Peace Train Charitable Trust

Unreal – to give you a sense of just how amazing these productions can be (hats way off to Gwenette Writer), take a look a this video – if you speak Japanese perhaps the conversation leading into the song will be recognizable to you!  This was a full band with vocalists, playing for an audience of 70 or 80 avatars in Second Life, live from Japan.

Ga-Go Band Live!

UPDATE (Sept 14) Ga-Go PeaceFest 09 Digest Video!!

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Check out Junivers Stockholm’s Livestream capture of PeaceFest events.

If you click on the On Demand button, you will be able to catch some 4 hours’ worth of PeaceFest events!

Check out the in-world pictures from PeaceFest 09!  I’m sure you may have your own, too, so please comment and include the URL to your Flickr set or whatever else you have.

Sweeping up:  tip jars and posters collected, prims stashed in inventories, and sims returned to ‘normal’.  Things are cleaned up from PeaceFest 09!  Now onto the wonderful task of sending out the donations…

While there will be an official post about the proceeds from PeaceFest, it is looking like we will have something close to US $1500 to donate to the three organizations!  I’ve been working this week on transferring lindens to our PayPal account, and PayPal to our bank account in order to make the donations happen.  More on that later…

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…and making it through!  Shown below is Tonks shouting out bids as they were coming in on the PeaceFest quilt!  In the end, she proposed everyone throw their Lindens to the highest bidder, Maverick, and the ultimate total was north of 34,000 lindens! 

There are so many people to thank!  And so many pictures to see!  Check out the Stories page to see more images from PeaceFest 09.  I’d like to start thanking people now, even at the risk of leaving some folks out (tired brain, please understand!):

>>Siri; constantly there.  A million notices and IMs.  And Peace Train Engineer. 
>>Tonks; even in the midst of all sorts of things going on, she jumped in and ran things!
>>millay; huge supporter and giver of space on Four Bridges!
>>Gwenette; despite all sorts of things, managed to create the biggest danged event I’ve ever seen!
>>Kate; wonderful support from Music Island, organizing fantastic talent there for PeaceFest
>>Jon; continuous support and giving of space on Cedar Island for the Auction
>>Fractal; donated art – again! 
>>Blue Lantern – for providing well-organized support and security all the way through
>>Justice League – for also providing excellent support and security during PeaceFest
>>Zack – I practically lived on top of Second Pride!  Thanks!
>>Jonah and Alexxa – terrific logo (THANK YOU) and art auctions
>>Medora – for her dragon breathing, advertising, poetry and beautiful performance
>>any1 – WOW she is unstoppable!   always there, great performer and advocate
>>junivers – for streaming things, performing, being an all-around hero
>>HatHead!  So laid back, generous with space, and talented as performer!
>>Cadence – helping with space and advertising at Cedar
>>Michele!  you were a constant greeter extraordinaire!!
>>Gadgetjoe and Lourdes: web support, hosting, DJ spinning – WOW
>>all of the PERFORMERS !!  So so so much talent!
>>Maverick – wow, constant support, wrote an article for iReport, AND generosity in the bidding for the quilt!
AND
The speakers: 
>>Erica, your commitment to good work in Africa shines through in your voice.
>>Agie, giving us the scoop from Durban and the photos to go with it!  Beautiful.
>>Prinny and Connye, the incredible and wonderful story of peacebuilding in the US
>>DarkLobo, sharing the on-the-street experience from Bogota
>>Sammy!  Your passion shines through with that amazing Ghanan accent!
>>Sivan and Yussef, proving that Palestinians and Israelis need not fear each other.
>>Jacqueline; wonderful stories of rehabilitation in Kigali / Rwanda
>>and millay, the story of child soldiering and Amnesty’s commitment

I know I have forgotten many; ALL of you have helped us to dream, to care and to DO something for peace.

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