Venue located at northeast corner of 31st & Sheridan
Tulsa's Community Gathering for Peace and the Planet with Music, Art, Crafters, Fun for Kids, Food, and Community Groups working together to defend and protect our People, our Mother Earth and to stop the War Machine. September 21st is the United Nations Annual International Day of Peace and the National Sierra Club's First Sun Day. Everyone is welcome and everyone is needed! People have the power and united, we cannot be divided. Join us!
Event will start at NOON and last until 7pm, and there will be a donation jar at the door - give what you can - no one will be turned away. More details very soon!! If you are an artist or crafter, vendors of handmade beautiful and useful things, please message us!! Also community activism groups are welcome to sign up. This is our chance to share what our community has to offer to promote peace and a clean and healthy environment for all of us. Let's make this an amazing day!!
Artists include Wheat Penny, Mother Earth String Band and Choir, Drowned Raccoon
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Citizens of Oklahoma and the world will forever be indebted to Carrie Barefoot Dickerson for leading the efforts to make northeastern Oklahoma safer for future generations. In May 1973, Aunt Carrie, as she was known by her many supporters and friends, read a news article about Public Service of Oklahoma's plans to build the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant near Inola, about 15 miles from Tulsa and a few miles from the Dickerson family farm. Recalling reports she had read earlier of wildlife birth defects coincident with effluent from the WWII Manhattan Project, she researched the current efforts to build nuclear power facilities. What she learned frightened and concerned her so much that despite her lack of political and publicity experience, she held a news conference at which she announced the formation of the political action group Citizens' Action for Safe Energy (CASE). Aunt Carrie and CASE, with co-chair Ilene Younghein of Oklahoma City, began an expensive but determined battle to educate the public and stop construction of the plant. Following her lead, other anti-nuclear organizations were formed in the area, and citizens from all walks of life and ethnic groups joined in the battle. After a nine-year struggle, PSO announced on Feb. 16, 1982, that they would not build the Black Fox facility. Black Fox was the only nuclear power plant to be cancelled by a combination of legal and citizen action after construction had started. (read more) |
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