On Saturday I was given this T shirt for volunteering at the POWER TO THE PEACEFUL festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. My job was to pass out fliers advertising the post festival party ($20 to get in) and the post festival film festival. You can find out more about those by visiting their website (click here).  I picked the unofficial entrance at the end of the short cut through the bushes as my duty station. Usually people going that way are dodging the entrance fee, but it was a free event. As people came out I would give them their card and tell them about the donation cans by the main entrance.  The front (shown above is the back) side of the shirt had "ASK ME" on it in huge letters.

  

I had this card on a string around my neck. It's funny how simple it is, but the schedule and the map were enough to answer just about every question anybody had. Printing and laminating a few dozen of these was probably a much better investment than trying to make programs for everybody.



To get this one I just had to sell bottles of water and soda for $2 each for about three hours. I'm sure all of those companies in the fine print had to pay good money to get their names on my back.  I can't remember another time when I was given two T shirts with orange in the art in the same weekend. Actually, I can't remember another weekend I got two shirts for volunteering in the same weekend.

  

Both shirts seem well made. Both groups treated their volunteers well enough. Unfortunately, it saddens me to report that the PTTP shirt was probably made with slave labor, judging by the news from Haiti I've been exposed to. At least the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce got one made inside the NAFTA free trade region, whatever that's worth. The Chamber shirt also claims to be "pre shrunk", so it will probably fit a bit better than the other one in a few washings. The orange one has MUCH BETTER ART, if you ignore those little details.

The PTTP event itself was much more of a holistic grass roots experience. There were many "grass roots vendors", selling everything from home made vegetarian sandwiches to ganja brownies out of their backpacks and baskets. There was none of that kind of thing at the Art & Wine festival. Pure and simple, that one was all about raising money to keep the Chamber of Commerce afloat. No bones about it. Rent for a booth at that probably cost $900.