Carter Jamboree

Please RSVP – This Saturday!

It’s full circle! A community coming together for the last six years to reflect on the wisdom of President Jimmy Carter . . . a president before his time.

Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter
Marin Community Center of Marin
1-4pm, Saturday, October 1, 2022
Invitation! Space Limited!

ABC Host Spencer Christian will join us LIVE!

A birthday cake and celebration.
Screenings of Carter’s famous speech “Crisis of Confidence”
Footage of 7 years of The Jimmy Carter Jamboree in Marin County!

The event is free. Any and all donations will be sent to The Carter Center. We will also have bumper stickers and garden seeds from Roselyn’s project!
Come join us!

Carter will turn 98 years old. . . in past years we’ve included film screenings, dances, music, tributes, a live broadcast with ABC Host Spencer Christian and more! Even former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev contributed!

Time to honor a great leader who has stood for peace, solidarity, human rights and clean energy. The Jimmy Carter Jamboree has been supported with a California Resolution issued by CA State Senator Mike McGuire and CA State Assembly Marc Levine.

A huge thank you to all those who made it happen, a celebration to honor President Jimmy Carter on his 96th birthday yesterday, October 1, hosted by ABC Spencer Christian and Barbara McVeigh. Guests are included below! Let’s amp it up!!

A special recognition to ABC Host Spencer Christian who joined us on community television for the full 2 1/2 hour program. Also special thanks to our power production team duo Director Omid Shamsapour and Assistant Jill Lessard who made it happen from the studio of Marin Television via zoom links, telephone calls and texts, computers and pure grit and creativity!

With a line up of amazing guests, we revisited Carter’s presidential policies related to the environment, energy, social justice, human rights and more and talked about thirty years of work of The Carter Center, recognizing the true giant that Carter is in today’s America and world.

Here are preinterviews with guests. The full show with our live guests will be available soon.

2017 Proclamation From City of Novato for a “Jimmy Carter Week” October 1-8. Thank you to College of Marin, Filmmakers of a Road Not Taken and more.

2019 California Resolution by State Senator Mike McGuire and State Assembly member Marc Levine, accepted at the Seahorse Restaurant by ABC Spencer Christian, Heirs to Our Oceans Founder April Peebler. Attorney, Environmentalist Larry Bragman speaks.

State Senator Mike McGuire Tribute to Carter.

Mischa Geracoulis, Human Rights Journalist

Denis Hayes, Founder/Org of Earth Day; Author of 1977 seminal book Rays of Hope, Transition to a Post Petroleum World. During the Carter administration, Hayes became head of the Solar Energy Research Institute (now known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), but left this position when the Reagan administration cut funding for the program. Since 1992, Hayes has been president of the Bullitt Foundation in Washington and continues to be a leader in environmental and energy policy.

Richard Stenger, Ranger of the Redwoods, Chief Marketing Ranger of Redwood Coast Parks in Northern California

Freedom” by Musicians Steve Wolf & Mason Holcomb

We are the World, from the heart of Africa, directed by Josphine Nyamu

Even former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev joined our festivities with a letter to President Jimmy Carter, which we shared LIVE.

We push beyond politics in this program to reach that special place of heart, friendship, peace and respect to help drive a new narrative for humanity into a new age that works for us all.

Dear President Jimmy Carter,

I have in my archive a few photos of our meetings with President Carter. As I look at them now, I recall our conversations and lively exchanges on the most important issues of today’s world: peace, security, combatting poverty and backwardness, and saving our planet from environmental catastrophe.

We first met in 1992 when during my visit to America I spoke at Emory University. Raisa was with me, and following my speech the two of us and Jimmy and Rosalynn spent two hours having lunch and engaging in a friendly conversation. It was a substantive discussion and I think it was important for us.

Later we met on several occasions, worked together within the Forum of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and discussed the developments in our two countries and the world during his visits to Moscow. A few years ago, I welcomed Jimmy Carter at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. Together with other veterans of international politics – the Elders – we talked about the need for dialogue in world affairs and what each of us can do for dialogue to resume. This a task that is more urgent today than ever before. I am sure that President Carter will continue to do his utmost for this cause.

My greetings to you, dear friend, and wishes of more good years and success in all your initiatives.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Moscow, August 27, 2020

We’re on! The Jimmy Carter Jamboree, a grassroots party, by the people and for the people – The Month of October!

Youtube Channel Just Launched! with regular updates about President Jimmy Carter’s legacy related to human rights, peace, health, energy policies and history. . . we have not forgotten!  YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Let’s remember the kind of values we honor and put a smile on our faces, just like Carter here, and plan some national parties to honor a living president.

This will be our fourth year in Marin County with city and county wide Proclamations, California Resolutions, musicians, restaurants, bars and speakers, including ABC Host Spencer Christian, environmental activist April Peebler, Lawyer Larry Bragman, with special thanks to Seahorse Restaurant, 19 Broadway, Musicians: The Dream Farmers, Steve Wolf & Mason Holcomb, Lavay Smith, Wobbly World, as well as ocean activist Michael Stocker, and so many others. 

What’s more? We’ve called out some of our favorite citizens with birthdays in October, too, those who remind us of our power, as the people! Happy birthday to Peter Coyote, Angela Alioto, Kathleen Russell, Jose Neto and and. . . John Lennon, Imagine!

 

Let’s get the party going! We’re planning events, including a one hour special on Marin TV, to be announced soon!
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A message from the Producer, Barbara McVeigh –
Hi Friends and my beautiful fellow Americans! Why am I peanuts to push this effort? I’ll tell you – when I was 13 years old my father stood up to an American President, the “Hero” of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan. It was the historic 1981 national union strike when 21,000 families (air traffic controllers) nearly took down the American economy in order to make a stand for political honesty. Many of those strikers were Vietnam Vets – a little detail the media chose to ignore. I know the trauma it brings waiting for the FBI to come take your daddy and I lived my life with anger and resentment until I learned there is a better way to do business! Harry Belafonte says it best “put a smile on your face and start dancing in the face of fear, control or domination.” Never give away your spirit! And I dare say, given Jimmy Carter is the “President of Rock ‘n Roll,” it’s time we start a new party in this country, let our hair down and unify with love and raise a toast to Carter who shows us how to live with integrity and lead with vision!

We have eight months until October 1, President Jimmy Carter’s 96th birthday. Our vision which started three years ago was to incubate the idea to celebrate a visionary and honest leader to ensure all our leaders know how “we, the people” celebrate the good ones!

Carter has been highly maligned by the mainstream for forty years, yet he was the visionary who pushed the first green deal of major solar and wind energy initiatives when we KNEW about green houses gases. California, under Governor Brown at the time, pushed for 17,000 wind turbines under Carter’s administration. Carter put solar panels on the White House and The Solar Age was set.

We want to share this important history with everyone – what better way to be prepared for the elections this November than by thinking about the efforts of our good leaders, those who led with peace, kindness and vision. It’s inspiration for us all. For three years now, Marin County has set the stage with examples to inspire – cities can issue proclamations, elected officials can create videos and write letters AND even write resolutions. Musicians can sing songs! Theaters can screen the Swiss made film about Carter’s energy initiatives A Road Not Taken!

This year we are asking the Governor of California to participate!

So, get on board and join us for what we would love to see – a global celebration of the kind of values we all could appreciate: peace, kindness and visionary leadership!

RADIO INTERVIEW AND FILM SCREENING!

Tues Dec 3, 5pm-6pm – KPFA/Pacifica Radio,   Producer of the Jimmy Carter Jamboree (sanctioned by the California Legislature!) joins Flashpoints radio with host Dennis Bernstein. We’ll discuss the vision behind the three year effort of The Jimmy Carter Jamboree. .  . and the 40 year propaganda drive about Reagan. Carter has been nearly erased from history – AND they almost got away with it! We share the vision for October 2020  event of the President Jimmy Carter Jamboree – a month long celebration of good values of honesty, kindness and generosity just before the next presidential election, a strong message to ALL our political representatives how we celebrate and honor the good ones! Here is the recording of the interview! Thank you Dennis Bernstein!

Wed Dec 4, 6:30pm – Film Screening  –
A Road Not Taken a film about President Jimmy Carter’s visionary wind and solar energy initiatives (when we KNEW about carbon consequences). The museum will not advert this event until Monday (three days before the event). But you can RSVP here – it’s FREE!. The Swiss made film reveals the greatest propaganda act of a generation, refusing to recognize we had a president who tried to mitigate climate change and then was thrown under the bus for 40 years. Three years ago The Marin IJ had a mysterious “administrative error” when they did not publish a full written article about Carter following our College of Marin/Marin TV showcase at the Civic Center Center. It’s been a journey into the darkness of even local media control and reluctance to give credit where credit is due. Carter is not just a farmer, he stands today as the world’s greatest visionary and The Father of the Solar Age.

It’s a tribute to President Jimmy Carter and recognizing the Carter Jamboree – a month long tribute to honor a living president whose energy policies were visionary when we knew about climate change . . .he pushed major solar and wind energy initiatives and conservation efforts.

But, what happened? It’s a story of the greatest propaganda act ever delivered by mainstream corporate media, corrupt politicians, big business, educators and even modern day environmentalists . . . not just downplaying Carter’s efforts, but maligning him as a failed president.

Carter was a visionary and was more for the people than any other president, arguable, in the history of the world. Time to honor and time respect. That’s what we are doing with the Jimmy Carter Jamboree -a month long tribute in honor of Carter who has “walked the talk” along with other activists whose birthdays are also in October in order to give us all reason to be inspired, amp up the music and celebrate good values to ignite a new age of honesty, kindness and humility as we turn this world around.

From the California Legislature – by State Senator Mike McGuire and State Assembly Member Marc Levine.

Thank you Rosalyn and Jimmy Carter for the inspiration!!!

 

The Jimmy Carter Jamboree Team, by the people and for the people.

As we head into our next election cycle, we have the opportunity to pause and celebrate values, those we wish to live by. We all have been moving so fast these last years, isn’t it worth the time to stop and ponder – what is it all about? What IS life all about? And who have been the examples providing us all inspiration?

The month of October offers powerhouse birthdays in our age, beginning with October 1 which is the day of President Jimmy Carter’s 95th birthday, our oldest president ever, one who has shown us the value of living with humility, kindness and vision – a peace keeper.

There are also more birthdays to celebrate!

October 1  –  President Jimmy Carter – a birthday to kick off the month long celebratory tributes of good values and those who inspire the rest of us to remember what why life is worth living!

October 9  – April Peebler – Founder of Heirs to our Oceans! A powerhouse woman who has been an activist all her life, she’s more recently founded the ocean youth movement Heirs to our Oceans.

October 9  –  John Lennon – IMAGINE – what else can one say that has not been said? ”

October 10  –  Peter Coyote – life long activists who today encourages activists not to fight, but to create a new world and invite others into that better world.

October 20 – Angela Alioto – Angela comes from a powerhouse San Francisco Family and has stood for civil rights, health and so much more. She is the face of San Francisco for so many people who remember San Francisco as the City with the Heart. Alioto has also written a book about her experiences in San Francisco politics, entitled Straight to the Heart.

October 27 – Kathleen Russell – Executive Director of Center for Judicial Excellence. CJE has worked tirelessly to educate lawmakers at the local, state and national levels about the impacts of the family court crisis on their constituents.

October 30  – Jose Neto – A Brazilian guitarist, composer and musical director, who has worked and supported the tops, including Harry Belafonte (life long activist and colleague of MLK) and Steve Winwood, along with his own bands Fourth World and The Netoband – with a powerful spirit of collaboration, peace and humility . .  . AND he used to jam with George Harrison. His electric music can wake souls into the living and get us all dancing!

Are there more? Let us know so we can induct them into the official “Jimmy Carter Jamboree” events for the month of October!

The Jimmy Carter Jamboree, grassroots celebrations, was inspired by Bob Dylan’s Musicares Award Ceremony. Dylan invited President Jimmy Carter to deliver the award and Carter’s speech started to make history – “Musicians have far greater power than any President of the United States.”

LET’S MAKE OCTOBER A CELEBRATORY MONTH OF VALUES SO OUR LEADERSHIP WILL KNOW WHAT WE VALUE AND HOW WE CELEBRATE THOSE WHO UPLIFT US ALL TO INSPIRE US ALL!

 

Carter Jamboree 2019 – Carter turns 95!

Time to celebrate a great leader!
Grassroots action full tilt for the Rock’n Roll President !

Special live, audience attended, broadcast in tribute to President Jimmy Carter’s 95th birthday. Birthday cake to share! Seating begins at 6:30pm. RSVP HERE. FREE EVENT.
(Donations will be accepted and sent to The Carter Center.)

 

 

October 5, Fairfax Roastery, Fairfax, CA

(The Great 2015 Speech with CARTER and DYLAN: Carter said “musicians have more  power than any head of state at the 2015 Musicares Award Ceremony”)

 

You have an idea for a celebrations? CREATE THE EVENT AND SHARE WITH US! We’ll post and share the good energy!