2024 – The Jimmy Carter Jamboree
100 YEARS OLD – THE CENTENNIAL!
October 1, 2024
The Jimmy Carter Jamboree, a grassroots party,
by the people and for the people.
2017 – THE JIMMY CARTER JAMBOREE – the kickoff!
We had a great week in Marin County celebrating President Jimmy Carter’s 93rd Birthday week! Starting with a heart high in the sky next to the sun, we celebrated the beginning of a new tribute to a great leader, one that our country is beginning to recognize had vision before his time! We had a successful film screening of A Road Not Taken at the Showcase Theater, sponsored by College of Marin, Community Media Center of Marin and Marin Artists Network and other events including music and fundraiser for Mexico and Puerto Rico!
City of Novato issued the very first Carter Week in the nation!
OCTOBER – the power month of celebrating good values!
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? ”
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do . . .
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 13 – 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!
2019 JIMMY CARTER JAMBOREE
Carter Jamboree 2019 – Carter turns 95!
Time to celebrate a great leader!
Grassroots action full tilt for the Rock’n Roll President !
EVENTS IN MARIN COUNTY, CA:
Write to us and let us know what your public or private events are and we’ll post and share with The Carter Center!
October 1, 7-8pm – Marin TV, San Rafael, CA
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 4, 7-10pm – Seahorse Restaurant, Sausalito, CA.
Music, Latin dancing and dinner. Fundraiser for The Carter Center (remember, Carter spoke Spanish and insisted on always speaking Spanish, out of respect, to leaders of Latin America, even if he spoke with a southern y’all twang.) RSVP HERE
Honorary Guests include Michael Stocker of Ocean Conservation Research, April Peebler of Heirs to Our Oceans, Larry Bragman, Human Rights Youth Activist Alex Coe, and special announcement from The State of California!
MUSIC BY Randall Sequeira, of the Dream Farmers
October 5, Fairfax Roastery, Fairfax, CA
SamaraiWolf plays a tribute at Fairfax Roastery (SamaraiWolf has played every year for the last three in tribute to Carter). Come for coffee and sign the birthday book for Carter!
The Fairfax Roastery
4 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax, CA 94930
(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!
2019 JIMMY CARTER JAMBOREE
On October 1, 2017 a small but mighty group collected on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. A plane was creating a heart in the sky in tribute to the final day of the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love celebrations. That day also marked President Jimmy Carter’s 93rd birthday and we were there to celebrate and launch the first “Jimmy Carter Jamboree” week with a line up of grassroots events of music, talks and public access television broadcasting, including the screening of the Swiss made film, A Road Not Taken at the Showcase Theater with the Swiss filmmakers who flew in for the events.
Carter has been called by historians the last president of the 60s era, one who lived by the ethos of what the people stood for and were willing to create in what some called the Age of Aquarius – unity, kindness and generosity, along with iconic music that continues to play today. Imagine was one . . . a song that allows to dream big and be inspired. “Imagine all the people living in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
This year, 2019, President Jimmy Carter turns 95 years old, the oldest living president who has worked his entire life demonstrating to all of us how to live a humble but meaningful life. He was visionary and was thrown under the proverbial bus during his administration. Hindsight is 20/20 vision and we have the opportunity NOW to thank him and demonstrate not just to Carter but to all politicians who represent American interests to conduct business with honesty, integrity and vision, how we will celebrate them. Let’s show the light of what we want and light a candle, and in this case, 95 of them.
For three years now Marin County has established a platform, a grassroots level, for everyone to create their own celebration. We have a Facebook page, a website and ideas for you to join in the fun. Let’s give Carter a great public celebration now and let him know his speeches of “Crisis of Confidence” is screaming today across our country.
Perhaps the 60s era was just practice. It’s time now for the Age Aquarius, an age of peace and harmony. Imagine. Just imagine. Get inspired!
EVENTS IN MARIN COUNTY (check back soon – events are building!). Write to us and let us know what your public or private events are and we’ll post and share with The Carter Center!
October 1, 7-8pm – Marin TV, San Rafael, CA; Special live, audience attended, broadcast in tribute to President Jimmy Carter’s 95th birthday. Birthday cake to share with public.
October 4; 7-10pm – Seahorse Restaurant, Sausalito. Music, Latin dancing and dinner. Fundraiser for The Carter Center (remember, Carter spoke Spanish and insisted on always speaking Spanish, out of respect, to leaders of Latin America, even if it had a southern twang.
October 5; 6am to 3pm – SamaraiWolf plays a tribute at Fairfax Roastery, Fairfax, CA (SamaraiWolf has played every year for the last three in tribute to Carter). Come for coffee and sign the birthday book for Carter.
The Jimmy Carter Jamboree 2019
Week of October 1, 2019
Jimmy Carter gives “the peanut brain” a whole new context. He’s played the game well demonstrating that honesty, vision and integrity are the secrets to living a good life. It’s time to give the glory to Carter – because we are honoring him big time for the third year in a row. . . and making it bigger, better and louder!
We forget about the First Green Deal, of 1976, when President Jimmy Carter rolled out the solar and wind energy initiatives and said to the people “it is the moral equivalent of war” to be independent of energy when we KNEW about the consequences of oil. Not only did the people decide to shun him for his efforts, but this story has served as a dark shadow in our forty years of recent history – TIME TO COME CLEAN AND HONOR A GREAT LEADER. It wasn’t Jimmy Carter who failed as president. It was a generation who failed to listen and take heed of the greatest responsibility they had as “we, the people.” But, instead of following sage advice, they followed fears, greed and exploitation opening the door to the most egregious political corruption the world has ever seen, according the great Noam Chomsky.
We have opportunity to glean from this mistake today and never allow fear to rule over us. We are going to take charge, as the people, and first look at a leader who has walked the talk as we celebrate Carter’s 95th birthday on October 1 and do what we can for him – help support The Carter Center and his international projects. Make it a fundraising party, bring the peanuts and get ready to say:
“Thank you, Jimmy Carter – the Father of the Solar Age and the Rock ‘n’ Roll President! We didn’t listen then but we are listening now!”
Let’s show all our politicians how we honor our leaders who are kind, honest, generous and walk the talk. And remember it’s “we, the people” who have the greatest power in the United States of America.
THE JIMMY CARTER JAMBOREE 2018
Check out the website http://www.jimmycarterjamboree.org for more information!
We had action! The Town of Fairfax wrote an official proclamation in support of Carter Jamboree. The Seahorse Restaurant offered up space and support for a great human rights table talk with youth of Marin County’s human rights youth commission and human rights journalist Mischa Geracoulis.
In addition, musicians Steve Wolf, Mason Holcomb and Teja Bell – SamaraiWolf, performed at 19 Broadway Night Club along with the Randall Sequeira of the Dream Farmers. Michael Stocker of Ocean Conservation Research spoke about Carter’s energy initiatives. Thank you to Good Earth and Honey Moon Ice Cream for sponsorship!
Barbara McVeigh 