Hello Friends,
PLEA FOR PEACE CENTER will celebrate it's one year anniversary on DEC. 12th. Boston's BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE along with SONIC BOOM 6 from the UK will grace the stage for our one year celebration. It's definitely been an amazing experience thus far as we learn the trials and tribulations of running a non-profit community center. We had hoped the city of Stockton would help subsidize our rent partially, but the city is financially strapped like most of the US of A. And yes, we lost over $30,000 in the first year. Well, we didn't lose like we were walking down the street and lost a wad of cash, but we spent over $30,000 the first year. Our fundraisers and shows only made up about half the rent this first year. But the last few months we've been breaking even and now we're starting to get bigger bands through. We just had the LAWRENCE ARMS/TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET tour come through last week and on DEC. 21st we have AGAINST ME. WOO HOO! It's pretty cool of these bands to take a chance on our venue. A band like AGAINST ME can easily get a guarantee of $3,000 playing a big venue in San Francisco, but are willing to play for us for no guarantee, just a percentage of the door. Anyways, I'm just pretty excited that we survived our first year.

We have lots more in store for the future including more music related workshops for our youth and hopefully more big name bands to come to this small farming town 85 miles east of San Francisco. And finally thanks to all the people who have contributed to PFP with donations and by purchasing our cd's. We appreciate you so very much.
Peace, mike park