==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 1 Spring AllWaysFree is Out! 1 response pfraterdeus 10:22 am Apr 17, 1989 Ben Masel reports from Madison: Congrats! Hope you can start uploading the paper soon. See you sometime on the 22nd I assume. AWF bundles en route to NY, New England, Arkansas, Athens OH, Kentucky regional, Maxworks, East Tenn. /Western NC, Delaware. 1m to Milwaukee. tmw to try again for Nevada. Now abt. 9,000 on bus. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 1 pfraterdeus 10:26 am Apr 17, 1989 tmw means "tomorrow", I think. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 2 Indiana may26-jun5 recycling may2 pfraterdeus 12:31 pm May 17, 1989 Please note! The Indiana Spring Gathering has been extended. It will take place between May 26, Friday and June 5 which will be CleanUp Monday. In addition, a Rainbow / Talking Fish recycling project will take place on May 27, Saturday, at Armadillo Day, on the Northwestern U. landfill in Evanston, just north of Chicago along Lake Michigan. The cans will be recycled, proceeds going towards the Fre e Kitchen and Stage at Alpine Valley this summer. A caravan from the recycling site to the Indiana gathering has been suggested. for info (no collect calls, please) on gathering-- 312 226 0099 on recycling project--312 973-4854 or send a note to pfraterdeus on peacenet. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 3 Where's the Gathering? pfraterdeus 10:51 am Jun 14, 1989 Wheres the Gathering?? PLease reply via PeaceNet! Thanks Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 4 Nevada Directions bmasel 11:59 pm Jun 14, 1989 July 1-8 at: Robinson Hole 15 miles from Jarbridge NV Plenty of water & firewood, no shade altitude 7,500 feet Directions: I 80 to Wells NV, then North on US 93 to Rogerson ID only road out of town West 37 mi. to Jarbridge then left (South) on Pole Creek Ranger Station Rd. 15 mi to Robinson Hole 2 1/2 mi walk in. (steep). Welcome Home! f ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 5 PARTICIPATION the KEY bmasel 9:30 pm Jun 15, 1989 PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. This is your gathering. You make it happen. PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. Those you see around you hauling water, toting supplies, gathering firewood, cooking or cleaning up, sorting trash or digging shitters, staffing the Info Center or the Parking Lot have learned the inner esoteric secret of Rainbow Consciousness: you have more fun if you pitch in and help. No one created this village in the wilderness for us, we did it ourselves. Our Mother Earth provided this place; everything else you see has manifested by no higher magic than the joyful labor of volunteers. The high you get from serving the needs of the multitude is the best around. It's also the best way to meet and get to know your Family. PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. The consensus decisions that guide the Family from year to year are the result of countless hours in council. Come to the councils happening at Main Circle every day at noon and participate, always remembering to listen before you speak. Witnessing this process is the best way to understand how Family traditions have evolved through the practical experience of past Gatherings. Respect the council feather; hold your response until your turn with the feather comes, or till invited by the feather-holder to speak. This way we hear each other. Remember that we council not for our own interests but for the best interest of the Whole. Respect likewise the consensus of past councils, and consider carefully the effect of any new proposal, as the Natives of this country did, "unto the 7th generation." PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. A consensus of the Rainbow Family since the beginning is that our Gatherings are absolutely free and non-commercial. It is our spiritual calling as a Family to give and share freely what the Creator has freely given, to sanctify this ground and these seven days by exchanging no money whatsoever here. This means that to feed ourselves we depend on each person's free donation to the Magic Hat that goes around at dinner. Caesar's image has no place among us except as our individual gift to the Whole. It is on this basis that we exercise our First Amendment right as a spiritual Family to Gather. Exchange of green energy on any other basis endangers our future right to Gather, and undermines our sacred purpose for doing so. PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. We govern ourselves, rather than each other, by observing the consensus of peaceful respect. Weapons, fireworks, pollutants and other hazards are inappropriate. Peaceful means not only that we act responsibly in all our relations, but that each of us takes responsibility as well for the safety and calm of our area of the camp. Respect means that we not only consider the rights and welfare of one another, down to the smallest, but take care of the earth, water, plants and animals that were here before us and will remain. Feel the vibe, listen to the harmony around you and add your unique note. Help keep your Gathering clean, happy, harmonious, peaceful and safe. PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. The Gathering itself is a participatory workshop in self-government; the Family also encourages the free flow of information through workshops and other forms of teaching and expression. Consider this your opportunity to share any knowledge or skill you have, simply by pinning your notice up on the boards at Info Center. As always, no single person speaks for the Family. We offer this opportunity to all without endorsing any single spiritual or political point of view. Please, our Gathering is for heartsongs, not for proselytizing or selling. All workshops are, naturally, free. PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. The center of our seven days together is the Silence at high noon of the 4th, when we Circle to send forth our gathered energy for the Peace and Healing of the World. Respect the Silence; join hands with us in the Circle. Carry this high, solemn & joyful moment through your Gathering, both before and after the 4th. Join the campfire sing, the drum jam, share what you have at Kid Village or C.A.L.M., learn what the Welcome Center or Supply is all about. But remember that it is for the Peace and Healing of the planet that we gather, and carry that vision back with you to the world of wars and preparations for war. The Circle is unbroken. PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY. Just as each of us is responsible for bringing what the Family needs to manifest its vision, each of us is responsible for carrying it away again. Consider as your own the Family's sacred pledge to the Mother, and leave no trace of your stay. Use community shitters and compost pits, separate your trash for recycling and deposit at community Garbage Yoga stations; disappear your camp completely before you go. Beyond that, take responsibility for the cleanliness of the camp as a Whole: pick up any litter in your path, including what was already here. Carry out a sack of trash any time you hike to the trailhead. If you can, stay after the multitude and help restore the natural beauty of the site. But be aware that cleanup is ongoing throughout the GatheringQ all of us are the cleanup crew. HO! We Love You! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 6 ALLWAYSFREE statement 1 response bmasel 10:02 pm Jun 15, 1989 ALL WAYS FREE -- news & heartsongs of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, publishing Winter & Summer each year Like the Rainbow Family gatherings, ALL WAYS FREE is absolutely free & non-commercial, all-volunteer and all-donation. Each July at the Rainbow World Peace & Healing Gathering we council, and the paper goes home with a different circle of focalizers. Since last year's Gathering in Texas the Rainbow Tribe of Madison, Wisconsin is focalizing. Our Winter FREE was minimal-- essential info from the '89 Gathering crew in Nevada, Rainbow Peace Projects and the legaliaison network, plus word of Texas, Europa Rainbow and regional gatherings all over. But the crew in Madison envisions putting out a full-scale Summer paper for the Nevada Gathering, featuring all the wonderful stuff we couldn't afford to print this winter. Join us! Make ALL WAYS FREE your Give-away too. * * * STATEMENT of INTENT (reprinted in each issue since A.W.F. #1, Winter 1985) ALL WAYS FREE is an actualization of a need to expand communication among the people of the planet. We offer a forum for: . . . sharing heartsongs, dreams, visions, and the realization of peace . . . updates on the events of the world and those in our own backyards . . . expressing creativity in poetry, cartoons, short stories, drawings . . . bringing increased awareness to the difficulties and problems facing us, as well as potential solutions, our progress and accomplishments . . . most importantly, sharing of love for one another and for our planet home ALL WAYS FREE is an inclusive experience, with input from any and all. A volunteer staff meets before each edition to combine the collective effort into a polished product. We have chosen not to sell ALL WAYS FREE, or any space within it. Instead, it flies on love, energy, money, and materials freely given. With this process we hope to bring about a shared vision of love, peace, justice, and freedom, through a strong, broad, common unity. EDITORIAL POLICY All decisions regarding the newspaper are made by consensus council. We will proofread all submitted material. We will seek and get agreement with the author, prior to publication, if changes seem necessary. We will establish a liveline for each issue. --the liveline is not a rigid deadline --a liveline is a flexible, realistic time consideration for publication We will request suitable limitations on length for each type of submitted material. INTENT The views expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily the views of the Rainbow Family. We are working independently from the Rainbow Family in an attempt to create a space where anyone and everyone can expresss themselves. This newspaper is FREE. We will not sell any space in this newspaper, for advertising or any other purpose. * * * In putting these high purposes into practice, the following strategy has evolved. It has not yet passed consensus of council at a Rainbow Gathering, July 1-7, on the land; this year in Nevada it is need of serious discussion. Please feel free to contribute your ideas & experience as it continues to evolve. % Nobody pays for a FREE; each donation is a free gift to the next brother or sister who gets one. But without that chain of give-aways, nobody gets a paper. % Anyone who writes to request a paper will receive one. However, each year's focalizers will start a fresh list, so to keep receiving your FREE you have to write in once a year (or sign up at the Gathering.) This saves the cost of mailing to dead addresses, and reminds you to keep your donation up to date. A.W.F. focalizers will forward all mail to their successors. % After individual mailing, the prime distribution of FREE will be through the network of A.W.F. focalizers-- Family circles anywhere & everywhere who have volunteered to contribute a fundraising event or two each year. This is to encourage focalizers of the Family to become focalizers of FREE as well. One by one, each focalizing circle will take its turn at pasteup and printing. % If this strategy generates enough cash, we can afford to print plenty of papers for all the picnics and gatherings, and still have enough for everyone's personal give-away. The Summer issue will always do most of its distribution at the Gathering in July, but A.W.F. asks anyone taking home a bundle to hold some kind of benefit for the next issue-- at the very least, hold a potluck and pass the Magic Hat. % A.W.F. will print all it can of what people send, but only after all essential news pertaining to Rainbow Nation is covered. That is the necessary core; if people send enough funds to publish more, A.W.F. publishes more. We are receiving more and more material, but our first responsibility is the story no other paper carries, our evolving Family saga. % As no one person can represent our Family, all contributors of words or pictures to A.W.F. bear sole responsibility for their opinions. All material is copyrite FREE. % A.W.F. is part of the Rainbow Peace Projects Foundation, newly incorporated in Ohio, which is working toward not-for-profit tax -deductible status. The Foundation, like the paper, is developing a council and consensus mode of operation. % A.W.F. operates this teleconference on the same principles that govern everything under the Rainbow; all decisions will be made by consensus of the focalizing council. The council is open to anyone who wants to help. Topics and responses alike will be considered available for publication in the paper. ALL WAYS FREE is an experiment; it depends on its readers to support it, as we are accustomed to supporting the Rainbow Gathering, with our funds and our voluntary efforts. Like any experiment, it can fail. What will make the difference is the personal responsibility each of us takes to make sure that the Rainbow keeps reaching out to those in need of peace and healing. The paper is a gathering, too, it reflects our diversity and unity; like any gathering it can be magic if we all give freely what we can. May you always be ALL WAYS FREE! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 6 pfraterdeus 4:20 pm Jun 25, 1989 Regarding copyright in AWF. The paper may be free of copyrights, but are we saying that nothing will be accepted from an author or artist who wants to retain their rights? I find that a bit overbearing onthe part of the editors. Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 7 EUROPA RAINBOW 1 response bmasel 10:05 pm Jun 15, 1989 Europa Gathering 1988 & 1989 info by Garrick Beck Over 1,000 European and International Rainbow Family gathered in the Cantabrian Mts. of northern Spain, June 20th-30th, 1988, for the 6th annual European Rainbow Family Gathering. The camp was situated in a remote mountain valley with wildfowers, fresh springwater and patches of glittering snow on the peaks above us. There were three main neighborhoods, and numerous smaller camps ringed the emerald-green meadow. Councils were held every 3 days at a central higher, dry spot in this meadow and people held a big rainbow-colored umbrella while speaking. Sentence by senence the speakers' words are translated into Spanish, French, German and English. So, everyone listens carefully and thinks about what they are going to say. Once a day the supply wagon brings bulk goods up the mile-and-a -half dirt road from the parking lot to the top of the saddle, from which a trail zigs and zags down into the gathering site. Often the camps are named for a country (French camp, Danish camp, etc.) but these names are mostly for the first settlers in each neighborhood. By the time we got there each camp was full of many languages and different nations' people. There were a lot of teepees and horses. Many of the teepees are a very clever one-pole variety since tipi-pole wood is more scarce in Europe. Also there were a number of horse-drawn wagons in the parking area along with the usual brightly painted vans and busses. The nearest town, Fasgar, is itself at the end of a single long narrow mountain road. Most of the residents are older countrypeople whose younger generation has left these ancestral lands for life in big cities. The "Campo di Santiago" where the actual gathering occurred is on "town lands." The people there welcomed us and many made the walk up and over the big hill. Also, one day a parade of jugglers, musicians, drummers and fully -decorated rainbows made a fiesta in the town. The townspeople told us they remembered the valley had been used by the Anarchists as a "safe zone" during the bloody civil war with France in the 1930s. In 1988 an old two-storey stone house in the meadow serves as our Hobo Hilton, a crescent-shaped geodesic structure peaks out from behind a veil of yellow scotch broom and amethyst heather, children learn acrobatics on soft turf, workshops teach Amerindian and Hinduindian legnds, and each evening the family gathers for a dinner circle served by all kitchens at the meadow's center. There is a fullmoon and a highnoon silent circle and if you listen carefully you can hear the rainbow touch the earth. This year's European Rainbow Gathering will be held in Norway, August 10th-20th, 1989. For a map and information send a stamp to NY Rainbow, P.O. Box 1554, NYC NY 10009. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 7 pfraterdeus 4:23 pm Jun 25, 1989 Welcome to all European Rainbow folks! We love you across the sea! We hope that you will find this conference useful! Please leave a message for us if you have questions! Love and Peace Petros (pfraterdeus) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 8 Howdy Folks Flyer available... pfraterdeus 4:26 pm Jun 25, 1989 I've got a nice "howdy folks!" flyer ready to send to anybody that wants to print and distribute it! Leave address here, or call me at 312 328 2733! Love and Light, Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 9 Any Body There? 2 responses pfraterdeus 4:30 pm Jun 25, 1989 Anybody out there? You can say howdy by replying to message #2. Just type ",wrc" ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 9 tlewis 10:14 pm Aug 10, 1989 Howdy, My name is Dwight I'm a focalizer for the Redwood d Bio-Region of California. a My address and phone number are as follows: PO Box 672, Arcata-Humboldt, CA 95521-0672. Phone (707)822-8909. I have a flyer that I'd like to upload asap too too RE: Equinox Gathering for local community. Also would like to get in touch with the focl with the focalizers from Manitoba, last names Waterman. Thanx ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 9 tlewis 11:07 pm Aug 25, 1989 Greetings Peter & Networkers: RE: neophyte; rb directory this year/no cards; what I use; send poster; custer battlefield; EcoNet/EarthDay; how I sent first contact; long dist. rideshare cards and proposal; rainbow trash as standards/recent conf.; 1/ I have just started using my modem for the first time last week, so IUm still a neophyte at telecommunications, let alone beginning to understand PeaceNet. How I got on the network 8/10, was through staff members at out local office of RCitizens for Social ResponsibilityS. Without their help or establishing a new account IUm not sure when you will receive this. On 8/10 I sent an initial howdy message with just name, address and phone number. The flyer I mentioned as one sentence will attempt to be sent with this transmission, or communique (what ever messages are called). It is being sent in the form of RTF from Word 4.0 (Mac), which moves me into what computer-ware I use. My computer is a Mac II, colour with 1 Mb, and Extended Keyboard. My software includes: Stuffit, Word 4.0, MacWrite, MS Excel 2.2, MacDrawII, SuperPaint 2.0, (access to PageMaker, through a campus internship, that also includes a LaserWriter ), and now QuickLink II & 2400 Zoom Modem for communications. 2/ Incidently, in speaking of PeaceNet, are you familiar with EcoNet? IUm waiting to hear how to access it, but on that Network if you have not yet heard, there is massive planning underway for Earth Day 1990, continuing on from where Earth Day 1970 left off. The date will be in April and the EARTHDAY is the name used on EcoNet. IUll be waiting for more details, myself. 3/ This year I returned to the Gathering after five years. The local info, up to the last minute was minimal and vague, but I made it. While there, I was looking for the cards used for the annual Rainbow Guide, but never found any by the time I left on the 8th. With Michael John not appearing to be around either, I wondered if that great idea was going on this year (???) Is it too late to get listings in there; or maybe even help out (while IUve got a few weeks of extra time left).? My final three items deal with some potentially big Networking subjects (Recycling, Ridesharing, and Custer Battlefield). 4/ Locally, this past week Humboldt State University was the site of a conference on recycling. After the Gathering I got to thinking again about the rainbow coloured recycling scheme at Gatherings, trying to remember all the colour separations. Is there a rap sheet on this subject ? From my first Gathering IUve always thought the colour coding to sorting was a great idea, and now it seems that separation is catching on more. This idea has great potential to go far. If the respective colours can become a standard, they can start becoming absorbed into consciousness. WouldnUt it be great to start seeing coloured garbage bins at Rest Areas, and public places all over? Swami Mommy would be honoured. 5/ While I do an eceltic blend of new age type endeavors, one of the main things I have been doing (even if on a voluntary internship) has been transportation planning. Soon IUm looking at a new venture with the blessings of CalTrans (CA Dept. of Trans.) in my region, to experiment with creating a phone-in database network for one time and/or long distance ride-sharing. IUm still looking for grants however, and grant writing procedures. Also depending on the cost versus funding, there may be question to using a 900 number and deceiding what reasonable price to set. Of course, in the same principles of rainbow consciousness it would be nice to aim for an 800 number, but nevertheless THERE WILL BE COSTS (balanced with a few new Rsocially responsibleS jobs created). Comments, questions, suggestions ??? 6/ Finally the last item at this time. This is definitely a major item for council discussion and networking, requiring both humble, diplomatic respect, and vision! RCuster Battlefield 1990S ... (I will not forget, or stray from the wishes expressed at the Vision Council 7 JUL 89. However I feel this should be a significant addition to what was said at that time) ... RLast month as I left the Nevada Gathering, there was quite a powerful vision that I experienced that IUd like to share with you, - and the meaning it may hold. It is funny how things work too. When I tried to find ride-sharers headed towards Yellowstone and then onto Denver it was rather hard to find any interest. Then when I did find some people interested, they bailed out early saying they believed I had a Rpersonal journeyS to make. So it was I wound up by-passing Yellowstone, which I plan to see next year, going through to Minnesota. After Billings, MT my interest lie in investigating Custer Battlefield NatUl Monument. As I approached stopping first at Crow Agency, I rode in on a storm front. Then at the site I realised a storm front coming in from all four cardinal directions. What resulted was a massive thunder storm and lightening, with enough thunder that the park interpreter was drowned out the whole length of his talk. RListen to the wind, and what it has to sayS was what came to mind from previous circles with elders. The lightening was so exact in the cardinal directions that I was able to take at least one picture of it. What came to me was a gathering of the tribes from all directions. Then as I turned around I saw a message about plans to dedicate a plaque in remembrance of the Indian viewpoint next year. Then it dawned on me that next year, EXACTLY about the time when people will be passing through to the Rainbow Gathering will be 100 years after the battle. I then also remembered how at the last RVision CouncilS (with Shoshone council members present) several people spoke of working with various Native American tribes, particularly emphasising this area as Rhaving needsS. It occured to me bit by bit of seeing some sort of gathering on this site next year at that time representative of Universal Peace, and RWorking TogetherS, healing separations between tribal nations (which elders often now speak of as the Karmic fate of the last 200 years events). I then silently said a prayer, asking if this was the message that was to be revealed. The storm had then begun to break in those moments, and to the South (the land of the Child and Innocence) a large rainbow appeared, which I was able to get pictures of. Giving thanks I turned to a ranger and asked if storms like this were common. RNo, this was very rare for this time of year, especially how the storm came in from all four sidesS was the answer. Realising it was time now for the park to be closing, I turned to find the rainbow gone and a clearing sky. So there you have the story as best I can describe it.S . . ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 10 First Reports from Nevada... pfraterdeus 12:50 pm Jul 14, 1989 Just got down out of the beautiful canyon of the East Fork of the Jarbidge River, where the 1989 Rainbow Gathering took place. Reports we heard were that 5000-8000 folks made the trek. Gathered under the watchful gaze of snowy-topped mountains, our journey began at the parking area, around 7500 feet elevation, and took us down a two-track trail for 4 miles to the river nearly a quarter mile below. Many wonderful people and events. A wedding, a birth, visions of the future, lessons from the past. Next year in Minnesota... (perhaps the North Central bioregion? We weren't there for the final consensus) Peace and Love! Live your (Our) Dreams! Petros (Peter Pen) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 11 Media Bus Comments!... 1 response pfraterdeus 12:56 pm Jul 14, 1989 Any thoughts on the Media Bus being proposed by Dr. Faustus may be added to this string. Just respond to this message to add your comments! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 11 bmasel 7:48 pm Aug 11, 1989 Well, John has left for Tennessee in a "59 International built up to look a lot like Noah's Ark. With frequent work this bus will roll. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 12 Not PA -- VA! Regional in Virginia pfraterdeus 9:34 pm Aug 13, 1989 Please read response 3 of topic 4 (Calendar) for important news on the Gathering that is NOT happening in Pennsylvania this August! (It's in western Virginia!) Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 13 GreatLakes Regional 20-27 Sept. pfraterdeus 9:08 pm Aug 19, 1989 Great Lakes Regional gathering, pending final scouting report, will be at Nordhouse Dunes on Lake Michigan, near Ludington, Michigan. Dates are September 20-27. This info is from a flyer I got from the Ann Arbor folks. They have phone #s for more up to date info... 313 662 6839 or 313 761 4243 Have Fun! How about that Eclipse! Pretty Cosmic, eh? 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These expressions are then to be taken into "collective discussion", networked for actions, and added in prayer.\par \pard \ri-360\tx720\tx6480\tx9539 {\i \par }\pard \qj\ri-360\tx6480\tx8999 \'a5\~{\b\ul A PEACE PRAYER/HEALING CIRCLE}\:{\b\i ... BRING your Hearts, your Self, songs, music, drums, poetry; and small gifts to be freely exchanged. }{\b\fs20 (moves into evening following \'d2Council\'d3 & Potluck dinner)}{\b\i \par }\pard \qj\ri-360\tx6480\tx8999 {\b\i\fs18 \par }\pard \qj\ri-360\tx6480\tx9359 {\f21\fs18 [}{\f21 NOTE\: Until a larger lo cation is found, and an assessment of how many will attend, the site for this first Gathering is tentatively at someone's home. Therefore please RSVP, as ride-sharing will be necessary. Also please call if you can help in any way.]\par }\pard \qj\ri-360\tx6480\tx9359 {\f21\fs20 \par }\pard \qc\ri-360\tx6480\tx9359 {\f3\fs20 For more info, To lend support, or RSVP\:\par Post a card or Message c/o\par }\pard \qc\ri-360\tx6480\tx9359 {\b\f3 Dwight W.\par P.O. Box 672\par Arcata, CA 95521\par }\pard \qc\ri-360\tx6480\tx9359 {\b\outl\f3 Phone}{\b\f3 (707) 822-8909\par }\pard \qc\ri-360\tx6480\tx9359 {\b\f3 \par }\pard \qc\ri-360\tx6480\tx9359 {\b\f21\fs20\cf3 \{}{\b\i\f21\fs20\cf3 this year a definite hapening, not conflicting with North Country Faire activities! }{\b\f21\fs20\cf3 \}}{\b\f3\cf3 \par }} This is a poster done is RTF (text) (using Word) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 15 HUMBOLDT CO.,CA NEWS/FOCALISER 1 response tlewis 11:34 pm Aug 25, 1989 Greetings Peter & Networkers: RE: neophyte; rb directory this year/no cards; what I use; send poster; custer battlefield; EcoNet/EarthDay; how I sent first contact; long dist. rideshare cards and proposal; rainbow trash as standards/recent conf.; 1/ I have just started using my modem for the first time last week, so IUm still a neophyte at telecommunications, let alone beginning to understand PeaceNet. How I got on the network 8/10, was through staff members at out local office of RCitizens for Social ResponsibilityS. Without their help or establishing a new account IUm not sure when you will receive this. On 8/10 I sent an initial howdy message with just name, address and phone number. The flyer I mentioned as one sentence will attempt to be sent with this transmission, or communique (what ever messages are called). It is being sent in the form of RTF from Word 4.0 (Mac), which moves me into what computer-ware I use. My computer is a Mac II, colour with 1 Mb, and Extended Keyboard. My software includes: Stuffit, Word 4.0, MacWrite, MS Excel 2.2, MacDrawII, SuperPaint 2.0, (access to PageMaker, through a campus internship, that also includes a LaserWriter ), and now QuickLink II & 2400 Zoom Modem for communications. 2/ Incidently, in speaking of PeaceNet, are you familiar with EcoNet? IUm waiting to hear how to access it, but on that Network if you have not yet heard, there is massive planning underway for Earth Day 1990, continuing on from where Earth Day 1970 left off. The date will be in April and the EARTHDAY is the name used on EcoNet. IUll be waiting for more details, myself. 3/ This year I returned to the Gathering after five years. The local info, up to the last minute was minimal and vague, but I made it. While there, I was looking for the cards used for the annual Rainbow Guide, but never found any by the time I left on the 8th. With Michael John not appearing to be around either, I wondered if that great idea was going on this year (???) Is it too late to get listings in there; or maybe even help out (while IUve got a few weeks of extra time left).? My final three items deal with some potentially big Networking subjects (Recycling, Ridesharing, and Custer Battlefield). 4/ Locally, this past week Humboldt State University was the site of a conference on recycling. After the Gathering I got to thinking again about the rainbow coloured recycling scheme at Gatherings, trying to remember all the colour separations. Is there a rap sheet on this subject ? From my first Gathering IUve always thought the colour coding to sorting was a great idea, and now it seems that separation is catching on more. This idea has great potential to go far. If the respective colours can become a standard, they can start becoming absorbed into consciousness. WouldnUt it be great to start seeing coloured garbage bins at Rest Areas, and public places all over? Swami Mommy would be honoured. 5/ While I do an eceltic blend of new age type endeavors, one of the main things I have been doing (even if on a voluntary internship) has been transportation planning. Soon IUm looking at a new venture with the blessings of CalTrans (CA Dept. of Trans.) in my region, to experiment with creating a phone-in database network for one time and/or long distance ride-sharing. IUm still looking for grants however, and grant writing procedures. Also depending on the cost versus funding, there may be question to using a 900 number and deceiding what reasonable price to set. Of course, in the same principles of rainbow consciousness it would be nice to aim for an 800 number, but nevertheless THERE WILL BE COSTS (balanced with a few new Rsocially responsibleS jobs created). Comments, questions, suggestions ??? 6/ Finally the last item at this time. This is definitely a major item for council discussion and networking, requiring both humble, diplomatic respect, and vision! RCuster Battlefield 1990S ... (I will not forget, or stray from the wishes expressed at the Vision Council 7 JUL 89. However I feel this should be a significant addition to what was said at that time) ... RLast month as I left the Nevada Gathering, there was quite a powerful vision that I experienced that IUd like to share with you, - and the meaning it may hold. It is funny how things work too. When I tried to find ride-sharers headed towards Yellowstone and then onto Denver it was rather hard to find any interest. Then when I did find some people interested, they bailed out early saying they believed I had a Rpersonal journeyS to make. So it was I wound up by-passing Yellowstone, which I plan to see next year, going through to Minnesota. After Billings, MT my interest lie in investigating Custer Battlefield NatUl Monument. As I approached stopping first at Crow Agency, I rode in on a storm front. Then at the site I realised a storm front coming in from all four cardinal directions. What resulted was a massive thunder storm and lightening, with enough thunder that the park interpreter was drowned out the whole length of his talk. RListen to the wind, and what it has to sayS was what came to mind from previous circles with elders. The lightening was so exact in the cardinal directions that I was able to take at least one picture of it. What came to me was a gathering of the tribes from all directions. Then as I turned around I saw a message about plans to dedicate a plaque in remembrance of the Indian viewpoint next year. Then it dawned on me that next year, EXACTLY about the time when people will be passing through to the Rainbow Gathering will be 100 years after the battle. I then also remembered how at the last RVision CouncilS (with Shoshone council members present) several people spoke of working with various Native American tribes, particularly emphasising this area as Rhaving needsS. It occured to me bit by bit of seeing some sort of gathering on this site next year at that time representative of Universal Peace, and RWorking TogetherS, healing separations between tribal nations (which elders often now speak of as the Karmic fate of the last 200 years events). I then silently said a prayer, asking if this was the message that was to be revealed. The storm had then begun to break in those moments, and to the South (the land of the Child and Innocence) a large rainbow appeared, which I was able to get pictures of. Giving thanks I turned to a ranger and asked if storms like this were common. RNo, this was very rare for this time of year, especially how the storm came in from all four sidesS was the answer. Realising it was time now for the park to be closing, I turned to find the rainbow gone and a clearing sky. So there you have the story as best I can describe it.S OOPS!!! I think this sent properly. But there is some clutter I sent to the wrong place to night; hopefully Peter or someone else well versed in this system can clean up my errors. SORRY!!! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 15 pfraterdeus 11:03 pm Aug 31, 1989 Dear tlewis... Thanks for your input. I'm going to take a more detailed look, and get back to you! P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 16 Legaliason Update Please Read!! 6 responses pfraterdeus 9:28 am Sep 17, 1989 Legaliason Update 17 September 1989 The following responses are from the "DC Legaliaison Volunteers". They are regarding ongoing legal situations between the Rainbow and the US Forest service, et al. Response 1 -- Rumor Control on Lafayette Park. Response 2 -- Draft Forest Service Regs. coming out soon. Please Respond! Response 3 -- Legaliason Update Aug 8, 1989 Response 4 -- Why we don't sign permits Response 5 -- Synopsis of recent relations between Rainbow and USFS Please send email responses to pfraterdeus and jjohnson. Please put responses to these messages in the next topic-- "Responses to 17 Sept 89 Legaliason Update" Thanks! Peace. P. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 16 pfraterdeus 9:30 am Sep 17, 1989 ********************************************************************** RAINBOW NEWS FLASH - RUMOR CONTROL!!! *** wrong info sent out a few days ago *** Sept 15, 1989 - On Sept. 6, a Focalizer's Council mailing was sent out, return address c/o Donny Wirtshafter. This mailing included a list of focalizers around the nation, as well as articles and event info, and contains incorrect information. Below the Equinox Gathering notice was a reprint of a flyer labelled "An Invitation to the Rainbow Family of Living Light Camp with the Homeless". This flyer says there will be "free legal camping" in Lafayette (Peace) Park - THIS IS NOT TRUE - THERE IS NO LEGAL CAMPING IN LAFAYETTE (PEACE) PARK. It was a mistake for it to be included in the mailing without verifying it first. This flyer was not approved by Housing Now!, nor by Peace Park or even Rainbow, to the best of our knowledge. We're not sure where this flyer came from, and would like to know, if anyone can tell us. It's pretty wild that somebody would do this without permission from Housing Now!, the Rainbow Council, or Peace Park. The Housing Now! march, which promises to be a major event, could have big hassles with authorities and logistics if this rumor is not controlled. There is crashspace and camping for those who wish to come, and please come! But no camping in Lafayette Park! Spread the Word! We Love You!! --DC Legaliaison Volunteers >>>P.S. - send responses to donny! ********************************************************************** ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 16 pfraterdeus 9:31 am Sep 17, 1989 ********************************************************************** DRAFT FOREST SERVICE REGULATIONS COMING OUT SOON PLEASE GET ON THIS LIST SO YOU CAN BE NOTIFIED AND CAN COMMENT The US Forest Service will soon publish draft regulations in the federal register - regulations that attempt to define, control, and restrict Gatherings and what people can do at Gatherings. After the draft is published, we have 60 days to send in comments before the draft would become law. Please get on this list so the Family can send you a copy of the draft regulations and you can speak your peace to the government. This list will be kept confidential, and will only be seen and used by Family members to send info to other Family members. Remember - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Use it or lose it!! Name AddressZip _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Send to: Rainbow Legaliaison, c/o Box 5722, Takoma Park, MD 209******************************************************** ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 16 pfraterdeus 9:32 am Sep 17, 1989 ***************************************************************** Legaliaison/DC Update >>>>>August 8, 1989 - Thumper called Marion Connolly (who is in charge of drafting the new Forest Service regulations that relate to Gatherings) to check on when they expect to publish the draft in the register -- she said no earlier than Oct. 1, probably not sooner than Nov. 1. She's hoping for the internal FS/USDA comment to be in by the end of August -- this includes comment from their attorneys -- then it would be passed on to the OMB (that's Office of Management and Budget ??) for their ok. It was a friendly conversation. There's an opportunity here - if one of us were to contact their attorneys or the OMB directly and begin a friendly dialogue about how the government will end up spending lots of taxpayer's money trying to enforce these blatantly unconstitutional regs, just to have us take them to court and have them thrown out again...we could all save a lot of hassle if they would just hold everything, and study this thing a little closer...say, maybe a couple of years. If you want to try it, let us know. If you haven't seen the proposed regs, send a couple of bucks (if possible) and we'll mail them to you. They're frightening. They might end up modified before getting published, but Marion has said in the past that she intends to pass them on to her people in just about the same form as we first saw them in April. >>>>>The next major step for all of us in this movie is going to be responding to the publication of the draft regs. We - along with the rest of America - will have 60 days to comment on the regs after they appear in the federal register. Folks in DC who've dealt with this kind of thing before say that a substantial number of letters - like 400++ - is necessary to get anything more than lip service and cosmetic changes. Of course, we shouldn't count on the FS to be responsive at all -- but the more protest we generate, the stronger of a case we have when lobbying the Democratic Congress about the Republican Forest Service running roughshod over the First Amendment. Please ask your local hippies to commit to writing a letter when the time comes - we'll put them on the mailing list if they or you send in their names and addresses, so that everyone gets notified and gets a copy of the draft. Consider having a letter writing council/party, if you don't have a Gathering happening when the time comes. >>>>>All this doesn't mean that the DC crew can do the actual mailing! Some of the folks who did the last two mailings have moved on -- so it's time for new Legaliaison volunteers to jump up. >>>>>Please send in all the information you and your people can remember on past and present relationships with forest rangers - particularly name, rank, forest, and overall attitude. One of us here is willing to try and compile a database of all these folks, so that we can keep track of friendly and hostile rangers. Love y'all - DC Crew,% Box 5722, Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301)565-5276 ********************************************************************* ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 16 pfraterdeus 9:33 am Sep 17, 1989 ********************************************************************* WHY WE DON'T SIGN PERMITS The Rainbow Family World Peace Gatherings have occurred without permits since 1981. Our chief position has been that we do not need anyone's permission to gather, and that we sign away our right to peaceably assemble when we sign permits. We have always sought full cooperation with everyone impacted by the Gathering. We have always left sites in a condition at least as good as we found them, usually better; we did have a hard time in North Carolina because the Forest Service busted our cleanup crew. As always, no one person is qualified to speak for the Family, and there is a tradition that any contacts with the authorities have at least three family members present, unless there is an "emergency". We are all "liaisons" for the council, and anything we say or do is subject to the approval of the council. A common request of the FS is that we post a performance bond. This is something we have never done, since it constitutes requiring insurance to go to church. The Family holds that Rainbow is not a sue-able entity, or is even a legal entity at all - judges aren't too hot on this idea. A good model to cite might be the Mennonite community in PA, which conscientiously objects to having auto insurance, which is mandatory in PA. They have a deal with the government whereby they simply pledge, as a community, to make good on any liabilities incurred. Rainbow has a spotless record, to the best of my knowledge, on making good on liabilities. ********************************************************************** ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 16 pfraterdeus 9:34 am Sep 17, 1989 ********************************************************************** A SYNOPSIS OF RECENT RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FOREST SERVICE AND THE RAINBOW FAMILY OF LIVING LIGHT In 1986, in U.S. v. Israel, Judge Bilby in Arizona declared portions of the FS regulations unconstitutional, basically because they tried to regulate expressive conduct on NFS land. The case resulted from a citation served at a regional Gathering for failing to obtain a special use permit. In May 1988, the FS implemented interim regulations to cover the gaps left in 1986. They also sought "injunctive relief" (i.e., a temporary restraining order) in an attempt to prevent Spring Council and the Gathering from occurring on FS land. In June, 1988, Judge Justice in Texas threw out portions on the grounds that the FS had failed to follow due process, and seriously questioned whether the FS was concerned about Rainbow's 1st Amendment Rights. In August, 1988, members of the Family met with FS Chief F. Dale Robertson, Deputy Chief of Administration Bill Rice, and others. Chief Dale pledged positive cooperation and promised to give Rainbow the opportunity to participate in the drafting of the new regs. On March 17, 1989, a working draft was given to Rainbow Family members, who disseminated it throughout the Family and held a Council to focus comment. On April 7, 1989, Family members met with Bill Rice, Rex Hartgraves (Administration), Cecil Wilson (Law Enforcement), Marion Connolly (who actually writes the regs), and others. Rainbow's overall comment was discussed, as well as general history and a number of specific issues. The overall tone was positive, and Bill Rice said that he planned to attend the World Peace Gathering in Nevada in July. The Gathering in Nevada was not as hassled by authorities as the previous two years. The FS wasn't too active in person, but did reportedly give $30,000 to local law enforcement agencies, who subsequently engaged in an incredible number of searches without probable cause, including supply runs - cutting open bags of beans, etc. One of our old-time regional folks was working the parking lot all gathering and estimated that at least half of the vehicles coming into the Gathering got searched - other estimates run in the 25-35% range. Outside of searches, video surveillance, and the recording of all the license plate numbers in the parking lot, things were mellow. Bill Rice did fly out and met with a bunch of Rainbow folks - friendly and amicable, nothing of significance said, to the best of my knowledge. ==== ==== ==== Response 6 to Note 16 jjohnson 9:27 pm Nov 19, 1989 Please note that Rainbow Legaliaison/DC Crew has a new address: Box 5604, Takoma Park, MD 20912. Thanks! DC area legaliaison Council, 11/25; will try to check e-mail and conference just before - in case anyone wants to tell us anything. Love! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 17 Responses to Legaliason Update... 1 response pfraterdeus 9:36 am Sep 17, 1989 This topic is for responses to the previous Legaliason update, of 17 September 1989. Peace, Peter. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 17 jjohnson 9:28 pm Nov 19, 1989 Please note Rainbow Legaliaison/DC Crew has a new address: Box 5604 Takoma Park MD 20912 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 18 CA Focalising tlewis 1:00 am Sep 21, 1989 [NOTE: This letter is a one time immediate communique and NOT meant for publishing. Thanks] Dear Brother & Sister Focalisers in CA: Over the weekend I received the list of everyoneUs mailing addresses, that I presume we all likewise received. My first response to one and all as Rcircle talkS (i.e. respect-fully in networking) when reading Don WirtshafterUs letter to us all, is that to say RTwo focs per state seems idealS is a rather absolute and limiting idea. Just as constructive feedback, I think there can always be a place for whoever wants to help out, AND (as weUve talked about at councils,) state boundaries do not necessarily mean a whole lot. East Coast states for example are generally smaller with denser population; the Western states are just the opposite. Then in California, not only are we a large state, but we also been a rainbow of diverse regions. So I say letUs of course work together, while keeping an awareness of what our local needs/concerns/uniqueness is all about, and networking. Universally we are ONE, yet universally we are also UNIQUE. So whatUs this about a spacific number. As I always say, RThe Universe is not Black and White, but rather a Rainbow.S Well, enough banter with one point; on with news. I wish to thank you focUs who supplied me with the list of six local people. It just so happens though in each case these were the same six people. As I begin typing out this letter we are preparing for our local Community Gathering and North Country Faire. Therefore by the time this is probably completed it will be after these events and there will be more news and growing interest. Perhaps that will need to be in the next communiqu. Likewise we, here in Humboldt County would be interested in anything that may have occured in your local areas over the Equinox. And speaking of the seasons ... people are beginning to ask me what the word is on a Thanksgiving Regional. So far I have not heard anything, except that John & Sparrow in Freedom (Santa Cruz Co.) will not be able to sponsor the Big Sur Regional this year due to some major personal committments. Anybody else interested down that way? What ever the case this sounds like something we all should be prepared to start discussing if this is to happen at this time, this year. IUm sure weUll start our own discussion on the subject this weekend. Speaking of discussions and RconferencingS, has anybody else in California tried the RRainbowNewsS Conference of RAll Ways FreeS on PeaceNet (the computer phone network, that is)? Personally IUve tried it out with my Macintosh each weekend now this past month, but find not much really added since Nevada. Peter Fraterdaus (who maintains the conference from Chicago) acknowledged my information. However I still am waiting on much vital information, including the Rstandardised Garbage Chakra coloursS for local recycling projects. That of course is said to be in the new RRainbow HandbookS which I have yet to see. PeaceNet is not the easiest system to learn to operate. How I happened to get started, and access it, is through the account of our local RCitizens/Physicians for Social Responsibility.S When looking at who the major account holders are, several are local, then there is a whole section of the conferences from Canada. Once on PeaceNet one can also access EcoNet, and find out about EarthDay 1990. Even though a copy of this letter is going to every focaliser listed in California, it seems at this point it would hurt to put a copy on the conference too. (Names & addresses, of course stay confidential, and unlisted as requested) Also speaking of RRecyclingS, lots of different groups up here are going all out to do recycling projects. So this may be an excellent fund raising method for some of you to think about in your own local areas. Of course local rainbow Rfund-raisingS up here will have to come up with something else for that purpose. As for get-togethers, BARN (Bay Area Rainbow Network) has planned several picnics, if anyone hasnUt heard. I just mention this since there are 15 different address listed in CA for Focalising, and IUm sure we havenUt all met each other yet. Hope we all may get to start knowing each other soon though. Until next time ... May Peace Be With You, Dwight PO Box 672 Arcata-Humboldt, CA 95521-0672 . . ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 19 Why PeaceNet? 3 responses pfraterdeus 8:11 pm Oct 13, 1989 Message 14 (63 lines) From tlewis Thu Oct 12 22:20 PDT 1989 To: pfraterdeus Subject: rbnetworking Interoffice Memo To:...........Peter Fraterdeus From:......Dwight Winegar .................Redwood Region Focaliser Date:....Thu, Oct 12, 1989 Re:........Connect/MacNET As you know, over the past couple of months now, since returning from Nevada, IUve been trying out PeaceNet/EcoNet, and using awf.rainbownews. My impression is the system works to a certain extent BUT ... it is not the easiest or most user friendly systems around, which has in fact cost me extra run time in a couple of instances. Likewise, amongst those rainbows that actually do have computers, or computer access I wonder how many use, have attempted to use, or know how to use our conference (?) Also I wonder how many are Macintosh users, or at least use windows in the PC Environment. What IUm leading up to is news about a new improved global network, that is catching on out here in California, like wildfire. It is definitely the best thing I have heard of to date for telecommunications and operates in the simplicity of a Macintosh based environment. As such it can also be used by PC users merely by having Windows. The software and service comes from a company called CONNECT, with the software being called MacNET and PC/MacNET. There is NO monthly fee, only hourly rates of $8./hr Prime Time, and $4./Hr Non-prime time. There are various conferences (on this network system the word is Forums, as IUll get to in a minute), however that DO set their own rates for monthly service. For example, there is a community develepment network with a Forum known as GATEWAY, dealing with a wide variety of issues such as the homeless, hunger, energy, and state legislation which has a fee of $15./month. Of course, any group, or group of 20 individuals can create their own Forum (in this case the larger general one, is called a Forum, while spacific topics within the Forum can include conferences ) complete with Logo, and the entire Forum can work on icons, with WYWSIWIG data. For example a typical Forum may include: a Calendar of Events that looks like any type of real calendar; spacific topic conferences; AND since actual formated documents can be sent and received, there can even be file folders of forms and posters! This later feature, give your computer the ability to be a FAX. Just consider what all this could mean for us, and how it could improve focalising and AWF publication. Some examples I see right now, would be a large rainbow logo, and next to it a series of icons, such as a calendar, a globe (for international Rainbow events and projects), a forestry icon (for USFS forms, reports, and news pertinent to Rainbow), a data folder for Posters (announcing upcoming events and respective maps), a feather & talking stick icon (for ongoing discussions). With respect to us currently using PeaceNet I did not upload this as a topic, but I openly invite the contents of this letter to be networked for responses, and enlightenment if nothing else. Incidently, Peter, before I close this letter, I am still looking for the actual colours used in the Rainbow Chakras of Garbage, since local groups have begun painting bins for recycling. Do you have those? If I donUt find that info soon, the idea of Standardised Colours will have to be put on the back shelf. Also soon I will have a Redwood (Region) Rainbow Newletter completed. Dwight. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 19 pfraterdeus 8:16 pm Oct 13, 1989 Message 16 (26 lines) From pfraterdeus Fri Oct 13 20:07 PDT 1989 To: tlewis Subject: Re: rbnetworking Cc: pfraterdeus Dwight--- Hey quick response! Actually, I didn't read my mail before I read your note in the AWF conf. I think one reason for choosing peacenet, (and I agree entirely that the Interface is pre-historic!) was that it is a not-for-profit. Whether this is, or should be the final deciding factor, it is seen as more compatible with the Rainbow aversion to filthy lucre. I have suggested to the IGC folks (parents of Peace/Eco net) that they could develop a HyperCard front end for the service that would make us Maccers alot happier, but it wouldn't help the "rest of us". I don't know how this will work out, since the only consensed position (taken by the Madison/Chicago AWF councils) is to work with PeaceNet. The original suggestion came from Ben Masel in Madison. I think I'll put your letter and this response into the conference, and see if there's anybody listening! All the Best, and thanks for stopping in! Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 19 bmasel 9:10 pm Oct 13, 1989 I suggested this system because: I was already here, The existing userbase seemed quite compatible. ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 19 tlewis 10:45 pm Nov 13, 1989 Interoffice Memo To:.........Peter Fraterdeus From:....Dwight Winegar ...............Redwood Region Focaliser Date:.....Sun, Nov 12, 1989 Re:.........AO or America Online (a NEW telecomm Network) Greetings once again dear folks [ ] (one of new short hand symbols for -hugs-, also : ) means a smile! - look sideways). I believe there is some exciting news to report on the subject of improvements to the RRainbowNETS, online conferencing that is. For the time being Rawf.rainbownewsS may have a place for PC users and convenience for anyone already paying to use PeaceNet/EcoNet. However (if you have not already been hearing lately) there is a NEW telecomm network spacifically for Macintoshs and Apple IIUs. In a few months it is anticipated that PCs with Windows will also be able to use it as well. It is called AMERICA ONLINE or AO, serving all of North America. There is no more expense to using AO than there is to using PeaceNet, yet while it does not go quite as far as MacNETUs capabilities, it does most of them; - far exceeding the limitations and cumbersomeness of PeaceNet. I hope anyone who reads this can try it out and reply with feedback, IF you have access to a Mac of Apple II. Some of AOUs unique features include: * the ability to use icons, windows, and pull-down menus; * uploading & downloading FILES, not just text (i.e.: this could mean sending newsletters and flyers, and groovy clip-art [0: ) ]; * E-Mail with ability to attach a file; If you want to try out America Online, for two free hours, as part of an evaluation programme, look in recent MacWorld mags; else their address is 8619 Westwood Center Drive, Vienna, VA 22182, ph. # (703) 448-8700. NOTE: On PeaceNet you will see my entries under the name of tlewis, because I am time-sharing within a user group. OTHERWISE, on AO or other comm. services leave messages for me as Whitefethr or if non-rainbow, as DwightW. Thanks. Love YUall ;) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 20 Behind the Walls listing 1 response tlewis 11:52 pm Oct 16, 1989 To:........AWF Staff & submitters From:...Dwight Winegar, Redwood Bio-Region Focaliser .............PO Box 672, Arcata-Humboldt, CA 95521-0672 Date:....Mon, Oct 16, 1989 Re:........Behind the Walls address list ......Anyone whom looked at every page of the last AWF is aware that there is a page entitled Behind the Walls listing the addresses of Brothers, although no Sisters were listed, in Jail. A small caption also noted ... These incarcerated brothers would appreciate your card or envelope-full of Rainbow light ... which when taken in the right perspective, I for one, have no problem with. I also note there was one Brother, who used to be a major contributor to successful Rainbow communications/networking, rumoured to be in Jail, but not on the list. ......In recent discussion this past week however, some things were brought up that were thought worthy of networking. The discussion arose from one individual name in particular. The questions that came up were - from where did this list originate, and - what, to a more fuller extent than one sentence, was its purpose in AWF. My feeling on this question was to probably not read in something pessimistic that was not there. At the same time it was suggested, whether for social responsibility or just better communication, that the charges associated with each person be listed. If what was said in this discussion is true, as I found myself doing, readers might believe someone is being held injustly, or for petty offences that could be debatable in our society. This just might not always be the case though. The brother in question, over which the whole discussion arose, is thought of by many for his views on nudity and sexual freedom, and as such seen as a freedom fighter against repressive puritanical norms. However, if what appears to coming out as factual information lately, he may have been put behind bars for playing a major part in an international child pornography/molestation ring. Does one see all the implications then? ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 20 bmasel 11:35 am Oct 22, 1989 The list was derived from letters recieved at AWF requesting correspondence. Only a few of these letters gave details of charges. So take it a face value, these are prisoners requesting correspondence. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 21 Forest Service Letter tlewis 11:54 pm Oct 16, 1989 [The following uploaded text is a copy of what was just sent out to Focalisers from the SOURCE address below, as a photocopy with no official letterhead; just the words Regional Forester and the #2330] To:........ALL? From:........George A. Olson, Director, Recreation and Lands Source:........925 Phillips, Missoula, MT 59802 Date:........7/21/89; RecUd: 10/16/89 Re:........Forest Service Regulations .....The Rainbow Family Gathering for 1989 is over with no major incidents. .....Forest Service personnel and cooperators who managed the Gathering did an outstanding job, often under trying conditions, and deserve out sincere thanks. .....Now that the dust is settling, I want to make a few personal observations and recommendations concerning the Gathering. .....I have been involved with hosting Rainbow Family gatherings on National Forests for 12 years. Two of these were the FamilyUs National Gathering. I do have serious concerns about the direction we, as an agency, are taking in response to this annual Gathering. .....The Forest Service manages the Rainbow Gathering under the apparent philosophy of placing rules and regulations on those who will comply and modifying them for those who will not. Consistency and fairness seems to be lacking when dealing with the Rainbows as compared to Boy Scout events, family reunions, or other large groups who visit the National Forests. We require strict compliance by Boy Scouts and others who would probably behave to our standards anyway, yet look the other way when Rainbow Family members openly violate some of the most basic rules, regulations, and laws. .....Our management gives the appearance of condoning drug use and other flagrantly illegal activities. Also the transporting of drugs and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol on Forest development roads are acts in blatant disregard for the rights and safety of others. The Forest Service should not be in a position of condoning or appearing to condone open, blatant, and defiant drug use when the mainstream of public opinion, laws of the land, and the PresidentUs policies are strongly in the opposite direction. .....In my opinion, we must be consistent in our administration and not appear to condone any illegal activities on the National Forests. Our responsibility to care for these lands must not be eroded by events like the Rainbow Gathering. ......I recommend the Chief gather our best and most knowledgeable legal and administrative minds and develop strategies and a policy for handling events like the Rainbow Family Gathering in the future. The strategies and policies should reflect the pride and professionalism of the Forest Service in serving all the people of the Nation through competent and fair enforcement of laws. The Rainbow Family should be notified of our policy and our resolve in time for them to make responsible choices about its next Gathering. .....All who want to meet or gather on the National Forests will be welcomed and hosted with respect and dignity. They should, however, abide by the laws of the land. Forest Officers also have a right to be treated with respect and dignity in the discharge of their duties. It is time that we reassess our future actions so that all visitors to the National Forest can have a safe experience in an environment free of illegal drug use. In addition, our Forest Officers should be able to perform their duties without experiencing the abusive, insulting, and often illegal behaviour that is becoming commonplace during Rainbow Family Gatherings. BGlenn:dm 7/21/89 4117A ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 22 A Commercial Mailing received tlewis 11:59 pm Oct 16, 1989 To:........Focalisers From:...Dwight Winegar, Redwood Bio-Region Focaliser .............PO Box 672, Arcata-Humboldt, CA 95521-0672 Date:....Mon, Oct 16, 1989 Re:........A Commercial Mailing received ......This weekend I received mail showing usage for what I personally consider commercial purposes. The mailing in reference was advertising, and solicitation for membership, from The Naturist Society. It is clear that the source was the Focaliser list for two reasons, one - it contained the familiar typo errors, and two - The Naturist Society, which is the dba for Lee Baxendahl, is on that list as the only focaliser in the state of Wisconsin. ......What do the rest of you who received this or in hearing this news think? Was not this list to be kept free from advertising purposes? If it is argued that this mailing could be of interest to Rainbows because it represents an alternative lifestyle organization, also noting that there is a membership fee, then where is the line to be drawn? ......Also if one is not already aware, former staff members Nikki Craft and Michele Handler, in their own newsletter The ICONoclast, have been exposing a great deal of information that was more or less being covered up by this organisation. See also the accompanying upload on Incarceration List, on the awf.rainbownews conference. Nikki is being invited to submit correspondence to awf. Parents, feminists and socially-responsible-aware Rainbows could be well-informed to familiarise themselves with this material. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 23 Looking for Tex tlewis 11:12 pm Dec 9, 1989 Subj: Looking for Tex... 89-11-23 23:16:16 EST From: DeaconMac (relayed from America Online) I've never been to a Rainbow Family gathering, but back in the late 60s and early 70s I had a very good friend named Tex who, I understand, has been to many gatherings. He's described them to me as truly wonderful, freeing experiences. If anyone runs into Tex, give him a hug for me. He used to live in DC, then went to Texas and Alaska where he worked on oil rigs. He always sported a scraggly beard and a casual smile. I did get to a Men's Festival last August in Lake of the Ozarks, MO, and it was an experience I will treasure for a long time. The Park Service there largely left us alone, though they did object to people sunbathing nude on the dock during the day (sunbathing in more secluded areas or at night was okay). ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 24 CA Winter Gathering tlewis 12:23 am Dec 15, 1989 (this is a notice I received in the mail confirming RtalkS of a Winter Gathering) Greetings: Just a little not to let you know that the Christmas Rainbow Gathering is ON. It is in Northern CA; Humboldt County; just off the US 101 Freeway, Milepost 48. The dates are 22 Dec - 7 Jan 90. Please come and join is in celebrating the 20 yrs. of the Common Tribe of Life on Earth. -- the Punta Gorda Lighthouse. Love, Gentle George PO Box 1956 Redway, CA 95560 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 25 Great Lakes Decade Party 1 response tlewis 6:32 pm Dec 19, 1989 Subj: Great Lakes Rainbow 89-12-17 14:17:38 EST From: Cahan Glad to have found a Rainbow forum on this service - this is quite a surprise. I will be posting news and information regarding happenings in the Great Lakes Region, and if anyone needs to contact someone in this region, they can send mail to me. Upcoming events: DECADES EVE PARTY at Gonzo Steve and Otter Nancy's place, 106 Worden in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Call (313) 761-4243 for more info. [This was recieved from America Online, where some of us have been testing the service this past month, and I (E-mail names to follow) am waiting for info. to negotiate a Forum on AO additional to this one for expanding accessability].. E-Mail use America Online: Whitefethr MacNET: WINEGAR PeaceNet/EcoNet: tlewis c/o dwight Happy Peace-filled Loving Holidays ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 25 pfraterdeus 10:54 pm Dec 26, 1989 Howdy, Great Lakes! This is a howdy from peter pen in evanston, just across the great lake of michigan from you all in ann arbor! Great to see some action on the ol'awf forum... Please take a look through the previous messages, if you haven't already, and keep in touch! Love and Light! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 26 Thanksgiving '89 MN Council Notes pfraterdeus 10:57 pm Dec 26, 1989 Thanksgiving Council T89 Minnesota Preramble: We come to gather in Rainbow Spirit to plant the seeds of Love that will grow into a Rainbow Gathering in Minnesota. We Respect and Support past Rainbow Family Consensuses and We Council to further them. The Minnesota Rainbow Family will nurture our FamilyUs visions and work to channel Love and resources from our family throughout the land in order to build toward a Healthy Rainbow Family Gathering in 1990! Ho! >>Consensus Decisions from 1989 Minnesota Thasnksgiving Council<< # l: We will open a permanent "Rainbow Family Minnesota" P.O. Box in Minneapolis. (Uncle Richard will handle the details.) This will be Rainbow T90 mail focus: Minneapolis/St. Paul Rainbow Circle will form Cooperative volunteer Crews to handle the mail: RAINBOW MINNESOTA, P.O. BOX 9777, Mpls., MN, 55458 #2: Rainbow Family will pay the electric bill for the house at: Box 136, Stark, MN, 55032. Michael, (aka. "Taco Mike") and volunteers there will answer mail and keep in touch with the wider Family network. Twin Cities Family will include them in their Circles. #3: The Banking Council will consist of Rani, Paul from St. Paul, Learner Harmony, Taco Mike, and Uncle Richard with future members to be Chosen by consensus of the Banking Council until an optimum number is reached. They will be responsible for handling funds raised by the entire Rainbow Family network of support. Bank Council 1990: Uncle Richard Knopf, Taco Michael, Learner Harmony, Rani Wandtke, Paul Huggins. #4: We will provide as much Organic food as possible for our Family at this Gathering. We envision an Organic kitchen and village for information and networking on Organics. If you have any organic food to donate or have any educational workshops on the subject to bring, please contact Ejab, C/O 2802 E. 22nd St., Mpls., MN, 55406. #5: We will recycle >all< the garbage at this Gathering. We encourage everyone to bring recycled and/or recyclable materials only. Please do not bring disposable plastics, #6: We will create a space dedicated to workshops and encourage our Family to Come prepared to teach us what you know. The Rainbow is an educational as well as a healing Gathering. #7: We will Create a space dedicated to Sacred Ceremony and invite all the Spiritual traditions to come and share with us in the spirit of Unity and Respect. #8: We will hold Scouting Council April 6-9 in MN on the land. We will hold Spring Council May 18-20 in MN on the land. #9: Twin Cities Rainbow Potlucks: Dec. 3rd and Dec. 17th hosted by Twin Cities Family. #10: We, as members of the Rainbow Family, consense to reaffirm our Right to gather peacefully on public land. #1l: The Rainbow Family is Calling the resources of the Rainbow Guide home. We need Copies of all the Family names and addresses as soon as possible, (including Regional lists). We invite Zigamus to Come work with us in Our bioregion to complete the current Guide. A Rainbow project deserves a Rainbow Council of 3 or more, especially a Banking Council where green energy is involved. We are prepared to implement such a council for the Guide. #12: Jude, Taco Mike, Michael, and Marco Polo are going scouting Dec. 4th, after the first Twin Cities Rainbow Potluck, They will also make initial contacts with the United States Forest Service in Duluth. #13: >AllWaysFree Report< Noreen brought the message from Tucson that all the Regions Could Create their own page or pages for the paper and MN Rainbow has some Crucial information to offer. Fundraising is >criticalAllWaysFree< always free. #14: The MN Rainbow Thanksgiving Council asks our Native relatives to bless our Gathering with their presence, especially the Anishanabe and Dakota people of this bioregion. We also extend a special invitation to our international neighbors on Turtle Island, our sisters and brothers in Canada. We commit ourselves to outreach to people of all cultural backgrounds and encourage them to gather with us in Minnesota. #15: We will make this Gathering accessible to the differently abled. # 16 This Gathering will be a Space dedicated to Healing. Please bring no alcohol or drugs, only Medicine. We encourage continued dialogue and efforts towards the healing of abuse of our human family; both the abuse of sacred substances and abuse of the sacred rights to use them. Abuse of people is no solution to the abuse of sacred substances. #17: We call On all Circles of Our Rainbow Family to focus on Our 1990 Gathering in Minnesota. Help US gather the funds and material resources to build a strong Family Gathering. Send us your prayers, your regional information and remember to pass your hat for Minnesota '90. We are aII the Rainbow Gathering! Happy Thanksgiving! We Love You All! The Rainbow Family Tribal Council Thanksgiving 1989 Shanti Camp, Minnesota Om Shanti! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 27 Note to Support at PeaceNet, etc.. 4 responses pfraterdeus 11:31 pm Dec 26, 1989 The response to this note is a message sent to PeaceNet (IGC) support in response to their request for info about this conference, specifically whether we would like the conf to be more widely publicized on the network. Included in my message is the text of Stephen Wing's essay "One View of the Rainbow", in a better formatted form than originally uploaded! Peace & Liight in this Solstice Season! Peter Pen ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 27 pfraterdeus 11:32 pm Dec 26, 1989 -- start of text -- Jillian- Thanks for your interest! Following is a description of the rainbow family, and the gathering. Since I "just work here", I can't really write an "official" version of the AllWaysFree promo, but I think that some of the stuff that's already been uploaded gives a pretty good idea of who we are! We're very interested in getting word of the upcoming national gathering (in Minnesota, july 1-7, 1990) out to as many people as we can, but without any undertone of commercialism. I think the particularly wonderful thing about rainbow is the utter lack of pretension to be found in most of the people that show up! Also, I've never seen so many folks giving food away! The following was written by Stephen Wing, Poet and sometime editor of the paper version of AllwaysFree. It is, as he writes.... /* Written 4:14 am May 19, 1989 by pfraterdeus in cdp:awf.rainbownews */ /* ---------- "Rainbow Family -- One View" ---------- */ No one person's experience can sum up the Rainbow Family or its Gathering: this is the first step to understanding it. Since the Rainbow is a movement of countless individuals, has no leaders or doctrines, the details are as many as we are. The following, therefore, is only one person's view. The name itself tells it simplest: we are an extended Family. The network that has grown out of 17 World Peace & Healing Gatherings has become the Family of all the families we've met and become related to in our travels and gatherings. The network is spreading rapidly now to regional and international circles of folks also learning to be Family; the extended family seems to keep extending. As the rainbow is the spectrum of all the stripes, the Rainbow Family reaches across all human boundaries. The Family can make no statement at all without the agreement of every single Rainbow. Therefore, the Family makes few statements. Our only commo n belief is in Family; our only political position is the right to Gather. By long consensus we do not buy or sell in the temple of our Gatherings, we do not want alcohol in our camps, weapons or violence around our children. These are not rules anyone e nforces, but the consensus of many councils, which we respect. A federal judge in Texas last year upheld our right to peaceably assemble on National Forest land-- our land, as citizens-- in the free expression of our belief in Gathering. We do so every July 1Q7; on the 4th we circle and send a mighty silent call for Peace and Healing to the world. This year we gather in Nevada, and all are welcome. (Come prepared to camp at high altitude, bring your own water and shade, pitch in and share what you can. For info contact the Nevada '89 Rainbow Family Gathering of th e Tribes office crew at P.O. Box 2455, Carson City NV 89702, or call 702/883-6977.) It's like visiting any foreign place, strange customs, strange costumesQ yet uncannily familiar: Welcome Home, strangers keep saying, and after wandering awhile the feeling does seep in that this is how we would all be living if something hadn't gone aw ry. If you've stayed that long, leaving the Gathering can hit you harder with culture-shock than your arrival. After a few Gatherings, though, you get the comfortable feeling that no matter where you wander, you have a Home somewhere, there's a place where the twisted social geometry of "civilization" does not apply. You start forgetting where you are and looking at every panhandler and policeman like Family. That's when you know you've really come Home. * * * + + () + + * * * Brothers and Sisters of the human Family Let us come together in solemn joy to celebrate our Unity amidst the Variety of Creation under the One Sky all species share in the Garden this earth was created to be Let us leave our differences behind and bring only our diversity Let us council with our relations the plants and animals, insects and bacteria Let us stand in the circle that encloses all beings of planet Earth and join hands in the song of healing harmony among the peoples of the world To gather is sacred. The circle makes us whole. Ho! + + + * * (=) * * + + + Namaste Q Stephen Wing ________ PS Have some formatting problems, but I hope you can get the sense of it! Peace Peter Pen (pfraterdeus) PPS Minnesota Contacts: Rainbow Minnesota PO Box 9777 Minneapolis, MN 55458 Also< Please see the recent note in the awf.rainbow conf "Thanksgiving Council 89 Notes" for a sense of how the family operates. We (those of us with computers and modems) hope that this forum will enable focalizers (focus folks) around the country to get more timely and accurate information to the various local circles. All the Best, and thanks for the opportunity to connect! P. -- end of text -- ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 27 pfraterdeus 5:58 pm Jan 1, 1990 The following is the edited response to Jillaine's suggested conf description. Peter .... Jillaine-- Thanks for your suggestion on the awf... description. Here is what you sent me... >> awf.rainbownews The conference of the Rainbow Tribe, a nationwide 'extended family' grown out of more than 17 World Peace and Healing Gatherings. "Our only comon belief is in Family; our only political position is the right to gather." Yearly Gatherings are held the first week of July. For more information, send email to 'pfraterdeus' or postal mail to Rainbow Minnesota, PO Box 9777, Minneapolis, MN 55458. << Following is the minor revision... >> awf.rainbownews The online council of the AllWaysFree Rainbow Newspaper, produced by members of the Rainbow Tribe, an international 'extended family' grown out of more than eighteen World Peace and Healing Gatherings. All are welcome! "Our only common belief is in Family; our only political position is the right to gather." Yearly Gatherings are held the first week of July. For more information, send email to 'pfraterdeus' or postal mail (for 1990 gathering) to Rainbow Minnesota, PO Box 9777, Minneapolis, MN 55458. << May the New Decade bring Peace and Love and Green to All! Praise the rebirth of the Sun!!! Peter ..... If there are any comments on this wording, please add them to this topic as a response, or send me email at 'pfraterdeus'. If we get no block on this description within 10 days, it will be used to introduce the awf.rainbownews conference to other PeaceNet users who may not have been aware of it. ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 27 jlohrmann 2:26 pm Jan 3, 1990 Hello, My name is Jeff Lohrmann and I work at the IGC office in San Francisco. Ben Masel is here visiting so I wanted to take this opportunity to get on this conference and set myself up as a regular visitor here in ordwere to follow what the rainbow is doing these days. Talk soon. ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 27 pfraterdeus 11:16 pm Apr 7, 1990 howdy, jeff! Hope you can make it to the Minnesota gathering! Peace... Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 28 Rainbow Minnesota '90 (AO) 1 response tlewis 11:56 pm Jan 12, 1990 Subj: Rainbow Minnesota '90 89-12-20 22:58:16 EST From: Gonzopolis (America Online ID) Howdy! Got back a coupl'a weeks ago from Thanksgiving Council for next summer's Gathering of the Tribes in Minnesota. T'giving Council was held at Shanti Camp near Pine City, just up the hill from the St. Croix river. 7 below zero one night--cold camping let me tell ya! Anyway, it looks like the Gathering's gonna be real fine, good folks and good energy. I don't have time to type out all the goings on and decisions made, but if you send a SASE, or at least a stamp, to Rainbow Minnesota, Box 9777, Minneapolis, MN 55458-9777, they oughta send you council minutes at least, and you'll be on their mailing list also. Also, if you're interested in getting on the mailing list for Great Lakes events 'n such, or if you can't get council info from the above address for some reason, leave your name and pertinent mail info, phone, whatever, here, or write Great Lakes Rainbow, Box 3433, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3433. Namaste, I love you! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 28 pfraterdeus 8:17 pm Jan 22, 1990 Council Notes from THANKSGIVING '89 are in topic 31! Love & Light! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 29 ALL WAYS FREE March90 issue info 1 response tlewis 12:06 am Feb 7, 1990 *** ALL WAYS FREE *** Howdy folks!!! *HAPPY NEW YEAR* 1990 Tis the time for all good Rainbows to send us your contributions to ALL WAYS FREE, For the March issue! Your contributions may be Material for print, (11*17 camera-ready PLEASE), Thoughts and ideas, Art work, Poetry, and/or Green energy for printing and networking. PRINTING: If we are to print 10,000 copies "our" Magic hat must have about $1500. We suggest that you get the Real Eyes Texas video tape and use it for a Pot luck Gathering. Show it to your family and friends and build a support base for an ALL WAYS FREE benefit. So plan and contribute accordingly, because YOUR support will determine the size and distribution of "our" next issue. We hope to continue to use the same 11*17 format. We are asking all regional focalisers to put together a photo-ready page or two, so that each region has their unique expression represented in the Family's paper. NETWORKING: WE HAVE NO FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO RESPOND TO FOLKS WHO WISH TO KNOW "WHATS UP".....Many letters are received that ask for info and/or a copy of the AWF. We are unable to reply at this time unless we receive a self-addressed stamped envelope and/or financial assistance for postage and mailing. Remember, we are the hub for ALL your AWF requests. We would love to respond, so PLEASE, PLEASE ... HELP us! NEWS/COMMENTS: We have received many envelopes that have been opened and forwarded to us without a comment informing us if anyone responded to that individual(s). SO...Please, if anyone out there in Rainbow Land has requested an AWF "AND" sent in a donation and did not receive anything, Please send us a SASE and let us know "WHATS UP." ** KVAT-TV, Tucson AZ: Documentary 14 FEB 90: "Are WE Killing the American Forests?" The Non-legal version of the Real Eyes Video (Texas 88) that was produced for the Southwestern legal liaison council for presentation to the National Forest Service Law Enforcement Advisory Council can be purchased for $15 or 2/$22. (Please add $2.50 for postage and mailing.) The Real Eyes production folks are good Family and are helping with AWF. They have agreed to donate 50% of all video sales to AWF to help with the printing and networking for the next issue. We, (AWF & legal liaison) soon hope to ALSO have an account with PeaceNet. [TRANSCRIBER NOTE: That would be in addition to pfraterdeus and the awf.rainbownews conference already on that network] Those of you who are doing regional Focalising please connect with Family networkers and let's try to Qualitise our Rainbow info exchange. We are looking for Seven regional NETs to start off ... Please help. COMMENT: The ALL WAYS FREE is a FREE Publication. However, The publishing of "our" paper is not free of neccessities, primarily Money, the NO NO word. We are sitting here willing and able to produce for you a wonderful AWF. BUT... We need your assistance always, all ways. --- Please hear this heartsong. NAMASTE' HO Family! WE love you!!! ALL WAYS FREE 515 E. Grant Rd. BOX #113 Tucson, AZ 85705 Transcribed/Posted by: Kuaika "Whitefeather" (E-Mail Names= AO:Whitefetr, PeaceNet:dwightw c/o "tlewis", MacNET: DWINEGAR) Arcata-Humboldt, CA . ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 29 jjohnson 8:14 pm Mar 10, 1990 howdy - I just got off the phone with Tony, working on the AWF in Tucson, and he asked me to post this clarification; The actual page size that AWF is working with is 10 3/4" X 17". The IMAGE size, that is, the maximum area on each page that can be printed, is 9 7/8" X 16". You have to leave an empty border about a half an inch wide all the way around the paper. AWF is short on money (what's new), but other than that he says everything is progressing. Love! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 30 Walking Rainbow 1 response jlohrmann 8:37 pm Feb 16, 1990 The following announcement was written by Fred Moore who is coordinating a long walk. He invites people to join and help with preparations particularly regarding obtaining communications equipment. WALKING RAINBOW for Service, Healing, Peacemaking and the Greening of the Earth This walk began August 31, 1989, on Vancouver Island at Tofino, crossed the island to Nanaimo, ferry to Vancouver and has continued south, and is currently in Arcata, CA. Expected in the SF Bay Area in February, 1990. The walk will continue south to Los Angeles, east to Texas, south through Mexico, Central America, and South America, then to South Africa and north to Egypt, then east across the Middle Eastern countries to India, north through Nepal to China, northeast across China to Korea, and then to Japan, ending at Hiroshima. Estimated total time of 8 to 10 years. However, the focus is not on a goal, but being present and in relationship to each place the walk is each day. This is an open walk to promote respect for the earth through living simply in harmony with nature. All equipment, tents, cooking gear, etc., is carried on lightweight two-wheel carts which are pushed or pulled. Walkers do community service in cities along the way. (They have planted and given away 120 Western Red Cedar seedlings, put on a roof in Portland, shelves for a family shelter in Salem, painted bathrooms in transitional houses in Corvallis, gathered cans & bottles along the road for recycling, etc.) Walkers want to learn from Third World and indigenous people how to live in a sustainable way respecting the earth. Walkers are also developing tools for nomadic simple living: carts, portable yurts, portable wood cook stoves, solar ovens, photo-voltaic panels to power portable computers and packet radio communication equipment, etc., combining high-tech and low tech in a search for appropriate technology for living lightly on the earth. For more information, write: Fred Moore Walking Rainbow PO Box 42488 San Francisco, CA 94142 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 30 jlohrmann 8:39 pm Feb 16, 1990 The Walking Rainbow has arrived in the S.F. Bay Area and will be here about two weeks. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 31 Legaliaison Update 5 responses pfraterdeus 7:59 pm Feb 19, 1990 LEGALIAISON UPDATE/DC CREW UPDATE >>>>>Jan 8,1990 - DC Crew member called Marion Connoly (202/235-1488) to inquire as to when the proposed regulations were expected to appear in the federal register; he was told that it would be at least another four weeks (i.e., Jan. 29th). Once the draft regulations appear, the public has 60 days to send letters of comment. Also contacted was Susan Sea, of the Forest Service Law Enforcement Advisory Council (202/235-3527), which advises Secretary of Agriculture Bill Brock on law enforcement issues relating to the Forest System. She referred us to the notice in the federal register, Jan. 10, publicizing the next meeting of the Forest Service Law Enforcement Advisory Council (LEAC) in Tampa, FL, on Feb. 13-14. >>>>>Jan. 27, 1990 - DC Crew (this time including "Amazing Dave" Massey, "Back-Door" Dave Conner, Mary Huddle, "Plunker" Barry Adams, Garrick Beck, "Thumper" Jim Johnson, Stephen Wing, John Tarcza, and others, including phone calls to and from Crow, Peaceray, Brian, Robert Cooper, and others around the country) met on Jan. 23, as well as through the week, and brainstormed on Nevada searches and some busts that are still in process, upcoming regs, the last and next LEAC meetings, AWF submission, lobbying the government, etc. A number of letters to various people were written, consensed, and sent; copies were sent to RFTC, ALLWAYS FREE, and posted on Peacenet. ****FOCALIZERS NEEDED***NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY***$$ NEEDED**** DC Crew, Box 5604, Takoma Park, MD 20912 - WE LOVE YOU!! subject to the approval of RFTC,july 1, 1990, minnesota . ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 31 jjohnson 5:37 pm Feb 24, 1990 RAINBOW LEGALIAISON/DC CREW UPDATE 2/20/90 - DC Crew Volunteer Mary Huddle called Marion Connoly of the Forest Service, who said that the draft regulations are just now going to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approval. She's said in the past that the "OMB has been taking a minimum review time of about 10 days on everything" - she says it'll be at least three weeks before any draft gets published. Then the 60-day comment period would begin, during which sufficient protest might be generated to force revisions or make a stronger case for Congressional intervention. Please note the addresses below that, as far as DC Crew can tell, is the appropriate contact for OMB NFS budget allocations. Letters need to be sent within a few days if they are to be effective at this stage. An achievable goal might be to ask for the publishing date to be postponed - or the comment period to be extended - to allow the Gathering itself to comment. The OMB should be sensitive to the subject of wasting taxpayer's money on abuse of civil rights. NAME:Robert Grady, Natural Res. PH#:202/395-3080 ADDRESS:Office of Management and Budget, Rm. 260, Old Exec. Ofc. Bldg., Washington DC 20503 COMMENTS:Assoc. Dir., Natural Resources, Energy & Science Div., Office of Management and Budget - controls the Forest Service Budget! ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 31 jjohnson 8:32 pm Mar 14, 1990 **RAINBOW LEGALIAISON/DC CREW UPDATE** 3/13/90 - DC Crew Volunteer Thumper traded phone messages with Marion Connolly of the Forest Service, who said that the draft regulations are still under review by the Office of Management and Budget; she said that there is no estimate of how long the OMB's review process might take. If & when they do approve the regs, the 60-day comment period would begin, during which sufficient protest might be generated to force revisions or make a stronger case for Congressional intervention. Please note the addresses below that, as far as DC Crew can tell, is the appropriate contact for OMB NFS budget allocations. Letters need to be sent within *A FEW DAYS* if they are to be effective at this stage; it helps if they refer to the "revisions of 36 CFR 251 and 261 currently under review by the OMB". An achievable goal might be to ask for the publishing date to be postponed - or the comment period to be extended - to allow the Gathering itself to comment. The OMB should be sensitive to the subject of wasting taxpayer's money on abuse of civil rights. NAME:Robert Grady, Natural Res. PH#:202/395-3080 ADDRESS:Office of Management and Budget, Rm. 260, Old Exec. Ofc. Bldg., Washington DC 20503 COMMENTS:Assoc. Dir., Natural Resources, Energy & Science Div., Office of Management and Budget - controls the Forest Service Budget! ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 31 jjohnson 7:20 pm Mar 26, 1990 LEGALIAISON UPDATE/DC CREW 3/26/90 - DC Legaliaison volunteer Thomas obtained a copy of a 100-page document that is apparently a copy of what the Forest Service has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review (and is still under review, no idea when they'll be through). It includes a copy of the proposed regulation, which seems to be unchanged from the "working draft" version provided to us in March '89. It also includes a 60+ page summary of the FS's reasoning behind why it wrote the reg the way it did, including some history of the Texas and Arizona court cases we've fought with them. The summary seeems helpful in understanding what the deficiencies of their position might be. Some xeroxing has been donated, but postage still costs us about $2.40 - send some green energy if you can. If you would like a copy, write: Uncle Joe c/o BARN, PO Box 637, Berkeley, CA, 94701. >!>!>!>! The summary also provides two addresses where comments can be sent NOW, even before the reg is published. At this stage, comment focussing on wasting taxpayers' money and over-regulation might be the most effective, since that is what the OMB is concerned about. These are probably more effective than the "Robert Grady" address that has appeared in previous updates and in the list of government contacts. PLEASE WRITE LETTERS OF COMMENT TO THESE PEOPLE! TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL!! Mention the "proposed revisions to 36 CFR 251 and 261". Forest Service Desk Officer Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget Wash., DC 20503 F. Dale Robertson, Chief (2710, RN) Forest Service, USDA PO Box 96090 Wash., DC 20090-6090 . ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 31 jjohnson 7:21 pm Mar 26, 1990 We've also just found out that, after publishing, we'll probably only have *45 days* to comment, not 60!!! ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 31 jjohnson 8:51 pm Mar 31, 1990 THE SCENARIO: The National Forest Service (NFS) is trying, for the third time, to implement regulations that will enable them to control and suppress what people can do at Rainbow gatherings and other types of Peaceful Assembly that take place on NFS land. They've already tried to do this twice, and both times their regulations have been declared unconstitutional. This new set of regulations, among other things, considers occupation of NFS land a privilege, not a right, and would require a written authorization for distribution of printed matter!! RIGHT NOW: The regulations (known as REVISIONS TO 36 CFR 251 AND 261) are under review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is expected approve them in a few days, saying that they are worth spending the tax-payers' money on, and are not redundant or over-regulatory. After the OMB approves them, they go to the Secretary of Agriculture for a signature, then get published in the Federal Register; then the General Public is invited to comment for 45 DAYS, before the regulation takes the power of law. This means the regulations could be enforceable by the time of the Minnesota Rainbow Gathering in July!! However, the comment period is extendable if the agency determines that the issue is "sensitive" enough. HERE'S THE IDEA: Demand that the comment period be extended to at least 90 days; this would allow time for everyone attending the Minnesota Rainbow Gathering to comment on the regulation. Naturally, there's a lot more we can say (regulatory harassment, waste of money, over-regulation, etc.), but if we stress that extending the comment period is the very least that should be done, this might be achieved by even a few letters to the OMB RIGHT NOW, like they need to be received by Wednesday, April 4th. (The OMB is more likely to respond to a relatively small number of letters). This would help protect this year's Gathering, and many comments will build a case for the future. WRITE TO: Forest Service Desk Officer Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget Washington, DC 20503 PHONE:202/395-7340 (ask for FS Desk Officer) FAX: 202/395-7285 *Tell them how you feel!! *Don't forget to refer to 36 CFR 251 and 261 *Don't forget to ask for a reply ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 32 Article on LegaLiaison... pfraterdeus 8:04 pm Feb 19, 1990 (this is an article written by plunker for submission to ALLWAYS FREE, about Legaliaison in general) Howdy, In Winter l989, orange issue, All Ways Free, article on "Invitation to Legaliaison": To promote further interest and for clarity, I am, as one of the Oral hipstorians of the family: In a section of Judge Justice's rap/decision, Eastern District of Texas, concerning Rainbow Family Tribal Council and the Forest Service: Judge Justice indicated that because the Rainbow Family had no particular designated representative, then any one particular person, vaguely resembling someone who is part of our people, should/could be considered to be a representative of the Family, whether they (such chosen rep) agreed "to be or not to be".... The exact words are contained: (pg. 9, Judge Justice Order: civil action no. L-88-68-CA issued Jun 1 l988 Eastern District of Texas): "As to the ability of the individual defendants to fairly and adequately represent the interests of the class, the testimony in the record shows that tasks necessary to carry out Rainbow Family functions, such as council or gatherings, are undertaken by individual volunteers, pro re nata, depending on their particular abilities and desires. The individually named and served defendants were identified by the government because of their willingness to take an active role in the Rainbow Family gatherings, including the Summer l988 Gathering. They should, therefore, be at least as competent to represent a defendant class as any other member. If any other member objects to how class-wide issues are being handled, of course, he or she can always come forward to challenge the class representative." In effect, this rap says (with preceding paragraphs included in this analysis) that if the Family does not choose any reps, then whoever the government decides is a rep is one and the only way that such an individual can be challenged as a rep would be by some other person, another individual... This puts persons against persons... The way out of this became a solution, in part, i.e. Legaliaison.... In l976, a Liaison group, acting communicators for the Family, became another of the many volunteer groups of the Gathering, much like the parking lot crew, shitter digger crews, kitchen crews... Volunteers spent time communicating to the cops, mayors of towns, citizens in the townships near the gathering, later on to Governors etc.... always a loose work/play trip that happened whenever any of our people met any of the local populace... However, in l976 a Permit was signed, liaison people were a key element in that communications/relationship.... Council approved.... our first permit try with the Forest Service.... For many years the liaison and the legaliaison (folks dealing with the legal materials of the Family) acting volunteers, would meet at various times and discuss what happened legally... Out of that, some 200 or more people have kept loose relationship over the various legal issues relating to our people, our culture... not just at the Gatherings, but all related activities... Many of the same personnel have also been active in Shanti Sena, clean-up crews etc... Many of these same folks regard the Family and the Gatherings as a way of life, a year round relationship to one another and the concerns of Our People. Taking all of this into consideration, the fact that the Government, including Judge Justice, feel that they can choose who is/best reps for our People, without so much as a "by your leave." In Texas, some of the very people that the Government determined to be reps did not want to be reps for the Family, only for themselves as individuals... Therefore, in order to allow persons the freedom of choice as to whether or not they want or want not be reps of the Family,... we, myself, various other volunteers, brought before the Rainbow Family Tribal Council on July 2nd l988 the concept and the actuality of the Legaliaison... and the Council gave consensus to the Legaliaison and to the hiring of Attorney Larry Daves, Texas, to rep our Family and agreed to allow Larry to file for expenses, which he did and there was subsequently an award of expenses for $l3,669.09.... Legaliaison volunteers met in later session, came up with the same agreements that were gone over in Council, namely: (l) that any person who volunteers for legaliaison works in consensus with all others on the team (2) gives their true name and address to the Family (3) agrees to appropriate action during the time of their volunteering, i.e. no drunking, scamming, criminal activities, heavy legal charges like rape, assault etc.... during the time when such person is presenting themselves as spokesperson or legaliaison for the Family (4) said person agrees that any communications, agreements, permits, raps, etc. with any other groups, governments etc. be subject to the approval of the Rainbow Family Tribal Council on days when the Gathering is going, namely, July l-7 any year: (5) that any person who violates this agreement of service would voluntarily resign from the legaliaison What this means is that someone who is going to rep for us in Court should keep your shit together and do your best to stay in tune with the will of Our People in Full Council Circle. In l988 to l989, I served in the capacity of Legaliaison... in consensus with others... who are currently working for the People. A number of persons have served, will continue to work with the legaliaison who may never formally appear on the lists, however, anyone who goes into Forest Service office or as a rep for the Family, we hope, will respect, honor and understand the nature of this agreement. In the past folks have made tentative agreements with the Forest Service and found that the Forest Service made them "leaders who had agreed"... Therefore anyone that the Forest Service or Government designates as an agent of the Family is going to be someone who has volunteered to be a rep and whom the Family knows is their rep and who has stood in a council and started their intentions of being a legaliaison for the Family. On July l, l989, in Nevada in Council a letter was read and given consensus to that is being sent to the Forest Service (officially) which states the Family's position on the regs proposed last year. Volunteers of the Family are working in consensus to develop any aid for the Family regarding legal work... On July 7, l988, in Texas, I, we, came to the Vision Council and stated all that we had discussed in legaliaison meeting on July 2nd, l988... Council then gave their consensus to the continuation of the legaliaison with the agreements that the Rainbow Family Tribal Council must affirm any such agreements... On July l, l989 I stated that I am on sabbatical from legaliaison, that I am only acting in advisory position, for information sharing, and that I am now only another individual of the Council Circle... legaliaison answers to the Rainbow Family Tribal Council (see attached consensus from Nevada)... I hope that this clears up some of any confusion... Anyone may serve on the legaliaison just like any other crew... The only difference in it all is that we ask people for their true names... otherwise any and all are welcome to give their information input into legaliaison or Council at any time....per our agreement to one another... free speech among our Circle... common ground... Any volunteers please connect with the on-going consensus legaliaison... Take an active interest now... Know your rights, liberties, privileges, stand up for Our Rights.... love Plunker, Barry E. Adams, individuRainbow Family Tribal Council, United States of North America.... Our legal business is endless, full, amazing, wonderful, takes a lot of work/play... please join in.... (to connect wew, P.O. Box 5604, Takoma Park MD 20913) [This paragraph got garbled...] Plunker, Barry E. Adams, individual Rainbow Family Tribal Council, United States of North America.... Our legal business is endless, full, amazing, wonderful, takes a lot of work/play... please join in.... (to connect with the Legaliaison Network focalizer in your neighborhood of Rainbow Nation, or if you can serve as a Legaliaison Focalizer, contact the DC Crew, P.O. Box 5604, Takoma Park MD 20913) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 33 Letter in response to USFS regs.19 pfraterdeus 8:07 pm Feb 19, 1990 [This letter is attached to Plunker's AWF submission, above, and was first drafted by Legaliaison Council Volunteers in March of 1989 (through combined efforts of Tony Crow, Mary Huddle, Plunker, Thumper, Dave Massey, William Thomas, Peaceray, Jesse, Guinn, Garrick, and many others from Southwest Family, DC Crew, and other places) as a proposed response to the "working draft" of the proposed regulations provided to us by the Forest Service. It was presented to, and affirmed by, the Rainbow Family Tribal Council on July 1, 1989, in Nevada.] March 31, 1989 SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF RAINBOW FAMILY TRIBAL COUNCIL - JULY 1-7, 1989 To:F. Dale Robertson, Chief, US Forest Service Charles Hartgraves, Associate Deputy Chief US Forest Service William Rice, Deputy Chief, US Forest Service Thank you for giving the Rainbow Family the opportunity to review this draft of the proposed revisions to 36 CFR. No individual(s) or self appointed group(s) may speak for, or make decisions regarding, the Rainbow Family as a whole. These decisions are made, by consensus, during the Rainbow Family Tribal Council on July 1-7, every year. Therefore, if the Forest Service desires comments on these revisions to 36 CFR from the Rainbow Family, in respect for our council process this draft must be available for public comment during and after the period of our family council, July 1-7. To facilitate communication between the Rainbow Family and the Forest Service, We The People, in order to form a more perfect unity, are providing you with comments and observations on this draft. We The People is individuals, groups, legaliaison and regional councils; leaving room for the unsung voices of all our relations. These comments may serve to aid you in preparing your next revision of this regulation. Along with this cover letter follow comments on the revisions from individuals, spring councils and legaliaison councils. Comments 1)The people's right to assemble on public land is not subject to conditions of authorization or non-authorization. The Forest Service is neither a "landlord" nor a "host" of public lands, both terms implying that the land is owned by the Forest Service or the US government as represented by the Forest Service. Rather, the Forest Service could be defined as stewards, administrators or caretakers of the public lands belonging to the people of the United States. The distinction between ownership and stewardship is an important one as it invalidates the supposition inherent in many sections of this proposal that the Forest Service can authorize or not authorize the public to use its own lands. 2)We are unable to consider any agreement which could be revoked or denied, thereby depriving us of our constitutional rights of Association, Assembly, Expression, Petition and Religious Freedom. The Rainbow Family gathers in the national forests in exercise of free speech and assembly rights. The happenings are totally non- commercial. This is "pure speech" as defined by the US Supreme Court. As Judge Justice of the Federal District Court in Texas explained, the Constitution not only permits the Rainbow gatherings -- it encourages them. Changing the language "special uses, permits, and permission to occupy" to "use agreements and authorizations" does not rectify the inherent abuse, in these revisions, of the civil liberties of all individuals. Minimizing our legal objections to past revisions by referring to them as "philosophical" proves the disregard with which the rulemakers view the US Constitution. An agreement that can be revoked or denied by one party is not truly an agreement. We do not recognize the right of the US Forest Service to deny First Amendment activity on "we the people" lands. 3)The draft revision of this regulation is facially invalid as applied to expressive activity protected under the First Amendment. The revised regulation would impose prior restraints upon the exercise of First Amendment liberties. For example: -No authorization is needed to distribute literature for free, moreover if the literature is free and of a religious, political or informative nature, a requirement for authorization would violate our First Amendment freedoms, expressly protected by the courts. -The US Constitution makes no provision for numerical or time limits when discussing protected activities. -No fee can be charged to the public for exercising Constitutionally guaranteed activities on public land. In both Texas and Arizona, the courts ruled specifically that the USFS cannot charge a performance bond or fee for the Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes. Moreover, the Rainbow is not an insurable entity as we are a class of individuals. -No government agency can presuppose violations of law or destructive behavior. The revised regulation would be unconstitutionally vague and standardless, vesting too much discretion in Forest Service officials to deny or approve use where expressive activity is concerned, thereby allowing content or viewpoint based denials of use to occur. Unless there is something here we have missed, we believe these outrageous acts of repeatedly proposing revisions that are fundamentally unchanged in the nature of their content, is an egregious act of legal terrorism hiding behind the color of law in an attempt to exhaust the resources of any groups or individuals that might respond. This disregard for our ability to determine the difference between substance and terminology is an insult and shows a lack of good faith. Until you produce something that shows substantive movement from the position we have already responded to many times before, it will be difficult for the people to regard your proposals as serious or well intentioned. Were these revisions to be entered as such into the Federal Register, many individuals and groups would see the need to demand Congressional oversight hearings on these matters. Rainbow legaliaison volunteers request from the Forest Service any social impact analyses which have been prepared concerning these revisions, as well as estimates as to how much money it would cost to administer and enforce such revisions to 36 CFR. We recognize the need to have good communication between the Rainbow Family and the Forest Service. The Chief of the Forest Service has been offered a Special Operations Agreement, a Rainbow comprehensive plan of operations which has worked very well in the past. This plan provides for ample communication between the family and the Forest Service, as well as for the protection of natural resources and the health and safety of all the people. Needless to say, already available to the Forest Service is an abundance of as yet unchallenged regulations promulgated to protect the National Forests and tailored to control whatever abuses that the Forest Service fears. Finally, if any power decides to try to prohibit or cancel our coming together, we will ignore that power, and if that entity wishes to stop us forcefully, the whole world will watch them fail. Hoping our relations will be open, honest, positive, fruitful, loving and peaceful ... Signed, We The People (acting scribe for individuals, groups, legaliaisons & councils) This document consensed to Tucson 3/29/89 by all present. Attempts were made to consider and integrate all family responses sent to this council. Subject to approval RFTC 7/1/89. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 34 Response to USFS Minutes. 1/90 pfraterdeus 8:09 pm Feb 19, 1990 (this letter was written by the DC Crew as a response to some of the outrageous things that were said about us in the minutes of the last meeting of the Forest Service Law Enforcement Advisory Council, held in Reno, NV, 8/1-2/89) January 25, 1990 from: Rainbow Family Legaliaison Volunteers P.O. Box 5604, Takoma Park MD 20913 Dear members of the US Forest Service Law Enforcement Advisory Council: We are writing this letter as a volunteer crew of legaliaisons for the Rainbow Family, which means we keep an eye on legal developments that affect our Family and keep the Family informed. Anything we independently say or do must be approved by a consensus of the Rainbow Family Tribal Council at our annual Gathering in Minnesota this July. Last March, as you recall, we presented to you on video and in person what our Gatherings are about and how the Forest Service has carried out its duties regarding our use of the National Forests of North Carolina and Texas. Last August, following our Gathering in Nevada, you gathered yourselves in Reno. We were not invited. In the minutes of that meeting, however, we found a number of inaccuracies which we would like to take this opportunity to correct. (p. 4, lines 15-17) Speaking as NFS Supervisor for Humboldt National Forest, John Inman complained that "The FS knew the Gathering would be in Nevada, but the Rainbow Family would not disclose the exact location until the last day of May. One of the reasons they do this is so that Agency people do not have too much time to prepare for their event." This is inaccurate. The Rainbow Family notified the FS as soon as we knew what the location would be. The National Forest Service and the Rainbow Family regionally were informed of the site location decision the same day. (Note: It is very difficult for a number of reasons for us to determine a site any earlier than the end of May or early June. We have explained this to the FS on several occasions. The implication that we delay this communication with the FS for motives of giving less preparation time is false.) (p. 4, lines 18-19) Mr. Inman then stated that "The Rainbows expected 20- 30,000 people. The maximum that attended was approximately 8,000 people." Although there are usually many guesses, rumors, predictions, etc., the Rainbow Family, as a matter of policy, does not formally estimate the size of Gatherings before, during or afterward. (p. 4, lines 28-30) He further stated that an unspecified "small town didn't want the Rainbows there and talked about getting an injunction. Reality set in and the Rainbows were there. The small towns were concerned about bringing in an additonal 20-30,000 more people to a rural area of 40,000. Locals wanted and expected some protection." The reality is that the surrounding communities were very cooperative through the whole process. We held meetings with local farmers and ranchers to explain ourselves. Their main concern seemed to be the possibility of cars abandoned along the road; we made an agreement with local law enforcement specifying places such cars could be left, and promised to get them there. This promise we kept. (p. 4, line 29) "Rainbows told local law enforcement that 60 percent of the people needed to be watched." What does this mean? What Rainbows said what to whom? Watch who doing what? Does this mean surveillance? (p. 5, line 1) "Ninety five per cent of the Rainbows were satisfied with the way things went." While we agree that 95% of the Rainbows were satisfied with the Gathering itself, when we consider that 25-35% of all vehicles entering the site area were illegally stopped, detained, harrassed, and searched, we disagree with the 95% assessment of satisfaction with law enforcement. (p. 5, line 2) "The law enforcement issues that surfaced were two child molestations...." This misleads the readers of the minutes, since neither instance took place at the Gathering. In one case, a warrant was brought to us regarding a case in Pennsylvania. The Rainbow Family cooperated fully with local officials, and the individual concerned voluntarily gave himself over to the law. The second reference is to a family counseling situation in which no act of abuse or child molestation occurred. There were no charges filed in either case; we can give you additional information about these two cases, separate from this letter, if needed. We don't appreciate this type of distortion, made in our absence, which seems intended to disparage our attitudes toward child-rearing. (p. 5, line 5) "Around 20 arrests were made...." We have been notified of only 14 arrests. What is the accurate figure? What cases and charges are still pending? We would like to know. (p. 5, line 19) "John was asked what advise (sic), support, guidance he received from his counterparts...." We can provide names of resource rangers with whom we have worked in the past, who have the best working knowledge of our environmental procedures and who could amply communicate advice, etc. Furthermore, we object to the NFS supporting, with NFS funds, the numerous illegal vehicle stops, illegal searches, illegal harrassment, and illegal seizures that our Family endured in Nevada last year. Although these numerous actions were carried out by Nevada state and county authorities, they were funded in the most part by NFS, and NFS officers were present in virtually every instance. The Rainbow Family has always sought, and continues to seek, a relationship with the Forest Service that is based on mutual understanding, friendliness and cooperation. Until recently, this has most often been the case. We have great faith that mutual respect can bridge whatever cultural gaps we may encounter, and we look forward to working with you, and everyone within the National Forest System, to realize this vision. In the Spirit of Love, Rainbow Legaliaison Volunteers (subject to approval by consensus of the Rainbow Family Tribal Council, July 1-7, 1990, Minnesota) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 35 Generic Letter to Publ.Officials pfraterdeus 8:11 pm Feb 19, 1990 (this is a "Generic Government Contact Letter" written by the DC Crew and sent to the list of "Important Government Contacts" [listed elsewhere], along with excerpts of the Arizona 1986 and Texas 1988 cases) Gentlepeople: We want to call to your attention a tremendous waste of U.S. Forest Service funds, and in association, Justice Department time and funds that has occurred through the NFS proposal of three sets of unconstitutional forest use regulations. The first and second sets both have already been found unconstitutional and the second set also illegally adapted. In defending and enforcing these promulgated regulations the NFS has spent many hundreds of thousands of tax dollars, according to their own figures. Enclosed are excerpts from these legal judgments for your examination. The enforcement expenditures alone by the NFS in trying to implement these regulations have been astronomical and include whole wings of "the best hotel on the lake" occupied by the NFS enforcement agents along with fancy dining privileges and good red wine. All of this is documented. The Forest Service claims the regulations are for the protection of the Forest but as Judge Justice ruled in Texas 1988 (enclosed, 6/1/88 ruling, p.46, lines 1-5): "Available to the Forest Service is an abundance of unchallenged regulations promulgated for the protection of the National Forests and tailored to control the various abuses that the plaintiff [i.e. Forest Service] fears, and which are wholly unrelated to the special use permit regulations." Currently the NFS is rewriting these regulations again, with no significant improvements as far as we can see. The proposed regulations unduly and unnecessarily restrict the rights of the public to assemble on FS lands, and remove also the rights of the public to distribute 1st Amendment protected literature, and also allow for varied interpretations of law by Forest Service officials that can too easily be prejudicially enforced. In fact, while these two previous sets of regulations were in effect our group was the only group required to conform to them. We have been subject to undue harassment, blockades of our traffic patterns and service vehicles, including ambulance, water and garbage vehicles, as documented in our court case in U.S. District Court in Lufkin, Texas 1988. By contrast, in Michigan 1983, Missouri 1985, and in Pennsylvania 1986, the Rainbow Family Gatherings took place with a minimum of public expense and a minimum of any kind of difficulty. We, Rainbow Family, and the NFS successfully used operational plans to work cooperatively in these instances. These are all well-documented events. Further, there is plenty of Forest Service documentation and other public and private documents to show that our gatherings, which have made the single largest person-day "recreational" use of FS lands throughout the past two decades, have an outstanding record of leaving the gathering sites re- naturalized, re-seeded and environmentally in better condition than we found them. In contrast NFS enforcement teams have left bulldozed areas un- reseeded, scores of live trees cut, and tire tracks in meadows at their own encampment. They have spent enormous sums of money bulldozing useless access roads in wilderness-adjacent areas without any environmental impact statements. These areas damaged by the NFS have not been rehabilitated. Large expenditures have also been borne by the U.S. Justice Department which has been called upon to defend (unsuccessfully) these blatantly unconstitutional regulations. Additional to these expenses are the court costs which were awarded to us on account of these cases. Throughout all these years we have met with, written to and maintained communications with Forest Service officials to try to work this out in good faith. Bill Rice, NFS Deputy Chief said after his in-the-field tour of the 1989 Nevada Rainbow Gathering when asked what he thought these gatherings are about, "Love, love between people." We have had good and excellent working relations with many NFS officials over the years. We believe that the regulations now being prepared are as unconstitutional and unenforceable as the previous attempts to overregulate public Forest Service access and use. Further, they are worded to give powers that are easily prejudicially applied. We believe that the tremendous costs incurred by these unworkable and useless regulations can be avoided and the money better spent on other causes than trying to put restrictions on the fundamental rights and liberties of all citizens to peaceable public assembly. We are calling on you to examine the evidence, request from us whatever further documentation you consider useful and take appropriate action. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Rainbow Family Legaliaison Council (subject to consensus approval of Rainbow Family Tribal Council, July 1, Minnesota). enclosed: Excerpts from the rulings against the NFS so far. cc:OMB Congressional Agriculture committees Dept. of Justice Rainbow legaliaison network Rainbow Family Tribal council ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 36 Sugg. Govt. Contacts& Phone #s 1 response pfraterdeus 8:12 pm Feb 19, 1990 IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT CONTACTS WHO SHOULD GET PHONE CALLS AND LETTERS (these folks were sent copies of the "generic government contact letter" [listed elsewhere], as well as excerpts of the Arizona 1986 and Texas 1989 cases, on 1/27/90 by the DC Crew) NAME:Wyche Fowler PH#:202/224-2035 ADDRESS:204 Russell Washington DC 20510 COMMENTS:Chair of Sen. Subcom. on Conservation & Forestry, D-Ga. NAME:Patrick Leahy PH#:202/224-4242 ADDRESS:SR-328A Russell Washington DC 20510 COMMENTS:Chair of Sen. Com. on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, D-Vt. NAME:Richard Lugar PH#:202/224-4814 ADDRESS:SR-328A Russell Washington DC 20510 COMMENTS:Ranking Min. mem., Sen. Com. on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, R-In. NAME:E de la Garza PH#:202/225-2531 ADDRESS:1301 Longworth HOB Wash DC 20515 COMMENTS:Chairman, House Comm on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; NAME:Edward R. Madigan PH#:202/225-2371 ADDRESS:1301 Longworth HOB Wash DC 20515 COMMENTS:Ranking Minority Member House Comm on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; NAME:Harold Volkmer PH#:202/225-2171 ADDRESS:2411 Rayburn Washington DC 20515 COMMENTS:Chair of House Subcom. on Forest, Farms & Energy. D-Mo NAME:Bill Rice,Dep Chief,Admin,5300 PH#:202/447-6707 ADDRESS:Forest Service,USDA, POB 96090 Washington DC 20090-6090 COMMENTS:Forest Service, Deputy Chief, Administration NAME:Marion Connolly PH#:202/235-1488 COMMENTS:Forest Service regulation writer; 1/8/90 - Dave Massey calls her, "when will draft of new regs be published?" - "at least another 4 weeks - expect to get only one days notice prior to publication of the draft"; NAME:Susan Sea PH#:202/235-3527 COMMENTS:secretary, USFS Law Enforcement Advisory Council (which advises the Secretary of Agriculture on law enforcement issues in the National Forests) NAME:Robert Grady, Natural Res. PH#:202/395-3080 ADDRESS:Office of Management and Budget, Rm. 260, Old Exec. Ofc. Bldg., Washington DC 20503 COMMENTS:Assoc. Dir., Natural Resources, Energy & Science Div., Office of Management and Budget - controls the Forest Service Budget! NAME:Dan Steele/Land&Nat Res Div PH#:202/272-8136 ADDRESS:POB 663 Justice/Gen Lit Sec Wash DC 20044-0663 COMMENTS:Justice Dept Lawyer who lost texas case for FS; may have some say in how unconstitutional the new regs are NAME:Dick Stewart/Asst Att Gen/Land PH#:202/633-2701 ADDRESS:Justice/Penn Av NW Wash DC 20530 COMMENTS:Runs div of justice dept that prosecutes case for FS; may have some say in how unconstitutional the new regs are ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 36 jjohnson 7:26 pm Mar 26, 1990 At this stage, comment focussing on wasting taxpayers' money and over-regulation might be the most effective, since that is what the OMB is concerned about. The addresses below are probably more effective than the "Robert Grady" address that has appeared in previous updates and in the list of government contacts. PLEASE WRITE LETTERS OF COMMENT TO THESE PEOPLE! TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL!! Mention the "proposed revisions to 36 CFR 251 and 261". Forest Service Desk Officer Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget Wash., DC 20503 F. Dale Robertson, Chief (2710, RN) Forest Service, USDA PO Box 96090 Wash., DC 20090-6090 also, marion connolly's area code is 703, not 202. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 37 Note on topics 36-41... pfraterdeus 8:26 pm Feb 19, 1990 Topics 36 through 41 are from an upload from DC Legaliaison, regarding upcoming and current legal actions on the part of the US Forest Service. Please get this stuff out to your local Rainbows, and even to other community folks. Our message is that the govt. is WASTING taxpayers money by harrassing the gathering every year. AND THEY SHOULD STOP IT! Please let us know how things are going out there! If you find something on this conference that's useful to you, we'd love to hear about it! Peace and Light-- Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 38 List of focalizer volunteers 4 responses jjohnson 8:35 pm Feb 21, 1990 Response #1 to this topic is actually an international list of Rainbow Focalizers, in ascii format. This is the list that was created at the Nevada Gathering in 1989, which Donny Wirtshafter mailed out to each person on the list. Donny's got some additions to it now, I think, as well as some that are no longer good - if someone wants to try to get updates from Donny (614-592-5297 or 5298) and put it up here as another response, I'll delete mine. Donny's been doing a lot of good work but is very busy and can be hard to get ahold of. I think this list can be printed on one-up labels (3 1/2" X 15/16") as is - otherwise, do your best with your word processor or database. I highly recommend PC-File+ (this is not an ad) - it's a shareware database program, incredibly simple and easy to learn, yet very powerful if you want to learn its more sophisticated features. Available thru Buttonware, at (800) 528- 8866. Just the thing for those mailing lists, regional databases, etc. The list is about 120 records, with 6 fields per record, one field on each line, so it's 6 lines per record, too. The order of the fields is : name address city state zip phone There's a carriage return at the end of each field. If a field doesn't have any data in it (like no phone #) then the field contains just a carriage return, which will make the line look empty. This invisible carriage return is important, as it maintains proper spacing for printing directly to labels, and tells a database that there's supposed to be a field there. There is no end-of-record marker - if you're importing into a database, make your database definition six fields long, and use the "one field per line", or "fixed field", or "ascii" format. I've always had loads of trouble using word processors to print labels, so you're on your own if you try it that way - especially if you try it with Wordperfect!! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 38 jjohnson 8:45 pm Feb 21, 1990 Dr. Roman Schweidlenka Obersdorf 35 A8983 Bad Mitterndorf Austria Paul Autogena Christiania 1407 KBH K Denmark Heartsong 56 Court Square Montague MA 01351 North East Rainbow Family P.O. Box 277 Montague MA 01351 Carla Hughett 260 N. Main St. Sunderland MA 01375 Joan @ Happy Hollow RD Box 483 Harrington ME 04643 (207)483-4690 Rainbow Guide '89 c/o Mike Summers 500 Rt. 35 North Neptune NJ 07753 New York Rainbow P.O. Box 1554 New York NY 10009 Garrelt Garrelts 145 E 23rd Street 3rd flr New York NY 10010 Coney Island Rainbow c/o 5020 Oceanview Ave. Coney Island NY 11224 (718)946-8630 (HM) Aron "Pieman" Kay 424 Brighton Beach Ave Brooklyn NY 11235 (718)934-5635 Long Island Rainbow c/o Plastina Box 513 Jamesport NY 11947 (516)722-8166 Woodstock Earth 104 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock NY 12498 (914)679-2527 Jim Lynch C.O. P.O. Box 662 Woodstock NY 12498 Rainbow Hawk (Knapp) #84A0405 DWR B Stormville NY 12582 Buffalo Family @ Camp P. O. Box 124 Sta. F Buffalo NY 14212 Eamon Stanley 5809 1/2 Hobart Street Pittsburgh PA 15217 (412)521-6055 Swan c/o Marilyn Miller 891 Gettysburg Rd. Littlestown PA 17340 Heather Lazar RD 2 Box 172 Tunkhannock PA 18657 Philadelphia Rainbow Network%Merle P.O. Box 41004 Philadelphia PA 19127 Song and Foxfire/Peace Park Vigil P.O. Box 27217 Washington D. C. 20038 (202)462-0757 Nina Rutledge 1208 Argonne Dr. Baltimore MD 21218 W. Virginia Rainbow P.O. Box 26 Thornton WV 26440-0026 M. Skatrud P. O. Box 28 Moncure N.C. 27559 Donkey Mike Rt. 3 Box 713-D Mars Hill NC 28754 (704)689-9372 Ashville Conspiracy P. O. Box 211 Ashville NC 28804 South East Rainbow%Shirley Sotona 669 Hunting Creek Lane Conyers GA 30208 North Florida Rainbow%Walking Tree P . O. Box 773 Gainsville FL 32601 Cosmic Charlie N W 15th Avenue 8th Street Gainsville FL 32601 KABA 12428 N.W. 48 Ave. Gainsville FL 32606 Jacque Betz 949 E. Main St. #2 Pahokee FL 33476 Waterflower Box 344 Goodland FL 33933 (813)394-3462 Dave & Leslie Moore Box 134 Cosby TN 37722 Ray Barnes P.O. Box 981 Gatlinburg TN 37738 Healing Waters Farm%Gay & Jack Silverman Rt. 1 Box 79 Gainesboro TN 38562 (615)268-9438 Cupper Route 1 Box 79 Gainsboro TN 38652 (615)268-9438 Water Singing /Middle of the Rainbow Tomkinsville KY 42167 (502) 487-6653 Rainbohio%Sara & Joe P.O. Box 893 Kent OH 44240 Rain - Peter Gibbs 1417 Constance Avenue Kettering OH 45409 Dendron 86 Franklin Street Athens OH 45701 Don Wirtshafter 14 N. Court Street #301 Athens Ohio 45701 John P. Robinson 324 S. Highland #5 Bloomington IN 47401 (812)331-3014 Dr. Detroit 165 Baldwin Birmingham MI. 48009 (313)647-7906 Great Lakes Rainbow%Gonzo and Friends Box 3433 Ann Arbor MI 48106 (313) 761-4243 Robert Redmond 9765 Scully Lane Whitmore L. MI 48189 (313)449-2759 Diane Baum /Billy Somers c\o 2621 Boston Grand Rapids MI 49506 Ben Masel P.O. Box 3481 Madison WI 53704 The Naturist Society P. O. Box 132 Oshosh WI. 54902 Learner Harmony c/o PUEJ 1918 Park Ave. S Minneapolis MN 55404 Nora Okoneski/Richard Loves Rubish 2624 E. 22nd Street Minneapolis MN 55406 Maureen Skelly 524 8th NE Minneapolis MN 55413 Carol Atchison 6512 Warren Ave. Edina Minnesota 55435 Noreen Hautala c/o R.R. 1 Box 266 Nashwauk MN 55769 Barry Plunker P.O. Box 8574 Missoula MT 59807 Chuck & Ace /Northside Gallery 625 Philips Street Missoula Mt. 59860 (406)549-3662 Chicago Rainbow Circle%Peter Fraterdeus Box 5448 Evanston IL 60204 Chicago Rainbow Circle%Tina R. Varkonyi P.O. Boxz 268331 Chicago IL 60626 (312)226-0099 Clair Foster 406 Doral Drive St. Louis MO 63122 (314)966-5216 Owl Mullen 937 Alabama Lawrence KS 66043 Family Net%Keri Flying Fish Farm Rt.1 Box 110 Lincoln NE 68502 Julie Wooton 2401 S. 13th Lincoln NE 68502 Combined Effort 123 W. Chimes St. Baton Rouge LA 70802 Jerry Rephan 208 1st Street Hots Springs Park AR 71913 Shalom aka Bob Miller #1 Washington Street Eureka Springs AR 72632 Walden Hill Farm Rt. 5 Box 152 Stillwater OK 74074 Adam Armstrong 1010 Peace Rose Avenue Garland TX 75040 Jahdene Rainbow 5747 Prospect Dallas TX 75206 Carolyn Rt. 4 Box 8970 Nacogpoches TX 75961 Yahmez 1605-B Rutland Drive Austin TX 78758 Quill & Keith Cooper-Reese 266 S. Jackson Denver CO 80209 Boulder Focalizers%Rex and Friends P. O. Box 7186 Boulder CO 80306 Solar Shaman P.O. Box 764 Carbondale CO 81623 303/925-0615 Jerry Hadam Box 2749 Ketchum ID 83340 Sue Hart Box 4075 Ketchum ID 83340 Allen Sayble P.O. Box 116 Fruitvale ID 83620 (208)253-6059 Rainbow Frank & Joy Star Route Box 896 Clark Fork ID 83811 Dave and Sharon Rt. 4 Box 222A St. Maries ID 83861 Jeannine P.O. Box 1395 Sandpoint ID 83864 Don Joseph P.O. Box 212 Santa ID 83866 Bridge Peter DeNevai HC # 2 Box 5 Duchesne VT 84021 Allways Free 515 E. Grant Rd., S. 13 Tucson AZ 85705 S.W. Regional Rainbow%Tony Crow and others P.O. Box 26195 Tucson AZ 85726 Stephen Whitewolf P. O. Box 8436 - CRB Tuscon AZ 85738 Central Arizona Rainbow%Robert Speciale P.O. Box 27514 Prescott Vally AZ 86312 (602)775-0954 Carlos Azua 508 W. Hill Ave. Gallup NM 87301 Nevada Cari 2496 Hopi Ct. Reno NV 89506 (702)677-1399 Ann McLaughlin 635 Hunter Lake Drive Reno NV 89509 Sailor & White Owl 2460 Sherman Lane Carson City NV 89706 Bonnie & Dave 12425 Westminster W. Los Angeles CA 90066 Rainbow P. O. Box 634 Alta Dena CA 91003 Diana P. O. Box 1932 Walnut CA 91788 Dhatreyi Spencer 40634 Cherokee Oaks Three Rivers CA 93271 (209)561-4893 Lavendar Focalizer%Summer Day Shadoian 115 Beulah San Francisco CA 94117 (415)387-9085 Bay Area Rainbow 1024 Second Street #33 Lafayette CA 94549 Dawn Dancing Feather 5885 Skyline Drive Oakland CA 94611 P.M. Bluestreak P.O. Box 4751 Berkeley CA 94704 Budda John/Sparrow Day Dancer P.O. Box 96 Freedom CA 95019 Dwight JW Winegar/"Redwood Bio-Region" P.O. Box 672 Arcata-Humblot CA 95521 Baby Bad Bear/Jim Doane 302 D Road Garberville CA 95560 (707)923-9395 Pathway's to Health 13122 Lincoln Auburn; CA 95603 Dominick Daniel Lagrasta Box 4155 Chico CA 95926 (916)342-8069 Vincent Johnson/Rainbow Junction P. O. Box 291 Adin CA 96006 Barse Barse Barse P. O. Box 493 Pahoa Hawaii 96778 Mark McCracken 3015 N.E. Broadway Portland OR 97232 (503)284-6600 Rainbow P. O. Box 5577 Eugene OR 97405 Deudron P. O. Box 11284 Eugene OR 97440 Mobius Group 603 Federal Ave. E Seattle WA 98102 Liz & Mickey Lindstrom-McKiney 138 Umatilla Port Townsend WA. 98368 Buffalo P. O. Box 1214 Tonasket WA 98855 Earth Cyclers Rt. 1 Box 9C Edwall WA 99008 Fokalisers Alaska P.O. Box 812 Homer AK 99603 Christopher Nesbitt General Delivery Punta Gorda Toledo District Belize Cen Shaun Maxwell 4290 Langeuin Montreal Canada H 46 - 161 Padlo Silkworm Casa Nel Bosco Valduggia (VC) Italy 13 Rodolfo Rosas Escobar Nadadores # 67A Colonia County Club Churubusco 04220 Coyoaean Mexico 21 (5)549-2234 Bernt Andersen Berjamim Svn.17 N 1630 Fredrikstat Norway Ellen & Mike Waterman 171 Brock Street Winnipeg Manitoba Canada R3NOY7 Ase Mathiesen Stratoslfarg 28 5-41521 Gateborg Sweeden Yri Popov Moscow 111642 Novokosinskayz UI Dom 18 Kuz U.S.S.R. Allk Olisevich 290068 Lviv 68 Ulitsu Kalinina 270KV.3 Ukraine USSR. . ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 38 pfraterdeus 4:35 pm Feb 23, 1990 By the Way, This List Shall Only Be Used for Purposes of the Rainbow Family and its Focalizers. Copyright 1990. Don Wirtshafter. This is expressly to prevent the abuse of this list, not to prevent Rainbows from making use of it! P. ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 38 trial29@web.UUCP 4:06 am Jun 5, 1990 I would like to volunteer as a regional focalizer, as there seems to be a lack of focalization in my focal. We're up here in Ottawa, Ontario and getting all full of excitement about heading up (yes, up!) to Minnesota for the gathering! Ho to this wonderful use of technology for positive empowerment rather than enslavement. Ho to PeaceNet and the Web (which, as of today, has opened it door to afw.rainbownews!) ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 38 pfraterdeus 12:38 pm Jun 5, 1990 Ho! Indeed! Love is not limited to time and space! Our silicon sisters and electron brothers are in this rainbow too! Wonderful to hear that the web is raveling our way! Love & Light Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 39 An Introduction to Legaliaison - P jjohnson 5:29 pm Feb 24, 1990 WHY WE DON'T SIGN PERMITS The Rainbow Family World Peace Gatherings have occurred without permits since 1981. Our chief position has been that we do not need anyone's permission to gather, and that we sign away our right to peaceably assemble when we sign permits. We have always sought full cooperation with everyone impacted by the Gathering. We have always left sites in a condition at least as good as we found them, usually better; we did have a hard time in North Carolina because the Forest Service busted our cleanup crew. As always, no one person is qualified to speak for the Family, and there is a tradition that any contacts with the authorities have at least two family members present, so that one may act as a"fair witness". We are all "liaisons" for the council, and anythingwe say or do is subject to the approval of the council. A common request of the FS is that we post a performance bond.This is something we have never done, since it constitutes requiring insurance to go to church. The Family holds that Rainbow is not a sue-able entity, or is even a legal entity at all - judgesaren't too hot on this idea. A good model to cite might be the Mennonite community in PA, which conscientiously objects to having auto insurance, which is mandatory in PA. They have a deal with the government whereby they simply pledge, as a community, to make goodon any liabilities incurred. Rainbow has a spotless record, to the best of my knowledge, on making good on liabilities. ROOTS: The Rainbow Family of Living Light (aka Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes, etc.) didn't really begin at any specific time, and has never really existed as a formal organization. In many ways, it is a fundamental human expression, the tendency of people to gather together in a natural place and express themselves in ways that come naturally to them, to live and let live, to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. In the U.S. in the late 1960's and early 70's, a kind of critical mass of consciousness developed. Beyond the media hype of "fading movement", those who were serious in the hippie and anti- war movements were learning what political life was really about, and, most importantly, were learning basic economics and to take care of their own. After some hard lessons at the many mega-events of the time, many were becoming skilled at coping with the care and feeding of tens of thousands of people at a time, and organized themselves into tribes dedicated to that purpose. A diverse and decentralized social fabric began to weave itself from threads of hippie culture, back-to-the-landers, american indian spiritual teachings, pacifist-anarchist traditions, eastern mysticism, and the legacy of depression-era hobo street wisdom. Although this fabric included visionaries, gurus, and people with strong organizing skills, it has not produced a leader/follower decision-making process or hierarchy. Instead, all decision making power is held in a main council, open to all, with all individuals holding equal power, and all decisions made only by unanimous consensus. Although it is frequently a difficult process, it has stood the test of time, and has served the whole quite well. This process makes it essentially impossible for authorities, power-trippers, or hostile elements to intimidate or manipulate individuals to the detriment of the group. LEGAL: This process also presents challenges to the legal system, especially when it comes to simply defining Rainbow in legal terms. The authorities are constantly searching for our "leaders", "representatives", or "organizers" and seem to be conceptually unable (or unwilling) to cope with the reality that we don't have any. The Gathering uses the term and concept "liaison" (or "legaliaison") to refer to one who communicates with authorities but has no power to act on behalf of the Council. In the 1988 Texas case, Judge Justice stated that he felt the government had a right to choose representatives from within the family if we refused to appoint them. but this portion of his opinion may not be binding. The Gathering seems to consider itself a relatively pure example of Peaceful Assembly, and therefore the only "permit" required is the guarentee of this right provided in the 1st Amendment. A number of times, in more cooperative years, the USFS has accepted "operating agreements", negotiated by both parties and revocable by no one, in lieu of permits. Perhaps they could be convinced to accept this as a permit alternative on a permanent basis - this would be ideal, and has some precedent. The Gathering has also consistently refused to pay performance bonds, citing the spiritual nature of the Gathering, and that it would be unconstitutional to "require insurance to go to church". Judge Justice certified us as a "defendant class", but lawyers have said that this doesn't necessarily mean we are a sue-able entity (see enclosure, "Why We Don't Sign Permits"). It's interesting to think that Rainbow simply may not be truly definable in legal terms. Certainly the Gathering seems to feel that the Government has no right to regulate it, but here's where they part company with the courts. It seems that the courts have held that the USFS has the right to regulate Gatherings, but has so far failed to write regulations that are constitutional. Ideally, we would undermine their "right" to regulate; otherwise, we must simply fight them every time they try, on the theory that they will never be able to write a regulation constitutional enough to stand up. With the conservative shift in the courts now, this is a shaky bet. If there is some type of higher recourse, permanent injunction, congressional intervention, etc., that we can achieve, perhaps we can stay out of court for good. FOOTNOTE #1: In recent years, the authorities have tried to suppress the Gathering on the supposed grounds that the Gathering is a sanitation hazard. Although our sanitation technology is constantly evolving, the reality is that our Gatherings generally exceed the U.S. Army Field Standards for large group camping, we always seek to work harmoniously with local health departments, and they have certified us as sanitary. FOOTNOTE #2: There have come to be many spontaneous local and regional Gatherings calling themselves Rainbow; the 1986 Arizona case was initiated at a local Gathering. Although there is often mutual support and overlap attendance, all Rainbow Gatherings are entirely autonomous and independent from one another. Please read the Nevada Consensus on Legaliaison, and Plunker's submission to Allways Free, elsewhere in this conference, for a complete overview of Legaliaison up to this point. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 40 Legaliaison mailng list form and p 2 responses jjohnson 5:34 pm Feb 24, 1990 DRAFT FOREST SERVICE REGULATIONS COMING OUT SOON PLEASE GET ON THIS LIST SO YOU CAN BE NOTIFIED AND CAN COMMENT The US Forest Service will soon publish draft regulations in the federal register - regulations that attempt to define, control, and restrict Gatherings and what people can do at Gatherings. After the draft is published, we have 60 days to send in comments before the draft would become law. Please get on this list so the Family can send you a copy of the draft regulations and you can speak your peace to the government. This list will be kept confidential, and will only be seen and used by Family members to send info to other Family members. Remember - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Use it or lose it!! Name Address Zip _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Send to: Rainbow Legaliaison, c/o Box 5722, Takoma Park, MD 20912 ***************************************************************** PETITION Without complaining about demonstrable damage done to the public lands by the oil, mining, timber and other industries yet countenanced by the U.S. Forest Service, it seems almost preposterous that the U.S. Forest Service would seriously consider requiring individuals to post a damage deposit before being allowed to meet harmlessly in the public wilderness. Likewise, the idea that the citizens of a democracy might be required to obtain insurance policies before using public lands as a meeting site for religious, political, or social gatherings seems to suggest the absurd notion that the U.S. Forest Service might consider Mutual of Omaha to be a better guarantor of freedom than the First Amendment of the Constitution. For these reasons I respectfully but emphatically oppose the proposed regulations with would impose these and other restrictions on the ability of Americans to meet freely on the public lands administered for them by the U.S. Forest Service. NAME ADDRESS AGE _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Return to: Rainbow Legaliaison/DC Crew, Box 5604, Takoma Park, MD 20913 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 40 jjohnson 5:39 pm Feb 24, 1990 please print and distribute this mailing list form and petition... .....we love you!!! ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 40 jjohnson 8:57 pm Mar 31, 1990 Please note that the above petition is a first draft that is the initiative of an individual, not put through a group process, and doesn't seek to speak for Rainbow. If you wish to copy and distribute it, you might consider adding a note that it refers specifically to the "revisions to 36 CFR 251 and 261". Peace! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 41 Rainbow in the Cities *********** 1 response fmayer 3:26 pm Mar 3, 1990 [Transmitted via rappinfred (fmayer) via Uncle Joe (fhl) of B.A.R.N.] RAINBOW IN THE CITIES RAINBOW IN THE CITY?? YES!!!! And it could be in your city... Dearest One, Rainbow circles are now happening in two major cities; Washington D.C., and Berkeley California. As our family grows and our gatherings gain strength, there is a strong desire in us to gather and circle more often. There's also a strong desire to expand RAINBOW LOVE into the cities and help bring what we have found to others. Across the street from the White House, a Rainbow circle and meal has been coming together eight days a week for a year and a half. This is a vegetarian feast in Peace Park (a.k.a. Lafayette) which is preceded by a circle of love, prayer, and song. Comprised of Rainbow people, street people, students, office workers, and laborers. In People's Park, in Berkeley California the Rainbow Circle and meal has been happening eight days a week since November '89. Around 1 p.m., a vegetarian meal is brought to the park and a circle forms, and we share food accompanied by music. This is not a food line, soup kitchen, or a hand out - it is a sharing of food, prayer, and music. We are not a group or organization, we are not non-profit status. Nor are we feeding people; we are sharing. This freely given food is picked up daily (early) and then prepared in a house by Rainbow People. We allow the opportunity for people to help with the meal by either helping to gather, cook, or serve the food. So it is a people's meal, not a charity group feeding. We by-pass laws of men for serving food, because we are not - we are sharing. No more regulation can be put on this than can be put on sharing a sandwich. We just happen to have a very big sandwich. As long as the meals are done on this basis on public land, the 1st Amendment is all the permission we need. These meals can happen in every city in the world, simple as one two three. All we need are: 1) farmers markets, grocery stores - food sources; 2) a house to cook in - at least a four burner stove; 3) a public place to circle and share. All of these things are already there waiting to be used. It's no secret that there is a disgusting waste of food in this country. You can gather and serve it as you will; with an hour sermon and superiority to deaf ears. Or without a word to the people eating, or you can use this abundance to create an atmosphere of sharing. This miracle works. Cities are in need of healing, and we can manifest it through real sharing, while performing a very needed community service, even as recognized by the "authorities." We have all traveled the soup kitchens and food lines. And our mothers would have worried much less if they had known that in the city ahead of us there was a circle of friends waiting to receive us and share with us, not just a food line. Away with food lines, and in with meal circles, where no one is first or last! We can do it now! With the Forest Service creating regulations which threaten our family gatherings, it is time to demonstrate our right to gather in peace on public lands - not just in the woods, but everywhere. We gather to shine our light. Rainbow is sharing. Sharing works, in the woods and in the cities. It is time to shine our light in the darkest places, no longer hidden-away or under a bushel. The child of peace is now twenty years old, and ready to work on the problems it helped make. Now the light will come from the wilderness to the cities to share. Spread love and light. All willing hearts and hands are welcome and needed. Now is not the time to leave our brothers and sisters and go to the woods. We should manifest the atmosphere of healing and sharing, even if everyone is not as peaceful and sober as we are used to seeing in our forest gatherings. Some of the parks we will share in have drug-dealing, drinking, and violence, along with isolation. But we can bring circles, food, music, and togetherness to the places that most need peace. If you are interested in starting weekly, or monthly pot lucks, or even starting a consistent meal circle in your community, I am willing to do all I can to help you. In Peace Park, D.C., and People's Park in Berkeley, help is always needed and appreciated. I am Mojo, a.k.a. Phillip Joseph, and I started circles in Peace Park a year and a half ago, and have other good food and focalizing experience. The meals in D.C. are now focalized by our brother Sunrise, who has been there for years. I am now in Berkeley, and have been focalizing the meals here, and my experience tells me that together we can bring light and harmony to the cities. All that is needed for us to gather and have circles more often, and in the cities, is for us to name the place and the time. So let's get that out of the way now - the place is your city park, the time is now. WE ARE THE TIME. Peace and blessings to all, Mojo For further information please contact: Peace Park People's Park Washington D.C. Berkeley, CA Across from the White House 1 block off Telegraph Ave. P.O. Box No. 27217 P.O. Box No. 637 Washington, D.C. 2OO38 Berkeley, CA 947O1 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 41 mendicott 6:42 pm Mar 12, 1990 This is Atlanta Rainbow, Stephen Wing calling. We have a consensus to gather in our city once a month, the Sunday closest to th e full moon. Call our Atlanta Light-Line for a recorded messsage giving directions to our next event, and regional info: 404/662-6112. You can leave a message too-- call if you're passing through and we'll try to accomodate you. We are going out in the park next next month, Easter Sunday April 15th, in Rainbow Peace Park (site of our Peace Camp during the Democratic Convention in '88) --on the corner of Highland and Austin. Drop by for the South Carolina regi onal gathering for Spring Equinox, call 803-588-6371; the2nd annual Cumberland, March 17-30. (We also know of monthly Rainbow Family potlucks happening in Chicago,Philadelphia, Austin, Boulder (weekly)), D.C., S.F. Bay Area . . .) love from Atlanta. ( We're also working on a benefit for All Ways Free and our Southeast regional newsletter, HO! We really recommend this basic healing massage for Mother Earth-- dancing is good for the soul and everybody has a good time.) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 42 Europa Rainbow 90 Update 1 response mendicott 5:03 pm Mar 5, 1990 The dates for the 8th Europa Rainbow, in Austria, have been changed from the July full moon to August 4-14, 1990. For details c ontact: Michaella Zeller, Erlachgasse 18/14, 1100 Vienna [tel. 88-35-334]; or, Christian Mayr-Kren, Atschreithstrasse 3, 3340 W aidhofen/Ybbs [tel. 7442/26873]; or, Rainbow Circle, Box 111, 6600Muralto (Switzerland). ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 42 mendicott 8:08 pm Apr 27, 1990 Christian Mayr-Kren's new phone number is (2877) 276. The country code for Austria is 43. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 43 Forest Service Revolt from NYT3/4 fmayer 3:26 am Mar 6, 1990 From The New York Times, March 4, 199O. (via rappinfred) FOREST SERVICE ABUSING ROLE, DISSIDENTS SAY By Timothy Egan, Special to the New York Times Seattle, March 3 - Saying the Forest Service has abused millions of acres entrusted to it, supervisors and professionals in the service are rebelling against Federal policies that promote logging, mining and road building in 191 million acres of public forests. The dispute could also determine how the country manages nearly half its clean water supply, its biggest and oldest trees, its largest wilderness areas, its most bountiful wildlife habitats and resources that provide the most jobs in many Western communities. In the rush to sell Federal timber, the agency created by Theodore Roosevelt to manage the vanishing wilderness has lost sight of its original goal, say the supervisors of many national forests and hundreds of lower-ranking employees who have joined a dissident group in the service. They say the Forest Service has become the No. 1 road-builder, hacking more than 34O,OOO miles of logging roads in the woods in the last half- century, and that it is now spending more money on cutting down trees than for any other purpose. "We're managing our resources horribly," said Jeff DeBonis, a Eugene, Ore., forester who organized the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics in an attempt, he says, to change the service's direction. His group claims 1,5OO service members out of a total of 38,OOO employees. The protests are not unheeded. At the very top of the Forest Service, officials who were saying a decade ago that boards are more valuable than old trees have been replaced, dissidents say, by appointees who believe century-old stands of trees have a value beyond lumber's worth. F. Dale Robertson, chief of the service since 1987, said in an interview that the internal debate was good for the service. Reflecting a change in its direction and a shift in the public's view of forests toward more concern for the environment, the service's proposed budget for the fiscal year 1991 is "better-rounded than we've ever had before," he said. This year, President Bush has proposed that $175 million be spent on a tree-planting program to be supervised by the service. But critics say that merely planting new trees while another arm of the service is knocking down centuries-old trees will leave America's woodlands impoverished. Change in Society "There's a change going on in society, and the Forest Service can't just ignore that," Mr. Robertson said. "We intend to be more environmentally responsible." Many top agency officials from around the country applaud the philosophical changes, but they say more should be done to change programs and spending priorities to reflect the good stewardship values of the service. Its budget is established by the President and Congress, but the process of deciding how to spend the money begins with the philosophy and requests of the 156 forest supervisors. For example, Tom Kovalicky, supervisor of the 2.2 million-acre Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho, makes a request each year on how much money to spend on his forest. He has complained that his efforts to retore salmon and steelhead runs receive minimal financing, while the timber- cutting program, which he says harms those streams, receives the lion's share of the $14 million Nez Perce budget. 'Troubling Times' "These are troubling times for many of us," Mr. Kovalicky and supervisors of national forests in Montana, Idaho, and Dakotas wrote three months ago in an open letter to Mr. Robertson. "Many people, internally as well as externally, believe the current emphasis of national forest programs does not reflect the land-stewardship values embodied in our forest plan." Citing continuing logging programs in pristine areas and "sagging" public support for the service, the supervisors from the northern Rocky Mountain region who signed the letter wrote, "We have become a dysfunctional Forest Service family." Similar letters to Mr. Robertson came from supervisors of national forests throughout the West. He said this "straight talk" could help fashion for the agency a new conservationist role, which he said many have been seeking for a long time. Even with its enormous acreage, $3 billion annual budget and legion of rangers and biologists, the service has long operated in virtual anonymity. But now, driven by a revolt from within and criticism from outside, the agency is going through a major, and very public, transformation. "There are a lot of good, dedicated people in the Forest Service, but there is also a lot of dead wood left over from 25 years of rape-pillage- and-plunder mentality," said Don Kern, a hydrologist with the Flathead National Forest in Montana. "Unfortunately, many of those people are in key management positions." Critics in Logging Industry Some leaders in the logging industry say the revolt in the Forest Service is fueled by environmental zealots. "They're rabble-rousers," said Troy Reinhart, a former service employee who is executive director of Douglas Timber Operators. The group represents Oregon companies that depend on public land for their wood supply. Mr. Robertson said he would prefer that the dissidents promote change by quietly working within the agency, but he said he is "officially neutral" about the group. Mr. DeBonis, founder of the group, resigned last week as a Federal timber sales planner after 12 years with the service because, he said, he wanted to stop supporting the timber policy and devote more time to the organization. Mr. DeBonis, who now publishes a quarterly newsletter, _Inner Voices_, for members of the group started his campaign early last year, when he wrote a blistering letter to Mr. Robertson. A Letter of Protest "Our basic problem right now is that we are much too biased towards the resource-extraction industries, particularly the timber industry," Mr. DeBonis wrote to the chief. "We support their narrowly focused, shortsighted agenda." He also sent a computer memorandum to other employees reporting on a conference that singled out the Forest Service as being mainly responsible for severe logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. After being reprimanded for using the service's computer, Mr. DeBonis began organizing the dissident group on his own time, he said, by sending fliers to other Forest Service officers. His criticism that the Forest Service has become too much of an industry ally has been repeated by supervisors of some national forests, pointing to the increased logging on public lands. For most of the last five years, the share of the service's budget for wildlife and stewardship has been in steady decline, while more than a third has gone to the timber program. Rise in Logging on Public Land Before World War II, very little logging was done on national forest land. But as the last of the big trees disappeared from private land, attention turned to the reserves, set aside 1OO years ago, as a source of the industry's wood supply. In the last three years, a record number of trees have been cut from the national forests, more than 12 billion board feet a year, or triple the number of a generation ago. In the Pacific Northwest, the site of almost half of all the logging on national forests, the service has cut the oldest and biggest trees first and replaced them with new trees. In the early 198O's, it was the policy of John B. Crowell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in charge of the national forests, to speed log- ging of the 3 million to 4 million acres of original forest left in the West. That policy is now under review, Mr. Robertson said. Since the mid-198O's, the last of the old growth has been cut at a pace of about 7O,OOO acres a year. Most national forests in the Northwest are now laced with roads and clearcuts. In the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington, named for the service's founder, less than a tenth of the 1.1 million acres of the original forest remains as it was in Mr. Pinchot's time. "We are trading our forests in on European-style plantations that are really nothing more than economic tree farms," Chris Maser wrote in his book, "Forest Primeval," published last year by Sierra Club Books. Mr. Maser is a former research scientist with the Interior Department. A Legacy in the Balance In the view of Mr. Maser and some top scientists in the Forest Service, the Government is wiping out the biological archives of the old forest, a legacy of several generations of plant life that may be needed as a hedge against disease, global warming and fires. "Our forest lands should be more than just agricultural lands with a slow-maturing crop," said Dr. Jerry Franklin, an ecologist with the Forest Service, who is considered the Government's foremost expert on old-growth forests. He advocates keeping much of the remaining ancient forest of the West intact as a storehouse of information for future foresters. After years as an outside voice, Dr. Franklin's warnings are finding a home in the upper echelons of the Forest Service. "For the first time as an agency we are recognizing the importance of old growth on a national level," said Mr. Robertson, who noted that this new policy was influenced by the work of Dr. Franklin. "Old-growth forests are an important ecosystem that we are just beginning to understand." [EOF] ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 44 Ponder this one... AP report. 1 response fmayer 3:29 am Mar 6, 1990 GARCIA IMPLICATED IN FBI SKULLDUGGERY - Assoicated Press, Feb. 8, 199O Documents uncovered through a Freedom of Information lawsuit indicate the participation of Jerry Garcia, of the popular music group "The Grateful Dead" in FBI plans to quash student protest in the late 196O's, according to a probe by the Christic Institute. At a press conference this morning, Boyd Rice, a spokesperson for the Christic Institute, relased copies of recently declassified FBI memoranda. These documents implicate Garcia as a participation (sic) in the infamous COINTELPRO domestic counterinsurgency program carried out by the FBI under John Edgar Hoover. COINTELPRO, a program of surveillance and disruption, was officially discontinued in 1976. One document, signed by a highly placed official, proposed hiring Garcia as a means of "siphoning off student dissent and re- channeling it into self-destructive hedonism." Other documents detail payments made to Garcia and status reports on the program, code named "DEADHEAD." "Not only are these kids wasting their time with drugs and cult-like idolatry" asserts one report, "But their consistently scruffy appearance and asinine behavior makes the counterculture quite unattractive to most youth." "This kind of pervasive interference in the lives of law abiding Americans cannot be tolerated in a free society," said Rice. This comes dangerously close to the promotion of drug use by the U.S. Justice Department." The Christic Institute plans to file a federal suit against the FBI and seeks the release of further materials. "We must find out if this Garcia person is still an employee of the Federal Government. We need assurance that this prgram has stopped." The Christic Institute is a private research organization best known for its lawsuit against key figures in the Iran-Contra incidents. Their charges of conspiracy were dismissed by a Federal Court. Garcia could not be reached for comment, but representatives of the musical group denied that there was any truth to the allegations. "This is a total lie, man," they claimed. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 44 bmasel 2:39 am Jun 11, 1990 This message was originally posted as a joke in rec.music.gdead. Impressively done, fooled me, greatly upset the christics. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 45 RETRACTION AND UPDATE RE:GARCIA fmayer 12:44 am Mar 14, 1990 Greetings. My name is Fred Mayer (a.k.a. rappinfred) from Long Island. I recently posted an item which began as follows: > GARCIA IMPLICATED IN FBI SKULLDUGGERY - Assoicated Press, Feb. 8, 199O > > Documents uncovered through a Freedom of Information lawsuit > indicate the participation of Jerry Garcia, of the popular music > group "The Grateful Dead" in FBI plans to quash student protest > in the late 196O's, according to a probe by the Christic Institute. I have received a substantial amount of feedback regarding this, all indicating that without a shadow of doubt, it was originally a forgery. In the present message, I hope to explain the events which led to the posting, present some of the very informative feedback I received, and give everyone my thoughts on this rather disconcerting affair. First and foremost I wish to apologize to anyone who was offended by the posting. I'm sorry I was so gullible. I. THE TRAIL - At the present time I cannot responsibly reveal the names of the parties who provided me with the item, because I have been unable to contact them. (I should be able to reach them within 24 hours.) The principle source is a close friend who is currently on the road. I'll call him X. X and the other source Y reside on the West Coast. Y produced a newsletter which contained the item. X, who was visiting with me, had a copy of the newsletter, and pointed out the item, which I was amazed by. I want to stress that I was skeptical about the truth of the item. My mistake was assuming that someone would put out an item as coming from the AP when that could be so easily checked out (as it has been). I entered the item and posted it because I felt that if by some chance there was any truth to it... it would be important. II. THE FACTS - I have received messages from a number of people regarding the item. Most importantly, i have received messages from Andy Lang from the Christic Institute. Let me include some of his feedback: >Mr. Mayer, our West Coast office has already confirmed that >the Associated Press did *not* circulate this report. There >is no "Boyd Rice" authorized to speak for the Christic >Institute. The name is unknown to both our Washington and >California offices. Some harm has been done to us by the >circulation of this forgery, and we will be grateful if you >could work with whomever gave you the story to circulate a >retraction on whatever networks or conferences where you may >have originally posted it. > >For the record, the Christic Institute is not investigating >Jerry Garcia, has never investigated Jerry Garcia, has filed >no "Freedom of Information" lawsuit concerning Jerry Garcia >and is not in the possession of any documents concerning >Jerry Garcia--unless you could the Grateful Dead albums that >may be owned by some of his fans at the Institute. > >Andy Lang >Christic Institute A potential solution to the problem of who "Boyd Rice" is was provided by Ray Shea, also from Christic: >This is a prank, guys. Boyd Rice is an ex-associate of the RE/Search >gang, who published the book _Pranks_ a year or so ago. (Hilarious >book, definitely recommended.) Boyd is now a white-supremacist >neo-nazi, shunned by the folks at RE/Search, and I'm pretty positive >he's not associated with the Christic Institute in any way. > >I'm not really surprised that AP fell for this. [They didn't! - Fred] If any >of you have heard of the Negativland "Christianity is Stupid" hoax last >year, you're probably not surprised either. > >-- >Ray Shea This is your brain on drugs with > toast and a side order of bacon. Yes, Ray, maybe my brain's fried, but it's the only one I've got. III. MY THOUGHTS ON THIS - The knowing feedback of all the respondants regarding this matter notwithstanding, it cannot be denied that the composer of the item was keying on very real attributes of our society. COINTELPRO was a real operation, as we are reminded by Chuck Karish: >COINTELPRO (COunter-INTELligence PROgram) was the dirty tricks >department of the FBI's battle against political and cultural >renegades. One of its major activities was the distribution of false >information designed to promote distrust and dissention among members >of politically-unpopular organizations. Its most celebrated success >was to accelerate the demise of the Black Panther Party by leaking >documents that falsely stated that certain members were FBI informers >(while, in fact, the real informers and provocateurs went about their >work undetected). Geronimo Pratt was convicted of murder for a killing >in Oakland that's supposed to have taken place while he was meeting >other BPP leaders in Los Angeles. The story goes that the others >wouldn't testify for him because they believed letters that falsely >implicated him as an informer. Pratt is still in prison. > >This is a fabrication, designed to divide us so that we can be more >effectively managed by the government. It bears a curious resemblance >to the story Lyndon LaRouche tells about Gregory Bateson's CIA-funded >subversion project, also using the Grateful Dead as a force to disrupt >the cohesiveness of the anti-war movement. Remember that LaRouche >seems to have been a consultant on disinformation tactics. He >certainly uses enough of them in his own campaigns. But now we get to the more subtle aspects of this gag. Part of the reason the gag worked - to the extent that it did - lies in the prima facie plausibility which accompanies the notion that political energy might *potentially* - to whatever extent that it could - be diffused by any cultural leader who, through music and lyrics, conveyed a world view which presupposed a future which is independent of the acts of those who would be empowered. I am not a "Dead-Head" in any standard sense. I enjoy Garcia's music a great deal, and have come to enjoy it more as the years go by. Therefore, I am not qualified to make assertions about what Garcia's band and his lyrics are intended to convey, or what his most devoted fans actually receive. (I invite all Heads to comment on this.) But from my peripheral perspective on the long-lasting cultural phenomenon which is the Grateful Dead, there is nevertheless face validity to the notion which presents itself, namely: that the mass-culture of rock/folk music and entertainment can either magnify or diffuse political energy. During the late 196Os, the political content of popular music had a profound impact on both domestic and world history. It is almost boring to say so. No one can doubt the power of "mere" words. What could be more potent than a stage and Bob Dylan - armed only with a guitar and harmonica - singing the words "You don't really know what's going on around here, do you, Mr. Jones?" (approx) Or Jimi singing "Hey Mr. Business man walking down the street, don't point your plastic finger at me!" I won't spend a lot of effort attempting to draw contrasts between those times and more recent ones. It is not out-of-orbit to assert that popular culture in the MTV age has undergone something of a shift in political consciouness. But now, you see, the stage is set. The potential for the gag stems directly from the fact that the "cultural revolution" of the '6Os and '7Os failed to succeed. Everyone knows it, including the latent fascists, neoconservatives, Reaganites, Bushites, and other sorts of creatures which scrape the earth. The magnitude of the failure is only now reaching the stage where its going to be felt very painfully by us all. The stakes are high... the future of Mother Earth, and all her inhabitants is involved. There are strong motivations in the minds of people who remember a time when the direction society was taking was characterized by students inserting flowers into the barrels of guns. The moral depravity of the last 15 years has left a great deal of psychological wreckage on the landscape. But... who *has* succeeded in the last twenty years? And wildly so? The Rolling Stones The Grateful Dead I think we should thank our infiltrators... for pointing out the weaknesses in our world-views (yes... I'm speaking for myself.) I would be greatly interested in any and all feedback regarding this issue. III. CONCLUSION - All discussions aside, I do have a major regret. Whoever wrote the message used the good work and intentions of the people at The Christic Institute in a miserable, cynical fashion. Those people are the real victims. My misjudgment contributed to this state of affairs (along with the misjudgments others), and for that I apologize. I pledge to rectify this situation in any constructive fashion that I can. (This is directed to you, Andy Lang). This is now my second personal encounter with an actual case of organized malice against a progressive movement. Such incidents may be under the direction of government agents, and they may be the result of free-agent sociopaths. Both types of initiatives have been proven to exist in the past. I guess that at many levels we are involved in a psychological war, waged with technologically-enhanced semiotic weapons. I now bear a scar, but I also have learned a great deal about the range of human events. With Love to all... Rappinfred. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 46 Regional Gatherings-spring 90 pfraterdeus 12:42 am Mar 15, 1990 _____________________________ Some Spring 1990 Regional Rainbow Circle Events _____________________________ 21-28 th March 3rd Annual Ohio / Great Lakes Rainbow Equinox Regional Contact: 614 592 5298 Ohio Hwy 13 North of Glouster Take US 33 South from Columbus before you get to Athens, take State Rt.13 North toward Glouster or Chauncey. Home is 5 mi. north of Glouster on Rt.13 Camp is near Pelos Look for Rainbow Signs Park Off Road ____________________________ April 1st (No Foolin'!) Chicago Rainbow Circle First Sunday of the Month Picnic/Potluck/Circle in Lincoln Park, just south of the Zoo & Lagoon, north of North Ave. at Garibaldi's pedestal... Call 312 743 5487 to see about... Bad Weather option (Below 50 degrees or Rain) PRISM Gallery, 620 Davis St. Evanston just east of the Davis St. El stop! We've had our winter circles at Prism and love it! Welcome Sweet Home, Chicago! ____________________________ Watch for the Chicago Rainbow Yard Sale! Some time in April! Get your stuff together! Anybody out there with a truck to collect it??? Call 708 328 2733 to volunteer! Also volunteer to focalize it! ____________________________ 2nd Annual Cumberland Regional (Kentucky-Tennessee Border) 5-10 th April Contacts 502 487 6653 Middle of Rainbow 502 864 4378 South from Kentucky on (Ky. 167) turns into (Tn.154 ) look for RSharp PlaceS north of Jamestown, TN. Go East on State rt. 297 look for Rainbow Signs! Park down aways... (please verify these directions before going!) ____________________________ ...and don't forget The 1990 Rainbow World Peace and Earth Healing Gathering in Minnesota this July 1-7 But don't be afraid to come early to HELP OUT! Lotsa volunteers needed! and Green Energy, too! Help make this gathering the highest it can be. Be what you can be -- in the Rainbow! This isn't Kansas, Toto! (nope, it's Minnesota!) Watch for details on Scout Council and Spring Council in MN. Any one with an interest in the AllWaysFree online council on PeaceNet, call Petros at 708 328 2733 for info! ____________________________ ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 47 Are Rainbows Scary??? pfraterdeus 12:44 am Mar 15, 1990 By the Way... If you've never been to a rainbow gathering, they're not scary! Drugs and alcohol are discouraged. Personal peace and freedom are most highly valued! Check it out sometime! There's nothing quite like sitting around a big campfire, toasting english muffins on a stick, and feeling the sweet earth under your feet. Check out the stars!!! I mean it's a great way to meet neat folks from other parts of this great continent! Peace. ----- Just a personal thought to anybody out there who's sorta wondering about all this stuff!!! Love Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 48 Print outs available! :-) pfraterdeus 12:52 am Mar 15, 1990 I'll be preparing some loose leafs of selected topics in this conference, if anyone wants to send a large (9x12) SASE to me... FIgure about $0.65 postage (more if you want to help with copying costs) (Leave the stamps loose, we'll work it out!) Love, Petros % po box 5448 Evanston, IL 60204-5448 Remember to love those that are cynical or sarcastic towards you--- they had violent and unloved childhoods! Peace to all beings, animal and vegetal! II. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 49 Commercializing Rainbow? 1 response mendicott 11:38 am Mar 17, 1990 We are happy the Real Eyes Texas '88 gathering video is available for Family use. We are not happy with the way it is offered to us in the AWF New Year newsletter (topic 34). The video "can be purchased for $15 or 2/$22"? Real Eyes will "donate 50% of all video sales" to help fund All Ways Free? Rainbow is sacred; sacred is Rainbow. Rainbow is not for purchase or sale. Rainbow projects may recover MATERIAL costs. The above phrasing implies commercial intent. Please clarify the nature of this effort for us. Peace, Marcus & Wing. (Atlanta, March 17, 1990) P.S. Is this video free for those who provide blank cassette and SASE? ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 49 jjohnson 8:56 pm Mar 23, 1990 Hi - this is Thumper. I saw your note, and was aware that Real-eyes will soon, but does not yet, have access to Peacenet, and could not see your note, so I printed and mailed it to them. They called and asked me to post this message; The Real Eyes Video *IS* (heartsong) 100% Rainbow Family Tribal Council! If any doubt exists, look through your real eyes. Synergistically evolving humans, all spirits, Family, HO! family, and others may respond to this address: Allways Free, 515 E. Grant Rd., S.13, Tucson, AZ 85705 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 50 Rainbow Warriors Global Circus bball 7:42 pm Apr 18, 1990 What's Next after Earth Day? Does Your Organization Need More Funds to Implement Its Programs??? FUND-RAISING BENEFIT EVENT NOW AVAILABLE! The Rainbow Warriors Global Circus event provides an opportunity to interface with your total community, to raise money and global consciousness at the same time. Rainbow Warriors is still seeking enthusiastic coordinators and co-producers in a number of locations. DON"T DELAY. The summer is fast approaching and our available dates are closing quickly. [See approximate itinerary] CO-PRODUCTION DETAILS: Rainbow Warriors Global Circus & Theater of Marvels Provides: >A complete viable plan for the co-producer & professional quality publicity materials. >A totally self-contained repertoire company with a program which includes our matinee Fairytale Circus show: RIn Search of the UnicornS, an evening multi -media ritual theater mystery show: RReturn of Quetzecoatl & Gaiazone MysteriesS, a dance concert & laser lightshow plus various ceremonies, workshops and company crafts and concessions. >Tents and Stages; Sound and lighting systems; Laser special effects; projections; scenery; props; costumes; magic illusions; etc. >Complete company of performers, technicians, workshop teachers and ceremony leaders. >All transportation of company personnel & equipment. >On-lot food and sleeping facilities for company personnel. The Sponsoring Organization Provides: >Local/regional coordination, networking and advance publicity and promotion >Ticket Sales and Program Advertising sales campaign >Tie-in Advertising coordination >Appropriate lot facility for the show to setup on, and permit(s) >Coordination of local concessions & crafts >Local ethnic minority and tribal contacts and coordination The Revenue Split: ALL TICKET SALES: 44% - to the local co-producing organization(s) 12% - to 5 international social justice & cultural survival charities* 44% - to the Rainbow Warriors touring expenses fund PROGRAM ADVERTISING & CRAFT/CONCESSION BOOTH FEES: 80% - to the local co-producing organization(s) 20% - to the Rainbow Warriors *all co-producersU suggestions will be considered, charities will be chosen and distributions made before the end of 1990. Legal Status: The Rainbow Warriors Global Circus and Theater of Marvels touring company will be administered under the umbrella of Peace, Inc. in San Francisco, CA., a non-profit organization accredited by both the Federal and State governments. Typical CashFlow Projections for the Co-Producer:* SOURCE PER DAY EVENT [2 DAY] EVENT [3 DAY] All Ticket Sales $2,200 $4,400 $6,600 Program Ads $1,500 $1,500 Booth Fees $1,500 $1,500 Concessions $500 $1,000 $1,500 TOTAL $8,400 $11,100 *These are conservative projections, creativity and diligence could increase them dramatically. TO APPLY FOR A BENEFIT DATE, or for further information contact: Thaddeus Now c/o Mendocino Environmental Center 106 W. Standley St. Ukiah, CA 95482 415/273-2441 EcoNet e-mail address: bball What exactly is the RAINBOW WARRIORS GLOBAL CIRCUS & THEATER OF MARVELS RTURTLE ISLAND TOURS??? The RAINBOW WARRIORS Global Circus & Theatre of Marvels is a small international multi-media tent theatre troupe working in the United States and Canada during the summer of 1990. Bi-lingual shows integrate original music, dance, theatre, stage-magic, lasers, projected images and film. Grass-roots style organization and professional quality performance skills and tech. Co-produced with local/regional environmental and peace organizations, the events are fund raisers for the sponsors and for a selection of international human -rights organizations. Our purpose is the promotion of cultural exchange and mutual understanding as well as the affirmation of a more positive relationship to our planet through these fund-raising events. Utilizing a touring crew of over twenty people plus many additional participants who join in at each location, the company is equipped with a circus -type bigtop and several small tents (tipiUs, yurts, etc.), a portable stage, sound system and theatre lighting system, plus beautiful projections, scenery, props, and colorful costumes and masks. This repertoire company offers three substantial performances guaranteed to please the whole family: 1) World Fairytale Circus (matinee): RIn Search of.....the Unicorn!S 2) Multi-Media Ritual Theater of Ancient magic and cultural wisdoms: RReturn of QuetzacoatlS and RGaiazone MysteriesS 3) Fusion dance concert and light show: ROne Planet, One PeopleS PLUS various workshops, ceremonies, activities, craft booths featuring art and handcrafts produced by members, information and networking for environmental and peace issues, etc. Operating as a cooperative of individuals with a common purpose to travel and share our arts, experience, skills and services, the Rainbow Warriors is an alliance between REl Puente de WirikutaS of Mexico and the RRainbow Magic CircusS of California. RRAINBOW WARRIORSS is a name taken from the ancient prophecies of Native American wisdom. Our work is not only an artistic, cultural presentation, but, before anything, our collective offering to the Mother Earth. In these times of transition, in which our ecological imbalances are threatening the survival of all species, ours is an offering that carries a vision of hope, a moment of inner silence, and a call for conscious action to help heal the wounds that are affecting the Earth today. Typical performance day schedule of events: 8-10 AM morning meditation, yoga, healings 11 AM opening public ceremony 11:30-2 workshops 2:30-4 fairytale circus 4:30-7 workshops 8-8:30 music concert 8:30-10:30 ritual theater performance 10:30-12 dance music & lightshow ITINERARY March Guatamala [El Puente de Wirikuta] April-May Mexico [El Puente de Wirikuta] May 19 Harbin Hot Springs/Ancient Ways Festival [Gaiazone Mysteries show] June 1-13 Southern California [full Rainbow Warriors company] June 15-27 Northern California July 1-5 Rainbow Festival July 7-14 Minnesota, Wisconsin July 13-15 South Dakota July 20-22 Vancouver July 24-29 Washington August 1-5 Oregon August 7-8 Mt. Shasta August 11-12 Willits (Solar Energy Fair) August 15-19 Davis/Sacramento August 20-22 Yosemite August 23-31 Arizona, NM September 1-4 Santa Fe, NM Sept 5-10 4 Corners Area Sept 12-15 Boulder, CO ABOUT THE COLLABORATING PERFORMING GROUPS: About EL PUENTE DE WIRIKUTA: RThis group is providing an invaluable cultural service in terms of relationships between the United States and Mexico...S Peter Berg, Planet Drum Foundation ROn behalf of the International Indian Treaty Council, I would like to thank you for the outstanding performance you gave at our benefit at La Pea Cultural Center yesterday. The history, sulture and knowledge that you shared with us greatly contributed to our evening...S Anatonio Gomez Gonzalez, Director, IITC RWe feel this is an important work that will benefit people wherever it is shown...S Azarra Lanteri, Global Vision REl Puente de Wirikuta enlightened the members of our community with regard to their customs and traditions...S Ronald E. Johnny, San Francisco American Indian Center Some comments about RAINBOW MAGIC CIRCUS: RI would like to express our total enjoyment of your wonderful standing room only performance. I will hire you back again.S Dusty Dawn, Director Cotati City Recreation Department RRainbow Magic Circus was certainly a hit at the Harvest Fair. Thanks for your cooperation and flexibility. We appreciate it.S Jane Engdahl, Special Events Coordinator Sonoma County Fair RYour impressive work at our recent promotional events created many joyful memories for our customers families and attracted new clientel to our shopping center.S Barney Watkins, Promotion Director London Glen Mill & Wine Village, Glen Ellen, CA Some comments about Dr. Now: RBeautiful magic. The best show in the fair! Fantastic!!!S Ron Patterson, Co-Founder: Living History Center, Renaissance Pleasure Faire & Dickens Christmas Faire RA true delight. We are very fortunate to have your professionalism and sheer entertainment in our Festival and look forward to having you again next year.S Beth Cramer, Entertainment Director Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival RAmazing stuff!S Richard Hart, TV Host Evening Magazine, Ch 5, San Francisco [Let there be light! So the dawn shall rise over heavens And the Earth. There can be no glory, no splendor, Until the human being exists As the fully developed person. QPopol Vuh ] An excerpt from RHOW TO RAI$E MONEY AND GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THE RAINBOW WARRIORS EVENTS (Co-Producer's Manual) The enchanting performances and alluring environment of the Rainbow Warriors Global Circus and Theater of Marvels event are heartily recommended for the whole family. This genial attractiveness can generate great financial and other benefits for our co-producer organizations. Co-producing a Rainbow Warriors event is something that you and your organization can do and do successfully. It is our desire that you reap bountiful rewards from the ventureQmoney, publicity, new membership and general goodwill. Entertainment has a reputation for being a risky business. For a person or group that doesn't know the ropes this can certainly be the case. If you have locally a professional who will volunteer their expertise, then by all means make use of them. [But don't depend on them to do it all! Coordinate with them closely.] However, this is a guide book on how to produce a successful event with the Rainbow Warriors no matter what your previous experience may be. It is designed to get you into entertainment business for a profit. This book is based on years of professional experience. We expect success and anticipate that you will bring in a minimum of several thousand dollars for your organization. An astute and diligent production committee can bring in much more. Please read this entire booklet before you undertake this project. Get an overview of the plan, as harmonious timing of the various parts is important. The whole process is supported by the Rainbow Warriors Public Relations Campaign booklet and the supplementary materials in the complete Sponsor Kit. As you read this material, jot down your own notes and underline important points. This is a textbook. Start collecting your own ideas, contacts and other related material in a folder to keep with this book. The final element and probably the most important one in regards to successful event production is not something you will find in these pages. It is work! Success will come only with effort, work, initiative and organization. It is nice to sit around and think about doing something but you have to get started. So do not put off getting started. All your projects takes time; budget your time & energies immediately to include the steps to accomplish this event. We have been working for years on lavish and enchanting elements of the show. You will have only a few months to publicize, promote, sell tickets and get lots of folks to come and enjoy the event itself. Don't delay. Find and deploy responsible people who will help you put this plan into action immediately. Meet regularly and keep evaluating the plan and the results. It will pay off in new available cash for your projects. And it will give you an opportunity to acquaint thousands of new people with your organization and programs, and to solicit membership and other donations from them. Contents of Rainbow Warriors Co-ProducersU Booklets: Ticket Sales Printing [& RPrinting for FreeS Ideas] Program Advertising Media Accessing & Publicity Guide Promotions Concessions, Crafts & Information Booths Ethnic & Tribal Relations Coordination Securing the Lot and Permits Technical Requirements Time Line/Flow Chart Check Lists LIST OF OTHER MATERIALS IN THE COMPLETE CO -PRODUCER KIT B/W still photos Slides Audio Cassette Video Cassette Flyer Master Ticket & Coupon Master Coloring Contest Art Master Color Posters [for key locations] [WARRIORS OF THE BEAUTY WAY Against whom do we struggle? Against no one for we are all [one] there is no dividing the human family we have no enemies in flesh our common enemy is a life way gone awry that sows distrust and seeks to separate us one from the other and all from the Earth we come to fulfill the prophocies of our forebearers to realize the dreams of humanity to rend asunder all that would keep us from each other in unified rhythm lies our power we dance to the beat of the Planet Drum QSteve Nelson] ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 51 Rainbow Warriors Global Circus 3 responses bball 8:14 pm Apr 18, 1990 (Editor's Note: This is same item as previously sent, but reworked for formatting, hope it reads better this time. Please disregard previous version.) What's Next after Earth Day? Does Your Organization Need More Funds to Implement Its Programs??? FUND-RAISING BENEFIT EVENT NOW AVAILABLE! The Rainbow Warriors Global Circus event provides an opportunity to interface with your total community, to raise money and global consciousness at the same time. Rainbow Warriors is still seeking enthusiastic coordinators and co-producers in a number of locations. DON"T DELAY. The summer is fast approaching and our available dates are closing quickly. (See approximate itinerary) CO-PRODUCTION DETAILS: Rainbow Warriors Global Circus & Theater of Marvels Provides: >A complete viable plan for the co-producer & professional quality publicity materials. >A totally self-contained repertoire company with a program which includes our matinee Fairytale Circus show: RIn Search of the UnicornS, an evening multi-media ritual theater mystery show: RReturn of Quetzecoatl & Gaiazone MysteriesS, a dance concert & laser lightshow plus various ceremonies, workshops and company crafts and concessions. >Tents and Stages; Sound and lighting systems; Laser special effects; projections; scenery; props; costumes; magic illusions; etc. >Complete company of performers, technicians, workshop teachers and ceremony leaders. >All transportation of company personnel & equipment. >On-lot food and sleeping facilities for company personnel. The Sponsoring Organization Provides: >Local/regional coordination, networking and advance publicity and promotion >Ticket Sales and Program Advertising sales campaign >Tie-in Advertising coordination >Appropriate lot facility for the show to setup on, and permit(s) >Coordination of local concessions & crafts >Local ethnic minority and tribal contacts and coordination The Revenue Split: ALL TICKET SALES: 44% - to the local co-producing organization(s) 12% - to 5 international social justice & cultural survival charities* 44% - to the Rainbow Warriors touring expenses PROGRAM ADVERTISING & CRAFT/CONCESSION FEES: 80% - to the local co-producing organization(s) 20% - to the Rainbow Warriors *all co-producersU suggestions will be considered, charities will be chosen and distributions made before the end of 1990. Legal Status: The Rainbow Warriors Global Circus and Theater of Marvels touring company will be administered under the umbrella of Peace, Inc. in San Francisco, CA., a non-profit organization accredited by both the Federal and State governments. Typical CashFlow Projections for the Co-Producer:* SOURCE PER DAY EVENT (2 DAY) EVENT (3 DAY) All Ticket Sales $2,200 $4,400 $6,600 Program Ads $1,500 $1,500 Booth Fees $1,500 $1,500 Concessions $500 $1,000 $1,500 TOTAL $8,400 $11,100 *These are conservative projections, creativity and diligence could increase them dramatically. TO APPLY FOR A BENEFIT DATE, or for further information contact: Thaddeus Now c/o Mendocino Environmental Center 106 W. Standley St. Ukiah, CA 95482 415/273-2441 EcoNet e-mail address: bball What exactly is the RAINBOW WARRIORS GLOBAL CIRCUS & THEATER OF MARVELS TURTLE ISLAND TOUR??? The RAINBOW WARRIORS Global Circus & Theatre of Marvels is a small international multi-media tent theatre troupe working in the United States and Canada during the summer of 1990. Bi-lingual shows integrate original music, dance, theatre, stage-magic, lasers, projected images and film. Grass-roots style organization and professional quality performance skills and tech. Co-produced with local/regional environmental and peace organizations, the events are fund raisers for the sponsors and for a selection of international human-rights organizations. Our purpose is the promotion of cultural exchange and mutual understanding as well as the affirmation of a more positive relationship to our planet through these fund-raising events. Utilizing a touring crew of over twenty people plus many additional participants who join in at each location, the company is equipped with a circus-type bigtop and several small tents (tipiUs, yurts, etc.), a portable stage, sound system and theatre lighting system, plus beautiful projections, scenery, props, and colorful costumes and masks. This repertoire company offers three substantial performances guaranteed to please the whole family: 1) World Fairytale Circus (matinee): In Search of.....the Unicorn! 2) Multi-Media Ritual Theater of Ancient magic and cultural wisdoms: Return of Quetzacoatl and Gaiazone Mysteries 3) Fusion dance concert and light show: One World, One People PLUS various workshops, ceremonies, activities, craft booths featuring art and handcrafts produced by members, information and networking for environmental and peace issues, etc. Operating as a cooperative of individuals with a common purpose to travel and share our arts, experience, skills and services, the Rainbow Warriors is an alliance between El Puente de Wirikuta of Mexico and the Rainbow Magic Circus of California. RAINBOW WARRIORS is a name taken from the ancient prophecies of Native American wisdom. Our work is not only an artistic, cultural presentation, but, before anything, our collective offering to the Mother Earth. In these times of transition, in which our ecological imbalances are threatening the survival of all species, ours is an offering that carries a vision of hope, a moment of inner silence, and a call for conscious action to help heal the wounds that are affecting the Earth today. Typical performance day schedule of events: 8-10 AM morning meditation, yoga, healings 11 AM opening public ceremony 11:30-2 workshops 2:30-4 fairytale circus 4:30-7 workshops 8-8:30 music concert 8:30-10:30 ritual theater performance 10:30-12 dance music & lightshow ITINERARY March Guatamala (El Puente de Wirikuta) April-May Mexico (El Puente de Wirikuta) May 19 Harbin Hot Springs/Ancient Ways Festival (Gaiazone Mysteries show) June 1-13 Southern California([full Rainbow Warriors company) June 15-27 Northern California July 1-5 Rainbow Festival July 7-14 Minnesota, Wisconsin July 13-15 South Dakota July 20-22 Vancouver July 24-29 Washington August 1-5 Oregon August 7-8 Mt. Shasta August 11-12 Willits (Solar Energy Fair) August 15-19 Davis/Sacramento August 20-22 Yosemite August 23-31 Arizona, NM September 1-4 Santa Fe, NM Sept 5-10 4 Corners Area Sept 12-15 Boulder, CO ABOUT THE COLLABORATING PERFORMING GROUPS: About EL PUENTE DE WIRIKUTA: This group is providing an invaluable cultural service in terms of relationships between the United States and Mexico... Peter Berg, Planet Drum Foundation On behalf of the International Indian Treaty Council, I would like to thank you for the outstanding performance you gave at our benefit at La Pea Cultural Center yesterday. The history, sulture and knowledge that you shared with us greatly contributed to our evening... Anatonio Gomez Gonzalez, Director, IITC We feel this is an important work that will benefit people wherever it is shown... Azarra Lanteri, Global Vision El Puente de Wirikuta enlightened the members of our community with regard to their customs and traditions... Ronald E. Johnny, San Francisco American Indian Center Some comments about RAINBOW MAGIC CIRCUS: I would like to express our total enjoyment of your wonderful standing room only performance. I will hire you back again. Dusty Dawn, Director Cotati City Recreation Department Rainbow Magic Circus was certainly a hit at the Harvest Fair. Thanks for your cooperation and flexibility. We appreciate it. Jane Engdahl, Special Events Coordinator Sonoma County Fair Your impressive work at our recent promotional events created many joyful memories for our customers families and attracted new clientel to our shopping center. Barney Watkins, Promotion Director London Glen Mill & Wine Village, Glen Ellen, CA Some comments about Dr. Now: Beautiful magic. The best show in the fair! Fantastic!!! Ron Patterson, Co-Founder: Living History Center, Renaissance Pleasure Faire & Dickens Christmas Faire A true delight. We are very fortunate to have your professionalism and sheer entertainment in our Festival and look forward to having you again next year. Beth Cramer, Entertainment Director Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival Amazing stuff! Richard Hart, TV Host Evening Magazine, Ch 5, San Francisco Let there be light! So the dawn shall rise over heavens And the Earth. There can be no glory, no splendor, Until the human being exists As the fully developed person. Popol Vuh An excerpt from HOW TO RAI$E MONEY AND GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THE RAINBOW WARRIORS EVENT (Co-Producer's Manual) The enchanting performances and alluring environment of the Rainbow Warriors Global Circus and Theater of Marvels event are heartily recommended for the whole family. This genial attractiveness can generate great financial and other benefits for our co-producer organizations. Co-producing a Rainbow Warriors event is something that you and your organization can do and do successfully. It is our desire that you reap bountiful rewards from the ventureQmoney, publicity, new membership and general goodwill. Entertainment has a reputation for being a risky business. For a person or group that doesn't know the ropes this can certainly be the case. If you have locally a professional who will volunteer their expertise, then by all means make use of them. (But don't depend on them to do it all! Coordinate with them closely.) However, this is a guide book on how to produce a successful event with the Rainbow Warriors no matter what your previous experience may be. It is designed to get you into entertainment business for a profit. This book is based on years of professional experience. We expect success and anticipate that you will bring in a minimum of several thousand dollars for your organization. An astute and diligent production committee can bring in much more. Please read this entire booklet before you undertake this project. Get an overview of the plan, as harmonious timing of the various parts is important. The whole process is supported by the Rainbow Warriors Public Relations Campaign booklet and the supplementary materials in the complete Sponsor Kit. As you read this material, jot down your own notes and underline important points. This is a textbook. Start collecting your own ideas, contacts and other related material in a folder to keep with this book. The final element and probably the most important one in regards to successful event production is not something you will find in these pages. It is work! Success will come only with effort, work, initiative and organization. It is nice to sit around and think about doing something but you have to get started. So do not put off getting started. All your projects takes time; budget your time & energies immediately to include the steps to accomplish this event. We have been working for years on lavish and enchanting elements of the show. You will have only a few months to publicize, promote, sell tickets and get lots of folks to come and enjoy the event itself. Don't delay. Find and deploy responsible people who will help you put this plan into action immediately. Meet regularly and keep evaluating the plan and the results. It will pay off in new available cash for your projects. And it will give you an opportunity to acquaint thousands of new people with your organization and programs, and to solicit membership and other donations from them. Contents of Rainbow Warriors Co-ProducersU Booklets: Ticket Sales Printing (& Printing for Free Ideas) Program Advertising Media Accessing & Publicity Guide Promotions Concessions, Crafts & Information Booths Ethnic & Tribal Relations Coordination Securing the Lot and Permits Technical Requirements Time Line/Flow Chart Check Lists LIST OF OTHER MATERIALS IN THE COMPLETE CO- PRODUCER KIT B/W still photos Slides Audio Cassette Video Cassette Flyer Master Ticket & Coupon Master Coloring Contest Art Master Color Posters (for key locations) WARRIORS OF THE BEAUTY WAY Against whom do we struggle? Against no one for we are all one there is no dividing the human family we have no enemies in flesh our common enemy is a life way gone awry that sows distrust and seeks to separate us one from the other and all from the Earth we come to fulfill the prophocies of our forebearers to realize the dreams of humanity to rend asunder all that would keep us from each other in unified rhythm lies our power we dance to the beat of the Planet Drum Steve Nelson ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 51 jjohnson 6:46 pm Apr 19, 1990 This looks very interesting and well-done. A question: I haven't read all of this yet, but I couldn't tell from skimming whether this is a profitteering venture oriented toward good causes, or a non-profit created to facilitate fundraising for the Rainbow Gatherings specifically, or exactly what the commercial status of this road show is. As Dr. Now may or may not know, all Rainbow events, as far as I know, have open books, are operated by unanimous, open council consensus, and are open and free to all, susbsisting strictly by voluntary donations. If this service is not along these guidelines, I think maybe an appropriate disclaimer is merited, and it's probably a good idea to ask folks if it's okay to post something before doing so, since it looks a little like advertising. This Rainbow computer conference may not adhere to those guidelines either, actually, though we've made moves to try to give free access to all interested folks, and are trying to be sensitive to Family who are suspicious of computers. We have great potential with this net, and it has already been invaluable with our national communications, and I feel strongly that we need to bring a strong Council process to fruition, not only to administer this conference, but also to pioneer the concept of online consensus. Let me know what you think. Love!!! ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 51 jjohnson 7:04 pm Apr 19, 1990 By the way, in order to quash any wild rumors right now, "bball" is of no relation *whatsoever* to Billy Ball, the infamous Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer who has so avidly sought to suppress Rainbow Gatherings in the past. It's just someone with a Peacenet address with the same first initial and last name. Onelove!! ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 51 mendicott 9:36 pm Apr 19, 1990 Bravo, Thumper! Obviously, Real Eyes karma has opened the proverbial box of worms. As for bball, are there really any coincidences? ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 52 Petition on new regs - copy and di jjohnson 2:33 pm Apr 20, 1990 OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED FOREST SERVICE REGULATIONS INTENDED TO RESTRICT THE RIGHTS OF ASSEMBLY,_WORSHIP,_AND_SPEECH_ON_PUBLIC_LANDS Courts have long held that the First Amendment protects the freedoms of thought/belief, worship/expression, and peaceable assembly for those purposes against government suppression. It has been judicially held that a "plethora of regulations" exist to address just about any conceivable legitimate interest that may arise with regard to group use of public lands under Forest Service stewardship. E.g., U.S._v._Rainbow Family, 694 F. Supp. 294 (S.D. Texas, June 1, 1989). For these reasons I respectfully but emphatically oppose the proposed U.S. Forest Service regulatory amendments to 36 CFR Sections 251, et. seq. which would: 1) require an "authorization" for peaceable assembly, 2) require posting of a damage deposit before citizens of a democracy could meet harmlessly in the public wilderness. 3) require insurance policies before using public lands as a meeting site for religious, political, or social gatherings, 4) restrict the dissemination of literature. PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY SIGN & PRINT NAME ADDRESS PHONE # AGE _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ PLEASE RETURN COMPLETED PETITIONS TO: Rainbow Legaliaison/DC P. O. Box 5604 ** Takoma Park, Maryland 20913 (Telephone number 202/797-3625) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 53 NET COUNCIL: A proposal 2 responses jjohnson 9:15 pm May 7, 1990 I think this whole business with things getting posted that some people find objectionable presents an opportunity to experiment with consensus control of this conference. If you ever check into the news.groups conference (it's actually on USENET, but you access it just like a Peacenet conference), you get a chance to see how conferences and a whole network is administered in a democratic (well, would-be democratic - they discuus and vote) manner - really quite fascinating, and quite raucous sometimes. Perhaps what we should do is start a "topic" that is actually kind of a "main council" for this conference - a place where people can go to ask for guidance on something, or to announce that they're going to post something, a place to ask if anybody objects to something or can help out with something. Just like a council, everyone who wanted to have a voice in how things are done would listen & offer views (via "responses"), and anybody who didn't listen or offer views wouldn't have any right to gripe when something they didn't like happened. Likewise, when someone posts something outrageous without "going to council" or over objections, we (or peter, or whoever) can cut them out of the conference with the pre-agreed authority of the Council behind us. We'd have to set up some arbitrary time limit (USENET uses two weeks, I think) that something would have to be posted before it could be considered to be un-objected to. This means anyone who wants to express a view would be expected to check in with the net at least once every two weeks. Incidentally, this process would also give this conference a lot more credibility with the Family at large, if we ever came under scrutiny or criticism for doing Rainbow stuff on this net. We really may not have a lot of controversial stuff to debate, but we've obviously got at least a little, and we should have a process set up to deal with what *might* happen. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 53 pfraterdeus 12:44 pm Jun 5, 1990 Thumper- I think that you're on to something! As a matter of fact, I'd like to propose that you become a co-focalizer on this conference. I have been unable to really focus on the details of facilitating this conference, as far as doing the kind of clean up and reorganizing that your proposal would entail. I'll give it some time before july, though, and we can council in Minn. Maybe on the 6th, at Kickapoo Kitchen? Love & Light Petros... ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 53 bmasel 2:56 am Jun 11, 1990 Yes to Net Council, and to a face to face to face to face... at Kickapoo! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 54 ALLWAYS FREE IS OUT!! SEND $$ PLEA jjohnson 11:35 pm Jun 2, 1990 Got word about two days ago from Tucson, ALLWAYS FREE is back from the printer and is ready to be mailed out. I know they're short on $$, so send what you can. If you want a bundle, send a UPS shipping address, and expect a COD. 12,000 of them, and they say it's beautiful. Lots on Legaliaison. Allways Free 515 E. Grant Rd., Suite 13 Tucson, AZ 85705 Onelove!! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 55 * MINNESOTA GATHERING SITE * jjohnson 9:10 pm Jun 7, 1990 Learner and Iris called me from Minnesota a couple of days ago and told me- The MN Gathering Site was decided on June 3, - it's going to be at Barker Lake, near Lutsen, MN - extreme NE minnesota, 60-80 miles NE of Duluth - about 40 mi. south of Grand Marais - One love! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 56 AWFPeaceNet Council In MN pfraterdeus 12:22 pm Jun 8, 1990 Welcome Home, PeaceNetters!!! This is just a proposal to Council at the Minnesota Gathering around the 6th, at the Kickapoo kitchen (location to be discovered)! I think we need to establish some consensii on guidelines for the type of material that ends up here, since there have been some pieces that have been questioned. Thumper has suggested that we establish a type of holding tank, or topic specifically for new material that could be held for comment or review for a couple of weeks, before committing it to the conference as a whole. This needs to be carefully considered, since we are all committed to an open and free exchange. However, anyone that objects to a particular topic should reply to that topic, and forward your objection to me (pfraterdeus), or thumper (jjohnson) or ben (bmasel). Peace! See you in Minnesota! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 57 Council on a Letter... 2 responses pfraterdeus 11:34 pm Jun 10, 1990 The First Response to this Topic is the text of a letter I'm planning to send to Senator Leahy of Vermont. I'd appreciate any further clarifications that might be offered, and would love to see this be the beginning of a consensus process of developing statements of concern about any number of topics... Please add your comments to the topic, or email them to me! Peace! p ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 57 pfraterdeus 11:41 pm Jun 10, 1990 Peter Fraterdeus . PO Box 5448 . Evanston, Illinois . 60204-5448 10 Jun 1990 Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Chair, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry SR-328A Russell Washington, DC. 20510 Dear Senator Leahy-- I am writing to express my extreme discomfort over certain regulations recently proposed by the US Forest Service. These regulations threaten to strike a full body blow to the First Amendment to our Constitution. They do so by presuming to require a deposit, or bond prior to the exercise of the protected rights of Assembly, Association, Worship and Speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, when they are exercised on the public lands administered for us by our National Forest Service. As a natural citizen of this great nation, and as a productive and creative contributor to this multi-faceted society, it disturbs me beyond words to see any agency of this government, supposedly serving and protecting our interests, to instead be hell-bent on threatening and distorting those interests. Seeing that similar attempts to regulate these rights (in a variety of ways) have been struck down on at least three separate occasions as blatantly un-constitutional, it seems to me that it is simply an unconscionable waste of my tax dollars to allow these bureaucrats to continue their attack on the right of any citizen to gather with their fellows on public lands. The cases in particular have to do with the US Forest Service vs. the Rainbow people, an unincorporated association of individuals (qv. Civil Action Order #L88-68- CA, Eastern District Texas. US District Judge Wayne Justice, issued June 1, 1988, et al.) The international Rainbow Festival is an annual (July 1-7) gathering, culminating in the great prayer circle for World Peace on July 4th. The Rainbow tribe represents a fully developed culture, with traditions, arts, musics, and rituals which are in many ways fundamentally different from the predominant American culture. It is closer, in many ways, to the culture of the American native peoples, with a consensus governing process which takes its cue from the Iroquois Nations. For fifty weeks of the year, most of the individual members of this people blend peacefully into their productive roles in the general society. During the two weeks around the 4th of July, they come together to renew their spiritual ties to each other and to the earth. One of the primary precepts is to leave the site of the Gathering in as good, or better, condition than it was on their arrival. The Forest Service bureaucracy and their colleagues in Justice, however, have decided that since these people are not 'normal' americans that they should be harassed and prevented or prohibited from the exercise of their rights. Each gathering has witnessed the attempts to belittle and demean individuals for their personal appearance, the searching of persons and vehicles without warrants, and the legalistic charades used in attempts to delay or prevent the Rainbow peoples from gathering. There is more than enough documentation to show a pattern of harassment. I urge you to investigate this situation, in the name of preserving our precious freedom. Let not the torch of freedom pass only to Eastern Europe, at the expense of the minority and alternative cultures in this country! I look forward to your response. Respectfully Yours, Peter Fraterdeus PS. I hereby request that neither this letter, nor my name and address, be made available to the Forest Service, nor the Dept of Justice. They have been known to harass anyone known to support the Rainbow peoples. While they may receive this information from other public sources, I do not wish that my exercise of this right to TPetition for Redress of GrievancesU become a form of self-incrimination! Thank You Very Much. cc: Sen. Wyche Fowler (D-Ga.) Sen. Subcom. on Conserv. & Forestry Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) Sen. Alan Dixon (D-IL) Rep. Sidney Yates (D-9th, IL) Mr. Robert Grady, Office of Management and Budget Director, American Civil Liberties Union Director, People for the American Way Editor, The Washington Post Editor, Time Magazine Editor, The New York Times Editor, The Chicago Sun-Times Editor, The Chicago Tribune Editor, The Minneapolis Star Editor, The Duluth News-Tribune Rainbow LegaLiason Council ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 57 pfraterdeus 11:43 pm Jun 10, 1990 BTW, I'm still trying to find addresses for the media contacts, if you have them at hand! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 58 Howdy Folks 1990!!! And Map! 5 responses pfraterdeus 11:46 pm Jun 10, 1990 The following four replys are from the 1990 Howdy Folks! 1 Howdy Folks! 1990 2 Rainbow Rap 3 The Map! 4 Welcome Home 1990... ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 58 pfraterdeus 11:51 pm Jun 10, 1990 HOWDY FOLKS! You're invited to the 19th Annual Rainbow Family Gathering for World Peace and Earth Healing in the Superior National Forest in beautiful northern Minnesota. Come share the spirit of peace, love and truth in the Cathedral of Nature.This is an absolutely free and non- commercial event depending upon your participation and support. No money is exchanged except contributions to the Magic Hat. Come to share your visions and knowledge, and to organize workshops. Also bring creative, magic energy for Kid Village. The Rainbow Family embodies those who believe we are all sisters and brothers who seek to love and serve each other and all of creation. We join together to honor our connection with one another and this earth. We come from many paths to renew our commitment to peace among all, and to reaffirm our Oneness of Spirit. We will circle in silence, at High Noon on July the 4th, to ask, each in our own way, for peace and the healing of our selves and our planet. If you cannot be with us, please Join us in spirit. What to Bring for a Gathering Besides positive vibes and peacefulness, bring sleeping gear, personal utensils, plates and bowls, rain gear, your own shelter, toilet paper and personal necessities. Please don't bring soaps or commercial insect repellents of any type. Kitchens will have more than enough bio-degradable soap for you. Don't wash in the water!!! Take a bucket at least 50 yards from the open water to wash. (Soaps will pollute the water. Even bio-degradable soap like Dr. Bronners can kill fish and micro-organisms.) Thiamine, B-complex vitamins, citronella and raw garlic (both eaten, and on your skin) will keep the biting critters away! Also bring a stiff netting, like an old shear curtain, or dressmakers interfacing for sleeping under. Bring truth, love and happiness. Bring large pots and pans, water containers, food-grade 5 gal. buckets, tarps and tents, and bulk food and organic produce for our communal KITCHENS. Bring your best friends. Bring instruments and make home grown MUSIC. Bring TOOLS such as shovels, picks, buckets, rope, hatchets, axes, hoedads (great for digging latrines!), etc. Bring your children and fun supplies, and prepare for shared, creative and magical CHILDCARE. Bring LARGE SHELTERS and tarps if you have them. Most of all, bring your SELF. We are a tribe of volunteers and the work in making each gathering happen and cleaning up afterward is shared by all of us. If you pack it IN, pack it OUT!!! Avoid bringing anything unnecessary, like plastics!!! We give to our MAGIC HAT to cover costs. We base our gathering on respect for one another's differences and similarities. We've agreed over many councils that weapons and alcohol are unwelcome among us. If you can, leave your dog with a friend, because they get unruly in numbers and they shit everywhere. We must break the "shit>flys>food>you" chain! Responsible and happy campers don't get sick! Please bring your heart-songs, knowledge and vision to share. To have a healthy camp, our gathering also has these needs: DISHWASHING Q bleach, 2-1/2 gal. spring water containers, heavy twine or light rope and 2x4's. LATRINES (Shitters) Q heavy precut plywood (see illustration), bags of lime, toilet paper and 2lb coffee cans to keep it dry, and clean metal buckets and spades for wood ash. MEDICAL NEEDS first aid kits, healing herbs, tinctures and salves, band- aids, ace and gauze bandages, tape, "0 0" capsules, sterile cotton and gloves, rubbing alcohol, peroxide, iodine, washcloths, towels wash basins, extra bedding, homeopathic remedies, flower essences, rescue remedy, vitamins (especially A, B, C), green (disinfectant) soap, aloe, charcoal, prophylactics and other medical supplies, massage tables, cots, healing hands and calm centered energy. ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 58 pfraterdeus 11:54 pm Jun 10, 1990 Welcome Home! Here's the Rap Q reflected from the collective brilliance of the Rainbow Tribe. If you're not sure of anything, don't be afraid to ask for advice or help! We Love You! Knowledge: Feel free to share any of your skills, knowledge, wisdom, creativity and stories with us! Post times and places for craft, healing or art workshops, demonstrations and fun stuff like that! Watch for notices of ongoing councils like AllWaysFree (July 3rd), Peace Projects (ongoing), Focalizer's Council (July 5th), AWF PeaceNet Council (July 6th), etc!. There's an Info Board at Welcome Center and near Main Circle. Fire The forest can be very dry and the fire danger is quite real. COMMUNITY FIRES ONLY! ! ! (minimum 20 folks per fire and a shovel and a 5 gal. bucket of water. No shovel, no water, NO FIRE!!!) Fires must be conscientiously attended to at all times. Use only dead and down wood. Due to sanitary reasons and the need to limit fires, we ask that anyone with kitchen equipment join an already established kitchen. Water Use it wisely. Purify drinking water by a 15 min rolling boil or with 10 drops of Tincture of Iodine and then cover and let stand for 20 mins. Don't pee-pee or ka-ka in or near the wa-wa. Use (very little) soap or shampoo, at least 100 ft. away from streams, and well below springs. Don't camp above or near springs or lakes. Please help your kitchen with water runs! Health If you are sick or injured, please go to our CALM* First Aid Station. Wash your hands after using a latrine and before eating. Use only your own cup, bowl and utensils, and clean them at a wash station. Don't rinse them in a stream, you could spread disease. If you find you've been bitten by a tick, come to CALM for removal! *Center for Alternative Living Medicine Kitchens Wash your hands before entering any kitchen. Use 1 or 2 capfuls of bleach per bucketful of water for cleaning water. Wipe work surfaces with bleach water before and after use. Enclose kitchens with railings with hand washing stations at entrances. Don't work in a kitchen if you're sick or infectious. Keep animals (excepting humans) out of kitchens. Set up four stage dish washing stations both inside and outside of kitchens. Change water often if you use buckets. Latrines & Compost Pits Dig deep. Away from water sources and well below springs. Break the "Waste> Flys> Food> You" connection!!! Cover waste and toilet paper with wood-ash or lime, then recover the latrine. Cover latrines with plywood. Mark well and keep them safely lit at night. Fill latrines with dirt and ash when waste is within 18 inches of ground level. Set up, maintain and use wash stations at the latrines. Keep compost pits covered with black plastic or tarp and rope them off so people don't fall into them. Cover compost pits with dirt when contents are within 1 foot of ground level. Animals & Plants Don't bother, injure or kill wildlife or plants. Be aware. There are bears nearby, your honey and peanut butter is their favorite treat! If you were unable to leave your pet at home, then clean up after them, don't leave them unattended, restrain them when necessary. Please feel free to tie up stray dogs in shade with water as they are a threat to our health and safety. Peacekeeping (Shanti Sena) We are all peacekeepers who share the responsibility of keeping this gathering safe and harmonious. Be involved! This is family!!! Be respectful to everybody. Be helpful! Camp with friends in neighborhoods and get to know those around you. Watch each other's stuff... There are those who prey, sorry to say... Peacekeeping includes keeping your own peace. Remember the Golden Rule... (Treat others as you'd like them to treat you!) Magic Hat This gathering is free and non-commercial. In addition to what we bring to share, let's provide for our-selves by contributing to the Magic Hat. It's our cooperative commonwealth, which provides food, medical supplies and other necessities. Council will be held daily. We are a Participatory DemocracyQa tribe of volunteers. (If you want something done, do it!) All the work in creating and cleaning up this gathering is shared by every one of us. Clean Up starts when you arrive at a gathering, not after you leave. If you aren't going to help pack out something you bring, don't carry it in. Better to have too little to use than too much refuse. Utilize and maintain our recycling centers and please carry out some trash before you pack out. ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 58 pfraterdeus 11:55 pm Jun 10, 1990 The Map! Take US 61 N of Duluth MN, to Lutsen, go Left on Rt. 4, up Caribou Trail 7 Miles. One Mile past Mistletoe Creek go Left at the "Poplar River" sign. (FR 164) Go 3/4 Mile then Left at "Tait River" sign (FR 337) to the Dead End. Home is at Barker Lake. Watch for Dangerous Curves in the Road! Don't get lost! We love you! ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 58 pfraterdeus 11:58 pm Jun 10, 1990 Welcome Home, 1990! Rainbow Seed camp moved from Leech Lake to Pine Mountain this week. Near the Gunflint trail, where without fail, a week's true independence will transpire around the kitchen's fire. There's popcorn at midnight as the true drummer drums under the Northern Light until the Sunrise comes A circle of thousands on the 4th of July Magical Meeting of minds and souls on the fly. Superior Lake on the North Shore Rainbow tribe is finding itself again, July 1-7, 1990 Ignore all rumors of cancellation! Everybody with a bellybutton's invited- Kids bring your parents Students bring your teachers Poets bring your pens Bring water buckets Bring new potatoes Bring your cup and your bowl Bring your heart and your ever-lovin' sparkle, Your magic and your Love and share the journey back Home! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 58 trial29@web.UUCP 7:51 am Jun 11, 1990 I don't have a belly button and I'm still coming ... (Ho from a woodpecker!) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 59 Peace Fest in ChiTown june 22-24 1 response pfraterdeus 12:03 am Jun 11, 1990 Ho! Ho! Anyone coming up around the southern end of Lake Michigan to go to the MN Gathering should be sure to stop at PeaceFest in Chicago's Lincoln Park, June 22-24, Motrose Ave. at the Lake... Good Music and Info. Chicago Rainbow Circle will be having a circle at 2:00 pm sunday the 24th, at PeaceFest, to council on getting our family up to MN! Please come and visit! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 59 pfraterdeus 12:18 am Jun 11, 1990 That's Montrose Avenue, for PeaceFest! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 60 Fungal Thoughts.... pfraterdeus 12:17 am Jun 11, 1990 How about that Terrance McKenna? Talkin' about the beginnings of human consciousness being in the sort of dung-loving mushrooms that the earliest almost human monkeys used to eat, back in the days when we didn't even know that we had opposable thumbs! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 61 Free camp on road to Minn 1 response bmasel 3:24 am Jun 11, 1990 Wally Schultz, our host at the Weedstock Festival, has offered his land near Black River Falls WI as free camping space for folks on the way to and from Minn gathering. We (NORML) have a lot invested in our relationship with Wally, the local Sherrif (one of the nicest law enforcer types i've ever met) and the town of Black River Falls, so DONT ABUSE IT!!!! Directions: Interstate 94 120 mi N of Madison. 2nd Black River exit US 12 west 4 miles. Sign on your right says "Country Music Jamboree" thats the place. Usually noone around. The folks in town treated us right during the Weedstock fest and have invited us back next year. Show your thanks by filling the tank when driving thru... (It's on the way from points South and East, 300 miles short of the gathering site) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 61 pfraterdeus 4:38 pm Jun 11, 1990 All Right! Thanks for the invite, Wally! Peace & Light! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 62 Home from Minnesota! :-) 2 responses pfraterdeus 4:42 pm Jul 14, 1990 Just a quick note to let you know that we got home! Minnesota was amazing, of course, with the Dragonfly Airforce swooping around, and protecting us from the mosquito menace... More to come! Love Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 62 trial29@web.UUCP 3:04 am Jul 20, 1990 Welcome home, pfraterdeus! Sorry I couldn't stay at the gathering long enough to attend the electronic circle. ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 62 fmayer 7:54 pm Jul 21, 1990 Dear web, When you send messages to the conference, please make sure that you send them with "hard" returns at the end of each line. Many word processing programs do not place such returns at the end of each line. You may be able to write to an ASCII file, and then upload that to the conference, or create an ASCII file using a standard ASCII editor. rappinfred ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 63 Kaba says... 1 response pfraterdeus 10:05 am Jul 24, 1990 Kaba says-- "Jesus Christ Died for your sins" is the same as "Chevrolet is the HeartBeat of America"!!! Happy Regionals, Rainbows! Lots of Love from all of us (petros, kaba, andrea, liz) briefly together in Evanston, Il... ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 63 pfraterdeus 7:58 pm Jul 28, 1990 More Korns from the Kab.... today is a good day to give up attachment to having things other than as they are **** Just Say Yes!!! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 64 unsolicited testimonicle!!! 2 responses pfraterdeus 6:17 pm Jul 28, 1990 This unsolicited testimonicle is not a paid advertisement!!! Read Tom Robbins' new book! (and Skinny Legs Too!) Love It!!! p. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 64 maxwork 6:47 pm Jul 28, 1990 petros post grad read tom pynchen vinland vinland a hipstory dimond dave ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 64 pfraterdeus 7:54 pm Jul 28, 1990 Abs HO lutely!!!! VinLand!!!! Abs HO lutely!!! ******** ( ahem... a poem....) Ah Georgie, we Barely knew ye! You cheap fascist warmongering CIA infested human scared shitless but still responsible for every deed, since after all, we all KNOW the TRUTH, deep inside, now dont't we????? Now, is this the most civilized form of communication yet invented, or what? I hope that you're watching out there somewhere.... As my keystrokes, flinging their ASCII codes to the stars, travel the wires between the inner and the outer worlds. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 65 The Kickapoo Council Story... 2 responses pfraterdeus 8:16 pm Jul 28, 1990 By the way, we did have an AllWaysFree council at the Kickapoo Kitchen in Minnnnesota! And What Happened There? You May Well Ask!!! (This is just my point of view, of course, but doesn't that go without saying???) Well, I guess we decided to let the PAPER (not the NEWS, but the >>PAPER<<) go back to Q and Eve and Tony (of Course..No DOUBT!) in Tucson, where in fact it seems very happy to spend another season (as I would, as well, someday...Hmmm) Now, part of the story, which is just getting started, of course, is this.... Once upon a time, there was a quiet little happy who lived with a bus full of hir closest friends and lovers on the edge of a beautiful continent... Well, you know what began to happen???!!! Well, you KNOW what began to Hippen!!! All the little happys got MEDIA!!! AND IT WAS GOOOOOF! (The Story continues in the following .....) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 65 pfraterdeus 10:19 pm Aug 3, 1990 ...and it was goof, but it was GOOD goof! Good Goof! Media are the high seas of the Aquarian Age. If we don't learn to use them, we will be lost in the furious storms of falseity, and the dangerous fogs of delirium, which are broadcast by the unwitting forces of the Monkey Mind. The only hope is to speak the truth, and have a good sense of humor, no matter What! We are the new alchemists. It is our goofy task to transmute the dross of mundane life into the gold of a magical universal dream! By dreaming a new dream, we can change the nature of the world around us! ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 65 pfraterdeus 10:31 pm Aug 3, 1990 The really funny part is that the ""government"" (read CIA, or whoever) really can't figure out what's going on! They haven't read the ancient texts that explain that some doors are closed forever to those whose spirits are not pure (read without guilt and fear ). The magical transformation that is even now beginning will alter the underlaying nature of the material universe. We begin to re-inspire the world with fresh air. The fuming cloak of the industrial/military order, like a blanket from hell, is being dissolved by the clear ethereal waveforms of global co-operation. Of course the death throes of the lunatics will occupy the news for further years, decades, perhaps centuries, but these times will come eventually, to their conclusion. I hope it's sooner than later! I think it will be... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 66 Oh, This Is Important.... 3 responses pfraterdeus 8:32 pm Jul 28, 1990 Welcome HHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE LOVE YOU Organize Media Collectives !!!!! Spread Out Across the Earth !! Let My Messages Gooooo!!! or is it Gooooof! (Mooof?!?) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 66 fmayer 10:46 pm Jul 30, 1990 Greetings to all you earthlings ... from LungEyeLind! Rappinfred ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 66 dwirtshafter 8:28 pm Aug 2, 1990 Love you Peter and all. Will learn how to use this beast soon. Ithica was wonderful. Perhaps the best yet. On to North Carolina and West Virginia. I love you. Donny (dwirtshafter) ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 66 pfraterdeus 8:35 pm Aug 2, 1990 Welcome Home, donny!!!!! Glad you made it to NewYork! Wish I could have made it myself! We're trying to get a Shawnee gathering off the ground for the first week of October (or is it the second?) Whew! Lot's going on! I'll send more news later! LOVE TO YOU and All them down there! A Big Hug for Jeanie!! P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 67 Suspicious Occurances are to be!! seizetheday 1:03 am Jul 31, 1990 Hi all from Eugene Oregon. A quick blurb for Sieze the Day! BBS (503485-1572 The source in the Eugene Area... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 68 Shawnee 1 response bmasel 1:04 am Aug 3, 1990 Gee, i have been assuming Shawnee was the second week of Oct. Scheduled Southern IL Harvest fest for Oct 12 in carbondale to mesh. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 68 pfraterdeus 10:09 pm Aug 3, 1990 Execellent!!! Perfect!!! It's happening! We'll be counciling in Lincoln Park this Sunday, and I've got a good brother (Doug Peters) whose small circle in Carbondale is going scouting for a new site (last two years have been a bit hard on the previous location). I'll be on my way up to Gays Mills on Monday, probably. Maybe I'll stop by. How's the campaign? ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 69 Austria Rainbow bmasel 2:37 am Aug 8, 1990 ** Topic: Austria Rainbow Peace Camp Blocka} ** ** Written 1:01 pm Aug 7, 1990 by gn:mendicott in cdp:alerts ** 14:00, Tuesday, 7 August 1990 Attention Press For Immediate Release The Rainbow Family of Living Light is now home on mother earth in Allentsteig, Austria, until August 14, for our annual reunion. The Rainbow i the universal symbol of peace and harmony; it includes all colors, symbolizing all religions, philosophies, and tribes. We appeal to all the people of the world to pray with us for peace and healing of this place. Police are now blockading water and supply vehicles to our encampment. We are more than 2,000 children, sisters, and brothers together here on the land. Further, we request the government and military of Austria to respect our sacred circle of peace and healing and to cease this blockade and aircraft overflights. Rainbow Family of Living Light media council ** End of text from cdp:alerts ** ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Response 1 of 1 ** Written 1:04 pm Aug 7, 1990 by gn:mendicott in cdp:alerts ** Contact Austria{_ (02877) 276 or (0282667~r2) or 2663 ** End of text from cdp:alerts ** ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 70 A message to all... fmayer 10:47 pm Aug 9, 1990 Dear Sisters and Brothers, Tonight we stand at a bifurcation point in history. 5O,OOO U.S. troops are being mobilized for duty in the middle east. Our imperialist tendencies are showing as strongly as ever. News correspondants are calmly talking about contingencies which are very real: A number of distinct responses to the use of chemical weapons present themselves and are calmly analyzed. We are faced with the fact that among our possible responses will be the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The numbness of our society (and world) prevents the recognition of the implications of this fact. The Arab League is desperately trying to find a negotiated solution to the conflict at hand. We worry about oil. I hope you watched the Thursday night edition of Nightline. If you did, then you understand the level of desperation which has been reached. I can only say ohmm, and pray that events don't fly out of control. One thing I plege: I will struggle with all my might to see to it that this situation is never repeated... assuming we get a second chance. We must all stop fooling around with business as usual. With love and courage in our hearts we must face the depressing task of saving the existence of consciousness. We stand on the edge of a precipice, and most of us are blindfolded... especially those of us who wield power. God this is depressing. At one with the Spirit we proceed... Love to all, Rappinfred ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 71 Woodstock Anniversary! 14-20 Aug. pfraterdeus 9:51 pm Aug 10, 1990 Topic 196 WOODSTOCK 21ST FESTIVAL AUGUST 14-2 peacenet pn.announcemen 9:20 pm Aug 1, 1990 Subject: WOODSTOCK 21ST FESTIVAL AUGUST 14-20 From arosenblum Wed Aug 1 08:13 PDT 1990 WOODSTOCK 21ST ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL AUGUST 14 -20, BETHEL N.Y. This month on the site of Yasgar's Farm and the first Woodstock Festival of Peace and Music there will be an anniversary festival continuing in the same spirit of 1969, only from the perspective of the nineties. The week of August 14th to the 20th will witness a reassembly to heed the call for peace and justice in response to the present crisis in the world's environment. It is clearer than ever before that the same greed and shortsightedness that brought us the VIet Nam War is now threatening planetary survival by clinging to a bankrupt way of seeing things. The end of the Cold War affords us the opportunity to join together and confront the social and environmental crises of today as the two sides of the same coin they are. Five days of live music from over twenty five bands and a variety of speakers will set the scene for this free celebration. The Rainbow Family who have been holding national gatherings every year since 1973 in the spirit of conspicuous caring and sharing are operating the free kitchen and kid's village-day care. Craftspeople from the Woodstock arts community and elsewhere will be bartering and selling their wares. Parking is available for the duration or by the day and there is space for camping on site and in the area. After last year's estimated 30,000 who showed up fpr the 20th Anniversary the local chamber of commerce is considering ways to aquire the site and upgrade it from a national landmark to an international peace monument. Thereafter it would be publicly owned and include permanent facilities for gatherings and a concert dome. It depends on this year's festival demonstrating the continued need for such facilities. Join the celebration as we refocus upon the future we want to create! Groups and organizations are still being encouraged to come set up tables, and potential speakers should call ahead : Woodstock Save the Earth Foundation 914 679 2527. DIRECTIONS: From Rt 87 ( the NY Thruway) take Rt. 17 to Monticello until 17B which goes through Bethel and leads to the Festival. Look for signs. Enjoy! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 72 Great Lakes Regional, 9/20 - 23 2 responses sjohgart 7:14 pm Aug 22, 1990 Tentatively there will be a Great Lakes Regional Regathering from September 20 - 23 in northern Lower Michigan, in Huron National Forest. We will be counciling on this event in Ann Arbor, at Bird Hills Park (enter from Newport Road) this Saturday (August 25) in the afternoon. More info as it becomes available. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 72 sjohgart 10:59 am Aug 26, 1990 OK, here's the deal about the Great Lakes Regathering for this fall: September 20 20 - 23, Huron National Forest. (For most folks) Take I-75 north to M-33 (just pt past Standish); Take M-33 north to County 489, turn left; Follow 489 as it jogs tover over to M-72, turn left, go 1000 yards, turn left on County 490 (Deeter); go 4/10 mile, turn left on Palmer, right on Galloway, take 2nd left (1st is private), bear left, park at trailhead. Home is on the Michigan Shore-to-Shore trail, Luzerne Camp. NOTE: Due to time and green energy constraints, Great Lakes Rainbow Ann Arbor will be doing only a minimal mailing for this event--we will be relying on YOU folkalizers (sic) to get the word out! See you there, LOVE, namaste! ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 72 pfraterdeus 9:57 pm Aug 26, 1990 All right! Look for details on Shawnee Gathering later this week! Chicago Rainbow Circle is having a video potluck on Tuesday the 28th to watch the Real Eyes Video of the Texas'88 Gathering! A good time will be had by all! No Doubt! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 73 W Va Gathering Harassed!!! pfraterdeus 10:02 pm Aug 26, 1990 **** Urgent Civil Rights Alert **** **** For Immediate Release **** **** Mid-Atlantic Rainbow Gathering in West Virginia Harassed by Forest Service Law Enforcement Troops (Rainbow Family Council: On the Land between Cowen and Marlington, West Virginia, along State Route 4) Rainbow LegaLiason volunteer Don Wirtshafter reports from the site of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Rainbow Gathering in West Virginia that the US Forest Service Law Enforcement Branch, under the command of officer Billy Wheeler, has been harassing individuals by subjecting them and their property to search by electronic surveillance and dogs. Numerous First Amendment violations have been reported, such as an individual being ordered to remove a printed copy of the Bill of Rights which had been hung by a string from the branch of a tree. Once again, the Federal Government, through the USFS Law Enforcement Branch, acting without provocation, defiles the church of nature, bringing guns and dogs against the harmless, and violence into the cathedral of Love. The record of twenty years of gatherings show our true intentions to be peaceful and healthy. LegaLiason volunteers on the site have evidence of 'agents provocateur' in the gathering itself. We assume that this cowardly behavior is being justified in the name of the 'war on drugs'. However, the Rainbow Family has never encouraged drug use, rather the consensus has always been that each individual must make their own choice. The open invitation to any gathering specifically discourages both drugs and alcohol. While the Government seeks to harass and belittle our spirits, we shall none-the-less grow even stronger in the face of such blatant belligerence. The Rainbow Gatherings are free and open to all beings who come with open hearts and minds. It is a spiritual gathering allowing many, whose souls have been wounded by the harsh economies, legalities and moralities of this divided world, to come together in the womb of Nature to be healed through a community of loving friends and family. No religion or philosophy predominates, but that of loving service to one another. We hope that all persons of good will and conscience will voice their outrage at this pattern of harassment by the Federal Government. This behavior has no business going on in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave". Though the drama in the Middle East holds the attention of the Nation, We must be prepared to do battle for the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights here at Home! The Government seems to have declared "open season" on the Right of Free Assembly, Association, and Worship. These attacks must be ended. We the People will begin to seek both judicial and legislative relief, and will pursue legal action against any persons threatening to deprive us of our Self-Evident Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness! In particular, letters and telegrams to the Following persons may be helpful:(Remember to list the other recipients of your letter after your signature, "cc:") Sen. Wyche Fowler (D-Ga.) 202/224-2035 204 Russell Washington DC 20510 Chair of Sen. Subcom. on Conservation & Forestry Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) 202/224-4242 SR-328A Russell Washington DC 20510 Chair of Sen. Com. on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Robert Grady 202/395-3080 Office of Management and Budget Rm. 260, Old Exec. Ofc. Bldg. Washington DC 20503 Assoc. Dir., Natural Resources, Energy & Science Div. Office of Management and Budget - controls the Forest Service Budget! Hon. Harold Volkmer (D-Mo.) 202/225-2171 2411 Rayburn Washington DC 20515 Chair of the House Subcom. on Forest, Farms, and Energy Hon. E. de la Garza 202/225-2371 1301 Longworth HOB Washington, DC 20515 Chair, House Comm. on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Send Letters to Local Press and Media! Please follow up in the 'awf.rainbownews' conference on PeaceNet. We need Media attention on this issue. Please distribute this release broadly. Rainbow Legaliason is looking for a sympathetic lawyer in West Virginia. Please email Thumper (jjohnson) or Petros (pfraterdeus) at PeaceNet or follow up in the 'awf.rainbownews' conference Voice Contacts: Thumper 301 565 5276 (Mid Atlantic LegaLiason) Petros 708 328 2733 (PeaceNet Focalizer) ******************************* Following is a Letter from an individual containing further points regarding the Forest Service and the Rainbow Gatherings. This letter does not necessarily represent the views of any Rainbow Council ******************************* 10 Jun 1990 Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Chair, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry SR-328A Russell Washington, DC. 20510 Dear Senator LeahyQ I am writing to express my extreme discomfort over certain regulations recently proposed by the US Forest Service. These regulations threaten to strike a full body blow to the First Amendment to our Constitution. They do so by presuming to require a deposit, or bond prior to the exercise of the protected rights of Assembly, Association, Worship and Speech guaranteed by the First Amendment, when they are exercised on the public lands administered for us by our National Forest Service. As a natural citizen of this great nation, and as a productive and creative contributor to this multi-faceted society, it disturbs me beyond words to see any agency of this government, supposedly serving and protecting our interests, to instead be hell-bent on threatening and distorting those interests. Seeing that similar attempts to regulate these rights (in a variety of ways) have been struck down on at least three separate occasions as blatantly un-constitutional, it seems to me that it is simply an unconscionable waste of my tax dollars to allow these bureaucrats to continue their attack on the right of any citizen to gather with their fellows on public lands. The cases in particular have to do with the US Forest Service vs. the Rainbow people, an unincorporated group of individual persons (qv. Civil Action Order #L88-68- CA, Eastern District Texas. US District Judge Wayne Justice, issued June 1, 1988, et al.) The Rainbow gathering is an annual (July 1-7) convocation, culminating in the great prayer circle for World Peace on July 4th. The Rainbow tribe represents a fully developed culture, with traditions, arts, musics, and rituals which are in many ways fundamentally different from the predominant American culture. It is closer, in many ways, to the culture of the American native peoples, with a consensus governing process which takes its cue from the Iroquois Nations. For fifty weeks of the year, most of the individual members of this people blend peacefully into their productive roles in the general society. During the two weeks around the 4th of July, they come together to renew their spiritual ties to each other and to the earth. One of the primary precepts is to leave the site of the Gathering in as good, or better, condition than it was on their arrival. The Forest Service bureaucracy and their colleagues in Justice, however, have decided that since these people are not "normal" americans that they should be harassed and prevented or prohibited from the exercise of their rights. Each gathering has witnessed the attempts to belittle and demean individuals for their personal appearance, the searching of persons and vehicles without warrants, and the legalistic charades used in attempts to delay or prevent the Rainbow peoples from gathering. There is more than enough documentation to show a pattern of harassment. I urge you to investigate this situation, in the name of preserving our precious freedom. Let not the torch of freedom pass only to Eastern Europe, at the expense of the minority and alternative cultures in this country! I look forward to your response. Respectfully Yours, Peter Fraterdeus PS. I hereby request that neither this letter, nor my name and address, be made available to the Forest Service, nor the Dept of Justice. They have been known to harass anyone known to support the Rainbow peoples. While they may receive this information from other public sources, I do not wish that my exercise of this right to TPetition for Redress of GrievancesU become a form of self-incrimination! Thank You Very Much. cc: Sen. Wyche Fowler (D-Ga.) Sen. Subcom. on Conserv. & Forestry Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) Sen. Alan Dixon (D-IL) Rep. Sidney Yates (D-9th, IL) Mr. Robert Grady, Office of Management and Budget Director, American Civil Liberties Union Director, People for the American Way Editor, The Washington Post Editor, Time Magazine Editor, The New York Times Editor, The Chicago Sun-Times Editor, The Chicago Tribune Editor, The Minneapolis Star Editor, The Duluth News-Tribune Rainbow LegaLiason Council ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 74 Hi from Iris maxwork 10:23 pm Sep 2, 1990 Hi Family. It's Iris Springflower! I am helping with Artists for Peace network for craftspeople. Also the Judgement Free Emotional Support Uplifting Space healing network. Please contact me with positive INPUT at: Iris Springflower PO BOX 54 Gays Mills WI 54631 I LOVE YOU! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 75 shawnee news? maxwork 7:30 pm Sep 12, 1990 who knows anythibything about seed camp for shawnee gathering ? john ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 76 From Lithuania with Love 2 responses rbistrickas 6:07 am Oct 12, 1990 Loving friends, sisters & brothers, I am writing this online from the Ecological Ceer in Vilnius, Lithuania, via the San Francisco\Moscow Teleport. I have traveled five months by bicycle to arrive here via the Austrian Rainbow. Praise Jah! I crossed into the Soviet Union at Brest, the first solo American bicyclistwithout tourist papers, in other words just a visa and no reservations. I have learned of the July Cosmos camp, which has been held for four years in the Soviet Union. Our spiritual family is alive and doing better all the time here. News reports do not created an accurate impression of the actual situation here. Please send your love and any info (via registered mail) to the new focalizer for Lithuania: Antanina Banelyte Oginskio 17-2 Vilnius 232040 Lithuania One world, one heart, Marcus. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 76 mendicott 1:54 am Oct 14, 1990 I can now access my econet account "mendicott" via SOVAM/SFM, so can recieve here email sent directly to me. [For a view of other things I've been doing check conf. "reg.eeurope".] I leave tommorrow for Riga Latvia by bike. Love & light! ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 76 pfraterdeus 8:04 pm Oct 30, 1990 Ho! Marcus! Biking the rainbow trial across the cultural galaxy! Our love can cross all boundaries! The real movie's jist gettin' started! Peace. Petros in Evanston ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 77 looking for a few good yips 1 response rpec 1:34 pm Oct 19, 1990 Just learning how to use this network - am looking for gathering schedule and not sure how to find it. Miss all my friends, especially bmasel and family. Candace q e h j q d awf.rainbownew ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 77 pfraterdeus 8:05 pm Oct 30, 1990 Welcome Home! petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 78 Volga Rainbow mendicott 5:15 pm Oct 26, 1990 Dima Minaev 22 Partsyezda 47-88 443016 Samara USSR tel: (8-8462) 25-69-59 Volga Rainbow focalizer (Kujbysev region) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 79 misc. messages. I love you dwirtshafter 8:37 pm Oct 28, 1990 Love and Peace to all: I have several messages that I want to pass on. A summer of rainbows. Across the world we are gathering. Year round. The vision comes more in to focus everyday. I was able to do Ohio, Minnesota, Ithica, W. Virginia and Shawnee. A growing momentum. Other than the temporary chaos of W. Virginia, a blissful summer. Since we are gathering year round, a rainbow tour, we really have to have our health and sanitation solid. My personal thanks to C.A.L.M. and all the people whose energy kept everything happening. Messages: Looking hard for Woodnome or Mitchell Leprechaun. The bus they left in W. Virginia needs a caretaker. We also want to make sure they are okay. Thanksgiving council is Friday, November 23, 1990 at Montague, Mass. Hope to be there myself but scheduling is difficult. Still trying. I will coordinate rides from the Midwest if anyone wants to call. 614-5921-5297. Heartsong is in the hospital. Send this brother a card. Heartsong, c/o N.E.R.F., P.O. Box 277, Montague, Mass. 01351. Is there any word of the state of the cleanup at Shawnee? A personal worry. What happened to the yellow Colorado school bus after W. Virginia. Dan wants it back. If anyone knows where this bus is, please call. Still time to get your name, address etc. in the Rainbow Guide. Write Rick in Wisconsin or me. We especially need to know the potential focalizers. I love you all. Donny 14 N. Court #301 Athens, Ohio 45701 (614) 592-5297 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 80 A message from the rainforest 1 response terrausdc 4:23 pm Oct 31, 1990 Hi Everyone!!!!! Sayin Hello for the first time. My name is Steve Holmer and I'm working for the Greenpeace Tropical Forest Campaign in DC. Was recently recharged with a great gathering and a sweat at Bill's farm in West Virginia. Truly Beautiful!!!!!! alerts in Econet can inform you, and in the future I'll try to post all of our updates and action alerts.. You can also contact me at 202 319-2527 or write to 1436 U st nw Wash. DC 20009. The day will come, when [D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D Warriors of the Rainbow shall rise and defend the Earth... LOVE Steve Holmer Soaring Eagle ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 80 pfraterdeus 5:30 pm Nov 5, 1990 Welcome Home!!! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 81 ***RUMOR CONTROL***Chicago pfraterdeus 5:42 pm Nov 5, 1990 This is rumor control on a report that came out of (?) WestVirginia or (?) Ithaca... The rumor was that some folks leaving Minnesota had used Magic Hat money for hotels and drugs to party. This is completely unfounded, and un- substantiated. Please ask anyone spreading this to contact Garrick @212-777-7801 Garrick is trying to track down the source of this report, which as far as we can tell came from "a short blond sister herbalist with CALM". I'm afraid that we in Chicago have spread the report in our Newsletter before attempting to verify it, and really caused some concern as it came out that the folks involved are sure that the actual story was completely clear of any impropriety. Sorry about that, to all who are concerned! Please let your regional circles know that the info printed in the last Chicago Circular abou thiis issue is incorrect. Thanks Bunches.... Peter & Chicago Rainbow Circle Newsletter Council The next topic is the text of my rumor control / apology which will be sent to previous recipient of the CRC newsletter. One LOve! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 82 Rumor Apology.... pfraterdeus 5:47 pm Nov 5, 1990 10 Oct 1990 URGENT: RUMOR CONTROL & APOLOGY Dear Family, Focalizers and Friends My name is Peter (Petros). I am writing today in sincere apology for a serious mistake in judgement, as typist/artist for the Chicago Rainbow Circle Circular. In the last mailing that we produced in Chicago, the Howdy Folks for the Shawnee gathering, a short section, titled "There's Somebody in the Cookie Jar" was included. The information alleged in this piece has proven unfounded, and without any merit. The story was included at the last minute, based on a couple of reports heard by family in the area, who had reason to feel that it had some substance. The reasoning for its inclusion was based on the best of intentions, in the feeling of the Newsletter Council that the story may have had validity, and that if funds were being misused it was of great importance to get the word out. However, in talking with family from around the country over the last few weeks, it became obvious that printing this was a major mistake. Since I should have known better than to type it, I will accept respon- sibility for this and firmly state that there is no truth nor intimation of truth to this rumor. I further acknowledge that it was the height of irresponsible journalism not to have investigated the sources and other factors involved in this story before it was included in the newsletter. Please understand that ignorant and nave as it may seem, this incident came out of a desire to serve Rainbow and to bring out the truth, which has in fact come out: Funds from the Hat were requested from Banking Council and given to CALM council for moving CALM after the gathering-- no problem. The hotel rooms supposedly being paid for out of the Magic Hat turned out to be covered by individuals in CALM, with a personal check, or credit card. There is no indication of any purchase of ANYTHING other than fuel with these Magic Hat funds. There is still no firm attribution for the rumor, which refers to the purchase of illicit substances, which was apparently a distortion of these events. The rumor did NOT originate in Chicago, having been brought to us from the Ithaca gathering. We are still trying to trace the story back to its source. I feel really awful about this, and pray only that no further mis- understanding will come from this mistake. In particular, any offense implied towards the 1990 Banking Council, CALM, or Magic Hat Crew is sincerely regretted. I hope that any folks who may have been personally offended by this will forgive us, as I have been only interested in helping this Rainbow grow in love and understanding since I first got involved in 1987. Anybody that knows me will vouch for my love and dedication. If anybody would like to talk about it further, please call me collect. If I'm not here, leave a message, and I will get back to you. The number is 708 328 2733. I will further offer to contribute toward reasonable efforts involved in distributing corrected info. Finally, my sincere appreciation to those who patiently, and without undue sharpness, explained the appropriate procedures that exist in the family for rumor control. I thank the Eternal for the opportunity to learn from a loving family. Ho! Thanks for Understanding. Yours in Love. Petros (Peter Fraterdeus) cc: Rainbow Focalizers, CALM Council, Chicago Circle Mailing List ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 83 Ride needed to T'giving Council dwirtshafter 7:24 pm Nov 7, 1990 Looking for a ride from Cleveland, Ohio or anywhere in that vicinity to Thanksgiving Council. Can leave anytime after Thanksgiving dinner. Can contribute a lot of expense money. If necessary, I can driveif I find a rider or two. Would rather ride myself. Will coordinate other rides across the country. Let me know. Love, Donny 614-592-5297 or 592-5298 Love to all. Donny wirtshafter 614-592-5297 614-592-5298 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 84 Estonia Rainbow mendicott 10:43 am Nov 8, 1990 Raho Langsepp P.O. Box 14 202400 Tartu ESTONIA Please welcome the new Rainbow focalizer for Estonia. All mail should be sent registered to insure delivery. Raho is a professional muscian in an early music (Medieval & Renaissance) group. He is married to a music teacher and has two children. His interests include the music of Mike Oldfield, vegetarianism, and all spiritual paths. Tartu is an ancient university town, home to Estonia's only university. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 85 Draft Rumor Control Bulletin jjohnson 4:42 pm Nov 19, 1990 --> This is a *draft* of article for an upcoming Legaliaison/DC Crew mailer; if you have any feedback on accuracy and details, please do! ************************************************************************** SDC CREW RUMOR CONTROL SYNOPSIS THANKSGIVING, 1990 There were several rumor control episodes over the past year or so, and some of us burned up a fair amount of long distance and mailing $ tracking them down. In rough chronological order, they were: Sept. 1989 - A leaflet was anonymously mailed to Donny in Ohio, publicizing "free legal camping in Lafayette (Peace) Park" before and during the Housing Now! demonstration in mid-October; Donny conscientiously and promptly included it in his newsletter to 120+ focalizers, later finding out that there really wasn't any such thing as free legal camping in Peace Park. Fortunately, everyone involved the scene maintained a relatively high level of trust with each other, a follow-up rumor control memo was sent to all focalizers, and everything was cool. Mid-July 1990 - A rumor that Papillon, well-loved artisan and Quebecois, had been suddenly and violently murdered in Colorado. This rumor circulated far and wide before it was found to be completely untrue. Although a follow-up rumor had Papillon attending a service in his own honor, a lot of folks who know him felt a lot of pain before it all got cleared up. September 1990 - The Chicago Rainbow Circle printed (in their newsletter, then re-printed by Peace Projects) reports that they had heard about inappropraiate use of $3500 supposedly left over from the Gathering, by the clean-up crew. After rumor control action by some of us who got upset about it, a retraction and apology was issued by Peter Fraterdeus. June 1990 - A newsletter from the Bay Area Rainbow Network reprinted a story, reportedly picked up on a Dead tour, that the Christic Institute had produced documents proving that Jerry Garcia had operated as a COINTELPRO operative in the late 1960's. The story was posted on Peacenet, where soemone from the Christic Institute saw it and was able to officially declare it false. Now that there are so many computers around, and we're all so much more decentralized, mailings are much easier to do - even for one person. Thus, accidentally passing on bad info is also much easier to do. Anybody sending out a newsletter, get some people together and do a groupmind on it! Remember, the mailing must be able to speak for all of the people, not just for the people who volunteer to produce it. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 86 LobbyingLiaison Draft jjohnson 4:44 pm Nov 19, 1990 --> This is a *draft* of an article for an upcoming Legaliaison/DC Crew mailer; if you have any feedback on accuracy and details, please do! ************************************************************************** AN IDEA: Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat from Vermont, is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, which oversees the Forest Service. Since the Gathering has been led to his area, this is perhaps the best opportunity we have to bring Congress into the scene, and getting a relationship with Leahy now may be the best way to start. Someone in the Council has probably had some type of contact with his office already. If we send word far and wide, get letters written at councils, potlucks, and Gatherings, get an appointment with his aide who handles Forest Service matters, and simply describe the history of our relationship with the FS, we could have a significant effect on the new regs coming out. Perhaps Thanksgiving Council could set aside ten of fifteen minutes on the Agenda so that each person could share inspiration and write together. Perhaps each will return to their Home Circle and repeat the process. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, SR-328A Russell SOB Washington, DC 20510 (202)224-2035 Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy SR-433 Russell Washington, DC 20510 (202)224-4242 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 87 Draft Regs Update jjohnson 4:46 pm Nov 19, 1990 --> This is a *draft* of an article for an upcoming Legaliaison/DC Crew mailer; if you have any feedback on accuracy and details, please do! ************************************************************************** FOREST SERVICE REGULATIONS --> UPDATE Nov. 19, 1990....a Monday: Legaliaison volunteer Thumper called Marian Connolly (Forest Service Regulatory Officer, phone# 703/235-1488) to inquire about the regs. Without having to be asked, Marian said that "nothing has changed"; when asked if this meant that the process of redrafting and attempting to reimplement the regs was in the same place as when the OMB initially rejected them (mid-june 1990), she said yes. She said something about trying to find a couple of days in December to move it along, and closed the conversation by speculating that something might be moving after the first of the year. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 88 Thumper says hi & read 90, 91 & 92 jjohnson 4:51 pm Nov 19, 1990 Greetings and Love to Everyone Everywhere. Sorry I've been kind of absent lately -things have been busy, and I haven't been able to do much. Some of the burned-out remnants of the DC Crew & friends got together 11/17 and agreed to report to Thanksgiving Council and to do a mailer. Please see topics 90, 91, and 92, if you haven't already. I'm tired. We Love You!! thump ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 89 Thanksgiving Council 1990 minutes jjohnson 8:48 pm Nov 27, 1990 THANKSGIVING 1990 COUNCIL FOR THE NORTHEASTERN GATHERING (These consensus and report notes were mostly copied by Peaceray from the notes written upon the wall at Thanksgiving Council. Notes marked by numbers are concensus agreements. Comments in () parentheses are either reports or clarification comments by this scribe, Peaceray, and are not part of any concensus. [] parentheses are parentheses that are included as part of the concensus decision.) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24: 1. We will council until 6 pm, after which we will have dinner. Council may continue, but any consensus reached after six must be reaffirmed the next day. 2. For our first hour we will have heartsong, then check-in to see if we shall go on to agenda setting. We will continue on for another hour if necessary. 3. (The following letter was concensed to:) Dear Santomero family, We greatly appreciated the opportunity to meet with you. We reaffirm our resolution to pursue any and all details about the violation that was done to your family. We seek truth and justice. Ten years is a long time to have to wait for a resolution of this matter. As long as it takes, we will not falter in our duty. Our collective prayers go out to you from this place and time. Consensed in silence, Thanksgiving Council November 24, 1990 Wendell, MA (Council later crystalized into for counciling subgroups: Physical {Site}, Material {Post Office, Banking, Supplies, Kitchens}, Spiritual, and Political {Legaliaison and issues external to the gathering}). SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25: 4. Today's Plan: - CALM - info/parents council - Reports from 4 (subcouncil) groups: - focalized by group reporters - questions & clarifications - Other agenda items [networking] - Heartsong(s) [if time] MATERIAL Subcouncil: 5. Members of banking council: Joan, Paula, Dana, Sun Bear, Joan, Odd Job, Gabe, Red, Ray and Michael Stewart. 6. Before the gathering, Magic Hat is for supplies & outreach only, unless agreed by (the banking) council. 7. Magic Hats at the gathering will go into a central fund for food and medical expenses. Other collections [habit hats] (will) not (be) designated as Magic Hat. 8. Council authorizes banking council to devise system for Magic Hat at the gathering, and to COMMUNICATE the plan to the family, before & AT the gathering, with a rough draft (to be presented) by Spring Council at the latest. 9. No hats will be collected at the gate. They will be a sign to that effect at the gate, saying where people can take their $. (Tabled discussion on what items are prohibited for payment from the Magic Hat.) 10. Spring Council will be the weekend of April 5, 6 & 7, 1990. (Location to be announced - call 508 544-2978 for recording with location and directions. Diane & Jimi will focalize.) PHYSICAL Subcouncil: (SITE committee recommends no consensus on site until Spring Council. Site committee has as its criteria: #1. central meadow for main circle/council. Other criteria include: water [supply, purity], environmental impact, parking, access [including handicap], swimming, [possibility of] toxins, drainage/roads, other meadows, isolation, local political climate, impact on local community, firewood, travel logistics and bugs. Jimi will focalize scouting info 508 371-2502) POLITICAL Subcouncil (Report: -Recommends that James Bay issue be a focus of the gathering, with action to follow the gathering. -Importance of communicating political issues: Legal Liaison PO Box 5604 Takoma Park, MD 20912 -Lafayette Park proposed rule "Prohibition of storage of property" Dec. 3 deadline for opinions: Robert Starton Nat'l Capitol Region Nat'l Park Service 1100 Ohio Dr. SW Wash., DC 20242) 11. There will be a POLITICAL INFO CENTER separate from the Info Center. 12. There will be time set aside at Spring Council to discus Media/Publicity. (Impromptu concensus:) 13. Donation of $150 to caretaker of the Meeting Hall for insurance on this building. SAFE SPACE/SPIRITUAL FOCUS Subcouncil: (Report: physical layout of the gathering-->4 directions Stuff to be worked upon: CLANS: Kid Village, Sister Space, Brother Space, Workshops HEALING SPACE: Massage, Substance Abuse, Meditation/Quiet Space. STORYTELLING/POETRY "SPECIAL NEEDS" FOLKS COUNCIL PROCESS: Council council, Process workshops, Kids council WELCOME CENTER) 14. There will be a Front Gate Council at Spring Council. CALM report: ( CALM Bank Account c/o Stuart Watts 1161 Maez St. Sante Fe, NM 87501 Send info for CALM manual to: Sylvia 417 Long Plain Rd. Leverett, MA 01054). ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 90 Moscow Network mendicott 8:37 am Dec 5, 1990 Yuri Popov Novokosinskaya 18-2 111672 Moscow tel: 347-1485 [metro to "Novogirejevo" -> bus #811 to "Novokosinskaya"] Yuri is a 36 year old artist and writer, who is learning English. He is the editor and publisher of the handmade journal, SVOBODA (FREEDOM), and coordinator of the Svobodnaia Initsiativa (Free Initiative). He was arrested in 1983, charged with distributing political leaflets. Subsequently, he was accused of drug possession and held in a psychiatric hospital. He has been out for three years. Yuri has contact with the Moscow sistyema (The System/or Network). Be aware that today's "System people" are not just simple "peace & love" Western hippies, but also hard drug addicts and violent criminals. Free Initiative list: Roman Osipov Nagornya 9/1-6 Moscow tel: 127-2360 Svetlana Barabash Yniversitetski Prospekt 25/1-102 Moscow tel: 143-2130 Karen Melik Ysievicha 3-3 Moscow tel: 151-8122 Lev Segal Cavkazscki Bulvar 39/2-128 115516 Moscow tel: 325-4680 Alexey Eganov Setynski Pereylok 3-316 Moscow tel: 240-8925 Tania Kojevnikova Koptevskaya 34-39 Moscow tel: 153-4679 Alexander Riga Ridjiski Proesd 13-10 129278 Moscow tel: 282-4543 Artyr Voloshin Sirenevyi Boulvar 11/1-83 Moscow tel: 164-6123 V.V. Gybarev Miklyho-Maklai 38-136 117279 Moscow Mihail Kasak Tatanova 18-76 Leningrad Valeri Stephanov Plovdivskaya 9-95 192281 Leningrad ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 91 Moscow Radicals mendicott 8:38 am Dec 5, 1990 Nikolaj Khramov & Alexander Pronozin Transnational Radical Party Nagatinskaya Naberezhnaya 58-2-119 115407 Moscow tel: 7(095) 117-6895 AgoraNet:gorbi [Telenet NUA 022226500016] ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 92 Ecopolis of Peace mendicott 8:43 am Dec 5, 1990 Ecopolis of Peace Association is the society of Soviet spiritual, ecological, and peace village communities. Ecopolis of Peace Association Alexander Sopronenkov, Vice-President Coordinator Prishvin 7/1-1 127549 Moscow tel: 353-3977 fax: 525-9539 "Ecopolis of Peace" Ecopolis of Peace Association Vladimir Stratanovich, Co-chairman Dzerzhinets 7-120 141200 Pushkino Moskovskaya oblast tel: 2-52-61 Old Ladoga Ecopolis of Peace Pozjomskaja str. Old Ladoga Leningrad region 187408 [Contact Vladimir Jichrencev of the Peace Vigil Movement in Leningrad, tel: 144-6727 (home), 315-8289 (work), for details.] ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 93 THE FOCALIZER LIST - WHAT IS IT? 5 responses jjohnson 9:49 pm Dec 5, 1990 There's been a fair amount of email exchange going on between a few individuals, relating to the focalizer list, and I'd like to move the discussion to the awf.rainbownews conference, so we can process it all a little more thoroughly. I've been really concerned about the integrity of the list, that is, whether all of the people on the list really want to be on it, and whether others on the list understood the commitment they were making when they put themselves on it. My worst fears were realized a few minutes ago when I was talking on the phone to Peg, in Duluth, who told me that she had never wanted to be on the `89 focalizers list, but had somehow wound up on it (and thus, in the Guide also!!). She also told me that Noreen, who is now in Alaska, had never wanted to be on the list either, but found her name on it. Barry Plunker also tells me that, although he doesn't mind, he never put himself on the Nevada list, either. From a practical standpoint, the list must include all focalizers, for fair and even distribution of information; it must also not be larger than necessary, so that postage and xeroxing resources are not wasted, and so that poor people can mail to focalizers, too. After getting the current list of 183 focalizers from Peter and Tina, I got a note from Donny saying that he had lots of names to add. Whoa! Hold everything! I HEREBY FORMALLY REQUEST THAT WE COME TO A CONSENSUS ON THE NATURE AND CONTENT OF THIS LIST BEFORE RELEASING IT. I have several questions at the moment: 1) What is/are the source(s) of the list? 2) Are we going to automatically carry names from one year to the next, without asking those people if they wish to stay on the list? 3) How did people get on the list who did not wish to be on it? 4) If the list comes out several months after the Gathering, are we going to verify the addresses before releasing it? (I did a mailing to the list last year, shortly after receiving it, and got about 10% bad addresses. I think the same thing happened to several others.) We've all been waiting for it a long time. Perhaps a limited release of the new names, from the Minnesota Focalizer Council only, should be made, but I feel we need to discuss even this in order to make sure that they are indeed just that. There were some consensi from the Nevada Focalizer Council that addressed some of these issues, I think. If someone holding a copy of these consensi could please distribute them, the situation might become more clear. Thanks for listening, and please respond! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 93 dwirtshafter 7:28 pm Dec 9, 1990 I too have concerns about the length of the focalizers mailing list. I agree with PeterUs post card idea. Lets send each person on the list a card, or focalizer mailing. A response is necessary to be on the list. I felt that the ideal number should be two or three per state. California wrote last year to say they had eight. In a state that size perhaps eight is ideal. In any case, it is important that trustable focs are choosen. We canUt send the howdy folks out to people who will not relay it around the area. Perhaps the best way to filter out those who will not follow up on mailing is to require a reply to our first one. The focalizers list is intended to be an easy way to diseminate information around the country. It does not require coming to any meetings. It does require follow through. Some regions have consented to their focalizers. Others are self appointed. In any case the list is dynamic. It needs to change all the time. Focalizers tend to be those who stay in one place and keep adresses but still the change of address rate is close to one in five per year. Instead of mailing labels to each focalizer, each focalizer should know that they can write Tina, or the successor focalizer council, to get the most current list. I favor a system where we can accumulate several pieces of information to save on mailing cost. You can mail 4 8 and 1/2 by 11 sheets of paper for the same price you can mail one. This is eight sides of information for the same mailing cost as an individual focalizer mailing a one sided flyer. Further, a quantity discount on xeroxing may make it cheaper. The copy store in my town offered to collate the mailing thereby saving a big step. One more thing. I favor a closed focalizer conference on PeaceNet. New entrants would check in with the conference sysop before being allowed entry into our inner communications. This way we would all feel freer to say our piece of mind at our on-the-line council. Donny , ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 93 jjohnson 3:42 pm Dec 18, 1990 Thanks for all the affirmation of the idea, which now seems to have taken a life of it's own. Sorry I've been absent from the net since I posted it. Things have been very intense, with a lot of financial pressure, tho the business is looking up. Is it possible to be a hippie without being poor? Things have been so intense, actually, that I want to apologize for any of my communications that have been uptight or negative. Sometimes my weariness mixes with my anxiety and my overcontrolling tendencies, and it comes out mean & nasty. I love all of you, and I look to you for balance and guidance, when I have the presence to shut up and listen. Peace. ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 93 sjohgart 8:44 pm Dec 27, 1990 Howdy, it's been a while since I looked in here--interesting stuff, nice to see some familiar names. Interesting folkalizer commentary--here too I heard an "Oh, no!" upon someone discovering his name on the folkalizer list in the Guide (Rob Redmond, who every year doesn't want his address listed in the Guide, but every year ends up with it there anyway--he prefers to be listed at "Rte. 1", which is odd since mail sent to him at Rte. 1 doesn't get there (I know from sending mail to that address), but a person's got a right to be listed however he or she wants). I think a verification mailing is an excellent idea; I hope somebody goes for it. And yes, I want to be on the list, although both "Gonzo" and "Great Lakes Rainbow" aren't necessary, since I do the bulk of dealing with the GLR box anyway, and I see all the mail that goes there. Well, let's keep on folkalizing, whatever else comes. ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 93 sjohgart 8:46 pm Dec 27, 1990 Oh, I just noticed that I'm registered by my Babylonian name "sjohgart"--you who know me through Rainbow know me as "Gonzo"--thus the "Gonzo" comment in the previous message. ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 93 pfraterdeus 8:32 pm Dec 28, 1990 I'd meant to get the history of this discussion into the conference, since some of it transpired by e-mail. I'll try to do that when I get back top Evasnnston. I'm in Itahaca, NY now until jan 4 or 5. Gonzo, I'll make dsyre that you're on the current list beforeit's finalized! (also, i'm useing a QuickMail server, and I'll add you to my RainbowFolks address book....) Love and Best Wishes for Peaceful and Lively Solar Cycle! Look for the Goddess in the Hearts of those who love Her. Peace ;-) Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 94 Rainbow '91 info/NERF contact 1 response salem 9:04 am Dec 13, 1990 Howdy folks ! So good to see networking Rainbows! I just got online from the Boston area. I am a NERF focalizer and will be happy to pass along messages between the net and other NERF focalizers. Latest Rainbow '91 info: The office is currently being run out of Warren and Sunbear's place in New Hampshire. A PO box has been set up for the office: Rainbow '91 Office Phone (for now): (603) 878-2022 Box 116 Wilton NH 03086 The mailing with the networking info from Thanksgiving council will be going out shortly. If you have any brief info you want included please email them to me immediately and I will try to get it included. Heartsong is doing well after some intense surgery and will be coming out of the hospital on the 17th. Take care. Love you, jim ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 94 dwirtshafter 4:06 am Dec 14, 1990 Jim: Glad to have you on board. One thing would be helpful. Could you have the office send Tina in Chicago the list of people who signed up to be regional focalizers at T'giving Council? Tina is quickly getting the list together. This is only a draft list. Each foc will be inquired to see if they really want the task this year. Good to hear from you. Donny ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 95 Crystal Mountain dwirtshafter 4:30 am Dec 14, 1990 SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY!!! This is Really Really Urgent!! I awoke yesterday morning on Sacred Mountain in Arkansas to the sounds of the city. Out of my sleeping bag & out of the kitchen to see federal agents, rangers & a bulldozer. I watched them bulldoze in their destruction & leave behind death!! This was a RtacticS to try & scare us off the mountain. they want to auction this mountain off to the highest bidder (government) ((to BLOW UP))!!! The thing is we are here for a higher purpose. This is a Holy Land & we know we need to watch over these crystals that are growing inside creating this Sacred Mountains. There are 12 or 15 of us here now & we need more people & more support, more lovinU light to blind them with brilliance. There is power in numbers. We need to bring our scattered clans together to One Tribe in One Place because THIS PLACE NEEDS US NOW, needs our healing, our strength, our love! PEOPLE OF THE EARTH UNITE ONE TRIBE, ONE PLACE, ONE TIME Here is some history for ya! White Phantom is in the Quachita Mountains. Quachita Mountains is a place where the Indians & animals & like came to heal & find cclarity to prepare for journeys or to make weapons for hunting; though actually no hunting or war took place here. These Mountains give forth to a valley called the Valley of Vapors because when the Indians came they fell to the ground awestruck by the beauty of the mist upon the land. This place is also called the Valley of Peace & this is where the Council of Peace was held once a year & 7 major tribes came to gather. This sacred land is a Holy Temple and a gateway into THE New Order. Lakotah legend speaks of a place many days travel to where the sun rises. Here is a mountain of peace, of holiness, where one may find the self & others. These are the Sacred Crystal Mountains. We were all guided here to protect & watch over this Holy Temple. We are now sending out a call of purity & light, with prayer & with letters, & with guidance Spirit will direct, protect, & deliver others to increase in numbers this circle of light & protection of and for this Holy Temple. No alcohol, no hunting, no violence & no drugs, please. Yes love, Yes light, Yes peace, & the Pure Brilliance of YOU!! With lovinU light Asa Rose Directions: Follow 270W thru Hot Springs aprox 30 miles to Airport Rd - take left; follow around curves past blacktop - 3 forest service road signs bear right - take 1st right onto dirt road ; HOMEGROUND. This message came to me hand written. In the spririt of communication, I have uploaded it for all to see. For replys, send reply message on conference. I will see that they are passed on. Donny ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 96 Belize ? mrosemeyer 12:14 am Dec 29, 1990 Does anyone have info & rumors about the Belize peace village? ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 97 Please Read Topic #2...! pfraterdeus 6:20 pm Dec 30, 1990 Dear Family! Please take note that there's a "mailling List" topic at the beginiing of this confereence (#2). Please respond to it, and tell us all something about yourself, if you would! This way, we can get to know who's in our community on the line here! Love & Light, Petros peaceNet Focalizer BTW, you can see the beginning of the conferecne index by typing a < (less than) arrow at the ? prompt... Also... The quick way to respond to a topic is to: Choose the Topic number (2 for instance) Read the first 'page' of the topic, then type ,wr (that's "Comma-W-R") for 'write' a 'reply' this will bring up the editor, and automatically address your reply to the topic in question! To read a particular reply, type the topic number a period and the reply number. Like 2.3 would show the third response to topic 2. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 98 Willie Nelson Request! pfraterdeus 6:35 pm Dec 30, 1990 The following was posted in PEaceNet Annncements. Thought maybe somebody here would like to see it! Petros Happy New Year! /* Written 11:54 am Dec 29, 1990 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcements */ /* ---------- "Willie Nelson*Tape*War Prayer" ---------- */ Subject: Willie Nelson*Tape*War Prayer [It is requested by Willie Nelson that everyone who reads this piece finds in it a reason to copy and pass it around-- Fax it to someone you know-- modem it to a local BBS-- or into UseNet or some other large network. The point being to make this provocative piece stimulate public discussion the world over. In addition, Willie has recorded a special audio tape-- it contains the song Jimmy's Road as well as the reading of this piece. This tape is not for sale! It's free! If you send a blank audio tape along with return postage-- you must include the postage-- we'll copy the tape and send it back to you. Feel free to distribute the tape and copies of it to your friends. We encourage sending both items to your local media, if you so desire. We also encourage your comments. I can guarantee they will all be shared in the hopes of creating a forum. Send all tapes and comments to: Jimmy's Road c/o Bob Wishoff Rt. 1 Briarcliff 13 Spicewood, Texas 78669.] Jimmy's Road, Original music written and performed by Willie Nelson The War Prayer by Samuel L. Clemens This is Jimmy's road, where Jimmy likes to play, This is Jimmy's grass, where Jimmy likes to lay around, This is Jimmy's tree, where Jimmy learned to climb, Then Jimmy went to war, and something changed his mind aroundI It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands were playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in t heir new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by. Nightly the packed meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles, beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpouring of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightaway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way. Sunday morning came-- next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with marti al dreams-- visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping s moke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender!-- then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighb ors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ blast that shook the building, and wi th one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation-- God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest! Thu nder thy clarion and lightning thy sword! Then came the long prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; b less them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory-- An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main ais le, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reac hed to his feet, his head bare, his white hair decending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the preacher's side and stood there, waiting. With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector or our land and flag! The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside-- which the startled minister did-- and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellboun d audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said: I come from the Throne-- bearing a message from Almighty God! The words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it he gave no attention. RHe has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import-- that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of-- except he pause and think. God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Had he paused and taken thought ? Is it one prayer? No, it is two-- one uttered, the other not. Both have reach ed the ear of Him who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this-- keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, be ware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbors crop which may not ne ed rain and can be injured by it. You have heard the servant's prayer-- the uttered part of it. I am commissioned to God to put into words the other part of it-- that part which the pastor-- and also you in your hearts-- fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: Grant us the victory, O Lord our God! That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. when you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results whic follow victory-- must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God the Father fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen! O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle-be Thou near them! With them-- in spirit-- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with out shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out r oofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolate land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun, flames of the summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave, and denied it-- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrim age, make heavy their steps, water their way with tears, stain the white snow w ith the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it in the spirit of love, of Him who is the Source of Love, and who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen. Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak!. The messenger of the Most High waits. It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said. This is Jimmy's road, where Jimmy liked to play, This is Jimmy's grass, where Jimmy liked to lay around, This is Jimmy's tree, where Jimmy learned to climb, Then Jimmy went to war, and something changed his mind around. This is the Battleground, where Jimmy learned to kill, Now Jimmy has a trade, and Jimmy knows it well, too well. This is Jimmy's grave, where Jimmy's body lies, And when a soldier falls, Jimmy's body dies and dies. But this is Jimmy's Road, where Jimmy liked to play, And this is Jimmy's grass, where Jimmy likes to lay around. The War Prayer is, to anyone's knowledge, the only posthumously published work of Samuel L. Clemens. He purposely withheld it from publication in the belief that it would be too painful or shocking for the world of his day. It is difficult, now, to understand why The War Prayer , out of all of Samuel L. Clemens work, should have been withheld, or to know to what degree the feeling of his per iod accounted for his decision. His daughter Jean told him that The War Prayer would be regarded as sacrilege. But if Clemens took Jean's advice, or any othe r, it was because he agreed with it. The War Prayer , dictated in 1905, was first published in Harper's Monthly, November 1916. Clemens. He purposely withheld it from publication in the belief th at it would be too painful or shocking for the world of his day. It is difficul t, now, to understand why The War Prayer , out of all of Samuel L. Clemens work, should have been withheld, or to know to what degree the feeling of his period accounted for his decision. His daughter Jean told him that The War Prayer would be regarded as sacrilege. But if Clemens took Jean's advice, or any other , it was because he agreed with it. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 99 Moscow Rainbow Online 1 response irudnik 4:01 am Jan 5, 1991 It is now possible to communicate directly with Moscow Rainbow via this SFMT account. We need a 2400 baud MNP modem, which must be hand carried. Also, any info on MNP software for regular modems would be welcome. Love & light, Igor Rudn. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 99 irudnik 4:06 am Jan 5, 1991 Igor Rudnik. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 100 How do you feel about war? :-( 1 response mendicott 8:51 pm Jan 16, 1991 How do feel about this violence in the world? :-( ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 100 mendicott 9:20 pm Jan 19, 1991 Are we not the heart and soul of the peace movement? ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 101 Water for National Gathering Fund peagle 7:55 pm Jan 17, 1991 Hi Folks! We all know that our National Gatherings require 20,000 (or more) gallons of PURE water every day. We all know taht this has been a problem for us in Minnesota, Texas, and North Carolina. It has also been a hassle at several of the annual Regional Gatherings. In Minnesota, our Family purchased 4 pump units capable of filtering 50 gallons per hour, but even with24 hours per day of hippie-powered pumping, that only adds up to less than 5000 gallons a day. Alec & Tammy, of CALM, are developing a system that is generator-powered and includes a larger holding tank, that is capable of purifying 20,000 gallons per day. The cost of the system is approximately $3500 anda they are selling tapes made during the Minnesota Gathering at $10 each to help raise the funds. Also, CALM has set up a bank account in Santa Fe to gather funds for this and other CALM projects. Donations and tape orders ($10) are urgently needed; send to: Alec & Tammy Box 300032 Denver, CO 80203 Donations, which can be earmarked for the water system or for other CALM needs to: CALM BANK c/o Stuart Watts 1161 Maez Santa Fe, NM 87501 Let's all have a great winter, full of fun and busy with planning for the best Gathering ever. walk in balance, Water-Singing-on-the-Rocks ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 102 WELL: Peace conf., Rainbow topic mendicott 5:38 pm Jan 19, 1991 Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering By: Fen Labalme (fen) on Sun, Jul 3, '88 77 responses so far There's a Rainbow Peace Gathering happening in Texas -- and they're gonna need our help in all forms: physical, emotional, spiritual, ... This is a place for reports of what's going on, what we can do to help, and how we can direct some WELL-beams to East Texas 77 responses total. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 1: Fen Labalme (fen) Sun, Jul 3, '88 (02:14) 6 lines There was a fairly negative article in this weeks Newsweek magazine that I plan to write a letter to the editor about. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I'll post here when I've got it done. You might want to check out the article yourself in the by and by... Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 2: Fen Labalme (fen) Sun, Jul 3, '88 (02:15) 7 lines I've heard that some guy at the welcome booth has a mac and will be posting to familynet, the nationwide rainbow computer network. Does anyone out there have a connection to, or know how to connect to, familynet? I'd like to start posting info from the gathering 'cause I can't make it this year, and I want to know what's going on! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 3: Fen Labalme (fen) Sun, Jul 3, '88 (02:15) 28 lines Two years ago, the future of Rainbow Gatherings was being tested - our Constitutional right to peaceably assemble came before a United Sates District Court. While I was at the 15th in Pennsylvania, we rejoiced to this news: The Forest Service requires groups of ten or more who gather on Forest Service land 'for the purpose of expression or exchange of views or judgements' to apply for a special use permit. Such a regulation impermissibly singles out those who wish to gather in order to exercise their First Amendment rights. The Court finds that this regulation is therefore UNCONSTITUTIONAL. If you've ever been to a Gathering, you know that it's an awsome sight, where responsibility is taken very seriously. Maybe 10,000 will Gather to live together for a few weeks with no exchange of money taking place, and when it is over, the land is left better than when the people arrived. East Texas is not taking to the idea of this very well. They see "dirty hippies" - people who are expressing the Freedom that most only talk about. So, as is usually the case, there's a lot of resistance from the authorities, which in East Texas can be rather unfriendly. One way you can help is to observe an hour of silence on the Fourth of July, from noon to 1pm Texas time. This is the CIRCLE OF SILENCE, when those that Gather (several thousands) ask, each in our own way, for the peace and healing of our planet. Feel you there! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 4: alan mande (man) Sun, Jul 3, '88 (07:32) 1 line Where is this linked to, fen? Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 5: answering my own question... (man) Sun, Jul 3, '88 (07:42) 4 lines This topic is linked between the Peace conference and the Deadplan conference (a private conference in which the Deadheads of the gd conference discuss our social obligations and map out our efforts. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 6: Fen Labalme (fen) Sun, Jul 3, '88 (09:54) 2 lines I asked to get this linked to the gd conference (where it would get a wider audience) though it's nice here (in deadplan) too! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 7: Freddy (really) Mon, Jul 4, '88 (07:51) 6 lines This morning the news reported that there was a standoff betweeen the local police and sheriffs and the rainbow gathering! The cops apparently attempted to block the Rainbow people from reaching the site of the festival! But it sounded from the news report that the Rainbow people were more resourceful and managed to get around the roadblock! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 8: James Scofield (cpttrips) Mon, Jul 4, '88 (08:35) 2 lines Is there any news stories someone can post about the gathering and this standoff between the Rainbow people and police? Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 9: Fred Heutte (phred) Tue, Jul 5, '88 (02:46) 10 lines I caught the end of a CNN report on the Gathering tonight that was actually quite good. They said attendance was down (of course, it's quite possible they knew and didn't say, or just didn't know, that there was police interference on that basis) but that everything was working out fine, despite the 95 degree heat. The only reason this sort of thing gets more heat from the press and the police is that it's not run by some corporation, the way the Monsters of Rock tour is. Guess free thoughts are still more dangerous than physically threatening behavior in this country. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 10: Freddy (really) Tue, Jul 5, '88 (13:50) 4 lines In this morning's San Francisco Chronicle, there was a photo of six hippies sitting nude in mud while a person serenaded them. The only reference to the photo in an article was that there was a gathering of the Rainbow people! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 11: Fen Labalme (fen) Wed, Jul 6, '88 (01:02) 14 lines > Guess free thoughts are still more dangerous than > physically threatening behavior in this country. ...or so it certainly appears! Having just seen Easy Rider for the first time (BTW, this is a *great* movie - check it out if you haven't seen it!) a few weeks ago, there's a line that keeps coming back to me. It's by Jack Nicolson, and it goes something like this: People will talk and talk about Freedom and how good it is to be Free. But when they come face to face with someone who is truely Free, they get scared, and when they get scared, they get dangerous. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 12: Fred Heutte (phred) Wed, Jul 6, '88 (02:13) 14 lines A wire story in the overnight edition of the local paper was fairly even-handed about it, describing the cops walking through the site and the reaction of the locals and that everyone was holding up pretty well despite the heat. Then, in the very last paragraph, it was noted that a woman (who had been introduced in the first graf of the story in another context) had been seriously injured and is now in hospital as a result of being rammed by some of the more obnoxious locals who apparently drove up and tried to crash in. If one of the "Rainbows" (as the story quaintly refers to them) had accidentally hit a local resident (as opposed to maliciously attacked them), you can damn well be sure what the headlines and lead of that story would have been. The hypocrisy of the daily press never fails to amaze me. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 13: Mary Eisenhart (marye) Wed, Jul 6, '88 (09:48) 4 lines I just got back from LA, and they had a thing on TV, Monday I think, about US Customs impounding a woman's bus because someone had been in possession of marijuana on it. Any word of this make it out here? Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 14: Fred Heutte (phred) Thu, Jul 7, '88 (02:54) 4 lines Hoo boy. More Zero Tolerance for What You Don't Like and Can't Be Bothered to Understand. It occurs to me that the exit scene is where the badass Texassans might decide to take it out on folks who came to their state determined to have their own kind of good Constitutional time and did. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 15: Mary Eisenhart (marye) Thu, Jul 7, '88 (08:34) 11 lines Interestingly enough, Jay, who had all the good stuff to say about the Rainbow Gathering at last week's Concerned Deadhead meeting, said that the decision to go to Texas in the first place was basically the fiat of a small faction which was opposed by a whole lot of long-time Rainbow people. And that many people like himself figured that going to Texas in the summer in a situation that was absolutely certain to be troublesome hardly seemed worth it, so he's sitting this one out. So there may be wheels within wheels here, including a sort of folk wisdom on the unwisdom of messing with Texass. . .:-) Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 16: Riding the range and actin' strange (janey) Sat, Jul 9, '88 (00:58) 10 lines Too bad they didn't chose the Rainbow site closer to a big city in Texas. Austin area would have been a lot more in synch with the scene. However, maybe an education was needed all the way around ... Texans and Rainbowites alike. But, whew, I was born and raised in east Texas, and the idea of dealing with the HEAT this time of year is truly oppressive. And, hey, gang, easy on the Texass bigotry. This has been said in other places before, but we have myopic vision to deal with right here in our own little provincial burgs. This kind of "us" and "them" thinking leads to no good. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 17: Fred Heutte (phred) Sat, Jul 9, '88 (02:27) 18 lines Yes, there are two potent political movements in Texas I have a great deal of respect for -- the West Texas crowd that coalesced behind Jim Hightower (and is best known for Ronnie Dugger's Texas Observer, one of the best political journals in the country), and the Hispanic political action movement; I believe the large player there is the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (not exactly sure about the name). You know, Oregon, which is now considered a very clean state politically, was a hotbed of collusionist and outright dirty politics at the turn of the century. Portland's treasury was raided and the city nearly went bankrupt. US Senate seats were virtually purchased. Cash bribes to state legislators were common. And along came William U'ren and the local variant of the progressive movement, and created a populist surge against the corruption that actually won both the initiative/ referendum/recall system and a permanent feeling for "good government." Not that things are perfect, as this battered warrior of the legislative halls can tell you. But the worst thing in Texas now, as in Oregon 90 years ago, would be to give up. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 18: John Lang Lorentz (jll) Sat, Jul 9, '88 (04:52) 3 lines The worst thing for anyone at ANY time is to give up. Last I heard the words to the song, it did not go "We shall overcome by tomorrow or quit"!! These things just don't fit into the "instant gratification" category. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 19: Fen Labalme (fen) Sat, Jul 9, '88 (10:42) 17 lines After the meeting of the Minglewood Town Council Wednesday night, I was feeling a bit frustrated by what I perceived to be a dearth of real ideas that the group was going to put to action. We had decided to do a flyer (or several) and to bring trash bags. I had felt that a group our size could have come up with a lot more solid stuff, and that the consensus process method used by peace activists could be put to good use here. Before leaving, I mentioned this to Calico, a woman I see at evry GD show working one of the booths, and (I believe) one of the original "Hog Farmers". She said something that really disarmed me, with respect to the fact that I had thought that we should be better organized. She related a story of a time when she was at a (Rainbow?) Peace Gathering, and there was a Sioux Chief there who warned the people that they were dealing with matters of the Heart, and the Heart can't be organized, so please, DON'T ORGANIZE. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 20: Fen Labalme (fen) Sat, Jul 9, '88 (10:46) 4 lines Being used to being hyper-rational, I must say that the prospect of entering the scene with "only" open and warm hearts as our main connection (or am I still missing something?) both frightens and excites me! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 21: John Lang Lorentz (jll) Sat, Jul 9, '88 (10:58) 19 lines I don't think you're missing anything fen and I agree, the idea excites me almost to frenzy. How better could I convey the meaning of this whole experience to people who haven't found that supreme light yet. What we are, what we could be...THAT's the real source of my excitement...no the possibility that we might be able to just save this scene for a while to come, but what the preservation of that scene could mean to all who choose to p or group consensus to go do good stuff, as we interpret that to be. And also I think Calico is right on about not organizing; I just have low patience for repetition. . .:-) Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering nything that even looks like parliamentary procedure, authoritarian structure, etc. I think we've already got a little more of it than I'm comfortable teresting that the current problems the deahead scene is ex[eriesee the second coming first. down in the trench and get outta the way of the mud being slung. I don't have the stomach for this kind of nastiness! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering ainbow Peace Gathering # 34: Alan L. Chamberlain (alc) Tue, Jul 12, '88 (17:04) 14 lines sorry, didn't mean to upset your stomach, jll. s, i think these people are a blight on civilized, counterculture society, and feel it's my duty to warn those seduced by the front end of this shuck. i've been there, done that, and even into sharper relief, I'd say, and not for a moment do I think is to enjoy the blossoms while we avoid the thorns. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 38: John Lang Lorentz (jll) Wed, Jul 13, '88 (10:14) 5 lines 1 line Thats what happens when ya do dem 'Shrooms. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 40: Fen Labalme (fen) Sun, Jul 24, '88 (13:43) 46 lines atherings for 17 years and at times may appear to a casual observer to be a closed circle. But, they are the ones who know how to deal with the police when they arrive, they are the ones who have s, calls that "a libelous lie". I, with only one national Gathering under my belt, would tend to concur. I have nothing but the highest regard and respect for these brothers and sisters. d Rheingold (hlr) Sun, Jul 24, '88 (14:14) 2 lines and relatively insulated from the minions of the law. ly economic, although some are content to propheteer . it is primarily power. there is yearly a migration of rudderless zombies, in search of anyone ive. i believe we will one day enjoy that worldwide. but the Labalme (fen) Wed, Oct 19, '88 (15:57) 1 line osed organization behind the rainbow gatherings. I may be able to agree, in part, with some of the statements made about the hing not of this world that I can't even begin to CA. The whole thing actually got moved to the Medford Nat. ould ever step foot out of his Kootenay mountains; in fact, I didn't even think about him at et is beginning to be ultraviolet intensive.) I was on my way back from the lake just slightly after dark when I collided right smack head on with someone going the other way on the trail. He called me by name and proceeded to engulf me the part about how each race had a vitally important gift which was brought to the whole circle of man, this young man melt into the ground as a pillar of white light and edicine wheel I now know WHO I am and why I came to the rainbeace Gathering # 49: Robert A. Frank (raf) Wed, Oct 26, '88 (15:01) 29 lines This is from *Gates of Prayer*, the reform Jewish regular who, when alone, do not, or cannot, pray find an impulse to prayer when they worship with others; and some will pray together who cannot pray alone, as many will sing in chorus who would not sing also a social value. Public worship expresses the sanctity we feel in the social bond. A congregation at worship is a society declaring its devotion to God, y aware of our common humanity and implant a spirit which will be potent for social good. They who worship God together bring [the Sovereign] into their mutual relations. If Thu, Oct 27, '88 (11:28) 2 lines This is by Rabbi Israel I. Mattuck (1883-1954) from the Liberal Jewish Synagogue [London] Newsletter 1/28/43. !! Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 52: Fen Labalme (fen) Sat, Feb 18, '89 (12:41) 2 lines Northern Nevada, location still to be determined. ays Free_ is a great Newspaper. I recommend it. think you will find it both informative and inspiring reading. Pay special attention to the many "helpful hints" about camping in ster for the Nevada '89 Rainbow will be out "any day now" (Really!) For a copy-- hot ostage expenses. (at least a S.A.S.E.) THANKS!!!!! LOVE AND LIGHT FROM, c 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering he *way* north and east part of Nevada - in the Humboldt Nat # 60: Robert A. Frank (raf) Fri, Jun 23, '89 (08:25) 8 lines Wouldn't it be simpler to take I-80 east all the way to Wells, NV and then ars to go east about 5 miles north of North Fork, NV. However, rainbow signs may not be posted in this direction. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering is and I will link it here. Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gath 3 lines Someone recently told me it was going to be at the beginning of July, somewhere like Minnesota. I'll see if I can get more details. Hopefully and (TN) regional weekend before last was bizarre. It was held at Big South Fork National Recreation Area, whi is Park Service land. They had MOUNTED police shipped in from Washington, DC, DEA, mobile drug tal was placed in his hand. As he began to speak the crystal split in two... and a rainbow came out of a clear sky around the sun. The effect was dramatic as everyone rushed to form a prayer circle e) Thu, Jul 12, '90 (17:26) 8 lines Topic 12: Rainbow Peace Gathering # 77: Fen Labalme (fen) Fri, Jul 13, '90 (21:04) 9 lines (I sent a copy of this to porgy...) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 103 WELL: Travel conf., Rainbow topic mendicott 5:41 pm Jan 19, 1991 Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings By: Elizabeth W. Endicott (eweewe) on Sat, Dec 14, '85 12 responses so far The national Rainbow Gathering this past July in Missouri was cosmic, except perhaps for the strafing runs made by two jet fighters of the Missouri Air Guard shortly before the high noon ceremony. The new RAINBOW NATION may appear eventually; interested people can write Sailor/T.J. Robertson, Box 8222, Corpus Cristi, TX 78412, for more information. Apparently, European Gatherings are going strong. They are actually held in Italy, but the only access is through Switzerland; ingenious! Any info? 12 responses total. Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 1: Elizabeth W. Endicott (eweewe) Thu, Mar 20, '86 (11:30) 11 line s The new RAINBOW GUIDE is now available from Mid Atlantic Rainbow Outreach, POB 75263, Washington, DC 20013; a donation of five dollars should be sufficient to cover costs. This info supersedes the above. The 1986 Rainbow Gathering will be held in Pennsylvania July 1-7. For further info direct contributions to Rainbow, POB 323, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. For info on European gatherings contact Palol "Silkworm", c/o Aquarius, Poggio alle Fonti, 53037 S Gimiganano, ITALY. Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 2: Elizabeth W. Endicott (eweewe) Sun, Apr 20, '86 (07:42) 9 line s An even better contact for the European Rainbow Gatherings, not listed in the new GUIDE, is: Rainbow Circle Postfach 111 CH-6600 Locarno-Muralto SWITZERLAND Please include a USPS International Reply Coupon (IRC) with your inquiry. Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 3: Elizabeth W. Endicott (eweewe) Wed, Mar 18, '87 (19:29) 10 line s The 1987 North American Rainbow Gathering will be held in Southern Appalachia, Katuah bioregion, July 1-7. It will be the 16th annual continental gathering. Contact the Rainbow Family of Living Light, POB 1097, Newport, TN 37821, for details. ALL WAYS FREE, number 5, is now available; for a copy, send a donation to cover postage to POB 664, Bearsville, NY 12409. There is a Rainbow Conference on the Collage Network (202-265-6046); type in "j;rainbow" at the prompt. Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 4: Elizabeth W. Endicott (eweewe) Thu, Mar 19, '87 (20:42) 10 line s The 4th annual European Rainbow Gathering was held in the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain July 10-22, 1986. The site was a two hour hike from "Col de Mantet." About 1,000 showed. Paolo Silkworm was there, as was Jeff Blossum. It was decided in council that the l987 gathering will be in Scandinavia. Contact the following for details: Rainbow Circle Cooperatva Di Bordo I-28030 Viganella ITALY Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 5: H. Michael Brown (lakes) Mon, Jun 22, '87 (12:29) 3 lines My friend, Lise, needs a ride to this year's Rainbow gathering. If there is anyone out there who is going this week, or if you know of someone who is going, please give her a call. Her number is 428-1492. Thanks Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 6: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Fri, Nov 20, '87 (15:39) 5 lines The 1987 North American Continental Gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light in the Slickrock area of the Nantahala National Forest, Katuah - the Southern Appalachian bioregion, was cosmodelic, despite karmic shigellosis, bacilliary dysentery, at home on mother earth. Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 7: Karen Amy O'Brien (obrien) Sun, Dec 13, '87 (03:11) 2 lines Please tell me (if possible): What is a Rainbow Gathering? Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 8: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Sun, Dec 13, '87 (12:26) 15 lines The rainbow is the universal symbol of peace and harmony. "This we know: the earth does not belong to people; people belong to the earth. All things are connected. We may be brothers and sisters after all. We shall see. One thing we know that the white man may one day discover: our God is the same God. "You may think that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of all, and His compassion is equal for both those who are red and white. The earth is precious to Him, and to harm te earth is to heap contempt on its creator." Chief Seattle. A Rainbow Gathering is the love of God become manifest on Earth. Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 9: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Mon, Mar 12, '90 (19:11) 7 lines There are now monthly Rainbow potlucks in Atlanta and other cities around the country. For details contact the Atlanta Rainbow Circle Light-line at: 404- 662-6112. Announcements are updated regularly and you may leave a message for more info. There is an active Rainbow Family conference on Econet/Peacenet. Just type awf.rainbownews. (AWF stands for ALL WAYS FREE, the Rainbow newspaper.) Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 10: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Wed, Mar 14, '90 (18:12) 7 lines The 19th annual North American World Peace and Healing Gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light will be in Minnesota, July 1-7, 1990. For details contact: Rainbow Minnesota, POB 9777, Minneapolis, MN 55458. The 8th Europa Rainbow will be in Austria, August 4-14, 1990. For details send a USPS International Reply Coupon to: Rainbow Circle, Box 111, 6600 Muralto, SWITZERLAND. Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 11: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Thu, Apr 19, '90 (22:08) 3 lines See also at: go Peace s 58 Topic 19: Rainbow Happenings # 12: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Tue, May 22, '90 (17:20) 1 line (612) 341-3254 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 104 WELL: Grateful Dead, Rainbow topic mendicott 5:44 pm Jan 19, 1991 Topic 468: Rainbow By: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) on Wed, Mar 14, '90 37 responses so far g tra s 19 37 responses total. Topic 468: Rainbow # 1: Crazy Fingers (dam) Wed, Mar 14, '90 (19:47) 1 line what is this? Topic 468: Rainbow # 2: James Scofield (cpttrips) Wed, Mar 14, '90 (19:49) 1 line A new topic! :^) Topic 468: Rainbow # 3: David Hawkins (dhawk) Wed, Mar 14, '90 (19:55) 2 lines Marcus is announcing that there's a topic in the Travel conference on the Rainbow gathering this summer. Topic 468: Rainbow # 4: Crazy Fingers (dam) Wed, Mar 14, '90 (20:11) 1 line Thanks, I honestly had no idea what the code stood for. Topic 468: Rainbow # 5: Jeff Loomis (jal) Wed, Mar 14, '90 (20:16) 2 lines How come his name doesn't show up in the header? Anonymous topic creation? Topic 468: Rainbow # 6: Michael L. Fasman (mlf) Wed, Mar 14, '90 (22:04) 6 lines Boy sometimes this here WELL gets so cryptic ya gotta be permanently online to understand it! What with IMHOs, BTWs and sideways character faces it sure gets confusing! Has anyone made a code deciphering topic for novices, like our newly joined pal "bones", who probably is reading all this and wondering what the #@!* is going on! (WELLcome Tom, prepare to be hazed!) Topic 468: Rainbow # 7: Dick R. Allgire (diregire) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (02:57) 1 line Yeah, what he just said. Topic 468: Rainbow # 8: Philippe Habib (phabib) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (09:21) 1 line I've been here nearly two years and I STILL don't know BTW. 'Splain please. Topic 468: Rainbow # 9: David Hawkins (dhawk) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (09:28) 1 line By The Way Topic 468: Rainbow # 10: Crazy Fingers (dam) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (10:01) 1 line sort of like PITB, BIODTL, UJB etc. to non-dead people! Topic 468: Rainbow # 11: David Hawkins (dhawk) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (10:02) 1 line Or WALSTIB Topic 468: Rainbow # 12: Crazy Fingers (dam) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (10:10) 2 lines The one I really like is IMHO....like does anyone here have a "humble" opinion? Topic 468: Rainbow # 13: Rob Diamond (diamond) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (10:14) 3 lines Intelligent Martians Hate Onions I Must Have Oregano Topic 468: Rainbow # 14: red (gr8flred) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (18:23) 1 line Black Throated Wind Topic 468: Rainbow # 15: Hard to Handle (moog) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (21:24) 1 line Born To Whine Topic 468: Rainbow # 16: Are We (really) Thu, Mar 15, '90 (22:42) 1 line Pardon me excuse me!!!!! Bite The Weenie!!!! Did I say that???? Topic 468: Rainbow # 17: For What It's Worth (dam) Fri, Mar 16, '90 (10:46) 1 line Yup, you did! Topic 468: Rainbow # 18: Janet Ehrlich (jce) Sat, Mar 17, '90 (23:15) 5 lines >Born To Whine I like that :') and then there's RSN and TITP and gopod and grugs and OTOH and ATANA...... (I've been keeping a list). Topic 468: Rainbow # 19: Hard to Handle (moog) Sat, Mar 17, '90 (23:25) 2 lines ATANA? Topic 468: Rainbow # 20: Debbie Hudson (wlagirl) Sun, Mar 18, '90 (09:33) 1 line Dont forget Lightpole #7! Topic 468: Rainbow # 21: Claire Kelly Boone (boone) Sun, Mar 18, '90 (18:05) 1 line AND don't forget tnf Topic 468: Rainbow # 22: David Gans (tnf) Sun, Mar 18, '90 (18:08) 1 line Gans is just a four-letter word. Topic 468: Rainbow # 23: Bob Bickford (rab) Mon, Mar 19, '90 (01:35) 8 lines I like 'TTFN'. (Ta-Ta For Now) BTW, 'IMHO' could be taken to refer to an Honest Opinion, rather than a Humble Opinion. IMHO. ;-) Topic 468: Rainbow # 24: Janet Ehrlich (jce) Mon, Mar 19, '90 (21:46) 5 lines OTOH On The Other Hand ATANA All Talk and No Action RSN Real Soon Now TITP This Is the Pits Topic 468: Rainbow # 25: Robert A. Frank (raf) Tue, Mar 20, '90 (07:04) 4 lines BTW By the Way BFD Big Fucking Deal GDP Giant Deranged People BGP Beyond Guessing Prognosticators Topic 468: Rainbow # 26: John Lang Lorentz (jll) Tue, Mar 20, '90 (13:40) 1 line W... Topic 468: Rainbow # 27: JERALD MEDVEDEFF (jmed) Wed, Mar 21, '90 (20:01) 2 lines let's not forget SOS or NTF........ and the big one......BLT Topic 468: Rainbow # 28: Michael L. Fasman (mlf) Thu, Mar 22, '90 (10:01) 3 lines Took some LSD on the IRT with the FBI and the CIA...... this topics starting to sound like a cut from the musical "Hair" ! What hath I wrought?! Topic 468: Rainbow # 29: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Sat, Mar 31, '90 (09:34) 19 lines GWLTHTT Geeks Who Like To Hear Themselves Talk GTAP Glad This Ain't Paper GN Glow Nukes LL love & light P peace Topi# 30: Marcus L. Endicott (mle) Tue, Apr 17, '90 (22:12) 3 lines See also at: go Peace s 58 Topic 468: Rainbow # 31: eagles fill sky...(mice run under baffalo) (jacstraw) Sat, May 12, '9 0 (19:00) 6 lines So what about the Rainbow gathering? When? Where? Topic 468: Rainbow # 32: Bob Ulius (rebop) Sat, May 12, '90 (21:19) 2 lines The when is always the same....first week of July, 1st to 7th. The where is somewhere in North East Minnesota this year. Topic 468: Rainbow # 33: Mary Eisenhart (marye) Sun, May 13, '90 (09:31) 3 lines There's a topic for the Rainbow Gathering in Deadplan, and it tends to get active around the time of the event, but it couldn't hurt to go post a question there. Topic 468: Rainbow # 34: eagles fill sky...(mice run under baffalo) (jacstraw) Sun, May 13, '9 0 (11:30) 3 lines Don't think I'll get to Minnesota this Summer. *But THANKS anyway* Topic 468: Rainbow # 35: Ward A. Frost (faw) Sun, May 13, '90 (19:47) 4 lines Minnesota, my home sweet home. Spent most of my life trying to get out of thibut now I might just have to go back. Topic 468: Rainbow # 36: Radio Gnome Invisible (ziggy) Sun, May 20, '90 (11:59) 3 lines When will the Rainbow organizers come to MAINE??? The ideal state for it. (Well, from my point of view anyway. :-) ) Topic 468: Rainbow # 37: Hal Wigoda (dead) Wed, Aug 1, '90 (07:34) 8 lines This gathering in Minnesota was my fourth and wa was well worth the trip. After the gathering I went to the dead's Indy shows and Chicago/World/Tinley shows. Unfortunately, those were Brent's last shows, what a bummer, huh........ Next year's gathering will be in Vermont, or so it is supposed to be ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 105 Europa Rainbow Poland 1991 mendicott 9:18 pm Jan 19, 1991 EUROPA RAINBOW 17-27 JULY 1991 Rainbow love and greeting sisters and brothers! The first scouting and preparation meeting for the 1991 European gathering was held in the beautiful Polish autumn countryside. It was blessed with gorgeous weather and lots of laughing Rainbow energy. We were about 20 strong, mostly from Poland, with a handful from Germany, England and America. The Polish side of our family had done some pre-exploring and short-listed a couple of possible sites for our consideration, so we travelled together for a week to explore these, partying and planning on the way. We all felt that one of these had a great energy and would make a beautiful home for the family, but it has yet to be fully cleared with local people before we can confirm it as our gathering site. The other is great too and useful as aback-up site. After much serious discussion we unanimously decided to bring forward the gathering dates to 17th to 27th July. Because of respect for the Vision Council we did not do this lightly, but felt we had the responsibility to make the best possible arrangements for Rainbow, and so the duty to change the dates because of the following reasons. The vision of the gathering was for the family to spread eastwards. This growth needs consolidation by our loving Rainbow energy being spread around after the gathering by people joining together for projects and travelling. An August date would not leave much time for this before the cold weather sets in. On top of this we have had lots of feedback that August would cause problems for people with children at school in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Sweden. We hope that this information about this change of dates spreads quickly along the information network, and that everybody gets the news. It would be sad if anyone does not get the news and comes late. The next full preparation meeting will start on the 27th April near USTRZYKI GORNE. Anyone with energy and ideas for preparing the next gathering is totally welcome. the Polish Rainbow Info Center is: Jim Forrester Podkarpacka 1-416 35-082 Rzeszow POLAND tel: 53-772 (Lech Wajler) or (48-12) 340102 [in Krakow] This address and numbers are good till at least the beginning of June, any changes will be included in the info sent out after the April meeting. Please feel free to contact them, if you have any problems, or need more information, or can help in any way. It would be useful if you could give the info center some feedback about material things you can supply or bring to the gathering. These include 4-wheel drive vehicles, wheelbarrows, big tents, kitchen equipment, water tanks and filters, walkie-talkies and anything else you can think of. Could focalizers please send the Info Center details about prices of bulk whole food (preferably organic) and the possibilities of transport for them. Details of quantities used at previous Rainbows are also needed. If you have any donations or can do some fundraising to help with the advance costs of preparing for Rainbow then please pay the money into this bank account: Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA Oddzial Krakow ul. Koniewa 4 Polska-PL-Krakow LESZEK ROSLONSKI A-03346068 Don't forget that people of most countries will need visas to visit Poland. This can take up to a week to get, and costs the same for any period up to 3 months, but this might be different in your country so please check before hand. On the visa application form it asks for the address in Poland you are visiting - you can answer this question with the name of a town or region you plan to visit or tour around. Everyone at this preparation meeting has a very good feeling for this Polish gathering so with love and positive energy from all we can look forward to a strong and joyous gathering of our tribes. From USTRZYKI GORNE (in the extreme southeast corner of Poland, between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union) follow the Rainbow and Hopi signs to 38-715 DWERNIK. For a map, contact to Jim Forrester at the Info Center near the time of the meeting. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 106 How to write a press release mendicott 10:26 am Jan 20, 1991 Topic 56 How to write a press release gn:param gen.newsletter 1:44 pm Oct 2, 1990 Subject: How to write a press release How To Write A Media Release /* Written 2:14 pm Sep 29, 1990 by mhayes in the conference "nonviolent.action" This might be 'old hat' to experienced activists, but, as a working journalist, I still get media releases from activist groups which violate the basic rules for getting the media's attention, and more importantly, getting the media to cover actions or issues properly. Writing media releases is only part of a group's media strategy, and a group's media strategy is but a part of their overall campaign agenda. I am also accepting the mass media 'as is' (with all its faults). By 'mass media', I mean mass circulation newspapers, radio and television news and current affairs programs (but this also applies to local suburban newspapers and weekly magazines, and even community radio stations). This is also an exercise in 'running the flag up the pole and seeing who salutes it'. If this contribution gets helpful or useful responses, then I'll make more contributions along these lines. If not, well.... Two important principles: KISS (Keep it simple, stupid!) and Who, What, When, Where, and Why (W5). Use a distinctive letterhead, containing contact numbers, addresses, and names if possible. If you can, design your own distinctive and eye-catching letterhead. Newsrooms get hundreds of media releases through the mail and fax machine every day, and you want yours to stand out from the mass. Use A4 paper, type only on one side, use wide margins, use double spacing, and write in the active voice. If possible, include direct, attributable quotes from a designated spokesperson from your group, and have that spokesperson available for further comment, or an interview. Keep the release to one page, maximum. In writing your release, put the information together in a way that if the release were sliced sideways from the bottom up, the most important information remains in the first paragraph. Keep paragraphs short, one sentence per paragraph if possible. Be truthful and accurate. If in doubt, leave it out. Don't tell the media everything you know about the issue, but have more background on hand if or when they follow up your release, and make sure that background information is also reliable, accurate, and easily digestable by a journo with no prior knowledge of your issue or concern. Journalists want to know: Who is saying or doing What, When and Where are they saying or doing it, and Why are they saying or doing it. They also often want to know How something is going to happen or somebody is going to say it. They, and more likely, a Chief of Staff or News Editor, or Producer who reads the release (amongst hundreds of others they read in a typical day) and assigns a journalist to follow up the story, want this information concisely, because they haven't got time to burrow through a turgid, badly written, boring, tedious thesis on what horrible things are going on where, and why some dinky greenie group is getting steamed up about it. Be truthful, accurate, and don't hype or over-sell your story. It might seem vitally important to you, but it might be a great yawn to a journo, unless you accurately pitch it at their news sense. What's 'news sense'? Buggered if I, and many other journalists, know, but we've got it, and use it to decide what stories we cover, and ignore. Follow the media, know what issues or stories are grabbing attention in your town, try to hook your issue onto something else that's going down, or figure out an angle that will make your issue stand out from the others. But don't go for stunts, which might backfire, or destroy your credibility, or make you look stupid. Fax, post, or personally deliver your media release to the organisation(s) you want to cover your action, comment, or event. Address it to the Chief of Staff, News, or current affairs producer. Follow it up with a personal phone call to see if they got it. Politely ask if they are going to do anything about it. Do not get aggressive or abusive if you seem to be getting short shrift. Keep in touch with the local media, cultivate key reporters, feed them information, talk to them often, but don't harass them. Be aware of the pressures of deadlines on working journos. It is futile to ring a radio news service two minutes to the hour, because they have a bulletin to get out in two minutes time. Similarly, forget ringing TV news services within an hour of air time. Mid-morning to early afternoon is best. Polite persistence pays dividends. Even if you don't get a run from your first release, you nevertheless have alerted the media to your existence, so follow up. If your group happens to attract a journo into its ranks, pick their brains (horrible phrase), listen to them, and learn from their advice and experience. Contact more experienced groups, like Greenpeace, ACF, TWS, and similar, and seek their advice. If you want to get media coverage, accept the media for what it is, with all its faults, accept them, but not entirely uncritically, and go for it. We're human too! We care for the environment, are worried about abuses of human rights, in the main don't know all that much about nonviolence, and are heavily into getting stories. So tell us yours. Hoping this advice stimulates further responses. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 107 Petersburg Rainbow mendicott 4:49 pm Jan 22, 1991 Nik Vinogradov Ak. Baikova 11-3-137 195427 Leningrad USSR tel: (812) 556-1741 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 108 1991 Addresses, etc.! pfraterdeus 7:42 pm Jan 28, 1991 Dear Folks, For those who don't have a current Guide, here are some important addresses... All Ways Free Tony Crow, and the Tucson Crew are doing allwaysfree this year (again). Their Address is thus.... 515 E. Grant Rd. Suite 113 Tucson AZ 85705 602 682-3831 They also have a great video tape of the '88Texas Gathering, which is available for family to show at awf fundraisers, etc. They ask $15/tape to cover costs. I've seen it, and it's really great (Includes some good legal stuff, too!) The Guide Ric Schwichtenberg Box 3213 Madison, WI 53704 Please send your info, and a DONATION to help get this IMPORTANT networking resource produced for this year's gathering!!! LIGHT (Long Island Global Healing Tribe) Puts out a newsletter which will act as an interface between PeaceNet and Focalizers-- providing info thru the newsletter to those without computer access. The LIGHT will also have specila bulletins concerning LegaLiason activities! 5 Hilltop Road Stony Brook, NY 11790 Finally, this years Rainbow Contact Number--- Sun Bear and Tribe Rainbow 1991 Box 116 Wilton, NH 03086 603 878 2022 (no Collect Calls Please!) With the World at War, it's even more important to keep our spirits up! Knowing the Love that is in this amazing Family, I am wonderous, and joyful, even in the Face of Armegeddon! Whoa! Play For Peace! (for we are only truly free when we Play! petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 109 Ocala Gathering Feb 9-23 '9 pfraterdeus 8:20 pm Jan 28, 1991 Subject: Ocala Gathering Feb 9-23 '9 Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Ocala Gathering Feb 9-23 '91 This info from Stephen Wing in Atlanta Ocala Regional Rainbow Gathering Feb 9th-23rd Ocala Forest Directions: Atlanta Rainbow LightLine 404 662 6112 Please bring all the usual stuff! We Love You! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 110 To send mail to a Conferenc 1 response pfraterdeus 3:13 pm Jan 29, 1991 Subject: To send mail to a Conferenc Attn: Rainbows & awf GOOD MORNINGI To send mail to a Conference... Address mail within the PeaceNet/EcoNet System as follows: conf:awf.rainbownews Used as a mail address, this will add the message to the conference as a new topic. You can also include the names of other recipients on the same address line. I am in the process of developing a script for Macintosh based QuickMail which automatically signs on to PeaceNet, uploads any waiting mail from me to either individuals or as conferences topics (like this one), downloads any mail waiting for me, and checks the regular conferences for new topics or responses, downloading these as neccessary. Please let me know if you'd like more info as this develops! Petros pfraterdeus ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 110 pfraterdeus 3:13 pm Jan 29, 1991 Subject: To send mail to a Conferenc Attn: Rainbows & awf GOOD MORNINGI To send mail to a Conference... Address mail within the PeaceNet/EcoNet System as follows: conf:awf.rainbownews Used as a mail address, this will add the message to the conference as a new topic. You can also include the names of other recipients on the same address line. I am in the process of developing a script for Macintosh based QuickMail which automatically signs on to PeaceNet, uploads any waiting mail from me to either individuals or as conferences topics (like this one), downloads any mail waiting for me, and checks the regular conferences for new topics or responses, downloading these as neccessary. Please let me know if you'd like more info as this develops! Petros pfraterdeus ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 111 PeaceNetLiason Council 1 response pfraterdeus 6:43 pm Feb 4, 1991 Subject: PeaceNetLiason Council Attn: Rainbows &awf GOOD MORNINGI PeaceNetLiason Council Please let me know if you want to be on the eMail distribution list. I feel that this should be an advisory council for dealing with whether things (like the Focalizer List, etc.) should go into the awf.rainbownews conference without comment, should be refered to another council for review, or should be kept off the net altogether, pending family council action. Play for Peace! Ho! Petros PS If you got this in your eMail, you're on my distribution list already. If you don't wannabe please let me know (nicely! ;-) FIAT PAX! P. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 111 pfraterdeus 6:43 pm Feb 4, 1991 Subject: PeaceNetLiason Council Attn: Rainbows &awf GOOD MORNINGI PeaceNetLiason Council Please let me know if you want to be on the eMail distribution list. I feel that this should be an advisory council for dealing with whether things (like the Focalizer List, etc.) should go into the awf.rainbownews conference without comment, should be refered to another council for review, or should be kept off the net altogether, pending family council action. Play for Peace! Ho! Petros PS If you got this in your eMail, you're on my distribution list already. If you don't wannabe please let me know (nicely! ;-) FIAT PAX! P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 112 From Uncle Joe fmayer 4:04 am Feb 14, 1991 *******LEGALIASION FLASH !!!!!!!!!!!!**************** Washington D.C., February 12, 1991 From Thumper (via Uncle Joe Gross of L.I.G.H.T.): Thumper spoke with Dinah Apple of the National Forest Service today concerning the FS Regulations. Ms. Apple stated in effect that nothing has changed since last summer and that we should check back with the FS at the end of March. Thumper's gut feeling is that the FS is "up to something"and that maybe they hope to have something to use to prevent the gathering from happening; other than thethrough the FS Regs.(CFR 36.251). Thumper went on to say that the FS is in the process of overhauling it's system of planning and appeals. This is the same system that has "allowed" us to so effectively (so far) stymie the FS attempts to prevent the gatherings. Thumper says that the new provisions to this system are supposed to be published in the Federal Register this Friday, February 15, 1991. Since the Federal Register is available at any public library we suggest you visit your local library and take a look at what these new provisions might contain. We need to remain vigilant even with all the terrible news in the world today, lest we be caught with our pants down. In any case that about raps up this Legaliasion update. Love & Light, Thumper and Uncle Joe (Legaliasion Volunteers) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 113 Colorado Springs Peace Vigi 2 responses pfraterdeus 3:30 pm Feb 16, 1991 Subject: Colorado Springs Peace Vigi Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Colorado Springs Peace Vigil_ Colorado Springs Peace Vigil Established (Colorado Springs, Colorado) (please copy, forward and distribute) to: pn.announcements awf.rainbownews by Peter Fraterdeus 719 389 6321 (until Feb 8th) {Colorado Springs, CO) 708 328 2733 (after Feb 8th 1991) (Evanston, IL) PeaceNet- pfraterdeus Internet - cdp!pfraterdeus@labrea.stanford.edu Compuserve - 73306,2703 5 Feb 1991 An ongoing Vigil for Peace has been established in Colorado Springs, home of Fort Carson, NORAD HQ, and the US Air Force Academy. Since Jan 17th, 1991, a changing group of 5-30 persons, including students from Colorado College, Univ.of Colo., Colo.Springs (UCCS), Pikes Peak Community College and local High Schools, along with local and visiting citizens have encamped at the corner of Nevada Avenue and Bijou Street, in the Median strip on Nevada, across from Acacia Park, near downtown Colorado Springs. The group is not formally organized, but is governed by consensus process, and presents the following points of agreement. While No One of us may speak for the Whole, we do have consensus on the following points: 1. We believe in PEACE for all peoples. 2. We support, with our Love, the young Soldiers in the Military Services, and we respect the sincerity of their Beliefs. However, 3. We believe in a Human Race that must EVOLVE BEYOND WAR of ALL KINDS in order to deserve the Fragile Planet upon which we Live. By our action, we demand the Continuing of Efforts toward a Non-Violent means of Resolution amongst the Nations of the Earth! Additional points regarding the Vigil: 4. We are all Peace Keepers. We try to KEEP the ENERGY POSITIVE and Respectful of the Reasons for our Vigil. Be Peaceful! 5. Try to avoid confrontation with Passers-by-- We can resist the urge to respond to Negative Energy. 6. For Healthy Vigiling-- Please Bring Your Own Cup and Spoon. Take a Break When You Need It! 7. Please Respect the Earth! Smokers please don't toss cigarette butts on the Ground! Pick up trash when you see it! Recycle! We have had very good relations with the City and the Police, who have spent many hours protecting our Rights of Free Expression and Assembly from harassment by flag waving provocateurs who gather across the street to yell obscenities at us and encourage the honking of horns "to support the troops" or "if you love the USA". While missile attacks seem to have abated for the time being, we were subject to peltings of water balloons, snowballs and eggs from passing vehicles throughout the first two weeks of the vigil. One CC student was hit in the head by a coke bottle, but was released without stitches from the hospital, with no ill effects. In fact, the incident brought a substantial number of positive, or supportive responses in the local newspaper letters column, which previously had been primarily and vociferously negative. Press coverage has been badly skewed, with a couple of exceptions, with editorial and public opinion positions in the Gazette-Telegraph taking an extremely sarcastic and condescending tone, presuming, for the most part, that only Colorado College students are involved, and that the effort is a self-indulgent exercise by 1960's wannabe's. Anybody that has actually come to talk with us knows otherwise! The spirit and comradery of the vigilers remains very high, through sub-zero (-25 windchill) temperatures, ongoing harassment by foul-mouthed "counter-demonstrators", and (very) occasional problems of consensus. We have welcomed a number of military persons into our circle, and have sent our prayers with them to the middle east. Some have come looking for solace, some for CO information, some wondering if we intend to spit on them when they return (we do not!). We have welcomed community and church leaders, and many older people from the community, and have received their encouragement and their blessings. Both Vigilers and Support folks have cooked wonderful meals for the circle, and during the cold nights, ambulance crews have brought us donuts and coffee in the wee hours. We are currently blessed by daytime temps in the mid-to-upper 50s, with warm sun. Hope the war stops before the rain starts! FIAT PAX! (Pending consensus of the CS PeaceEncampment Council, this article does not represent an official position thereof. The views and opinions expressed are those of the writer.) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 113 chrp 11:33 pm Feb 17, 1991 day. Good luck! We love you. ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 113 ppav 12:38 am Feb 25, 1991 Dear Vigilers: I have vigiled for a long time in front of the white house. our vigil is cal is called The Peace Park Anti-nuclear Vigil. The Vigil will cellibrate it's 10 aniversery on June 3, 1991. Vigiling can be incredibly powerful. It seems to go in cycles though. It can also take an incredible amount of energy for what sometimes are few gai gains. I will get some info ready to upload for you. Someday, maybe we'll meet. Let's compair notes...........In service We remain PEACE PARK, WATCHERS AT THE GATE ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 114 New Chicago Circle Address pfraterdeus 6:37 pm Feb 18, 1991 Subject: New Chicago Circle Address Attn: Rainbows &awf Subject: Time:8:22 PM OFFICE MEMO New Chicago Circle Address Date:2/18/91 Chicago Rainbow Circle Box 152 1555 Sherman Avenue Evanston, IL. 60201 Note: Do not use "PO Box", just BOX! With Lots of Love! Play for Peace! Chicago Rainbow Circle ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 115 Mitakuye Oyasin! pfraterdeus 10:10 pm Feb 18, 1991 Subject: Mitakuye Oyasin! Attn: Distribution Group@PN GOOD MORNINGI Mitakuye Oyasin! I see a time when beings of all races have risen to take the reins of the future. Guided by the Sacred Music of the Heart to a planet without War. There is no need to travel to the stars, looking for paradise. We live among the stars. We are their neighbors. We are their relatives. ------------ Online Poems Series (c) 1991 pfraterdeus Thought I'd share this thought with you. If you don't want to be on my distribution list, please let me know (nicely)! { : - ) } (1) Mitakuye Oyasin means "all my relatives" in Lakota. This is in reference to all the beings of nature, elemental, verdant, or mobile. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 116 PeaceNet 1-800-777-9454 Mod pfraterdeus 1:04 pm Feb 20, 1991 Subject: PeaceNet 1-800-777-9454 Mod Attn: Rainbows &awf From PEACENET_QM PeaceNet 1-800-777-9454 Modem Number From the netnews conference! Petros ---------------------------- Topic 97 ** IGC NETNEWS FEBRUARY 1991 ** Response 11 of 11 jillaine netnews 3:57 pm Feb 19, 1991 Lower Connect Rates for Alaska, Hawaii and Rural US Subscribers! IGC has installed an 800 number that will enable most users in rural areas, as well as in Alaska and Hawaii, to connect to the network at a lower cost. 1-800-777-9454 Parameters must be Null parity, 8 data bits. Alaska and Hawaii Alaska and Hawaii users are currently subject to international rates ($18 per hour). Through our new 800 number, Alaska and Hawaii users can connect to us at much lower rates--$14 an hour any time. Rural Accounts Similarly, there are some users in rural locations who must either make a toll call to the closest SprintNet access number, or who call long distance to our computer in Palo Alto. Depending on how much this costs you, our 800 number may save you money. Currently, if you call a SprintNet node, you are paying: Peak Off-peak $10 + toll $5 +toll If your toll charges are greater than $4 per hour (peak) or $10 per hour (off-peak), then use our 800 number. Currently, if you dial long distance to Palo Alto, California, your charges are $3 per hour plus long distance charges. If your long-distance charges are greater than $11 per hour, then use our 800 number. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 117 FWD>45 pfraterdeus 5:31 am Feb 22, 1991 Subject: FWD>45 Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM FWD>45 Feb 25 Press Conf re Dru u Topic 45 Feb 25 Press Conf re Drug Strategy esterling alt.drugs 4:00 pm Feb 21, 1991 From the National Drug Strategy Network, 2000 L St., NW, Suite 702 Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel. 202-835- 9075 Fax 202-223-1288 THE PRESIDENT'S 1991 NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT NEGLECTED THE FACTS President Bush has delivered his 1991 National Drug Control Strategy and his Anti-Drug Budget for FY 1992. He requests a total of $11.654 billion for FY 1992. But only 13% for drug abuse prevention ($1.514 billion), and only 14% for drug abuse treatment ($1.654 billion). Almost everyone agrees that the most important priority for anti-drug spending is for prevention and treatment, not for law enforcement or "supply reduction." But of the new money in the FY 1992 budget, only 25% is for treatment or prevention, exacerbating the misallocation. Unfortunately, the President's budget focuses on supply reduction and punishment. But that strategy hasn't worked and doesn't address the top priorities. o The budget calls for $1.158 billion for anti-drug activities in the Department of Defense alone, up from $800 million in 1990, more than 10% of the entire request. o The 1992 corrections request is $1.680 billion (more than 14% of the request), up $380 million in one year; the Administration's goal is to double federal prison capacity by 1996. Yet drug abuse treatment is offered in only two Federal prisons. o The request for interdiction (to stop drugs coming in over the border and coastline), the most costly and one of the least effective components of the supply control program, is $2.109 billion, more than 18% of the request. It was $948 million in 1988 and only $473 million in 1983. Treatment and Prevention Cutbacks: In FY 1991 $38.5 million was projected for reducing waiting lists at drug treatment programs -- the President asks to eliminate that program to nothing in FY 1992. In FY 1990 and FY 1991 the Community Youth Program of the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention spent $20 million. This program was also "zeroed out" for FY 1992. The 1991 Strategy calls for a 1992 budget of 63,324 full time equivalent (FTE) Federal employees (also known as workyears) for the war on drugs. Although most treatment and prevention programs involve private, state or local agencies, less than 7,596 Federal workyears are devoted to treatment and prevention (less than 12% of the total). For the crisis in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. government has found more than $15 billion per month. But as the drug crisis ravages America's families, America's neighborhoods, and America's towns and cities, the necessary funds for addressing the causes and treating the victims of the drug problem can't seem to be found. The biggest single percentage increase (+560%) is for marijuana eradication -- from $16 million in 1990 to $90 million in 1992. Yet there is only $25 million more for the Department of Education anti-drug programs in FY 1992 compared to 1991. Funding for international programs is to increase by 34% in FY 1992, but much of it would go to the Andean military, which in Peru and Colombia, have been accused of extensive human rights violations in reports by Americas Watch. These efforts have negligible effect on the price or availability of cocaine in the U.S. Even though alcohol and tobacco addiction and abuse are killing Americans forty times faster than illegal drugs, this strategy fails to address those drugs. The 1991 anti-drug strategy and FY 1992 anti-drug budget are deeply flawed. (more) PREVENTION AND TREATMENT NEGLECTED IN FY 1992 ANTI-DRUG BUDGET, PAGE 2 The National Drug Strategy Network in cooperation with its many coordinate organizations is holding a press conference in room 188, Russell Senate Office Building at 10 a.m. on Monday, February 25, 1991 to stress that a genuine anti-drug strategy must address the human and social problems that lead to the demand for drugs in the U.S. No law enforcement effort can be successful in the face of continuing high demand for drugs. A strategy is needed to heal the suffering from drugs. The priorities of the President's strategy are misplaced. This press conference is to be held on the eve of the confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee for Gov. Bob Martinez, the President's nominee to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy. This is the occasion for Congress to learn the nominee's priorities: Are they in the mainstream -- focusing on prevention and treatment, or is Gov. Martinez committed to concentrating spending on expensive, ineffective supply control programs? Is Gov. Martinez satisfied with the strategy that he has been presented with or will he exercise his independent judgment and write a more balanced strategy with a greater emphasis on reducing demand for drugs? The press conference will feature national leaders, including leaders of the religious community, the law enforcement community, the legal community, the drug treatment community, the civil rights community, the international development community, and the neighborhood development community, to tell the Senate that America needs a better anti-drug strategy. Please join us on February 25th at 10 a.m. in Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188. For more information, please call Eric Sterling (NDSN--202-835-9075), or Gene Guerrero (ACLU--202- 675-2307). ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 118 Broken Bones in Ocala/Rumor Contro mendicott 2:57 pm Feb 25, 1991 February 25, 1991 Bernard Watts, Editor OCALA STAR BANNER P.O.Box 490 (2121 SW 19th Avenue Road) Ocala, FL 32678 (904) 867-4010 Friend: I am a professional travel writer and published author, specializing in environmentally and culturally responsible tourism. Recently, I visite a family peace encampment in the Ocala National Forest to meet with peace activists from around the country and their husbands, wives, and chidren. In the late evening of friday, February 22, I was conversing with a small group of people who were greeting new arrivals as they came in from al over the country. Suddenly, a pickup truck full of young men waiving beer cans came by at high speed with their horn blaring. They turned aound for another pass. Someone placed a log across the road to slow them down, for the safety of the many pedestrians including children preset. The truck ran into a black man at a slow rate of speed as it was driving over the log. Then the truck stopped and about a half dozen whitemen jumped out. One of them brandished a knife and began to chase the black man with the others not far behind. At this point I felt compelled to do something. I dashed between the men with the knife and the black man. I spoke to them about Christian loe. I was then struck from the side, across my nose... shattering it into a blood gushing mess. I wish to bring this incident to your attention only for the light it sheds on the remarkable contrast with another recent experience I have ha. In January, I returned from a solo bicycle ride from Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union. I am the first American to cross into the Soviet Unionalone, on a bicycle, and without tourist papers. To date, I am the only American to ride a bicycle alone, without a guide, through the Soviet nion. In five months of bicycling alone through a crumbling Eastern Europe, and with thousands of dollars worth of equipment, I never even witessed such terrorism or violence as I experienced in Florida. This welcome home is not the ending for my book that I envisioned throughout those hard months. I now have a souvenir that will remind me of Forida for the rest of my life... every time I look in the mirror. Peace, M.L. Endicott 1933 Bruce Drive Saint Simons Island, GA 31522 Telex # 150240522 cc: CompuServe; PeaceNet ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 119 Postwar Peacemaking-ADD YOU pfraterdeus 3:48 am Feb 26, 1991 Subject: Postwar Peacemaking-ADD YOU Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Postwar Peacemaking:ADD YOUR IDEAS **Postwar Peacemaking:ADD YOUR IDEAS** __________________________________________ If this is forwarded please include this! This topic is from the >mideast.media< conference. My >reply< is repeated here. Further replies should go to mideast.media. Love, p. __________________________________________ PLAY for PEACE! Only in Playfulness do we fully express the Freedom that we naturally possess, beyond any restriction of nation or creed. If you can't Play, you're not Free! If the events of the world succeed in drawing us down into Despair and Disillusionment, then "THEY" have won! Though those events seem "beyond our control", we continue to influence the world community through our service and our love. Movement toward the banning of international weapons sales and development must be a top priority. The lessons of this gulf war are glaringly obvious--if you sell somebody lots of deadly machines, somebody's very likely to get hurt, sooner or later! However, without global consciousness enhancement, this interdiction may prove impossible. It seems apparent that politically motivated arrangements are nearly impossible to balance equitably between peoples who have been trained to despise each other for generations. Some ideas toward raising the awareness of the people of the world: World-wide instants of meditation, and other time co-ordinated events (such as the Drum Circles at Federal Buildings at 3:02 pm EST on March 2nd, focus on PeacePark, Washington) will help raise the momentum toward the (ideal) shift in perspective. Grants of equipment and know-how to communities world-wide for inter-regional communication facilities (perhaps established in libraries, or schools) not controlled by governments or commercial media (such as PeaceNet). Packet radio and non-wire based data communication is very important for the free flow of information to increase. These kinds of things will begin to build the necessary bridges toward the transcendence of war. Some writers suggest that a focus on developing Solar and other renewable technologies could present the current defense industries with a war-scale challenge, and a way to continue contributing to the economy. Peacemaking is more than just preventing the next war. It's an >Evolutionary Movement< ! ! ! One question I can't seem to answer is "Whether Humans will ever Tire of War and Aggression?" Perhaps it's part of the growth cycle, but it's also time to grow up and smell the coffee! psf cdp!pfraterdeus@labrea.stanford.edu Peacenet: pfraterdeus and conf:awf.rainbownews (focalizer) Soon on WELL... PS Anybody using QuickMail for communications should ask me for the PeaceNet/QuickMail bridge script, which I'm now testing before its general release. This script, for a QM Telecom Mailcenter, provides unattended mail and file transfer, as well as checking all your regular conferences for new topics or unread entries. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 120 144 pfraterdeus 10:23 am Feb 26, 1991 Subject: 144 Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM 144 Journalists criticize P From mideast.media --- Visiting pn.alerts... Visiting pn.announcements... Visiting netnews... Visiting pn.calendar... Visiting gn.findhorn... Visiting mideast.media...2 unread topics, 0 unread responses 'u' to see next unread item, '?' for command summary, 'h' for more help Topic 144 Journalists criticize Persian Gulf peg:ianp mideast.media 3:04 pm Feb 26, 1991 Subject: Journalists criticize Persian Gulf /* Written 11:42 pm Feb 20, 1991 by clarinews in peg:clari.fighting */ /* ---------- "Journalists criticize Persian Gulf" ---------- */ [Provided for USENET readers by ClariNet Communications Corp. This copyrighted material is for one-time USENET distribution only.] WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Pentagon is waging a second war in the Persian Gulf, against the media, with an arsenal of coverage restrictions that is ``trampling on the American people's right to know,'' former television anchorman Walter Cronkite and other journalists told a Senate panel Wednesday. ``It is only the lightest form of exaggeration to suggest that the U. S. military is also at war in the Persian Gulf with the news media,'' Houston Chronicle Washington bureau chief Cragg Hines told the Senate Commitee on Governmental Affairs. ``The primary reason for this unnecessary battle is the restrictions on coverage that have been imposed from what it is easy to determine are the highest levels of the Defense Department,'' said Hines, who just returned from a month of reporting in the gulf. The panel of journalists focused their criticism on the pool system of coverage, charging it is designed to manage the news rather than inform the public and is based on what Cronkite, a former CBS anchorman, called ``a generally discredited Pentagon myth that the Vietnam war was lost because of the uncensored press coverage.'' ``With an arrogance foreign to the democratic system, the U.S. military in Saudi Arabia is trampling on the American people's right to know,'' Cronkite told the committee. `` ... Because of these onerous and unncessary rules, the American people are not being permitted to see and hear the full story of what their military forces are doing in an action that will reverberate long into the nation's future.'' Cronkite took aim at the Pentagon's pool system, which dispatches limited numbers of reporters accompanied by military ``escorts'' to units chosen by the military. ``The press should be free to go where it wants, when it wants,'' Cronkite said. Given that freedom, the former anchorman said, he favors military censorship aimed at protecting troops and the security of their operations. ``We have a pre-censorship now, ''with the military deciding what will be reported and when, Cronkite said. ``I'd rather have a post censorship.'' Cronkite said such a system of free reporting with censorship before publication worked well during World War II and could be equally workable in the Persian Gulf despite advances in television technology that enable live coverage. ``It doesn't really matter whether we report it this minute or this hour or this day even ... as long as we can report it in due time,'' Cronkite said. The hearing was called by the committee to examine the Pentagon rules on media access to Operation Desert Storm in response to complaints from news organizations that the restrictions are greater than in any other American war. ``Just as war, it is said, is too important to leave to the generals, reporting it may be just too important to leave entirely to Pentagon public affairs officials,'' said the committee's chairman, Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio. But the Pentagon's chief spokesman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Pete Williams, defended the pool system as ``working well.'' Williams said the number of reporters in the gulf -- about 1,400 -- and the topography of the battlefield and sheer size of the force manated a pool system over allowing reporters to roam the desert. ``We can't say 'y'all come to the battlefield,''' Williams said. ``These are mobile units and at some point they have to move.'' Williams acknowledged there have been instances where pool escorts attempted to censor or manage reporters' coverage, but emphasized such attempts at influence are counter to Pentagon policy. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 121 PEACE DRUMS AT THE WHITE HOUSE ppav 7:53 pm Feb 27, 1991 TO: ALL FROM: PEACE PARK SUBJECT: PEACE DRUMS AT THE WHITE HOUSE On January 13th, a Peace Drum ceremony was held in the Park. It was begun by Quiet Spirit and others of the Soiux nation. They had come from Minn. due to a "vision" to establish what came to be known as "the heartbeat of the people." On January 16th the bombing in Iraq began. Massive numbers of people began to maintain the drum beat on a 24hr basis. During the coarse of the war, there where times many thousands participated in the drum circle. It wasn't long before George Bush was quoted in the New York Times "Those dammed drums are keeping me awake all night." Natually, as nothing else seemed to be getting his attention, the Peace Drum Circle grew even larger and louder. Drum Circles started up in front of Federal Bldgs. in many places. No less than 17 Drum Circles in 12 states have been reported, many for 24hr/day. On Feburary 5th in a White House press conference, Bush bragged (and promted the reporters to listen for the drums) that the "drummers have been moved out of there." The drums could be heard and one reporter commented we "hadn't noticed" (press corp. laughter). The whole White House Press Corp. streamed straight out of the press room to Peace Park. While many arrests had occured the drummers where in fact not moved out of there. They kept coming and they kept drumming. Drumming became the civil disobedience of choice, (after 10:00 P.M. the U.S. Park Police enforce a 60 decibel limit, they hate drums, you can tell by how far viens distend around the neck area while yelling "stop it..stop it.. stop playing those dam drums"). This is how NATIONAL PEACE DRUM DAY was born. ANNOUNCEMENT........... NATIONAL PEACE DRUM DAY Where: At Federal Bldgs. nationwide When: March 2, 1991, 3:02 P.M. EST ITINERARY 3:00 PM EST One minute moment of silence in solidarity with the troops. Emphasis is on the opposition to the policy in the Persian Gulf. Prayers go out for the safety of our brothers and sisters thrust into this dangerous situation. (message is read) MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT, THE NATION, AND THE WORLD 1) Cease fire..... 2) War is not Peace 3) Abandon "Peace through Strength" and replace it with "Peace through Reason" 4) Two individuals have placed, with their intransigeance, the world in great peril with unknown consequences 5) The President of the United States has found it all to easy to ignore the Peace Drums across the street. On March 2, 1991, you will hear these drums. It will not be possible to fly off to Camp David or Kennibunkport or anywhere else to not hear these drums of peace. Where ever you go on this day, we will be there. YOU WILL HEAR THESE DRUMS OF PEACE......... 3:02 P.M. EST NATIONAL DRUM CIRCLE begins The duration of the circle is left to the people. (D.C.'s is 24hrs, 5:00 P.M. EST is recomended for national level focus). The demonstration should begin to coincide with the White House demo to achieve simultaneous real time focus, example 12:02 P.M. in Calf. (NOTE: In the state where the President is located at the time of The National Peace Drum Circle, the circle will assemble at that location. As information on the Presidents' itinerary is is being withheld from the organizers, a nationwide watch is on for information in the press on his location that day. It will most likly be in Maine, Maryland, or Washington DC. Location info should be phoned to national at (202) 462-0757, ATTN: Joseph Vigorito.........All other Circles are recommended to assemble at local federal bldgs.) Contact the Peace Park Office with info on local Drum Circles in your area. PEACE PARK ANTI-NUCLEAR VIGIL P.O. Box 27217 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20038 (202) 462-0757 or Peace Net E-Mail, jvigorito, or ppav ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 122 John Stockwell Speech from pfraterdeus 11:36 am Mar 1, 1991 Subject: John Stockwell Speech from Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI John Stockwell Speech from_ From peacenet conference mideast.gulf ---------------------------------- May be of interest! Petros ---------------------------------- Topic 137 John Stockwell Speech 2-20-91 5 responses freezecruz News of the Persian Gulf 2:43 am Feb 28, 1991 ***** ``The CIA and the Gulf War'' ***** The following five responses to this topic (* see mideast.gulf conference --petros *) comprise a speech by former CIA agent John Stockwell, delivered in Santa Cruz on February 20, 1991. His talk was entitled ``The CIA and the Gulf War,'' but the ground he covers is much broader than that. The entire speech is about 15,000 words -- each segment is about 3,000 words. If I can get the question and answer period which followed the talk transcribed soon, I'll post it as further responses to this topic. Stockwell's stuff is always good, and this is no exception. Excerpts from this speech will appear in the upcoming March issue of The Monthly Planet, the newspaper published by the Nuclear Weapons Freeze of Santa Cruz County. (If anyone out there has transcription equipment that they could donate to us -- you know, with a foot pedal! -- it would make our lives a lot easier here, and we would be more willing to post more of this kind of stuff. Contact us at The Monthly Planet, c/o Nuclear Weapons Freeze, P.O. Box 8463, Santa Cruz, CA 95061. Phone: 408-429-8755; fax 408-429-8889; PeaceNet: freezecruz.) -- John Govsky ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 123 Chicago Rainbow Picnics pfraterdeus 11:36 am Mar 1, 1991 Subject: Chicago Rainbow Picnics Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Chicago Rainbow Picnics Chicago Rainbow Circle Picnics the first Sunday of every month. This month (march) will be at Prism Gallery, 620 Davis St, in Evanston, just north of Chicago. Starts at Rainbow Noon! We'll be talking about where to have our outdoors picnics this year, and about the chicago mid-spring gathering.... We Love You! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 124 Bush Says No Anti-War Movem 1 response pfraterdeus 9:14 pm Mar 3, 1991 Subject: Bush Says No Anti-War Movem Attn: Rainbows &awf Reply to: Bush Says No Anti-War Movement In pn.announcements, ppav writes: >Bush said "There simply is no anti-war movement out there."< Oh! He found out that we're actually pro-peace! Play for Peace! petros "When Play is outlawed, only outlaws will know Joy!" ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 124 ppav 2:36 am Mar 4, 1991 Nothing a good drum circle wouldn't cure. Maybe we could try an invite to New England........Nahhhhhhhh.....The Damned drums ud keep em up all night...... ppav jvigorito PEACE PARK ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 125 New PeaceNet Brochure on li pfraterdeus 9:16 pm Mar 3, 1991 Subject: New PeaceNet Brochure on li Attn: Rainbows &awf GOOD MORNINGI New PeaceNet Brochure on line Look in pn.announcements for the new online PeaceNet brochure. The following quotes are from the brochure... Makes very good material to help explain why we're here on the net! Love, p. -------------------------------------- PEACENET: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS PeaceNet 18 De Boom Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415-442-0220 415-546-1794 (fax) Telex: 154205417 Internet: cdp!peacenet@igc.org Bitnet: cdp!peacenet%labrea@stanford UUCP: uunet!pyramid!cdp!peacenet DASNet: [DE3MIR]peacenet "For the information we need to organize, we must turn to PeaceNet. If you don't have a computer and modem, find someone who does." Tony Avirgan, Investigative Journalist in Costa Rica "Getting to know peace workers all over the world is enormously encouraging. It is wonderful to share resources and ideas with people I could never meet." Margaret Phillips, American Friends Service Committee, St. Louis, MO "I use PeaceNet to connect to other like-minded people. When I read the alerts, I feel immediately close to what's going on. It's a great way to build the critical mass for peaceful change." Patrick McNamara, Global Family Tourism, England "PeaceNet helps us link elementary and secondary schools internationally so kids can have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet." Peter Copen, Yorktown Heights, NY "The Gulf war proved that PeaceNet is invaluable in gathering news deliberately filtered out by the establishment press." Larry Bensky, National Affairs Correspondent, Pacifica Radio "PeaceNet is a powerful tool for building our network of progressive lawyers and legal workers." Debra Evenson, President, National Lawyers Guild DIAL LOCALLY, ACT GLOBALLY PeaceNet will let you talk, plan and work with people in over 90 countries, all without expensive travel and phone bills. You can truly dial locally and act globally. INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS PeaceNet is a founder of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). With partner networks in Nicaragua, Brazil, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, the Soviet Union and Germany (more are being planned), the APC is world's only distributed computer network linking peace, social change and environmental activists. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 126 Boston-Area Benefit Show salem 12:05 am Mar 4, 1991 Howdy ! A Boston-area benefit concert to raise funds for the 1991 National Rainbow Gathering will be held Saturday, March 9th at 8PM in the Jamaica Plain Multicultural Art Center. The benefit will feature Shockra, a popular funk and world beat band. Between the band's sets, a drumming circle open to all will encourage spontaneous creation and connections. During the music and drumming, Kaleidoscopic Designs will create a psychedelic light show background. To introduce newcomers to Rainbow, a slide show will present highlights of the past 20 years of gatherings. To encourage networking and planning for this year's gathering, an information table and networking board will be available. This benefit concert, in keeping with Rainbow tradition, is an alcohol-free all-ages event. Childcare is available. The event is open to all but for those that can afford it, the organizers suggest a donation of $10 or more. All proceeds will go towards purchasing supplies for this year's national gathering. The Jamaica Plain Firehouse Multicultural is located at 659 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, Mass (near Boston). More info ? (617) 234-2042 Hope y'all can make it ! Much love and light, jim ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 127 Vladimire Posiner interview, very 2 responses ppav 2:27 am Mar 4, 1991 Heard on nationaly broadcast radio show featuring Vladimire Posner, March 2, 1991. peacenet promoted as valuable tool for info out of Europe. Issues concerning America's lack of stressed. Interesting interview on what was going on behind the seens in USSR during Iraq war. Have tape, Anyone want copy? ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 127 peace@web.UUCP 3:28 pm Mar 4, 1991 Can you put a copy in the conference? Mideast.gulf would be useful. CSUSCIME ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 127 peagle 6:07 pm Mar 15, 1991 Thanks for the offer, I'm interested. I read his autobiography recently and I recommend it, check your library. I'll pay for the cassette if you want to do it that way. Thanks again, send me mail (PEAGLE) if you want to talk about this. Paul ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 128 Rainbow 1991 Info salem 5:54 pm Mar 6, 1991 Howdy ! This is a quick summary of some of what's going on in preparation for this summer's Rainbow Family Peace Gathering July 1-7 in the Northeast. Plug in where you can -- we love you ! CONTACT ADDRESS: Rainbow 1991 Box 116 Wilton NH 03086 (603) 878-2022 (This is Warren and Sunbear's place, don't call too late.) WHAT YOU CAN DO: Fundraising is essential - organize a benefit in your area. Start gathering kitchen and building supplies around your town (5 gal. buckets, 55 gal. food grade drums, large pots, scrap wood, shovels saws, ...). Start planning with others what you want to create this summer: kitchens, kidspace, music, healing, workshops. . . Spread the word . SPRING COUNCIL: This is the major planning council for the gathering. April 5th through 7th Saugerties, New York (near Woodstock). Directions: Take NY Thruway to 87 toward Woodstock. Take Saugerties exit (Rt 32N). After 1 stop sign take right fork (Old King Hwy). First left past church is Sach's Lodge. For more info contact Abgail at (914) 679-5077. CALENDAR: March 9 Boston area benefit at Jamaica Plain Multicultural Art Center April 5-7 Spring Council (See above) May 4-5 Love-In in Cambridge Common, Cambridge MA May 5-? Minnesota Spring Cleanup July 1-7 1991 National Rainbow Family Gathering in the Northeast July 27 European Gathering in Poland RAINBOW GUIDE '91: This is the family's networking directory. It will be going to print almost immediately. Needs $2000 for printing. Donations and listing info to: Rainbow Guide 1991 c/o Duane Holloway, 278 Stadium T/P, Key West FL 33040. WATER PURIFICATION: A healthy gathering starts with heathy water. Alec and Tammy of CALM are putting together a filtration system that can purify 20,000 gallons a day and they need to raise $3500. They are selling tapes of the 1990 Minn. gathering to raise funds. Send donations and tape orders to Alec & Tammy, Box 300032, Denver CO 80203 or to the CALM Bank account c/o Stuart Watts, 1161 Maez, Santa FE NM 87501. ALL WAYS FREE: The family's news and arts paper. Send your donations of camera-ready copy and green energy to: All Ways Free, 515 E. Grant Rd. Suite 113, Tucson AZ 85705. They also have a video of past gatherings available. Rachel Open Circle (69 Colonial Village, Amherst MA 01002) is focalizing a northeast family page. Pam Goldstein is focalizing a sister's page. Send copy ASAP to her at 36A Avon St., Somerville MA 02143. SCOUTING: Scouting Council Saturday March 16 at 10AM at Warren and Sunbear's, Greenville NH. Call ahead (603-878-2022). If you know of a possible site, please explore it and report to the group as soon as possible. For more info contact Rick or Chris. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 129 M.A.R.S. Calling. 1 response lbadger 8:05 am Mar 7, 1991 Good Morning from M.A.R.S. The sun is rising outside of my window behind my pc terminal and I am elated that I have finally connected with peace net. Now let's see what we can do with this beast. With coffee in hand I present to all of you the news from the Monterey Area Rainbow Service Focalizers in California at 6:52 am. Just having got back from Tuscon, we are trying to help raise funds for All WAYS FREE. Tony Crow and et. al. have not recieved hardly any support so far this year. No articles, no artwork, no news, little funds. Dis-appointing to be sure; but I feel that our Rainbow folks out their have been a little distracted by the war... come on lets get the word out. Send materials and donations ( checks payable to All Ways Free ): ALL WAYS FREE 515 E. Grant Rd. Box 113 Tucson, Az. 85705 M.A.R.S. has created a beautiful 'Honaray Magic Pass' to help raise funds for the All Ways Free. This magic pass is like a ticket and is a two color silk screened process done on holographic mylar. It says: All Ways Free Benefits Spring 1991, Honaray Magic Pass. On the Back it has the A.W.F. address and a Benefits calander. We can print any Benefits information on the back of these Magic Passes. So far this has helped to inspire two benefits in Calif. All Ways Free Benefit Bidwell Park ( at five mile ) Chico, Ca. live music by AMAZE May 5th, 1991 ( for more info contact M.A.R.S. ) Also the S.C.A.R.F. ( Santa Crus Area Rainbow Focalizers ) asnd M.A.R.S. are co-sponsoring a benefit ( hopefully ) at the veterans hall in downtown Santa Cruz. Sometime in late April or early May. Magic passes are already being distributed to folks to take to already scheduled Rainbow events. If anyone would like to get Magic Passes to use for fund raising or for promoting a A.W.F. benefit ( which if you arrange a time and place for print that info on the back of the magic pass ) write to: M.A.R.S. box 9202 Monterey, Calif. 93942 ( or call yours truly Lyonel Badger at 408-375-2306 ) These magic passes are inconjunction with raising donations and are not for sale all proceeds are sent directly to A.W.F. S.C.A.R.F is also focalizing a Rainbow Picnic every 3rd sunday of the month at Natural Bridges park in Santa Cruz, Calif. The next picnic is March 17th at noon. M.A.R.S. is focalizing a picnic on March 23rd at the veterans memorial park in Monterey Calif. at noon. Well lets see if I can upload this file... Love from this side of the medicine wheel, Lyonel Badger from M.A.R.S. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 129 ppav 3:38 am Mar 10, 1991 hey badger.......welcome home....... PEACE PARK here.....you got joe...... big things happening in the park.........kinda strange...combination new world order and new age motivation........drummers keep on comin and keep on drummin........over 200 arested......some beatings.... park police don't know what the hell to do......will fill you in with more details in a file.......big TRO coming...... ppav jvigorito PEACE PARK, Watchers at The Gate ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 130 focalizer mailing submission #1 jjohnson 12:52 pm Mar 16, 1991 Cc: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: focalizer mailing submission #1 LEGALIAISON UPDATE - MARCH 12, 1991 03/11/91, a Monday: - Legaliaison Volunteer Thumper exchanged messages with Dinah Apple, who works with Forest Service Regulatory Officer Marian Connolly (phone 703/235-1488) - Dinah says that "nothing has been done" on 36 CFR 251, which means that their new regulations relating to Gatherings are still on the "back burner". Dinah said that "other Agency priorities" were keeping them from working on them, and they didn't know when they'd get around to it. The FS has been saying this since last June, more or less. It's hard to believe that they won't make it a priority for this year's Gathering, but maybe there's some new, different tactic they're going to try. The FS just revamped their appeals procedures, and all are encouraged to study them and comment; they were printed in the Federal Register around Feb. 15. The DC Crew still plans to do a nationwide mailing to all folks who ask to be notified, whenever the FS regs are drafted and available for comment. Until then, local and regional Councils are encouraged to organize and lobby Congress, and to do whatever else they feel will help protect our Right to Gather. AN IDEA: Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat from Vermont, is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, which oversees the Forest Service. Since the Gathering has been led to his area, this is perhaps the best opportunity we have to bring Congress into the scene, and getting a relationship with Leahy now may be the best way to start. If we can get letters written at councils, potlucks, and Gatherings, get an appointment with his aide who handles Forest Service matters, and simply describe the history of our relationship with the FS, we could have a significant effect on the new regs coming out. Perhaps each local and Regional Council could set aside ten or fifteen minutes on their Agenda so that each person could share inspiration and write together. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry SR-328A Russell SOB Washington, DC 20510 (202)224-2035 Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy SR-433 Russell Washington, DC 20510 (202)224-4242 subject to the approval of Rainbow Legaliaison/DC Crew, whose actions are subject to the approval of RFTC, July 1st, 1991 Legaliaison/DC Crew, Box 5604, Takoma Park, MD 20913 * 202/797-3625 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 131 TOPIC #136 is Legaliaison Update/D 2 responses jjohnson 1:01 pm Mar 16, 1991 sorry about the mislabel ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 131 lbadger 2:10 am Mar 20, 1991 Howdy, Thankyou for replying so promptly to our plee for the 91 focalizers list for A.W.F. I had just returned from Tucson the end of Feb. after counciling with Tony Crow and et al. Also have established account for him on peacenet.. just a matter of him working out the 'language' and modem stuff... He should be on line shortly. M.A.R.S expidiated all of the conference by downloading it and prionting it ( 200 pages phew ) and then we mailed it to Tony and A.W.F. a couple of days ago... Things are popping...we have committed an auditorium for a double A.W.F. benefit show on Mother's day May 12th... more later Love Lyonel Badger ? [A[A[A[A ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 131 lbadger 2:13 am Mar 20, 1991 opps please read message for 137 rats??? meant for here!!! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 132 A.W.F. needs 91 focalizers 3 responses pfraterdeus 3:50 pm Mar 16, 1991 Subject: A.W.F. needs 91 focalizers Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: A.W.F. needs 91 focalizers list no Ho! Tina has got a funky answering machine!!!! She'll be faxing a list out to Tony et al, this afternoon! (Sat mar 16) Peace! Petros PS. Please avoid all caps if possible! It's a real chore to re-type stuff into upper and lower for print outs ! (I just use >>>>These<<<< for emphasis!) I'm also ready to send floppy disks of stuff from this conference to awf if desired. I know it's not beautiful artwork, but there's alot of good stuff here, eh?!?! Is good idea? Love & Light! P. Hey Tony! When are you guys gonna get online???? Call me up and I'll give you a password to try it out! Ninety-nine bucks buys a very nice 2400 baud modem these days for the Mac. I can send you a shareware communcations program.... Peace! Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 132 lbadger 2:14 am Mar 20, 1991 wow double goof me4ssage for this conference[D[D[D[D[D[D is found on 137 hohoho LB ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 132 lbadger 7:09 am Mar 23, 1991 Hey, what's happening wwith that list... it is March 23rd and still Tony has not recieved any focalizer list from Tony...what gives. Lyonel Badger ( Tenderfire ) ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 132 pfraterdeus 12:50 pm Mar 23, 1991 Subject: A.W.F. needs 91 focalizers Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: A.W.F. needs 91 focalizers >>>All Ways Free --- Rainbow Family News 7:09 am Mar 23, 1991 Hey, what's happening wwith that list... it is March 23rd and still Tony has not recieved any focalizer list from Tony...what gives. Lyonel Badger ( Tenderfire )<<< Er, um, well it's like this. Things are happening, and I'm trying to facilitate this as much as possible, but it's in the hands of ONE person (next time, we'll know better), and that person is very hard to get hold of, phone being temp. disconnected, etc. and thus we've had a lot of missed opportunities. We put in about 6 hours on the list Thursday (Mar 22nd), comparing for duplicates and bad addresses, adding in new and corrected info, etc. Unfortunately, I seem to be the only rainbow in the city of chicago with any computer knowledge, and every time I have folks over to help out, I spend half the time teaching them how to do it (Which I don't mind so much) or telling them AGAIN how to do it (which starts to get a little old!) I guess I didn't think that the List was so dependent on ME, since I have so little control over when it gets done. I can only apologize for not pushing our good sister a little harder earlier on, but I have not had good results with that approach in the past, in any case. I promised Ric (with the Rainbow Guide in Madison) that we'd have the FOcs list faxed to him by tonight (Saturday) and it should be here in the Conf then also. Also, I'm getting a disk of stuff together from the conference for All Ways Free, that I'll be sending to Tony, unless you're (badger) already providing this. Chichgo Rainbow has been sending donations of $ when ever we can, and AWF will be getting good exposure in our next Regional Mailing (it'll also go to all the FOCs). Hope SPring is making y'all happy! Play for Peace! Love Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 133 Australian Gatherings mendicott 7:10 pm Mar 18, 1991 The flow of the river of life would seem to be moving slowly here, since I take so long a time to answer communications. There are many ripples and swirls in that river around me; and the process I live in, forever working to calm the waters, absorbs my energy and releases it again in rhythmic cycles. Both of our last two events were very wet, yet about 100 people braved the rain both times. The most we have gathered was 250 in '86 after the "Peace Train" 'round Australia came in for welcome home. All One Family solstice and equanox healing gatherings are small, to cater for the special purpose of providing space and time for people ready to be free from all drugs, etc. Conversely, the annual Down To Earth Confest, in our southern states, caters to more total freedoms from civilized "normals," so everything tends to happen. At one Confest ('85) a few of us met and decided to experiment with the drugless, commercial-less idea. It's not grown much yet. At one of our little gatherings a concept of a community began, and now is evolving into "Equanimity." So God works in strange ways at times. We will be enriched by news of your big gatherings. Loving you in peace, Dik All One Family Gathering c/o DTE:NEA Newsletter P.O.Box 341 Spring Hill, Queensland 4004 AUSTRALIA ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 134 Western Regional & Calander 1 response lbadger 8:11 am Mar 21, 1991 Santa Cruz Area Rainbow Family Newsletter (S.C.A.R.F.) March 20, 1990 ( exerpts and calander) **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** *** Report on the Vision Council for the 1991 Spring West Coast Regional Gathering +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A vision council was held in Ben Lomond, CA. on Feburuary 9th, 1991 to discuss visions for a west coast regional gathering this spring or summer. Brothers and sisters from Chico, Monterey, Berkley, and the Santa Cruz areas of California were present along with folks from Portland, Oregon and Coure De Laine, Idaho areas. Mark McCracken, who has been active in focalizing a gathering in the west coast this year, began the council, ( after a heartsong circle ) with a description of the scouting and other information that he had gathered so far. Lengthy discussion ensued reguarding possible locations and dates but no consensus was reached on specific sites or dates. It was consensed that the gathering should be known as the " Western Tribes Regional Rainbow Gathering". There was a strong sense in the council that more scouting needed to be done before a specific site was selected ( only a few sites had beed scouted, and only one or two of those would be acceptable ). Consensus was reached, however, on the general region in which to scout and locate the gathering; southern Oregon. There was at least some support for the idea that this gathering, if it continues to happen, should continue to move to different regions in the West each year. There was no consensus called on that idea, however. While the council was unable to reach a consensus on a specific date, due in part to a possible conflict with another gathering happening in Western Montana, but it was consensed that the gathering would happen in late June. Although not specifically consensed to, the feeling of the council seemed to imply that the gathering should end soon enough to allow time for those who were traveling to the east coast for the national gathering and get there without missing much, if any, of the regional. As this newsletter is being put together, a scouting council for the Western Tribes Regional Rainbow Gathering is being held in Oregon. If we recieve word of the outcome before this mailing, we'll try to include it. I believe this to be a true accounting of the vision council. If there are any inaccuraciesor ( huh. Sp? - TF ) ommissions in this account, the fault lies with my own bad mamory ( and missing notes ) and I take full responsibility for them Peace and Love, Mark Cleveland ( S.C.A.R.F. ) ( Note: pretty good job, I was there also- TenderFire ) +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ WESTERN RAINBOW CALANDER OF EVENTS On Going Events: Rainbow Picnic ( potluck ), 1st Sunday of each month in Ho Chi Mihn ( Willard ) Park, Berkley, Ca. Rainbow Picnic, 2nd Suunday of each month on Hayden Island, Portland, Or. Contact- Mark McCracken 3015 NE. Broadway Portland Or. 97232 (503-779-3620) ( Note: focalizer for Western Tribes Regional Rainbow Gathering ) Rainbow Picnic (potluck), 3rd Sunday of each month, Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz, Ca. Contact- S.C.A.R.F. Box 1105 Ben Lomond, Ca. 95005 ( Diana or Jon 408 338-2673 ) ( Mark at 408 336-8614 ) Other happenings: Rainbow Picnic, Saturday, March 23, 1991, Veteran's Memorial Park, Monterey, Ca. Contact M.A.R.S. Monterey Area Rainbow Service Focalizers box 9202 Monterey, Ca. 93942 ( Lyonel- 408 375-2306 ) ( Note- MARS is also helping to focalize the May 19th A.W.F. benefit listed below ) AllWays Free Benefits May 19th, 1991 ( 10 am and 5 pm. Yes, two shows ) Louden Nelson Community Center Auditorium Santa Cruz, Calif. This double show is being co-produced by both M.A.R.S. and S.C.A.R.F. Tentatively planned as two shows. An early show could be a family show and the late show might be a rock concert. National coordination is being handled by Lyonel at MARS. Interest or to participate or reserve a magic pass for either show- please contact Lyonel ( as listed above ) Newsflashhhh: Western Tribes Rainbow Regional Council ( re: gathering in June ) March 22nd - 24th ( council on 23rd and 24th ) Cougar Hot Springs, Oregon contact Mark McCracken ( listed above ) ( Note- Well that's about all, Love from this side of the Medicine Wheel ) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 134 lbadger 7:07 am Mar 23, 1991 Howdy Please note the AllWays Free Benefit in Santa Cruz, California has changed to MAY 26th, 1991....THANKYOU ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 135 Indiana Spring Bioregional Council sjohgart 8:13 pm Mar 21, 1991 Here is a transcript of the info I recently received on the Indiana/Wabash Bioregion Rainbow Council: <> ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 136 Spring Council salem 8:03 am Mar 22, 1991 The Spring Council site for the 1991 national gathering has been CHANGED. Please spread the word. The New York site did not work out and following the concensus of the January '91 Ithaca council we will gather for Spring Council at the site of the 1989 Vermont regional gathering. Spring council will be held April 5-7, at the Sommerset Site, in southern Vermont. We will set up at the Red Mill Brook forest service campsite (which we used for bus village). The campsite is unmarked and is just north off of route 9, between Bennington and Wilmington, Vermont. This will be a camping only site. We will hopefully have a circus tent to keep us dry but be prepared for cold and wet weather. For more info: Hotline: (508) 544-2978 Sunbear & Warren's (603) 878-2022 (don't call too late) !!!! THIS IS THE SITE !!! -------------+ | V N HOME ^ (unmarked Road) W< + >E ^ v | S 4-7 miles | 4-7 miles Bennington <---------------------------------------> Wilmington | | | | Store v v Akins Wilderness area (Sign) State Park (Red Mill I think) * * ***** *** * WE LOVE YOU ! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 137 Hemp Jeans from Levi's? pfraterdeus 12:48 pm Mar 23, 1991 Subject: 64 Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM 64 Cannabis jeans and IMI A Thought this was of interest! From the usenet conference "alt.drugs" on PeaceNet type "g alt.drugs" Petros ******************** Topic 64 Cannabis jeans and IMI Apr27 rally mrosing alt.drugs 8:18 pm Mar 22, 1991 I wrote a letter to Levi's asking if they could remake cannabis hemp jeans. Here is their reply: ********************************************************************* Thank you for your letter suggesting Levi Strauss & Co. produce jeans using Cannabis Hemp. We are continually analyzing the apparel market to determine the clothing preferences and needs of consumers. We try to meet as many requirements as we possibly can. We try to produce jeans that reflect the demands of the majority of the population. At the same time, we are constantly seeking ways to keep our products market-competitive so we can continue to produce apparel of the value and quality our customers expect of Levi Strauss & Co. We appreciate hearing from you and knowing your preference. Thank you for your continued support of our Company and our products. Please call our toll-free number, 1-(800)-USA-LEVI, if we may be of assistance any time in the future. Sincerely yours, (signed) Michael Stewart Consumer Affairs LEVI STRAUSS & CO ********************************************************************** ******** I propose a "cannabis jeans campaign". Get 50,000 people to call 1-800-USA-LEVI and ask them to produce hemp jeans. That's 1000 people in every state. There must be that many activists who could make a *free* phone call. I'll try to get IMI to do some advertising. For all those living within 100 miles of Chicago IMI (Illinois Marijuana Initiative) is having the 4th annual legalization rally at the Grant Park Lincoln Monument on April 27th 1991 from 12 to 6 pm. Hope to have Jack Herer and should have Jay Miller, executive director of Illinois ACLU as well as the band Why Not? for music. Patience, persistance, truth, reality: mgr@anlhep.anl.gov Dr. mike peacenet: mrosing UUCP: uunet!pyramid!cdp!mrosing ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 138 From Iris Springflower... 2 responses pfraterdeus 11:14 pm Mar 23, 1991 Subject: From Iris Springflower... Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI From Iris Springflower... [The following was received from Iris Springflower] For awf.rainbownews & All Ways Free Dear Peter, Hi. It's Iris Springflower. Louisa told me you were in Gays Mills and that she told you of my Social Sercurity disablity denial on the basis of my alternative lifestyle. ---------------------------------------------------- Let me >explain<: In march 1990, at the advice of friends I applied for Social Security Supplemental Security Income (SSI). I have documentation from my different psychotherapists, a psychologist, and a psychiatrist (M.D.) that I suffer from Major Depression, post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Anxiety Disorder due to experiencing severe abuse earlier in my life from several different sources. Also, earlier in my life, I was drawn to the Alternative culture because of the Love and Acceptance it offered. Plus, I had a vision as a child of people of all races holding hands as ONE. My involvement with the Alternative Culture has given me HOPE and a purpose for living. Due to experiencing unbearable overwhelming psychic PAIN, I have attempted suicide in the past. But my alternative Culture Rainbow Family have STOPPED me from doing so and have taken CARE of me in those crisis situations. Without them I would be >dead< right now! My current psychotherapist has determined that I am incapacitated. That I am unable to keep/hold a regular job right now. I need financial aid to support myself and my 14 year old son. The psychotherapist adds that a failed job experience would be damaging to me. I spend my time trying to HEAL and creating crafts to share. Also my crafts are a form of therapy for me. Since March 1990, I have been denied SSI three times. I last went before a judge on January 31, 1991, in Madison, Wisconsin, for an appeal. I spent a long time there, >re-living< traumatic experiences into order to PROVE that I am disabled and need financial help to prevent myself from becoming homeless again. I was homeless for five years and it is a frightening experience. Anyway, recently I received another denial notice. I will now quote the government's reasons: "Other medical evidence of record disclosed that it is the opinion of the claiment's psychotherapist that she is disabled, and that she is diagnosed as having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depression, and general anxiety..." I will skip down the report to the part I believe is discriminatory: "Additionally, the record disclosed that the CLAIMENT IS SATISFIED WITH HER ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE (exhibit 18), and hearing testimony disclosed that very early in the claiment's life she decided she wanted to adopt an alternative lifestyle and that she is satisfied with said type of lifestyle AND SIMPLY DOES NOT WANT TO CONFORM." I ask, what does my disablity have to so with my alternative lifestyle? If anything, my lifestyle has saved my life! I feel more >accepted< within the alternative lifestyle tyan anyplace else. In other words, it's not so much that I went and chose the alternative lifestyle as it is that the alternative lifestyle is the only place I feel ACCEPTED. My legal services attorney is appealing the government's erroneous decision, but it will take a long time. PLEASE-- I need your help and support out there. People who know me please sendf letters on my behalf. I feel I am being discriminated against. It HURTS. Please share/ spread the news about my story. Contact me: Iris Springflower (Kay) PO Box 54 Gays Mills, WI 54631 Thank You! I Love You! ------------------------------------------------------- ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 138 chrp 2:30 pm Mar 24, 1991 Hi Iris. If you or anyone else wants info about the psychiatric survivors liberation movement, drop a line to: Dendron, PO Box 11284, Eugene, OR 97440. Or leave your address on our answering machine at (503) 341-0100. ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 138 lbadger 6:39 am Mar 26, 1991 His Iris This is Moonwater Shyson Lyonel Tenderfire Badger. I recieve SSI/SSA and have lived this so called alternate life stuyle for the last twenty years. I was on the streets for 10 years until a sweet sister held my hand and helped me get help... a place to stay while getting the ss act together, a doctor and treatment. I was denied once. but persued the issue and got a nice big retroactive check for my trouble. Write your congressman ( a good one ) as I did... write everyone you can.. tgestimonials etc. In the meanwhile hang on.. If you have a on going doctor you should be able to barrow funds from welfare agianst the retroactive ss. write me: Lyonel Badger Box 25211, Monterey Calif. 93942 I have a lot of experience dealing with the system. Since then I even got social security to pay for my A.S. degree in computer science and buy me a computer lab for home. I am nmow well on the way to becoming independant pof socoial security because of all the great help that I have recieved... You will recall we have met many times... Love, Lyonel Badger ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 139 Would you Mind???? 4 responses pfraterdeus 11:15 pm Mar 23, 1991 Subject: Would you Mind???? Attn: Rainbows &awf GOOD MORNINGI Would you Mind???? Hey, pn Rainbows, would any of you mind be listed in the Focalizer List as Peacenetters? If so you may expect to receive letters or calls asking for updated info. Love you! Tina and Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 139 amullen 7:10 pm Mar 25, 1991 tina and petros, you can list me as peacenetter. i focalized for this area (Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo area) last year, but am just now recovering from a heavy depression and so have been out of touch until the last couple of weeks with local family. I have started forwarded info to local folks from awf.rainbownews now and will be heart-full to continue. hugs, owl ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 139 ppav 11:11 pm Mar 25, 1991 yes......you can count me in as a peaceneter focalizer..... ppav ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 139 lbadger 11:25 pm Mar 29, 1991 Howdy MARS here, We are peaceneting like crazy and it only follows that we should be listed as such... thanks for uploading the much needed list.. question which list was complete... there update I guessed... We need to kick some perval perval and get this paper on the paper...ok..read AWF newsflash on a red postcard...got yours yet...carry on... LOVE Lyonel[D[D[D[D ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 139 sjohgart 5:19 am Apr 6, 1991 Sure, list me. Unfortunately, I don't get up here real often, but I like to chec check in when I can. Where's this uploaded list, by the way? ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 140 From Heart Warrior pfraterdeus 5:29 am Mar 24, 1991 Subject: From Heart Warrior Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI From Heart Warrior The following was received from Heart Warrior. She ran for governor in Minnesota in 1990, and came in third, ahead of any other "third party". ------------------------------------------ Dec 30, 1990 Dear Rainbow friends, We are meeting soon to discuss strategy for future elections. Running for office is a good way to get the issues out there and get legislatures to wake up -- Elmer Andersen who was governor in the 60's wrote to me three times in a row after elections, encouraging me and saying we affected legislation toward heavy metals mining in Minnesota, but we did not STOP it. We're up against multi-national corporations who have strangleholds on federal as well as state government. We were even attacked 4 times during the campaign, but the bad forces got turned aside--plus, a political science professor and TV newscaster said 100 thousand votes were missing from the governor's race--most likely from Hennepin County where WE were strong. that county carries 1/4 of the state vote. So I think we did a lot better than they let on. I got offered free training as a radio investigative news reporter which is where I am at now--another way to keep the spotlight on the mining plans. Most media won't touch the mining plans with a ten foot pole--If I keep covering it on radio, the newspapers and TV may be forced to also. So the fight goes on... A peaceful good New Year to you all!! Heart Warrior Thanks for your support. ------------------------ Nov 14 1990 Dear Friends, co-workers and Earth Right Campaign conspirators! Upon the physical plane there are varied states of consciousness awareness incarnate. Therefore we do NOT concentrate our activities upon the physical manifestation but do effect by our activities their indwelling state of consciousness, This includes all Kingdoms in Nature. This is what we have done in our small way during the 1990 Governatorial campaign. Hopefully, the 21,134 votes will count in the days ahead for that many active people concerned with the issues we brought forth. I thank each and every one of you who added your energy to mine -- I believe we have been successful; but now that this field of activity has passed we must withdraw for a time, contemplate our past activity, and re-affirm our position to continue our struggle in one form or another. We worked through and with the energy of purification in the Sacred Fire. Life is Fire. While we are on earth our bodies emit heat. When we "pass on", our bodies grow stiff and cold--the life atom has gone out of the Heart Center. Fire emits heat ---put your tobacco--your prayers, in the fire. Winter equinox is the time for this. Spirit Fire is the innate power in the manifested Universe, which gradually and steadily adapts the substance aspect to the spiritual, by a process we call purification; what the Phoenix symbolizes where humanity is concerned. That is why I referred to our administration as the "Phoenix Administration" should we have won the election. Fire is essentially the energy which substitutes TRUTH for Illusion. Human thinking has debased this concept so that purification is related mainly to physical phenomena and physical life and to a selfish idealism which is largely based on the sanitary care of substance. An enforced celibacy (sex center) or rigid vegetarianism (solar plexus) are familiar examples of this--so is the pro-life anti-abortionist's stance and pro-choice, though pro-choice is the healthier because it accounts more openly for the life energy with intelligent thought process--none the less the issue focuses the attention on sex and not on the heart. The physical disciplines have been put in place of emotional loveliness, mental clarity, intuitional illumination; and the thoughts of humanity become focussed downward into matter, and not toward the light within the heart. The heart center is the gateway of Life; the keeper and channel for Sacred Fire Life to all forms, to all conscious awarenesses. Let us bring the truth of our human condition to others so that a conscious choice can be made by the masses of human beings everywhere--we face a crossroads in the evolution of the planet-- all races, all people on every level must be made aware of their duty and responsibility toward the future generations. Will we close our eyes and condemn the unborn to a future of darkness, of gross materialism, greed, selfishness, war and famine because we cannot exert ourselves to THINK, to REFLECT on the social, political and environmental crisis facing us today--because of our thoughtless lifestyles? NO-- when we see and care for life, it is our duty to take the action necessary to clarify and provide alternatives so that the one life on earth can realize its essential unity and sacredness--so that future generations can inherit a good earth that is clean, abundant, and pro-evolutionary in Harmony with Life. We must take time now to reflect on our part as a group-- as Earth Right Party we can effect change even if we're NOT elected. In 2 years, elections to various offices come up and I ask those of you who wish to work in the political medium to contemplate it until we call our first meeting, some time after the New Year. It was an honor to have met and worked with you. In one Blood, One Spirit. Heart Warrior ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 141 Listing of Regional N/L's pfraterdeus 5:29 am Mar 24, 1991 Subject: Listing of Regional N/L's Attn: rappinfred GOOD MORNINGI Listing of Regional N/L's Howdy! Tina's here doing the Focalizer mailing, and we were wondering if y'all have a compilation of the names and contacts for the various regional and local Rainbow newsletters that are being produced around the world? Lot's of Love! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 142 Focalizers List 1991 Follows 1 response pfraterdeus 12:57 pm Mar 24, 1991 Subject: Focalizers List 1991 Follows Dear Family and Focalizers--- The response to this Message contains an uploaded copy of the Focalizer Network List. It has been uploaded in binary form, for accuracy's sake, but the file is actually ascii text, once it's on your computer. To download, press return after reading this message, and type ",cd" (don't type the quotes!) the command to c)apture and d)ownload. The system will ask you to choose a download protocol, I'd recommend Xmodem, since it is error correcting. Type 'x' and then proceed using whatever method your communication software provides to download, or capture the data with Xmodem. The list is in tab separated fields, the values are listed in the first paragraph, for easy importing into your database software! Any body that's using a Macintosh and FileMaker II, I can send the list in a Filemaker file that has mailing labels formatsetc. all worked out! Note that this list is for the use of Rainbow focalizers only, and for this reason is (c)1991, Focalizers Network Council. All rights reserved. Tina's done quite a lot of good work on this, however, there may be more responses coming in, either corrections, dead addresses, or new focs, so we'll keep posting updated info as we assimilate it! With Love and Thanks! Mitakuye Oyasin! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 142 pfraterdeus 12:59 pm Mar 24, 1991 Cc: lbadger Subject: Focalizers List 1991 Follows From pfraterdeus Sun Mar 24 12:38 PST 1991 To: pfraterdeus Subject: Focs List 1991 Try #2! Status: R /* Written 10:12 am Mar 24, 1991 by pfraterdeus in cdp:awf.rainbownews */ /* ---------- "Focs List 1991 Try #2!" ---------- */ Subject: Focs List 1991 Try #2! 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The system also asks if you want to download the message, topic, or all unread messages. Type m for m)essage, and proceed as in 150... Play for Peace! petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 144 Chicago Picnic Apr 7 pfraterdeus 5:37 pm Mar 25, 1991 Subject: Chicago Picnic Apr 7 Attn: awf.rainbownews Chicago Picnic Apr 7 3/25/91 1:28 PM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! Chicago Rainbow Circle Gatherings in the Park! First Sunday of every month. New Site starting in April! Near the Totem Pole at Addison and Lake Shore Drive. Come and share a circle in this city full of straight lines! Picnic starts at 1:00, council around 3:00 or so. We'll be talking about upcoming Regional gatherings and the National in Vermont July 1-7! Bring wholesome goodies to share, stories, friends, a cup and spoon, guitars, drums, flutes, and a trash bag for clean-up! Play for Peace! Sunday April 21 CRC Benefit at WEEDS, 1555 N. Dayton, Chicago, 1 block w. of Halsted. with Airport Lobsters, more TBA! We Love You! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 145 Focs List Update 26 mar 91 2 responses pfraterdeus 12:57 am Mar 26, 1991 Subject: Focs List Update 26 mar 91 Attn: awf.rainbownews Focs List Update 26 mar 91 3/26/91 2:38 AM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! 26 March 1991 Focalizer List This list should be used Only for Rainbow Tribal Networking. All rights Reserved / Focalizers Council (c) 1991 The data is arranged in the following ordered fields, tab (ASCII 9) separated. Region / Name / Address / City / State / Zip / Phone / Country / "Clues" / Last responded / e-mail Some fields (like address) may have a "new line" character (ASCII 11), and the end of the record is marked with a carriage return (ASCII 13). If you use a filing or database program, set up a template with the fields as above, and "import" the following stuff! You'll probably need to remove these notes before importing. 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Hope it's useful! Try to show doubtful folks that this serves our family--we are drawn closer together with our family world wide through this medium! Play for Peace! Petros -------------------- Subject: Re: Trial Log-on IDs for technophobes? Hi Petros: If it's convenient, I can give you a demo account for this purpose. The trick is that I change the password frequently. You can use the "pndemo3" account; current password is "4igc" Check with me about the password from time to time. Regards, Howard @ PeaceNet ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 147 CNN Debate on Drug War pfraterdeus 5:21 am Mar 28, 1991 Subject: CNN Debate on Drug War Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM CNN Debate on Drug War from conf:alt.drugs fwd by pfraterdeus 28 mar 91 The following (and anything else in this conference, for that matter) is for informations only, and is not necessarily the opinion of any Rainbow Council. ______________________________________________________________________ ______ Topic 32 CNN Debate on Drug War Response 2 of 2 esterling alt.drugs 8:04 pm Mar 26, 1991 Michael Kinsley was the moderator. The affirmative side (favoring legalizing drugs) were led by William F. Buckley, the editor at large of NATIONAL REVIEW. On his team were Ira Glasser, the national executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (who is not a lawyer). The doctor was Kildare Clark, M.D., J.D. He is the head of the emergency department at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is also a lawyer. The fourth on the affirmative side was the one who I thought was most impressive in his wit and cleverness if not imposing in his delivery. That was Richard Dennis, a Chicago businessman (indeed, one of the most, if not THE most successful commodities broker in Chicago). Richard Dennis is the president of New Perspective Quarterly, and the chairman of the advisory board of the DRug Policy Foundation. he gave an outstanding address to the clergy conference on a moral drug policy (which supported legalization) here in Washington last fall. On the other side. Congressman Charles Rangel (Dem. of New York) is the Chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control and chairman of a very important subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. He is an extremely respected Democratic Congressman in Washington, and he is powerful. I agree that he sounds so terribly wrong about the drug issue, but that is largely because he has been talking about it for so long, he's stale. But he is probably the one Congressman most inquired of by reporters and public groups seeking information about drugs. That he is considered such an expert shoulc should be something of a shock. Rev. Jerry Falwell needs little introduction. The Dr. on the negative side, a Dr. Voth, I believe, I know nothing about. Lois Herrington, the blonde woman on the negative side served in a number of legal trouble shooter jobs in the Reagan Administration. Her husband was, I believe, the chief of personnel for a while for Reagan. Mrs. Herrington chaired a panel on victims of crime. Then she chaired the "White House Conference for a Drug Free America," a festival of war on drugs hysteria and clap trap that held regional meetings, that was closed largely to the public, and which issued the ususal war on drugs platitudes. This conference was the idea of former House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (of Nixon Impeachment hearing fame 1974). Rodino was always very strongly anti-drug. At a hearing of Rangel's House Narcotics Committee, which Rodino was a member of, held in Rodino's home town, Newark, the chief of police at one hearing suggested that the idea of legalizing drugs be considered. Rodino was so taken aback, he decided that there should be a top-level meeting of experts (the White H. Conf for a DFA) to eliminate all the arguments against legalization by finding the answers to the legalization position. Typical Democratic political shooting self in the foot: take a sexy issue like drugs and turn it over to the control of your political enemies, the Republican President and his media managers. Later Mrs. Herrington was the Assistant Attorney General for Justice Programs (responsible for giving Federal law enforcement grants to state and local governments, and "researchers"), I believe while Ed Meese was the Attorney General (but I'm not sure.) I'm amazed that Buckley was able to get that crowd to Spartansburg, S.C. for the debate. it was carried on the public broadcasting system. This is the second of these debate Buckley has arranged.[D ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 148 FWD>Danger to Psychedelic C pfraterdeus 5:23 am Mar 28, 1991 Subject: FWD>Danger to Psychedelic C Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM FWD>Danger to Psychedelic Co from conf:alt.drugs fwd by pfraterdeus 28 mar 91 The following (and anything else in this conference, for that matter) is for informations only, and is not necessarily the opinion of any Rainbow Council. ______________________________________________________________________ ______ Topic 70 Danger to Psychedelic Community? pndemo3 alt.drugs 2:25 pm Mar 27, 1991 Psychiatric Labels: =================== A DANGER TO THE PSYCHEDELIC COMMUNITY? The War on Drugs is a war on people. This war is promoted by framing the "drug problem" in terms of a non-debate: "jail vs. treatment." The state prohibits marijuana and psychedelic enjoyment because "drugs" are supposedly athreat to "mental health." This threat is alleged by the Third Edition, Revised, of the DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS (DSM -IIIR) published by the American Psychiatric Association. The DSM-IIIR implies that any and all use of marijuana and psychedelics is sickness. The DSM-IIIR presents misleading information about psychedelics. The DSM-IIIR categories that most need to be re-examined are: 305.20 Cannabis Intoxication 305.20 Cannabis Abuse 304.30 Cannabis Dependence 305.30 Hallucinogen Hallucinosis 305.30 Hallucinogen Abuse 304.50 Hallucinogen Dependence The truth is the classification of a mental state, or behavior is often the posturing of a moral position as a medical one. Labels put down and stigmatize millions of people who enjoy marijuana and psychedlics. To alleviate the hardship and suffering caused by the War on Drugs the APA must be reminded that it is their special responsibility to uphold human rights (American Psychiatric Association; Ethical Standards: Section 10). The DSM Reform Initiative urges people who favor placing psychedelics into responsible adult settings by re-legalization to write letters in support of the APA re-examining their DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS to present a more balanced view of marijuana and psychedelic enjoyment. You can make a difference. Send your letters to one of these addresses: Chair, Council on Research American Psychiatric Association 1400 K Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Nomenclature Committee American Psychiatric Association 1400 K Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Keep some copies of your letters and send a few around to editors in your area. This is a chance to make history: to raise the consciousness of nations. The DSM Reform Initiative is a network concerned about the psychiatric labels that affect psychedlic constituents. These labels serve to justify the criminal sanctions of prohibition that are eroding the civil rights of all citizens. Consultants, writers and assistance are sought to prepare and distribute a press kit. The objective is to open a productive dialogue with the psychiatric community to advance the legitimate concerns of psychedelic culture. Bartlett J. Ridge DSM Reform Initiative P.O.Box 1562 Albany, NY 12201 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 149 Computer Circle Ancient History mendicott 2:09 pm Mar 28, 1991 "Silicon chips are crystals" (Bambam Udogu). Sisters & Brothers of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, Rainbow Warriors waging peace, ecolutionary intelligence agents: computer circle know your Self. Reality hackers one and all, dreamtime is now. The purpose of this COMPUTER CIRCLE CIRCULAR #1 is to establish a computer network for Rainbow love & Jah god. Anarchy and decentralization are important considerations. There should be a good bulletin board system (bbs) operating as a continental hub, and others for the bioregional and metropolitan communities. The job of hub could be rotated among the regionals on a voluntary, concensus basis at special council at each continental gathering, as per the newspaper ALL WAYS FREE; this MEANS that NONE of these bbss can carry "Rainbow" in their names. This is to avoid incessant wrangling with computer-phobes. In addition to hardware, software, and hosts (sysops - system operators), attention must be paid to security and legality. Basically, if you don't want someone, anyone to know something, anything, don't post it on a bbs. Past bbss have included the Rainbow Network on Barry Clements' Top Of The Rockies [303-963-3688] and the Rainbow conference on Pami Singh's Collage Network [202-265-6046]. A conference entitled "Spectrum" has been established on the KKFI Radio Wave - Radio Remote Bulletin Board System (RBBS-PC) for discussing the pros, cons, and possibilities of bbss for the Rainbow Family. The password for Spectrum is "love". data (816) 561-3650 voice (816) 374-5760 sysop Tom Crane mail 3707 Pennsylvania Kansas City, MO 64111 With the exception of karmic shigellosis, bacilliary dysentery, the 1987 North American Continental Rainbow Gathering in the Slickrock area of Nantahala National Forest, Southern Appalachia, Katuah bioregion, was cosmodelic as usual.The 1987-88 RAINBOW GUIDE, being coordinated by Great Lakes Rainbow (POB 3433, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3433; 517-372-8490 or 313-761-4242), should be available soon. The new ALL WAYS FREE is in preparation by the Chicago Rainbow Circle (POB 11446, Chicago, IL 60611.)The RAINBOW GUIDE and ALL WAYS FREE can always use more Babylonian energy symbols, as well as other forms of energy! The 1988 Continental Gathering will be in Texas; for information contact East Texas Rainbow (POB 630239, Nacogdoches, TX 75961.) There will be a Computer Circle council there at sunset on July 2 at Info/Rumor-Control. The following 67 addresses were manually (occularly?!) harvested from the 1986-87 RAINBOW GUIDE (POB 7834, Newark, DE 19714). Please forgive inadvertant omissions. This COMPUTER CIRCLE CIRCULAR #1 does not represent the concensus of any tribal council of the Rainbow Family of Living Light (POB 5577, Eugene, OR 97405.) One world, one heart. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 150 Focalizer updates as respon pfraterdeus 11:37 pm Mar 28, 1991 Subject: Focalizer updates as respon Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Focalizer updates as responses to... As more Focalizers send their stuff back, we'll put the new ones in as responses to the original topic (Focs List Update 26 mar 91). After a bunch of stragglers get in, we'll upload a new, complete file. Remember, after entering the conference, typing 'u' will automatically show you the next u)nread message! Please, if there are any suggetions as to how to improve this idea, let's hear 'em! If you want to relpy to this message, type ,wr (for "write reply". The comma preceeding tells the computer that the next chars should be read together) We love You! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 151 Rbw Guides need Ride to Spr pfraterdeus 11:38 pm Mar 28, 1991 Subject: Rbw Guides need Ride to Spr Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Rbw Guides need Ride to Spring_ Is anyone on their way to SPring Council, that can make it to Madison, Wi