities at New College of California in San Francisco. In 1990, he formed AUP's NCAA Division I exhibition basketball team comprised of Bay Area college graduates. Shortly after the start of the Gulf War, Harris organized the team's annual Northern California Goodwill Basketball Tour.

After serving three years as AUP's program coordinator, Doug moved up to become AUP's Executive Director. In 1993, Harris was responsible for developing the city of Berkeley Health & Human Services Department's Latenite Basketball Program for youth and young adults. From 1991-98, Harris also worked as a facility director for the city of Richmond's Recreation and Cultural Services Department at Eastshore Community Center, where he developed and implemented a variety of community based programs and events citywide. Throughout his career in Human Services, Doug has been instrumental in providing programs and services for young people throughout the East Bay communities of Berkeley, Oakland, and Richmond.

Harris recently earned his Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from California State University Monterey Bay's Institute for Community Collaborative Studies in the Spring of 1998.

Carolyna Marks
World Wall for Peace
1427 Milvia Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
(510) 527-2356
clightfoot@wwfp.org
http://www.wwfp.org

World Wall for Peace (WWFP) founder and creator of the Peace Empowerment Process (PEP), Carolyna Marks, is a professional artist, sculptor, and teacher. Her work draws on mythic, sacred, and elemental symbols to release the creative process embedded in all human experience. She lives in Berkeley, California when she is not traveling the world over to help her Peace Wall Leadership Core members and Community Energy Organizers (CEOs) in local communities establish their own section of the World Wall for Peace.

Most of the work of creating each section of the World Wall for Peace is done by a Peace Wall Leadership Core in the community. WWFP provides support, materials, guidance, etc. - see How to Build Your Own Peace Wall for details. WWFP provides training in the PEP, a teaching manual, support, materials and guidance. See "How to Build Your Own Peace Wall" on the WWFP web site for details. Many noteworthy people, for example, Archibishop Desmond Tutu, who support the cause of non-violent peace, have participated in and endorsed the activities of the World Wall for Peace.

The purpose of World Wall For Peace (WWFP) is to teach how creativity can prevent conflict and give people ways to walk down a different street than the violent street. Peace is a verb. Peace is every breath, every step, every mile. The Peace Empowerment Process (PEP) shows that courage is the first peace power; and that every other one of over a hundred powers we all have is achieved through courage. The more than a hundred powers that we have form a complete circle, and the wholeness of the circle is nonviolent peace.

The culmination of the PEP is the building of a Peace Wall, made of individually painted tiles, in concerned communities throughout the world. Each Peace Wall is a collective effort of community building and bonding. WWFP is establishing a global network of Peace Walls as a tool to promote nonviolence and to foster individual and community wellness and creativity. There are now over 40,000 tiles on peace walls in four countries and six states of the USA. See photos of the peace walls on the web site.

At the heart of WWFP in each community is a group of leaders (the Peace Wall Core) who learn how peace can be empowering (the Peace Empowerment Process, or ``PEP") and who then teach this process to other members of the community. The Core members lead tile paintings, do community outreach and networking, and create opportunities for teamwork and harmony. All the participants learn that the heart of every creative act involves opposites and differences as they apply wet paint to dry tile, color to whiteness, and thoughts, feelings, and experiences to the canvas of life.

Carolyna Marks's book, Creativity in the Lions' Den: Releasing Our Children from Violence, outlines the ten lessons in the Peace Empowerment Process (PEP) with many illustrations of participants' work, and gives a small part of the history of WWFP. Marks emphasizes the PEP because it is the most valuable aspect of peace building, giving the Blueprint of Emotional Wisdom and the Earth, Air, Fire and Water of Peace as exciting and diverse ways to follow the non violent street.

You can have the PEP without a wall, using any art form you want to culminate the process, but you can't have a wall without the PEP

Alan Moore
Butterfly Gardeners Association
1563 Solano Ave. #477, Berkeley, CA 94707
(510) 528-7730 fax (775) 535-6670
bflyspirit7@aol.com
http://www.butterflyspirit.org
http://www.woodstocknation.org/butterfly.htm

Bio: Alan is head of the Butterfly Gardeners' Association, a Berkeley-based group that has sponsored such events throughout the United States and wants butterflies and rainbows to become leading symbols for the new millennium around the world. He has joined with many peace, environmental, and social justice groups to make butterfly gardening and launching a part of their events, and has worked to bring the practice into schools, women's shelters, hospitals, hospices, and prisons.

He is also the director and founder of Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace, a group with similar goals with a focus on the performing arts and music as tools for global transformation.

He was a member of the Peace & Justice Committee in Berkeley for three years working on such issues as disarmament, nuclear proliferation, poverty, homelessness, human rights, and social and environmental justice. Alan is also working to found Patch Adams Centers for Peace and Justice do focus and building world peace through community service at hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and youth facilities.

He is bringing together a coalition of environmental, peace, faith, spiritual, and millennium groups to organize a global Party for the Planet with the help of Spirit Aid and to have a peace tour across the country. The themes will be Transformation Through Forgiveness and Earth Day Every Day. We will focus on creating a sustainable and peaceful world through personal and planetary transformation. The caravan will consist of artists, musicians, educators, muralists, sculptors, story tellers, thespians, gardeners, dancers, lecturers, activists, futurists, global visionaries, and authors. We will celebrate the Earth's biological and cultural diversity as we visit social justice, environmental and peace festivals across the country. The annual Woodstock Gathering and Festival in Bethel New York will be a major destination, as well as the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Observance in Washington, DC and the World Peace Festival in Armenia New York. He is also collaborating with other groups to make the summer of 2002 a "Global Affair."

He thinks the butterfly is a wonderful messenger to promote world peace and respect for Mother Earth. If we make such things as butterflies and rainbows symbols for world peace and the Millennium, then every time you see a butterfly go by or rainbow in the sky, is a consciousness raising event

He has been invited to and released butterflies at the United Nations Earth Summit +5, the World Peace Festival, Woodstock 97, the Bioneers conference in San Francisco, and at numerous events and festivals. He has coordinated simultaneous butterfly releases for Hiroshima-Nagaski Observances in cities such as Washington, DC on the Mall, Baltimore at John Hopkin University, New York City at the Buddhist Temple, and Allentown, his old home town, at Cedar Crest College.

He has taught thousands of children to raise butterflies in the classroom for releases at Earth Day and other festivals, the largest of which launched 2000 winged angels to the heavens. Festivals broke attendance records when butterflies highlighted the closing ceremonies. He also organized the rearing and release of 10,000 butterflies for Earth Day 1999 at the Concord Pavilion, in Berkeley and numerous schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Earth Day Network has spread the idea around the world.