First-time exhibitor Katie Tully of Dupont's D.C. Yoga also said she was pleased to be at the event as well as amount of D.C. Yoga participants present at the festival. "The whole metropolitan area is a yoga draw in," she said.

Other local exhibitors included animal rights group Compassion over Killing, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and Left Turn.

A few of the festival's exhibitors had petitions for environmental, tax and fair trade purposes. Autumn Hannah, an exhibitor for Taxpayers for Common Sense, had two petitions at her booth- one against Roadless Rule developments and another in favor of recovering Snake River salmon. For more information or to sign the petitions click on the previously provided links. Hannah said that Taxpayers for Common Sense aims to save taxpayers money and that although some of their campaigns concern ecological issues, that "we are not an environmental group, we're a taxpayers group."

Make Trade Fair, an organization that works to spread fair trade and has received support from public figures such as Coldplay's Chris Martin and U2's Bono, also circulated a pro-fair trade petition at the festival. Sophia Lafontant a member of the group, said that they started with its Big Noise petition, which brought awareness to the need of fair trade and received many signatures. Lafontant also said that Make Fair Trade is still getting new supporters for their cause and believes the group's goal to bring fair trade worldwide will be reached in the future. "Trade has a potential to be fair," she said.

Non-violent protest party, Washington Action Group (WAG), also had an interactive booth at the event. The exhibitors had a papier-mâché statue of President George W. Bush on display as well as a piece of cardboard placed on the floor for festival attendees to leave messages about the President. Many festival-goers signed the paper with comments such as, "Isn't it sad when our bombs are smarter than our President?"

Additional activities for people at the festival included live music, yoga and tai chi classes, films, puppet shows for children, organic vegetarian and vegan food and various lectures and panels.

Speakers at the festival included investigative journalist and 2001 Salon.com Story of the Year recipient Greg Palast, D.C. City Council member Phil Mendelson, director of the League of Young Voters group and co-editor of the novel How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics Unboring Guide to Power Adrienne Brown and President of the Center for Constitutional Rights Michael Ratner.

Palast opened his lecture by showing the audience his short documentary Fixed in Florida, which gave a brief overview of Palast's investigative work concerning the 2000 Florida election controversy. He continued by going over his past experiences with investigative journalism, as well as his view on the upcoming election. "If you shoplift an election, you have to give it back four years later," he said by way of indicating his opposition to Bush.

Ratner analyzed what he referred to as the Bush Administration's "attacks on human rights and civil liberties." He also went on to call prisoner treatment at Guantánamo Bay an icon of American cruelty towards Iraq.

Mendelson and Brown spoke on environmental subjects. Brown said that young people need to become more respectful towards the environment. "The whole world has to pay for the way we live," she said. Brown also said that "we live in an age where our President is opposed to clean air." Mendelson spoke about his plans to get more natural gas buses running in D.C., and said that they would make the area, "more aesthetically pleasing and a better city to live in."

Betsy Taylor, mother of junior Emily May and President of Takoma Park's Center for the New American dream, also spoke at the event and said via telephone that her lecture was packed and was pleased with the audience's response. She said that she was especially touched by personal testimonies she received from the audience about changes they had made in their lives due to actions her organization have taken.

Taylor also added that there was a "sense of celebration" to the festival and that she hopes to see it continue in D.C. "We need a future where products are healthy for the environment and people," she said.