==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== 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, Wisconsin on their Way, and pick up some Rainbow Guides!??! Call Ric Schwictenberg in Madison at 608/249-0955! Thanks!!! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 152 AWF benefit MARS report N.CA. lbadger 8:51 pm Mar 29, 1991 ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT REPORT May 26th, 1991 Louden Nelson Auditorium Santa Cruz, California Lyonel Badger- facilatator A.W.F. SCHEDULED Coucils April 7th All Volunteers Council(s) Sunday ( Volunteer organizational meeting.) Tomas' house,Boulderbrook. Call tomas 338-3515 potluck at noon, council at 2 pm. April 20th Benefit Vision Council/Banking Council Saturday ( Coordinators and Crews ) Billy's House 537 Buena Vista, Santa Cruz call Billy 459-7448 On March 28th, 1991 The M.onterey A.rea R.ainbow S.ervice focalizers and the S.anta C.ruz A.rea R.ainbow F.ocalizers held our third Allways Free Benefit council at Louden Nelson Center, the site secured for the May 26th Allways Free Benefit. TendeerFire organized and facilatated the meeting having prepared extensive materials that he gave to everyone present. The materials were explained, feedback given and consensus achieved for the formal organizational charter and bylaws. Lyonel Badger as acting Bank council coordinator opened a checking account under the name of the 'MARS COALITION' and a sub-savings account 'AWF'. Both accounts will be used for consignment loans, consignment deposits, contributions, expenses and income from donations recieved for the magic passes that will be should. Magic passes will be sold Cymbaline records in Santa Cruz and Capitola, Calif. Other ticket outlets will be found in Berkeley and San Francisco, nothern Calif. Only 330 magic passes will be available for each show. Their will be two shows. The early show will be called the 'Family o' Faire' and the late show will be called 'Rockin Momma'. The promotion that is being done will include magic passes made out of holographic mylar and silkscreen with two colors. The posters will be made to match the magic passes in splendor. UFO Graphics ( MARS circle ) is donating all labor. Al and Lyonel Badger are spending a great deal of energy to assure that the shows are a big success. The general feeling is one of great expectation. MARS is handling national coordination, grahics, promotion and A.W.F. 'red postcard' national newsflashes. SCARF is handling local production coordination, volunteers, entertainment, food/drinks, concessions, shante Shena. Both councils make up the Benefits Council. The Banking council signors on the MARS COALITION checking account are Lyonel Badger- bank coorrdinator, Mark Clifford- production coordinator, and and John Smith- 'Rockin Momma' box office. LOTSA LOVE, Tendeerfire ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT COORDINATORS ------------------------------------------------ Production Coordinator...........Mark Cleveland ( 408 335-2590 ) A.W.F. Liaison & benefit facilatator- Banking Council Coordinator- Stage Manager....................Lyonel Badger ( 408 375-2306 ) Maintains: Backstage security/communications. Performers schedule- call show cues. Backstage Crew/ Backstage Host. Distribution Coordinator......... P.R. promoter.................... Shanta Shena Coordinator......... Volunteer Coordinator............Diana Smith ( 408 338-2673 ) House Manager.................... Coordinates: Door Monitor Crew ( Hostess ) Crews Inside Communications space utilization Box office/auditorium security Backstage Host...................David Silverfox ( 408 375-2306 ) Maintains: calm room operations room performers lounge Concert Box Office Coordinator........John Smith ( 408 338-2673 ) Family Box Office Coordinator.........Alan Badger ( 408 375-2306 ) Entertainment Coordinator.............Tomas ( 408 338-3515 ) Artistic Director: performers/bands/backstage crew scenery/special affects resource focalizer/schedule(s) Sound Technician......................Billy ( 408 459-7448 ) Light Technician......................Steve Jennick ( 408 459-0890 ) Graphic/Silkscreening Coordinator....David Ellis ( 408 626-0555 ) Volunteers Coordinator...............Diana Smith ( 408 338-2673 ) Food/Drink Concessions Coordinator... Decorations Coordintor............... Allways Free Benefit Banking Council ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bank council coordinator- Mars Consignor deposit/loan- Lyonel Badger Production Coordinator- Scarf loan consignor- Mark Cleveland Concert Box office Coordinator Scarf Focalizer- John Smith Family Box Office Coord- Mars loan consignor- Alan Badger Adviser- Mars Consignor, deposit pledged- Steve Mann ( 415 864-6839 ) Mars Consignor, loan pledged- Mike Marking Advisers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonprofit auditorium sponor- Platonic Academy Monterey Earthday Organizer & Co-publisher of the 'ORACLE' - John Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 153 W.Tribes Regional Rainbow Gatherin lbadger 8:56 pm Mar 29, 1991 Western Tribes Regional Rainbow Gathering June 15th thru 23rd, 1991 between Eugene Or. and Portland Or. contact: Mark McCracken (503) 284-6600 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 154 A.W.F. Newsflash on red postcard lbadger 9:12 pm Mar 29, 1991 ( the following is being sent out to every rainbow that mars can get the mailing address to... you send to please to your lists... this is serious. ) Dear Rainbow Sisters and brothers, Our local Santa Cruz and Monterey focalizers are co-producing a benefit for the Allways Free to help w/ publishing costs. A.W.F. is in urgent need of materials, money, artwork, articles, heartsongs, Rainbow news, etc. As of this mailing little has been sent. We believe the war and recent disasters have distracted us from our own needs. Is this paper important to you... do you want this to be the year it wasn't. No! Send camera ready work to: A.W.F. 515 E. Grant Rd. #113, Tucson, Ar. 85705 ( tony/kieu @ 602 884-9145 Love, Tendeerfire ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 155 Ohio Rainbow Spring Gatheri pfraterdeus 5:36 pm Apr 3, 1991 Subject: Ohio Rainbow Spring Gatheri Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Ohio Rainbow Spring Gathering ....and all the nations and all the tribes shall come together and there shall be peace. --Rainbow Dream April 15th to 23rd 1991 in the National Forest Ohio Rt 13 - 4 miles N. of Glouster Call 614 448 4921 for info Bring : Camp Stuff, bulk foods, tools, & toys. Personal Cup, bowl and Spoon. Rain gear, mud gear, low gear and HIGH gear! Healing Supplies, Music and Art Instruments, Medicine, Craft Work & Games, Kids & Kid Stuff. Heart Songs, Poems, Teachings and Tales. Share Labor & Leisure, Love and Respect for Earth and Each Other. We gather on Sacred Ground! Harm NO living thing, use down dead wood. Learn Sane-itation: drop No litter. Stay on the Path. Camp prepared to disappear. Respect the Water and the Common Health. Keep your hands clean and your shit covered! NO alcohol, drugs weapons high tech bad vibes, etc. Please Leave your Dogs at Home! All Welcome -- Free and Non-Commercial Free Speech Gathering ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 156 Computer Circle Ancient His pfraterdeus 5:19 am Apr 4, 1991 Subject: Computer Circle Ancient His Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Computer Circle Ancient History This was from some where in the Past, I assume! Good to know that the idea's flourished thus far! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 157 A.W.F.benefit rumor/contr update 2 responses lbadger 12:10 pm Apr 5, 1991 ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT REPORT update April 5th May 26th, 1991 Louden Nelson Auditorium Santa Cruz, California ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT COORDINATORS ------------------------------------------------ It has come to my attention that some uproar is going on over the way we are handling our magic passes. Other concerns have surfaced that someone is making money in the name of the Allways Free, but the A.W.F. has not recieved any monies....first of all the benefit is being held May 26th, 1991. Second of all, any monies recieved to put this benefit on, have been dedicated for the purpose of getting this benefit off the ground. So far contributions, loans, and deposits have been recieved for about $ 450..00. Anyone interested may write or call me for full accounting of funds: Lyonel Badger, Banking Council Coordinator, M.A.R.S., box 9202, Monterey, Ca. (408) 375-2306 As for the Magic Passes being put out for an 'admission' charge this is not so. The Magic Passes will be handled by ticket outlets but the Magic passes are a donation basis. All of our promotion will have a special number to call if you are unable to afford a Magic Pass from the ticket outlets. We will then see to reserving you a place at the show. Naturally we a limited by the legal capacity of the auditorium and will try to recruit everyone unable to afford a magic pass as a volunteer. Further, lets consider the benefit date of May 26th. Only one month is left to publish the paper and distribute it. That's cutting it pretty fine. We may not be able to get the A.W.F. out before the Rainbow gathering; for sure at the gathering. But one of the ways we may be able to get it out before, is by borrowing the money for the Magic Passes that have already been sold. The ticket outlets will not be releasing the moneys until after the benefit (May 30th). But we can find out how the magic passes are doing ahead of this date and some of us might be willing to loan the money for tickets already sold. No one is making any money on this show. No one is getting paid. The moneys that are being loaned to produce the show are only being paid back out of half of the total gross. The other half goes to ALLWAYS FREE. After the costs are paid back everything else goes to A.W.F. This assures that A.W.F. will get money no matter what. The foks loaning the money for auditorium and lighting rent, promotional costs etc. are willing to donate what ever is not covered out of half of the gross, if it should not cover the expenses. Everyone is confident that we will fill the auditorium twice. We are hoping for the best. Any questions please come to the source for information: M.A.R.S. An ALL VOLUNTEERS COUNCIL is on APRIL 7th and a BENEFIT VISION COUNCIL is being held on April 19th... Call Lyonel for location. The following is updated coordinators working on our A.W.F. benefit: Co-Production Coordinator..............Mark Cleveland..(408) 335-2590 Production Coordinator.................Diana Smith.....(408) 338-2673 House Manager Coordinates: Door Monitor Crew Host Crews Inside Communications space utilization Box office/auditorium security A.W.F. Liaison & facilitator, Banking Council Coordinator...........Lyonel Badger...(408) 375-2306 Stage Manager- Maintains: Backstage security/communications. Performers schedule-- call show cues. Backstage Crew/ Backstage Host. Entertainment Coordinator..............Tomas Goodwin...(408) 338-3515 Artistic Director: performers/bands/backstage crew scenery/special affects resource focalizer/schedule(s) Backstage coordination: Sound Technician.....................Billy Rainbow...(408) 459-7448 Light Technician.....................Steve Jennick...(408) 459-0890 Backstage Host.......................David Silverfox.(408) 375-2306 Maintains: CALM room operations room performers lounge Promotional Coordinator................Lyonel Badger...(408) 375-2306 Graphic/Silkscreening Coordinator....David Ellis.....(408) 626-0555 Distribution Coordinator.............Jen Turner......(408) 459-7448 Shanta Shena Coordinator...............Eric Rothchild..(408) 724-8187 Concert Box Office Coordinator.........John Smith......(408) 338-2673 Family Box Office Coordinator..........Alan Badger.....(408) 375-2306 Food/Drink Concessions Coordinator... Decorations Coordinator................Amber Young.....(408) 659-0203 Allways Free Benefit Banking Council ------------------------------------ Bank council coordinator- Mars Consignor deposit/loan- Lyonel Badger Production Coordinator- Scarf loan consignor- Mark Cleveland Concert Box office Coordinator Scarf Focalizer- John Smith Family Box Office Coord- Mars loan consignor- Alan Badger Advisor- Mars Consignor, deposit pledged- Steve Mann Mars Consignor, loan pledged- Mike Marking PERFORMERS VOLUNTEERING 'The Resistance' rock band 'The Bluez Angelz' rock band 'Homney Grits' rock Band 'Blue Forest' rock band 'Felix' solo folk music 'Greg Simmons' solo pianst 'Here and Now' duet folk music 'Living Drums' solo druns 'Temple Whores' Drummers 'Sherri' middle east dance 'Roy' adult comdey/magic act We still need kid performers, magicians, clowns, jugglers etc... Contact Entertainment Coord. Thomas ( see above ) or c/o MARS. LOVE, TENDERFIRE ( L.B. ) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 157 lbadger 10:21 am Apr 10, 1991 ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT COORDINATORS ------------------------------------------------ Co-Production Coordinator..............Mark Cleveland..(408) 335-2590 Production Coordinator.................Diana Smith.....(408) 338-2673 House Manager Coordinates: Door Monitor Crew Host Crews Inside Communications space utilization Box office/auditorium security A.W.F. Liaison & facilitator, Banking Council Coordinator...........Lyonel Badger...(408) 375-2306 Stage Manager- Maintains: Backstage security/communications. Performers schedule-- call show cues. Backstage Crew/ Backstage Host. Entertainment Coordinator..............Tomas Goodwin...(408) 338-3515 Artistic Director: performers/bands/backstage crew scenery/special affects resource focalizer/schedule(s) Backstage coordination: Sound Technician.....................Billy Rainbow...(408) 459-7448 Light Technician.....................Steve Jennick...(408) 459-0890 Backstage Host.......................David Silverfox.(408) 375-2306 Maintains: CALM room operations room performers lounge Promotional Coordinator................Lyonel Badger...(408) 375-2306 Graphic/Silkscreening Coordinator....David Ellis.....(408) 626-0555 Distribution Coordinator.............Jen Turner......(408) 459-7448 Shanta Shena Coordinator...............Eric Rothchild..(408) 724-8187 Concert Box Office Coordinator.........John Smith......(408) 338-2673 Family Box Office Coordinator..........Alan Badger.....(408) 375-2306 Food/Drink Concessions Coordinator....Gerry Kavanaugh..(408) 335-4282 Decorations Coordinator................Amber Young.....(408) 659-0203 Allways Free Benefit Banking Council ------------------------------------ Bank council coordinator- Mars Consignor deposit/loan- Lyonel Badger Production Coordinator- Scarf loan consignor- Mark Cleveland Concert Box office Coordinator Scarf Focalizer- John Smith Family Box Office Coord- Mars loan consignor- Alan Badger Advisor- Mars Consignor, deposit pledged- Steve Mann Mars Consignor, loan pledged- Mike Marking Volunteer Crew Committees ( Volunteer Coordinator Diana S. ) --------------------------------------------------------------- Promotional Distribution Crew: S.Cruz Coordinator -Jen.....459-7448 1. David Silverfox....375-2306 5. Lisa Baydowics...........335-3359 2. Tim Rumford........688-4869 6. Brian........message.....425-8921 3. Laura Lewis........335-3359 7. Jaime Winters............ 4. Billy..............459-7448 8. Patrick Dougherty........426-3244 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graphics Silkscreening Crew: Coordinator - David E. 626-0555 1. Lyonel Badger.......375-2306 5. 2. David Silverfox.....375-2306 6. 3. 7. 4. 8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shanta Shena Crew: Coordinator - E. Rothchild 724-8178 1. Mark Cleveland (if avail.) 5. 2. 6. 3. 7. 4. 8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Backstage Crew: Entertainment Coordinator- Thomas 338-3515 Stage Manager- Lyonel 375-2306 1. Billy...............Sound Technician.....................459-7448 2. Jen.................Assistant Sound Technician...........459-7448 3. Steve Jennick.......Light Technician.....................459-090 4. Assistant Light Technician........... 5. David Silverfox.....Backstage Host.......................375-2306 6. Dan Delong..........438-5345 9. Tim Rumford.........688-4869 7. Mark Cleveland (avail?) 10. 8. Patrick Dougherty...426-3244 11. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Undecided: Coordinator- Diana 338-2673 1. 3. 2. 4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 1 of 2 Volunteer Crew Committees ( Volunteer Coordinator Diana S. ) --------------------------------------------------------------- Concert Box Office Crew: Coordinator - John S. 338-2673 1. 5. 2. 6. 3. 7. 4. 8. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Box Office Crew: Coordinator - Alan B. 375-2306 1. 5. 2. 6. 3. 7. 4. 8. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Door Monitor Crew: Coordinator - Diana S. 338-2673 1. 5. 2. 6. 3. 7. 4. 8. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Decorations Crew: Coordinator - Amber 659-0203 1. Brian....message.....425-8921 5. 2. Rain Moore...........647-8746 6. 3. Lyonel Badger........375-2306 7. 4. 8. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Food/Drink Concesssions Crew: Coordinator - Gerry K...335-4282 1. Patrick Dougherty....426-3244 5. 2. Jaime Winters........438-5345 6. 3. Lisa Baydoeics.......335-3359 7. 4. 8. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 2 of 2. ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT COUNCIL ---------------------------- Mark Cleveland Box 7148 Santa Cruz,Ca. 95061 (408) 335-2590 Al Badger 1106 Harrison St. Lyonel Badger Monterey, Ca. 93940 David Silverfox * (408) 375-2306 guitar Dan DeLong * 535 Clubhouse Dr. 'The Resistance' Tim Rumford * Aptos, Ca. 95003 pledge $ (408) 688-4869 Laura Lewis * 139 Madrone Way 'The Resistance' Felton, Ca. 95018 (408) 336-3359 pledge $ Thomas Goodwin * 'peacesign' house 'Bluz Angelz' Hwy 9, Boulderbrook P.O. Box 1067 Ben Lomond, Ca. 95005 (408) 338-3515 Jon Smith 484 Davidson Way Diana Smith Boulder Creek, Ca. (408) 338-2673 Billy Rainbow 537 Buena Vista Jen Turner Santa Cruz, Ca. 95062 (408) 459-7448 wk. (408) 425-7222 ext. 5687 David Earthheart P.O. Box 3121 Carmel, Ca. 93921 (408) 626-0555 E. Rothchild (408) 724-8187 Amber Young (408) 659-0203 Patrick Dougherty 40 Front # 2 Santa Cruz, Ca. (408) 426-3244 Jaime Winters 4730-A Scotts Valley Dr. Scotts Valley, Ca. (408) 438-5345 Lisa Baydowics * 139 Madrone Way 'The Ressistance' Felton, Ca. 95018 (408) 335-3359 pledge $ Brian 'Freedom Now' Box 7772 Santa Cruz, Ca. 95061 message (408) 425-8921 Kevin Bush (408) 338-4138 Rain Moore (408) 647-8746 Gerry Kavanaugh (408) 335-4282 Miles Long * 12171 Hwy 9 keyboards (408) 338-6618 Vadra * message 'Redwood Chrictian Center' classical violin 6869 Hwy 9 improvisation (408) 335-5307 Edric Money * 10805 Creekwood Dr. Felton, Ca. pledge $ (408) 335-4282 Vincent K. * 12171 Hwy 9 Boulder Creek, Ca. Kevin and Sherri * (408) 338-4138 'Goddess of E. Dance ' Felix * (408) 336-2740 guitar Greg Simmons * (408) 335-7564 keyboards Buckwheat * 1433 Haight St. #4 'Temple Whores' San Fran. Ca. 94117 (415) 864-3971 * (408) 426-3670 'Morgan's Privateers' Roger Thornhill 'in la forest' pledge $ Susy Fleisher 408 Palm St. Santa Cruz, Ca. (408) 423-3848 pledge $ ENTERTAINMENT AGENDA -------------------- Early Family Show Dave Silverfox solo/guitar Sherri and Kevin ' Goddess Mideast Dance' Vadra solo/violin improv. classical Miles Long solo/keyboards Felix solo/guitar Greg Simmons solo/keyboards Late Concert Show Temple Whores circle drums Morgan's Privateers Blu Forest Bluz Angelz The Resistance ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 157 ppav 12:40 am Apr 11, 1991 It looks like a fine benifit to me. There seems to be plenty of people to cou council with. In my experience, primary issues such as accountibility and family repesentation make for a quality rainbow funtion. I I wish I was out there to attend. I consider the rumor CONTROLED. Keep up the good work....lov ya..... Watchers at the Gate Peace Park ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 158 RE- A.W.F.benefit / Funds R pfraterdeus 6:10 pm Apr 8, 1991 Subject: RE- A.W.F.benefit / Funds R Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: RE: A.W.F.benefit / Funds Raising (Reference to AWF Benefit / Rumor Control) Right on, Tenderfire! This is an excellent production! So good to see so many folks involved! Let's see if more of this kind of thing can happen around the country! There's nothing like setting our sights at the highest possible place! >>>some uproar is going on over the way we are handling our magic passes.<<< The only problem I can see is if people start griping about money going "Here" rather than "There" or whatever their favorite project is! Of course there's a needed place in the scheme of things for critics.... I was talking with some friends last night about the idea of getting some successful musicians and artists, actors, computer wizzes, etc. to contribute a certain amount into a Focalized Projects trust fund, which could begin to provide a steady, consistant fund for networking and communications projects such as (but not limited to) All Ways Free, The Guide, national Howdy Folks, and Focalizer Networking. This would, of course be counciled by a banking council and some consistant way of distributing resources would be devised. How much money do we need each year to publish AWF, The Guide, the Howdy Folks, and set up the Family Gathering in July? Does anyone have an idea about what the >budget< is? ( I know there'll be howling about even asking this, but doesn't it make sense to start thinking in terms of continuity?) I also know that the Howdy Folks is "Family" and AWF, The Guide, etc. are considered "External". Folks have good reasons for feeling this way, but I'd like to see a support fund that is capable of responding to any of these NEEDED functions within our international community. We are GROWING BEYOND THE BOUNDS of the continent! Only through communication will our spirit and hearts transcend the earthly boundaries of state and region. Our telephone and tele-communication (PeaceNet, or whatever) contacts are an extremely important part of this. Tony Crow's excellent RealEyes videos are another part of this. We should have a fund to get one of those videos to every campus library in the country! Our Printed communications are also extremely important to this. All Ways Free, and the endless network of regional and local newsletters are the spokes in our global medicine wheel that help to move us toward Unity. Does this make any sense at all? Or maybe we should just concentrate on developing our own resources, so we can continue to support those things (anonymously) that we see as important. Seems like the lonely way to go..... Play for Peace. Pray for Fun! Petros PS Remember Bicycle Day, April 19th, commemorating Albert Hofman's famous first intentional LSD trip, and his ride home on his Bicycle.... (AH discovered LSD-25 at Sandoz labs in Switzerland. His Trip was in 1943) *************** (from alt.drugs) BICYCLE DAY *** APRIL 19TH Since 1986 some people have observed Bicycle Day on April 19th. This is the anniversary of the day Albert Hofmann intentionally took LSD in 1943. On the 16th Hofmann accidentally absorbed a bit of LSD, but the 19th was the first intentional experience, when he took what he then considered a minimum effective dose, 250 mics. ... In this dark hour of ignorance and superstition about psychedelics, you can light a candle of hope and reason. To commemorate the bicycle ride that changed the world forever, let's celebrate Bicycle Day with bicycle trips, sending cards with bicycle pictures on them to friends, joyful picnics, and other festive activities. Remember Bicycle Day, and keep it holy. ************* ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 159 Non Rainbow Gathering in Ohio thre dwirtshafter 10:36 pm Apr 8, 1991 You are invited to participate in perhaps the largest protest against stripmining that has ever been organized. The Avis Coal mine is the only stripmine in a national forest in the eastern United States. Through a bad precedent set in 1988, this company got a Valid Existing Rights determination allowing them to destroy one hundred acres of beautiful forestland. Caves, watersheds and old trees destroyed. Now, a judge in Cincinnati, Ohio is deciding the fate of yet another tract of the Wayne National Forest. This time 7000 acres are up for grabs. Its time to stand up, sit down, put our foot down or whatever gets the job done. The event is sponsored by the Student Environmental Action Coalition, the nationUs largest student environmental group. SEAC is a network of over 1100 college and high school member groups dedicated to environmental and social justice. SEACUs fall national conference drew over 7000 participants. This event is the Spring Regional Conference for the midwest/Appalachian region. Because the mine is located in the National Forest, there is no restriction on our entry to inspect the mine. Saturday, April 13th will be a day of education. Expert on water quality, geology, ecology and community organizing will give workshops at the mine site. There is no better way to sensitize people than the cold reality of mass environmental destruction. The protest also points out that US Forest Service and state regulators are incapable of protecting our national treasures. Therefore, we have to do it. All are welcome. RSTRIPPINU IN THE WOODSS A SPRING CAMPOUT/ CONFERENCE OF THE STUDENT ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COALITION Friday April 12 - Sunday April 14, 1991 *Rain or Shine! In The Wayne National Forest near Athens, Ohio at the site of the only stripmine in a national forest east of the Mississippi ! Friday 1-3 pm pre-conference Rally at Ashland Oil in Ashland, KY 3-5 drive to site in Wayne National Forest 5-7 set up campsite & potluck dinner 7-10 Square Dance with The Hot Point String Band 10-? storytelling around the fire & sweat lodge Saturday 8-9 am wake-up & breakfast 9:30-11 orientation & local updates 11-12 Keynote & discussion: Charlie Betz, The Greens 12-1 lunch time & mudpit 1:30-3 stripmine teach-in & action 3-4:30 workshop session #1 4:30-5:30 state meetings 5:30-6:30 yummy dinner provided by SEAC 7-8:30 student panel :our campaigns & strategies 8:30-? open stage & party Sunday 8-9 breakfast time 10-2 regional council meeting 10-12 workshop session #2 12-2 free time for non-delegates 2:30-3:30 closing Workshops will be offered on: Strategies & Campaigns, BRC Nuclear Waste regulation, Campus Recycling, Green Philosophy, Ecology & the DSA, Corporate Accountability, Alternative Energy, Endangered Species in the Wayne, Middle East Issues, Lifestyle Change, Social Change Movements, Holistic Activism, & Non-violent Civil Disobedience Come join the fun! Bring camping & rain gear, water, and some food. *In case of rough weather, the conference will be held in Morton Hall on the Ohio U Campus in Athens. If youUreunsure call us. The reg. fee will be $10 and includes breakfasts & dinner on Sat. Groups are encouraged to set up informational tables. Call us at (614) 59 GREEN. Call Julie at (606)233-9674 about the Ashland Rally. Directions: On Rt.33, north of Athens, Ohio. At the last stoplight on the south side of Nelsonville, turn south on Rt. 691. Follow 691 about a mile & bear right onto Rt. 1. Follow 1 for several miles & bear right onto Rt. 2 (Connet Rd.). After a little way, at the Connet Church, turn right & the campsite is just around the corner. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 160 Somethin' to consider... { pfraterdeus 10:53 pm Apr 8, 1991 Subject: Somethin' to consider... { Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Somethin' to consider... { : . ) [[This is in reponse to a topic on the usenet conference; alt.drugs....]] >>I was thinking of one of the islands in the Great Lakes. Perhaps Beaver Island or Drummond Island. Beaver Island once did declare itself an independent country and had a monarch. One of the locals shot King James tho. Maybe Cockburn Island. Do you think Canada would mind? << How about Moosylvania? In international waters between Canada and US. Who're you calling a drug crazed terrorist? Play for Peace! Pray for Fun! Petros PS. This just in .............. .............. ............. ............. "There's No Reason I know of that folks shouldn't be allowed to have fun in their lives..." -- God In an interview this afternoon with our reporter, GOD gave some insights into the Divine Plan. God's consort, Gaia, said "Why do you think we created all those nouogenic plants on Earth? They're there to entertain and perplex the monkey minds as they continue to evolve." Nouogenic refers to the property of certain plant derived substances to engender the development of consciousness in suitably developed life-forms. Asked about the contemporary trends toward prohibition, God said "Those monkeys got a stick where the sun don't shine! But it's pretty normal for the materialists to seek to prohibit any experience that denies the relative value of material things. Seeing this type of experience in others threatens the very world view of the materialist. They won't last, though, >Truth will Out<, you know!" ((PPS. Keep it light during the Uranus/Neptune Conjunction! Things have started to get really crazy, especially during the Mercury retrograde!) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 161 awf update council lbadger 10:23 am Apr 10, 1991 for coordinators list as of April 7th council see 162.1 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 162 Peace in our Time pfraterdeus 3:59 pm Apr 13, 1991 Subject: Peace in our Time Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Peace in our Time [Got this note from PeacePark Vigilers. - Peter] Message 34 (52 lines) From ppav Thu Apr 11 01:26 PDT 1991 To: peter pfraterdeus Subject: Peace in our Time PEACE PARK ANTI-NUCLEAR VIGIL P.O. Box 27217 Washington, DC 20038 (202) 462-0757 We received a letter today from a long time supporter and friend of PEACE PARK. His name is Dan D. He is recommending a possible method to transfer info could be through PN addressed to your E-Mail as he is also a friend of yours. In the near future, Dan D will have a modem. Until then your help would be valuable in this transfer of info. This "info" will be concerning the upcoming gathering of brothers and sisters in PEACE PARK to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of THE PEACE PARK ANTI-NUCLEAR VIGIL. On June 3, 1991 a great celebration will be held. Our vigil has proven an effective witness against nuclear subordination and the threat of nuclear annihilation. We will rededicate our efforts to once and for all eliminate this travesty to the human family. We will give thanks to all those who have assisted our efforts over the years. The Rainbow Nation has been a primary force in the struggle for peace and justice in the world. One day when the story is really told, a great debt of gratitude will be paid to the brothers and sisters of The Rainbow Family of Living Light. We hope will all join us for a 3-day commemorative "Drum for Disarmament" June 1-3, 1991. Watchers at the Gate PEACE PARK jvigorito PS. Thanks for your posting on the Ohio gathering. These types of postings have proven invaluable to disseminate the activities of the family. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 163 Planetary / Who? What? pfraterdeus 4:01 pm Apr 13, 1991 Subject: Planetary / Who? What? Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Planetary / Who? What? Look for these essences & they will find you prevailing composite constituent conditions/traditions levels layers & levers undercarriage undercurrents suspension I am an earth bound being I am at home here is my laboratory my lifeline my raison d'etre my umbilical my source others may tell you this world-All of it and in it are of no consequence they may tell you-- here is the veil of all earthly illusion-- maya. I write the poem this is grounded in gossamer sublime substances: horror and heart shit and spirit misery and magic wretchedness and wonder here then is the All of everything that's essential & needful to sustain and sanction past present future. ---immediacy--- here is where we abide here is where we want to be here we will return for 1,000 lifetimes to gamble gifts adroitly and truely to be human is our bounty the blessing the beauty of substantive miracle Nature transcends the boundaries of time, division, species elements and language Rhythm and sound as we become adjusted attuned to life in of around and on this planet... hyland lawrence ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 164 AWF Benefit-Mars status report- lbadger 7:50 am Apr 14, 1991 Monterey Area Rainbow Service P.O. Box 9202 Monterey, Ca. 93942 Lyonel Badger-Promo.Coord. (408) 375-2306 Att: ( all northern Calif. media in Rainbow communitys ) Early release April 10th, 1991 To: Event Calendar News Release Re: Calender -------- 'Allways Free' Benefits Louden Nelson Community Center Auditorium Sundnay, May 26th, 1991 The M.onterey A.rea R.ainbow S.ervice ( M.A.R.S. ) and the S.anta C.ruz A.rea R.ainbow F.amily ( S.C.A.R.F. ) are co-producing the first ever west coast benefit for our national Rainbow newspaper the "Allways Free". The event is open to the general public and 'Magic Passes' will be sold through Cymbaline Records at the Santa Cruz and Capitola stores this May. Early Family Show -------------------- 11 am - 3:30 pm The early show will be our Family Show and will be featuring folk music, magicians, puppets, jugglers, and many other surprises for the kids, moms, and dads. A Rainbow room will be provided for eating and relaxing, where we will be showing Video tapes of past International Rainbow gatherings produced by Realeyes Productions. For admission we are asking a donation of $ 6.50 for adults and $ 3.50 for children for our Holographic Magic Passes. Late Concert Show ------------------- 4:30 pm - 10:00 pm The late show is our Rock Concert show and we will be getting down, with several excellent local bands, performance artists and drums. In our Rainbow Room we have food, drinks ( non-alcholic ) and donated art will be sold for donations. The Realeyes video productions of our International Rainbow gatherings will also be shown throughout the concert in the Rainbow Room. One Magic Pass for all is a $ 7.50 donation. For further information call (408) 338-2673 Magic Passes will be sold starting May 7th, 1991, available at the following stores: 'Cymbaline Records' Capitola, Ca. (408) 462-0600 'Cymbaline Records' Santa Cruz, Ca. (408) 423-3949 'Recycles Records' Monterey, Ca. (408) 375-5454 A Little History ---------------- The International Rainbow gatherings (July 1st thru the 7th) over the last twenty years have expanded into an ever-widening circle of Rainbows throughout the world. This in part because ever year we have moved the national gathering to a different state. During the eighties, more then ever, local Rainbow groups have been taking on focalizing Rainbow gatherings and events at a regional and local level. Our Rainbow paper, the "Allways Free", has become a very big part of the emerging Rainbow media and network. Since there are no formal "Rainbow" organizations, the A.W.F. is put together out of our collective good will. Every couple of years, the paper is passed on to another group of Rainbows to publish. All work done on the paper is donated. All costs are donated. The " Allways Free " Rainbow paper is a collective effort representing our Vision Council consensus at all levels, our heartsongs, our aristry, poetry, history and regional calendars, etc. The paper is always passed out for free. Thankyou, Lyonel Badger Promotional Coordinator (408) 375-2306 ( end newsrelease ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENTERTAINMENT AGENDA ( as of April 10th ) -------------------- Early Family Show Master of Ceremonies - Micky ----------------- Dave Silverfox solo/guitar Robby 'Happy the Clown' Micky ' Micky the Clown' Vadra solo/violin improv. classical ( booked ) 'Walking Puppet Stage' Miles Long solo/keyboards ( tentative ) ( Magician ) Felix solo/guitar ( tentative ) ( juggler ) Greg Simmons solo/keyboards Late Rock Concert Show Master of Ceremonies - ---------------------- David Whitiker (tentative ) or Wavy Gravy ( unlikely, being asked ) Temple Whores circle drums Micky 'Micky the Clown' Morgan's Privateers Blu Forest Sherri and Kevin ' Goddess Mideast Dance' Bluz Angelz ( tentative ) 'Roy the magician' The Resistance ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- As of April 12th we have gone into poster and magic pass production phase one. Today april 14th, sunday we are having a promo/distrib council and work party here at our house in Monterey, Calif. Special Magic passes ( out of holographic mylar ) will be produced for any folks that make a contribution to the A.W.F. directly..Ask Tony crow for a magic pass when you do. Our posters are wow wow.. also being made out of holograhic mylar and will be very nice collectabilia... Ufo Graphic Designs ( that's me and David Earthheart ) are dponating over 120 hours apiece to make these silkscreened items. If enpough of you want to get the posters and we can just cover costs and inspire you to send a donation to Allways Free, Tucson... it could be arranged. Next Benefit Vision Council: April 19th - 7 pm Billy Rainbows House 537 Buena Vista Santa Cruz, Ca. (408) 459-7448 Send ideas or seed money for the benefit to ( and checks payable to ) 'Mars Coalition' , box 9202 , Monterey, Ca. 93942. Or call Lyonel at (408 ) 375-2306. A complete packet of financial reports, council and oraginization info, etc, will be sent on request ( if possible please include 1.75 for copying and postage ). We still need a $ 150.00 consignment loan for the balance of the auditorium rent and admissions tax deposit. Until all consigned costs ( not including contributions for miscl. expenses ) are realized ( to repay to all consignment loans ), no matter what, half of the gross from our benefit will go to A.W.F. tucson. A sell out will bring in close to $ 4,000.00 gross which would mean ( aprox.) a minumim of $ 3,200.00 for publishing our paper. This is before concessions are added in. And boy what concessions are being planned- like expresson, foods, donated arts, and our free tea kitchen 'The Brew Ha Ha '. As we said ( the consignors are willing to see any loss to themselfs as a direct contribution to the AllWays Free ) A.W.F. is guaranteed half of the gross no matter what, rain or shine. Think about it OK? Any money recieved that go beyond or needs will be put into the A.W.F. sub account under the Mars Coalition account at Monterey Federal Credit Union in Monterey Calif. ( all funds for this benefit make check payable to Mars Coalition ) Proper reciepts etc. will be returned with a financial report... Thankyou... Love , Tendeerfire ( Lyonel Badger ) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 165 Cafe De' Rainbow-AWF benefit lbadger 5:19 am Apr 18, 1991 We have expeanded the Allways Free Benefit here in Santa Cruz California on May 26th, 1991. We have rented the multi-purpose room in conjunction with the auditorium for the CAFE de' RAINBOW [H With food, juices, Espresso/coffees arts/crafts, Rainbow videos ( by realeyse ) will also be made available. Opoen to the general public from 12:30-9:30 pm, during our double shows. Strolling entertainers and an open forum will be This is for all of our homeless Rainbows and folks who might not be able to get in ( capacity in the auditorium is limited ) due to cost or waiting to long to get reservations, etc..... LOVE, Lyonel ( Tenderfire ) badger ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 166 FWD>howdy awf folks pfraterdeus 2:25 pm Apr 18, 1991 Subject: FWD>howdy awf folks Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: FWD>howdy awf folks Hey Rainbows! This was in my email box this afternoon! Thought It would be of interest! My reply follows the original message..... ****************************** **David's original message follows:** Message 40 (70 lines) From labrea!dking@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu Wed Apr 17 13:56 PDT 1991 From: labrea!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!dking (dking@hermes) Subject: howdy awf folks To: cdp!pfraterdeus Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 11:46:54 CDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL5] Hi: I got some chicago rainbow news in the snailmail yesterday, and was pleased to hear that there's at least one rainbow link on the internet. I'd love to hear from you. A little about myself: I've been with ya'll since Michigan. I'm originally from Ohio, with stops in CMU, Stanford(!), Berlin, Berchtesgaden, Palenque, S.F., jungle farms and quaker mountain schools in Costa Rica, 8 mos. on the open road in the rockies, and now (of all places) Texas. Main interests: basic living skills, the physics of information, music (classical, bebop, gregorian chants, 60's rock, hardcore industrial, reggae, afropop, Rt. Johnson, anything with heart...). I'd appreciate any info you have on vermont this year. Also, especially, any info on networking with other rainbows on the internet. (I DON't have modem access; just the electronic freeway). Is there a usenet news conference (or any interest you know of in starting one)? I'd like to know what others feel computer networks can do / are doing for the rainbow family, and to help out. I work at a supercomputer facility, and we'we got a nice network of suns here, in addition to the cray Y/MP 8/64 and the convex C-2. While I can't, of course, commit large quantities of the Univ. of Texas System's resources to non-university projects, I do have internet access, and interest in communicating with other cosmic hunter-gatherers. I'm a believer in the potential power of communications and information retrieval systems as an electronic 'commons', but only if it can be put into the hands of everyone, inexpensively, and with an attitude of sharing (vs. private property), as best manifested today in academic environments and among individuals rather than corporations. I think changes could happen that bring libraries, video, music, and most importantly, INTERACTIVE information sharing to everyone, and that this could mean an important leap in true global culture. I feel that information, unlike physical substances, has a special gift for being shared, in that you can give it away and still keep it. But I feel that every attempt to force the usual 'get all the money you can for everything' paradigm on information is a slap in the face of this special natural gift, that could seriously affect the benefit mankind receives from it. So, anyway, let me know what you can (or whatever YOU feel like saying :-). Hope to hear from you soon. David L. King (Snail mail to home address, please:) 1700 Kinney Av. Austin, TX 78704 (512) 447-5733 ********************************* Howdy! Sounds like you're barking up about the same tree that i am! Hope to see you in "vermont" (Not sure yet, could be anywhere in the region, i think...) >>I'm a believer in the potential power of communications and information retrieval systems as an electronic 'commons', but only if it can be put into the hands of everyone, inexpensively, and with an attitude of sharing (vs. private property)<< HO! I'm just beginning to use internet, via chinet (petros@chinet.chi.il.us), and I think a usenet newsgroup is a great idea. We have been using Peacenet partly for it's slightly more friendly (and non-platform dependent) interface, as well as desiring to support the alternative. However, for those many folks at Univ. computing centers, I think a usenet link should proceed from the awf.rainbownews conference. Do you know the details on this? Would responses to an "awf" usenet newsgroup be forwarded back to the peacenet conference? (perhaps you read that the awf name may be changed in july...) >>>I think changes could happen that bring libraries, video, music, and most importantly, INTERACTIVE information sharing to everyone, and that this could mean an important leap in true global culture. I feel that information, unlike physical substances, has a special gift for being shared, in that you can give it away and still keep it. But I feel that every attempt to force the usual 'get all the money you can for everything' paradigm on information is a slap in the face of this special natural gift, that could seriously affect the benefit mankind receives from it.<<< Absolutely! Have you been following the electronic frontiers foundation? To get on the mailing list, send your request to eff-request@well.sf.ca.us They've got 2 newsgroups-comp.org.eff.news, and comp.org.eff.talk.... Directly to the org, via eff@well.sf.ca.us Play for Peace! Peter (petros), awf.rainbownews facilitator in chilly (spring in Chicago!) Evanston, IL, just on my way to the Ohio Spring Gathering.... cdp!pfraterdeus@labrea.stanford.edu (peacenet - pfraterdeus) PS what was the postmark on your Pot o'Gold? We havebeen trying a "distributed" distriobution system, mailing master sheets to about 80 "micro-focalizers" in the region, and enclosing about a dozen mailing labels... Seems to be working! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 167 FWD>Calling all PAGANS & WI pfraterdeus 2:26 pm Apr 18, 1991 Subject: FWD>Calling all PAGANS & WI Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM FWD>Calling all PAGANS & WITCHES Dear Rainbows-- The following was sent to me by Michael Ney (visonary) from the pegasus net in Australia. I thought it might be of interest. Following that is my reply! ->Message 41 (27 lines) ->From peg!visionary Thu Apr 18 02:26 PDT 1991 ->To: igc!cquollus, igc!pfraterdeus, peg!mervh ->Subject: Calling all PAGANS & WITCHES -> ->/* Written 6:18 pm Apr 18, 1991 by visionary in peg:oz.catchall */ ->/* ---------- "Calling all PAGANS & WITCHES" ---------- */ ->Yes - 'alt.pagan' is an excellent introduction to this vast topic... ->but our idea was to have one originating here (and possibly have an ->associated private conf) which would serve as access point for ->numerous groups scattered across Australia. but more on that later. -> ->Thanks Paul -> ->I gather that 'oz.catchall' isn't networked overseas... so maybe if others ->respond here we could open discussion on this in 'ideas'... ??? -> ->In the meantime if anyone is interested in a similar interest, you can ->check out some of the topics in "oz.visionary" AND if you like can send ->me "peg:visionary" articles to go into that conference... on paganism. -> ->Also check out 'gen.astrology' too..... submissions welcome! -> Thanks for the invite! How are things down under? The planetary net is strenghtening, I think! This is the beginning! It's VERY important to keep the networks in the hands of the people, not to allow the governments to co-opt these channels! It's time they learn that the public servants are not the masters! Using the electronic links between continents and individuals, we begin to crystalize that inherent global aura that has existed always into a substantial and awesome channel through which the future may be moulded towards greater freedom and joy for all beings! Regarding this work in the US, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation has a couple of Usenet newsgroups- comp.org.eff.news, and comp.org.eff.talk. Perhaps you can get these over there! (also their direct address - eff@well.sf.ca.us) Unfortunately, I'm hard up for the time to get online in realtime! (mostly via my lan mailserver, which checks in for me twice a day.) I'll send some stuff the next chance i get! I'm a bit anxious about delving into alt.pagan, knowing how vast the subject is! Oh, for the intelligent agent/editor/researcher online! Play for Peace! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 168 Hey There! Welcome Home! pfraterdeus 9:29 pm Apr 18, 1991 Hey Howdy ! Welcome Home to Cyberspace Rainbowville! If youre new to this conference, please send a response to topic 2, Mailing List, if you Like, just to let the rest of us know who's around! Hope to see you all at the PeaceNet council on July 6th in Vermont (or whereever!) (I think it was on the 6th last year!) Off to the future! Play for Peace! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 169 Communication Center at gathering 2 responses mendicott 2:29 pm Apr 19, 1991 Is there an active Info/Rumor Control council formed for the July gathering yet? I'm interested in helping to focalize a simple solar-powered communication center for this gathering. It should be publically located, easily available to both CALM and Info/Rumor Control. We should have some kind of structure for sheltering this working play and protecting equipment. We should use channel 14, until we have reason not to. We should have provision for randomly changing channels and communicating this among ourselves, perhaps by runner, in case of need, such as jamming. We should have a CB base station. Walkie-talkies should not be provided. We should be prepared with small clip-on earphones, parts, and skilled labor to modify the walkie-talkies that arrive, for use with an earphone. We should also be prepared with a charger for solar-charging a lot of AAA batteries for them. We could perhaps provide charged batteries only to those who use their walkie-talkies with an earphone. How are the conditions for generating electricity with solar panels in the area of the gathering? Cellular telephone, radio telephone, or satellite telephone are also possibilities, as is packet radio, etc. We should have at least one laptop computer with an MNP error correction modem, and battery operated printer, for both utility and telecommincation. It is also possible to have either a fax modem for the computer or a battery operated fax machine. We should also have either a handheld or base-type radio scanner, and a shortwave radio reciever. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 169 pfraterdeus 10:13 am May 11, 1991 I would agree in principle to this, but I think that it's sorta up to whoever has got this stuff to make it avaiable. That is, I wonder if an "official" communications post is the best idea. Who's gonna run it? Who decides what's going out from the gathering? All this is touchy stuff, no? Hope to see y'all there! Peace. petros ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 169 pfraterdeus 11:37 am May 19, 1991 Marcus-- I've been reading about Nikola Tesla, and some of his Ideas for energy from nature. Are you up on this guy at all? Also, I might be able to bring a Macintosh,if we can get solar with a converter for ac. P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 170 Food Stamp Applicants mendicott 5:36 pm Apr 19, 1991 FOOD STAMP APPLICANTS You have the right to: 1. File your application the same day you go to the food stamp office. 2. Receive and file your application by mail. 3. Assistance from the worker in filling out the application. 4. Be screened for expedited services (5 days). 5. If necessary, an appointment time other than between 9 a.m. & 5 P.m. 6. Replacement of destroyed stamps. You do not have to: 1. Live in a permanent dwelling. 2. Have a fixed address. You cannot be turned down, if you: 1. Live in a car. 2. Live on the streets. 3. Live in a homeless shelter. 4. Live in a spouse abuse shelter. If you suspect your rights have been abused, contact the nearest Legal Services office for assistance, Salvation Army, United Way or local Coaltion for the Homeless. June Korda Ocala, Florida ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 171 West Tribe Reg.Council lbadger 6:54 am Apr 20, 1991 Western Tribes Regional Rainbow Council after drum circle at Alton-Baker Park (across from Autzen Stadium ) NOON, SUNDAY APRIL 21st. Will be discussing site for regional ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 172 AWF benefit MARS Council Report lbadger 6:56 am Apr 20, 1991 AllWays Free Benefit On May 26th, 1991 Vision Council Benefit Report held at billy rainbow's house April 19th, 1991 Tenderfire- facilatating BENEFIT COUNCILS CALNDER ------------------------ SILKSCREENING WORK- ongoing April 20th thru end of month ( overniters welcome ) Tenderfire/Kindling Spirits House 1106 Harrison Street Monterey, Ca. (408) 375-2306 PERFORMER'S COUNCIL May 10th, Friday 7 pm. Billy's House 537 Buena Vista Santa Cruz, Ca. (408) 459-7448 BENEFIT VISION COUNCIL ( last minute problem solving ) May 20th, Monday, 7 pm Billy's House 537 Buena Vista Santa Cruz, Ca. (408) 459-7448 CALM/MASH & DOOR MONITORS/ SHANTE SHENA COUNCIL Tentative- May 21st, Tuesday location ? ( note: Dr. Jerri will be on stand by for the show ) call Diana Smith ( production coordinator ) (408) 338-2673 We have decided to record the benefit for future distribution to raise money for future Always Free issues. DOES ANY ONE HAVE a portable TAT recorder. Please contact Bill or sound/equip technician at (408) 459-7448. Cafe De' Rainbow ( plus our double show ) We decided to expand into the multi purpose room to handle overflow. We are developing this area as the CAFE DE' RAINBOW and will be serving food drinks/espresso ( for donation ) and be showing and selling Realeye's video tapes.... and alot more. Their will be no cover charge and we can now hold 127 seated up to 225 standing in our Cafe De' Rainbow. This was a much needed space... and what with over 50 performers, and 9 backstage hands, and 8 door/ Shante Shena monitors... and 6 host volunteers and 4 boxoffice folks, we have got a pretty big staff and can not plan to give any complementary Magic passes to the show. Everyone has agreed to buy their own Magic Passes to the two big shows ( capacity 330 ea. )even if their volunteering. We will sell Out it seems. Of course this Cafe de Rainbow is solves the other problem of disappointing any folks that could not get into the show or afford a magic pass. ( although their will be a waiting list maintained to all for freebies if Magic passes are available )... We have gotten permission to use stage craft ( props and scenery ) from one of the two largest theatres in the Monterey area. The other theatre group will probably let us barrow stuff too. We will be making huge banners for the spaces and we might auction them off to raise some expense money at the end of the show. Concessions will be happening as long as no one profits or gets paid to do the show or the Rainbow Cafe. The Homeless garden project folks will be serving salad out of their garden. An open mic will be up part of the time in the cafe for an open forum. We've got it all... The general energy levels are running high. As to befoire untapped great Rainbow energy is being realised and focused for the first time out here in the west coastal are. Magic passes are being handled through these outlets: Recycled records in Monterey Cymbaline Records in Santa Cruz & Capitola Bone's of Our Ancester in the Haight Asbury, San Fran. Reservations call Lyonel (408) 375-2306 Unable to afford Magic Pass? Can you volunteer ? Call Diana (408) 338-2673 Love from this side of the Medicine Wheel TendeerFire ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 173 News from Europe 1 response mendicott 5:44 am Apr 22, 1991 Please network this EYFA form ASAP. I'm sure lots of American brothers and sisters will want to go on from Rainbow to Ecotopia in Estonia, USSR. If they can't get it all processed in time, we're hoping to be able to arrange a group visa at the Rainbow. I'd really appreciate knowing how to send stuff out over the American network. I'll get any info sent via EYFA. As you know only too well, comunication time is a big problem from and to the East; so, any fax numbers can only help. I'd like also to thank you for a phrase you used once. I keep repeating it to myself and out loud when trying to puzzle out just exactly how this Rainbow thing works: "Its alchemy man." See you down the road somewhere. Love and light, Mike Rainbow Info UK c/o Kim 125 Chatsworth Road London E5 OLA Tel: 46-81-186-5339 - until gathering at least Hello Everybody, So, I'm back in Holland, after a quick visit to England. I was back in England to drop John off. After 1 year of travelling together, we decided to make out own stories. He is going to try and get some money together to help realize his dreams. We spent many, many hours working on the bus, which is now in good order and ready for Poland again. Right on to some Rainbow news, I hear there is a copy of a map telling how to get to the preparation meeting waiting for me in Rotterdam; so, hopefully this means Jim has sent out info to everybody. If you haven't heard from Poland recently, I'll tell you what I know. Basically, the only info that I have is that there are problems with the site that we found: A) From the State who contest ownership rites with the guy who said we can use it, and B) From an Eco group who say that this land should be protected, and that no matter how careful we are we will have a negative impact. I'm not at all worried by these factors. Its for this kind of event that we did not issue details of the site in the first mail out. We have lots of time to find a good place, that doesn't hassle anyone. I know that there have been developments on this, but I don't know what yet. I have been in contact with the EYFA international office in Holland. This has proved very useful. It is planned to have Ecotopia in Estonia, USSR, this year, but as it is so politically sensitive they would like to have our site (or any others that our scouting discovers) as a back up. We can now use their fax network, which is the only sensible way to communicate from East to West. Also they have given us several tonnes of organically grown grain from a Polish farm. All in all it is fantastic that the two gatherings can work together. It would have been crazy to have them at the same time, and so I hope this will end any grumbles about us changing the Rainbow dates. Hopefully many folk will go from Rainbow to Ecotopia, but due to visa restrictions this requires some forward planning. Basically, people wanting to go to Ecotopia must submit the details on the EYFA form by June 1st to the address given. They will then be sent forms which they must take to their USSR Embassies. I personally think that Ecotopia will be very worthwhile, something for Rainbow people to enjoy, get involved with, and of course influence with Rainbow energy. The EYFA people were astounded when I told them that our only finances are via the Magic Hat. They have BIG money hassles! So anyway, I think that these detils ought to be networked by us so that people have the chance to apply before June 1st. It has been very frustrating for me not knowing what's happening in Poland. I intend to be back in Krakow on or around April 7th to prepare for the preparation meeting. I think this year it will be a great help if we can use fax machines as well as our normal postal network. This technology is very sound, cheaper than the phone, and much faster and safer than letters. Please try and find somewhere reliable that you can send and receive faxes from. So far we are linked from Krakow to Holland via EYFA. I have my own machine that I can hopefully plug in anywhere. Christian in Austria has one but they can't afford to pay the phone bill! If other focalizers can get them it will help. One problem we have is food supply. To eat organic dry foods, most of them will have to come from the West. But how much to order? How to get it there? How to pay for it? One solution is that we can order it all in Holland at the same time EYFA orders theirs for Ecotopia. This should be cheap and also means that we can pay for it all at the end of the gathering. Any surplus can be taken to Ecotopia. So we need to know all other food possibilities before doing this. Does anybody have any other solutions? In summary, this year the East will present us with new problems. We are not in our normal Western playground. If you get a request for information, respond as quickly as possible because it will still take ages! Use the EYFA connection. They can fax on any letters or faxes sent to them. We need to know about kitchens, transport and food possibilities from the West. All Westerners please bring Magic Hat money in Western currency. Hopefully much more info will follow after the preparation meeting. See you there? I hope so. Love, Mike. Poland: c/o Jim Forrester ul. Podkarpacka 1/416 35082 Rzeszow POLAND Holland Hot Line: Mike Holden (Rainbow) EYFA POBox 566 6130 AN SITTARD NETHERLANDS Fax: 31-46-516460 Tel: 31-46-513045 Dear Rainbow people, It's really great that Ecotopia and Rainbow Gathering are linking up with each other. We are looking forward to see you in Ecotopia after the Rainbow. But, since Ecotopia will take place in Estonia, which is part of the USSR, you have to obtain visa in beforehand, which is not that easy, knowing the Soviet embassies. So, there are two possibilities: either you send your application to the EYFA office before 1st of June, so that we can arrange the invitation for you, or if you don't receive this letter in time, it's also possible, that the visas can be arranged in Poland during the gathering, all together by one person. But we didn't check yet if this works, so it's better to apply in beforehand if you can. Another thing is, that we'd like to ask for your help in organizing the programme of Ecotopia. You see, the main activities of Ecotopia are done in workshops. There are all kinds of them: ecological, biological, art, philosophical, historical, creative, practical, etc. All ideas are welcome. So far not too much happened in organizing these, but anyway most of the things and ideas will come up during Ecotopia. - that's the way it works. But still it would be nice to have at least a kind of draft in beforehand, so that we can tell to people, who want to come, what kind of things will take place. So, if there is anything you are interested in or you know about, or you would like to make some kind of activities, please let us know! It's not possible to arrange everything from here, so we asked other people too, to look for possibilities, but we don't know how much it will work out. Anyway, we always can improvise. It would be really nice to have as many different things as possible, and the people in Ecotopia can also learn a lot from your experiences of Rainbow. So let's do it together! See you in Ecotopia, Vera European Youth Forest Action (foundation) International Coordination Address Postbox 566 6130 AN Sittard (Netherlands) Tel: 31(0)46-513045 Fax: 31(0)46-516460 (Rabo)Banknr.: 18.76.35.846 Postbank nr.: 4657962 EYFA is an active network of persons and organizations in East and West Europe to save forests of the world and our common future. Youth organizations in East and West Europe supported EYFA by signing our international platform of demands. Hundreds of young people also joined tours, actions, seminars and camps or participated in other activities organized by EYFA itself or organizations supporting the EYFA platform. Postmarked March 25, 1991. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 173 mendicott 6:44 pm Apr 24, 1991 Ecotopia '91 tips for active people: Spend the whole summer in the East. Rainbow 1991, July 17-27 Ecotopia 1991, August 1-21 APPLICATION FORM: On this application you will find more questions than normally, but that is necessary since we need that information for the visa forms. Please return this application form to EYFA, P.O.Box 566, 6130 AN Sittard, Netherlands, before June 1st, 1991. First Name: Last Name: Street: Postcode: Place: Zipcode: Country: Phone: (Fe)Male: Occupation: Birthdate: Birthplace: Passport Number: Representing: I like to take part in Ecotopia '91 from ____ August to ____ August, 1991. I like to give a workshop about: I come with my own tent: SIGNATURE: N.B. Special information about your workshop, or that you have a special medicins, or need to have special food you can write it in a separate letter. Lots of people seem to change their address very often and therefore for us hardly reachable (f.e. for questions and remarks about your visa, if this is the case with you, please write down a telephone number (f.e. of your parents) through which we can reach you. Ecotopia is a gathering similar to Rainbow but with more emphasis on environmental issues such as conservation, alternative technology, etc. Because there is more organisation than Rainbow there is a minimal participation fee. This year Ecotopia is in Estonia, a baltic state of the USSR. Anyone wishing to attend Ecotopia must get a visa form from EYFA by sending in this form and taking the visa form they will issue to their USSR embassy. There is a bike tour leaving Holland in April to go to Ecotopia spreading the eco message on the way. For more details on Ecotopia and other EYFA activities write to the above address. gn:wamkat GreenNet Wam Kat, Postbox 566 Sittard Netherlands 6130 AN +31 4490 13045 eyfa (European Youth forest Action) gn:eyfa GreenNet Wam Kat, Postbox 566 Sittard Netherlands AN +31 4490 13045 eyfa (European Youth forest Action) Keys: Environment, Youth, Datacommunication gn:gtn GreenNet Green Trees News, eyfa Netherlands (EYFA) ** GreenNet (U.K.) Public Conferences: gn.ecotopia Description: A preliminary online brainstorming about the themes of the festival ECOTOPIA 89 held in Koln, August 1989, and planned for annual occurence in the future. Sponsor: GreenNet Contacts: gn:eyfa ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 174 Great Lakes Spring Regional dwirtshafter 12:17 pm Apr 22, 1991 Subject: Great Lakes Spring Regional Attn: rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Great Lakes Spring Regional Report This message is to report another successful Great Lakes Spring Regional Gathering. Despite the rain and cold, everybody was warm and well fed. No legal hassles whatsoever. Cleanup happened on the last day with everybody sharing the burden. Done. We have scouted a great site for the next spring regional. The consensus is to have it there on the first full moon in April, 1992. Looking forward to the coming summer of continuous gatherings. Ho. Donny Wirtshafter Peter Fraterdeus Athens, Ohio ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 175 RE> 178 Rainbow in Europe dwirtshafter 2:35 pm Apr 22, 1991 Subject: RE> 178 Rainbow in Europe Attn: awf.rainbownews Conference Reply to: RE> 178 Rainbow in Europe (from Petros via Donny's account in Ohio) Note that VISA requirements need to be dealt with well in advance! Anybody going to Europe? Regional Newsletter Crews & Focalizers -- Please get this info (in topic 178) in your next mailing! These international connections are very important! We need to help them grow! Another good reason to hold a benefit! Play for Peace! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 176 Swiss Council mendicott 6:45 pm Apr 24, 1991 Vision Council May 25-26, 1991. Inipi. Where is Sulor going? Foundation? Association? Experiential school for kids and adults, children of our Earth mother, Gaia? The building permit, that allows legal occupation, is here. So, I would like to call all friends, that feel connected with Sulor, to the search for visions, help, ideas, and support. "From the firestar burning 'til who we are comes dancing." To give this wild place dynamic, I would like the beauty in us to be around us! "Imagine all the people, living life in peace... oh what a wonderful life." Sulor is one hour from Gudo or Progero, in the area of Monti di Laghetto. The Progero stream brings delicious springwater through the valley. The chestnut trees give us as much wood and fruit as we need, and we can also ask them for advice. The river is flowing, flowing and growing, the river is flowing down to the sea. Mother Earth is carrying me, a child I will always be, oh mother, carry me back to the sea. All my relations, Peace. Heinz Queck Sulor-Piancalardo CH-6514 Sementina SWITZERLAND Donations may be sent to: Genossensch. Zentralbank 308953.07.00.10-2. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 177 1991 RAINBOW GUIDE mendicott 4:05 pm Apr 29, 1991 The new, 1991 RAINBOW GUIDE is now available by donation, while supplies last, from: RAINBOW GUIDE P.O.Box 3213 Madison, Wisconsin 53704 USA Tel: (608) 249-0955 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 178 Polish Rainbow Fax Number mendicott 4:09 pm Apr 29, 1991 It is now possible to fax the Polish Rainbow circle at: fax:0114812340102 This is the same focalizer voice number, of Ela and Roman, in Krakow, listed in other communications. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 179 10th Anniversary of PEACE PARK ppav 1:33 am Apr 30, 1991 PEACE PARK ANTI-NUCLEAR VIGIL P.O. Box 27217 Washington, DC 20038 (202) 462-0757 Subject: CELEBRATION - TENTH ANNIVERSARY of PEACE PARK at the White House For ten years the PEACE PARK ANTI-NUCLEAR VIGIL has main- tained a continuous presence to witness the travesty of nuclear weapons. Over the years many thousands have joined in for varying periods of time at the very Gates of Babylon. This is a celebration to honor the concept. WHAT: A celebration in Peace and Harmony. A sharing of VISION of a nuclear free world. A giving of thanks to all those who have shared and supported the efforts of the VISION WHEN: JUNE 1-3, 1991, (the Vigil began on June 3, 1981) WHERE: Across the street from the WHITE HOUSE, Washington, DC at PEACE PARK BRING: PEACE and HARMONY, LOVE and VISION, CARING and SHARING LEAVE BEHIND: Alcohol, drugs, AGGRESSIONS SCHEDULE Saturday, June 1st: to kick off the event there will be a rally begining at NOON with speakers and music, lasting all that day to demostrate the commitment to PEACE IN OUR TIME. Sunday, June 2nd, a VISION COUNCIL begining at 12:00 noon followed by a drum circle. Monday, June 3rd, the actual tenth anniversary, at 12:00 noon 100,000 signatures on the PEACE PARK - PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE petition calling for Global Nuclear Disarmament will be delivered to the President. Press conference and demonstration to follow. All are invited in a rededication of PEACE PARK. Come and with the Vigilers the coming of a new age of witness to the VISION. Watchers at the Gate PEACE PARK ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 180 "THE GROUND WAR AT HOME" ppav 1:35 am Apr 30, 1991 P R E M I E R "THE GROUND WAR AT HOME" - Produced by Peace Park Mere rumors of the true story of what occured in front of The White House during the Iraq war have surfaced. "THE GROUND WAR AT HOME" documents the tactics employed by the United States Park Police and "unit 141" (SET team, Special Equiptment and Tactics) disigned to suppress the public desent to the Iraq war. The film contains rare unseen footage of the February 24, 1991 assault on approximatly 75 protesters conducting a candle-light vigil in Peace Park. This film graphically illustrates the loss of 1st Amendment rights under the "NEW WORLD ORDER". From January 14th to March 1st this "unit" was "deployed". Their unwriten orders?......Retake PEACE PARK. Stop the PEACE DRUMS. Silence the disent....... But the people kept coming, and they kept drumming.... AVAILABILITY This film is now available to the general public in the hopes this story would be told. The cost is $18.00, (shipping included). Send check or money order to PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE, P.O. Box 27217, Washington DC, 20038 or call (202) 462-0757, or request through E-mail, ppav or jvigorito for COD orders. Limited supply, first come first serve. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 181 Kansas Gathering, June 7-15th amullen 4:17 pm Apr 30, 1991 howdy folks. welcome home to a gathering of the tribe June 7-15th in the heartlands of the Kansas prairies, near Lawrence Kansas. This will be a good stopover for folks on the way to the National Gathering in the Northeast, where we can share food and spirit, replenish energies, swim and make merry. the gathering will be on Army Corps of Engineers wilderness camping area lands about 10 miles from Lawrence. From Lawrence, go west on Highway 40 to County highway 442. Take 442 to Stull, and turn south on 1023. Go about 3 miles to 2 (a east-west dirt road), then go east and look for signs. ignore all rumors of cancellation!! Happy trails and hugs! pass the word to all brothers and sisters. WE LOVE YOU. Lawrence Rainbows ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 182 Ann Arbor Spring Yard Sale sjohgart 7:30 pm Apr 30, 1991 Check it out--the 1991 Spring Great Lakes Rainbow yard sale! ItUs happening May 4 & 5 from noon to dusk at 2890 Hawks Ave. in Ann Arbor, Michigan (corner of Hawks and Packard). We need some help in the yard sale to raise some funds for networking. Proceeds from this sale will go toward: (1) Mailing of the Rainbow Guide; (2) Mailing of the local Rainbow Picnics calendar (once again this year there will be no Rainbow Picnic in the Arb in Ann Arbor. Specifically, there will be no formal organized picnic on July 20 from 3PM on--go check it out if you donUt believe it.); (3) Mailing of the Howdy Folks. Help can be provided by: (1) Donating items to sell (please donUt just bring junk nobody will buy); (2) Coming by and picking something up, helping us out with the green (there will be free Rainbow Guides available too); (3) Most important, coming by and helping out for a while, or just sharing a howdy and a hug. For more info, (313) 761-4243 or 434-0992 (no collect calls please). ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 183 Electronic Quakers Plan Ret pfraterdeus 4:37 pm May 2, 1991 Subject: Electronic Quakers Plan Ret Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Electronic Quakers Plan Retreat [from pn.announcements -- petros] Topic 103 Electronic Quakers Plan Retreat peacenet pn.announcemen 9:08 am May 2, 1991 Subject: Electronic Quakers Plan Retreat From jsax Wed May 1 21:49 PDT 1991 The first international gathering of the community of Friends using global computer networks for peace, justice, and nature concerns will take place at Ben Lomond Quaker Center, California, on June 19, 20, and 21 , 1992. Users of PeaceNet, GreenNet, Pegasus, the Web, and NicaNet will meet to share concerns, to worship, and to celebrate their unity under Ben Lomond's redwood canopy. The retreat is sponsored by the Quaker Electronic Project which facilitates the conference gen.quaker in the IGC networks. All people of spirit are welcome to attend. For more information, please visit gen.quaker. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 184 PROPOSITION ONE ppav 12:54 am May 5, 1991 PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE P.O. Box 27217 Washington D.C. 20038 (202) 462-0757 In 1982, the "Freeze Initiative" was placed on 108 ballots nationwide. The initiative won in 105 locations. Nationally 63% of those that cast ballots favored the initiative. It lost only one statewide ballot 49-51% (Arizona). According to political experts that studied the Freeze, the bi-national initiative proved that the overwhelming majority of the electorate would eliminate nuclear weapons if the Soviets did likewise. It is important to note that all this occurred during the height of the "Evil Empire" rhetoric. Congress totally ignored the wishes of the voters. The Proposition One Committee believes it is time to bring forward an initiative that makes law; an initiative with teeth; an initia tive that is bi-national; an initiative that is not merely an opinion poll, but will eliminate nuclear weapons once and for all, making it illegal within the laws of each nuclear power to ever again produce or possess ANY weapons of mass destruction. We are inviting fellow Peace-Neters to come over and take a good look at this plan on a new conference called prop1.national. Posted there, you will find "Introduction to Proposition One," "Proposition One Position Paper" (synopsis of the plan), "Fact Sheet(s) 1-7" (designed to meet most specific objections we have encountered), and "How You Can Get Involved." On Oct. 19, 1990, The District of Columbia Board of Elections approved the Proposition One petition as "proper subject matter for a ballot initiative." It is now time to turn our attentions from our local Initiative to the national level. Beginning in July, the Committee will send two teams for a six-month (approximately) road tour to take this plan to the nation. We are arranging the itineraries now. Should you or your group wish to have speakers come to your town this summer, notify us through E-Mail, prop1.national, soon during this planning time to guarantee inclusion. Funding is an ongoing need. If you can, dig as deep as you can. That donation could very well be the most important and effective donation you may ever make. Please........Welcome to our conference. You or your group should take the time to consider this plan. The implications discussed in "Fact Sheet #3: the Domestic Political Considera tions" have important effects on virtually all progressive agendas. PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE (Paid for by PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE - Brett Hamrick, Treasurer) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 185 Clean-Up Minn. June 1st!!! pfraterdeus 12:47 pm May 12, 1991 Howdy from Colorado Springs! This is Petros, with an important message from the Clean-Up council crew up in Minnesota! Due to funky cold weather inn Northern Minn. the Clean up council will re-circle the FIRST WEEKEND in JUNE, rather than May! This news is from Peg and Ricochet Rabbit in Duluth. Please call Peg at 218 724 0730 for details! The clean up council will gather at the site of last year's gathering to investigate reports in the local media that the site was left in a state of untogetherness... If such is found to be the case, we'll work on it til it's right! Play for Peace! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 186 On Politacal Correctness... pfraterdeus 3:27 pm May 15, 1991 This is a reply to a topic on PC in the utne.salon conf. Play for Peace! Peter *************** The forces of darkness and repression are attempting once again to do what they do so well--parody and distort the progressive and human-oriented vision and terminology of the "Left". The furor raised by the Right over "pc"-ness on campuses is an attempt to impose a politically correct attitude on those self-same students. By challenging the progressive "biases of the faculty" the right attempts to undermine the freedom of that faculty to speak freely against the current system. Most importantly, the free speech granted to those who would advocate hatred and intolerance is granting license to those who would take up arms to "have their way" amongst us. Death squads will not be far behind, to put it bluntly. Do Americans, those devout advocates of personal liberty, really want to succumb to a system which itself has funded for decades the viscious death-squads of central america? Doesn't claiming that the expressive rights of rightest students are being violated mean defending their right to spread hatred and lies about any progressive goals, or racial group? The age of cynical "realism" (the catchword of the materialist) has brought the planet to the edge of un-imaginable disaster. The "Right" would have us Fear the other races and other nations of the world. The more Fear the better. Keeps the economy moving. Good to have a war going somewhere.... The "left" those "old hippies", in their Birkenstocks, would rather share the bounty, and take responsibility for our many mistakes. Denying them is the act of an immature and dangerously psychotic mindset. Look at the "War on Drugs" for instance. Nearly half of the arrests for drug charges are for hemp possession. The mindset of the "right" is so fixed, that the subtle adjustment to consciousness achieved through smoking the hemp flower challenges their entire reason for being. It so terrifies them that they have forbidden it to everyone. This also becomes a convenient way to brand many of those artists, thinkers, teachers, healers, musicians and scientists, who may be "users", as outlaws, ex communicato, interdicted. A Way to prevent their ever holding political office, judgeships, elected or appointed positions of any kind. A way to threaten their livelihoods, homes, autos, and freedom. What a fine way to eliminate a large and important portion of the activist citizenry, just through "Zero Tolerance"..... That pesky journalist on your back? Just plant a seed in his backyard, and bust him for possesion when it sprouts! That lawyer for the environment? Find out if he ever ate "shrooms" in college. Don't like the looks of those hippies? Shake 'em till a joint rolls out and throw 'em in the CAN! This is outrageous. This must end immediately. Let History Record that the "Right" and its Allies are about to succeed in subverting the Constitution of the People of the United States. WHO IS WATCHING?!? I call on local community councils and state legislatures to direct their officers of the Law to refuse to enforce laws which are unconscionable. Repression in the name of drug interdiction is an inappropriate solution to medical and social problems. Neither is it an acceptable alternative to a free and open society. peter fraterdeus cdp!pfraterdeus@labrea.stanford.edu petros@chinet.chi.il.us ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 187 Colo. Regional Info????? pfraterdeus 10:59 am May 16, 1991 Does anyone have the scoop on the Colorado Regional happening soon? I got a flyer from Rex in Boulder, but couldn't find it on my way out the door to Colo. Springs from Illinois! Also have a Guide, BUT, no phone for Colo. focalizers!!!!!!! What good is the Guide with no phone numbers for Focalizers?!?!?!?! Thanks! Please post details as a response to this! I meant to post all that info myself, but misplaced the flyer before I got the chance! Love and Light! Play for Peace! Petros (in Colo. Springs, and loving it!) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 188 Site (Spring) Council 1 response pfraterdeus 8:00 pm May 20, 1991 Subject: Site (Spring) Council Attn: Rainbows &awf GOOD MORNINGI Site (Spring) Council This info is from Sun Bear in New Hampshire. As of 20 May 1991, the site for 1991 gathering has not been selected. Site Council will be this weekend 25-27 May, at Texas Falls, Green Mtn. National Forest, Vermont Take Vt. Rt 100 North toward Granville. One town South of Granville is Hancock. Turn West on the main crossroad in Hancock, and look for road Texas Falls (to the North) Call 603 878 2022 (not too late, not collect:-) For Info --------- petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 188 pndemo3 11:51 am May 21, 1991 spring directions turn left on rte 125 in hancock, go about 3 miles turn right into texas falls. We qt Quarry Hill welcome you. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 189 Hippie Dreams Hemp 90's? pfraterdeus 2:57 am May 24, 1991 Subject: Hippie Dreams Hemp 90's? Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Hippie Dreams Hemp 90's? ->)}{(<- In an article in today's Chicago Tribune (22May91), the civil disobedience campaign of hemp activists in San Marcos, Texas (smoking a joint in the town parking lot) is lightly written of, referring to the "old hippies" and the "time-warp" effect in a town where "people are still living in the 60's". The local sherrif has "responded with humor", but the DA says that prosecutions will begin soon. The activists say (along with Jack Herer(1), and Gatewood Galbraith(2)), that in addition to hemp plants producing a non-toxic psychoactive and theraputic drug, the plant and its fibers also hold enormous value for the ecosphere, >and< the economy. The production of paper, alone, from hemp fiber (one of the best in the vegetative kingdom) would provide for a reduction of logging of old growth forests for pulp. Other uses are for oil (from the seeds), fuel from the biomass convertion of the fiber(energy), and of course, rope and fabric. Is it time for a good hard look at the laws against marijuana? Why is this useful plant excoriated as an outlaw? Or is the legalization movement just the "dreams of old hippies still living in the sixties"? ------------------------------------ (1) Jack Herer is the author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" which details the murky history of the outlawing of hemp. (2) Gatewood Galbraith is running for Governor of Kentucky on a hemp-economy platform, claiming that Kentucky could reduce its dependence on environmentally destructive coal mining by growing hemp as a fiber crop, producing seeds for feed and oil and use the compressed fiber for fuel at biomass conversion facilities. He has converted his car to run on hemp seed oil. ------------------------------------ Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 190 Operation Green Merchant II News jcarlisle 8:16 am May 24, 1991 Operation Green Merchant II On Tuesday, May 21, 1991, agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration served subpoenas on the owners of hydroponic supply stores all over the US. The administrative subpoenas, not signed by a judge, demand that these small business people who sell indoor garden supplies turn over all of their financial and business records to the DEA. The DEA wants: "sales receipts, customer lists, shipping records including those in coputerized form for the period January 1990 to the present day, all correspondence about marijuana cultivation or distribution, all records concerning transactions with other hydroponic and lighting equipment businesses and suppliers, all information about all owners, officers and investors in their company, all employees since 1986 and dates of tenure for each, and all correspondence relating to marijuana publications." [excerpted from exact wording of a subpoena served to a hydroponic store owner in the San Francisco Bay Area] Con Dougherty (sp?), at DEA headquarters in Wash. DC confirmed that DEA agents served subpoenas on May 21 and 22 to "50 or 60 stores, looking for customer lists." He said that this is a continuation of Operation Green Merchant which began in 1989 with a similar action. There are several angles to this story: 1. Op Green Merchant is part of an ongoing DEA/Drug Czar effort to root out the domestic marijuana cultivation industry. 2. One of the main reasons DEA is doing this is to be able to tell the Latin American leaders that the US is dealing with its drug production, a question the Pres. of Colombia raised with Bush at the drug summit in 1989. 3. This type of harrassment is probably unconstitutional. Atty. Kevin Zeese, head of the Drug Policy Foundation in Washington D.C. , says that administrative subpoenas are legal. No one has challenged this type of operation in court. A few of the customers arrested in '89 as a follow up to the obtaining of the customer lists from the store owners and UPS were acquitted. 4. This is the first shot across the bow in what promises to be a brutal year of drug war activity for rural residents who happen to live where pot is grown. A Calif. judge recently threw out a consent decree (Normal vs. Mullen) which had put limits on pot eradication techniques which harrass rural residents. Atty. Ron Sinoway, has more on that. 5. In Operation Green Merchant I, in 1989, 377 people were arrested for growing marijuana and over 40,000 plants were seized. (The Justice Department considers unsprouted seeds in soil as plants.) 280 indoor growing operations were seized along with 19 stores and warehouses. In all over $7 million in assets were seized. In order to achieve these arrests and seizures, the DEA had to search thousands of innocent indoor growers' property. NOTE: I am collecting info on Green Merchant. If you know anything about the current activities of the DEA, please post here or e-mail to me directly. Thanks, Johan Carlisle, managing editor, Propaganda Review ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 191 Utne Conf & Rainbows online 1 response pfraterdeus 12:45 am May 25, 1991 Subject: Utne Conf & Rainbows online Attn: peter f GOOD MORNINGI Utne Conf & Rainbows online Howdy! Check out some of the topics and the lively discussion over in utne.salon. To whom is democracy a threat? Spirituality: Making rituals Hippie Dreams Hemp 90's? Is the "drug war" a scam? War between the sexes. Bush's New World Order And so forth... If you want to respond to any topic, just type ",wnc" for "w)rite n)ew c)onference entry" at the Conf? prompt. This message also is testing the Rainbow Folks Group Address. This PeaceNet address list includes all known peaceNetter Rainbows. Peace! Petros The list... pfraterdeus mgibson bmasel wsteele bdearborn dwirtshafter sjoghart salem@think.com mendicott fmayer jjohnson conf:awf.rainbownews ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 191 ppav 11:41 pm May 29, 1991 Peter, You can include PPav on that list we are also Rainbow see you in vermont. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 192 Western Tribes Council & Po pfraterdeus 11:13 am May 30, 1991 Subject: Western Tribes Council & Po Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Western Tribes Council & Potluck For Info on Western Tribes Activities Oregon Rainbow Mark McCracken Focalizer 3015 NE Broadway Portland, OR 97232 Rainbow Family Tribal Council 1011 Valley River Way Box 116B-155 Eugene, OR 97401 June 15-23 -- Western Tribes Regional in SouthWest Oregon (Site to be announced) call 503 284 3620 for info! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 193 Howdy Folks--Raps 107/701 I pfraterdeus 11:29 am May 30, 1991 Subject: Howdy Folks--Raps 107/701 I Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Howdy Folks--Raps 107/701 Ideas Any ideas for things to remember in these important rainbow traditions? Usually mentioned in the Howdy Folks and rap 107 are: -What to bring... -Sanitary Standards and Suggestions -Water Supply protection -Kid Village supplies -Food and Kitchen stuff -CALM supplies -Helpful Herbs and Gifts of the Mother Earth -Band together into Kitchens -Do someone else's dishes, too! -Don't build personal fires. (Fire danger and pollution.) What not to bring (if you please!) -Why not dogs? Packs and sanitation -Why not "drugs"? Damage to health and mind. -Why not alcohol? Long-time consensus (A-kitchen explained????) -Why not guns/explosives? (law and violence) Some ideas of stuff that might be included... -Who is Welcome Center? -Who is CALM? -Who is Info? -Who is Shanti Sena? -Who is the "Gate Crew"? -What about Reporters? -What about Local folks? -What about Clean-Up? Stick around, it just gets better! -Who is clean-up crew? (You and me, sister!) Rap 701 -Dealing with trash/recycle-ables -Dealing with Compost -Dealing with Shitters -Dealing with Trails -------------------- Hope folks will respond to this! Love you! See you in July! Peteros :-) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 194 Site Info -- 1991 ! pfraterdeus 11:30 am May 30, 1991 Subject: Site Info -- 1991 ! Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Site Info -- 1991 ! This info is from Sun Bear in New Hampshire. Site for the 20th Rainbow Family Gathering CHOSEN by consensus of council Texas Falls, Green Mtn. National Forest, Vermont Take Rt 100 North toward Granville. One town south of Granville is Hancock. Turn West on the main crossroad in Hancock, and look for road Texas Falls (to the North) (turn left on rte 125 in hancock, go about 3 miles turn right into texas falls.) Call 603 878 2022 (not too late, not collect:-) For Info --------- Howdy Folks and Raps 107/701 coming soon! petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 195 A.W.F Benefit Report pfraterdeus 11:43 am May 30, 1991 Subject: A.W.F Benefit Report /* Written 8:29 am May 25, 1991 by lbadger in cdp:awf.rainbownews */ /* ---------- "A.W[D[D[[D[ Be" ---------- */ Howdy Loved ones, Well tomarrow is the big day for us out here on the West cost. After 3 months of planning and organizing and agonizing and facilatating and silkscreening posters and magic passes and recruiting and crazy phone bills and alota councils and alota work crews and alota hugging... The ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT is taking off on its double show triple fun extravaganza on May 26th. At 11 am our Family show begins and runs until 3:30 pm with clowns and magicians, and bio-degradable helium ballons, and musicians and jugglers, and storytellers and puppet shows, and facepainters, and costumed rabbits and cats and mice and and and... At 4:30 is our Rock Concert show that runs until 10 pm with the Rabbit Choir ( a name band ) and several local bands, the Resistance, The Bluz Angels, the Blu Forest, the Morgan Privateer's , and dancers, and clowns and giant mushrooms and and and... AllWays Free Benefits ...at Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center street Santa Cruz, Ca. Meanwhiloe during the whole of both shows running time we are doing The Cafe de Rainbow with a semi-open microphone for scheduled and unsceduled performers. We got belly dancers and close up magic, and clowns, and a clasical violinist, and acustic duets, and drummers, and coffee, and baked goods, and mexican food, and coke, and wild decorations, lotsa bio-degradable ballons, and facepainting, and costumed waitresses and waiters, and and and and... there is no cover charge in the 'Cafe de' Rainbow' and all items are given with a sujjested donation only... Well needless to say I am real nervous big big time. Feel confident that we will raise the money to publish the Allways Free, but to what extent and how big a run... well this is the first west cost benefit ever. Sponsored by our Rainbow folks in the Santa Cruz and Monterey areas. The impression we make with the surrounding communities will be a lasting one... and will determine if we will be able to to it agian. I just found out that the Louden Nelson Comminity Center has never had a Rock concert in their Auditorium before... We are the first that they have allowed to put on a rock concert and their staff ( at Louden Nelson ) are a wee bit anxious... Phew... well we got a great crew on Shanti Sena and I am sure that we can handle anything that comes along... Next weekend ( as the acting Banking council coordinator ) I will have a financial report uploaded. And half the gross will be in Tony Crows hands no later then Wed. nite with the rest of the monies by the following friday, or sooner, if I should finish the accounting a head of schedule. It's been a long haul and I don't see how we can lose. Mars and Scarf focalizers have put out hundreds and hundreds of hours getting this benefit together. The Rock Concert could be sold out very easily. The family show is the wild card... but our Cafe... once the word gets around I think it will be hopping... and potentially we could make as much as either one of the shows if they were sold out. We love all you out their... and we feel publishing the Allways Free is extremely important, ecspecially this year, of all horrible years, what with war and all. We feel the further development of our comminications, networking, and general media, in the Rainbow, is a crucial part of our overall vision as a people. To save and heal ourselves and our Mother Earth we feel that we need to be more in touch with each other...and hopefully someday soon we will be able to publish an edition of the Allways Free paper for every season of the year. LOVE, tendeerfire M.A.R.S. (408) 375-2306 Monterey Area Rainbow Service P.O. Box 9202 Monterey, Ca. 93942 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 196 Archiving Topics soon.... pfraterdeus 11:52 am May 30, 1991 Howdy! Just a note to say that I will be archiv ing some of the early topic in awf.rainbownews. This will not affect the ability to refer to the topics, but responses will not be possible. Thanks! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 197 Say Howdy, Please! 9 responses pfraterdeus 12:17 pm May 30, 1991 Lets get a feeling for how much this conf is being used! I see plenty of new topics , but is anybody reading? Please respond to the topics you read, just to say you checked it out! OK !?! After reading this, just type ,wrc to respond to this topic. This code means (W)rite (R)eply message to (C)onference. The comma just tells the system to string the commands together! Peace Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 197 dwirtshafter 10:25 pm May 30, 1991 Peter: Just a quick message to let you know I am keeping an eye on the conference. I have been having trouble with quickmail so I am back to using Red Rider. This is why I do not respond often to whats on the board. Everyone on the conference appreciates your fine dedications. Thanks. I especially appreciate the site info. I am so glad our consensus process worked and we are now home. See you all there. Donny, dwirtshafter (614) 592-5297 ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 197 ppav 12:08 am May 31, 1991 PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE Contact: Scott Galindez PO BOX 27217 (202) 462-0757 Washington, Dc 20038 (202) 462-0757 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil to Celebrate 10th Anniversary When: Rally, Saturday June 1, 1991 at 12 noon Where: Lafayette (Peace) Park (across from the White House) Speakers to include: Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy Ploughshares activist Phil Berrigan Statehood Party Co-Founder Josephine Butler On Monday June, third the Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil will be celebrating their tenth Anniversary. The Proposition One Committee will be sponsoring a weekend of activities to honor the commitment of these individuals. Since June 3rd, 1981 there has been a 24 hour antinuclear vigil in front of the White House. Two of the present members of the vigil William Thomas, and Concepcion Picciotto have been vigiling in the park since day one. They have been joined over the years by hundreds of individuals who have stayed for various periods of time. Over the years the vigil has overcome many obstacles including an attack on the First Amendment by the last two presidential administrations. Some of the vigilers have spent periods of time in jail to defend their right to conduct a 24 hour vigil. Vigil Co-founder William Thomas sums up the Purpose of the Vigil in the following way: "Peace depends on understanding, understanding requires communication, communication demands patience and focus. By remaining in one place on a round-the-clock basis we strive to demonstrate the individual responsibility, patience, and focus which we believe are necessary to achieve peace on earth." The Proposition One Committee is an organization that is working for Bi-National Voter initiatives in both The United States and the Soviet Union for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion. Attached is a more complete schedule of events planned for the weekend of June first through third. Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of Peace Park Rally Saturday June 1st 12 Noon - 12:45pm: Michael Hasty and the Archangels (Music) 12:45 - 1:00: Opening Statements by members of the Vigil. 1:00 - 1:15: Tentatively City Council Member Hilda Mason. 1:15 - 1:30: Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy. 1:30 - 1:45: D.C. Statehood Party Co-Founder Josephine Butler. 1:45 - 2:00: Ploughshares Activist Phil Berrigan. 2:00 - 2:45: David Sawyer (music) 2:45 - 3:00: Statements by friends of the vigil. 3:00 - 3:45: Rest Area (music) 3:45 - 4:00: To be announced 4:00 - 4:45: Zebra Bridge International (music) 4:45 - 5:00: Closing Statement Vision Council Sunday June 2nd 12 Noon - Native American Opening ceremony led by Native American Quiet Spirit Followed by an afternoon of sharing individual visions for peace on earth. ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 197 lbadger 5:39 pm Jun 5, 1991 awf council from tucson, we are up and ready for peacenet info ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 197 lbadger 6:32 am Jun 6, 1991 Yes love Lbadger ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 197 sjohgart 8:07 pm Jun 6, 1991 Howdy! I'm still reading this stuff now 'n again. Good stuff! ==== ==== ==== Response 6 to Note 197 suev 10:36 pm Jun 6, 1991 hi all, i've been to two rainbows, i'd hoped to go this year, but visiting family and friends comes first, and with only two weeks off, i figured i'd be on the road too much if i went all the way to vermont. where do i work? peacenet! i'll be in illinois, baltimore, and michigan during the first part of july. peace be with you, sue ==== ==== ==== Response 7 to Note 197 mendicott 2:47 pm Jun 7, 1991 Katuah Rainbow JSummer Solstice gathering June 14-27 Citico Creek, Cherokee National Forrest, Southeast Tennesse Call Atlanta Ligth Line at 404-662-6112 for more info. Visas to POLAND no longer necessary for US passport holders. Call Airhitch in New York city at 212-864-2000 for information on $160 standby flights to Europe. Peace & love, ==== ==== ==== Response 8 to Note 197 arosenblum 6:15 pm Jun 12, 1991 PLACE TO STOP IN PHILADELPHIA Dear Folks, I'm writing from Philadelphia on behalf of the folks who may be traveling past this way enroute to the gathering in Vermont. We have a couple good places for you to meet with folks from this area to continue the caravan together. I spoke with the people at the Germantown Unitarian Church who have a huge but secluded parking lot and some wooded area and a large church at Johnson St. and Lincoln drive in Germantown. They will make the church building available for the use of the washrooms by our people who can then camp out on their property, and park vehicles safely on the lot. The only cost they would have is a sum of $21 to pay the sexton to come and open the church building and show peopole around for a couple hours until they are settled in. We need to give them notice as soon as possible if we want to take advantage of that offer. To do that just call me at 215-849-3237 or 849-1259 any day or evening. I can also give instructions for getting to the Church. Another offer is in Elkton MD, that being the home of Connie Irving. who can be reached at 301-398-0379. Connie is in a rural area with some parking and space to camp, but not so easy for people to locate, and quite a drive south for Philadelphians who would add over 2 hours to their trip if they had to go there and then continue north. It might be good for people in that area, however. I have not been on the Rainbow conference before, so please let me know by phone what you are thinking of doing and whether I should confirm with the Unitarian Church of Germantown. I myself cannot attend the whole gathering but hope to fly up there for one day with our old Cessna as I have relatives in Granville area. Peace and love, Art Rosenblum Aquarian Research, 5620 Morton St., Phila. PA 19144. ==== ==== ==== Response 9 to Note 197 afung 8:10 am Jun 21, 1991 Howdy! I've been reading this conference, see you in Vermont! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 198 PeacePark 10th Anniv! pfraterdeus 1:28 pm May 31, 1991 Subject: PeacePark 10th Anniv! From PEACENET_QM PeacePark 10th Anniv! This was accidentaly added as a response to topic 205 Petros ********************************************** Topic 205 Say Howdy, Please! Response 2 of 2 ppav All Ways Free --- Rainbow Family News 12:08 am May 31, 1991 PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE Contact: Scott Galindez PO BOX 27217 (202) 462-0757 Washington, Dc 20038 (202) 462-0757 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil to Celebrate 10th Anniversary When: Rally, Saturday June 1, 1991 at 12 noon Where: Lafayette (Peace) Park (across from the White House) Speakers to include: Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy Ploughshares activist Phil Berrigan Statehood Party Co-Founder Josephine Butler On Monday June, third the Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil will be celebrating their tenth Anniversary. The Proposition One Committee will be sponsoring a weekend of activities to honor the commitment of these individuals. Since June 3rd, 1981 there has been a 24 hour antinuclear vigil in front of the White House. Two of the present members of the vigil William Thomas, and Concepcion Picciotto have been vigiling in the park since day one. They have been joined over the years by hundreds of individuals who have stayed for various periods of time. Over the years the vigil has overcome many obstacles including an attack on the First Amendment by the last two presidential administrations. Some of the vigilers have spent periods of time in jail to defend their right to conduct a 24 hour vigil. Vigil Co-founder William Thomas sums up the Purpose of the Vigil in the following way: "Peace depends on understanding, understanding requires communication, communication demands patience and focus. By remaining in one place on a round-the-clock basis we strive to demonstrate the individual responsibility, patience, and focus which we believe are necessary to achieve peace on earth." The Proposition One Committee is an organization that is working for Bi-National Voter initiatives in both The United States and the Soviet Union for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion. Attached is a more complete schedule of events planned for the weekend of June first through third. Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of Peace Park Rally Saturday June 1st 12 Noon - 12:45pm: Michael Hasty and the Archangels (Music) 12:45 - 1:00: Opening Statements by members of the Vigil. 1:00 - 1:15: Tentatively City Council Member Hilda Mason. 1:15 - 1:30: Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy. 1:30 - 1:45: D.C. Statehood Party Co-Founder Josephine Butler. 1:45 - 2:00: Ploughshares Activist Phil Berrigan. 2:00 - 2:45: David Sawyer (music) 2:45 - 3:00: Statements by friends of the vigil. 3:00 - 3:45: Rest Area (music) 3:45 - 4:00: To be announced 4:00 - 4:45: Zebra Bridge International (music) 4:45 - 5:00: Closing Statement Vision Council Sunday June 2nd 12 Noon - Native American Opening ceremony led by Native American Quiet Spirit Followed by an afternoon of sharing individual visions for peace on earth. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 199 Regarding Chicago and some 1 response pfraterdeus 10:52 am Jun 2, 1991 Subject: Regarding Chicago and some GOOD MORNINGI Regarding Chicago and some rap. >Please Distribute Widely in Rainbow Circles Everywhere< I guess it takes alot longer to get rid of a rap than to acquire it. It seems that folks are bad-rapping the Chicago family due to some lingering mistrust over the rumor that got into our newletter last fall. While we've been way out front in acknowledging the mistake, sending out explanations to everyone that got the original, and speaking to the council in Shawnee, it seems that the word is out that we're good-for-noughts, and not to be trusted. My sister Tina says she was given friendly suggestions at Cumberland that "we all love ya here, Tina, but when you get to Vermont, don't say you're from Chicago..." She explained that there's nothing to be ashamed of in Chicago. We're hard working, and honest. Anybody that needs to carry a grudge can hold it against me personally, if they must. But don't poison the Rainbow for my brothers and sisters who may never have been to a gathering. They don't need squinty eyed attitudes from high holies or anybody else. OK? Chicago folks are 24 hour a day Rainbows. We live it right here in the heart of the City of the Broad Shoulders. The stress is high sometimes, but we've got a good family here, and we love it. Play for Peace! Love and Light! Peter Fraterdeus Chicago Rainbow Circle Volunteer Focalizer and rumor goat..... ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 199 lbadger 7:53 am Jun 15, 1991 Dear Tina and the Chicago Circle, MARS and I personelly , TendeerFire , wish to thank you guys for all the hard work that you put into doing the rainbow guide this year... We kknow just how diufficult a job this was... and we hope that you have been congradulated and hugged and loved enough to cover all the hard times that you had doing it... thankyou thanyou... another thing... when we asked for the focalizers list from you guyss and we eventually go it... we used the list you gave us to put out the little red posdt card emergency warning about the ALLWAYS FREE's troubles way back last Feb..,. and it really worked... we managed to drumm up enogh interest to be able to salvage the apaper this year and it looks like we are going to just barely slide and the wire agian thius yaer... thankyou agian and withg all our LOVE MARS & TEnDERFIRE send our best wishes... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 200 A.W.F. Benefit-conclusion lbadger 6:52 am Jun 6, 1991 The AllWays Free Benefit -conclusion- Santa Cruz, Ca. May 26th, 1991 The first west coast benefit for the Allways Free newspaper published for the Rainbow Family was a big success in more ways then it was a failure financially. First of all, we had put in place a safety net that gaureenteed half of the benefit gross to go towards publishing the paper no matter what. Then when we went back to do the accounting and tried to return the remaining half of the gross to our backers most of the backers were able to donate their loans to publish the paper. Perhaps we lost a few hundred dollars on the outside, that could have been sent to publish the paper if we had not done the benefit at all, but then we would have missed out on all the experience, common bonding, and fun that we had doing it. M.A.R.S. ( Monterey Area Rainbow Service ) and S.C.A.R.F. ( Santa Cruz Area Rainbow Focalizers ) co-produced the benefit. Our first meeting was at Jon and Diana Smith's house in Boulder Creek. Mark Cleveland was the third member of S.C.A.R.F. who worked with us all the way to the end. Lyonel and Alan Badger ( and David EarthHeart not present at this meeting ) made up the folks from M.A.R.S. TendeerFire took on facilatating and coordinating the event. At our first meeting a plan was presented by Tendeerfire to produce holographic mylar magic passes that said AllWays Free on the front and had a blank calander on the back. He thought different focalizers from around the country could trade these magic passes for donations. The artwork was presented and approved and M.A.R.S. went ahead with production. When the prototype magic passes were ready TendeerFire decided to touch base with the Allways Free folks in Tuscon before doing anything else. The visit with Tony and Cue was very rewarding but disappointing. Tenderfire worked hard to dis-spell the general discouragement and grim the reality that faced the A.W.F. council. Before leaving he left them with the commitment that he would not give up on publishing the paper this year... of all years... Many reasons have been voiced to why the lack of support. It was a very discouraging year all around, what with war, earthquakes, disasters, and the deepening recession. Then agian, the paper has always had problems ... sorta out of sight outa mind, maybe... Tendeerfire knew alot of people who felt that the Tuscon A.W.F. staff had done a supreme job with the last issue of the paper... TendeerFire left Tucson with a strong vision that our Rainbow Family needs a permenant method of promoting support for our own Rainbow publications. Between the gatherings, during the nineteen seventies and eigthties, the Rainbow generation gap is all to apparent. Oral tradition is not enough. A trustworthy ( communication ) bridge is needed. This is why the Monterey Area Rainbow Service ( Mars ) was born. At M.A.R.S. we envision the AllWays Free coming out on a seasonal schedule and the Rainbow Guide really becoming a focused useful networking tool. After Tendeerfire got back to California he realized that time was shorter then he had counted on if the paper was to even be delivered at the gathering. Mars and Scarf went into full swing to do their own benefit for the Allways Free. Three months later on May 26th we gave our benefit at the Louden Nelson Community Center in Santa Cruz, Ca. From the participants point of view we were a huge success both in entertainment and hospitality...true to the spirit of our Rainbow heritage everything was free upon request. We had a children's show in the early afternoon and a rock concert in the late afternoon and evening. Our Cafe d' Rainbow was as big a hit as the shows and it was open for about ten hours. Of course we had troubly anticipating the success of the cafe and ran out of food on two occassions and had to dash out and buy more...but folks suppported it with their donations and we not only gave away half our food but ended up with four time the money we started with. Mars doesn't anticipate doing another benefit like this, except as advisers...and Tendeerfire says " if there is another benefit I promise I will come but only if I can just be the clown ". It was a long haul, and we acutually thought, when all was done and over, that even with the 'safety net' arrangements of ' half the gross to A.W.F. no matter what 'that we had failed to pull in under the wire. When the dust had finally settled two days later, and Lyonel had finished a rough accounting, and talked to Tony Crow... a miricle had occured... The paper was getting published. The wonderful news is that we sent more monies then we grossed from the benefit alone. That's how strongly the rest of our council felt about getting the A.W.F. published. The S.C.A.R.F focalizers and the M.A.R.S. folks, after a three month run towards a looming deadline, have beaten back the dispair. Perhaps now we can get things moving earlier and next year make the twentieth anniversary issue of the AllWays Free sparkle and shine out the true meaning of the words ' Freedom of the ( Rainbow ) Press '. Love, TendeerFire ( For a full accounting of our benefit write to: Lyonel Badger c/o M.A.R.S. box 9202, Monterey, Ca. 93942 ) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 201 Great Lakes Rainbow goin! sjohgart 8:22 pm Jun 6, 1991 Our yard sale was a rousing success--got enough funds to mail to our whole regional list, we plan to bundle Howdy Folks and a local calendar, and Guides to those who have labels sent us by The Guide Crew. The Howdy Folks, serendipitously, are being printed in Southfield, 25 miles from here. Hopefully they'll be ready this weekend, as there are folks coming in to help prep the mailing. If you Illinois, Ohio, or Wisconsin folks are also doing a regional mailing, I'd be glad to send the list I have from your state so you don't duplicate the mailings we've done. Let me know! I'm hyped, I'm ready to go. Love love love ya! Gonzo ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 202 Welcome Home Tucson dwirtshafter 6:24 pm Jun 10, 1991 Welcome home tucson, we love you. can not wait to see the new awf. can not wait to see you soon. The Athens Rainbohio Crew. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 203 WELCOME TO POLAND mendicott 5:15 pm Jun 11, 1991 INVITATION TO THE IX ANNUAL EUROPA RAINBOW GATHERING JULY 17-27, 1991 Tworylne, Bieszczady, POLAND All are invited to come and join the Rainbow Family to share our energies, dreams, experiences and skills in the temple of mother nature. There will be workshops, meditations, chanting, dancing, music making, communal eating and lots of loving energy flowing throughout the gathering and growing through our worldwide network of sisters and brothers the whole year round. The Rainbow is free and open to everyone. It is totally non-commercial and financed entirely by donations to the magic hat. The land that we have chosen for this year's gathering is a large area known as Tworylne in the beautiful Bieszczady mountains of S.E. Poland. Tworylne was once a village of 90 homes; but, during the communist purges, the villagers were forced to move or killed and their houses destroyed. Since then, the area has been largely untouched, and there is a wide variety of wildlife, including bears, wolves, wild pigs, eagles, and also many rare plants. However, the local government has plans to sell this land to a big company. Local environmental groups have managed to postpone this to give them time to come up with an alternative future for Tworylne. Many of them are correctly concerned that a large gathering could have a negative effect on their negotiations and on the natural balance of the land. To have a positive effect, we must bring international awareness and healing energy. The local group hope that we can bring link-ups with Western organizations, shared experience from similar situations in the West, specific information on debt-for-nature-swaps or other possibilities, plus appropriate technology experience for practical projects during the gathering. There will be a meeting starting on June 15 to plan the way forward for saving Tworylne and the whole Bieszczady region. Go to Prezes' house for directions. WHAT TO BRING: (see cartoon); + tipi poles (From the above inforamtion, it should be obvious that WE MUST NOT KILL ANY TREES. We will try ro provide some poles; but, there will not be enough.); large boards, blackboards, cardboard, paint etc. for making info signs; Western money for the Magic Hat; kitchen equipment; & large tents. FOOD: We can get most grains, beans and vegetables cheaper here; so, please bring bulk amounts of nuts, seeds, dried fruit, and special food such as miso. DON'T BRING: (see cartoon); anything to sell; & anything that will cause a disposal problem, such as plastic. THE SEED CAMP WILL START ON JULY 3, for those with energy, transport and materials to help with preparations. Go to Prezes' house for more details. INFO CENTERS: Mail and phone: Lech Wayler, Pulaskiego 5/27, 35-011 Rzeszow POLAND; Tel: 53-772 (Polish and English spoken) Phone and fax: Roman & Ela Stich, Krakow; Tel & Fax: 48-12-340102 (Polish, English, German, and Swedish spoken) In the gathering area: Prezes' house (see map) NOTE: JIM FORRESTER'S ADDRESS IN RZESZOW NO LONGER EXISTS. PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Nearest major train station is Rzeszow. Trains from Rzeszow to Ustrzyki Dolne. Busses from Rzeszow to Zatwarnica. Busses from Krasno to Lutowiska. Information (Ryszard-Prezes-Krzeszewski) Tworylne, Rainbow Gathering Tworylne 1.5 hours walking from car parking bus stop in Zatwarnica or Sekowiec. ATTENTION: VISAS FOR POLAND NO LONGER NECESSARY FOR U.S. PASSPORT HOLDERS. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 204 Praise Bob! mendicott 5:17 pm Jun 11, 1991 Phenomicon Atlanta's Alternative Convention November 1-3, 1991 Powers Ferry Holiday Inn Phenomicon is a convention for the doers, the thinkers, the innovative, the underrated, the outraged. Seminars on everything from small-press publishing to conspiracy theory, from UFO abduction to amateur film. Live music, open gaming, workshops and panels, incredibly strange films, and much more. GUESTS: Robert Anton Wilson, guest of honor, is co-author of ILLUMINATUSI, and author of COSMIC TRIGGER, the HISTORICAL ILLUMINATUS series, and many other books. He will be speaking on a variety of subjects. Ivan Stang is author and founder of the Church of the Sub-Genius. Reverend Stang will be hosting our Devival. Ron Bonds is publisher and IllumiNet BBS SysOp. Steve Antczak, Rob Summers, and Hawk are publishers of the 'zine PERIPHERAL VISIONS. For more info, send SASE to: PhenomiCon P.O.Box 12141 Atlanta, GA 30355 Love & light, Winged Mercury ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 205 CONTACT IN ARKANSAS arosenblum 6:17 pm Jun 12, 1991 CONTACT IN ARKANSAS Dear Folks, Red Thomas of Mena, Arkansas would like contact with any Rainbow folks in his area. He can be reached at 501-394-4283. Call him if you'd like to visit or can help with transportation to the gathering. -Art Rosenblum. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 206 AWF submission thru lbadger accoun lbadger 1:16 am Jun 13, 1991 send all articles for AllWays Free to the lbadger account subaccount awf... for Tony Crows Attention... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 207 Chicago Deadshow Rainbow Be 1 response pfraterdeus 9:46 am Jun 14, 1991 Subject: Chicago Deadshow Rainbow Be Chicago Deadshow Rainbow Benefit 6/13/91 2:00 PM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! Volunteers Needed! ChicagoRainbowCircleCalendar June 22-23 (Saturday / Sunday) Midnight-6am % "Slumber Party" A Summer Solstice Benefit for Chicago Rainbow Circle, the Rainbow Guide, All Ways Free and Folkalizer's Council. Volunteers Needed! A socks-only acoustic jam, and focus circle, in the wee hours before and after the Dead show. Pusch Studios, 3829 N. Broadway, Chicago. Three stages, light refreshments. A Suggested Donation will be requested. All books showing costs and receipts will be available at the August Picnic due to Vermont Gathering in July. Banking council should be the last week in July (Call to confirm: 312 761 5851). Benefit Info: 312 281-2312 Volunteers Needed! Other Info: e-mail -- pfraterdeus ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 207 pfraterdeus 10:09 am Jun 14, 1991 Subject: Chicago Deadshow Rainbow Be Chicago Deadshow Rainbow Benefit 6/13/91 2:00 PM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! Volunteers Needed! ChicagoRainbowCircleCalendar June 22-23 (Saturday / Sunday) Midnight-6am % "Slumber Party" A Summer Solstice Benefit for Chicago Rainbow Circle, the Rainbow Guide, All Ways Free and Folkalizer's Council. Volunteers Needed! A socks-only acoustic jam, and focus circle, in the wee hours before and after the Dead show. Pusch Studios, 3829 N. Broadway, Chicago. Three stages, light refreshments. A Suggested Donation will be requested. All books showing costs and receipts will be available at the August Picnic due to Vermont Gathering in July. Banking council should be the last week in July (Call to confirm: 312 761 5851). Benefit Info: 312 281-2312 Volunteers Needed! Other Info: e-mail -- pfraterdeus ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 208 ALLWAYS FREE transportation proble lbadger 8:00 am Jun 15, 1991 HELP anyone know of anyone passing through Tucson that can help transport the ALlways free back east to Vermont... We go a shortage on postage and the printing is just barely getting under the financialy wire as is help help help is needed in transporting these papers. Leave meassage here or contact Tony Crow by phone ( 602 ) 884-9145 thankyou,,,,, LOVE TENDEERFIRE ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 209 Brief History of Ho! 1 response pfraterdeus 11:48 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Brief History of Ho! From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:42:43 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AB13225; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:42:40 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:42:40 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9106181442.AB13225@cdp.igc.org> To: pfraterdeus Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No_such_conference nfmail: can't open notesfile awf.rainbownews (retcode -6) 554 conf:awf.rainbownews... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AA13221; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:42:40 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:42:40 PDT From: Message-Id: <9106181442.AA13221@cdp.igc.org> To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Brief History of HO! Subject: Time:1:41 AM OFFICE MEMO Brief History of HO! Date:6/17/91 A Little History of Ho! There is no "Southeastern Regional Rainbow Council"Qno Southeastern Region at all so far as the Rainbow Guide is concemed. Ho! began as a proposal I made to a circle at the Blueberry Gathering in Katuah, August 1988, in response to the chaotic and unfocused aftermath of the 1987 Rainbow Gathering in North Carolina: some kind of newsletter, not just for Katuah but linking all the circles of the southeast. The circle gave consensus to my idea, but did not clarify what form such a newsletter should take. Some young Atlantans in that circle manifested one on their own that winter anyway, choosing the name Ho.l, but could not raise the bucks to get it off the ground. When I moved to Atlanta in lanuary 1990, one of the original young focalizers was still carrying the baton. We joined forces and put out a second issue carrying a flyer for the Ocala winter regional in Florida. Collating and stapling went on in the midst of our first Atlanta potluck since the Democratic Convention Rainbow ccmp had inspired a few get-togethers back in 1988. The stctement on page one of that first issue defined the mission of our newsletter, but not its source. In spite of the collating ~nd stapling, and the many hats we have since passed for Ho! at our picnics and potlucks, no one has proposed that the Atlanta Rainbow Circle officially sponsor Ho! Donations have been collected at most southeastem regionals, along with addresses for the mailing list, but no Family council has ever actually adopted the newsletter as a Family function. At the Ocala Vision Council in January 1991, when Ho! was one year/three issues old, Florida focalizers agreed to experiment with copying and mailing out the spring Ho! to their mailing list. A Cumberland Family council also agreed to mail that issue out to all of Kentucky and Tennessee with a letter they had written about their upcoming regional. This arrangementQbasically the Florida and Cumberland councils answering our invitation to "copy and distribute freely"Qis still in place as of the summer '91 issue. At the summer issue's editorial council/paste-up party, we finally came to consensus on a statement that clarifies who we are. Our little introductory passage on page 1 now says: "Ho! invites information, artwork, heartsongs, and messages to or from the Rainbow folk of the southeast. We are not an official Rainbow Family publication; we wish only to serve the need for communication within our regional network. Consider this your newsletter: it is funded entirely by your donations. Copy and distribute freely. We Love You !" Inside, a box of fine print adds: "Ho! is a gift of love from an independent council of individuals to the Rainbow Tribes of the Southeast. All decisions are made by consensus in councils which are announced in the circle at the monthly Atlanta Rainbow picnics. Anyone is welcome. We are not an official Rainbow Family publication; viewpoints expressed are those of the individuals or councils that contribute. This is a totally non-commercial endeavor; the newsletter and all space within it is a give-away, not for sale; all funding is by donation. Our bank council keeps open books. Anyone may freely reprint Ho! in whole or in part for non-commercial use, as long as they make no changes. Love, Ho! Because of the confusion that might spring from announcing our councils at the picnics (where anything may be announced or spoken or sung) and passing a hat at gatherings, the key point is repeated twice. Like All Ways Free, we are an independent group of people doing a service because we see a need. It happens that we serve all those in the southeast who feel they are Rainbows, but the Rainbow Family cannot be held responsible for what we print, nor are we responsible for what happens at Rainbow gatherings. The hat we pass is separate from the Magic Hat, like the A. W.F. hat that's passed at Gatherings. Practically, it makes sense to produce a newsletter in one place, but folks throughout the sou^fheast can consider themselves members of the Ho! council by giving us feedback, sending material and donations, copying and distributing in their area. The circle that responds to Ho! council announcements has grown steadilyQat times two dozen people, half of them making music for the ones doing the work. We gather to read and discuss the material we've received, make whatever decisions are required, and then one or two people take on the design and pasteup of each page. Usually it's a straightforward affair, deciding what articles take precedence and what can wait. Occasionally our earnest counciling is called for. Then the following weekend we hold a mailing party. Since Ho! began spreading the word of what the various southeastern circles of the Rainbow were doing, new circles have formed in Chattanooga, Knoxville, Charleston and Greenville SC. My favorite thing about Ho! is the same thing I always liked best about ALL WAYS FREE. Letters keep appearing in the box and letting us know that we are reaching people, bringing a light into their lives, connecting isolated points into circles and the circles into our many-colored Hoop of a Nation. It's still an experiment. We'll see how it goes. If you have experience in these things to offer, or if our experience can be of any help in your region, write us at Ho!, P.O. Box 5455 Atlanta GA 30307. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 209 lbadger 5:24 am Jun 22, 1991 Howdy Pfraterdeus Please read my topic on ALLWAYS FREE Future & M.A.R.S. and let me know what you think,,, ok ? Love, TendeerFire ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 210 Proposal to AWF Council 1 response pfraterdeus 11:49 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Proposal to AWF Council From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:45:26 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AB13431; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:45:23 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:45:23 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9106181445.AB13431@cdp.igc.org> To: pfraterdeus Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No_such_conference nfmail: can't open notesfile awf.rainbownews (retcode -6) 554 conf:awf.rainbownews... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AA13429; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:45:23 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:45:23 PDT From: Message-Id: <9106181445.AA13429@cdp.igc.org> To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Proposal to AWF Council Subject: Time:1:34 AM OFFICE MEMO Proposal to AWF Council Date:6/17/91 A Proposal to the ALL WAYS FREE Council, July 5, 1991, New England Gathering of the Rainbow Tribes Dear Brothers and Sisters, How are you? I'm doing O.K. I've been trying to connect with a Rainbow publication for a long time, so I can find out when & where Rainbow gatherings are happening. Could you please send me any info on gatherings happening nationwide & your newsletter "Ho"? ... I've never been to a gathering ... I've been told about the High Energy there, great vibesQ& I can't think of a better place to be. In this letter is some money for the Magic hatQthanks very much. I love you Dave The brother who wrote this letter lives in Milwaukee. Ho! is a newsletter we produce in Atlanta for the Southeastern Rainbow community. We mail it for free to anyone as far west as the Mississippi Valley, as far north as the Ohio Valley, including the Cumberland, Katuah, and Cenote (Florida ) bio-regional branches of the Family. Except for the network of focalizers, Ho! can't afford to mail to anyone up there in the Great Lakes. One person wouldn't make much difference, Dave might think, but once we started we'd have a nationwide mailing list in no time. The best we can do is enclose in each focalizer's Ho! the addresses of people in his or her area who have written us. In Dave's case, the closest focalizer is the Chicago Rainbow Circle, and he's in luck. A week or two after his letter, the first issue of "Pot o' Gold" appeared in our box: the Chicago Rainbow Circle's own newsletter, with a calendar of Rainbow events up in Dave's own region. If the brothers and sisters at those picnics and gatherings pass a hat to keep the newsletter going, he may even keep getting it. If the folks at southeastern Rainbow events keep passing the hat for Ho!, we hope we can keep on mailing ours out, too. Some say that keeping a regional newsletter going doesn't serve the Whole, because it uses resources that could be going into ALL WAYS FREE. I put in some time focalizing for FREE, I know those resources are tight. But I see the need for information: letters like Dave's that A.W.F. used to get and sometimes print, but rarely answer because we were busy getting ready the answer to everybody's letters, with publication maybe months away. The Rainbow calendar, Legaliaison updates, C.A.L.M. wish-lists, and rumor control all tended to get out of date before the paper came out. ALL WAYS FREE is a beautiful vehicle for the vision of the Rainbow. But it's less than ideal for information that needs to stay current. It comes out only once or twice a year, and when the last one is given away, it's gone. It costs a bundle to print and mail. Ho! doesn't cost much to produce, because people in our circle donate the use of desktop publishing equipment and copiers. It can be reprinted by anyone, and frequently is, thus spreading out the cost of spreading the word. Some say that word of the gatherings should be hard to come by, that a newsletter endlessly reprinted might cause the gatherings to grow too fast. This is an important point; if the majority of people at your first gathering are at their first gathering too, everyone leaves with a pretty fuzzy idea of what a gathering is. Ho! is an experiment in telling people what a gathering is before they get there. Each edition comes wrapped in the Howdy Folks for an upcoming regional gathering: when you open it, you find two or three pages attached, a kernel of experience in the retrospectives of past gatherings, a seed of the vision in the counciling for future gatherings, a little depth on the legal issues, a piece of the broader picture of the continental gatherings here and in Europe. Reading a newsletter is easy, I know; making it to the woods is what changes you. But if such a newsletter truly reflects the RainbowQnot just the vision, but the shitter-digging practicality of living thereQthen the ones who follow it Home will be better prepared than the ones who heard the word-ofmouth at the Dead show, or in High Times. Some may ask, what if anyone could put out their own newsletter and call it Rainbow? Lots of people have access to desktop publishing; we have no copyrights. But someone has to take the responsibility of putting out a Howdy Folks for every gathering: a council. Ho! too is created by consensus of a council that meets in Atlanta to put each issue together. A Florida Family council came to a consensus to reprint and mail each issue to their mailing list; Cumberland Family council has done the same. Ho! prints the consensus statements of other counciling bodies like Legaliaison and C.A.L.M. and Thanksgiving Council. Why not use the legitimate credibility of these councils to put out our own version of the Rainbow rumor? I know many will see danger where I see opportunity; I know publishing a newsletter for the Rainbow could be disastrous if undertaken without a solid council process. Though it seems to be working, I still see Ho! as an experiment. I know we have not been careful always to council; we have not always been clear about our mission and identity. I look forward to counciling on these matters with the rest of my Family in New England this July. In particular, I'll be attending the ALL WAYS FREE Council, July 3rd, with a proposal: Since even one newspaper is a lot to ask of a circle just learning how to put out a free publication, why doesn't each year's A.W.F. council spend the whole year preparing a single issue, putting everything they have into it, then print as many as they can a month or two before the Gathering? This single paper would be itself a work of art, showcasing all our artists, poets, and philosophers, with in-depth "councils-in-print," regional and international sections, stories of the previous Gathering and advance info on the next one. Given away by the bale at the Gathering to focalizers headed home, it would practically distribute itself. Wouldn't this free up some green energy for the flow of current information out to the Family through the network of focalizers, to be published in each region by a regional info councilQwhether in a newsletter or on info boards at regional and local events? The newsletters could either be an official communication of the regional council, like the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast family mailouts, or a service of an independent council like Au WAYS FREE and Ho! Each newsletter would focus on its regionQperhaps with a space for local focalizers to fill, as in the Nevada Gathering's "Sagebrush Dispatch"Qbut would also publish information that affects the Whole. Thanksgiving Council, for example, might volunteer its scribe to create a camera-ready page of consensus notes for each region to publish or post. These would be eventually printed in A.W.F., too, for the Family archive, but would be available within weeks after council to everyone. C.A.L.M., Legaliaison, etc. could do the same. Some concerns: That the newsletters share information with the newspaper at all times, and vice versa. That any local fundraising for Family communications be split between the regional newsletter and A.W.F. That anything that appears in either kind of newsletter be there by the consensus of a council. That newsletter councils take care to keep mailing lists sacrosanct. That each newsletter have a bank council that keeps open books. That regional Family councils be clear about their precise relationship to regional newsletters and their contents. The objections and concerns I've listed are weighty ones; my replies represent only my small perspective on the Whole. I count on your wisdom and experience. Till July, peace and love and light to allQ Stephen Wing ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 210 lbadger 5:26 am Jun 22, 1991 Howdy agian Pfraterdeus Please read my piece on ALLWAYS FREE Future & M.A.R.S. and let me know what you think... once agian all my Love, TendeerFire ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 211 Buy a Piece of the Mother CHEAP pfraterdeus 11:56 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Buy a Piece of the Mother CHEAP From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:46:33 1991 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:46:30 PDT To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Buy a Piece of the Mother C Subject: Time:12:44 AM OFFICE MEMO Buy a Piece of the Mother CHEAP_ Date:6/17/91 Buy a Piece of the Mother CHEAP at a Tax Auction (printed in Ho!, a news/love letter to the Rainbow folks of the southeast) Hey, kids, wanna get some land real cheap? All it takes is an ability to read, a little money and some luck. The way is tax foreclosure land auctions. Usually once a year the county auctions off property that the taxes haven't been paid on. The rules vary from state to state. In most states you pay your money and hope and pray that whoever owns the land doesn't pay their taxes and it's yours in a year. In a few states (NC, NY, maybe others) no waiting but prices are usually higher. 1. Call your county treasurer, tax collector, or sheriff (sometimes they run the auction) and ask them when the auction will be and when the notice will be in whatever newspaper. 2. Get newspaper, go to County office building, look at tax maps (to locate property) and check out the deed, tax records, if any liens, mortgages or judgements (maybe a trip to courthouse for this) and figure which properties you'll bid on. 3. Go to auction and bid no more than 10 times the minimum bid (which comes out to approx. 10% of the assessed value) or more if it's a really excellent property. Pay your money cash and if the owner pays their taxes within the year you get your money back plus interest (usually 10%). Oft-times the taxes will be paid quickly so you'll make a little money. If you bid on a property whose owner lives far away and he or she owns lots of land, sometimes inherited or bought at a tax auction, your chances are better of actually getting it. So go for it! You just might be able to buy the farm before you kick the bucket. Feel free to write c/o Ho! [P.O. Box 5455, Atlanta GA 30307] for additional info, advice, encouragement, what have you and whatever you do have fun. Greetings to you and yours and Gourdess Bless You Q Sister B. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 212 1989 Calendar of Events 5 responses pfraterdeus 5:44 pm May 11, 1989 The reply to this message is the Rainbow Calendar through about September of 1989. It will be about 10 or 11 screens long. To see the calendar, push return! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 212 pfraterdeus 5:53 pm May 11, 1989 ...............................................................)... .+++...+++....................*********.........................).. +++++.+++++...............*****************....................-).. .+++++++++..............*****...........*****.................-)).. ...+++++.............*****.....rainbow.....*****............-)))... ....+++..............*****......1989.......*****........-)))))..... .....+.............*****.....................*****................. ...................*****.....calendar.of.....*****................. ..................*****.....free.events......*****................ ..................*****.......................*****................ ................................................................... Welcome Home, wherever you are! Focalizers of the following events request no alcohol, weapons or commercial activity. Those volunteering to be contacts will not accept collect calls. Remember, the Rainbow is a DO-nation! Each event can use advance participation & financial help. We L ove You! @:=) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ONGOING EVENTS * ONGOING EVENTS * ONGOING EVENTS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AUSTIN Austin potlucks 1st & 3rd Sunday each month, Zilker Park Sunken Gardens; Austin Rainbow Circle, 2118 Guadelupe #136 Aus tin TX 78705 (mail only), 502/836-8165 PHILADELPHIA Rainbow Potluck 2nd Sat. each month, different places; 215/438-4075 BOSTON Beanbow potlucks in Medford Fells 3rd Sat. each month; 617/787-9114 CHICAGO Picnic 1st Sun. each month at Garibaldi's Rock, Lincoln Park; 312/743-5487 BOULDER Peace Projects Councils weekly; 303/444-0160 HUDSON RIVER VALLEY gatherings each full moon, solstice & equinox, Fri. eves & Sunday afternoons; 914/679-2527 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * EVENTS CALENDAR * EVENTS CALENDAR * EVENTS CALENDAR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * February 24 - March 5 FLORIDA Southeast Rainbow Regional, Ocala National Forest: (guess ya had to be there!) Spring Equinox March 18 - 19 VERMONT New England Rainbow Family spring council in Pierce's Hall, Putney VT, noon March 18 - 25 OHIO Great Lakes Rainbow Regional at Wildcat Hollow, Wayne National Forest, s.e. of Columbus, n. of Athens; The Far (614)448-4 894 SOUTHWEST Howdy Folks! Peace be upon your house & upon your hearts! On Saturday Jan. 14 we gathered for local council at Tall Timbers in Boulder Canyon. About 30 folks showed up & we held two circles. Looks like a Region 11 spring (Equinox?) gathering may happen in New Mexico-- focalizers are Carlos Azua (508 W. Hill, Gallup NM 87301) & Charles Norman (P.O. Box 851, Church Rock NM 87311). Yow! We are having fun, yet! April 1 NEVADA Rainbow Potluck,Galenn Park; 702/322-0427 April 13 NEVADA Scouting Council, Spenser-- scouts call 303/245-7786 until the 12th (no collect calls, please) April 14 - 17 KENTUCKY 1st annual Cumberland Rainbow Regional in Cumberland County; Middle of the Rainbow, Rt. 3, Tompkinsville KY 42167, 502/ 487-6653 or Anne Cartegena, 502/864-4378 April 22 MEMPHIS Earthday celebration & benefit show for ALL WAYS FREE, food, ecology, acoustic bands & jams at Healthy Trading Co., 1783 Union Ave.; 901/278-6444 last week in April OKLAHOMA Rainbow Barter Fair at Walden Hill Community, Rt. 5 Box 152, Stillwater OK 74074, 405/372-3287 (please no collect c alls) April 29 VERMONT Benefit for ALL WAYS FREE in Putney or Brattleboro, Heartsong & Alan Harmony play acoustic & electric; 413/367-9339 April 30 DENVER Benefit for ALL WAYS FREE at The Hollow, with Jaffada & the Controllers and Big Squid, 7pm --------------------------------------------------------- * M A Y * M A Y * M A Y * M A Y * M A Y * M A Y * M A Y * --------------------------------------------------------- May 7 CHICAGO Spring Frolic, noon in Lincoln Park, n. of North Ave & s. of the zoo (picnics at the same spot, 1st Sun. of each month till fall); Chicago Rainbow Circle, P.O. Box 11446, Chgo 60611, 312/743-5487 or 226-3248 May 13 PHILADELPHIA Spring Picnic at noon, Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park near the Art Museum; Thomas, 215/ 724-3274, Phila. Rainbow Fa mily, P.O. Box 41004, Phila PA 19127 Howdy Folks! Our Rainbow Family is really stepping into high gear this year, with regional gatherings and Peace Projects all over the place! In the Philadelphia area, we will keep the Spirit dancing with our Potluck events on the second Saturday of each month (4-7 pm except picnic)-- BE THERE! WE LOVE YOU!! Prepare to eat, council & jam!! MID-ATLANTIC Spring Gathering to be announced at the last possible moment, as usual May 13 - 15 NEVADA Rainbow Family Spring Council '89 "all those who have something to contribute to the 1989 Gathering of the Tribes should be encouraged to join Spring Council to share and get support for their Visions" (site to be selected by May 1) May 18 - 21 NEBRASKA Rainbow Regional Gathering; 402/475-1152 May 20 SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area Rainbow Network Picnic #2, noon to dusk in Golden Gate Park; 415/831-9003 May 21 NEW YORK CITY 7th annual Rainbow Family Picnic in Central Park, n. of Sheep's Meadow and s. of 72nd St. transverse; NY Rainbow, PO Box 1554, NY NY 10009 May 26-29 Chicago/Indiana MidSpring Gathering in north central Indiana call Tina 312 226 0099 for info! ------------------------------------------------------------- * J U N E * J U N E * J U N E * J U N E * J U N E * J U N E * ------------------------------------------------------------- June 6 CANADA 6th Annual Rainbow Picnic; 514/989-1108 or 388-7850 June 12 OKLAHOMA Rainbow Picnic, Stillwater; 405/372-3287 S U M M E R S O L S T I C E S U M M E R S O L S T I C E NEW MEXICO Solstice Gathering & Caravan; Carlos Azua, 508 W. Hill, Gallup NM 87301 ITALIA June 18 - 24 Valle Antrona , Italia , Piemonte contact: Rainbow Peace Circle, PO Box 111, CH 6600 Muralto or Urs & Martina 092-661143 June 15 - 25 NORTH CAROLINA Katuah Rainbow Regional Gathering at Sam's Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkway; PO Box 134, Cosby TN 37722 (615)453-1358 June 21 - 28 NEW ENGLAND Rainbow Regional Gathering, final site selection to be made at NERF spring council; PO Box 277, Montague MA 01351 --------------------------------------------------- * J U L Y * J U L Y * J U L Y * J U L Y * J U L Y * --------------------------------------------------- July 1 - 7 N E V A D A 18th World Peace and Healing Gathering of the Tribes Rainbow Family of Living Light; PO Box 2455, Carson City NV 98701 (702)883-6977 July 4 Circle with us wherever you are at noon on the Fourth as we stand and join hands in a long silence to send our call for Peace to the world --------------------------------------------------------- * A U G U S T * A U G U S T * A U G U S T * A U G U S T * --------------------------------------------------------- August 2 - 16 QUEBEC Rassemblement-Junta-Gathering; French,514/388-2850/English, 514/989-1108 August 10 - 20 N O R W A Y 7th annual Europa Rainbow Gathering, NY Rainbow, POB 1554, NY 10009 QUEBEC Canada family reports that there were four days of Council at the Blue House in Temiscouata, Quebec (about 200 miles n.of Mon treal) from Dec. 28 through Jan. 1. About a hundred people attended the council/ gathering/celebration. The Canada regional g athering is tentatively planned for 2 weeks in mid-August. For information on the Canada gathering, and other Rainbow happe nings with our northern neighbors, contact the Blue House in Temiscouata (481)855-2072 or Shaun Maxwell in Montreal (514)482-5 475. PENNSYLVANIA Regional Gathering again? . . . I was at the Pennsylvania Regional and heard that the head of the Forest Service there talked of running a permanent water line in for us! And the head of the region in Nevada said he would fly some family members to see sites in that state. Contact Donny at Helpless Far in Athens Ohio. Nevada here we come !!! August 21 - 26 NORTH CAROLINA Rainbow Blueberry Festival at Sam's Knob; 615/453-1538 ------------------------------------------------------ * * * * O N D O W N T H E T R A I L * * * * ------------------------------------------------------ F A L L E Q U I N O X F A L L E Q U I N O X September 21 MICHIGAN Great Lakes Regional again? October 5 - 9 ILLINOIS Midwest Regional in Shawnee National Forest for John Lennon's birthday again November Rainbow Family Thanksgiving Council '89 W I N T E R S O L S T I C E W I N T E R S O L S T I C E December MEXICO Family Gathering again? ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 212 jjohnson 2:40 pm Aug 13, 1989 . ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 212 jjohnson 3:26 pm Aug 13, 1989 Hey folks - this is Thumper from mid-atlantic region. Nice conference!! I wanted to clear up frequent rumors of continued gatherings in Allegheny National Forest -- we councilled at our may regional to not return to the 1986 site, due to heavy use and a regional tradition of never gathering on the same site twice, for impact reasons. In subsequent scout councils, we decided it was time to give Pennsylvanie a rest, and started scouting in Virginia/ west Virginia. The 1988 Regional Gathering in Pennsylvania, at the old 1986 site, actually started as a rumor, as far as we could tell-- none of the people who had previously organized gatherings had the energy to deal with it, but the folks in Philly decided to deal with it anyway, since nobody was talking to the forest service, and it could have been a real logistical and diplomatic nightmare. As it turned out, we had some people that got that got busted on the road into the site, and the local food stamp office and FS law enforcement folks (all previously very good relationships) got kinda freaked out, mostly because none of us had the energy to do proper outreach and diplomacy. The 1986 Pennsylvania Gathering is remembered as one of our better easier Gatherings, mostly because of a lot of local outreach and prior relationships with locals and law enforcement -- no permit or other legal hassles, either. When I was talking to other focalizers in Nevada, I heard a couple of horror stories about Gatherings that started as rumors, mostly about local and law that got freaked out because of no advance work. Rumors can be powerful things, y'all!! Particularly when it comes to regionals, because it's the local hippies that have to live with the aftermath. P.S. Who is the "head" of the mid-atlantic region? did I miss something? Anyway, we do have a regional coming up, August 18-28, in Western Virginia, about 3-4 hours west of d.c.. Call Andy at (301)565-9137 - he's got info on the out going message of his answering machine - it's an ongoing mid-atlantic info line. Lots of love to y'all!!! Thanks for the good work!! -- Thump ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 212 pfraterdeus 9:30 pm Aug 13, 1989 Thanks for the info, Thumper! Hope to hear more from your neck o' the woods! Good to connect in Nevada! We'll spread the word about the PA-VA transferance..... Love and Peace- Petros (peter pen) ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 212 tlewis 11:18 pm Aug 25, 1989 September 22 HUMBOLDT CO., CA - Community Seasonal Gathering#1; contact Dwight W (707) 822-8909 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 213 Welcome the Homeless Home? pfraterdeus 11:57 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Welcome the Homeless Home? From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:48:48 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AB13806; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:48:43 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:48:43 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9106181448.AB13806@cdp.igc.org> To: pfraterdeus Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No_such_conference nfmail: can't open notesfile awf.rainbownews (retcode -6) 554 conf:awf.rainbownews... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AA13796; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:48:43 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:48:43 PDT From: Message-Id: <9106181448.AA13796@cdp.igc.org> To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Welcome the Homeless Home? Subject: Time:12:36 AM OFFICE MEMO Welcome the Homeless Home? Date:6/17/91 BUREAUCRATIC MAZE "I'm hungry." "Where is your I.D.? You need a picture I.D. No I.D.Q no food." "I have no I.D.Q I'm hungry!" "Sorry, we can't help you. NEXT!" Bureaucracy eats at hungry person's heart Edible food goes to dumpster compactor destroyer Homeless shuffle, shuffle into prison-like shelter Plenty of wasted unused land lost in bureaucratic labyrinthic maze Police shackle, arrest squatters and campers "Ah," says underlying bureaucratic plan, "They're crazy and useless anyway! We could let them starve and die off, but first we must get them out of sight and mind. Maybe build more homeless shelters to keep them under control. Have strict curfews in the shelters." Homeless mother in Austin, Texas, with her baby goes to the welfare office. Her I.D. was stolen she says. AID REFUSED! She camps out for four months by the river and her baby gets pneumonia. This is a true story. Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake!" Bureaucrats say, "Let them dress for success and go look for work. We have administrative costs. WE HAVE WARS TO PAY FOR!" Q Iris Springflower a WELCOME HOME for the HOMELESS? Thank you for listening. There are a lot of homeless people caught up in a vicious circle of making only so much from day labor forces; receiving food stamps and not having kitchen facilities thus ending up with poor eating habits; harassment from the public and police in major cities; and day-to-day living in major cities takes its toll. I'd like to see a space set up at gatherings that can provide information on: food stamps; in-house job training at shelters; how to set up a shelter; squatters rights; and establishment of a food kitchen network (so people on food stamps without cooking facilities can get more nutritious meals and have a healthier diet). I'd also like to organize an effort to let homeless at shelters in the vicinity of gatherings know that a gathering is being held (flyers distributed beforehand); transportation arrangements for a day-long or overnight trip for the homeless who haven't yet been to a gathering; and healing for those in attendance might be accomplished, as well as new ideas which may come from the information center. Spiritual healing centers for the homeless are also very necessary; teachings on visualization, meditation, and self-esteem. We have an opportunity to enhance someone's well-being and self-esteem; we can improve a person's skills in self-sufficiency and one's knowledge of and respect for the earth. We can provide work experience that would promote dignity and self-respect, as well as a respect for the land. If homeless children were given the opportunity to participate in our efforts, wouldn't this kind of participation raise the social, educational, health and dignity levels of homeless children? I'm just asking you to consider that there are a lot of homeless men, women, and children who had no choice in the matter, they are at a loss for what to do; they're in an unsparingly precarious situation and would appreciate your assistance. Please let me know where you'd like to help. Can we get together on this? Thanks. June Korda c/o HO! P.O. Box 5455 Atlanta GA 30307 (a sidebar:) CAN YOU APPLY FOR EMERGENCY FOOD STAMPS? QDid you make less than $150 in the past 30 days? QDo you have less than $100 in cash or savings? You are entitled to what's called expedited service. This means getting foods stamps no more than 5 calendar days after you apply. You have the right to file your application the same day you go to the Food Stamp office (in the U.S. Gov't pages of your phone book). The office must talk with you on the day you apply to see if you qualify for expedited service. If you have any trouble filling out the application, someone from the Food Stamp office must give you the assistance you need. If you qualify, you need to know your Social Security number, and you need I.D. If you have no I.D., the Food Stamp office must try to call someone who knows who you are to check your identity. You do not have to live in a permanent dwelling, have a fixed address or cooking facilities. You can not be turned down because you live in a car, on the streets, in a homeless shelter or a spouse-abuse shelter. You have the right to receive a written decision. I realize that A.F.D.C. (Aid for Dependent Children) and many other public benefits programs have many pitfalls and can prohibit a person from pursuing a fruitful, productive life. They cause frustration. However, I tend to view obtaining food stampsQ especially emergency food stampsQ differently. For one thing, it doesn't have to be an ongoing benefit, and as far as I can tell, one doesn't have to get caught up in it by using food stamps from time to time as a last resort. (The benefit is based on the prior month's earnings.) It seems a shame that basic food is a commodity in the first placeQ seems unnatural, when with respect for nature we could rely on its abundance to feed everyone. Right now there are simply not enough shelters to house and feed all who are homeless. Of course, if there are other souces, such as food cooperatives or potlucks, that's a better alternative, and we should work on cultivating land donated as soon as possible. Thank you for listening. I'll pass the feather to you now. Q June ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 214 Christian Kitchen? What th pfraterdeus 11:58 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Christian Kitchen? What th From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:50:49 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AB14047; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:50:46 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:50:46 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9106181450.AB14047@cdp.igc.org> To: pfraterdeus Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No_such_conference nfmail: can't open notesfile awf.rainbownews (retcode -6) 554 conf:awf.rainbownews... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AA14044; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:50:46 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:50:46 PDT From: Message-Id: <9106181450.AA14044@cdp.igc.org> To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Christian Kitchen? What th Subject: Time:12:32 AM OFFICE MEMO Christian Kitchen? What the hell! Date:6/17/91 A Christian kitchen? It takes all kinds to make a Rainbow ... (printed in Ho!, a news/love letter to the Rainbow folks of the southeast) Not too long ago a flyer arrived from a new focalizer in "upstate South Carolina," announcing the first Greenville-area get-together in the woods. Welcome as this was, I had a couple of questions. Was this gathering a counciled affair, was it really Rainbow? And if so, wouldn't that "P-X" on the flyer, an old Christian symbol, make non-Christians like me feel not-so "Welcome Home"? I wrote Fred, and Fred wrote me back. He raises some interesting questions ... Yo Wing; Thank you for your letter of last week. Thought I would drop you a brief update on local activities. Unfortunately, the day of the picnic dawned to rain, rain, and yet more rain. My eldest son & I went up the trail anyway, hoping for a break in the weather. We played chess in the mud for a couple of hours, then took it back home. Rain for the rest of the day. So it goes. However, the whole affair was the result of a consensus taken at a potluck dinner the month before. About thirty people attended, & about half sat in council after Circle and Food. The council agreed on location & date, & nominated a committee of three (self included) to square things with the Rangers & get the word out. I was responsible for including the Chi-Rho (P-X) on the flyer. I choose it as a Power Symbol, not as a specifically Christian Symbol. I thought it was balanced out by the Pentagram, the Heart of Love, & the Peace sign. Maybe not. Is it possible that Christian Symbology is something less than (dare I say) Politically Correct? I have noticed at Gatherings that "Blessed Be," "Jai Rasta" & "Om" pass muster. Mention Jesus & some people become distinctly cool. Hmmmm. At the Spring Gathering in Sumter Ntl. Forest (S.C.), I met Brother Zeus. He had set up a "Pagan Kitchen," complete with signs declaring said space a "Bible Free" & "Christianity Free" zone. This passed without comment. Zeus was wonderful, & I enjoyed his food & his company. But I wondered what the response would be to a "Christian Kitchen" in a "Pagan Free" zone. Hmmm. Am I a Christian? Well, yes. But I also affirm that I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Pagan. In short, I am Rainbow. One Big Circle. That's the whole idea, isn't it? Love & Peace, Fred Berry Dear Fred: Thanks for your reply. Hope you-all will try that picnic again some time! Sorry, your pentagram was on the small side; I missed it. It helps, but a little more ballast would have improved the balance. An Om symbol, yin-yang, medicine wheel, Star of David and Muslim crescent usually round it out nicely. But in your neck of the woods, I don't think a little Christian Symbology could hurt our reputation. Of course it's not political correctness at stake, but an old allergic reaction a lot of us never got over, myself included, to the kind of Christianity we were exposed to as kids. You know, Christ dividing the sheep from the goats with the sword of Judgement, rather than shepherding the flock; Jesus bleeding on the cross instead of welcoming the children and confounding the tomb. Any Rainbow who reads the Gospel with eyes open recognizes Jesus as an original Flower Child. Mention Jesus and some people think he's totally cool. "Blessed Be" and "Jah Rasta" are individual utterances of the pagans and rastas among us. "Om" on the other hand, we seem to have lifted by unspoken consensus from the HindusQ I understand it's simply Sanskrit for GodQ in the same way we've adopted passing the feather from the Native Americans. Perhaps because it's the simplest possible prayer/song/mantra, and no one can possibly forget the words. From Christianity we appear to have adopted only the tradition of feeding the multitude. Zeus's kitchen did not pass without comment, I heard plenty of debate about its appropriateness. Perhaps a Bible-Free Zone is okay, as a refuge for the traumatized, but a "Christianity-Free" kitchen seems to me to be excluding Christians (which is probably a sin if they're hungry). I hear that there was a Christian kitchen at the Minnesota Gathering, joining the rest of the spectrum. Christ wouldn't approve of a "Pagan Free Zone," though; didn't he generally turn the other cheek? I have met some fine Christian folks at gatherings, by which I mean they didn't push their religion: only by listening when they spoke could you detect it. At a Rainbow Gathering, it seems, a truly Christian lifestyle doesn't really stand out from the crowd. I've always wondered why they don't hold a Sunday service to show folks it doesn't have to be a square affair. Am I a Christian? NoQ for the same reason you say yes. To me, to claim one name excludes the others. I will walk into any place of worship and by my welcome know whether I am among worshippers of the one God, or those still confused by the many names and forms humans have created for their worship. To me, Rainbow is a needed step beyond the names and forms to celebrate the unity of Creator and Creation that hides in their diversity. And just in the nick of time. All together now, the sacred ritual yellQ We Love You! Stephen Wing ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 215 Cumberland Regional 1991 pfraterdeus 11:58 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Cumberland Regional 1991 From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:52:56 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AB14203; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:52:54 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:52:54 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9106181452.AB14203@cdp.igc.org> To: pfraterdeus Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No_such_conference nfmail: can't open notesfile awf.rainbownews (retcode -6) 554 conf:awf.rainbownews... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AA14201; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:52:54 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:52:54 PDT From: Message-Id: <9106181452.AA14201@cdp.igc.org> To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Cumberland Regional 1991 Subject: Time:12:15 AM OFFICE MEMO Cumberland Regional 1991 Date:6/17/91 CUMBERLAND REGIONAL GATHERING April 24 - May 5, 1991 Daniel Boone National Forest (a letter reprinted from Ho! a news-love letter to the Rainbow folks of the southeast) Brothers and Sisters: I walked up out of Beaver Creek a week ago, sorry to leave but better able to face job, city, and the rocky road of my Lifework. The Cumberland Family gathering brought me back to the Tribe, to a sense of community that I had been clinging to with only my worn-out fingernails for the last few years. I also had the pleasure of bringing two more of the Tribe Home, who in turn brought two more the following weekend, so we are increased! The site was absolutely beautiful. Plenty of trees, water and privacy for when I needed it. The trail in was long enough to keep out hordes of gawkers, but many local families came down to check it out, and some stayed. The uniforms were there too, with and without guns, dogs, and attitudes. The Forest Service people seemed friendly, and the State Police minded their manners when I was around them though I heard talk of some abductions and other hostile behavior. People seemed to be watching out for each other, willing to care for those in need or troubled. I also got a sense that there were a lot of people who were new to the tribe or who, like me, had been away so long that some of the customary ways of the Rainbow had been forgotten. The resulting blunders are tough enough on the blunderers when they get an idea of what they should be doingQ let's go easy on the honest mistakes, OK? The energy felt phenomenal. I wrap myself so tightly in Babylon that being able to give and take love as easily as breathing was intoxicating. People calling their love to each other across the creek, from camp to camp, around the circle, and my brother looking at me with wonder in his eyes, saying: "And you know, they really mean it!" My partner said the sister energy was good, too, and I know she needed that. Seeing people that I had met in other contexts in Kentucky, Colorado, Michigan is a great comfort: our Family spans the whole of Turtle Island. One brother tells me that he has never seen so much FOOD at a gathering, and reflecting on it, I don't think I have either. That is something worth considering: what are we doing right in the cooking and how can we keep on doing it? I was lifted very high by conversations with people who are concerned and active in the subject of clean drinking water. I share this concern, and plan to dedicate energy to the effort to provide clean water for the tribe and to leave the waters clean after we have gone. A several-generations photocopy of Ho! just made its way into my hands and is reproducing rapidly there. I am glad that someone is putting this kind of information into the web. The council notes and stuff on U.S. Forest Service relations are particularly pertinent, as are the invitations and maps for the regionals. Any information you can send our way regarding the Katuah Solstice gathering will be spread to my brothers and sisters as fast and wide as I can make it go. LoveQ walk in the Light, Doug ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 216 Apathy is one of the roots pfraterdeus 11:59 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Apathy is one of the roots From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:54:05 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AB14269; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:54:03 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:54:03 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9106181454.AB14269@cdp.igc.org> To: pfraterdeus Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No_such_conference nfmail: can't open notesfile awf.rainbownews (retcode -6) 554 conf:awf.rainbownews... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AA14266; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:54:03 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:54:03 PDT From: Message-Id: <9106181454.AA14266@cdp.igc.org> To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Apathy is one of the roots Subject: Time:12:06 AM OFFICE MEMO Apathy is one of the roots of all_ Date:6/17/91 Apathy is one of the roots of all evils. It causes people to sit & be still. It makes them accept what they are told & see even if they truly believe in their hearts it is wrong. ... But no matter what anyone tells you, YOU HAVE A CHOICE!!! You are a perfectly free being. And the opposite of apathy is action! If you sit and see something that's not right, don't just let it pass you by ... SPEAK UP! Being free means you have a brain, a body, a mouth, and you can use them! And if you ever get down and say to yourself, "Uh, well, I'm just 1 person," remember these words from the mouth of a great prophet and martyr of our times ... "Rise ye mighty people There's work to be done So let's do it little by little Rise from your sleeping slumber We're more than the sand on the shore We're more than numbers ..." (Bob Marley) Q Scott Gordon Here's something to get off your apathy about: "H.R. 4079, A BILL to provide swift and certain punishment for criminals in order to deter violent crime and rid America of illegal drug use." Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich and Sen. Phil Gramm propose a 5-year "National Drug and Crime Emergency," mandatory drug testing for just about everyone, suspension of the 4th and 8th Amendments and the writ of habeus corpus, use of re-opened WWII Japanese Internment Camps, military bases and privately owned prisons for drug offenders, turning previous maximum sentences into minimums, revoking parole and probation, and renting out the unpaid labor of prisoners to private industry. It's martial law, folks! Write your representatives while you have one! Write to Gingrich and Gramm, c/o the House & the Senate! Write your newspapers! Choose while you still have a choice, speak while you still have a voice! Q Stephen Wing (reprinted from Ho!, a news/love letter to the Rainbow folks of the southeast). ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 217 Florida Winter Regional 199 pfraterdeus 11:59 am Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Florida Winter Regional 199 From pfraterdeus Tue Jun 18 07:56:03 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AB14443; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:56:01 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:56:01 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9106181456.AB14443@cdp.igc.org> To: pfraterdeus Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No_such_conference nfmail: can't open notesfile awf.rainbownews (retcode -6) 554 conf:awf.rainbownews... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/061691) id AA14439; Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:56:01 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 07:56:01 PDT From: Message-Id: <9106181456.AA14439@cdp.igc.org> To: conf:awf.rainbownews Subject: Florida Winter Regional 199 Subject: Time:11:56 PM OFFICE MEMO Florida Winter Regional 1991 Date:6/16/91 FLORIDA WINTER REGIONAL GATHERING OF THE RAINBOW Ocala National Forest, Feb. 9-23, 1991 Florida Family, who are beginning to adopt the bioregional name "Cenote," don't know if there will ever be another Ocala Gathering. They're looking around. These two letters were printed in Ho! a news/love letter to the Rainbow folks of the southeast. QSW Gentle children of the RainbowQ I was a stranger to your tribe when I went to the forest of Ocala. (A stranger really? No, just a friend you hadn't met yet.) I was told of your gathering by a fellow git-fiddler, and immediately I heard the call to go. I was greeted at the trail's head by a youth who cried "Welcome Home, Brother!" and as I walked down the trail I listened to the wind sing in the high branches of the pine trees. I saw the prints of strong wide-toed feet in the sand, and other prints, dainty-toed and gentle like a doe's. I took off my sneakers then & socks, and felt the joy of the cool moist sand trail beneath my toes. And I looked at my own track and marveled! Soon I was joined in fellowship by a fellow named Y'shua in a rainbow knit hat. He explained to me the history of the tribe and how he had spent 3 weeks hitchhiking to this gathering. He feels happiness nowhere except with the family of the Rainbow. Someone came by and offered me some wheatgrass which I joyfully accepted and chewed. Y'shua didn't know what it was so I was able to share knowledge in return for what he had given me. (I was glad to acquaint him with one of the greatest healing elements of mother earth!) When I entered the main camp, there was a youth standing naked! Qa bearded brown-eyed man named Tom who later led a circle on spiritual growth. I walked toward a lake where a group sat watching children frolic in the water and a man in the midst of the circle held a feather, which another friend, Daniel, explained to me was like an "antenna to God." David shared with me some cinnamon-coffee. Later I listened to a flute being played by a lakeside, and in the circle of spirit, listened with appreciation to Mark read from the gospel of Gibran: "On love." A short while later I left and returned to Tampa. When I will go to a gathering again, I don't know, but I know I will. Gentle people who cherish my mother Earth and my Father in Heaven, each in your own fashion, I cherish you all. May God keep you and hold you in his hands and protect you. Happy trails to you all in love, your brother "Dan the Man" (for those who may remember, a tall shorthaired blond fellow carrying a guitar and wearing a tie-dyed t-shirt with a dragon on the front. See ya soon!) Dear Ones, We have just returned from clean-up at the Ocala Forest Rainbow, and have had a wonderful healing rain bless our prayer circle. It is a powerful experience returning to our lodge after 2 weeks in the Temple of Nature. Many high and powerful lessons there for the re-experiencing, and a delightful display of beautiful people added highlights to the sweet medicine of our magical family. ABC News came to join in our circle being accompanied by Barry Plunker and others from the Olden Days. There is a conscious focus on our children and the ways in which we can best serve them as protectors and guides in this powerful time of earthdwelling. Respect and appropriate sexual behavior was a major topic of discussion at many workshop circles we attended. It is a time for unity and awareness among us all. We had our usual funky front gate parking lot scene with a ragged crew of pirates and banditos harassing new and old family alike as they made their way to the Gathering. The false 'courage' and aggressive behavior we experienced at the hands of several misguided provocateurs was no doubt the direct result of the several thousand beer cans and literally hundreds of glass bottles emptied of their whisky and vodka which the cleanup crew had to later pick up and load into the Heart Tribe flat bed trailer, before being taken to the disposal site. We heard a lot of drunken talk about the spiritual values vs. the alcohol camp attitudes being bandied about by the infamous 'leaders' of the alcohol kitchen. I was not surprised to see our pirate family still drunk and uncooperative several days after the Gathering, still not assisting the sisters and brothers who did the real clean up. While we understand that everyone who attends the Gathering is led in higher ways for healing and understanding, there are bounds which have been breached often in recent Gatherings which need to be looked into by those of vision and courage. Service is not being rendered by these angry and disrespectful spirits, and the examples of Right Living and clean high thinking are the responsibility of all of us who believe in the sacredness of the Rainbow. Wisdom takes its first strong step forward in courage and peace. Ho. Gregg Blanchard ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 218 FYI topics 214-221...:-) pfraterdeus 12:04 pm Jun 18, 1991 Topics 214-221 got bounced back to me, so there's some strange headers on 'em. These are excerpts from Ho!, a newsletter from the folks in the SouthEast regions. See y'all in vermont! Love, Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 219 Original summer '90 AWF article mendicott 2:26 pm Jun 18, 1991 This is the story of the last five months of 1989 in Europe, between the Nevada gathering in July and the Florida vision council in December, six rainbow gatherings in six months on two continents. REGNBUE, ARC EN CIEL, ARCOBALENO, REGENBOGEN, SZIVA'RVA'NY, DUHA, TECZA Marcus L. Endicott Robert and I arrived at Robinson Hole early in June. It took four different vehicles to tow my overloaded '71 VW the last forty miles right to the canyon rim in bus village. I kept telling him all the way across country from Georgia not to rev the engine so much. But at least we were prepared for our Russian friend when he arrived. Dima had never left Eastern Europe before. He flew from his home, Leningrad, USSR, to Kansas City. Amy, who speaks Russian, picked him up at the airport and brought him directly to Robinson Hole. The seed was planted. Dima told us his life would not be complete until he experienced California and the Pacific. So after AAA came 95 miles to tow my dead Campmobile back to Twin Falls, where it lies today, Dima, Amy, and I headed for Berkeley, Haight Ashbury, and Santa Cruz. We left the Nevada site on July 8, before Vision Council arrived at consensus on Minnesota. I had planned to fly from the West coast Europe for the 7th Europa Rainbow in Norway, but ended up leaving from the East coast. I flew standby with Airhitch (1-800-347-1554) from New York to Copenhagen for $160. After a good sleep, I set out to find Christiania Fristaad. I had spent some time there over ten years ago. It is basically a very old, abandoned military facility that was occupied by anarchists nineteen years ago. Since then it has operated sovereignly, as a free city/state. Although urban rather than rural, and without a guru, it has occupied roughly the same ideological niche in Europe that The Farm in Tennessee has here, as the flagship alternative community. There are also parallels between Christiania and our continental gatherings, though there are many differences. The feeling is similar. Although Christiania is undoubtedly a Rainbow community, I would not call it a Rainbow peace village per se. There is alcohol, hard drugs, violence, fire arms, various big businesses, and packs of dogs there; but, there is also a great deal of love and beauty. It is non-hierarchical and is guided by an irregular general council, an open circle. The major differences are attributable to it being in the heart of a major world city, rather than isolated in the wilderness. In some ways it acts like a drain, or a magnet, for much of the negative energy of that particular Babylon. Within Christiania there are various communities. The Autogena community is the focus for Rainbow. I found Paul Autogena at his place of work and he took me to the theater. The theater had been temporarily given over to house Rainbow people converging from all over Europe and the world. Bridge was there when I arrived. We had been together in Nevada and so were glad to see a familiar face. After a few days we were able to fill two busses for the long trip to the far north of Norway, way inside the Arctic Circle. One of the busses was filled with children and parents, the other with singles. So we had a family bus and a party bus. Along the way we stopped at two communes, Barren and Skognas, in Sweden for picnics, swimming, and cutting tipi poles. Just into Norway the family bus broke down. The families had to be transferred to the other bus and taken a few hours to the welcome center, a small tipi camp, established on the mainland in the village of Hansnes by the ferry dock. The rest of us camped at the foot of the Norwegian mountains until the bus returned for us the following morning. Two bus loads plus perhaps an equal number of spontaneous arrivals filled the car ferry, a medium-sized ship, to capacity. The sun was shining and the atmosphere festive as we cruised through the fjords to the island of Karlsoy. Rainbow Family crossed the water, to Karlsoy, for our northernmost gathering. NORWAY There was a good number of welcomers who crossed the island each day to meet the ferry. There were no "welcome home"s to be heard (in any language), no tie dyes, no crystals, not even any Grateful Dead paraphernalia. The love vibe was subdued and hugs were minimal. Karlsoy has long been an alternative island, with several communes. It is small and is apparently property of the Norwegian Church. There is a tiny settlement on one side of it by the dock, just a few homes, a church, and a health food shop! We loaded the packs onto a wagon pulled by a tractor, the only motor vehicle on the island. We walked the short path to the other side of the island, and the tractor brought the gear around through the fields. The encampment was located on a small bay with a nice beach. A fresh water stream flowed into it. There were dozens of tipis, some with only one pole, a circus tent, a large, rented propane kitchen, and a traditional Scandinavian sauna newly built into the ground, with stone, logs, and sod. At the peak of the gathering there were about three hundred people there. Fully ten percent, about 30, were North Americans, including a few Canadians, only half had been to a gathering before. The previous year in Spain there had been about 1500 people. But apparently the long trip to the Arctic Circle, through the incredibly expensive Scandinavian countries, had inhibited particularly the southern Europeans from coming. (My guess is that there may be as many as 2000 or more at the next one, in Austria.) The nationalities, or at least the languages, tend to group together in camps, much as metropolitan, bioregional and special interest groups do at the gatherings here. Hopefully we can establish a North American camp or even kitchen at future Europa gatherings. About half of the ten day gathering was sunny and half was overcast, rainy, cold and windy. When the sun was out one could comfortably walk around nude, even tan, but the water was still too chilly to stay in long. The rented circus tent was a blessing. When it rained we could have everybody in a cozy double dinner circle, with inner and outer facing. And the people who came unprepared could then sleep around the walls. The gathering was hosted by and came right on the back of the Scandinavian Ting meeting. The Ting is a traditional gathering that has been revived from Nordic mythology. The Ting may not call themselves Rainbow, but are conscious of being, and are in fact, the Scandinavian regional family. For me the highlights of the gathering were literally the many rainbows we saw in the sky, Medicine Story's sweat lodges and history of the Rainbow, and the eagles circling above the council. I was later told that after I left the Northern Lights made an appearance. I also particularly enjoyed Sigmund Hals, a Norwegian elder, and his tales of the historic occupation of beach and jungle in the northern part of Goa, India, in '67. We were just past the time of the midnight sun. We had no night only about two hours of dusk a day. The sun moved around in the sky in a tight ellipse, dipping behind a mountain briefly. We had no other way of telling what the time was. So we ate only one meal a day in a circle at midnight, as the sun "set." We then usually held council until it began to "rise" again. Everyone slept past noon, getting breakfast themselves whenever they woke up from the endless caldron of oatmeal that was almost always on in the kitchen. Everything said in general council had to be translated into at least five languages, less than half of those present. In the Europa Rainbow, translation is power. The most capable multilingual people greatly influence events. Translators can only remember short bursts at a time, and so both heckle long winded speakers and embellish what they say with opinionated commentary, which the speakers are often oblivious to. The Europa Vision Council was illuminating. They use a talking stick rather than a feather, and do not formally call for concensus as we do, but rather simply keep going around and around until no one says anything further on a subject, where upon it is declared to be consensus. Two significant issues emerged there. First, the Europa Tribal Council of the Rainbow Family of Living Light considers itself to be a wholly autonomous sibling of the North American Tribal Council, further it blocks consensus on any claim of the North American gathering to be a world gathering and any claim of the North American Tribal Council to be a world council at this time. Second, it was decided that the 8th Europa Rainbow will be in Austria around the July full moon, 1990. However, this date was changed by the Spring council to August 4-14. The Europa gatherings are traditionally around the full moon, and are officially ten days. They feel a week is too short. Austria was chosen both for its proximity to Eastern Europe and because of the strong invitation from the Austrian Rainbow Family. The council clearly stated that their own priorities, such as optimal weather conditions and various school schedules, take precedence over coordinating their gathering with ours, so that there might be more exchange between the two. One of the reasons given for this was that they do not consider intercontinental jet travel to be completely ethical, due to the amount of pollution involved, and so people couldn't sail between the two in time anyway. Although they do encourage loving, peaceful, spiritual sisters and brothers to make surface journeys for long visits and to live with them. I left the Norway gathering with a different bus, one from Switzerland. The Swiss bus was an antique with bubble glass all the way around. In the past it had crossed the Sahara and gone overland to India. The Europa Rainbow definitely shows the increased influences of India and Africa. We stopped in a city park in Stockholm, Sweden, to rest overnight. When we woke up, we found we were parked right next to where eight sailing yachts were moored. A closer look revealed that six were from Leningrad, USSR, and two were from Szczecin, Poland. They were part of the Clean Baltic Initiative, with crews from both Eastern and Western countries around the Baltic sea. We had lunch with them and afterwards made a large OM circle for peace in the park together. When the bus arrived in Switzerland, we had a small council on the land with local family to share with them about the gathering. I was introduced to brother "Lau," who graciously invited me to stay in his family's villa while I worked up the first Europa Rainbow guide on his computer from the addresses collected in Norway. One thing I can say about the Swiss Rainbow Family is that the core is composed largely of military conscientious objectors, many of whom have done jail time for their convictions; and in Switzerland, perhaps the most peaceful country on Earth, this is saying a lot! The European Rainbow Family has even more anxiety about computers, mailing lists, and commercial and authoritarian abuse than we do. They are, understandably, slightly less evolved than we are about the overwhelming benefits of decentralization versus centralization. I was disappointed to discover conflicts where address lists were used as power objects; though this is nothing we haven't experienced before. After a splendid week or two in Zurich, I took a train to southern France for the French Equinox gathering in the Pyrenees, near Formigueres. Riding the small gauge train from Perpignan to Andorra was incredible, in an open car at dawn through awesome gorges. FRANCE In France they don't use the Rainbow symbol or colors to mark the trail; they use the Hopi sign, the crossed circle with four dots. There were about a dozen tipis and two dozen horses roaming freely. There were almost 200 people at the peak of the French Equinox gathering. Most were French, nearly as many were Spanish, there were also a good number of Italians and Germans. The British focalizers were there, so I hung out mostly in the English camp since I can't speak much French and only slightly more Spanish. Michelle and Danny, Americans who had been at the Norway gathering, came in from Israel and were headed back to the States to catch the Dead tour. We also had an Australian or two in the camp. There was a rumor that "Brothers & Sisters" full moon gatherings were happening in Israel, which were supposedly started by an expatriate American named "Max" who hung out on the Midrachov pedestrian street in Jerusalem. [Anyone with further info on this or other international gatherings, please contact me.] I did succeed in focalizing a good heartsong council with a feather and about fifty people. I did workshops on Rainbow garbage yoga and large "American" latrines. The only problems I saw there were with the main kitchen and main supply. There was confusion about the actual site of the main kitchen and it had no large pots. Food was served from the same buckets the horses ate from and the people washed with. They have never used chlorine nor have any intention of ever doing so. Staph was equally in evidence there as it is at the gatherings here. The supplies were abundant and of excellent organic quality and good variety, but supply was not openly accessible which stalled the focalizing process repeatedly. The French border police, like flies, buzzed the camp daily with a chopper. Although this was the most intrusive aerial surveilliance I have experienced at any gathering, anywhere, considering it was the French government who bombed the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, NZ, harbor, I felt we got off lightly! The local mountain gendarmes visited us once to check papers. Apparently in France, pilgrimage is legal; so, we were not otherwise interfered with. I left France by train for Italy, where I visited the Cheggio peace village in the Valle Antrona near Domodossala. It is in the Italian Alps just across the border from Switzerland. Basically, it is a medieval hill town completely abandoned since the end of the Second World War. The road does not go all the way there. There are about eighty homes, half of which are owned by the cooperative. No one lives there year round yet. In the summer various groups and individuals stay there doing repair work. It is the next village up the valley from Bordo, a completely renovated and inhabited Buddhist community. Shortly after my arrival I was invited to join Paolo "Silkworm" Bigatti and others on a trip by car to Brussels, Belgium, for the second international coordination conference for the Earth Concert, where we met with the organizer, Jean Hudon, and the director of the European Environmental Bureau, and others. The most interesting contacts we made there were with the Soviet Ecopolis of Peace Association and European Youth Forest Action. I returned to the Cheggio peace village, where I met Ulli Sieler, one of the four people who founded the Europa Rainbow. He had been to the Washington state gathering. He met Urs Fleury, a Swiss, at a birthday party in Switzerland, where he was relating tales of his American adventures. Urs, being an alternative/spiritual cultural elder in Switzerland from the '60s, had the wisdom to recognize the significance of what he was hearing and insisted they sit down right then and there and create the poster announcing the first Europa Rainbow. And so the Europa Rainbow was born at a birthday party in Switzerland and was delivered by Ulli & Annette (Tober), and Urs & Martina, three Germans and a Swiss. The first Europa Rainbow was in Switzerland in 1983. The next was in Tesine, Switzerland, followed by Tuscana, Italy, Col de Montet in the French Pyrenees, then two years in the Spanish Pyrenees. ITALY Ulli drove me to the October Maroni (Chestnut) gathering, essentially an Italian regional, in the Italian Alps high above Lago Maggiori. Although there were less than 50 people there, we had a delightful, spiritually high time together. Apparently, there are many alternative people in the Tuscana region of Italy. From there I walked over the Alps into Switzerland with two Swiss "Rastas." I then joined a car load headed for Fall council in Austria. AUSTRIA Fall council in Austria was high and magical. It was held on a beautiful farm. There may have been two dozen people there. Nearly all were from Austria. There were several Swiss, who had brought me there, and one German just returned from India and the source of the Ganges. The sister energy in the Austrian Rainbow Family is strong and vibrant. The brother energy is also good. Many brothers who had for instance been to only one of the various gatherings in Europe returned to the circle to help with hosting the gathering in their homeland. I then went on the first scouting party, to the Todes Gebiet. It lasted several days and was educational for the other two who would continue scouting, but I found that particular area to be inadequate. HUNGARY I made my way to Vienna, where I got a visa from the Hungarian Embassy on October 30, and arranged to share a ride to Budapest. There were five main reasons why I went to Eastern Europe: I had never been there before; traveling earlier in the year on the US West coast with Dima had whetted my appetite; the Europa Rainbow Family had virtually no solid contacts there; I wanted to continue on to the Soviet Union; I had just heard that the Hungarian government had declared itself to no longer be a People's Republic. But most of all I felt compelled to find the "lost tribes" of the East. The Hungarian border was like a beach with waves of people washing up on it. The authorities were obviously unprepared for the increase in both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The once fearsome guardhouses, like squat fire towers along the border were now empty. There were still Red Cross workers there trying to facilitate foot traffic coming from the East, primarily from East Germany. I arrived in Budapest by car from Vienna, Austria, on wednesday, November 1. At this time Budapest was packed with hedonists and adventurers of all kinds. Throughout the city there were flowers and candles on certain monuments, prayer vigils, and flags with the party emblem cut out. On November 4, the anniversary of the crushing of of the 1956 uprising against the Soviet invasion, I was walking down the street when I heard, over a radio blaring from a newstand kiosk, John Lennon singing "all we are saying is give peace a chance." From that day for the rest of my stay in Hungary, whenever I saw a Soviet soldier on the street or in the subway I would stop and give him one of the whole earth stickers, given to me by Paul Hoffman of Berkeley to pass along. I cried when I heard on my shortwave radio that the Berlin wall had been breached, and again when I read the details in Budapest's English language daily newspaper. My only contact in Hungary was the European Youth Forest Action (EYFA) coordinator, Vira Mora, who was planning the "Ecotopia" encampment there August 1-21, 1990. When I called her, she seemed sceptical of an anonymous American inquiring into the ecology movement and put off our meeting for a week. The next day as I wandered around wondering what I should do next, I spotted a number of brothers about my age sitting around downtown casually smoking a bowl of some rank homegrown. I sidled up to them and declared "Rastafari!" They could hardly speak a word of English, but were cheerily hospitable. In sign language I invited them to the gathering in Austria; they responded by inviting me to the major underground club in town. When I arrived there that evening, the place was not only rockin', but smokin' as well. Eventually, after a few visits, I was invited to give presentations about Rainbow and distribute focalizer lists to the unofficial anarchist club of the university, the peace movement "460," the Green Party of Hungary, and representatives of the Hungarian underground, called the "Blues." Praise Jah! The rest of the time I spent trying to get a Soviet visa, without success. Express, the Hungarian student travel office, maintained that Sputnik, the Soviet student travel office, refused to honor reservations for foreigners. Volantourist, the Intourist agent, finally told me that I could only go if I was willing to pay US$ 250 per night for a suite at the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow. At that point I had only US$ 750 left to get me back to the USA before the holidays. I was fortunate enough to meet a special brother from Chechoslovakia at the foundation congress of the Green Party of Hungary, November 18-19. He invited me to come visit him and his ecologist friends in Slovakia. I jumped at the opportunity, got a visa the next day, and left for Bratislava by train on the November 23. The mood was somber as the train pulled out of Budapest. My welcome to Slovakia was a hint of blowing snow. CZECHOSLOVAKIA The revolution essentially began on November 17, when an unknown number of peacefully demonstrating students were purportedly killed in a violent police frenzy. Ironically they were commemorating Nazi brutality against students. By the time I arrived in Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic, the situation was getting weird. Thank God, through my experience with Rainbow I was well equipped to deal with weirdness. The people in the streets were silent and solemn, almost fearful. The previous day had seen the first major "manifestation" (demonstration) in Bratislava since 1968. Uncertain, some would furtively stop to read the "communiques" posted on corners. The communiques were printed by computers commandeered by striking university students and were transported around the country by student couriers via train, bus, and auto. Then they were distributed and posted daily, or at times hourly, on street corners and shop windows by local high school students, who were also on strike. For this reason, in Czechoslovakia this was called "the children's revolution." The communiques were generated by the "Laterna Magica," the actors in Prague who were also striking, in support of the students. They had occupied the national theaters, creating the Obcanske Forum, the people's forum, or as it became known... the Civic Forum. I called the Town Department of the Slovak Union of Nature and Landscape Conservationists after I arrived, and was invited to witness "some political entertainment." I found myself cordoned off by the Slovak partisans at the center of a crowd of hundreds of thousands, face to face with Alexander Dubcek. The wind was cold but the people were warm. The multitudes began to chant over and over, louder and louder "DUBCEK... DUBCEK...." There is something intense, deeply moving, when the heart of a nation is stirred. I will never forget watching as hundreds of thousands pulled out their keyrings and without a word began to rattle them. The telephone lines were open. However, all mass communication was controlled by the state, which did not initially report on events as they actually occured. The partisans would telephone the foreign press, outside of the country, notably the BBC, and they would then beam the reports back into the country. That evening I returned to my hotel room to catch up on events in Prague and elsewhere, on my shortwave radio. Blissfully the BBC played the Grateful Dead, and I sang along and danced! I heard reports of the demonstration I had participated in only hours before, and had been present as the news was relayed to London via phone. The morning after my first demonstration, inspiration called me out alone into the city on an errand I knew not whence or why. I had never been there before, nor could I speak any Slovak. Providence led me across town directly to the sacred ally, peyotl. Needless to say, I was awe struck. Apparently I had resonated with the spirit of the cactus. We went together to the Slovak partisans. I told them that the plant had a soul, and that it was not necessary for them to eat it in order for it to speak with them. It told us that it had come to unite the tribes in peace. Praise God! Two days later, I visited the hilltown of Banska Bystrica where I witnessed the first nationwide general strike from noon to 2pm. I left Bratislava by train for Prague on November 28. I arrived that evening and immediately called the EYFA contact there who generously found me a place to stay. She told me a manifesto had been issued by five signitories proclaiming the formation of the Czech Green Party the previous day. The following morning I located their makeshift offices, which technically were illegal. The whole day people streamed in and out, registering with the fledgling party. Most, but not all, were interested in the party program of which there was a conspicuous absence. The first public meeting was held there at 5pm, the 29th. At 6pm the so-called non-political Green Circle of Prague held its third (or fourth) meeting in the basement of a theater. Most of the people there were eco-dissidents and spent the majority of the evening infighting between the legal (established) and the illegal (underground) groups for dominance. I left Prague for Krakow, Poland, on December 1. Entering Czechoslovakia had been so easy that I was unprepaired for what took place at the border. Just like quintessential fascists, when they saw that I hadn't stayed more than a few nights in hotels, they demanded the names of the people I stayed with. Of course I refused. They freaked, searching my pack for addresses, which they did not find! But they did discover a plethora of printed materials (destined for the Committees of Correspondence in Kansas City) from organizations that had been illegal only two days before. Fortunately, the young Polish border guards intervened by taking my passport and stamping me into Poland before the Czechs could figure out that my "Sperm Bank" and "Ecumenical Express" credit cards were gags. POLAND Poland was as close to the Great Depression as I ever hope to come. Beets, turnips, or cabbage three times a day is not my concept of cuisine. In Krakow I made contact with the Polish Ecological Club and the Green Federation. I left there by train at dawn on December 5 for Warsaw. I traveled with representatives of the Green Federation and the Freedom and Peace group, WIP. In Warsaw, we went to the Sejm, the Polish Parliament, to picket the Solidarity debate on nuclear power. A delegation from the protest, which I accompanied, was eventually invited inside to monitor the voting. There were lots of faded blue jeans and shaggy mustaches in evidence. This preliminary vote was marginally in our favor. The next day I was invited to visit the famous Gardienizce modern theater collective with the deputy minister of culture. Late that night I went to make contacts in the nearby town of Lublin. I eventually made contact with a friend of a friend, who took me to stay with his friends. They were young students in the process of having a vodka party in celebration of one of them soon becoming a father. On the following day a young couple led me on an expedition into the countryside to visit a nearby ecological village. I was astonished to find a magnificent tipi on the land. Not only that, but there were dreadlocked drum makers in residence. 100 kilometers from the Soviet border, three hundred from Chernobyl, we enjoyed the full glory of their Rasta meditation. Praise Jah! When I told them I had come from both the North American and Europa Tribal Councils of the Rainbow Family of Living Light and that were gathering the tribes, calling them home to mother Earth, in Austria, their mouths opened wide and tears came into their eyes. I knew then I had fulfilled my task of locating the lost tribes. I count this journey to the East as one of the mileposts in my life; it was a fundamental step forward in the development of my perspective. I not only learned firsthand the differences between communism and socialism, but also between capitalism and free enterprise. Communism and capitalism had just been words, propaganda, before. Now I know that communism is centralized socialism, and is bad. So too have I come to know that capitalism is centralized free enterprise, and also is bad. I feel now that freedom, although relative, is not just another word, but is real. Peace. (C) M.E. 90 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 220 Carribean Rainbow mendicott 2:28 pm Jun 18, 1991 Christopher Nesbitt General Delivery Punta Gorda, Belize Central America - Fruit cultivation, living close to the Earth / I don't trust carnivores, am interested in live food. / Stay at nature's way guest house Wed. & Sat. / fight the power Luigi Freebird Creations P.O. Box 8307 Cruz Bay, St. John, US Virgin Islands 00831 Tel: (809) 776-7512 - Rainbow travelers welcome, political networking, peace projects, retail jewelry store, sail boats, info Central/North America, funding peace projects, New Age information Laughingstock (Niha), Pablo, Orpheus & Aladdin Calle 10 J-1 Quintas Dorado, Puerto Rico 00646 Tel: (809) 796-0165 - I'm just a domestic goddess, caring for my little ones, but we have space for passers-through & would love to connect with other Carribean family. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 221 Lakota Spiritual Encampment pfraterdeus 5:01 pm Jun 18, 1991 From: Subject: Lakota Spiritual Encampment From PEACENET_QM Lakota Spiritual Encampment (I pulled this from the alt.magik conference. -- Petros.) ******************************************************** Topic 10 Lakota Spiritual Encampment in the myers alt.magick 8:42 am Jun 11, 1991 (at sequent.com) (From News system) I received the following letter from Barney Peoples Jr., a spokesman from the Grassroots Elders of the Lakota Nation (Sioux) in South Dakota. Their organization is setting up a non-violent, drug-free, spiritual encampment in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Their main goals are to return to a traditional lifestyle and to prevent the further environmental destruction of the Black Hills, by securing the return of the Black Hills to the Lakota people. If you are interested and can help, they'd appreciate it. They are happy to talk to you about what's going on in the Black Hills and their plans. Their encampment "Nahila Washaka" (Strong Spirit) has several gatherings planned for this summer. If you'd like to attend one of the gatherings, please write to the Grassroots Elders. I've included contact info at the end of this letter: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paha Sapa - Black Hills Mitakuaye Oyasin- To all my relations. Greetings From the Grassroots Elders and the Lakota Nation of the Black Hills in South Dakota. We just recently sent three members of the Lakota Nation to the West Coast, as representatives to participate in the A.F.C.- "Ancient Forest Chautauqua, to spread the word of the Lakota people. They traveled from Vancouver BC all the way down to San Diego CA. The major goal was to spread the news of the traditional spiritual encampment in the Black Hills. Also, to raise funds to start the encampment. The three representatives are now back and are getting the encampment ready for the people. Arvol Looking Horse, the keeper of our sacred pipe, will hold a ceremony to name the spiritual encampment. We are expecting a lot of local people from the surrounding reservations and cities to come to the encampment, plus many non-Indians from the West Coast that are invited to come and experience our culture and traditions to help raise and support issues of the Black Hills. The people that are coming are going to be in need of shelter. We have shelter for the people, but due to the interest, there are far more people coming than we anticipated. We are asking you for donations and contributions for materials to provide shelter, tee-pee's, food and communications with the people. There will also be more people coming from Big Mountain, Arizona, that will need to be housed. At the encampment there will be plenty of pure spring water, a secluded wooded area away from the near-by cities. Also, plenty of tent room for people with their own tents. The people that are coming will help raise funds and awareness to support the issues concerning human rights and of the Lakota's treaty right to the Black Hills. We don't get any support from the B.I.A. (Bureau of Indian Affairs), or the numerous churches in the surrounding area. The survival of the Lakota Nation and the sacred Black Hills depends upon you. There will also be a gathering August 15th through the 18th "The Black Hills Survival Gathering - International Survival Revival 1980-1991" at Roubaix Lake in the Black Hills, covering the current and planned exploitation of the Hills forest. Uranium and gold mining mining are a few of the issues, but at the gathering many more environmental issues will be brought forward. The encampment has been established to allow the people to live in the traditional way as their ancestors did, in harmony and respect for the land on which all people walk! Thank you!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Grassroots Elders P.O. Box 5668-5686 Rapid City, SD 57709 (605)348-9463 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Myers Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. myers@sequent.com Phone: (503) 578-9838 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************** ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 222 Chicago PeaceFest Jul 19-21 pfraterdeus 9:08 pm Jun 19, 1991 From: Subject: Chicago PeaceFest Jul 19-21 Chicago PeaceFest Jul 19-21 6/18/91 7:29 PM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! The annual PeaceFest will be happening along Chicago's lakeshore (Lake Shore Drive at Lawrence) July 19-21 Open Drum jam 10am -12 noon Saturday ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 223 Chicago Rainshow Pt 2 pfraterdeus 10:03 pm Jun 19, 1991 From: Subject: Chicago Rainshow Pt 2 GOOD MORNINGI Chicago Rainshow Pt 2 The Chicago Rainbow Circle Benefit for CRC, The Guide, All Ways Free and Focalizer's Council has been re-located to Sheridan House (A Private Residence) 5948 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL Take CTA Howard Line North to Granville, walk east to Sheridan... Info 312 989 4069 10 pm on Saturday June 22 ONLY A suggested Donation will be requested. Acoustic jams & music from numerous Chicago bands and musicians. Drum Circle. Some overnight parking for visitors (arrange with house manager) available (donation requested). ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 224 1991 Focalizer List Availab pfraterdeus 11:56 pm Jun 21, 1991 From: Subject: 1991 Focalizer List Availab GOOD MORNINGI 1991 Focalizer List Available Please send me a message if you'd like a copy! Focalizer Pack will be distributed at Foc's Council in Vermont. Love and Light! Peter pfraterdeus 708 238 2733 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 225 ALLWAYS FREE Future & M.A.R.S. lbadger 5:19 am Jun 22, 1991 My Vision of the Future of the AllWays Free ------------------------------------------- Lovers of Our Beloved Earth, The vision of any newsletter or paper is to get information out in such a fashion that by the time it reaches the readers it is still useful and current news. Now, after successfully promoting and fund raising for the AllWays Free this year, we have gained some insight into the problems involved in doing this. In the future we are sure that M.A.R.S. ( Monterey Area Rainbow Service ) will get much better at this task as we have dedicated ourselves to these problems of promotion and fund raising for the A.W.F. Also as a dabbler in several publications, in the newsletter format, over the past 15 years, I have some experiences I'd like to add to our councils in regards to the future vision of the AllWays Free. 1. A newsprint paper is more ecological. It takes less refinement of paper pulp and can be recycled more easily then processed chemical copying paper. 2. A newsprint paper is more economical. For around 18 cents an issue you can communicate over 60 pages more in information and art then with copying; and even with two or more colors on the cover. 3. The hurtle for a newsprinted paper is that the lowest run we can do is about 12,000 papers at a cost of about $ 1,700. A measly sum really when we consider the potential of our Rainbow circles. 4. In chainlettering a newsletter I would say that we still have never come close to this kind of circulation ( 12,000 issues ). Most is still word of mouth... and some will say that this is a blessing. 5. It costs more for postage to mail a single newsprint paper, but distributed via a strong network that costs could get as low as 60 cents apiece. But still ounce for ounce of media newsprint delivers more then any newsletter can. A two page newsletter ( double sided ) may cost ( plus postage ) upwards of 35 cents. For 25 cents more we can deliver 600 % more information. 6. As far as the problems of getting information out in a timely manner this is the whole crux of the matter. As of late I know of no newsletter that has been capable of putting out a newsletter on a seasonal basis which I feel would be ideal. Yet each newsletter has its own geography to consider. Anyone newsletter can only cover a certain ground locally and hopefully still be able to get in the national or international Rainbow news. Our media wheel turns on the summer national gathering every July...And still world wide Rainbow reports are pouring in on peacenet every month. 7. Looking at this problem of our media flow from a seasonal medicine wheel direction.....the future survival of our mutual vision might need us to learn to dance to these natural turnings. And from every great direction of our Rainbow wheel learn to trust and share these burdens equally. This could be our collective newsletter spinning out our heartsongs. Together, passing and sharing from trusted hands to willing hands. From the four great directions through all the seasons, passing on the words, oral traditions, news, calanders, and lessons that we should never forget. Year to year as we grow and shake off the rumors, egos, and the lies that would defeat us of this our collective growing vision... 8. The vision of our paper, the AllWays Free could follow seasonal themes something like this: Fall.... What are the lessons we have learned at the small last national and regional gatherings. Whom issue should we thank and renew for the seasons past. What are the storys that followed us and Rumor controled. How was cleanup handled. What is the financial report for the past gatherings. Legaliaison report. Minutes of the councils. What are the whispers of visions to come for the following year... Winter...A time of deep reflection and family... maybe medium most of this issue should be simple and issue dedicated to our children and their thoughts. With all of those in mind who have the heart of a child at heart. Being rooted and healing prayers could be offered....calling all volunteers and focalizers to commit now. All council reports of gatherings. Legaliaison report. Spring...Events, happenings, benefits, all listed from small around the world in our calander. Networking issue caravans. Heartsongs for our Mother Earth. Ceremonies...tails of ceremonies...council notes...needs and preparations...traditions and legends retold. Miracles of past gatherings revisited. Visions, calanders, and Howdy folks for the next July or regional gatherings. Summer...scheduled events, show and sharings, circles large for healings, sweatlodges, calm, info...with issue maps for finding all these camps and kitchen locations. Special messages from loved ones to loved ones. Color pages for the kids. Special interest circles, handicap facilities, Prayers, hopes and visions for the future. Thoughts for to be read at councils for those who could not attend... This all Sounds pretty far in the future or maybe you think it is pretty far fetched that we can every get things flowing this well. But It has become obvious to some of us that it is not just a a newspaper that we are talking about but a vision. A whole vision. A vision that is growing faster then we have so far been able to keep pace with... yes let's have more newsletters. Yes let's, throw off this false yolk of fear about being numbered and counted, so we can truly form a strong spirit. Has it not become obvious that our numbers have already been had a long time ago...so what... we lose only by such fear of the dark...let the light shine... let our words, experience and love, written by our own hands, be put in print and sent out to every corner of the earth, at every turning of the season....for all those we love. My personnel vision says this will come to pass...our collective love will overcome. We will learn whom we can trust with this great responsibility...to network or to not network that is the weakness... well, dear loved ones, the facts are in, and we have already been had, and networked to death years ago. We've just never seen the master(s)'s copy. We don't even have our own...it is said that only 'In Unity Is Strength'. Burnout is happening to some of us only because in the dark shadows of our not knowing, we can't see how or who to let go to... We will slowly get to know each other better...know how to trust each other more wisely. This all will come to pass. We will all get to know ourselves better... and what each we stand for... and what each our own part is in this splendid Rainbow vision of Love....the miricle is happening...We can really start getting things done now, but only together, and only in the knowledge that we take the trouble to secure, and protect, for ourselves by exercising our right of the 'freedom of our Rainbow press'. Support the AllWays Free..... LOVE, TendeerFire P.S. Please, will some one read these words at the A.W.F. council in Vermont this July.... and let me know if your are and who ? aka: Lyonel Badger- c/o M.A.R.S. P.O. Box 9202, Monterey, Ca. 93942 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 226 Austria Rainbow journal mendicott 1:59 pm Jun 22, 1991 Draft Version June 22, 1991. Copyright (C) 1991 by M.L. Endicott. All rights reserved worldwide. Marcus Lucian ENDICOTT Post Office Box 2589 Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723-2589 USA Telex: 150240522 MENDICOTT E-mail: igc!mendicott mendicott@igc.org mendicott@p0.f4.n204.z1.fidonet.org AUSTRIA ======= Tuesday, July 31, 1990 I packed right after waking. I had a quarter loaf of bread, half a "stick" of butter, marmalade, and two cold Pepsi's at the campground "bufe" for breakfast. I found the back road from Gyor to Mosonmagyaravar, and immediately started seeing bicycle tourists, which kept up the whole day! I stopped for white grape juice along the way. I stopped in Mosonmagyaravar and had a "tutti frutti" ice cream coupe with mineral water for lunch. While sitting there, I also knocked out five postcards, to James at NOC, Rosario, Nanny and Poppy, Grandma, and Jim and Mary Lou. I stopped just before the border and used my last bill for cold apricot juice, at twice the regular price. I passed out of Hungary through the "CD" corridor, and drove passed the line of cars to Austria, where the young guard, after seeing the cover of my passport, waived me right through. I changed a $50 travelers check there at the Austrian Motor Club booth, and stopped in Nickelsdorf to call Dad. The Austrian PTT claimed that AT&T USA Direct service did not exist. I had to call the US Consulate to get the access number. I pushed hard into sunset looking for a campground, without luck. I made Schwechat, Vienna's airport, and got a Gasthof dinner of soup, beef goulash, and ice cream, for about $10, including two lemonades and a tip. After dark, I wandered along a bike path and met some kids who took me to a hotel, where I got a simple room for $50. I had to go to the sauna for a shower. I slept badly, itching all night. I used China Oil profusely. It stops the itch, but doesn't end the problem. Wednesday, August 1, 1990 I had breakfast at the hotel, of muesli, juice, coffee, bread, butter, marmalade, and cheese. The desk clerk directed me to the nearby "Hainburg - Passau Radwanderweg." In Vienna, I stopped once to call Fritz, who was still not at home, and three times at bike shops to look for cycling gloves, but found none I wanted. I also called Dad, tried to call Kathy, and bought clear nail polish and biodegradable soap. I traveled the whole way through Vienna to Tulln, where I camped. I had tuna salad and a fruit ice cream coupe for lunch, along the way, at a lovely Gasthaus in Greifenstein. I wasted time riding around Tulln, until the banks closed at 16:00. I had to go to the post office to exchange $20 cash. At the campground, I met some Americans on a long bike tour. I showered, and ate yogurt, cookies, and lemonade for dinner at the canteen. I painted my "chigger bites" with clear nail polish. Thursday, August 2, 1990 I got up and packed, losing the clock-pen Dad gave me for Christmas. I got "molke" drink, cherry tarts, and my first bananas in months, from a supermarket for breakfast. I exchanged $100 at a bank, before hitting the bike path for Krems. Along the way, I stopped for a fruit ice cream coupe, and called Kathy. She had moved, misplacing my files, and said to call back tomorrow. I found my way through Krems, and stopped for another fruit ice cream coupe and two Cokes at Untermeisling. I pushed up a long hill for an hour or more. When I saw massive poppy fields at the top, I realized I must be close, and stopped for photos. Around a corner, I saw a sign, and two smiling freaks sitting in a van. I coasted into Rastenburg, and was hailed by freaks as I passed the Gasthaus. I rode around another corner, and into the seedcamp. I met Christian welcoming people at the gate. He was a little stressy, but there was a good vibration in camp. I stood around talking with many friends for a long time, before pitching my tent in a beautiful spot. I saw Kalash, and spoke about the conflicts and not splitting the people. I even made peace with Two Bears. At the dinner circle, I hung out with Lau and his son Ramone. It was a beautiful circle. I went to bed still itching. Friday, August 3, 1990 I awoke early, about 05:00, but fell asleep again until 09:00. I waited for the sun to clear the mountain before bathing in the nearby creek. I went to the kitchen area, and got warm muesli for breakfast. I talked with Caress, an older Hungarian-American from California, for a long time, mostly about hemp. I went to the gate for water, and teamed up with Terry-I, a Norwegian first timer, to find a shop. We stopped at the nearby Gasthaus in Rastenburg to ask. I called Kathy, and got no real news, other than a mention of my newsletter, GAIA PASSAGE, in FACTSHEET FIVE. We walked the few klicks up hill to Rastenfeld, but the shops closed at noon. We had lunch a Gasthaus, of turkey breast Cordon Bleu, fresh garden salad, and juice. I exchanged money at the bank. The bank teller was really nice, and let me make free photocopies of the site map. I went shopping and got a bucket, ten chocolate bars, thumb tacks, two pens, and lots of matches. On the way back, we saw a great hemp plant and poppies in a local garden, and took a photo. We also stopped again at the Rastenburg Gasthaus, for ice cream. I called Grandma, and had a long talk with Jim about Peter's graduation, and the family reunion at the beach. Back at camp, I caught up on my journal, and snacked. I loaned Dutch Pete my bike, since I knew him from our North Carolina gathering when he was traveling by bike. I went to hang out at the American camp, and listened to guitar songs until dinner. We sang a nice song, chanted "OM," and I broke the circle with a hearty "Welcome Home!" We ate good brown rice and vegetables. I had to feed Ramone, as Lau was off scouting with Kalash. The police came, and I put little Ramone up to taking them Earth stickers, which worked the second time; the first time, he went and put them on a tipi! Afterwards, I met with Jeff, who had just arrived, and others about the problem of splitting the camp between two sites. Eventually, we decided to call a council. I went and silenced the drums. We counciled long into the night. I spoke twice. Once, when the subject drifted to police violence, I told the story of the miracle at the Cumberland gathering in Tennessee that Spring, which was by informal consensus the high point of the council. Later, I was the first to state, regardless of the rest, "I go tomorrow morning," and then went to bed. Saturday, August 4, 1990 I woke up, and ate a chocolate bar and vitamin. I packed up, and rolled out of camp as the sun was breached the mountain. I met Christian and Jeff at the gate, and got directions. Before parting, I gave Christian one of the 111 Apache crystals. I rode all the way into the site, with one wrong turn. I had trouble pin- pointing the epicenter, but my best guess turned out to be right. I circumnavigated the site, looking for water. I finally found some, but unfortunately there wasn't much. I filtered it, and ate a chocolate bar for lunch. I staked out the main intersection at the ruined village of Heinreichs from a military blind high up in a tree. I hung out there, until I heard the whoops of the scouting party water foray signaling one another, and soon met Christian. I fixed a flat tire, and went to set up camp. After main convoy arrived, pandemonium broke out and divine chaos ruled. I spent several hours circling the site on my bike helping with information; or, as Kalash said, "playing Mercury," on the several kilometers of dirt roads that made a triangular loop enclosing the site. I met Robby and his daughter Raven with Tobias as they were coming in, all happy. I arrived for main circle, just as it broke. Apparently, a forester had come to tell us to leave; and we declined. I saw Fritz from Vienna. I then went and worked the main gate until 01:00. Few vehicles came in, other than several short convoys from seedcamp. Christian, Jeff, and Pete came by at different times to talk. Sunday, August 5, 1990 I woke up with the sun burning hot on my tent. I ate chocolate and a vitamin for breakfast. I packed up to go swimming and wash my clothes, but forgot to take the bucket. I met Christian at the gate. He had been there all night, apparently coming just after I left. I spent all morning on my bike scouting the lake, but finally went swimming. When I got back, Lau and Two Bears were working the gate. I smoked with some friends. I saw Urs B. and Heinz from Switzerland. I hung out back at the gate for a long time, until evening circle. While I was there, police and foresters passed, and the military brought in water. I smoked with Tobias before dinner. We ate rice and vegetables. Afterwards, I hung out with the American smoking circle, before going to council at the cooperation tipi about the police road blocks. Monday, August 6, 1990 I woke up to an overcast sky, and ate a chocolate bar and vitamin for breakfast. I chatted with my new neighbors, and gave them some of my antifungal cream. I went to the lake for a nice swim, and attempted to wash my clothes. I passed police, who had established a check point just out of sight of our gate, but were only turning back vehicles. I went and reported this at the cooperation tipi. I got my computer, and set it up at the gate. I put my panels in parallel with the big one on Norbert's Fakir truck, now poised at a right angle to the road. I typed up a camp newsletter, smoked, and scouted road blocks on my bike. I spent the afternoon posting newsletter copies strategically around camp. I spent the evening in the cooperation tipi, and in Robby and Raven's tipi, singing fun songs and laughing late into the night. Tuesday, August 7, 1990 I woke up early, again to an overcast sky, and ate chocolate and vitamin for breakfast. I took my computer to the cooperation tipi, and helped get a delegation together to negotiate with the Austrian government. We drove in through two road blocks, made a circle outside the front door of the Allentsteig police station, and chanted "OM." We had a good meeting, but should have taken the talking stick. The officials basically stated their position, requesting us to leave, to release responsibility. We unequivocally refused, but tried to straighten the permanent peace village trip out some. Afterwards, our group went to Azim's "Lichtspiele" theater for comfortable debriefing and analysis in the snack bar. After many problems, I was finally able to post our press release on GreenNet, in "Alerts." We went shopping, before going back through both road blocks, with more people in our van than we came with. I bought more chocolate, cookies, yogurt, juice, and toilet paper. I walked into the site with Oleg, from Minsk in Byelorussia, stopping to chat with the Polish theater camp, and at the cooperation tipi to check on developments. 2,500 liters of water had been allowed in. I helped set up the Swedish circus tent, called the Golden Temple. I went to the Swiss camp, where there were lots of tipis, had muesli with Walti, and visited Urs F. Back at main circle, I saw Jacek from Lublin, and had a long talk. I went to smoke with Simon, Bill, and Oleg. Back at the circle again, I hung out with Allan and Britt, before going to bed. Topic 74 Austria Rainbow bmasel All Ways Free --- Rainbow Family News 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 ** Wednesday, August 8, 1900 When I woke up, the sky was still a bit overcast. I had chocolate and a vitamin for breakfast again, before taking my bike to go swimming in the lake and wash clothes in my bucket. A cop and an MP at the gate tried to stop my bike coming back in, but I wouldn't take no for an answer. Later, I took my computer to the gate and whipped out another newsletter. Afterwards, I visited Urs and set up solar power in his tipi. I got some food at the soup kitchen, and smoked with Bill on the way back to my tent. Before going to dinner circle, I went to shit. Afterwards, I had a long talk, tea, and chocolate with Oleg, at my camp. I then went to hang out with Tobias and Robby until late into the evening. Tobias had news of the Iraq crisis. I also heard Fred in New York had gotten our computer message. Thursday, August 9, 1990 I ate chocolate and a vitamin for breakfast, before going swimming and to explore new back roads. I went all the way out to the main road and checked the road block there. I came back to council, and helped escort soldiers and the press around the camp. Later, when I tried to use my solar panels and printer with Urs' computer and car battery, I shorted out my 12 volt Toshiba auto adapter. Tobias and Christian said they would try to find a new AGC 8A 32 volt fuse in town. I loaned my bike to Paul for a food run, and haven't seen it since. After coffee with Horse and Caress (Karesz), I spent the evening walking around very angry about my bike. I even saw Tor, that I knew from the Tennessee gathering, who remembered my bike from there. Friday, August 10, 1990 After a short, fitful sleep, I woke up early, to sunshine. After chocolate and a vitamin, I went to a latrine, before going to the Christiania kitchen to get water and look for Paul and my bike. I went to the gate and told the police hold my bike, if they saw it. I went back to camp, telling everyone I saw to look for my bike. Simon invited me to his camp for some salad and a smoke. Afterwards, I went back to the gate again, and borrowed Norbert's old, big, black "Amsterdamer" one speed bicycle to go to all the way out to the second road block to look for my bike, and tell the cops there to look also. I met some Swiss, who were smoking, and stayed long to talk. Back at our gate, I got the word that my bike had been returned. I went first to the cooperation tipi, and then to my tent, where I found it! I was happy to have it back, and celebrated by having tea and cookies with a neighbor and English sister. I went to main circle, and found a smoking circle, before going back out to the second road block to help bring in a food run. What a movie! We just walked the food through the road block to another vehicle. Urs B. from Switzerland had a secret way around the other road block, before our gate. I heard at our gate that Two Bears hit Azim three times for pulling head trips about his village project. From our gate, I rode back into the site with my bike on Urs F.'s rack. I schmoozed in the English Tofu Kitchen until going to bed. Saturday, August 11, 1990 I woke up early, and went to shit. I ate chocolate and a vitamin, and made tea, after getting water. I saw the top of the huge plastic water tank, loaned to us by a construction company, had been smashed. It must have fallen off the truck, when it was full. When I went to go swimming, the MP's asked me about North Carolina. After a nice scrub, I went almost to Franzen to help push a car out of the mud. It had gotten stuck trying to drive through the woods at night to get around the road blocks. Some vehicles made it in. I then went to Rastenfeld by bike to call Ham, but only got his machine. Also, I bought juice, yogurt, nuts, raisins, and candles. Pete brought me back in his little truck, with two beautiful sisters. I went to the welcome center at the gate and hung around a long time waiting to smoke. A lot of trips went down while I was there. There was a water tank movie, and a military recon guy came by on an enduro motorcycle. I finally went back into camp and broke down and got a piece at the Italian camp, and smoked it with Simon's poetry workshop, until dinner circle. I ate borscht and rice, with Urs and Rupp. Afterwards, I went to Robby's tipi and smoked some more with Simon. Wiped out, I finally went to bed, and munched on soy biscuits with honey before going to sleep. Sunday, August 12, 1990 I got up with the sun, took a shit, and ate chocolate and a vitamin for breakfast. I went to the lake on my bike to wash. On the way back, I met Tobias and went with him to Loschberg to charge his camcorder batteries and help do a video interview with Azim. We stopped to buy grapes, pears, carrots, and ice cream. On the way back in, we stopped at the gate to smoke. In the afternoon, I went to Urs' tipi to get my solar panels, and spent a long time there schmoozing with many friends, who enjoyed the fruit. We had a great dinner with plenty of couscous and spicy peas for all in a very calm and orderly circle. Afterwards, I joined the American smoking circle around Robby's tipi. Later, I went to see the circus at the Golden Temple, but was quite stoned. Heinz came and borrowed my tire patch kit. Exhausted, I went to sleep not long after sunset. Monday, August 13, 1990 After waking up, I took a shit, ate chocolate and a vitamin, got water and made tea. I washed in the lake, smoked with some Swiss brothers, and brought in a 40 kilo bag of flour on my bike. I spent the rest of the morning at the gate, smoking. At lunchtime, I bicycled to Urs' tipi and ate bread with vegetable spread with him, his daughter Zoe, and Bridge. I smoked with Tobias. He did some video taping. I hung around main circle until dinner. I walked around munching, and smoked again. It was late when I got word that Hamlin had made it in. I looked for him, shouting his name, but didn't find him, and went to bed. I had an idea for the tittle of my next book, TWO WHEELS EAST: EASTERN EUROPE BY BIKE. Tuesday, August 14, 1990 [one week break] After about an hour of looking, I found Hamlin sleeping in the tall grass behind one of the big tents. We went to my tent for a snack, and he crashed out again there. I cruised around on foot all day, tying up loose ends and saying goodbye. In the afternoon, Ham went cruising around on my bicycle. We had a great dinner circle, but without Ham. Wednesday, August 15, 1990 [Ascension Day holiday] I woke up out in the open, but in my sleepingbag. Hamlin was sleeping in my tent, without a sleepingbag. We packed, I biked ahead, and Ham walked to Rastenfeld. All the restaurants there were packed. We had lunch and beer together with friends. I rode my bike to Krems. Hamlin took the Postbus, and arrived at about the same time. We took a train to Vienna. Hamlin wanted a hotel. After changing money, we took the subway to Tinschi's. (Tinschi is short for Martina.) It was a big crash-pad scene there. After dinner and wine, Ham got the sleepingbag, and a bed space. I slept on the floor in my clothes. Thursday, August 16, 1990 Ham and I went into the city. He found a room at the Wildenauer Pension on Quellenstrasse, close to Tinschi and Bill's. I shopped for maps and other things for my trip. We ate health food for lunch at the Buddhist center. Afterwards, I went to locate a good bike shop, and search for fuses. I found the best bike shop in Vienna, Cooperative Fahrrad. I met Ham at his hotel and we went to Tinschi and Bill's for dinner. They told us that Vienna has 100,000 hemp smokers. Friday, August 17, 1990 After a continental breakfast and cereal at the hotel with Ham, he went on a city tour, and I worked most of the day at Cooperative Fahrrad. It was a cool scene there. I met Turkish kids and other tourists working in a back courtyard with the free tools. I replaced the handlebars, tires, brake cables and pads. In the afternoon, when it started raining, I had tea with fellow biker, Urs R. from Seeburg, Germany, who was headed for Turkey. Later, Ham and I went to Tinschi and Bill's for dinner, and a party. Saturday, August 18, 1990 Hamlin and I got breakfast at the hotel. We got lost on the way to the Naschmarkt flea market. We spent all morning there, bumping into people from Rainbow. Ham and I ate watermelon, then went to the Prater amusement park. Ham treated me to a ride on the Riesenrad, which was much better than I thought it would be. We ate langos, spicy Hungarian fried bread, and ice cream for lunch. Later, we walked down Karntner Strasse, Vienna's main pedestrian mall. We went to Tinschi and Bill's again in the evening for dinner and party. Sunday, August 19, 1990 After eating breakfast at the hotel with Hamlin, he said goodbye, and left for Budapest. I showered, and worked on my computer until checkout time at noon. I put two nights there on my American Express card. I went to Tinschi's, and then into the city to visit friends playing music on the street. After the Rainbow, the market for street musicians dropped considerably. It rained, and I called Dad from my refuge in a phone booth. After it stopped, we made a circle and "OMed" in front of Saint Stephen's church. I made dinner at Tinschi's, and partied until late. Monday, August 20, 1990 I shopped intensively all day. I searched out a second pair of cycling shorts, a black shirt, and electrolyte drink mix, which I put on my Amex card. From the central telephone exchange, I sent a telex to Michael in Moscow. It was Bill's birthday, and we had an unusually big dinner and party at the apartment. I presented him with my old triathalon bar and three good tires. 8644114226+ 411426 mir su 90-08-20-10:58 114827 tzst a friends: i met michael harshan of soviet travels in north carolina, usa, at nantahala 90. i wish to bicycle from poland to finland during october and november 1990, preferably via vilnius, riga, tallinn, and leningrad. i have already completed 2500 kilometers through yugoslavia, bulgaria, romania, and hungary. soon i will continue through czechoslovakia to poland. i wish to cross into su by bicycle on october 1. i am flexible about time, but must complete the journey before winter. my permanent address is: marcus l. endico tt, post office box 2589, cullowhee, north carolina 28723, usa. i am a us citizen, but was born 1 march 1959 in melbourne, australia. i am a travel writer, freelance. i have no telephone or telex since i am traveling, but will try to telephone you tomorrow and weekly thereafter. american express card is the ideal form of payment for me. thank you. :-) 411426 mir su 114827 tzst a Tuesday, August 21, 1990 I got up before the rest, and went to the store for yogurt and Auer Tortenecken chocolate wafers for my breakfast. I went to the Polish Embassy and got a same day student visa. I stopped by a camping store and picked up two new bungee cords. I called Moscow from the central telephone exchange, found out Michael had not received my telex, got the new number, and sent the telex again, with modifications. Moscow time was three hours later than Vienna. I had dinner at Tinschi's, and partied all evening. Tinschi's mother complained to me about her son Wolfgang's 15 year heroin addiction. 864411762+ 411762 mosre su 90-08-21-13:10 114827 tzst a friends: i met michael harshan of soviet travels in north carolina, usa, at nantahala 90. i wish to bicycle from poland to finland during october and november 1990, preferably via vilnius, riga, tallinn, and leningrad. i have now completed 2500 kilometers through yugoslavia, bulgaria, romania, and hungary without problem. soon i will continue through czechoslovakia to poland. i wish to cross into s.u. by bicycle on october 1. i am flexible about time and route, but must finish the trip before winter. my name and permanent address are: marcus l. endicott, post office box 2589, cullowhee, north carolina 28723, usa. i am a u.s. citizen, but was born in melbourne, australia, on 1 march 1959. i have a b.sc. degree in psychology, but earn my living as a freelance travel writer and author. i have no telephone or telex since i am traveling, but will try to telephone you again tomorrow and weekly thereafter. although my financial resources are limited, american express card is the best method of payment for me. thank you. :-) 411762 mosre su 114827 tzst a Wednesday, August 22, 1990 I woke up early, as usual, in a room full of people at Tinschi's. I went to the store for milk and butter for the group, and yogurt and Auer Tortenecken chocolate wafers for me. I packed up and said goodbye. I went to Cooperative Fahrrad for a crank tool, then to the central telephone exchange to call Moscow again. I spoke with Alexander Maximov, vice-president of Soviet Travels, who assured me that it would be "no problem" for them to get just a visa for me. He said to call back in ten days. I also called Kathy. I started cycling out of town on the Hainburg - Passau Radwanderweg bike path toward Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. It was windy, overcast and depressing. I determined not to leave without a working solar system. I stopped, found the Toshiba distributor in a phone book, called and made arrangements. I called Dad for more money, but talked to his buddy Bill who was visiting. I had difficulty finding the correct trains to Andy's. Also, the street numbers in his village, Traunfeld, seemed completely random. He showed me his place. After a dinner of fresh corn, I felt much better. I slept in his barn. Thursday, August 23, 1990 I woke up early, in the hay, took a shit in the outhouse, and went on my bike to the village shop and waited in line for orange juice, yogurt, and still warm fresh bread. I went back and had breakfast with Andy. Afterwards, he drove me to the Wolkersdorf train station. On the way, we stopped at a gravel pit. He was looking for washed rocks to put beneath a clay floor in the one completely natural room of the old farmhouse he was renovating. I took the train to "Wien Mitte/Landstrasse." I tried to call Dad, but there was no answer. I rode to American Express on Karntner Strasse. I received $1000 from Dad, and changed $350 into Shillings for a new auto adapter. I went back to Wien Mitte station, got a mozzarella sandwich for lunch, and called CHG/Toshiba. They told me to take the U-bahn to Reumanplatz, and then two buses to Lamenzanstrasse, in the industrial area. When I got to Reumanplatz, the bus driver said, "no bikes." I ate an ice cream cone, and then rode my bike to the place. I met Christian, a consultant, Manfred, the advertising director, and talked with a technical expert. Christian invited me to his office for hot chocolate. We talked about mountain bikes and Nostradamus. He showed me his collection of bike catalogs. Manfred offered to try to sell the story in Austria, if I send him a photo of me using the solar rig on the bike. They gave me 30% dealer discount, but I had to pay 20% tax, refundable at the border. I went back to Reumanplatz by bike, had an ice cream soda, then went on to Nord Bahnhof and took a train to Wolkersdorf. I had an Almdudler, an Austrian soft drink, which tasted like ginger ale, while waiting for a train to Hautzendorf. From there, I rode my bike to Traunfeld. I tested the new auto adapter, and charged my battery with it. I called London and connected with GreenNet. There were two old messages about Rainbow, one from Peter at Maxworks in Chicago and the other from the PeaceNet director, Howard, in San Francisco. Andy made a superb Hungarian dinner, fresh from the garden. Afterwards, we visited his neighbor, Roman, who had an American guest, Mike. Mike had been in Austria since finishing college in 1973, and now worked for a hotel in Vienna. He talked on and on about Iraq, and kept making shallow, stereotypical comparisons with the history of the Second World War, which he studied in college. I spilled a little herb tea on my computer, when the chair I was sitting in broke. I went to sleep dead tired at 01:00. Friday, August 24, 1990 I woke up in the hay again. I had muesli for breakfast with Andy. I set up my solar panels to charge the battery with the new adapter, which was different from the old one. I caught up my journal, took the dog for a walk, and helped wash stones and excavate the floor, until mid-afternoon. We ate cheese sandwiches for lunch. Andy drove me to Wolkersdorf. I was ticked off that he had kept me there working so long and then was not going to take me into the city, as I thought we had agreed, but must have been a misunderstanding. I had to take a train to Sud Bahnhof, another to Wiener Neustadt, and a third to Wiesen, for the annual Reggae festival. Andy and I met, arriving at the same time. I found a free, and private, place to camp in the woods. I saw another Austrian Andy, who I met before in Nevada, and others from Rainbow. I bought a weekend pass, for 700 Shillings, about $70. I had pizza and coffee for dinner, and chocolate wafers for desert. I found the main Vienna Rainbow tipi camp, and hung around smoking until the last set, before going to dance. I was accosted by an older woman who was drunk, horny, and said so. After a snack, I went to bed. Saturday, August 25, 1990 For breakfast, I ate chocolate wafers and a vitamin. I listened to the BBC news, and wrote in my journal, before wandering around, looking for friends. I found some Spanish Rainbow people, and smoked with them. They told me about getting busted in Vienna, while tripping. I went to the Vienna Rainbow tipi camp for more smoking, before wandering into the concert to get yogurt, Latella molke, and pastry. I listened to the music, ate pizza, and smoked some more with friends. I went back to the tipi camp, and stayed until late, smoking. Tinschi came in, and told me that Hamlin was back, looking for me. I called her place, his hotel, and Dad to leave messages. I listened to the music, ate pizza, and drank strawberry wine, a regional specialty, and had muffins and coffee. I was asleep by midnight, but the music played until dawn. Sunday, August 26, 1990 For breakfast, I had mango molke, chocolate wafers, and a vitamin. I packed, and rode to the train station. I took two trains to Vienna, rode to the Wildenauer, and found Ham's room. A maid let me in to stash my things. I went to Tinschi's, and was glad to find Sigmund who I knew from Norway, and Eddy who was at the Cumberland gathering in Tennessee with me, which made three so far. We smoked, and waited around. I went out and had langos and ice cream for lunch. I met Hamlin for dinner. We got chicken at Wienerwald, and talked a long time about Hungary. I slept fitfully, because of too much street noise. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 227 RAINBOW UPDATE FROM VERMONT!!! 3 responses ppav 6:41 pm Jun 22, 1991 URGENT! RAINBOW UPDATE FROM TEXAS FALLS, VERMONT The scouts have done it again. The site of the 1991 Rainbow Gathering is beautiful. Water is plentiful, the views excellent, ant the welcome from the local community incredible. Peace signs are everywhere. One child born, June 17, at 11:01 AM to Sunshine, a beautiful baby boy. The Family is thankful and full of joy for this gift. His name is Forest Moon. Bring love harmony and peace. The Rainbow magic has begun. Approximately two thousand on site. Tens of thousands enroute. Ho. Two thousand feet of pipe now being laid, thanks to one donation of three thousand dollars. There's water in every kitchen. Ho. The following is a list of needs. 1. Calm/Mash could use more medical supplies. A brief list includes first aid items such as Band-Aids and first aid tape. Also healing herbs such as goldenseal, yellowdoc, mullen, all tinctures, vitamin C, and B-12 and antibiotics. 2, Any extra pipe could be used, HDE type. Any fittings, couplings and valves, 1 inch, 1 1/4 inch, 1 1/2 inch desirable. Bring tanks 500 to 1500 gallon tanks, with or without trailer. Also clamps. 3. Any bulk dry goods. The Family is encouraged to bring 50 pounds of any one item. 4. GREEN ENERGY. If you can't make it this year you can send checks or money orders to; Rainbow P.O. Box 97 Hancock, Vermont 05742 Make checks payable to Rainbow '91. 5. Anyone coming from or traveling from Illinois could transport organic veggies. Contact: Chris Stanely 23857 Pilgrim Road Sterling Illinois 61081 WE LOVE YOU! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 227 lbadger 12:26 am Jun 25, 1991 Loved ones calling from M.A.R.S. OUR PAPER the AllWays Free has now been published with 3000 issues enroute to the gathering via postal means... very costly... HELP ....Tony Crow and et al. in Tucson need transportation for the remaining 10,000 papers ( aprox... minus those to be mailed ) IS ANYONE TRAVELING THROUGH Tucson Arizona going to the gathering any help in lugging this beautiful edition of our paper to the gathering in Vermont will be much blessed.... CONTACT : TONY CROW ( 612 ) 884-9145 in Tucson or Lyonel Badger ( M.A.R.S. ) ( 408 ) 375- 2306 in Monterey, Ca. ( you may call Lyonel collect if need be ) PLEASE URGENT SPREAD THE WORD FAST.... LOVE , Tendeerfire ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 227 lbadger 11:56 pm Jun 26, 1991 Howdy... please read my response to topic 233.1 and if you are on line while at gathering please do same... thankyou... also is their a camp where our peacenetters can be contacted and will you be sure to post on Rainbow board so Tony Crow can find you guys... He's on his way... Love Lyonel, Tendeerefire Badger ( lbadger ) ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 227 ppav 1:42 am Jun 27, 1991 We will be in PeacePark camp. There will be plenty of coffee and workshops on Proposition One! I am sure Thomas and Joe would not mind having a Peacenet Meeting. Joe Vigorito is already in vermont with a laptop that has a 300 baude modem. He sent the messages to us and we posted them on the board. They have no No access to a phone that they can dial long distance so they sent it directly here after we called them. I will be staying in Washington so I could post more other messages in am emergancy. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 228 URGENT TRANSPORT 91 A.W.F. lbadger 12:32 am Jun 25, 1991 URGENT need transportation for 10,000 issues of the latest issue of the Allways Free. A beautiful edition and someone will be greatly blessed if they can pass through Tucson, arizona and help transport these remaining issues... 3000 issues have been sent vis postal means...very costly.... Help.... call Tony Crow ( 602 ) 884-9145 in Tucson Arizona... or You may call me, Lyonel Badger ( 408) 375-2306 ( collect if need be ) here in Monterey Calif.... Love, TendeerFire ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 229 Report from Vermont 1 response salem 12:59 am Jun 25, 1991 Welcome to New England, Rainbows ! We gather this year on a beautiful and sacred site in the Green Mountains of Vermont. The walk in is heavenly along stands of spruce, balsam fir, maples and birch. The trail from Texas Falls rises gently for about 1/2 mile and then descends sharply for 1.5 miles to the gathering site. Another 3/4 of a mile to main circle. The forest holds the signs of native Americans and the colonists --- rock walls, old foundations and burial mounds. Walk gently and acknowledge our Ancestors. Seed camp continues to be busy. Many kitchens and ovens are set up producing yummy meals and more are on the way. Ben and Jerry's and the Vermont Bread Company among others have donated food. Welcome Center, Supply, Info, CALM are functioning. There are many shining brothers and sisters. The weather has been typical of Vermont --- always changeable. The days have been hot and cool, bright sunny and rainy, crisp or muggy. At night there are gorgeous views of the milky way and moonlit rolling hills. Some nights have been in the 40s; be sure to bring warm stuff and raingear. There are mosquitoes and a few black flies at twilight and on the warmer nights. THE WATER ON SITE MUST BE BOILED (15 minutes) ! Don't dehydrate. Tea Time kitchen has good tea in boiled water 24 hours a day. Bring water with you if you can. Parking is very limited. Carpool if you can. (In the Boston area, call Bread and Jam's focalizer Tom if you can offer or need a ride --- 492-3683.) As usual for this part of the country the Forest Service has been friendly and helpful. I have not heard of any police hassles. This may change. Travel as legally as possible. Most of the locals are content with us so far. The store owners are very happy. Some of the locals are not so happy. Please let them know that we respect them and their homes. NEEDS: - So far green energy is going mostly towards staples. If you can, bring fresh produce and goodies with you. - Car Batteries (to run on-site communication equipment) [Bring to Info or CALM.] - Magic Hat - Piping for water - Your very fine loving energy A double rainbow appeared at dawn the morning after the solstice. We are blessed. Spread the word. Much love and hugs ! Take care on your travels. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 229 lbadger 11:51 pm Jun 26, 1991 Howdy,, just learned Tony Crow will be arriving in Vermont for the gathering sometime next week... will be carrying and delivering The Allways Frees... If you ( SALEM ) are going to be getting or can get on line with peacenet during the gathering....please contact Tony Crow... Particularly in reguards to the outcome of the council on the future of the ALlWays Free paper... he and I wish to stay in close contact on this issue... since my ides\as and proxiy has been given to Tony Crow in reguards to these issues about the Allways Free.... Respond ( to Lbadger ) if you get on line at all please and thankyou LOVE, Lyonel , Tendeerfire Badger ( M.A.R.S. ) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 230 RE- Boiling Water... to CAL pfraterdeus 6:46 am Jun 25, 1991 From: Subject: RE- Boiling Water... to CAL RE: Boiling Water... to CALM 6/25/91 7:59 AM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! I have some info on a botanical non-toxic anti-protozoan, anti-bacterial that can be used to disinfect water in the field. Grapefruit seed extract, in concentrations of 10 drops to the gallon has been shown effective in FDA studies. Also used for treating giardia and amoebic conditions. As a treatment for diarrhea. Effective in killing E. Coli, Staph, Strep, aspergillus and salmonella, in hospital studies. Anti-fungal for treatment of athlete's foot, nail fungus. Effective against candida, 3-4 drops in 5 oz water after meals. GSE "effectively inactivated Herpes simplex and human influenza viruses" after 10 minutes exposure at 256:1 dilution. Replaces chlorine in wastewater disinfect Poison Oak and Ivy have been treated with grapefruit seed extract. 1% solution in oil (like chamomile or tea tree). Sprayed on skin heals over night in some cases. GSE is without any toxicity. (From The Third Opinion, a newsletter for the health and environmentally conscious professional) I've got a quart of the stuff for CALM, if anyone's interested, the number for the distributer (in california) is 800 225 4345. They say they'll only sell to stores, but will probably change that if someone from CALM calls and explains the situation! They ship Federal Express for free if the order's over $35. Will take credit cards. The quart of GSE was about $37.00, enough to treat 3-500 gallons of water. (If there's a hundred drops in an ounce) Love and Light! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 231 AWF BENEFIT-Mars Account Report lbadger 1:28 am Jun 26, 1991 Howdy folks, Thought you would all appreciate an update on the goings on with the finally results of our benefit. We hated to keep most of you in the dark about this since most of you probably think we failed to raise the much needed energy to publish our paper the AllWays Free....yet as you can see before you, here it is...perhaps you are wondering, by what miracle this all came about ? And since we obviously didn't sell out the benefit and in reality lost money as far as the financies of the benefit go...what happened. Well, first off half the gross went to the AllWays Free automatically. Then when we called all the backers to return the rest of the loans and deposits...well in the end we were able to send $ 718.33 which was just enough to get us under the wire as far as publishing costs go... Remember the 'little red post card' that M.A.R.S. sent out last Jan... well it seems that enough of the family responded to that plee, and in all, sent in enough materials and monies ( another $ 1000.00 ) that Tony Crow and et al. where just waiting for the monies from our benefit and we had just the right magic number. Although postage is still a big problem and they are still short several hundred dollars for their mass mailing. So herein I have done my best to explain the accounting of what happened... but I'd like you to keep in mind that the seeds we planted and the flowers we bloomed actually raised more then $ 1,700.00 in all...and it was only by our own enthusiastic efforts that got our paper published this year... We can all be proud... M.A.R.S. will continue to act as a promotion and fund raising arm for the AllWays Free... and this next Thanksgiving we will be going to Tucson to discuss ways to avoid the crunch we had this year. One idea is that the paper be divided into four sections and that each of the four directions of the great medicine whell of our rainbow world take a section and put it together. How about it ? Anyone groups interested in takingon a page or two...Someday I hope we will be capable of publishing our paper seasonally... I think we really need it... and we at M.A.R.S. are convinced that all we have to do is be loving, faithful, trustworthy and consistant... remember our benefit was a great success in every way that really mattered... and maybe we can all learn from it... maybe their is a better way...maybe, if you all want we can do another one this winter... but just remember I'm only volunteering to come as a clown.... keep in touch.... LOVE, Lyonel ( TendeerFire ) Badger The following is the final accounting of the Benefits costs and proceeds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.W.F. Benefit Accounting Report - contributions and refunds -------------------------------------------------------------------- Half the gross of our May 26th Allways Free Benefit ( as agreed by all loan/backers ) automatically went to A.W.F> in Tucson...And further donations came from our benefit backers who decided to 'Re-donate' their monies that we owed them out of the other remaining half of the benefit's gross. This report is of the percentages of these monies owed and... which were redonated and which have been refunded. Even over half the rental deposits have been re-donated. All monies have been refunded by a check on the Mars Coalition account as of this writing. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FINAL CONTRIBUTIONS MADE TO A.W.F. Tucson ----------------------------------------- Half Gross $ 312.45 1/2 benefit gross to A.W.F. Tucson $ 312.45 Magic hat $ 29.00 special collections at benfit $ 29.00 ___________________________________________________________________________ NAME AMOUNT TYPE % CALC. REFUNDED Re-DONATED ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Steve Mann $ 102.50 deposit .............................. $ 102.50 . Mike Marking $ 50.00 deposit .............................. $ 50.00 . L & A Badger $ 318.00 loan % return . ( 318 / 727.93 ) . or ( 43.6% * 312.45 ) = .............. $ 136.49 . (J & D Smith) $ 152.00 loan % return . ( 152 / 727.93 ) . or ( 20.8% * 312.45 ) = .............. $ 65.24 . Paul Lee $ 50.00 loan % return . ( 50 / 727.93 ) . or ( 6.8% * 312.45 ) = ............... $ 21.46 . Mike Marking $ 50.00 loan % return . ( 50 / 727.93 ) . or ( 6.8% * 312.45 ) = ............... $ 21.46 . Paul Lee $ 50.00 deposit ................. $ 50.00 . . . L & A Badger $ 100.00 deposit ................. $ 100.00 . . . M Cleveland $ 107.93 loan % return . . ( 107.93 / 727.93 ) . . or ( 14.8% * 312.45 ) = $ 46.24 . . . Laura & Lisa $ 20.00 loan % return . . ( 20 / 727.93 ) . . or ( 2.7% * 312.45 ) = $ 8.43 . . . S.C.A.R.F. $ 30.00 loan % return ( postage ) . . ( 30 / 727.93 ) . . or ( 4.1% * 312.45 ) = $ 12.87 . ------------------------------------------------------------ . REFUNDED ( To Loaner/depositors )...$ 217.54 . . SubTotal - redonated loans/deposits ........ $ 738.60 Adjusted error of % return ......... $ 17.59 -------- TOTAL Contribution to A.W.F. Tucson .............$ 756.19 Partial payment sent 5/29 - $ 718.33 ---------- A.W.F. Balance due & sent as of this accounting $ 37.86 --------- *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Accounting of Funding Recieved by Mars Coalition for A.W.F. Benefit ------------------------------------------------------------------- . 3/22 L.N. Audtr. deposit L/A Badger 100.00 . 4/6 tax admission deposit Steve Mann 52.50 * . 4/6 light deposit Steve Mann 50.00 * . 4/1 multipurpose deposit Mike Marking 50.00 * . ------- . Total refundable deposits $ 252.50 . . 3/22 L.N. Audtr.rent loan M.Cleveland 56.00 . 5/26 Cafe food exp. loan M.Cleveland 51.93 . 3/25 Holomylar promo loan L/A Badger 118.00 * . 4/23 rent balance loan ( J & D Smith ) 152.00 * . 3/25 misl. approved loans L & A Badger 200.00 * . 4/12 mailing loan S.C.A.R.F. 30.00 . 4/1 miscl. loan Lisa and Laura 20.00 3/25 miscl. promo loan Paul Lee 50.00 * . 3/29 miscl. loan Mike Marking 50.00 * ________ . . Total consigned loans $ 727.93 . . 3/31 Mar.phone contrib L & A Badger 164.73 . 4/10 contrib Rainbow Dave 50.00 . 4/2 miscl. contrib Jen Turner 10.00 . 4/7 miscl. contrib M.Hat @ Council 23.00 ________ . . Total contribution for benefit costs $ 247.73 . ________ . -------- . TOTAL EXPENSES $ 923.73 . *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ALLWAYS FREE BENEFIT Accounts Recievable ( MAY 26TH, 1991 ) ------------------------------------------------------------ Box Office total 394.50 Ticket Presale 16.50 Cafe de Rainbow 213.90 * Magic hat 29.00 ------ $ 923.73 total expenses $ 653.90 Gross - $ 653.90 gross --------- - $ 269.83 cost/loss ratio * ( not part of benefit gross ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total of rental deposits $ 252.00 due ---------------------------------- Benefit gross $ 624.90 Total of loans $ 727.93 half gross $ 312.45 ( used as base to calc. percentage each backer loaned of total loans ) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 232 Peacenet Camp ? respond OK 4 responses lbadger 12:00 am Jun 27, 1991 If anyone is at site and can get on line let me know... Tony Crow is on his way with 50000 Allways Free papers... gorgerous... He will be looking for the Peacenetters on the Rainbow Board at the gathering... Tony is deliverying some of my ideas of the future of the A.W.F. and also has my proxiy inregjuards to wether or not I will support ( with M.A.R.S> ) next years A.W.F. Need to know are you our their can you relay from council on Allways Free... Love, Lyonel, TendeerFire Badger ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 232 pfraterdeus 7:34 am Jul 14, 1991 Say Tendeerfire! This is Peter coming back (in Ithaca on the road) Had a great AWF council. Carla in Eugene will be focalizing the Paper for the next issue (or two). I'm sorry to say that in the confusion to get on the road, I forgot to print o Your proposal to be read at the council. However, I did speak for your thoughts in a broad outline, as I remember them. (I don't necessarily agree with you though :-)... None-the-less, I beleive that the paper is in good hands. I had a wonderful connection with Kieu and Tony Crow> Can't say How much I thank YOU for getting them in to PEaceNet!!!! I think the seeds are sprouting! With Much Love! Peace and Light! Peter PS I'll be posting a more substantial report when I get back to chicago (three to five days) ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 232 lbadger 2:36 am Jul 17, 1991 The question is what is this peacenet thing all about...let alone the Allways FrFree... Strange that none of the recent messages and topics were taken to the ggathering... I feel frustrated and would have much preferred that you had said nothing... really speaking for me from memory was the wrong thing to do... ecspeacially when you don't believe in what I wrote... I asked that a letter be read... How you presented my ideas and in what context bothers me... There is a difference between speaking (* by memory ) about something someone wrote as a reprsentation of my ideas and reading my ideas...unfair... please in the future onloy do what folks asked I did not ask you personnelly to prepresent me in anyway...gee I hardly no you... so far your just a million bytes or so of stuff I've read... next year you can be sure I will personnell take the peacenet archives in hartd copy form to the gathering to share... Now what was it you said ? and what of my ideas di you disagree with.... TENDERFIRE ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 232 pfraterdeus 9:36 am Jul 19, 1991 From: Subject: Peacenet Camp ? respond OK Reply to: Peacenet Camp ? respond OK Dear Tendeerfire-- I simply mentioned that you had sent a message to the conference about your proposal to produce AWF four times a year as a medicine wheel around the regions. I apologize for forgetting to download the letter before leaving, however, if you had specifically requested >to me< that I do so, I certainly would have. You requested that somebody download it and read it. Guess everybody figured someone else would do it! As far as my feelings about it, I think that the AWF is just starting to pick up steam, and seems like it's best to let it concentrate on one substantial issue a year than talk at this point about dividing it. I respect your thoughts on it though, and would have been happy to read your letter to the council! Peace and Light! Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 232 lbadger 9:25 am Jul 28, 1991 Dear Peter, Now I need to apologize....it's a bit hard imagining how responsible poeple can be through a network like this...you said just the right things...I appreciate your bring my ideas in that context. And by the way I agree with you...for the time being we must concentrate on one special issue per year... hopefully as a form of the Howdy folks and getting it our early... Mars will be online and working towards this goal. Although I still like the idea of doing a special children's issue of A.W.F. this winter.... M.A.R.S. is in contemplation over installing a special national M.A.R.S. voicebox service under a 900 number for raising monies for all our Rainboiw publications media.... what do you think? LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE from this side of the medicine wheel, Lyonel ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 233 QUESTION RE. FOOD NEEDS IN VT. 2 responses arosenblum 8:06 pm Jun 29, 1991 Howdy, We can't attend the whole week but hope to be there for a day. Met a woman from Montpellier VT today who said the news media was saying that you folks in the woods were running out of food and trying to get food from local food banks and the like. Is there a problem, or just the usual pre- gathering biased press ? On a one day visit, how much and what kind of food is most needed ? We hope to be there Tuesday, Wed. or Thursday. -Art Rosenblum (215) 849-3237 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 233 ppav 8:32 pm Jul 12, 1991 The press needs a "rumor control" bad......Food stocks where suficiant. Joseph Vigorito (Rainbow Worker) ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 233 sjohgart 5:51 pm Jul 17, 1991 Boy, I'll say! The food was incredible, in fact! Real good eatin'. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 234 92's HOME, ROCKY MT. HIGH ppav 8:35 pm Jul 12, 1991 It's Colorado!!!!!!!!!!! HO Rainbow Worker ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 235 Where's AWF contact? 4 responses ppav 8:39 pm Jul 12, 1991 We're looking for the address of the new home of AWF. We heard Carla and Mi Micheal possibly from Oregon......Is it true? Joseph Vigorito Rainbow Worker ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 235 dwirtshafter 9:35 pm Jul 13, 1991 In response. We chose the four corners bioregion with a preference on Colorado. Almost by consensus and depending on the definition of consensus. More on this latter. All Way Free can still be through the Tucson address. Yes, Eugene has agreed to focalize the next AWF. Crow has agreed to keep the mailbox untilEugene can establish a post office box. Thanks to all who made this year's gathering such a success. I love you all I ahve returned home full of the spirit. It shows all over my face. Cleanup was going perfectly when I left on the evening of July 12. Still about 500 people on site. Donny ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 235 sjohgart 6:10 pm Jul 17, 1991 What is the definition of 4 corners bioregion? As I understand a bioregion, the bioregion containing the 4 corners of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado (the only 4 corners of states in the US) would be very hot and very dry the first week of July--it would include Monument Valley, the Shiprock area of New Mexico, and the canyons of Utah made famous in "The Monkey Wrench Gang". The San Juan Mountains in Colorado and the White Mountains in Arizona border that bioregion, but being a different ecosystem, technically are not a part of it. I'm hoping the Gathering can be in the High Peaks of Colorado, which is a country which breathes life into the soul. However, not having been part of the vision council, I guess I have to trust that the spirit led the family the right place, as it always does. Love to you all--must have been quite a council. ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 235 pfraterdeus 9:35 am Jul 19, 1991 From: Subject: Where's AWF contact? Reply to: Where's AWF contact? My understanding was that the San Juans are definitely part of the region that will be scouted. Petros PS The 2nd World Peace Gathering will be in the High Peaks on and around the summer Solstice 1992. (ref Plunker) I'll see if I can get more info on this event (the first one was the first Rainbow gathering!) ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 235 sjohgart 5:32 pm Jul 19, 1991 Actually, I guess the bioregion could be a number of different geographical areas, depending on the focus. If the ecosystem is the focus, my thought would be right, but it could be a watershed of various sizes (including the Colorado River watershed, I think, which would include the High Peaks), or it could have a focus of climatic influence, or geological history, various things. As I say, I hope for some big mountains as far in the northeast of the scouted area as possible (if it ends up in Arizona, I probably won't be able to take enough time off to go--but, hey, that's my selfish rap, and what the heck, if the Gathering is too far, perhaps this solstice High Peaks event is the 7'# one for me anyway ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 236 New Name for Conference.... 3 responses pfraterdeus 7:43 am Jul 14, 1991 Howdy Strong Hearts! Here's a seed for you to plant.... The Focalizer/AWF/Guide council consensed that the name of this conference should be changed to reflect the difference between it and the AllWaysFree Paper. I'd like your feed back on a new name. We'll be taking suggestions between now and the end of July (if that's OK) At that time, we'll try to come to consensus on the new name. Please leave your names as responses to this topic...... Love and Light! Peter (to reply, type ,wrc at the Conf? prompt. That's the shorthand for w)rite r)eply to c)onference. Besure to type the comma as the first character!) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 236 pfraterdeus 7:54 am Jul 14, 1991 By the way, the conference naming standard generally has the following form: sss.nnnnnnnnn where sss=the sponsoring group and nnnnnnn=the name of the conference. Since we don't really have a "sponsoring group", and the word "rainbow" should not be used in the name, this is a good challenge! I know that TonyCrow was mentioning 'tribalnews'. How about wtp.nnnnnn for "We the People" as a sponsor name? We will still use "rainbow" and "gathering" as search words for those looking through the conference directory. Personally, I can live with rainbownews. I really don't think that it is any more than a descriptive phrase, and will HELP PEOPLE to find us. Our conference does not presume to be "official". This is clearly stated in the conference descriptions, and elsewhere. I'd like to keep "rainbownews" in the name. I think "tribalnews" is unnecessarily confusing, as there are lots of native american and other aboriginal issues discussed on PeaceNet. Rainbow is the name of our tribe. Peace and Light! Love you all! Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 236 ppav 2:33 pm Jul 14, 1991 I see no advantage to changing the name of the conference. I see no advantage to two conferences. If the subject doesn't intrest a particular r reader they can go to the next topic. There are few entries to the conference now. However I reserve till someone can point out the advantages. I'd also like to view disadvantages. We should consider leaving things as they are without strong reasoning. Joseph Vigorito Rainbow Worker[ PEACE PARK Watchers at the Gate ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 236 suev 9:30 pm Jul 23, 1991 hi all, peter says above: By the way, the conference naming standard generally has the following form: sss.nnnnnnnnn where sss=the sponsoring group and nnnnnnn=the name of the conference. that's been true in the past, but we (igc) are trying to get away from that because it's not helpful for users trying to figure things out. (still true however for private conferences.) we'd like the conference name to start with the more general and move toward the specific - usually. rainbow.news would be fine, if you do want to change the name. as a user, i vote with joseph, i'd rather see it keep the same name. if i didn't work at igc, i wouldn't know about the name change, and it might make it harder for me to find. (although i believe we do stick a forwarding message on the old conference name for quite a while, maybe a year? not sure..) hope no one minds the 2 hatted input. :) -sue (sue vanhattum, igc user support) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 237 New SprintNet info Number pfraterdeus 7:58 am Jul 14, 1991 The new number for SprintNet info is 1 800 336-0437 Use this number to get a local access number for any location in the US. They changed the number from 1 800 TELENET due to the name of the service being changed (it's not TELENET anymore...) Tell the support person what city and area code you're connecting from, and the speed of your modem (generally 1200 or 2400 baud). They'll give you the local access number. Love & light! Petros (peter pen ) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 238 Important task PROP1 ppav 2:40 pm Jul 14, 1991 PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE P.O. Box 27217 Washington, DC 20038 (202) 462-0757 peacenet ID, ppav peacenet conf: prop1.national July 14, 1991 ALL POINTS BULLETIN: Immediate attention Dear Brothers and Sisters of Rainbow: In 1989, eight years into our continuous presence in front of the White House, the PEACE PARK ANTI-NUCLEAR VIGIL came to the family with an idea. For more than a year, we circulated this idea as a trial balloon to get feedback and gain supporters to implement this plan. By 1990, we had honed the plan with all the legal research necessary and reported to the family substantial progress toward the goal of nuclear disarmament. We brought forward the real demographic facts and disputed the popularly held belief of a long range trend of conservatism in America and the world. By the time of the Minn. Gathering, we could display the truth of what the media and the conservative propaganda machine would have the people believe. Here is one important example of those facts. Half of the voting age Americans don't register to vote. On election day, half of those don't come out and vote. So it is easy to see from basic demographic information that 75% of the possible voters have no say in American policy. We studied the non-voter's motivations. The media and the political machine in power was propagating the non-voters as APATHETIC. We strongly dispute this. APATHY by any definition means "I don't care". We now have the facts to back up our claim that these non-voters care a hell of a lot more about the real issues of our time than these alleged "patriots" running this country. We have traced the non-voters stance to sometime immediately following the 1968 presidential election, and now believe this situation to be another in a long line of demonstrations by the 60's generation. Simply stated, the non-voters have little faith that if they did register and did vote, their concerns with clean air and water, destruction of the environment, the war machine and issues involved with peace in our time, would not be fairly dealt with. In short the Proposition One Committee see's the drop-out's as one of the greatest demonstrations democracy has ever experienced. Make no mistake, this is not the end of this story. Something is going to bring this majority together. Proposition One is all about vision. In 1991 at Vermont we continued our work. We came to the family with the report that Proposition One Committees' are popping up all over the country and in the Soviet Union. Petition signatures have been gathered at the rate of 200 per hour in front of the Kremlin by our representatives. One individual No-Nukes Norb, single handedly collected 10,000 signatures in front of the American Embassy in Moscow on the Soviet language petition. Through years of patience and hard work we now believe we can state the next great revolution will not be fought in the streets. It will be peaceful, non-violent, legal political overthrow of a long waning ideology of peace through strength to peace through reason. As 38% of the voting electorate already vote the progressive line, our task to accomplish our goal is not as difficult or as far fetched as it might seem. We believe we will keep those voters. The right wing ideologs are soley dependent on a low voter turnout. Our goal will require a 5% registration to pull even, and a 10% (our objective) to overwhelm the system with a whole new majority with peace as an agenda. THE TASK WE NOW SEEK FROM YOU We have worked this plan up to the table of the most powerful peace and justice groups in America. On Aug. 11th, the Sane/Freeze Annual National Convention will consider on the floor for debate an endorsement for Proposition One. We are asking our supporters to get in touch with local Freeze groups in the states and lobby those delegates before they get to the convention. Once Prop1 is introduced it will be a one shot deal for the coming year, the most important year for organizing this campaign. It is important that those delegates know that people out there favor the Prop1 plan. You will find receptive ears to your opinions. This is not like letters to Congressmen or government agencies. We have all but given up on the idea of lobbying the government. All of our activity is to people and the empowerment of people. On Aug. 15th the Greens Party National Convention will also consider an endorsement on the floor of their Convention. It is an important time for Proposition One and the future of the world. Phone calls and letters to them can have a great impact now. Perhaps the greatest lesson we gain from the annual Rainbow Gathering is what we take back with us. After all the fun is finished, we go home to continue the pursuit of our long held agenda of peace in our time. The contacts we make and the brothers and sisters we gain in the family make us all stronger. And make no mistake about it Rainbow is on the front lines. PEACE PARK Watchers at the Gate Joseph Vigorito (Rainbow Worker) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 239 Freedom Fighters Greet Rainbow Fam rgaitz 9:33 pm Jul 15, 1991 JUST SAY "I KNOW!" The Just Say "I Know!" Foundation was founded in December 1990 by a Washington State Freedom Fighter. Recognizing the need for education on hemp, representatives from Just Say "I Know!" talk to high school classes in Washington and will expand to other states when funding permits. For more information, write: Just Say "I Know!", 10343 1050th Ave #18, Oak Harbor, WA 98277. POT FOR PEACE Pot For Peace is a young organization based in Washington State. The group focuses mainly on letter writing rather than shouting, and sit ins rather than rallies. They wish to show the society that pot is not about loud, chaotic groups of recreational users, but about peaceful interactions around the world. If the country's leaders got together and smoked a few bowls, things would change. It's about healing Earth. For millions of years she has sheltered and nurtured life, but now our mother is sick and needs our help. For more information write to: Pot for Peace, 10343, Crosbey Rd #18, Oak Harbor, WA 98277. WALK FOR REFORMED DRUG LAWS The Walk For Reformed Drug Laws will take place in Washington and Oregon early in 1992. More specific details, along with a map and entry details, will be published later in the year. The Walk is sponsored by Just Say "I Know" and Pot for Peace. Donations are badly needed. Other organizations who would be interested in co- sponsoring the Walk should write to either Just Say I Know or Pot for Peace. DOCTOR HEMP SONGS Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! (to tune of Hello Mother, Hello Father by Alan Sherman) Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah I been smoking Marijuana Chasing rainbows Through the forests And my brain cells haven't felt a single trauma Now my asthma is historic I can run and feel euphoric My digestion Is much better So I threw away the jar of paregoric Take me home, oh Muddah, Faddah I won't roam, oh Muddah, Faddah Please don't dare to leave me where I might be found and stripped by Bennett bare. All the farmers would be richer We could make the land a picture Fix the ozone Gee, that's better Mother, Father please don't disregard this letter! HEMP TOUR UPDATE Cannabis Action Network is planning three simultaneous tours for this fall: one down the East Coast, one down the West Coast and one through the Midwest. If you would like to have a rally in conjunction with the tours, please contact CAN at (606) 873-9707. They are trying to schedule all dates prior to July 1. CAN is looking for regional "helpers" who can provide "how-to" information to people who have never done a rally before. If you want to sponsor a rally, or if you're experienced and want to teach others how, or if you know of regional speakers, please contact CAN today. Win a Trip to Amsterdam! Judge the Cannabis Cup Awards! To enter the contest, send the Freedom Fighters at 211 E 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017, an official response from an elected representative (congress people, governors, mayors, president, etc.) stating their position on Hemp. Enter as often as you like, but each entry must be from a different representative. Next year we will have a drawing with many prizes, the grand prize being a trip to the Cannabis Cup! Good Luck! Hope You Win! THE LONE REEFER Information Clearing-House and Network for Activists! For the most current Hemp Tour information, or if you want to focalize a rally or organize activities in your area, or for information on Cannabis Hemp and the legalization movement contact: Cannabis Action Network - Hemp Tour '91 P.O. Box 54528 Lexington, KY 40555 A Sobering Letter The following letter was being handed out to Freedom Fighters at the Madison rally by a somber faced, conservative gentleman in a policeman's wind breaker: We are a small group of veteran police officers, who feel that it is our civic duty to expose certain unwritten policies and attitudes of our officials and fellow officers, regarding the "War On Drugs". An attitude that the civilian population is the enemy, and the policy is to advance and attack. Another attitude is that we must assist our department in obtaining more funding, and to expand our powers to the point that we have totally disregarded the rights of others. We have all participated in a large number of drug raids, and over the last few months, the nature of these raids has changed. Slowly, but steadily it has become an un-written policy, and practice with some of our fellow-officers to carry what is known as "throw-away" drugs; just as it has always been the practice for some officers to carry "throw-away pistols. Until a few months ago, it was rare to use these throw-away's, unless we had strong circumstantial evidence that the suspect was a dealer or user of drugs. We know, that because of the stepped-up efforts in enforcement, that a good share of the raids that we go on are instituted by a vindictive neighbor, an overzealous neighborhood watch participant, or maybe an angry relative or something of that nature. We know that some of the officers are dumping drugs on these people during raids, but we don't know just how many innocents are affected by this practice. In our amazement, we are able to obtain a search warrant from almost any Judge by giving nothing more than the person's name and address. During our weekly card games, our group has discussed this matter at length; and we feel that if left un-checked, that the system will reduce us as officers to nothing more than feared S.S. officers. We know that we are systematically displacing large numbers of black males and poor white males through arrest and imprisonment; and we are getting increased pressure to get into the middle- class areas, to confiscate more property of higher value. We are not offering any political solutions to the situation and we are not suggesting that we stop the war on crime, but we feel that the public and the courts should be more concerned with individual civil rights if we are not to become a brutal police state. Unfortunately, already, we as officers must protect our identity and our location from our own union, department heads, and fellow officers in fear of serious reprisals from within, for voicing our criticisms. Therefore, we are mailing this letter at our own expense to various people whom we feel may effectively inform the public in one way or another, as we travel or vacation. He requested that it be passed on.... GREEN RIBBON CAMPAIGN REMEMBER THE CASUALTIES... RELEASE THE PRISONERS... OF THE WAR ON DRUGS!!! Tie a green ribbon on your car or wear one proudly or find another place to proclaim your protest to the killings, prison sentences and elimination of liberty this war has visited upon our nation. "What is a nation... if it's children are dead?" A. Lincoln Both our youth and the police who have fallen in the battle deserve this symbol of hope for the future of justice and tolerance. The conflict is not of their making or desire. Nor is it ours. Protest, please. LITTLE AMSTERDAM LIBRARY ENLIGHTENS TENNESSEE Tennessee NORML has set up the Little Amsterdam Hemp Library and is busy collecting rare hemp information and artifacts. They have 1930's books, encyclopedias and farmer's manuals among other research pieces. The library is set up for studying on the premises and is available by appointment on the weekends. They have hard to get information and can arrange for accommodations for researchers. They are also willing to serve as an activist layover point. College students are encouraged to make use of the library. They are seeking donations of books and copies of videos to add to their collection, so if you have a film on Hemp or the movement -- send them a copy! They are also seeking a restorable hemp harvester so they can do a travelling hemp display! If you know of artifacts or would like to contribute, contact them at PO Box 254, Pulaski, TN 38478 or call (615) 565-3865. Send a large SASE for a free brochure. NEWSFLASHES ESSENTIAL SECURITY FOR THE ACTIVIST I. For H.E.M.P, in the April Issue (Vol 1 #4) of their newsletter, Greenleaf, ran a very important series of articles on basic security for every activist, the FBI and your rights and FBI surveillance of political activists. For a reprint of this article (a must have for anyone becoming an activist in this movement) contact I. for H.E.M.P. at PO Box 65130 St Paul, MN 55165 or call (612) 222-2628. Subscriptions to the Greenleaf are $15.00 per year, but there may be a single copy price for this most invaluable issue. The following print resources for resisting repression are available from the Movement Support Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights at 666 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10012. Contact each group for single copy and bulk pricing and shipping charges: WAR AT HOME: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What You Can Do About It. by Brian Glick, 1989, Boston, South End Press, 92 pages, 6x9. $5.00 includes postage. Part of the proceeds for this pamphlet supports the work of the MSN. IF AN AGENT KNOCKS: Federal Investigators and Your Rights. Center for Constitutional Rights, New York. RADICAL RE-ENTRY: Coming Through Customs. Center for Constitutional Rights, New York. Protect yourselves, people. This may be America, but remember Anslinger -- there are those who would have us spell it 'Amerika'. IF HARASSED BY POLICE, ASSERT YOUR RIGHTS Clip and carry at all times (courtesy of the Green Panthers). Officer, please understand: I refuse to talk to you until I consult with my attorney. I also refuse to consent to any search of these premises or any other premises under my control, or in which I have a possessory, proprietary, or privacy interest; including my car, my body or effects. I hereby demand to immediately be allowed the reasonable opportunity to obtain the advice of my attorney by telephone. I desire to exercise all my rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of ___, to be free from your interference with my person or affairs. If you attempt to question me, I want my lawyer present. I refuse to participate in any line-up or to perform any physical acts, or to speak or display my person or property at your direction without first conferring with my lawyer. If I am under arrest, I wish to invoke and exercise my Miranda rights. If you ignore my exercise of these rights and attempt to procure a waiver, I want to confer with my lawyer prior to any conversations with you. If I am to be taken into custody, removed from my present location, or separated from my property, I request a reasonable opportunity to make arrangements to secure my own property. I do not consent to any impoundment or inventory of my property. I do, hereby waive any claim of liability for loss, theft or damage against you, your superiors, or any other authority, and agree to hold all harmless therefrom, if I am Afforded the reasonable opportunity to arrange for the safekeeping of my own property. If this reasonable opportunity is denied or is unavailable, I demand that only such intrusion occur as is minimally necessary to secure such property, hereby waiving any claim of liability for your failure to scrutinize the property or its contents prior to it being secured. If I am not under arrest, I want to leave. If I am free to leave, please tell me immediately so that I may go about my business. Author: Wm. Pangman, Attorney OFFICER KNOWS NO (LEGAL) BOUNDS IN ZEAL FOR BIRD SEED! 'Lawyer says birdseed case is horsefeathers' screamed the headline in the Boston Globe Metro section on December 15. 'Metro cops arrest lawyer, but evidence is for the birds' was the headline in the Boston Herald, page 5. The stories that followed read like Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie. Ron Noel, a local activist, was arrested at the Mandela Rally, last June, by Officer Mark V. LeMieux of the MDC last June while operating a table with literature and samples of legal hemp products. Among the items on the table were hemp cloth, rope, twine and birdseed (sterilized hemp seed available from your local feed store). Incredibly enough, despite documents ranging from a receipt for the bird seed to DEA certificates authorizing importation of the seed, the Boston Court system and assistant DA Joseph C. Kelly have decided to prosecute on charges of possession of a class D substance! Friday, December 14, the victim and his lawyer were in courtwith 20lbs of evidence (hemp bird seed from Dakota Quality BirdFeed). Upon leaving the court room, the over-zealous Officer LeMieux, not to be daunted by mere laws or facts, arrested our activist's attorney for possession! This case, believe it or not, is now going to trial. We cannot allow the police to run roughshod over those on the front lines. Ron has devoted many long days distributing information to the public and organizing Mass. Cann. events. The legal expenses are high, and Kelly and LeMieux hope that we are forced to buckle under. We must not let corruption and politics strong arm our first amendment rights, or dear Officer LeMieux to continue to harass innocent citizens. Please help us fight this travesty of justice. Contributions to the legal fund can be sent to the Ron Noel BirdSeed Defense Fund c/o attorney Keith Halpren, 89 Broad Street, 14th Floor Boston, MA 02110-3511. Please write the Boston Globe and Boston Herald and demand the suspension of Officer LeMieux pending investigation. Every little bit helps us defeat this attack on freedom and justice. Drug War McCarthyism by David Getchell First, there was the fear and hysteria of the McCarthyite "Red Menace" era. People were deprived of their rights and had their privacy invaded. Innocent people were fired from their jobs for refusing to take "loyalty oaths" and blacklisted. Today, we face the imposition of a "chemical loyalty oath" with much the same conditions and consequences. Government and special business/political interests distorting the truth and pushing hidden agendas. Mandatory, often random, testing of urine samples for the presence of illicit drugs is increasingly demanded as a condition of employment. Workers who refuse are fired. Workers who test positive are fired or must involuntarily submit to company drug counseling or "employee assistance" programs. These are programs sold to your employer - at a great cost to your company's profitability - by private business groups who thereby make obscene profits while violating your security and state/federal constitutional rights. This article will definitively prove the following: Like the "loyalty oaths" of previous government policy - now looked upon as embarrassing history that was both deviant and unconstitutional - urine drug testing is useless for its ostensible purpose. It is little more than shotgun harassment designed to impose an outward conformity to certain dominant social passions (hysteria) and prejudices. (1) Consider this scenario: You have a great job: good pay, seniority, pension plan, and a promotion in the offing. Today you go to work and find your boss has scheduled you for a meeting. There you are told that a Drug Testing Program you employer calls an 'Employee Assistance Program' is being implemented and your compliance is mandatory. Failure to submit and fully cooperate will be grounds for termination! You are told you will be subject to urine drug testing based upon computer-generated random selection by your company's personnel office - your name can come up at any time and with any frequency. You must submit to drug testing if your supervisor feels your job performance has been "declining" or your on the job behavior is "erratic". Also, you must sign a consent form for this or be terminated! Also, you must submit a list of all drugs - prescription and over-the-counter - you have used in the last 30 days. Also, you must explain the circumstances surrounding their use to your supervisor. Does this make you angry or fearful? It should, and it gets even worse. Oh, but you're not worried? You don't use drugs and so have nothing to fear. Then consider these facts: One: Once a urine sample has been taken from you, it can be tested for pregnancy, diabetes, and prescription drugs taken for heart disease, anxiety or depression. All are examples of things your employer might enjoy snooping into. For example, an unscrupulous employer could use drug testing to cheat and get around the handicap anti-discrimination law. Instead of refusing to hire a person with epilepsy that is medication controlled, the employer could claim that the person tested positive for an illegal controlled substance. Or, after seeing positive results for pregnancy, he could fake a reason for not hiring women workers, and/or problems could develop with life or health insurance. Two: Under federal government rules, the drug testing lab can be completely wrong 10% of the time; and, since this lab is only tested 3 to 6 times per year, it could have a much worse record, perhaps when your urine sample came in for testing! Further, only 80% of its results that are checked need even be within +/-20% of actual level. The other 20% of all tests can be totally off the wall quantitatively. (2) This means your changes are 1 in 10 that you will test positive for a drug even though you are drug free; or, have a drug in your urine but test drug free; or, be reported for a drug other than the one actually in your urine. Also, there is a 1 in 5 chance that the level will be grossly wrong: high instead of low, etc. Are you willing to place your reputation and your very livelihood at the mercy of such potential for error and malfeasance? Lest you answer too hastily, consider this: A survey by NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse, a federal agency), found that 20% of the labs they surveyed mistakenly reported the presence of illegal drugs in drug-free samples. (3) Codeine, poppy seeds and Vicks Formula 44-M can produce positive results for heroin; Advil for marijuana, and Nyquil for amphetamines. (3) "At a recent conference, 120 forensic scientists, including some who worked for manufacturers of drug tests, were asked, 'Is there anybody here who would submit urine for drug testing if his career, reputation, freedom, or livelihood depended on it?' NOT A SINGLE HAND WAS RAISED." (3) By now, I feel it safe to assume that you agree: just say NO to random drug testing in the workplace. Otherwise, this is your future: Employee shall arrive at collection site at assigned time with photo ID or supervisory witness. The collection person shall ask the employee to remove any unnecessary outer garments. Immediately after observed urination (remember the employee must remain in presence of collection person at all times), the collection person must determine the specimen's color, measure its temperature and volume. If volume or temperature is outside required parameters, or color is suspicious, a second specimen must be obtained. Upon failure to void required volume, or failure to volunteer to have oral temperature taken, the collection person shall contact proper authority for guidance on action to be taken. the employee shall read and sign a statement in the permanent record book certifying this is an untampered specimen directly urinated by said employee. (4) "Failure or refusal of an employee to cooperate fully, sign any required document, submit to any inspection or test, or follow any prescribed course of substance abuse treatment will be grounds for termination." (5) Drug testing violates your Fourth Amendment rights. The government cannot search everyone to find the few who might be guilty of an offense. "The right to be left alone is the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men" - the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Now, hopefully, you're angry and want to do something to stop this travesty called Random Drug Testing in the workplace. Here are three proposals: 1. Urine drug tests are very inaccurate because of metabolic clearance rates and metabolic kinetics. the only chemical structure that is measure with any frequency is 9-carboxyl-THC, the marijuana urine metabolite. Urine tests are very expensive in time, money and legal liability. The vast majority of positive urine tests are only for marijuana. This is because the metabolite is so inert (does not interact with the human body) that it exists much longer than other drug metabolites. (6) Remove marijuana from drug testing and drug testing would no longer be cost effective! Business would drop random drug testing in the workplace like a hot potato! SO SPEAK OUT FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA/HEMP. 2. Where public safety is an issue, do not use drug testing. It does not detect job impairment or drug abuse. It only measure metabolites and very poorly. INSIST THAT COMPUTERIZED PERFORMANCE TESTS (as long used by NASA) REPLACE DRUG TESTING. These tests exist. They are simple, brief and do not invade people's privacy. Since they actually measure hand-eye coordination and response time, THEY CAN IMPROVE SAFETY FAR BETTER THAN DRUG TESTS CAN! (3) 3. As an employee and a U.S. Citizen, just say NO to urine drug testing. Let newspaper editors and talk show hosts know the facts. Make them part of the solution. Support legislators and public leaders who speak out on this issue. In Massachusetts, you may contact the following: CLUM (Mass. Chapter of the ACLU) at 19 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111, (617) 482-3170. Speak or write to: Karen Hudner, Legislative agent for CLUM who works with Beacon Hill. She can tell you of pending legislation to limit or eliminate drug testing and give you advice on how to be effective in supporting such legislation. Or, Sarah Wunsch, Staff Attorney for CLUM. She can tell you of court cases pending that - if won - could limit or prohibit workplace drug testing, and may be able to direct you to legal help or sources. Beacon Hill - Representative David B. Cohen (D), State House, Room 20, Boston, MA 02133, (617) 722-2410, and his administrative assistant, Kim Motylewski. Rep. Cohen has sponsored a bill - House No 3275 - that would make random urine testing of employees illegal. It will probably start with the Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor. Or, contact Savatore (Sal) R. Albano, 51 Mt. Vernon Street, Somerville, MA 02145. Mr. Albano is a former democratic senator who sponsored Senate Bill No. 43 to limit drug testing of employees. U.S. Government - Contact Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 2400 JFK Federal Building, Boston, MA, (617) 565-3170. He has taken a public stand against the unconstitutional policies of the Bush Drug War. Or, contact this author, David R. Getchell, (member of NORML, the Drug Policy Foundation, ACLU/CLUM, and Mass. Cann) at 12 Chandler St., Somerville, MA, 02144, for more information or to help on any of these issues: ending the Drug War, stopping random drug testing in the work place, or getting information on resources if facing such a work situation. Also, relegalizing hemp/marijuana (yes, it was legal prior to mid-1930's and for a few years during World War II). LET'S FORM A COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE to address these issues. "I fear one pen more than one thousand swords" - Napoleon Bonaparte. Addendum Does it make sense to relegalize marijuana/hemp? You be the judge: A. According to the most recent government survey, 61.9 million Americans - 1 in 4 - have used marijuana. Despite this, NIDA has not been able to find a single overdose death! (7) B. During the 1980's Reagan/Bush Drug War, over 4 million citizens have been arrested for marijuana - that is 56 citizens every hour of every day for 10 years! The majority had no record of any criminal or behavioral problems, i.e. NOT A "CRIMINAL TYPE" GROUP! (7) C. March 1972 - President Nixon's National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse issued a 2 volume, 1252 page report urging the Federal government to "decriminalize" and "stop prosecuting" personal use and transfer of marijuana. (what happened?) (7) D. August, 1977 - "Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Fe.deral criminal penalties for possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana." - President Jimmy Carter's Message to Congress. E. 1982 - National Academy of Sciences concluded "that decriminalization was a successful approach." (7) F. September 6, 1988 - DEA Administration Law Judge Francis Young (7) finds: "marijuana to be safer than many foods we commonly consume" and "one of the safest therapeutically active drugs known to man." He calls Federal prohibition "unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious." Now look around you, See the increased police corruption, increased violations of constitutional rights. Discover your government and your employer treating you as a criminal who must constantly be "drug tested". ISN'T SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG HERE? References 1. Grinspoon, Lester D. "Psychopharmacological McCarthyism", "The Drug Policy Letter. Vol. II No. 4 Fall 1990, pp. 6,7 2. Federal Register, Vol. 53 No. 69 (Monday, April 11, 1988) "Notices": 1989. 3. "Drug Testing in the Workplace", ACLU Briefing Paper No. 5 4. Federal Register, Vol.53 No.69. Subpart A:2.2 paragraphs (f) (2) - (f) (22). 5. Gene Bracewell, President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Shriners Hospitals Drug Abuse Policy. International Headquarters: Tampa, Florida. 6. National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, Marijuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972. 7. Zeese, Kevin B. "Marijuana: Time to End the Misunderstanding", The Drug Policy Letter, Vol.II No.4, Fall 1990, p.2. -------------------------------------- Calendar of Events January 19, 1991 - First Annual Meeting of the Members of the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition in Worcester, MA. Members will receive written notice of time and location. For membership information contact Steve, weekdays 9-5 at (617) 599-3161 or Linda, evenings and weekends at (508) 261-9073 or send check or money order for $10.00 payable to Mass. Can., One Homestead Road, Marblehead, MA 01945. March 4, 1991 - U.S. Court of Appeals will hear NORML vs DEA oral arguments on rescheduling Marijuana and a review of John Lawn's decision to reject Judge Francis Young's ruling that "Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutic substances known to man". STUDIES PROVE SMOKING POT DOESN'T MAKE YOU LAZY by W. Downing One of the most resilient myths ascribed to pot is that it introduces "Amotivational Syndrome" characterized by: "Apathy, Lethargy, Diminished Drive and Ambition, Decreased Productivity and Goal Directedness, Indolence and Preoccupation with Marijuana Use...". At lease six studies of stoners' and non-stoners' performance and time spent working turned up, "No evidence of a marijuana-induced impairment in work and/or motivation...". These studies were conducted under stringent scientific guidelines and included enormous doses - up to 25 joints a day. Interestingly the more recent report - the one quoted above (Operant Acquisition of Marijuana by Women, Mello and Mendelson, 1985) - reported that, of the women who participated, those who didn't smoke pot regularly were unemployed on average twice as long as those who smoked. The women earned points by pushing the right buttons on a doctored calculator and then exchanged the points for cash or pot ($.50 or a NIDA 1 gram joint). Sources: Lessin & Thomas, Assessment on Chronic Effects of Marijuana on Motivation and Achievement, 1976; Mello & Mendelson (see above); Mendelson et al, Operant Acquisition of Marijuana on Man, 1974, 1976A, B; Miles et al, An Experimental Study of Daily Cannabis Smoking on Behavior Patterns, 1974. ZERO TOLERANCE ON CAMPUS by Steven Epstein Mass. Cann. recently learned that at least one college in Boston shows no mercy when it comes to hemp. Without notice, two young ladies had their dormitory rooms searched on a Sunday evening by four resident assistants (fellow students) and a resident director (graduate student). The reason for the search: rumors that the girls had a stocked bar and had been seen with "red eyes". The search turned up three beers, a small bag of hemp flowers, a bong, a pipe, rolling papers and a pair of clips. The drug and alcohol charges against the two were the first formal or informal charges of violation of school rules against them. Since, except for minimum due process (i.e. the right to a hearing and to be heard) their Constitutional Rights which may have lead to the suppression of the evidence because the search may have been illegal, do not apply to the college, the main thrust of the students hearing was a plea to be placed on strict probation. Nonetheless, after affirming that dormitory life is similar to family life and that, as in a family, rules apply for harmonious living, the judicial review committee upheld the Dean of Students' decision to expel them from their dormitory room. If you're a college student any rights you have are derived from your contract with your school. You should read your school's Catalogue, Student Handbook, Code of Conduct and other publications to find out how much your expectation of privacy is recognized by your school. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 240 Ann Arbor, Michigan Not a Picnic sjohgart 6:00 pm Jul 17, 1991 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rainbow feels we should note that last year in July we announced that there would be no organized Rainbow picnic in the Arb, due to a call we got from the superintendent complaining that we had organized a picnic the year before without his permission. A lot of folks went down there just to see if it could possibly be that we would dare not have a picnic. They of course found that, true to our word, we had organized nothing--still, they had brought drums and such, so they hung around and enjoyed the scene anyway. Since so many people went down, we are announcing now that once again this year, in strict compliance with the Arb's policy against organized events, there will be no organized Rainbow picnic in the Arb, down the righthand trail from the entrance, straight across the field and over the hill, on Saturday July 27 (the last day of the Ann Arbor Art Fairs) from 2 P.M. on. If you doubt us, go on down, see for yourself. Although you might just run into a number of others doing the same thing, rest assured it is no more than a happy coincidence. IGNORE ALL RUMORS OF ORGANIZATION!!! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 241 Anyone focalizing PA Gathering? 1 response dwirtshafter 4:25 pm Jul 19, 1991 Anybody have news of the gathering in PA this summer. What I know is that the local PA family consented to not having a gathering this year especially at the original site. It needs more rest. Still rumor was that there would be a gathering. I know a lot of energy was leaving VT and heading for PA. Several people have called wanting to help with seed camp. Is anyone out ther focalizing this happening? Love donny ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 241 sjohgart 8:52 am Jul 27, 1991 I just talked to a Katuah brother who is in Pittsburgh and he says he's spoken with a number of PA Rainbows, and there is no regional there this year--apparently A-Camp has taken up the old site as their summer home, which isn't giving Rainbow a great name thereabouts--"Those Rainbows are just a bunch of lazy drunks" and such. Note that this about A-Camp is just the word from 1 person and could be just an UGLY RUMOR--REPEAT, THIS IS JUST A RUMOR AT THIS POINT, don't print it in Pot O' Gold or anywhere without verification. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 242 Info needed on Texas Falls bust dwirtshafter 4:29 pm Jul 19, 1991 Did anyone witness the arrest of two brothers who left Texas Falls on Friday, July 5th. They were in a van with several others, hitchhikers. Details of exactly how they were arrested are crutial for their defense. Some brothers and sisters were seen] taking pictures of the bust. Anyone who has information that might help these two brothers is encouraged to call me, collect if necessary. Donny (614) 592-5297 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 243 Focalizers Quarterly Mailin 1 response pfraterdeus 9:58 pm Jul 19, 1991 From: Subject: Focalizers Quarterly Mailin GOOD MORNINGI Focalizers Quarterly Mailing The Focalizer's Council at the 1991 Green Mountain Rainbow Gathering agreed to the concept of a quarterly mailing for focalizers. In the absence of any other volunteer, I have accepted the responsibility of sheparding this idea to reality. A small number of friendly focs at the council also volunteered to help me with this task, via electronic mail (such as through PeaceNet)... You know who you are! But maybe I don't! My notes contain the following points and principles. Please feel free (and duty bound...:-) ) to respond with your ideas and feedback. It was the consensus of the Focalizers Council that there should be a working group to produce the focalizer mailings. Since no regional group came forward, I presented the concept of a group working together in the cyber-region (by electronic mail). We will be collecting stuff from each of the following family units that they want sent to focalizers for distribution at regional gatherings, picnics, potlucks, benefits, etc. The Family functional collective councils-- A preliminary list of discrete functions that are fulfilled by volunteers. *All Ways Free *Legaliaison *CALM *Kid Village *Shanti Sena *Info Center *The Rainbow Guide *Focalizer's Council Each of these councils is invited to produce a sheet for inclusion in the Focalizer's Quarterly Mailing to go out by the end of September. This sheet might include a description of the function of the council, wish list for next Gathering, info about getting involved in the process of the council for newcomers, etc. If you know any, please let volunteers in these councils know this, as I may not know each one at this time! Any other pertinent info should also be sent to: Focalizer's Quarterly Mailing c/o pfraterdeus --(Peacenet/EcoNet) petros@chinet.chi.il.us --(Internet ) 73306,2703 --(Compuserve) (eMail is preferred over paper!) or US Snail: Focalizer's Quarterly Mailing c/o PO Box 5448 Evanston, IL 60204-5448 for Info or Urgent News: Please call after 8:00pm (Central) No Collect Calls Please! 708 EAT BRED (328 2733) to chat! 708 328 1922 (fax #) *********************** Other points and Info The need for Newsletter guidelines, specifically regarding rumor control, so that mistaken or intentional mis-information is not broadcast to the public eye. The Quarterly Mailing will also contain any updates that have come in for the foc's mailing list. We will try to get notes from important family councils (Thanksgiving, Spring, Rainbow Family Tribal Council (July)) into the earliest quarterly mailing possible. This effort is entirely produced by donation and will only continue if it is valuable enough that the family and focalizers all benefit from it and support it! If you think it's worthwhile, please remember us at your benefits! Note that the Focs Quarterly Mailing is not in any way meant to diplace AllWaysFree. Only 200 or so will be sent out (to the focalizer list), and it will be as short as possible! There was some concern over the way last years list was handled. I believe that the intentions were with the highest vibrations, even if the result was confused. I pray that through this effort we will be doing the work of the spirit that insipres us all. If mistakes are made, I ask that they be received with patience and compassion. May the One Light spread across the earth and through the heavens! With Love and Light! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 243 pfraterdeus 10:30 pm Jul 22, 1991 From: Subject: Focalizers Quarterly Mailin Reply to: Focalizers Quarterly Mailing Jim S. was just passing through Chicago, and suggested the following further family focus areas. *Water/Sanitation *Supply *Banking *Kitchen Councils *Co-Operations (Perhaps what's evolving is a sort-of directory of family functions, with suggestions to newcomers as to how they can plug in. Any ideas on this? It seems that when we start to communicate these things in a specific manner, perhaps there won't be quite so much aimless energy at Gatherings....or is there a feeling that "we learned it by figuring it out as we went along...shouldn't everyone be allowed to do that?") Seems like kitchen councils sort of represent a particular region or tribe. Each one has a special flavor. Pretty neat, if you ask me! Perhaps even *Gender Councils *Elder Councils *Art and Science Councils... (Teachers / Education) but then these start turning into "discussion groups" as opposed to action groups. Previously noted... *All Ways Free *Legaliaison *CALM *Kid Village *Shanti Sena *Info Center *The Rainbow Guide *Focalizer's Council This is not meant to be a comprehensive list, nor to imply that the functions included are "official" Rainbow Family business. Many of them are not "official", but all are focus points for volunteer service to the Family and Rainbow Tribes. Neither is the point to limit the focus of these "centers" by writing a description. Obviously, all of them involve more than can be simply laid out on paper! What we could use is a short description of the action from the folks that manifest each of these Family Focus areas. How about a postcard collage? In a few words, what does CALM mean to you, if you've worked there? How about Kid Village, Your Kitchen, Supply, Info or Co-Operation? How about a Rainbow survey? All anonymous (unless you want it otherwise). Certainly, this would be easier to come to than an "Official Council Consensed Position" from each of these diverse systems! (Of course, if there "IS" a council consensed position, it should be included. Do you know if there is?) Anybody want to start? (Will this be sent on paper to all focs for further distribution to local circles? Any volunteers?) Light and Love-- Petros PS Is Parma John listening? ******************************************************** For spoken word discussions about all this, I can be reached at 708 EAT BRED... or c/o PO Box 5448, Evanston, IL 60204. But I prefer e-Mail! Peter <<< Let my Love like Sunlight Surround you yet Give you Illumined Freedom. >>> T A G O R E F i r e f l i e s ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 244 Anyone focalizing PA Gather pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Jul 20, 1991 From: Subject: Anyone focalizing PA Gather Reply to: Anyone focalizing PA Gathering? Also rumors of an Illinois Gathering at the Shawnee site which we know nothing about (in Chicago). I haven't heard from Carlos in Evansville about how the late March council went down there, but I've been assuming that the Wasbash/Ohio river bioregion focs will be letting us know. Perhaps I'll give a ring down there. Or someone else who gets around to it could do so... I wonder if these rumored gatherings are being focalized on the run by kitchens that don't want to shut down right away? The only problem is whether they are dealing in an appropriate manner with the local folks (as in county & state, etc.) and whether the local Rainbow circles (whom, in Pennsylvania, have decided NOT to have a regional for the time being) will be held responsible for any difficulties that arise. Can anybody from anywhere decide to have a "Rainbow" gathering in a local region? Or is there some sense that the only a Regional circle can properly prepare for and invite the tribes to gather in their region? Certainly, the NERF family has been involved in the planning and co-ordination of the Vermont North American Gathering. Shouldn't the Pennsylvania family be involved in a gathering taking place in their neck of the woods? Otherwise, perhaps it's a bit of an imposition, no? Just thought that these are important questions to ask...... Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 245 Demo Account for Rainbows O pfraterdeus 4:22 pm Jul 22, 1991 From: Subject: Demo Account for Rainbows O GOOD MORNINGI Demo Account for Rainbows Online The PeaceNet folks have generously extended use of a trial log-in ID and password for folks to try out PeaceNet for a short time without having to subscribe. The ID allows you to have complete access to PeaceNet/EcoNet conferences and eMail, though since the same password is used by other folks doing demos, the mail is not private. Also, the list of regular conferences may not be maintained in the same order, as other people have access to change it. I will send the ID to those with an interest and the equipment to use it with. This is a measure of trust on the part of the Director of IGC (Institute for Global Communications) and the info must not be distributed further!!! The password will be valid for about a month! I will provide a limited amount of telephone technical support for Rainbows that need help in getting online. I only know Macintosh software, though. If you have an IBM or other, I can only help after you've got your telecommunications program setup and ready to dial in. Love & light! Petros 708 328 2733 (708 EAT BRED) call after 7PM No Collect calls, Please! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 246 Blueberry Gathering Aug 16- 1 response pfraterdeus 10:27 pm Jul 22, 1991 From: Subject: Blueberry Gathering Aug 16- GOOD MORNINGI Blueberry Gathering Aug 16-25 Call the Atlanta Light Line for recorded info! 404 662 6112 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 246 lbadger 8:06 am Jul 29, 1991 Focalizers quarterly mailing... M.A.R.S. is planning a massive mailing to all the focalizers and west coast area lists to announce the Always free mailing p.o. box in Eugene... which has been secured but at this moment we have not heard what the that address is.... For the moment we are discussing another postcard approach to the national mailing lists... but I am inspired to help put out the quarterly focalizers newsletter... many things are needed to be discussed, and we agree thaty this year of all years and next, we will need a quarterly mailing more then ever please read the other articles that I have downloaded... I am copncerned about the concept of going to South Dakota and wish that we wait and here what the Lakota People have to say about this.... ref: 'Lakota gathering/ Sundancer' and 'nonconsensus 1992 Rainbow' We all know that the spirit moves in mysterious ways... In Love and servitude ... Tenderfire... M.A.R.S. ( MOnterey Area Rainbow Service ) box 9202, Monterey CA> 93942 (408) 375-2306 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 247 "South Dakota"-- Vision Cou pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Jul 24, 1991 From: Subject: "South Dakota"-- Vision Cou GOOD MORNINGI "South Dakota"-- Vision Council This letter just came in from Chris Stanley-- --------------------------------------- Dear Peter-- Peace and Joy be yours this beautiful day. I'm very happy to report that in the 7th month, on the 13th day of July, Vision Council, after 7 days, 7 hours and exactly 7 minutes of deliberation came to peaceful agreemnet, unanimous consensus, and named South Dakota the place to gather our tribes in "92". This being the 7th year of invitation from the Lakota Sioux (ex. Foxfire's report --Big Mountain). In relation and sign: During 2nd day of Council, July 8th when /while simultaneous consensus was asked for S.D. and blocked, a hoot from outside CALM Temple drew the people outside to witness a multi-band rainbow. It was reported that there were from 4 to 6 to 7 and more rainbows all at once. The prophecies of Great Grandfather David should be exposed to the Family for contemplation. Remember the family did not form a large circle in Vermont at High Noon. "Let the Vision of the Council Be Heard" Brothers/Sisters present: Rob (Major Malfunction) Otter Moon Dreaming Cecela Sigeelakis Chambers Evenlyn Parks Zeus Cosmos Mojo Melissa Africa Dana Henson Maria Bandita (the dog) David Rodriguez Wayne the Pain Love, (signed) Chris R. Stanley 23587 Pilgrim Sterling, IL 61081 -------------- Most of the Names above have contact Addresses or phone numbers for verification. Please contact me or Chris for these if needed. I called a few of the folks and got through to Evelyn Parks who verified the report. With Love and Light to All! Play for Peace! Petros "Imagination is more important than knowledge!" --Albert Einstein ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 248 NonConsensus 1992 Rainbow lbadger 11:03 pm Jul 28, 1991 The seven bands of a rainbow over a vision council of less then 10; and after the gathering was officially over, does not make for a full consensus. Of course we could say 'you had to have been there'... but I wasn't and as far as the word I have heard, on the last day no consensus had been reached... conclusions given for the omen...could have been misunderstood... Simply the fact of the gathering ending traditionally on the seventh day... and their being seven rings...it was a omen of peace...accept your non-consensus. If consensus was after the sevnth day then their was no consensus about where... so, it seems the spirit will move us and we will each go where we think the spirit draws us... I for one am not attached to any lables; but the Rainbow family is everywhere concious or unconcious, by this name totem or by that name totem. Maybe our 1991 gathering of the tribes was blessed with confusion over where to go... or... maybe some real healing can get accomplished awith the lakota people. But then agian, maybe we can here more of our oral traditions and share more of legends and things, if the spirit has shattered into two or four national gatheirngs... The Northern Rainbow Gathering, The Western Rainbow gathering, etc... The chaff will be shooken out and the seeds will fly. Do any of you think for a moment that we are ready to walk and respect the traditions of the ancient peoples on this continent. If we are going...to South Dakota in 1992...perhaps it could be a great healing to go there... perhaps we will not be able to maintain any focus their either...and we will be mistaken in our wisdom and will be clinging to too few who have any sincerity with the spiritual aspects of the gatherings. If we go there in 1992 we will not be able to return for a long time... are we ready...do we need to be ????? For the first time their was no circle at noon on the fourth of July and their was no consensus by the end of the gathering. Maybe it's time to go home, to our beginnings, a pilgrimage to our beginnings. Well thats' the feeling I've gotten from folks out here on the west coast who returned from the gathering. We will gather next year and the year after that...and forever as keepers of the Mothers earth. We will gather but it will more likely be by the consensus of the Great Spirit 'WankanTanka' and our heartsongs will the way... each of us moved to our own paths...our own place. Where ? Well so far I forsee two gatheirngs one in Colorado and one perhaps in South Dakota... In Thanks we ask to hold ourselves upright that we may see our place in the whole of things... Really 'We Love You' Tenderfire ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 249 Lakota Gathering/Sundance Ceremoni lbadger 7:51 am Jul 29, 1991 Lakota Gathering/Sundancers Well...just last saturday I was in a sweatlodge ceremony out in Big Sir that was conducted by a Navahoe Native American known as Pony Vigil. Today Pony is leaving for South Dakota to join a gathering at Crow Dog's on the Lakota reservation. With him is our Rainbow Peacepipe and a facilatator's counciling piece or heartsong crystal. These things are being taken to the Lakota people for purification, and re-dedication... Pony has a very beautiful spirit. He is a sundancer and is going for renewal and support. Also Pony is a messenger of goodwill, and a brother concerned about the problems that our gatherings have been having of late, he will initiate discussion with the Lakota People about the Rainbow in general. This is not going to be an easy thing for Pony to do... many Traditionalists dis-approve of the general lack of traditions and respect that they have heard goes on at the gatherings... He is bringing word that our people need help, need healing, need to be taught the oral traditions and the Traditions of his people...The legend of 'Wankantanka' the white Baffalo Maiden who gave us the peacepipe way and ceremonies... he is very concerned about bridging the gaps between his People's councils and ours. " We are all one council " he has said, " and we need to heal ourselves and the Mother Earth. " Ah'lam'ee'o' " ( in his language 'Thankyou' ) Pony Vigil...bless your travels... At the same time another Sundance Ceremony taken place simaltaneously outside of Mexico City in the area of some Aztec ruins... The Sundancers will be doing their ceremonies starting Aug 1 thru Aug 4... and then Pony Vigil will be coming back home by the end of August. We will here word of their councils by Sept 3rd... and I will report to everyone via Peacenet and the quarterly focalizers newsletter... which I will put our through M.A.R.S. if no one has any objections... If there was/is still an invitation for the Rainbow family to gather in South Dakato, Pony Vigil will know and bring word back to us from his people's councils... we are a hot issue in the Native American councils to date... and most of the word is not very complementary... few will disagree over the prophetic fullfillment of the White Baffalo Maiden's legend in the coming of the Rainbow People...but... Personnelly I am very concerned about a premature move to go to our Sacrad mountains of the Lakota People... sincerly, Lyonel Tenderfire Badger M.A.R.S. ( Monterey Area Rainbow Service ) Box 9202 Monterey, CA. 93942 (408) 375-2306 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 250 Liberation Dayse in DC 1 response pndemo3 1:40 pm Jul 29, 1991 From: Subject: Liberation Dayse in DC Subject: Time: 2:07 PM OFFICE MEMO Liberation Dayse in DC Date: 7/29/91 Initiated by Food Not Bombs, Seeds of Peace, and The Rainbow Family Liberals, Greens & True Patriots, Unite!!! August 2 P 0ctober 7, 1991Q Washington, D. C. 2 Million People: 10,000 Drums National Call To Action !!! For All World Issues To affect liberation from oppression; world healing and peace. IGNORE ALL RUMORS OF CANCELLATION Bring cameras, video camcorders, food, drums. To volunteer, or to help with outreach and preparations, for WORLDWIDE LIBERATION DAY$E EVENTS Contact: LIBERATION DAY$E, 1980 Cliff Drive #108, Santa Barbara, CA 93109, (805) 966-2813 (Donations needed and gladly received in cash, check, money order, Visa, MasterCard, etc., payable to: LIBERATION DAYSE) P L E A S E C O P Y A N D D I S T R I B U T E W I D E L Y! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 250 ppav 11:51 pm Aug 6, 1991 This is a very disfocused visa and master charge trip. Not an organizer, focalizer, or part of Peace Park. In fact HE OR SHE WASN'T EVEN THERE. Not one morsle of broccoli (see next message) and who the hell is LIBERATION DAYSE? Joseph Vigorito Rainbow Worker ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 251 Liberation Day$e - Transien 1 response pndemo3 1:42 pm Jul 29, 1991 From: Subject: Liberation Day$e - Transien Subject: Time:2:05 PM OFFICE MEMO Liberation Day$e - Transient_ Date:7/29/91 Transient Americans Will Serve Broccoli at Liberation Day$e in Washington, DC Aug 2ndPOct 7th The American media regularly informs us that 1/3 of all homeless people suffer from mental illness, another 1/3 are chronic acute multiple substance abusers and the final 1/3 are simply down on their luck. This sort of reporting makes the general populace ignorant of the fact there is a substantial population of straight, sane, productive Americans who have no desire to live in a conventional home. Thus, with the public blinded to their existence, Americans who are homeless by choice become easy prey for discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Many people actually prefer to live outdoors, sleeping in a camper, tent, or merely under the stars, yet there is literally no place a low income person may establish a long-term camp left in America. Cities across the land have adopted unconstitutional ex post facto laws prohibiting camping and vehicular dwelling. Fees for campgrounds have soared beyond the reach of itinerant artisans and laborers. State and Federal campgrounds have all imposed time limits. Even the Grateful Dead, long a safe haven for transient workers and craftspeople have banned camping and vending at all their concert venues. The 4th Amendment does not stipulate protection exclusively for Americans living in a fixed domicile, yet transient Americans are regularly detained and searched for no more probable cause than the amount of personal property they were observed carrying. The 14th Amendment makes no such stipulation either, yet transient people regularly lose property to confiscation without benefit of due process of law. If America is truly committed to Liberty and Justice for all, we must accept as fact that there are millions of Americans who want nothing more than a place to be homeless without being victimized by laws and licensing regulations that fly in the face of our venerated constitution. The Transient American Project proposes that lands be set aside for longterm, low-income camping. During his campaign, George Bush made a similar proposition as a way of easing the 'homeless problem' but as yet has failed to act on it, For nearly twenty years, the Rainbow Family of living light has demonstrated that a large group of people can establish a longterm camp in the wilderness and have a positive impact on not only the land but the neighboring communities as well. Perhaps the time has come to press Mr. Bush into taking some action on this obscure campaign promise. Homelessness has been touted by the press as THE national disgrace and there is certainly nothing more shameful than the deliberate genocide of those people who are homeless by choice. Transient American Project will be joining with Seeds of Peace, Food not Bombs, and the Rainbow Family during Agust, September and October in Washington, DC for Liberation Day$e. With Your Help, we will bring truckloads of Illinois Grown Broccoli to serve free at the Gathering. Please Send Donations to: The Transient American Project 6876 S. 13th Oak Creek, Wisconsin 53211 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 251 ppav 11:19 pm Aug 6, 1991 whom ever wrote this doesn't understand that Peace Park is not a camp site. it is not a homeless area for transient place. it is a vigil opposing nuclear arms. rainbow worker ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 252 Beat around the Bush! ppav 8:48 pm Jul 29, 1991 Beat Around the Bush When: Friday August 2nd beginning at 12 noon until ????????????? Where: Peace Park (Lafayette Square) across the street from the White House. What: Drum circle for Peace, Love, and light Who: Members of the Rainbow family, and peace activists from around the country. Why: 1. To show George Bush that there is still a peace movement out here that will oppose any further U.S. aggression. 2. To shower the White House with Rainbow Love energy. For more info call: 202-265-5389 Note: This is in case you could not make sense [Dout of the previous message this is reality the last message is someones vission. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 253 hiroshima.live*WorldwideTel pfraterdeus 8:08 pm Jul 30, 1991 From: Subject: hiroshima.live*WorldwideTel Reply to: hiroshima.live*WorldwideTeleComm I'd be very interested to be involved in this. This type of intercontinental exchange brings us closer to the ideal of a humanity united in peace. Particularly if the participants involved refrain from commercializing in any way. Surely, the CNNs should be involved, as well. The beginnings of a global interconnected democracy, a tele-commed scent of the people of the world sharing their Images of Peace. While, on the other hand, computers and communications tech are used mightily by the forces of War, these simultaneous Electronic/ OpticalFiber/Satellite encounters across the planet can be a powerful antidote to the violent propaganda of the commercial press. Peter Please see the Notices about the Liberations Day$e beginning in Washington August 2nd!!! I hope someone with a personal computer can make it down there. -------------------------------------- Visiting awf.rainbownews... Visiting oz.visionary... Visiting pn.announcements...2 unread topics, 0 unread responses 'u' to see next unread item, '?' for command summary, 'h' for more help Topic 102 hiroshima.live*Worldwide Link-Up peacenet pn.announcemen 1:47 pm Jul 30, 1991 From: Subject: hiroshima.live*Worldwide Link-Up From web:tec * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hiroshima - Nagasaki Live ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Sixth Annual Universal Peace Week Global Telephone and Computer Conferences August 2 - 10th, 1991 A World-wide Link-Up by Telephone, Radio and Computer BY TELEPHONE: a world-wide telephone link-up connecting telephone conference bridges in Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Japan; Vancouver; Brisbane, Australia; and peace radio network PEACESAT in Hawaii, plus points around the world hubbing off these main sites. U.S. Contacts: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility Richard Civille (202) 408-1080 Internet - civille@washofc.cpsr.org Canadian Contacts: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Live! (604) 251-4793 708 Hawks Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6A 3J3 CANADA On APC - web:tec Internet - peter@mindlink.bc.ca Japanese Contacts: Kamome Computer Network, Hiroshima Shigetsugu Nakao 81 82 228-9100 Data (N81X) 81 82 228-9001 BY RADIO: Broadcast of the Peace Broadcast direct from Hiroshima and of the teleconference on August 5, 1991 (North America). Radio stations please contact Richard Civille (202) 244-7006 BY COMPUTER: Direct FREE access via Tymnet to Kamome network in Hiroshima, Japan between August 2 and August 10, 1991. We invite all computer users with a modem to participate in the conference to discuss peace and related issues with others around the world. We also need volunteers to set up computers at public sites to publicize and allow people access to this unique opportunity. If you wish to participate in the Computer Conference, please contact Albert Pasternak and others at the following addresses as soon as possible: APC: hiroshima.live FidoNet: 1:153/750@fidonet.org IMex: 89:681/1@imex Internet: peter@mindlink.bc.ca civille@washofc.cpsr.org UUCP: van-bc!oneb!onebdos!89!683!1!Albert.Pasternak Voice: (604) 251-1437 H-N Live Computer Conference c/o A. Pasternak 7-1665 East 5th., Vancouver, B.C. V5N 1L6 CANADA ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 254 Howdy friends! Are you the pfraterdeus 11:10 pm Jul 30, 1991 From: Subject: Howdy friends! Are you the GOOD MORNINGI Howdy friends! Are you there??? **************************** PS See the info about the Hiroshima PlanetWide Online/Radio event beginning August 2nd! I hope we can get some computers to the public on this day! Request that your local Radio and TV stations cover this event! Love you all! All my Relations! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 255 Howdy friends! Are you the pfraterdeus 10:09 pm Jul 31, 1991 From: Subject: Howdy friends! Are you the GOOD MORNINGI Howdy friends! Are you there??? ***(Part 1) ***(Ooops, looks like part 2 got there first!) Are you going to DC for Liberation Dayse? Seems important.... Have you been getting the stuff on FocsQuarterly mailing? ____________________________ Your ideas about the following text as a cover letter for the first focalizers quarterly mailing.... >> This mailing is meant to be a loving service from an independent council. Please don't interpret it here as anything but an offer of assistance! If it's no good to you, just do us one favor--recycle the paper! Being focalizers we'd like to keep in touch with each other. But this isn't always easy. By building our networks here, we begin to form the faint traces of the lightlines between us, and like the drum beat heard away in the distance, we know from them that our family indeed surrounds us. We will try to assemble useful information for focalizers around the continent. Perhaps some of it you may use in a local mailing, other stuff could be passed around at a potluck, or picnic. The focs quarterly mailing council consensed to try to get a (yes!) >quarterly< mailing out. If it's any good to you, please remember that we need to hear from folks! If you've got important news that you want shared in the focs quarterly mailing, send it to the fqm, c/o PO box 5448, Evanston, IL 60204 or email it to: petros@chinet.chi.il.us or pfraterdeus@igc.org (anybody else?? your name Here!!! and Here!!!) 708 328 2733 after 7pm ChicagoTime fax 328 1922 (call first) PS See the info about the Hiroshima PlanetWide Online/Radio event beginning August 2nd! I hope we can get some computers to the public on this day! Request that your local Radio and TV stations cover this event! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 256 Europa Gathering Update (one versi jjohnson 2:14 am Aug 3, 1991 I finally got news on the European Gathering today...... I spoke with my friend Jenny Jaguar in Offenrode, Germany, just across the border with Poland (I think). It was tough to get details, she was so blissed out. She said it was 2-3000 people, no problems with authorities at all; (Polish authorities? Causing problems? No way...) <-- she said. She was wandering with a crew of about a dozen people that was slowly dwindling to about six now....... Poles, Russians, Germans, & two Americans. She & our friend Thorn had hitchiked from Amsterdam (which, BTW, sent two busloads of people). She said the only negative note was, "a couple of obnoxious Americans who insisted that the people at the Gathering didn't know what they were doing, & that they needed folks from the US to tell them how to do it `right'." This did come to her secondhand, though. It all made me want to go, very badly. Back to work! Oh, Yeah - she said they decided to do it in Poland again next year - one reason being that there were so many Rainbow People in Poland, & that they were so active (!)....another reason being that people in Poland & the east were so poor (their money not worth much in the West) that they couldn't afford to travel West, whereas the folks in the West could easily afford to travel east....... See you in Poland next year! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 257 FWD>Hiroshima-Nagasaki Live pfraterdeus 4:45 pm Aug 3, 1991 From: Subject: FWD>Hiroshima-Nagasaki Live From PEACENET_QM FWD>Hiroshima-Nagasaki Live! '9 u Message 29 (164 lines) From rsoft!mindlink!Peter_Ronald@wimsey.bc.ca Sat Aug 3 02:34:15 1991 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 91 00:52 PDT To: pfraterdeus@igc.org Subject: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Live! '91 Update From: Peter_Ronald@mindlink.bc.ca (Peter Ronald) URGENT -- HIROSHIMA YOUTH CONFERENCE URGENT ------ URGENT ------ URGENT ------ URGENT ------ URGENT ------ -- UPDATE AND INFORMATION BULLETIN -- Hiroshima Day World Youth Telecaucus. An audio teleconference of globally connected youth groups. Peace Bells and Mayor's Speech from Hiroshima PHONE CONFERENCE: August 5, 3:15 - 5:15 Pacific Daylight Time. A number of groups may remain connected until 6:15. We anticipate between 20-25 connections, world wide. There will be small groups at each location. Perhaps 100 young persons directly involved. There may be several "Special surprise guests". Program moderated by Vancouver talk-show host Gary Hall. European and Central American connections will conclude after two hours. The remaining links from Japan, Australia, Vancouver and Pacific Islands may remain connected for one additional hour. Participation is welcome by calling the Knowledge Network directly if desired. Stay tuned...Contact us for registration information. Arrangements are being finalized with participants from: Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki, International Youth Friendship Center) New Caledonia (South Pacific Regional Environmental Program) Cook Islands (local youth group) Hawaii (PEACESAT Project) Australia (several locations to be announced) Berkeley (CPSR chapter organized group) Vancouver (United Nations Association) Newfoundland (Oka indian group) Washington, DC (Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee) Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara International Peace Camp) Belfast, Ireland (Farset Farms Youth Community, Inc.) London, England (Kids '91 Project) Prague, Czechoslovakia (Brontosaurus Environmental Youth Group) Managua, Nicaragua (Sandinista Children's Association) There will be additional locations announced in Australia, Canada and the United States over the next several days. We continue to develop African, Phillipine, Swedish and Russian contacts. Will know more in two days. COMPUTER CONFERENCE: Direct FREE access via Tymnet to Kamome network in Hiroshima, Japan between August 2 and August 10, 1991. Access information is expected in several days. We invite all computer users with a modem to participate in the conference to discuss peace and related issues with others around the world. See contacts below for more information. RADIO STATIONS: Announcements sent Tuesday, July 29 to Pacifica Network radio stations, BBC, WORT Madison and others. WPFW in Wash DC and CHSR in Newfoundland have agreed to broadcast. Madison CPSR Chapter coordinating with WORT. Pacifica station program managers to be contacted tomorrow. Anticipate radio station participation in Australia, Hawaii and Europe. Talk to your local radio station and request they carry this program. Contact us for more information. FUND - RAISING CPSR Chapters and ANYONE ELSE: We still urgently seek your pledges! Help us broaden our connections still further. Its not too late. You can help! Do you want to hear this event LIVE in your community? Contact your local non-profit or college radio station and pay for their bridge connection. Put them in touch with us ASAP! $100 pays for an overseas call. $50 will connect a radio station to the main bridge in Vancouver THANK-YOU to pledges made by CPSR Chapters in Berkeley, Seattle and Washington DC! Additional support received from National Organization of Women (NOW), Asia Resource Center, Church of the Brethren and several private contributors. Knowledge Network in Vancouver provides free access to their bridge, Australia Telecom supporting all connection from Australia, KDD in Japan supporting Hiroshima and Nagasaki connections, University of Hawaii, Manoa providing satellite access to south Pacific island communities. CPSR supporting European and Central American connections using ConferTech system in Golden, CO. US Contacts: Richard Civille Jennifer Lemon Washington Office Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility civille@WashOfc.cpsr.org lemon@WashOfc.cpsr.org (202) 544-9240 voice (202) 547-5481 Canadian Contacts: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Live! (604) 251-4793 708 Hawks Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6A 3J3 CANADA On APC - web:tec Internet - peter@mindlink.bc.ca Japanese Contacts: Kamome Computer Network, Hiroshima Shigetsugu Nakao 81 82 228-9100 Data (N81X) 81 82 228-9001 Australian Contacts: Dr. Roy Lundin, Queensland University of Technology +61 7 864 3466 ph +61 7 864 3995 fax Telecom Conferlink 008 011 441 On APC - peg:support PLEASE NOTE: Direct FREE access via Tymnet to Kamome network in Hiroshima, Japan between August 2 and August 10, 1991. We also need volunteers to set up computers at public sites to publicize and allow people access to this unique opportunity. If you wish to participate in the Computer Conference, please contact Albert Pasternak and others at the following addresses as soon as possible: APC: hiroshima.live FidoNet: 1:153/750@fidonet.org IMex: 89:681/1@imex Internet: peter@mindlink.bc.ca civille@washofc.cpsr.org UUCP: van-bc!oneb!onebdos!89!683!1!Albert.Pasternak Voice: (604) 251-1437 H-N Live Computer Conference c/o A. Pasternak 7-1665 East 5th., Vancouver, B.C. V5N 1L6 CANADA -- Peter Ronald peter@mindlink.bc.ca or ...!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!peter TEC Information Services vox: 604-873-6375 fax: 604-253-3073 1184 E. 18th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. CANADA V5V 1H2 "Romani ite domum" 1 Spring AllWaysFree is Out! pfraterdeus 10:22 am Apr 17, 1989 1 2 Indiana may26-jun5 recycling may2 pfraterdeus 12:31 pm May 17, 1989 1 3 Where's the Gathering? pfraterdeus 10:51 am Jun 14, 1989 1 4 Nevada Directions bmasel 11:59 pm Jun 14, 1989 2 5 PARTICIPATION the KEY bmasel 9:30 pm Jun 15, 1989 2 6 ALLWAYSFREE statement bmasel 10:02 pm Jun 15, 1989 4 7 EUROPA RAINBOW bmasel 10:05 pm Jun 15, 1989 7 8 Howdy Folks Flyer available... pfraterdeus 4:26 pm Jun 25, 1989 8 9 Any Body There? pfraterdeus 4:30 pm Jun 25, 1989 8 10 First Reports from Nevada... pfraterdeus 12:50 pm Jul 14, 1989 11 11 Media Bus Comments!... pfraterdeus 12:56 pm Jul 14, 1989 11 12 Not PA -- VA! Regional in Virginia pfraterdeus 9:34 pm Aug 13, 1989 11 13 GreatLakes Regional 20-27 Sept. pfraterdeus 9:08 pm Aug 19, 1989 12 14 RTF POSTER Equinox Gathering, CA tlewis 11:26 pm Aug 25, 1989 12 15 HUMBOLDT CO.,CA NEWS/FOCALISER tlewis 11:34 pm Aug 25, 1989 13 16 Legaliason Update Please Read!! pfraterdeus 9:28 am Sep 17, 1989 16 17 Responses to Legaliason Update... pfraterdeus 9:36 am Sep 17, 1989 21 18 CA Focalising tlewis 1:00 am Sep 21, 1989 21 19 Why PeaceNet? pfraterdeus 8:11 pm Oct 13, 1989 22 20 Behind the Walls listing tlewis 11:52 pm Oct 16, 1989 25 21 Forest Service Letter tlewis 11:54 pm Oct 16, 1989 26 22 A Commercial Mailing received tlewis 11:59 pm Oct 16, 1989 27 23 Looking for Tex tlewis 11:12 pm Dec 9, 1989 28 24 CA Winter Gathering tlewis 12:23 am Dec 15, 1989 28 25 Great Lakes Decade Party tlewis 6:32 pm Dec 19, 1989 28 26 Thanksgiving '89 MN Council Notes pfraterdeus 10:57 pm Dec 26, 1989 29 27 Note to Support at PeaceNet, etc.. pfraterdeus 11:31 pm Dec 26, 1989 31 28 Rainbow Minnesota '90 (AO) tlewis 11:56 pm Jan 12, 1990 35 29 ALL WAYS FREE March90 issue info tlewis 12:06 am Feb 7, 1990 36 30 Walking Rainbow jlohrmann 8:37 pm Feb 16, 1990 37 31 Legaliaison Update pfraterdeus 7:59 pm Feb 19, 1990 38 32 Article on LegaLiaison... pfraterdeus 8:04 pm Feb 19, 1990 42 33 Letter in response to USFS regs.19 pfraterdeus 8:07 pm Feb 19, 1990 45 34 Response to USFS Minutes. 1/90 pfraterdeus 8:09 pm Feb 19, 1990 48 35 Generic Letter to Publ.Officials pfraterdeus 8:11 pm Feb 19, 1990 50 36 Sugg. Govt. Contacts& Phone #s pfraterdeus 8:12 pm Feb 19, 1990 51 37 Note on topics 36-41... pfraterdeus 8:26 pm Feb 19, 1990 53 38 List of focalizer volunteers jjohnson 8:35 pm Feb 21, 1990 54 39 An Introduction to Legaliaison - P jjohnson 5:29 pm Feb 24, 1990 68 40 Legaliaison mailng list form and p jjohnson 5:34 pm Feb 24, 1990 70 41 Rainbow in the Cities *********** fmayer 3:26 pm Mar 3, 1990 73 42 Europa Rainbow 90 Update mendicott 5:03 pm Mar 5, 1990 75 43 Forest Service Revolt from NYT3/4 fmayer 3:26 am Mar 6, 1990 75 44 Ponder this one... AP report. fmayer 3:29 am Mar 6, 1990 78 45 RETRACTION AND UPDATE RE:GARCIA fmayer 12:44 am Mar 14, 1990 79 46 Regional Gatherings-spring 90 pfraterdeus 12:42 am Mar 15, 1990 82 47 Are Rainbows Scary??? pfraterdeus 12:44 am Mar 15, 1990 84 48 Print outs available! :-) pfraterdeus 12:52 am Mar 15, 1990 84 49 Commercializing Rainbow? mendicott 11:38 am Mar 17, 1990 85 50 Rainbow Warriors Global Circus bball 7:42 pm Apr 18, 1990 85 51 Rainbow Warriors Global Circus bball 8:14 pm Apr 18, 1990 91 52 Petition on new regs - copy and di jjohnson 2:33 pm Apr 20, 1990 97 53 NET COUNCIL: A proposal jjohnson 9:15 pm May 7, 1990 98 54 ALLWAYS FREE IS OUT!! SEND $$ PLEA jjohnson 11:35 pm Jun 2, 1990 99 55 * MINNESOTA GATHERING SITE * jjohnson 9:10 pm Jun 7, 1990 99 56 AWFPeaceNet Council In MN pfraterdeus 12:22 pm Jun 8, 1990 100 57 Council on a Letter... pfraterdeus 11:34 pm Jun 10, 1990 100 58 Howdy Folks 1990!!! And Map! pfraterdeus 11:46 pm Jun 10, 1990 103 59 Peace Fest in ChiTown june 22-24 pfraterdeus 12:03 am Jun 11, 1990 107 60 Fungal Thoughts.... pfraterdeus 12:17 am Jun 11, 1990 107 61 Free camp on road to Minn bmasel 3:24 am Jun 11, 1990 108 62 Home from Minnesota! :-) pfraterdeus 4:42 pm Jul 14, 1990 108 63 Kaba says... pfraterdeus 10:05 am Jul 24, 1990 109 64 unsolicited testimonicle!!! pfraterdeus 6:17 pm Jul 28, 1990 109 65 The Kickapoo Council Story... pfraterdeus 8:16 pm Jul 28, 1990 110 66 Oh, This Is Important.... pfraterdeus 8:32 pm Jul 28, 1990 112 67 Suspicious Occurances are to be!! seizetheday 1:03 am Jul 31, 1990 113 68 Shawnee bmasel 1:04 am Aug 3, 1990 113 69 Austria Rainbow bmasel 2:37 am Aug 8, 1990 113 70 A message to all... fmayer 10:47 pm Aug 9, 1990 114 71 Woodstock Anniversary! 14-20 Aug. pfraterdeus 9:51 pm Aug 10, 1990 115 72 Great Lakes Regional, 9/20 - 23 sjohgart 7:14 pm Aug 22, 1990 116 73 W Va Gathering Harassed!!! pfraterdeus 10:02 pm Aug 26, 1990 116 74 Hi from Iris maxwork 10:23 pm Sep 2, 1990 121 75 shawnee news? maxwork 7:30 pm Sep 12, 1990 121 76 From Lithuania with Love rbistrickas 6:07 am Oct 12, 1990 121 77 looking for a few good yips rpec 1:34 pm Oct 19, 1990 122 78 Volga Rainbow mendicott 5:15 pm Oct 26, 1990 123 79 misc. messages. I love you dwirtshafter 8:37 pm Oct 28, 1990 123 80 A message from the rainforest terrausdc 4:23 pm Oct 31, 1990 124 81 ***RUMOR CONTROL***Chicago pfraterdeus 5:42 pm Nov 5, 1990 124 82 Rumor Apology.... pfraterdeus 5:47 pm Nov 5, 1990 125 83 Ride needed to T'giving Council dwirtshafter 7:24 pm Nov 7, 1990 126 84 Estonia Rainbow mendicott 10:43 am Nov 8, 1990 126 85 Draft Rumor Control Bulletin jjohnson 4:42 pm Nov 19, 1990 127 86 LobbyingLiaison Draft jjohnson 4:44 pm Nov 19, 1990 128 87 Draft Regs Update jjohnson 4:46 pm Nov 19, 1990 128 88 Thumper says hi & read 90, 91 & 92 jjohnson 4:51 pm Nov 19, 1990 129 89 Thanksgiving Council 1990 minutes jjohnson 8:48 pm Nov 27, 1990 129 90 Moscow Network mendicott 8:37 am Dec 5, 1990 132 91 Moscow Radicals mendicott 8:38 am Dec 5, 1990 133 92 Ecopolis of Peace mendicott 8:43 am Dec 5, 1990 133 93 THE FOCALIZER LIST - WHAT IS IT? jjohnson 9:49 pm Dec 5, 1990 134 94 Rainbow '91 info/NERF contact salem 9:04 am Dec 13, 1990 137 95 Crystal Mountain dwirtshafter 4:30 am Dec 14, 1990 138 96 Belize ? mrosemeyer 12:14 am Dec 29, 1990 139 97 Please Read Topic #2...! pfraterdeus 6:20 pm Dec 30, 1990 139 98 Willie Nelson Request! pfraterdeus 6:35 pm Dec 30, 1990 139 99 Moscow Rainbow Online irudnik 4:01 am Jan 5, 1991 143 100 How do you feel about war? :-( mendicott 8:51 pm Jan 16, 1991 144 101 Water for National Gathering Fund peagle 7:55 pm Jan 17, 1991 144 102 WELL: Peace conf., Rainbow topic mendicott 5:38 pm Jan 19, 1991 145 103 WELL: Travel conf., Rainbow topic mendicott 5:41 pm Jan 19, 1991 152 104 WELL: Grateful Dead, Rainbow topic mendicott 5:44 pm Jan 19, 1991 155 105 Europa Rainbow Poland 1991 mendicott 9:18 pm Jan 19, 1991 160 106 How to write a press release mendicott 10:26 am Jan 20, 1991 161 107 Petersburg Rainbow mendicott 4:49 pm Jan 22, 1991 163 108 1991 Addresses, etc.! pfraterdeus 7:42 pm Jan 28, 1991 164 109 Ocala Gathering Feb 9-23 '9 pfraterdeus 8:20 pm Jan 28, 1991 164 110 To send mail to a Conferenc pfraterdeus 3:13 pm Jan 29, 1991 165 111 PeaceNetLiason Council pfraterdeus 6:43 pm Feb 4, 1991 166 112 From Uncle Joe fmayer 4:04 am Feb 14, 1991 167 113 Colorado Springs Peace Vigi pfraterdeus 3:30 pm Feb 16, 1991 168 114 New Chicago Circle Address pfraterdeus 6:37 pm Feb 18, 1991 170 115 Mitakuye Oyasin! pfraterdeus 10:10 pm Feb 18, 1991 171 116 PeaceNet 1-800-777-9454 Mod pfraterdeus 1:04 pm Feb 20, 1991 171 117 FWD>45 pfraterdeus 5:31 am Feb 22, 1991 172 118 Broken Bones in Ocala/Rumor Contro mendicott 2:57 pm Feb 25, 1991 175 119 Postwar Peacemaking-ADD YOU pfraterdeus 3:48 am Feb 26, 1991 176 120 144 pfraterdeus 10:23 am Feb 26, 1991 178 121 PEACE DRUMS AT THE WHITE HOUSE ppav 7:53 pm Feb 27, 1991 180 122 John Stockwell Speech from pfraterdeus 11:36 am Mar 1, 1991 182 123 Chicago Rainbow Picnics pfraterdeus 11:36 am Mar 1, 1991 183 124 Bush Says No Anti-War Movem pfraterdeus 9:14 pm Mar 3, 1991 183 125 New PeaceNet Brochure on li pfraterdeus 9:16 pm Mar 3, 1991 184 126 Boston-Area Benefit Show salem 12:05 am Mar 4, 1991 185 127 Vladimire Posiner interview, very ppav 2:27 am Mar 4, 1991 186 128 Rainbow 1991 Info salem 5:54 pm Mar 6, 1991 186 129 M.A.R.S. Calling. lbadger 8:05 am Mar 7, 1991 188 130 focalizer mailing submission #1 jjohnson 12:52 pm Mar 16, 1991 189 131 TOPIC #136 is Legaliaison Update/D jjohnson 1:01 pm Mar 16, 1991 190 132 A.W.F. needs 91 focalizers pfraterdeus 3:50 pm Mar 16, 1991 191 133 Australian Gatherings mendicott 7:10 pm Mar 18, 1991 193 134 Western Regional & Calander lbadger 8:11 am Mar 21, 1991 194 135 Indiana Spring Bioregional Council sjohgart 8:13 pm Mar 21, 1991 196 136 Spring Council salem 8:03 am Mar 22, 1991 196 137 Hemp Jeans from Levi's? pfraterdeus 12:48 pm Mar 23, 1991 197 138 From Iris Springflower... pfraterdeus 11:14 pm Mar 23, 1991 199 139 Would you Mind???? pfraterdeus 11:15 pm Mar 23, 1991 201 140 From Heart Warrior pfraterdeus 5:29 am Mar 24, 1991 202 141 Listing of Regional N/L's pfraterdeus 5:29 am Mar 24, 1991 204 142 Focalizers List 1991 Follows pfraterdeus 12:57 pm Mar 24, 1991 205 143 PS to downloading List... pfraterdeus 1:04 pm Mar 24, 1991 211 144 Chicago Picnic Apr 7 pfraterdeus 5:37 pm Mar 25, 1991 211 145 Focs List Update 26 mar 91 pfraterdeus 12:57 am Mar 26, 1991 212 146 PeaceNet Demo Account pfraterdeus 1:05 am Mar 26, 1991 219 147 CNN Debate on Drug War pfraterdeus 5:21 am Mar 28, 1991 219 148 FWD>Danger to Psychedelic C pfraterdeus 5:23 am Mar 28, 1991 221 149 Computer Circle Ancient History mendicott 2:09 pm Mar 28, 1991 223 150 Focalizer updates as respon pfraterdeus 11:37 pm Mar 28, 1991 225 151 Rbw Guides need Ride to Spr pfraterdeus 11:38 pm Mar 28, 1991 225 152 AWF benefit MARS report N.CA. lbadger 8:51 pm Mar 29, 1991 226 153 W.Tribes Regional Rainbow Gatherin lbadger 8:56 pm Mar 29, 1991 228 154 A.W.F. Newsflash on red postcard lbadger 9:12 pm Mar 29, 1991 228 155 Ohio Rainbow Spring Gatheri pfraterdeus 5:36 pm Apr 3, 1991 229 156 Computer Circle Ancient His pfraterdeus 5:19 am Apr 4, 1991 230 157 A.W.F.benefit rumor/contr update lbadger 12:10 pm Apr 5, 1991 230 158 RE- A.W.F.benefit / Funds R pfraterdeus 6:10 pm Apr 8, 1991 239 159 Non Rainbow Gathering in Ohio thre dwirtshafter 10:36 pm Apr 8, 1991 241 160 Somethin' to consider... { pfraterdeus 10:53 pm Apr 8, 1991 242 161 awf update council lbadger 10:23 am Apr 10, 1991 243 162 Peace in our Time pfraterdeus 3:59 pm Apr 13, 1991 244 163 Planetary / Who? What? pfraterdeus 4:01 pm Apr 13, 1991 245 164 AWF Benefit-Mars status report- lbadger 7:50 am Apr 14, 1991 247 165 Cafe De' Rainbow-AWF benefit lbadger 5:19 am Apr 18, 1991 250 166 FWD>howdy awf folks pfraterdeus 2:25 pm Apr 18, 1991 250 167 FWD>Calling all PAGANS & WI pfraterdeus 2:26 pm Apr 18, 1991 253 168 Hey There! Welcome Home! pfraterdeus 9:29 pm Apr 18, 1991 255 169 Communication Center at gathering mendicott 2:29 pm Apr 19, 1991 255 170 Food Stamp Applicants mendicott 5:36 pm Apr 19, 1991 256 171 West Tribe Reg.Council lbadger 6:54 am Apr 20, 1991 257 172 AWF benefit MARS Council Report lbadger 6:56 am Apr 20, 1991 257 173 News from Europe mendicott 5:44 am Apr 22, 1991 259 174 Great Lakes Spring Regional dwirtshafter 12:17 pm Apr 22, 1991 264 175 RE> 178 Rainbow in Europe dwirtshafter 2:35 pm Apr 22, 1991 264 176 Swiss Council mendicott 6:45 pm Apr 24, 1991 265 177 1991 RAINBOW GUIDE mendicott 4:05 pm Apr 29, 1991 266 178 Polish Rainbow Fax Number mendicott 4:09 pm Apr 29, 1991 266 179 10th Anniversary of PEACE PARK ppav 1:33 am Apr 30, 1991 266 180 "THE GROUND WAR AT HOME" ppav 1:35 am Apr 30, 1991 267 181 Kansas Gathering, June 7-15th amullen 4:17 pm Apr 30, 1991 268 182 Ann Arbor Spring Yard Sale sjohgart 7:30 pm Apr 30, 1991 268 183 Electronic Quakers Plan Ret pfraterdeus 4:37 pm May 2, 1991 269 184 PROPOSITION ONE ppav 12:54 am May 5, 1991 269 185 Clean-Up Minn. June 1st!!! pfraterdeus 12:47 pm May 12, 1991 270 186 On Politacal Correctness... pfraterdeus 3:27 pm May 15, 1991 271 187 Colo. Regional Info????? pfraterdeus 10:59 am May 16, 1991 272 188 Site (Spring) Council pfraterdeus 8:00 pm May 20, 1991 273 189 Hippie Dreams Hemp 90's? pfraterdeus 2:57 am May 24, 1991 273 190 Operation Green Merchant II News jcarlisle 8:16 am May 24, 1991 274 191 Utne Conf & Rainbows online pfraterdeus 12:45 am May 25, 1991 276 192 Western Tribes Council & Po pfraterdeus 11:13 am May 30, 1991 277 193 Howdy Folks--Raps 107/701 I pfraterdeus 11:29 am May 30, 1991 277 194 Site Info -- 1991 ! pfraterdeus 11:30 am May 30, 1991 279 195 A.W.F Benefit Report pfraterdeus 11:43 am May 30, 1991 279 196 Archiving Topics soon.... pfraterdeus 11:52 am May 30, 1991 281 197 Say Howdy, Please! pfraterdeus 12:17 pm May 30, 1991 281 198 PeacePark 10th Anniv! pfraterdeus 1:28 pm May 31, 1991 285 199 Regarding Chicago and some pfraterdeus 10:52 am Jun 2, 1991 287 200 A.W.F. Benefit-conclusion lbadger 6:52 am Jun 6, 1991 288 201 Great Lakes Rainbow goin! sjohgart 8:22 pm Jun 6, 1991 290 202 Welcome Home Tucson dwirtshafter 6:24 pm Jun 10, 1991 290 203 WELCOME TO POLAND mendicott 5:15 pm Jun 11, 1991 290 204 Praise Bob! mendicott 5:17 pm Jun 11, 1991 292 205 CONTACT IN ARKANSAS arosenblum 6:17 pm Jun 12, 1991 293 206 AWF submission thru lbadger accoun lbadger 1:16 am Jun 13, 1991 293 207 Chicago Deadshow Rainbow Be pfraterdeus 9:46 am Jun 14, 1991 293 208 ALLWAYS FREE transportation proble lbadger 8:00 am Jun 15, 1991 294 209 Brief History of Ho! pfraterdeus 11:48 am Jun 18, 1991 294 210 Proposal to AWF Council pfraterdeus 11:49 am Jun 18, 1991 297 211 Buy a Piece of the Mother CHEAP pfraterdeus 11:56 am Jun 18, 1991 300 212 1989 Calendar of Events pfraterdeus 5:44 pm May 11, 1989 301 213 Welcome the Homeless Home? pfraterdeus 11:57 am Jun 18, 1991 306 214 Christian Kitchen? What th pfraterdeus 11:58 am Jun 18, 1991 309 215 Cumberland Regional 1991 pfraterdeus 11:58 am Jun 18, 1991 311 216 Apathy is one of the roots pfraterdeus 11:59 am Jun 18, 1991 313 217 Florida Winter Regional 199 pfraterdeus 11:59 am Jun 18, 1991 314 218 FYI topics 214-221...:-) pfraterdeus 12:04 pm Jun 18, 1991 316 219 Original summer '90 AWF article mendicott 2:26 pm Jun 18, 1991 316 220 Carribean Rainbow mendicott 2:28 pm Jun 18, 1991 325 221 Lakota Spiritual Encampment pfraterdeus 5:01 pm Jun 18, 1991 325 222 Chicago PeaceFest Jul 19-21 pfraterdeus 9:08 pm Jun 19, 1991 327 223 Chicago Rainshow Pt 2 pfraterdeus 10:03 pm Jun 19, 1991 327 224 1991 Focalizer List Availab pfraterdeus 11:56 pm Jun 21, 1991 328 225 ALLWAYS FREE Future & M.A.R.S. lbadger 5:19 am Jun 22, 1991 328 226 Austria Rainbow journal mendicott 1:59 pm Jun 22, 1991 331 227 RAINBOW UPDATE FROM VERMONT!!! ppav 6:41 pm Jun 22, 1991 343 228 URGENT TRANSPORT 91 A.W.F. lbadger 12:32 am Jun 25, 1991 345 229 Report from Vermont salem 12:59 am Jun 25, 1991 345 230 RE- Boiling Water... to CAL pfraterdeus 6:46 am Jun 25, 1991 346 231 AWF BENEFIT-Mars Account Report lbadger 1:28 am Jun 26, 1991 347 232 Peacenet Camp ? respond OK lbadger 12:00 am Jun 27, 1991 350 233 QUESTION RE. FOOD NEEDS IN VT. arosenblum 8:06 pm Jun 29, 1991 352 234 92's HOME, ROCKY MT. HIGH ppav 8:35 pm Jul 12, 1991 353 235 Where's AWF contact? ppav 8:39 pm Jul 12, 1991 353 236 New Name for Conference.... pfraterdeus 7:43 am Jul 14, 1991 355 237 New SprintNet info Number pfraterdeus 7:58 am Jul 14, 1991 356 238 Important task PROP1 ppav 2:40 pm Jul 14, 1991 357 239 Freedom Fighters Greet Rainbow Fam rgaitz 9:33 pm Jul 15, 1991 359 240 Ann Arbor, Michigan Not a Picnic sjohgart 6:00 pm Jul 17, 1991 371 241 Anyone focalizing PA Gathering? dwirtshafter 4:25 pm Jul 19, 1991 371 242 Info needed on Texas Falls bust dwirtshafter 4:29 pm Jul 19, 1991 372 243 Focalizers Quarterly Mailin pfraterdeus 9:58 pm Jul 19, 1991 372 244 Anyone focalizing PA Gather pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Jul 20, 1991 375 245 Demo Account for Rainbows O pfraterdeus 4:22 pm Jul 22, 1991 376 246 Blueberry Gathering Aug 16- pfraterdeus 10:27 pm Jul 22, 1991 377 247 "South Dakota"-- Vision Cou pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Jul 24, 1991 377 248 NonConsensus 1992 Rainbow lbadger 11:03 pm Jul 28, 1991 379 249 Lakota Gathering/Sundance Ceremoni lbadger 7:51 am Jul 29, 1991 379 250 Liberation Dayse in DC pndemo3 1:40 pm Jul 29, 1991 380 251 Liberation Day$e - Transien pndemo3 1:42 pm Jul 29, 1991 381 252 Beat around the Bush! ppav 8:48 pm Jul 29, 1991 383 253 hiroshima.live*WorldwideTel pfraterdeus 8:08 pm Jul 30, 1991 383 254 Howdy friends! Are you the pfraterdeus 11:10 pm Jul 30, 1991 385 255 Howdy friends! Are you the pfraterdeus 10:09 pm Jul 31, 1991 386 256 Europa Gathering Update (one versi jjohnson 2:14 am Aug 3, 1991 387 257 FWD>Hiroshima-Nagasaki Live pfraterdeus 4:45 pm Aug 3, 1991 388