==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 1 (*) Welcome Home! 1 response pfraterdeus 9:20 pm Apr 13, 1989 Welcome to awf.rainbownews, the All Ways Free Conference. Your conference facilitators are pfraterdeus and bmasel. If you have comments about the operation of this conference, please send them to pfraterdeus, as I am the primary focalizer at this time. I am Peter, or Petros, or Pierre, in Evanston, IL. It is the enthusiastic desire of the focalizers that this PeaceNet forum for the affairs of the Rainbow Tribe should bring a deeper and fuller communication between all of the peoples of the earth. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 1 lbadger 5:40 am Apr 16, 1991 ewrt ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 2 (*) Mailing List..if you like! 27 responses pfraterdeus 9:26 pm Apr 13, 1989 Please reply to this message with a howdy, if you want to be on record as having been here. This topic will serve as sort of a gauge of our use of the forum. Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 2 pfraterdeus 9:35 pm Apr 13, 1989 Peter Fraterdeus - pfraterdeus I spend alot of my time in the north of Chicago city of Evanston. I am using a Mac ii with two screens, and am in the business, at least nominally, of designing new alphabets for the use of designers and of any one with a laser printer. I teach Letterform Design and Computer Explorations in Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I'm looking forward with much excitement to the development of this conference, and the wonders of Rainbow magic as it works in the most contemporary of media. ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 2 taudas 8:14 pm Aug 6, 1989 i'll be forwarding msgs from great lakes rainbow. i'm a computist and publisher specializing in technology and politics. there's quite a group here in aa, and i look forward to conversing. i logged onto a rainbow bbs once last year. anyone know of any out there? ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 2 pfraterdeus 9:57 pm Aug 10, 1989 Howdy! I seem to remember a Rainbow bbs mentioned in AllWaysFree last year, I'll have to check it out. If you have one of the '88 AWFs look for it! How's the rainbow circle in ann arbor? Regular happenings? We're getting excited about the Minnesota gathering--thinkin' about doing a big baked potato kitchen! Maybe great lakes could get behind it also... Had a great time in Nevada! Were you down there? Thanks for touchiing base! Your reply is the first sign of life I've seen on the forum! Peace & Love! Remember the Shawnee (Southern Illinois) Regional October 4-7... Details forthcoming. Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 2 bmasel 7:45 pm Aug 11, 1989 Note that Shawnee Gathering is listed in Allways Free as Oct. 5-9. (The 9th is Sunday.) And in the neighborhood, Southern Illinois Marijuana Harvest Fest, Oct 6th at SIU Carbondale. ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 2 jlohrmann 1:52 pm Jan 15, 1990 Hello, My name is Jeff Lohrmann I work at PeaceNet in San Francisco. I try to follow the tribe as much as possbile over the years and I am happy to stay in touch. ==== ==== ==== Response 6 to Note 2 trial29@web.UUCP 3:27 am Jun 5, 1990 Howdy! Howdy! Howdy! Brothers! Sisters! Howdy! Howdy! Love ya Duv from Ottawa Canada. ==== ==== ==== Response 7 to Note 2 trial29@web.UUCP 3:32 am Jun 5, 1990 Hey, PFRATERDEUS... My name's Duv Berman and I teach typography at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada. I run an ad type shop here in town and was recently in Chicago for a users group meeting of those with Alphatype equipment. What an impressive city... What a type city... I am a letter person... I'll see you in Minnesota... Quebec kitchen? Monstrous potatohead kitchen? ==== ==== ==== Response 8 to Note 2 pfraterdeus 12:36 pm Jun 5, 1990 Welcome Home Duv! It's great to see the AWF Conf starting to bring folks home! Watch this conf for details on the 1990 Gathering! I'm just waiting for specifics, and then we'll get it all up here! Look for me at the Kickapoo Kitchen! Love & Light Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 9 to Note 2 fmayer 9:21 pm Jun 7, 1990 Wow! All this activity is dizzying! Looks like we're headed into some interesting country up there in MN... Wonder if we'll be close to the treeline, or if the bugs will be chomping down... love to all... rappinfred ==== ==== ==== Response 10 to Note 2 sjohgart 8:11 pm Jul 25, 1990 Howdy--Gonzo of Great Lakes here--just got on for the first time--I imagine I I'll get the hang of this place as I practice--definitely less intuitive than America Online! I'm glad to be here, love all you crazy Rainbows! Take care, I'll talk more when I've got some of this conferencing jazz untangled. ==== ==== ==== Response 11 to Note 2 fmayer 11:28 pm Jul 25, 1990 Welcome Gonzo of Great Lakes!!!!! If you enter an 'i' command, you can obtain a list of topics which have been entered on this conference. Hope to hear from you... Rappinfred ==== ==== ==== Response 12 to Note 2 pfraterdeus 6:12 pm Jul 28, 1990 Hey!!! Welcome HOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEEE!!!!! Text is clumsy, but heck, so are funky shitters! Love you all! P. ==== ==== ==== Response 13 to Note 2 pfraterdeus 6:10 pm Dec 30, 1990 I assume that's Ann Arbor (aa)... ;-) Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 14 to Note 2 amullen 5:40 pm Jan 25, 1991 howdy rainbows. never thought i'd be in this virtual unreality of modem land, but but these things happen. i'm using peacenet to relay info to local peace folks, but also want to stay in touch. by the way this is owl of lawrence kansas. i focalized for family here the last couple of years, but this winter have mostly been laying low. was at Cornocopia this last year. i'll check in from time to time. who's focalizing awf? if i can get an address i can share it for input from the local family. may our hearts full of love realize peace! q [A[A[A[Ds ==== ==== ==== Response 15 to Note 2 wsteele 8:19 am Mar 1, 1991 Hello... I'm Bill Steele, a novoce with this system and Rainbow in general.. I have a whopping one person circle here at Western Illinois University. Here, people don't seem to care about much of anything. I have never been to a Gathering yet, and I am excited and looking forward for my first opportunity to meet all you people I've heard so much about.. I basically fell in love with you all through the AWF I received from Ben 2 years ago.. and the one I got at the Chicago Peace Fest last year. Those two magazines got me through one of the hardest periods in my young life, and I need to thank you all.. I can't describe what they still do for me.. I want to help out anyway I can, but if no one out here wants to care, I have a problem as to what to do.. Probably get out of here, I dunno.. but since that's not a possibility now, I'll just keep plugging away Thank you all for everything, and see you in April/July/August... Love you all.. Bill ==== ==== ==== Response 16 to Note 2 pfraterdeus 11:37 am Mar 1, 1991 Subject: Mailing List..if you like! Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Mailing List..if you like! Bill- Welcome to the awf conference online! Hope to keep you in touch with what's up around the Rainbow nation! Try downloading some stuff from the conference and making posters to put around town! Also, remember the chicago area 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.... Best of luck Love Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 17 to Note 2 chrp 12:57 pm Jun 2, 1991 Hi! My name is David Oaks. I'm in Eugene, Oregon. I edit a newspaper called Dendron News that reaches several thousand people who have been assaulted by the psychiatric system. I've been to a couple of rainbow gatherings, and maintain a little notice board outside my office about rainbow news. But there's a whole network of rainbow folks in Eugene that are doing a lot and I only see them once in a while. That's because I'm so busy lately, but I'm trying to cut back on my work a bit. You can write to me as CHRP, which stands for the Clearinghouse on Human Rights and Psychiatry. PEACE AND LOVE! Support Iris Springflower's work to create healing spaces at the Gatherings! ==== ==== ==== Response 18 to Note 2 tec@web.UUCP 10:28 pm Aug 8, 1991 HOWDY, this is SKY in Vancouver, conference hopping through web... Glad to be here. No time to read more than 200 messages, but will sign on again another time and indulge. I am a rainbow gathering person, too, and once made a film about my incredible adventures there. (This film, however, has never been seen by anyone) (or heard, there was sound, too). thanks petros for letting me know about this conf. For those of you who haven't, please join me and others in HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI LIVE, a conference on KAMOME in Hiroshima in commemoration of UNIVERSAL PEACE WEEK, Aug 3 to 9th. For information about how to sign on for free, please consult the peacenet conference HIROSHIMA.LIVE You can contact me on web at TEC (that's my friend peter's account), or through internet in Japan at sky%aefis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp or in Vancouver (until sept 9) at A13@mindlink.bc.ca (that's a one after the A, not an L), care of peter. Bye for now... SKY/LYNN ==== ==== ==== Response 19 to Note 2 wfoster 5:30 pm Sep 6, 1991 Dear Frater Deos and all other brothers and sisters: My heart is happy to finally make it to this electronic circle. I am off to investigate the circles, within circles. We love...you... Swami Veet Brahm (aka Willl Foster) ==== ==== ==== Response 20 to Note 2 wfoster 10:54 am Sep 13, 1991 Dave: Can you include me on your newsletter on Dendron News. One of my visions is to convert the West Wing of St. Elizabeths (the national psychic penitentary) into the Ezra Pound Commune, a community for Rainbows, Artists, and a safe haven for people who want to be themselves. It is a beautiful campus (the real estate developers all want it) with beautiful lawns, brick buildings and the best view overlooking the potomic, white house, and capitol. I hang out there a lot now that St. Elizabeths is opening up. I would be interested in hearing from others who share similar visions. Brahm ==== ==== ==== Response 21 to Note 2 psterling 8:19 am Nov 3, 1991 Hi, Peggy here from Richmond. Just getting started in peace net. I am on assigned in Columbus OH. Have computer with me. Going to Kansas on Monday and won't have computer there so won't be able to log in again til thanksgiveing. Promised to start rainbow activities in Richmond but since I'm not there it won't happen till January anyway. Love you all. peggy ==== ==== ==== Response 22 to Note 2 raven 10:14 am Nov 10, 1991 howdy brothers and sisters, from Girdwood Alaska, it was great comming home to vermont--and now cyberspace. ==== ==== ==== Response 23 to Note 2 raven 10:36 am Nov 10, 1991 this is RAVEN again from Girdwood, Alaska. I hit a wrong butt0on on this infernal machine. I've been a computor resister but am now into cybercimmunication. Have been going home since Missouri, and have been rainbow since the big bang. vermont is so beautiful, soft green mountains, unlike the severe serrated Alaska peaks. Someday the gathering will be here. Bones and I have been looking for just the right place. \Speaking of which, I would vote for a reservation in South Dakota. we needs strengthen our common cause with aboriginal americans. WE LOVE YOU ==== ==== ==== Response 24 to Note 2 pfraterdeus 11:36 am Nov 11, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Mailing List..if you like! Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Mailing List..if you like! Dear Raven: You wrote: >>Speaking of which, I would vote for a reservation in South Dakota. we needs strengthen our common cause with aboriginal americans. WE LOVE YOU<< Please see the "CO/SD--No Contest" message in awf.rainbownews, regarding the question of whether the "aboriginal americans" are interested in having us gather in South Dakota! (They are not! Gathering there in '92 will >harm< the relationship that has begun to build up over the last few years!) Happy to see Alaska here! Play for Peace! Love and Light! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 25 to Note 2 coyote 12:22 pm Dec 7, 1991 Hi I was here COYOTE ==== ==== ==== Response 26 to Note 2 ddesertspg 11:45 pm Dec 22, 1991 Howdy! I've been here before but I've been gone a very long time. It is time to get back to the Family... So, I'm putting out feelers (sic) for contacts in this 'lectronic world as well as my world here in the Kaw River Valley. Please add me to your list of useful folks! Not ready to become a real focalizing person yet but I might be able to help along the way. My last Gathering was WV in 1980. Spent quite a few days that year but still never really got Home that time. Before that I was much more involved in the Oregon, 1978, Gathering. See you all this summer! love, Dave Desertspring and Sherrie, Keith, and Julie ==== ==== ==== Response 27 to Note 2 sunbeam 1:53 am May 13, 1992 HOwdy I tried years ago to recieve AllWays Free - some how didn't happen. I'm ready to try again...Please add me to the mailing list A Suneam 715 Virginia St. Vallejo, CA 94590 I'm an acupuncure/herbal/body working healing type..and invite those in need of my services to stop in or call 707-644-HEAL ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 3 (*) Capturing Calendar Text Instructio pfraterdeus 6:06 pm May 11, 1989 Howdy! If you're not familiar with this system, here are a couple of pointers. First, don't expect to master it in one evening! This is a new language, and has many aspects which take time and familiarity to fully appreciate! Second, read the manuals, and the help messages. These can usually be read by typing a ? at the prompt. To download a lengthy message (such as the Calendar). At the Conf? prompt, type c (for CAPTURE mode) then type t (for this TOPIC) then type a (for ASCII, or straight text mode) The system will start sending barrels of text to your screen, without pausing for a break . There fore, it's very important tha t either, your telecomm software will save the text for you as it scrolls off the screen, OR you must have previously set up the software to save the text to your disk for later reading! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 4 PA Gathering Rumor Control pfraterdeus 2:23 pm Aug 7, 1991 From: Subject: PA Gathering Rumor Control Reply to: PA Gathering Rumor Control - sort (RE: Prev topic) -- I left the site on July 11th, and the "feeling of the Family" was definitely for Colorado. Still, at what point (as I asked in response to Rainbow Worker's comments) do "we" decide that the Vision of Vision Council is invalid? I have a number of personal observations about the way our decision process is implemented. However, I'm not about to stick my foot in my mouth at this point! :-) As far as rumored PA. gathering, this is a very disturbing trend, I think. The use of the term Rainbow Gathering should be something jealously protected by our traditions (preferably as a standing consensus of Council, as Wing has suggested). If it's not Rainbow in origin, and Rainbow in Process, it's not a Rainbow Gathering. We should be very firm about informing Regional Focalizers to keep in touch with the traditional process of establishing and publicizing our Gatherings. (Also to talk with local representative authorities and USFS) I heard that somebody is saying that no regional can be called Rainbow unless it is consensed to by RFTC during July 1-7. This takes all the spontaneous fun out of getting a regional family rolling, and I think has potentially fascistic overtones. None-the-less, with the rolling keg party out there, looking for easy (with plenty of weekenders bringing the cash) landing sites, and claiming to be Rainbows on the Road, it may well be time for some type of "vesting" of authenticity. (BTW WE all know of plenty of wonderful family on the road that really are Rainbows on the Road. There's a difference.) I hope that Wing will be on line soon to give us his proposal (which of course can't be dealt with till next year, in ???, CO?, SD? Poland???) about the "Six things that have to be there for a gathering to be Rainbow" (I think it was six things...) He did mention it in Focalizer council, and I believe that his points are very valuable. Which, brings up the following.... If as Plunker is said to have said, "Maybe there will be a Gathering of the Tribes in SD attended by 20 people, and a Family Reunion in CO attended by 20,000." What about Consensii reached at the "anti-Gathering" how will they be respected if there is no respect for the council in the first place??? Sounds like a schism in the works, eh? We'll be like the catholic church with a anti-Pope in Avingnon and another in Rome! As far as recreation vs free assembly, where is the line drawn? Perhaps my idea of political expression is to drink lemonade in the park with my family on the 4th of July. Family Business circle sounds like an excellent idea. Still, those that seek to disrupt will certainly object to the idea, and even if it comes to pass, will continue to disrupt! I like the Haudenosaunee rap in AllWaysFree (see my response to "What Happened?...) Can we learn to grow and act like responsible and respectful children of light? Maybe when the brewers go out of business........ Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 5 25 char max in titles! OK? pfraterdeus 11:38 am Aug 9, 1991 Howdy! Please note that your subject line should be not more than 25 characters! This helps to keep all responses in the right places, also! Love you! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 6 50 ways to reach consensus 2 responses dwirtshafter 5:19 am Aug 10, 1991 (The following is a first draft of something I have been thinking about. More research is needed into the meaning of consensus and the ways that native tribes dealt with contrarians. I have rushed this out to answer the questions recently asked on Peacenet. I reserve the right to revise this rap after some reflection and research. donny.) I was only a part-time participant in vision council. Too much needed to be done. Still, there were times when vision council was a beautiful vibe that I really enjoyed. Some beatiful things were said. As always, some people really feel the need to monopolize the feather. Others had little respect for the feather. Whats new? I watched us reach consensus in several different ways. One, I missed but caught the aftermath. Purportedly, the whole circle reached consensus on Colorado for several seconds, a huge aum of relief, then a few contrarians spoke out. Most left at this point, convinced that consensus had been reached. After Rosie The One Who Blocks Counsel spent an evening unloading the pain that bound her, she announced that she was removing her block and removing herself from the circle. That left Zeus as the lone holdout for an afternoon. With all respect for the brother, his rap of living outside for so many years was not the point. The point was that the circle wanted him to come up with solid reasons why the Four Corners area was the wrong place or why some place was better. Zeus could not express reason other than that places in the South had a lot of poverty and needed the family more than Colorado. My favorite consensus came the next day. Zeus was still the lone block. Everyone else said Four Corners. Zeus in frustration said. "If the family is going to meet in Colorado next year, I'll be there." Wonderful. It sure sounded like consensus to me. Brother Zeus, just too wrapped up in his own rap, could not understand this. Zeus really is a hard name to live up to. Its time we learned that consensus does not have to mean unanimous. In every society there are contrarians. When Zeus was saying block, he was really saying much more. I heard a lot of "I am really hurt, lonely, bitter; help me, love me, heal me. " Others heard, "my ego will not allow me to give in to the will of the family." Mostly Zeus was telling us that he had a different idea. He could not understand how consensus could be reached If he had a different idea. I faulted him for not listening. There was a lot being said; most of it went right past Zeus. One moment was spectacular. When things were moving very well. When some really holy visions were expressed one feather holder asked for a silence so we could be shown a sign. We all sat there in peaceful silence for quite a while. Quickly after the silence broke we heard some one shout "rainbow alert". A huge rainbow had filled the sky. We all left the circus tent and gathered in the meadow, hugging our love of the sign we had been shown. The rainbow disappeared then came back as a double rainbow. They disappeared and came back triple, then four. Finally that went away and came back as one big rainbow and four distinct smaller rainbows underneath it. Imagine our joy. Some linked this vision of the four smaller rainbows to the four corners. Most never made it back to the circus tent, the evening was just too nice. The movie went on for several days. To myself and most of the others, the cleanup became more important then the bad movie at vision council. One morning, a sister was handed the feather. She spoke of her frustration with the loud male energy. She decided that since there was no limit to how long she could hold the feather, she was going to hold it in silence that day. Everyone mind as well go clean up because no business of council was going to be decided that particular day. She stayed there in silence the entire day. The circle broke up, most helped on the cleanup. At least something got done that day. The best idea I heard expressed at vision council was a custom from the native indians I hope will be adapted next year. To participate in vision council, you must come on time, noon on July 7th. You must stay with the council as it goes off to a distant spot to circle without distraction. Liquid nourishment will be brought to the group. Except for exceptional needs, solid food will be withheld until a consensus is reached. Then a feast will be held to celebrate our group vision. One way to hurry the process along. The advantage of this is that respect will be given to all visions. The respect is that all visions are listened to before anyone blocks anybody's aspirations. Too often in the eight-day marathon people wandered in to block a circle that had worked through each and every problem. Our spiritual togetherness would be broken by newcomers who would block only because they wanted a chance to get the feather. Their egos demanded their time at the center. It was discouraging. I really favor an open circle that recluses itself to get the vision clear. To me Colorado was always the logical choice. Colorado was the only family that came forward to invite us to gather. Many expressed reluctance to take our gathering to places where there was no family to welcome us. Some expressed the desire to follow our precedent of a different state every year., I have trouble with this one. At my turn of the feather I bad rapped the artificial state lines that divide us but feed the militias. To me we can gather wherever we want, no rules except one: never the same place. In my vision of ten thousand rainbows I see a pattern. The places we choose to gather are the places that are choosen to be preserved. The local people learn the value of the unused places our scouts discover each year. Through follow up of our own and through the work of the local NIMBYS we meet in our wanderings, action is taken to preserve our sites. My favorite example are the folks we left behind in Missouri fighting for years to keep lead mining from scarring our spot in the Mark Twain National Forest. In twenty years, we have locked in twenty of the Mother's twenty best sites. Ten thousand sites in ten thousand years, one way to preserve the planet. To me the only rule is to avoid duplicating sites. Forget the "never repeat a state rule," one way to doom us to a 50-year lifespan. This is forever. I myself was shocked by Peter's announcment of the July 14th "consensus". I left the gathering on the 12th very happy that the Four Corners area had been chosen. Thanksgiving Council in Telluride or Durango. Colorado family, let us know soon please, I'll be there. As for South Dakota, a regional gathering the last two weeks of June makes sense (providing the local tribes really have invited us). Where are the local focalizers, digging in now to make even a regional happen? I hope one of them can get on line soon. (Where is the Colorado family, or Eugene for that matter? Come on folks, get your ears on.) Mostly, I mourn the elements that work to keep our family divided. I suspect the work of the same forces of evil that financed the A camp. Perhaps it is our own success that hinders us. Something keeps us from coming home to Colorado in triumph. I myself refuse to be manipulated by those who feel the need to manipulate our council. The people clearly spoke their visions. The people of the Vermont gathering clearly decided that Colorado was home next year. What kind of council can ignore such consensus? Unless something massive changes our group mind, I will see you all in the San Juan National Forest (or somewhere near there) sometime before July 1, 1992. Love, donny (614) 592-5298 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 6 pndemo3 9:57 am Aug 12, 1991 From: Subject: 50 ways to reach consensus Reply to: 50 ways to reach consensus Donny writes: >>>I myself was shocked by Peter's announcment of the July 14th "consensus". I left the gathering on the 12th very happy that the Four Corners area had been chosen. <<< Yo! It's not my announcement! I'm just the messenger! I think the state boundaries we need to be concerned with are the States of Mind! What the Thinker Thinks, the Prover Proves! -- RA Wilson (We tend to see the proof of what we believe...) Love you! Peter PS I recommend Robert Anton Wilson's >Prometheus Rising< Deals with dealing with tunnel realities, one's own, and those of others. ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 6 pfraterdeus 11:02 pm Aug 14, 1991 From: Subject: 50 ways to reach consensus Reply to: 50 ways to reach consensus @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [The following letter relates to this topic! Petros] @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------***--------***--------***--------***--------*** Dear Tendeerfire-- Thanks for your concern! I hope that we can all work together toward a consensus on this issue!!!! I talked with brother Chris out in Sterling Illinois this morning. He called me to mention something about a Peace Garden on his farm out there, and then asked what feelings I had about the S.Dakota vision. (He was part of the Vision Council Consensus). I mentioned that a substantial number of voices were being raised about the vision council decision in Vermont. It's obvious that we have a schism developing, at very least, with those folks that stuck it out in council in good faith, feeling that that was the right thing for them to do. I will accept that they did come to consensus...yet they had nobody to verify it! Where does the authority of the council come from, after all? It comes from the >consenT< (NOT consenSUS) of the People! If thars no folks around, it cain't be Kosher! (an old yiddish saying that I just made up!) I think that The Wrong Way will eventually Write Itself into Hipstory and be gone, given enough rope... (to mix a metaphor...) The Vision Council must not presume to have "Decision Making Power" except as far as the People consenT to honour the council decisions. However, this is apparently the first (?) time a problem has arisen. I believe that the problem is not one that can be conveniently dumped on Zeus Cosmos, or any other "contrary", but relates perhaps to their insistance on a scriptural interpretation of "Rainbow Site Rule #1" on never returning to a particular >state< for a North American gathering. I have to say I think their objection is silly, since the state boundaries are utterly contrived and artificial in every way. Why we should respect them in any fashion (as regards our decision process) is beyond my imagination! The same could be said about national boundaries, of course, but there the formalities become a hassle. Still, it's the tradition, and you know how some folks love their traditions! So the hold-outs felt that they had saved the Vision from the dust, and persevered through thick-and-thin to finally COME TO CONSENSUS! My question previously about the "validity of Vision Council" issue is this: How do The People respond to this? Who has the right to use the "Voice of the Rainbow People" to naysay the council? Perhaps everybody was jumping to conclusions about Colorado. We will always gather. But we may not gather together! Maybe the SouthDakota gathering can be a Rainbow Family Spiritual Fasting and Prayer Retreat, and the 21st North American Rainbow Gathering will happen (as consented by the People before they left Vermont) near the FourCorners or San Juans in the midsouth Rockies. As far as "focs quarterly mailing"-- This is only meant to be useful! If there's anything (within reason) to get out to focalizers, I will be doing a mailing by the end of September. It need not have ANYTHING about this question in it anywhere! (although some news about Thanksgiving council would be great...) The idea is to share our minds and hearts. For instance, I just came up with an idea for barrel Stoves that would make cooking fires burn alot hotter and more efficiently. No obligation, except that which we already acknowledge as focalizers. I hope to work with anybody that can help on this quarterly mailing! It's just us independent focs here, trying to be helpful! (Some have hinted that we might overdoing the helpful, but come on, where's that at :-)))) Love you ALL out there! May be coming out your way (Bay Area) within the next 8-12 weeks (perhaps we can connect!) Petros ----------------------------------------------------------------- [PS to JMC@U.Penn, I put you in the address group with the awf. conference so you'll get my replies and messages to the group. Have you had any luck getting through to IGC?] ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 7 New Mexico Regional? Indian pndemo3 9:55 am Aug 12, 1991 From: Subject: New Mexico Regional? Indian GOOD MORNINGI New Mexico Regional? Indiana! 300 People at Beat around the Bush A sister that was at BaB called me with this question...... rumor: Does any one know about a New Mexico gathering labor day weekend? Please get back to me! Indiana is on, as far as we know. Two scouts from Chi-town went down to Hoosier Natl Forest, and brought good news. We're hoping that someone from down there can get out and around to consense to it... (16-23 Sept, the week of the 2nd quarter moon! Full on the Equinox! AWOOoooo!) Mercury's in retro til the 1st, so who knows! Love you all! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 8 MANY RAINBOWS FILL THE BLAZING SKY tec@web.UUCP 4:45 am Aug 17, 1991 Hi Rainbow people and families, I am SKY in Vancouver, Canada. I want to know why there must be only one rainbow gathering in one selected place every year. Why can't the rainbow gathering generate other rainbow gatherings which spread out and restore community and earth-caring all over the world. The 50 states of North America are only part of the world, after all. If there could be rainbow gatherings in every state at sometime in the distant imaginable future, and rainbow gatherings in every country, especially those which are war-torn and full of suffering and starving people, the vision of the rainbow people would be ever more fulfilled. I have not been in on this discussion, so I don't know all the details of the issue of where the rainbow gathering ought to be. But in this great, wide, expanding and shrinking world and universe, it seems right that the 'rainbow gathering' should not have boundaries or limits. Sincerely, Sky Amor De Cosmos, Vancouver, B.C. Canada (for personal email, please send to Web:tec (c/o Peter Ronald) bye for now, ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 9 RE- Soviet Union pfraterdeus 6:59 pm Aug 20, 1991 From: Subject: RE- Soviet Union From PEACENET_QM RE: Soviet Union v u Visiting awf.rainbownews... Visiting oz.visionary... Visiting pn.announcements...0 unread topics, 1 unread response 'u' to see next unread item, '?' for command summary, 'h' for more help Topic 6 Banner*Tip*Teaser*Log On Message Response 42 of 42 peacenet pn.announcemen 9:04 pm Aug 19, 1991 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 91 19:13:28 PDT From: ************************************************************************** APC Networks' Direct Coverage from Soviet Union See these confs: pn.alerts, glasnost.news, northwest.news, reg.ussr, talk.pol.soviet ************************************************************************** For help in sending email to the USSR go to conference 'go help' Decree of Russian President Eltsin northwest.news Environment: Soviet Coup Casts Pall Over UNCED Meeting glasnost.news Events in Russia [Direct Report from Leningrad] northwest.news FCNL Action on Soviet Union [Friends Committee*Washington] fcnl.updates German Greens Condemn Coup [Direct from Bonn] glasnost.news New Soviet Regime's Statement [Radio Moscow reports] worldp.samples USSR Crisis Statement [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament] cnd.press ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sample Letter to Editor and Press Release, see ---> GORBACHEV DEPOSED! <--- (Responses 6 and 7) in glasnost.news ************************************************************************** ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 10 Detroit Picnic 8/24 sjohgart 7:58 pm Aug 20, 1991 Rainbow Family Picnic August 24, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, at the east end of the island near Livingstone Light, from noon till it goes. Come share some hugs, some drums, some light. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 11 Questions after the 'war' pfraterdeus 3:02 am Aug 22, 1991 From: Subject: Questions after the 'war' Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Questions after the 'war' (From the utne.salon conference) (petros) ************************************************************ Topic 23 Questions after the 'war' is over Response 4 of 5 rclark Conversation for Utne Reader readers 12:52 pm Aug 21, 1991 Macho warrior, militarist worldview: Are they anachronistic? Five paragraphs follow, paraphrased from Philip Slater's recent book, A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal: Is patriarchy merely a bloody 5000 year detour in the evolution of humankind? And is that detour nearly over? Now that civilization is rapidly becoming global, is the idea of conquest rapidly becoming meaningless? Today the world is a unit. For all its incredible variety, for all its quarrels and hatreds, for all its bizarre inequalities, it is _now_ a single functioning interdependent economic system. We have global communications and, increasingly, a shared civilization, enriched by infusions from all the diverse cultures of our planet. Satellites serve to link even our fantasy worlds. We are, _as never before_, a single family---a nasty, squabbling family, to be sure, racked with feuds and contested wills, but one family nonetheless. And inevitably we will become ever more so. For any given society, war no longer has any evolutionary value whatsoever, and the traits we have worshipped for so many thousands of years have suddenly become not merely obsolete, but an acute liability. What we need to do now is not to look around for someone new to fight, but rather to find ways to integrate more fully this confused mass of conflicting claims that we call humanity. And yet we seem to be stuck with an inheritance of authoritarian institutions and authoritarian personalities in high places. The contention here is that these institutions and these people are anachronistic and that our number one priority should be to find ways to remove and neutralize them. And the more publicity and attention that can be called to this need and this process, the more easily and effectively it will be carried out. Authoritarian personalities have never served any good purpose except to protect the society from external attack. Because their institutions and their kind . . still, in some ways, dominate, intimidate, and shape our society, they are able to maintain a foothold and a place, in spite of their fundamental obsolescence. Perversely, the main way they are maintaining their place in our society is by finding and creating enemies for our society. This is the only way their power and their purpose can be maintained. For without enemies there is no reason for their institutions, their power, and their system to exist, no reason for the oppressive social burden under which humanity has groaned for the past 5000 years. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 12 FWD>Info on GlasNet - USSR pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Aug 23, 1991 From: Subject: FWD>Info on GlasNet - USSR Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM FWD>Info on GlasNet - USSR (from PeaceNet Announcements, for those who may be following the events in USSR! Peace, Peter) ********************************************* Topic 51 Info on GlasNet-Our Net In USSR peacenet pn.announcemen 10:05 am Aug 22, 1991 From: Subject: Info on GlasNet-Our Net In USSR GlasNet - Non-profit Computer Network in the USSR GlasNet provides international electronic mail, fax, telex and computer conferencing services to non-profit organizations, researchers and individuals throughout the USSR. 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If it continues to fester it may well disolve the roots of the Family. The chaotic proceedings of the Vision Council this July and the fact that disunity continues concerning the "consensed" site are but symptoms of greater problems that are threatening the Family. I love the Rainbow. The ideals of love, peace and unity and the concepts of acceptence, respect, sharing and co-operation that the Rainbow voices struck a resonant chord in me and earned it my devotion. But it is time for the Rainbow Tribe to do more than voice these ideals and concepts. We must act in accord with the values we uphold in our speech. It burns my eyes to see the violence and lack of respect we inflict on one another. It hurts my ears to hear the dishonesties and the scornful words we say of one another. The Family must become stronger if we hope to survive in a world where our very lifestyles are considered a threat by the people in power. We must solve the problems that are confronting the Rainbow Family from the inside. I am not pointing fingers at groups or individuals. We are all guilty of ego and personal bias - which is only natural for a non-telepathic civilization. None of us are perfect. If you are aware of another's imperfection, take note of your own. However, just because perfection is unattainable at this time does not mean we should cease to strive for it. It is my opinion and advice that the Family come together to speak our differences, discuss our values and concepts, and to Vision on what we want to achieve as the Rainbow Tribe. Once a year for the last twenty years we have Gathered to pray for World Peace. Our prayers cannot be strong enough to heal the Earth, if they cannot even heal the wounds of the Family. We can live Life as a prayer for Harmony only if we look beyond ourselves to the great Connectedness of All, and learn the lessons there. With Hope, Heather ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 13 tec@web.UUCP 9:06 pm Aug 27, 1991 Hi Heather, your words are powerful and true. But the wounds of the family are part of the wounds of the earth. The family isn't separate from the earth or from the world, and if the world is going to embrace the principles and the profound, inexplicable experience of the rainbow family, I believe the Rainbow must embrace the world, too. I think this means something like what you said at the end of the letter, instead of looking exclusively inward, like an old ingrown toe-nail, we have to look outward, to the great and awesome whole of which we are a part, and not only look outward, but also GO outward, into the world. It is meaningful to build community and set an example to the world, but it is not meaningful to be isolationist, or monolithically unilateral or dogmatic. Like a tree which grows, the Rainbow Family needs to release itself from bondage and form branches, which reach outward, upward, and skyward in every direction, and then it needs to blossom and flower, and produce seeds, which scatter in the natural wind to all corners of the earth, so that little rainbow trees can spring up even in the worst desert of authoritarianism and "War"archy. It is impossible for all the human beings in the world to come together in one physical community. But one physical community is not necessary to achieve unity of consciousness and to transform the planet. Let's have many Rainbow Families, many Rainbow Gatherings, and many 'physical' communities, which are harmonically united in their intention to heal ourselves and our planet. lots of love, SKY Amor De Cosmos ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 14 Heather re- RB-blurred Visi pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Aug 26, 1991 From: Subject: Heather re- RB-blurred Visi Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Heather re: RB-blurred Vision Thanks, Heather! I love you! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 15 9/20-23 EQUINOX CELEBRATION IN NYS ddepuydt 5:40 pm Aug 26, 1991 AUTUMN EQUINOX GATHERING FOR EARTHWORKERS September 20-23, 1991 PUMPKIN HOLLOW FARM, Craryville, New York This fall THE SACRED EARTH NETWORK will host their 2nd Gathering and Retreat for Eco-Activists. Workshops, songs and dances, sharing circles, breath work, shamanic journeys and other Deep Ecology experiential processes be offered. There will be morning yoga, tai chi and meditation, support groups and feedback circles and ample opportunity to explore the surrounding forest, meadows, stream and waterfall which make up this beautiful 128-acre retreat center in the Berkshire Mts. Your children, the next generation of earthworkers, are especially invited to join us. Costs and Logistics: There is a $35 program fee. Weekend accommodations, including 3 meals a day and linens are $75 or 60 per person with extra charges for those staying until 9/23 (the actual equinox). Camping for the weekend is $47 pp. Meals will be vegan. Dairy products will be available. There will be scheduled pick-ups from the train station in Hudson, NY. Car-pooling is encouraged. Advanced registration is necessary. To register and reserve space, send $35 deposit to: (deposit refundable to 14 days before) Pumpkin Hollow Farm R.R. 1 Box 135 Craryville, NY 12521 (518) 325-3583. Further Information: Econet conference - cab.network or email - ddepuydt or call (212) 924-2295. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 16 Australian Gaia Foundation mendicott 10:54 am Aug 31, 1991 From: Subject: Pam Maurath /* Written 12:59 pm Aug 4, 1991 by gaiaf in cdp:gn.communities */ /* ---------- "Pam Maurath" ---------- */ Hi Pam Read your of your interest in intentional communities in the gn.community conference. Like you, we here at the Gaia Foundation share your interest in intentional communities... We are also underway to start our own - though a long road this is proving when one is "cashless" in this society. Some of our members have been conducting "research" of both a formal and informal kind and whould like to share your perspectives on such things. Here is a little to start off the dialogue.... Australian intentional communities have a long history going back to the 1980s. At this time Australia had the highest GNP per capita of any country in the world, and was also a leader in social experimentation. Guaranteed minimum income was established by the Justice Higgins Harvester Award, which lasted until 1966! There was also an immense outpouring of egalitarian and utopian literature at that time. Because the 1890s depression effected Australia as much as everywhere else, this utopian egalitarian sentiment led to the establishment of a number of intentional communities in Victoria and South Australia. It was at this time that William Lamb began the "Australia Movement" which aimed at establishing a utopian society. Eventually they left Australia to try to start anew in the wilds of Paraguay. Needless to say, there were fights over Lamb's leadership, and some returned to Australia, sadder and disillusioned by the experience. In the 1930s there was an equal failed experiment with the "Groupies", or group settlers who went to the high rainfall areas of Western Australia, to set up individual holdings, but who shared resources to develop new rural communities. Nine out of ten settlers failed, with the one in ten surviving to become the basis of the rural population in these areas today. There were also movements of various unorthodox Christian sects into various areas in Western Australia. Similar to the Mennonites and other groups in the USA, the "exclusive order of the Plymouth Brethren" settled around Dalwalinu in Western Australia and a Russian sect moved into the area around Donnybrook in Wetsren Australia. The next great experiments in intentional communities were in the 1970s, following upon the heels of parallel developments in other Western "developed" nations. This second wave of intentional communities had forgotten the earlier Australian examples and owed more to what was happening overseas than to our own traditions. It began, with the aftermath of the anti-Vietnam War demonstartions of 1973, with an Aquarius Festival, held at the small New South Wales dairy town of Nimbin. Although most left, many stayed in the town to buy up hand and establish what was for a while the "hippy capital of Australia". At one point a survey from James Cook University showed that there were some 60,000 Australians living what was loosely called "alternative lifestyles", with another 90,000 seeking to make this move. This 150,000 people at the time represented 1% of Australia's total population of 15 million. As Australia is the most urbanised nation in the world, with only 4% living in rural areas on the land, it is possible to see how in some areas this population became a sizable fragment of the population. The collapse of Western Australia's dairy industry, following the loss of an export market with Britain's entry into the common market, meant that there was a temporary availability of cheap rural land. The closure of many small timber towns, as natural forests were depleted of saw-loggs, further fueled the movement by young urban Australians to return "back to the land". Intentional communities were established in all Australian states in the next 10-15 years. At one point, in Western Australia there were about 36 communities in all stages of coming together or of falling apart. The size of such groups ranged from small groups of friends who bought a property as tenants in common, to larger groups who have attempted to set up a full-fledged community of, in one case, twenty families. One case, the "Universal Brotherhood" saw some 300 people who moved to Balingup, following a charismatic spiritual leader. Hierarchial tensions within this group saw most members leave finishing with a small group of 13 families share a property for some 15 years. They followed a range of esoteric traditions drawn eclectically from many sources, and for a while, ran their own school. Following major realisations about the effects of their exclusiveness upon the lives of many ex-members, the community dissolved in the late 1980s. The most successful big communities have been the Wollery, in Denmark, and the Boranup Community in Margaret River. The former, with 14 shareholding families were established by ministerial intervention, in a very conservative town nearly 15 years ago, still has a number of the original residents in place. They have been at the forefront of a number of battles to save other communities, such as Xebec, Bag End and the Great Southern Housing Collective, from the wrath of their conservative neighbours. The battle over the latter project, which was to be funded from the government Local Government Community Housing Program (LoGCHoP), led to a shire referendum to prohibit any development of Rural Multiple Occupancy communities in the local government area. Similar problems have occurred in the Shire of Nannup. On two occasions the Shire Council has taken legal action against the new- settlers, and on both occasions it has lost. Today, people acknowledge that the new initiatives and the enthusiasm brought to these previously dieing communities has revitalised the whole neighbourhood. Eshkol Springs at Gingin, was another religious community. Started by a Christian group interested in experiencing something of the lifestyle shared by early Christian communities. For a while they were very successful in growing herbs for the nearby Perth market. Boranup is Western Australia's newest community. There 25 families came together, and with approval from the local government council, established WA's first "legal" community. It began with three people putting an offer on a property and then selling 22 shares at $A7,000 a share. To date a number of houses have been built though many members are still not living in the area. It was the formation of Boranup that led to the creation of a Western Australian branch of the Australian Association for Sustainable Communities, a grassroots organisation networking intentional communities in the early and mid 1980s. This organisation began as a result of the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's speach to the International Labour Organisation at Geneva, when he spoke of intentional communities as a possible answer to long-term unemployment. Thousands of submissions and an interdepartmental committee of enquiry later, those sending in applications met at the 10th Anniversay of the Aquarius Festival and established the AASC. Until the Western Australian branch dissolved in 1987, it was most active in training, lobbying, and supporting those who were having difficulties in dealing with their conservative neighbours. It dissolved in 1986/7 as there seemed to be less interest in intentional communities and its members were becoming active in a range of local environmental issues instead. The biggest local boost of interest in communities since then occurred when Ma Anand Sheila, right hand woman of Sri Bagwan Rajneesh came to Western Australia with the intention of purchasing land to shift the Orange Peoples Oregon headquarters to WA. The hysterical outcry against this move made the local hippies look tame by comparison to the threat posed by this international sect. All this time, largely unrecorded has been the growth of the most successful intentional community movement in Australia - the movement of groups of traditional Aboriginals "back to their land". Aboriginal groups, forcibly settled onto cattle stations and missions over the last 100 years are going back into the desert to recommence their "song-cycles" and take up the "dreaming" from where it has been left off. Aboriginal bilingual schools, primary health care, solar powered telephones and refridgeration and other modern high tech technologies are accompanying their return to their custodial duties for the land. These people have the belief that when the songs die, the land itself starts to die. Looking at the example of the ecological destruction of the last 200 years, as Aboriginal people have been displaced from their lands, it is easy to give credance to this belief. Hope others can share their experience of community here For Gaia and her peoples John (Croft) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 17 Is Shawnee Happening??? 1 response pfraterdeus 3:18 pm Sep 4, 1991 From: Subject: Is Shawnee Happening??? Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Is Shawnee Happening??? Steve Wessing told me Very Specifically that "Shawnee was agreed to by 'a council' in Vermont, and I'm going to be there." I don't know what council agreed to that, but when I saw him at PeaceFest in Chicago, I explained that Chicago was co-operating with Southern Indiana/Wabash Bioregional Family to do a gathering around the Equinox in Indiana, since we had felt last year that the Shawnee site needed a rest, and also that there was not enough local family involved. The Indiana Gathering is being focalized by Wabash Bioregional Family, with Chicago assisting with scouting and logistics. I put the Notice of Shawnee in the Pot o' Gold after my discussion with Steve W. I'm sorry if the tune has changed, but I was just supporting what I was told had already been decided! Any way, he can tell folks that it ain't happenin' (if that's the case). No harm done! Play for Peace! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 17 pndemo3 6:24 pm Oct 2, 1991 As is pretty well known by now, there WILL be a Shawnee gathering. October 10-14 (roughly), at the same site as the previous gathering. This is a RUMOR gathering, however, and I'm not at all sure if anybody has been in touch with the local Forest Service, or anything.... Anyway, I've heard from a bunch of folks that plan to be there, and are looking forward to a great time. I have no doubt that that will be what happens! None-the-less, the point to having the Indiana gathering was to give the Shawnee site a rest. I HOPE THAT WILL BE THE CASE NEXT FALL! Unfortunately, I will not be able to make it to Shawnee, but I have discussed the situation with many of the people who have called me for info, and suggested that they bring it up in council. Hoping all is well out there! Love you All! Peter/Petros/etc.... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 18 Indiana Regional Sept 13-15 pfraterdeus 3:19 pm Sep 4, 1991 From: Subject: Indiana Regional Sept 13-15 Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Indiana Regional Sept 13-15 The Wabash Bioregional Family invites all Peaceful beings to Gather for the Healing of the Earth and the People. September 13-15 in the Hoosier Natural Forest, near Bloomington Indiana Take IN-446 south from Bloomington, about 5 mile past Lake Monroe turn East on Tower Ridge Road. Look for Maumee Camp signs, watch for Rainbow signs. Park in field at Right, trial to Left. Welcome Home! We Love You! "Our Right to Gather is a Natural Right, protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution." Seed Camp starts around the 10th! Contact: Kevin (Bloomington) 812 332 2492 EarthSong (Chicago) 708 698 1072 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 19 FWD>Soviet Nuclear Test Sit 1 response pfraterdeus 9:29 pm Sep 4, 1991 From: Subject: FWD>Soviet Nuclear Test Sit Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM FWD>Soviet Nuclear Test Site shut from Peacenet Announcements This is the soviet equivalent of the Nevada Test Site! If they can do it why can't we??? --petros ******************************************** Topic 50 Soviet Nuclear Test Site Shut Down! peacenet pn.announcemen 12:33 pm Sep 1, 1991 From: Subject: Soviet Nuclear Test Site Shut Down! From glas!iakim Sun Sep 1 12:21:38 1991 Cc: igc!aptvegas, igc!bapt, igc!peacenet Subject: SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE IS SHUT DOWN FOREVER To: Prof. B.Lown, IPPNW staff & all our friends From: Oljas Suleimenov and Vladimir Iakimets Dear FRIENDS, Our joint efforts led to the tremendous success. THE SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE IS SHUT DOWN FOREVER. On 29 August 1991 on hearings of the USSR Supreme Soviet the new USSR Defense Minister, Marshal E.I.Shaposhnikov announced that the Semipalatinsk test site is shut down forever and no more nuclear tests will be done at it in future. It means also that the 3 additional tests requested by the former Minister earlier this year are cancelled. According to his message this test site will be reorganized into R&D Center. The President of Kazakhstan N.A.Nasarbaev signed the Act on closing this test site down on 29 August 1991. Minister Shaposhnikov mentioned nevertheless that soviet tests will be continued in future because as he said: "We can not yet completely stop testing". He said that a place where testing would be continued he will announce later. People of Kazakhstan is of course the major actor of our two years activity devoted to this aim and it carried on its broad shoulders the main burden. However we felt each day your support in our struggle. Therefore it is our joint achivement. We would like to mention all our collegues: IPPNW, US CTB Coalition, GreenPeace, Gensuikin, Parliamentarians Global Action, APT, Citizens Call, PSR, Nevada Desert Experience, Western States Legal Foundation, International Foundation for Survival and Development of Humanity , Shoshones People and many, many others. Forgive, please, if we forget to mention some of you. We consider that this is the first step to our main objective - to shut down all tests sites in the world. Therefore our GANA (Global Anti Nuclear Alliance) need and will continue its activities. Let us share our thoughts how to work further. IF YOU WANT PEACE BE PREPARED FOR PEACE ! Oljas Suleimenov, Vladimir Iakimets Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement GANA Our e-mail address is: glas:iakim Please keep in touch. P.S. May we ask you to distribute this message to those anti}i nuclear groups in the USA and all over the world which you can reach. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 19 tec@web.UUCP 3:22 am Sep 6, 1991 WOW! Incredible. Thanks for posting this here, I'll port it to KAMOME in Hiroshima, they'll be so glad to get this news if they haven't already got it! Maybe I'll post it on Mindlink in Vancouver and Aegis in Kyoto too. By the way, Peter, do send me a message when you have a moment. Did you get the message I sent you?? I suppose you are very busy. I'll be leaving for Japan on Monday, Sept. 9. After that you can reach me at my internet address Sky%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp Would like to talk to you about our planned October computer event for disarmament day. You seem to be doing such a heroic job of getting important information circulated. BRAVO! bye for now, SKY in Vancouver, ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 20 Thanksgiving Council Info! jjohnson@uujobs.com 2:43 pm Sep 7, 1991 Michael John called me today and asked me to post this: Thanksgiving Council `91 Thanksgiving Weekend (naturally) Denver, CO area - exact site info to follow More Info: Whistlin' Dave 303/879-7444 Michael John can be reached at: General Delivery Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 I, too, am playing messenger on this one, so don't shoot me over this CO vs. SD business. Thanks. Onelove, Thumper --> Options Unlimited Jim Johnson, CPC <-- --> Unix Personnel Services Internet: jjohnson@uujobs.com <-- --> Voice: (301) 587-2338 uucp: uunet!uujobs!jjohnson <-- --> FAX: (301) 585-4779 Compuserve: 72357,2473 <-- --> USmail: PO Box 11023, Silver Spring, MD 20913 <-- ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 21 N. Calif New Dates pfraterdeus 6:40 pm Sep 7, 1991 From: Subject: N. Calif New Dates Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI N. Calif New Dates The Northern Cal. Regional has been moved up to Sept 11-18/19-20th clean up due to deerhunting season starting! 100 people on land already all go for the 11th! Welcome Home! Mark McCracken, Oregon-N. Cal. Focalizer -------------- Have a great time! Love you! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 22 OCTOBER WORLD-WIDE LINKUP PLANNED tec@web.UUCP 5:34 am Sep 9, 1991 Bye everyone, I'm off to Japan today. Check Hiroshima.Live conference for information about big exciting world-wide link-up event planned for United Nations Disarmament Week. Three conferences on Women and the Environment will happen in Miami in late October and November, a world conference on the environment will happen in Brazil early next summer. The October link-up will involve a teleconference and radio broadcasts all over northamerica, australia and other places. The topic of the teleconference will be "Women speak out on the Environment, looking ahead to the Brazil Conference", or something like that. The computer conference will be open-ended. People who are interested should write to Peter Ronald at web:tec for information as to how to participate. I can be reached by email in japan at: sky%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp Thanks petros for your input to hiroshima nagasaki live and other things. Bye for now......a pleasure to join you for the past few weeks, love, sky play and dream for planetary re-union ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 23 Oct. 5 March on Kennebunkport mendicott 2:35 pm Sep 9, 1991 From: Subject: Oct. 5 March on Kennebunkport /* Written 6:02 pm Sep 8, 1991 by cbell in cdp:pn.calendar */ /* ---------- "Oct. 5 March on Kennebunkport" ---------- */ Organizers & Activists -- Peace / Community / Labor Contacts ***TELL PRESIDENT BUSH IT'S TIME ***FOR A WAR ON HOMELESSNESS!!! ***MARCH ON KENNEBUNKPORT ***SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1991 Sponsored by Housing Now! The Next Step On October 7, 1989, 250,000 people from all over the United States marched on Washington for Housing Now! Two years later, homeless, low- and moderate-income people are still waiting for decent, affordable housing. The Congress and the President must provide full funding for the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990. And, it must restore the $25 billion federal funding cut from affordable housing programs since 1979. Will you join us in Kennebunkport? Can your organization, campus or community send a contingent or a bus? Can you help us publicize this event through your newsletter and information networks? 12:00 pm Music / Welcome Park at Consolidated School, meet at Village Green Kennebunkport, Maine (Exit 2 from I-95) 1:00 pm March to President Bush's summer home 2:00 pm Rally - 4:00 pm For more information, contact: Joel Rekas Maine Coalition for the Homeless (207) 626-3567 Portland, ME Jim Stewart First Church Shelter (617) 661-1873 Cambridge, MA Michael Stoops National Coalition for the Homeless (202) 265-2371 Washington, DC Dennis Walto The Children's Health Fund (212) 535-9400 New York, NY Housing Now! The Next Step also invites decentralized actions the week of October 1-9, 1991 through its Hometown! campaign. For more information, contact: Housing Now! The Next Step c/o Partnership for the Homeless 110 W 32 Street New York, NY 10001-3274 (212) 947-3444 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 24 Indian Representation at United Nat mendicott 5:56 pm Sep 10, 1991 From: Subject: Indian Representation at United Nat /* Written 12:00 am Sep 10, 1991 by noele in cdp:gen.nativenet */ /* ---------- "Indian Representation at United Nat" ---------- */ Original-Sender: mtxinu.COM!noele (Noele Krenkel) Piscataway Indian Nation is organizing Indians into a political force in the Americas. It has a packet available on organizing Indians as a people for representation in the United Nations. The project is called LISIN (League of Indigenous Soverign Indian Nations). There are 250 million Indians......march October 12, l992 to demand a set at the UN. Box 3121 Port Tobacco MD 20677 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 25 Howdy from the N.W. CMMMentrl bclements 9:45 pm Sep 13, 1991 Good to see the warm fire glowing on this chilly night in the Colorado Rockies, even if it is in my monitor. First visit howdy folks, it's good to be here... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 26 Message from eastern Germany mendicott 7:01 am Sep 14, 1991 From McKay.Russo@philosophie.uni-jena.dbp.de Fri Sep 13 11:13:04 1991 From: McKay.Russo@philosophie.uni-jena.dbp.de Date: 13 Sep 91 18:09 To: mendicott@igc.org Subject: new account Return-Receipt-To: McKay.Russo@philosophie.uni-jena.dbp.de Dear Marcus, I just got an account at my university in Jena. I'm trying to learn how to use it. I haven't gotten any responses yet. We met at the Rainbow gathering in Poland. Enclosed is a project I will be working on while here. It would be nice if you could respond or pass it along to whomever you thought interested. Take care, Mckay. *30* Project proposal for a radical organizers contact list From: McKay Russo 10 September 1991 Summary: A list of contacts around the world for use in networking, international organizing and information gathering by new left organizers. I was working with the New Liberation News Service in Boston the week the Gulf War started, putting together news packets of anti-war actions around the world. To get this news we called up various contacts and asked them what was happening in their region. From this experience I recognized the utility of an international list of contacts who have links to local activism, are willing to be a contact (ie. give out information and pass on messages), and are generally reachable by phone. News gathering would not be the only use for such a list. Here are a few examples: 1) Korean groups plan to protest the repression of student demonstrators. After deciding on a date they notify every contact that is near a major Korean concern (Embassy, Consulate or corporation). Organizations which can respond, organize demonstrations of varying form and militancy. Although these demonstrations are mostly small due to the spontaneity, they are world wide. 2) The U.S. is in another war. Organizers in San Francisco consult with anti-war organizers in other cities around the world and decide on a worldwide simultaneous demonstration against the war. Each group takes the responsibility of contacting other groups in their country and beyond. Although simultaneous demos were organized during the Gulf war, they were organized largely by older, more professional groups. This organizers list would help more radical and younger groups do the same. 3) A group in Italy working for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the only political prisoner on death row in the U.S., could write to a group in Philidelphia asking for Pennsylvania state government addresses to organize a letter writting campaign. There are three criteria for a listing: 1) Contacts -Listing should have contacts with regional organizers in many areas of activism (anti-intervention/ ant- imperialism, anti-racism, ecology, feminism etc.) and be willing to give out information about what is happening in their region, pass on messages to organizers and when appropriate, give out other organizers' addresses. 2) Accessibility -Listing should have a phone and be regularly staffed. 3) Longevity -Listing should be long term. The organization in a region that best meets these criteria should be the listing for that region. This list is intended for undogmatic left organizers who are working for a basic i.e. radical change in society. There is an emphasis on youth and non-professional groups. It is my experience that more reform minded, established, or professional groups generally have their own contacts and aren't that interested in working with younger, more radical groups anyway. Such groups should be listed where this is not the case or where no other groups exist. My idea is a booklet with a list of a few hundred contacts, an introduction, examples of usage, a section on electronic networking and a list of other networking resources. Each listing would include: -address, phone, fax, modem, e-mail -languages spoken, both regularly (for phone calls) and when needed (for letters) -self description (organizational form, activities, and extent of activist contacts) The next steps: Hopefully in the next few months this project will be transformed from a proposal to a collective of people working to make it a reality. I imagine that after receiving responses to this proposal and altering it accordingly, an address list would be assembled and a questionaire sent out, asking groups if they want to be listed and if so, asking for information. Some will respond to this proposal with the important point that inter-regional networking should not be attempted before local activism is well established. This list, however is not intended as a network, but as a tool for networking. Internationalism is a very important principle. A radical organizers contact list (as a resource for international solidarity work) is, I believe, well worth the effort. Please respond to this proposal with criticism and ideas. Everything is flexible. I am concerned with my lack of contact with workers' movement, women's movement, and 3rd world organizers. Are there already existing networks or lists which can be used for this project? People interested in working on this project in any way please contact me. Backround: I'm a U.S. American, doing a 1 1/2 year study abroad program in Jena (in former East Germany). I'll return to the U.S. in August `92 McKay Russo c/o Institut Fuer Auslandsgermanistik Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet O-6900 Jena Germany e-mail: mckay.russo@philosophie.uni-jena.dbp.de ** END OF MESSAGE ** ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 27 Swooping Heron's comments sjohgart 6:14 pm Sep 25, 1991 Our brother Swooping Heron is incarcerated in Michigan's Upper Peninsula at the moment. I sent him a transcript of awf.rainbownews involving the Vision Council in Vermont (and some of the other stuff that was interspersed). Since he naturally has no access to PeaceNet himself, he asked that I post this reflection on what he read--the following are the words of Swooping Heron: "There are people who are attending gatherings now who weren't even born when the first Gathering happened. Most of these people are not children of those who were at the first Gatherings. The questions that need asked are: (A) How do our traditions get passed on from year to year when so many new faces show up each year? Obviously, if our traditions are important, then they have to be expressed clearly at the Welcome Center--we need to look at updating Rap 107 to explain more clearly our council process, our magic hatIto explain why Gatherings were born to begin with. (2) Do we as a family really need/value our traditions? (Personally, I think we do--I value our circle of silence and prayer for peace, healing and togetherness on July 4th above most everything else. I value our council process.) "As for our council process, I wish to remind all of us that Gatherings are very important to some of our sisters and brothers. When we go and participate in a council circle, we are giving our bodies, minds and spirits to the service of the entire Family. As such, participation in the council process is a surrendering of the personal ego in favor of the Family's needs (which aren't always clear, so a successful council needs may differing personalitiesQthe same thing that often bogs councils down). If someone wants to play or seek attention, they aren't in a position to be doing "public service". True public service requires humility and guts. "Before I get down to specific comments on the stuff you sent, I offer one more optionQto be considered seriously, thought over well, and discussed by many before adoption. If, as apparently happened in Vermont, one person's grandstanding in a council circle, blocking consensus without a good reason is not acceptable, then we should consider using a "consensus minus one" system. Quite simply, it means it takes two to block consensus. If there are 150 people in a circle, And I'm convinced that the other 149 are mistaken, then I have to convince one other person that I am right. I can imagine some objectionsQ"well, if two can block consensus, next we'll allow consensus with 3 objectingQsoon, we'll be a dictatorship!" To that I say, "I'm only seeking a way to prevent one goof whose 'platform' has no merit from monkey wrenching our sacred process of making decisions that affect the entire family." "I especially like the suggestion that those who wish to participate in Vision Council (and, I add, that can be expanded to include other important "business" decisions, provided announcement is made sufficiently in advance) must come to council circle on time, and leave as a group to a quiet place, conducive to thinking and listeningQto fast until a decision is reached, followed by an announcement in main circle, followed by a feast & celebration. "As I read of San Juan National Forest as a possible site in Colorado, I flashed in my mind to a beautiful valley (about 9,000 feet up) in the eastern San Juans where Mary and Tofu [his dog--ed.] and I spent a night back in '79...tears welled up as I "saw" the family gathered thereQhomesick tears. That could be home! Let the Colorado folks network for Thanksgiving Council, and do the work needed to make a national Gathering succeed. Meanwhile, if the South Dakota folks can put their action where their words were, let there be a Summer Solstice Prayer Vigil with the traditional Lakota people in South Dakota. Let us ask the Spirit if we are, as a family, ready to go to the spiritual center of Turtle Island and respect the landQhome of Crazy Horse and Black ElkQand the people. Can we cope with the alcohol camp scene, knowing that a higher percentage of Native Americans suffer from (genetic) metabolic alcoholism than any other specific population? Can we cope with people, barely more than kids, walking around with signs on their backs saying "Dose me", when I am in prison, along with so many other sisters and brothers, for possessing said chemicalsQwhen such "sacraments", which used to be sacred and spiritual, are being used as toys by youngsters who aren't anywhere near their spiritual maturity? "If I'm out of this damn prison in time (God/dess, let's hope & pray so) I'll gather with the family wherever we go. If I'm kept informed, I'll do my best to personally address those who cling to the South Dakota consensusQI'll do my best to smooth any ruffled feathers. I am adamant in my desire to not let this confusion over consensus drive a wedge in our family. I can't bear to think that we will fall prey to outside "divide and conquer" forces due to our own councilling ineptitude. We are still learning, still stumbling 'round in the dark at times, even 'tho we've all seen the light at one time or another. "We as a family, and as individuals, have a lot of growing to do. I believe that I will keep on growing right up to the moment I die. It's the process that counts, more than the end result. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that because we are Rainbow people, standing for peace, love, harmony, sugar and spice and everything nice, we are above the pitfalls of humanity. In some ways, we are more susceptible, because we are trusting, loving, and "do our laundry in public". Do not get discouraged or fed up with "Rainbow" because w don't live up to misgiven visions of spiritual perfection. Being perfectly human means we are perfectly capable of failing--the question is, can we pick up the pieces and go on...the difference between making a mistake and being a mistake. "Namaste. "Blessed be and divine do. Remain in light, walk in balance. "I love you! Peace, Jay "Swoop" Austern" That's what Swoop had to say. He's a good brother. I'll periodically print transcripts of awf.rainbownews for him. If anyone would like to correspond with him directly, he'd love that--his address is: Jay Austern 193217 Chippewa Regional Correctional Facility Pike Unit 4535 W. Tone Rd. Kincheloe, MI 49784-0001 And, hey, I love y'all too! Peace! --Gonzo-- ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 28 Swooping Heron's comments pfraterdeus 1:40 am Sep 26, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Swooping Heron's comments Attn: awf.rainbownews Swooping Heron's comments 9/26/91 3:44 AM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! Thanks so much Gonzo! (Also a big thanks for sending Denise W. our way! We're blessed by her healing and happy spirit!) And thanks to Swoop.... Brother, I will see you soon, at home on the planet, our Earth! I heartily Ho! Your perspective and prescription for the Rainbow tribe are of great value and wisdom. I'm very happy to have your words here on PeaceNet, as well. All the Best, Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 29 The Huichol Tribe of Mexico mendicott 2:18 pm Sep 26, 1991 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: The Huichol Tribe of Mexico /* Written 9:41 am Sep 23, 1991 by aicoord in cdp:gn.tribalsurvi */ /* ---------- "The Huichol Tribe of Mexico" ---------- */ The Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts, 20 de Noviembre 452, Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, Mexico, (323) 5-11-71 The Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts is a non-profit organization, located in the town of Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, Mexico, and is coordinated by two offices in the US (one in Oakland, CA, and the other in Cottonwood, AZ). Volunteers and staff from the US and Mexico help to promote the Huichol Center by selling Huichol artwork and networking with individuals, organizations, and foundations, for support. The goal of the Huichol Center is to help Huichols survive the cultural transition that they are now undergoing as a result of mass migrations out of their tradtional homelands into Mexico's labor force, where they work as field hands. These migrations threaten the continuation of Huichol traditional life, which has remained viable since ancient times. The Huichol Center helps them to preserve their cultural, spiritual and artistic heritage while adapting to the demands of the modern world which they have recently become a part of. The following Huichol Center projects have been created to realize this goal: Medical: The health of the Huichols who migrate out of their homelands to work in tobacco fields has been seriously damaged by the effects of malnutrition, parasitic diseases, infectious diseases (i.e., measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough), and insecticide poisoning. Medical attention at the Huichol Center is provided by traditional shamans and Mexican doctors. Services include Preventative Medicine, Prenatal Care, Birthing, Emergency Care, Nutritional Counseling, and Alcohol Counseling. Hunger: The Huichol Center feeds and shelters hundreds of migrant families who find themselves without resources while looking for jobs outside of their homeland. The Huichol Center Vegetable Garden provides education in gardening techniques and exposure to healthy foods they may grow in their homelands for better nutrition. The Center encourages people to learn traditional art skills so they may remain in their homelands, plant their own gardens, and remain economically self-sufficient. Legal: As Huichol governmental officials become more integrated into the Mexican legal system, they require financial support to hire laywers to protect them against such things as outside encroachment on their land, the illegal cutting of their forests and stealing of their timber, illegal cattle grazing on their lands, and false imprisonment of innocent Huichols. The Huichol Center provides financial support for legal aid. Economic: As the Huichol people have been forced in recent years to transform their corn trading culture into a cash economy, they have the great necessity to create jobs for themselves inside their homeland. The Huichol Center provides skill training in traditional art forms, such as embrodiery, beadwork, weaving, yarn painting, and more, so that the Huichols may become self-sufficient artesans rather than field workers. Marketing: The Huichol Center provides Huichols with the ability to market their artwork within Mexico and in the US. The Huichol Center Art School has taught them to not only create works of the highest artistic and cultural integrity, but how to ask for and receive fair makret prices for their work. Conservation of Traditional Culture: Many of the ancient rituals and traditions are being lost or forgotten as the elders die off and Huichol children are educated in schools rather than in the ceremonies. The Huichol Center Ethnographic Archive contains valuable knowledge from shamans and other individuals who have made a conscious effort to record and document this old knowledge before it disappears. Photographs, music, artwork, and taped interviews are contained in this comprehensive archive. In addition, the Huichol Center Design Archive is composed of hundreds of traditional patterns that have been graphed out and documented for posterity and for distribution to Huichol artists. Aid to Huichol Temple Groups: The caretakers of the Huichol temples, religious objects, and guardians of the traditiona are faced with extreme economic hardship in modern times which threatens the continuation of these ancient customs. For example, an important part of the Huichol ceremonial cycle is the annual journey the guardians make to their far-off sacred lands. Previously, the religious pilgrims could make these journeys by foot. But now their traditional trails have been blocked off by barbed wire fences, and they are forced to take modern transportation. The costs of these journeys are prohibitively expensive to some Huichols. The Huichol Center provides economic aid to some temple groups in order to help defer the costs of these important journeys. Huichol Ethnographic Museum: The Huichol Center is in the process of establishing a major museum in the town of Sanitago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, which will provide an economic alternative to working in the tobacco fields. The museum will provide the Huichol people with the proper recognition of their unique culture and safeguard examples of their art and knowledge for future generations. It will also provide the Huichols with a meeting ground outside of their homeland where they may market their artwork directly to the public. US Non-Profit Foundation Address: PO Box 1430, Cottonwood, AZ, 86326, (602) 634-3946 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 30 Reflections from the Beaver Pond sjohgart 7:51 pm Sep 27, 1991 Some brief reflections from the beaver pond: I haven't had a chance to really reflect in writing lately on all that's been happ'nin' around the family; I thought I'd meditate at the keyboard here, see what thoughts I have I don't know about yet. The Michigan Regional happened last weekend near the town of Hesperia on the banks of the White River. For a change, I had little to do with it except go out there and enjoy--brother Dale from Grand Rapids folkalized the deal; he says that it was the spirit actually folkalized it--the spirit just found him and had him do the physical work, so don't thank him, he didn't really make a choice. Well, thanks anyway, Dale! The Sunday circle talked a bit about Colorado and South Dakota; clearly the energy in that circle (of about 30 folks) was aimed at the Rockies; we generally agreed that the family hasn't grown enough to be ready for the spirit of the Black Hills. We also talked about future regional events--we are definitely planning a picnic for color season on October 19 at the Rose Lake Outdoor Research Area near Lansing, Michigan. We also are tentatively planning a winter regional gathering for late January sometime at Nordhouse Dunes--if anyone has or knows anyone who has enthusiasm and expertise in winter camping, please get involved; we figure some good advance preparation needs to happen if a crisp cold snowy regional is to be a pleasant time for all who attend. Gregory (of the E Pluri Bus) also wants to folkalize a spring regional trip to the Pictured Rocks area in the Upper Peninsula, and the Wisconsin folks are talking of a June regional in northern Wisconsin. Lots of good stuff a-happ'nin'! As I read here the comments on the rather chaotic vision council, I am particularly struck by the distress, the concern that Rainbow may be losing its grip on itself. I find particular concern in proposals for changes in process which bring a rigidity and lack of tolerance. I see folks in effect saying, "We can't let a group of contraries ruin our Gatherings." If we aren't careful, the contraries will ruin our Gatherings not by clogging the process but by making us lose sight of our vision, our ideals, our spirit. It is even more destructive to set up the councils so that only certain people are allowed, that only certain speech is permitted, that a structure must be enforced, than it is to have those who don't seem to have a respect for what the Gathering is about take advantage of the freedom they have. It seems to me that we must keep sight of the fact that the Gathering is just a temporal manifestation of a greater vision, a living thing in a sense. If the contraries are to "ruin" the Gathering, better that it be in an organic blockage as the life process runs its natural course than in forcing us away from the spirit that we come to the Gathering to circle around. Although the Gathering can disappear, the vision that brought it into being is still there--no contrarity can make the vision die. We who care are still here, we still feel the love and the hope and the Spirit, and always we will be together. One day, although I don't feel this is that day--I think this particular blockage will clear in time for the '92 Gathering to happen--one day the Gathering will become clogged and old and will be ready to die. Let's not stick it on a respirator just so we can get a bunch of people together on a piece of land and worship its lifeless corpse; it is all right to mourn the passing, but let's let it go, and be open to the new manifestation of the vision that must arise beyond. Peace to you--we will be together. There is no other way. I love you! (And hey--let's not lose sight of the humor in all this, either!) Gonzo Beaver ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 31 Regarding PFDA Ads pfraterdeus 10:25 pm Sep 28, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Regarding PFDA Ads Attn: awf.rainbownews Subject: Time:12:28 AM OFFICE MEMO Regarding PFDA Ads Date:9/29/91 Thought y'all might be interested in this.... Peter (The awf.rainbownews conference does not endorse the following (or any posting, as far as I know!)) (all views are those of the author, a private person (and hard to get hold of, as well...) P. -------------------------Tear Here------------------------- Monday, August 12, 1991 Editor--The New York Times 229 w. 43rd St. New York City 10036 Editor, The August 12th full page ad from "Partnership for a Drug Free America" implies that cannabis (marijuana) is as dangerous as crack or cocaine. This is false and deliberately misleading. Not only is cannabis non-toxic and non-addictive, but it has, in fact, been proven in numerous government and other studies to be a valuable, medically useful plant.. The current atmosphere of the New Inquisition serves to paint a significant portion of this country's citizens with a broad brush of dangerous intolerance. This type of witch-hunting mentality serves to derail legitimate scientific research as well as persecuting individuals for the use of an herb described by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young as "one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man" (Washington Post 9/7/88). Judge Young also notes that there is not a single documented death caused by marijuana. Compare this to alcohol and tobacco, neither of which will get your property seized, nor earn you a jail term! "PFDA" received some millions of dollars worth of free media last year. One questions their integrity and their sources. Shouldn't the Times do so as well? Sincerely, Peter Fraterdeus cc: Rep. Sidney Yates (9th-IL) Sen. Paul Simon (IL) Sen Alan Dixon (IL) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 32 Gonzo! (also Hoosier story) pfraterdeus 10:28 pm Sep 28, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Gonzo! (also Hoosier story) Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Gonzo! (also Hoosier story) Thanks for a WONDERful post! What a guy! I'd have responded in the conference, but I only use this QuickMail thing that chops off the subject line after 25 chars, y'see, and if it doesn't match the topic exactly, it ends up as a new topic.... With the same name except chopped off at the... well. (i'm working on a solution...) I'll be distributing some of your words (and other awf.stuff) at next weeks picnic. I'm ALL FOR Nordhouse this winter!!!! Can't Wait! (I spent January in a PeaceVigil on a median strip in Coloardo Springs. Love to look up at them crisp stars when it's about 5 below. Course, we had a giant pancake made of cardboard, tarps, blankets, sleeping bags, one-to-two-dozen people, more blankets, and more tarps. Nothing like city ambulance drivers pulling up in their flashing finest at 3:30 in the morning and handing 4 boxes of dunkin donuts and hot coffee out the window!) I can't wait to do it without streetlights! Love you :'_) Do you ever check out alt.magick? I spend some time there. Also oz.visionary Petros __________________________ Here's a story from the Wabash-Ohio Indiana Regional back a couple weeks.... I thought I'd take my woks and my good steel chopper down to Indiana, figuring I'd hook up with a kitchen once I got there. Pulled in late, of course, and crashed in the weeds (love 'em) off of the parking meadow. Walked in the next day to find the CALM bus at the bottom of the hill, a beautiful boughed and beamed Info Center staffed by Ric and Duane and Stash, and a beautiful Freedom Farm Kitchen purring by the roadside. Wandered up the other side with brother EarthSong (one of our scouts), down and around up to Main Meadow, passed it down and along the shady grove up to the Medicine Wheel and Sacred Circle. Got back to Freedom in time to sit in on council where Water-Singing-0n-the-Rocks (Water, to his friends) was summarizing the work councils for the day. "OK, whoever volunteered to help with the kitchens, go with those folks. You're ready to start a kitchen, right?" (Looking at me) Yeah! Let's go ! ! ! OK! Let's go back up the hill again..... Pass by the main meadow, where the drummers will be gathering at night. Too hot here in the day, tooo, whhoooo. OK down the way again, just about to the shady lane... Yeah, this looks good! There's Dennis and someone sittin' in there... Yeah, OK let's see. Here's a treee, an' there's a treeee, and there's another treeee. An' here an' here an' here. OK Let's put up a shelf here! Let's put the kitchen fire here! Got some good rocks? Great! OH! Howdy! Gosh, I guess we're not really cooking, yet, but let us get some of these here poles tidey up.... Oh Howdy! Um, yeah, just cutting the onions! Couplea more minutes! OK! Get those woks HOT! Blow on that Fire! Boom!!!! *==*==*==* Amazing Hootin' Holler Kitchen TofuVegie StirFry for the masses...... *==*==*==* With cashew-almond-peanut butter sauce (with thanks to EastWinds!) ------------------- My Rainbow Love Always to Denise and Jay, and Carlos (for everything), and John, and Jenny, and Kirsten, and Doug, and Earthsong, of course.... and everyone! I love you more than words can say! P. _________________ When I die, just put my ashes in the can nearby some well loved shitter, and I'll help keep the flies away as I return to my maker...... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 33 Great Lakes Bioregional Congress sjohgart 2:55 pm Sep 29, 1991 The following is a transcript of a flyer I received a few weeks ago (sorry I'm posting it so late--my computer died a second time and I've been without it for a month, just got it back a few days ago and forgot I had the flyer) (if you are thinking of attending, call the phone number--they're insisting on advance registration). ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- GREAT LAKES BIOREGIONAL CONGRESS '91 OCTOBER 4 - 6, HELL, MICHIGAN Take the Pledge of Alliance with Life in your Home Place The Great Lakes, the inland seas shaped y millennia of glacial movement and meltdown, are the shining heart of our bioregion. We acknowledge that in the past 200 years, our home place has been sorely tried. The lake waters and shorelines, the bordering watersheds and socialsheds, and the atmosphere that blankets us, all have been exploited. Pledge to help restore and protect the water, soil and sky - the commons we must share. We live among ghosts of beaver, wolverine, gray fox and marten, of bison, elk and wolves. We live among ghosts of passenger pigeons, sandhill cranes, meadowlarks and marsh hawks. We live among ghosts of white pine forests, tallgrass prairies and oak savannas. We live in a land of broken treaties, among the shades of a dozen Indian nations. Pledge to help learn our natural and cultural histories and birth a new pattern for human living. Now, when the U.S. government is bankrupted by militarism and wedded to the interests of multinational corporations; when wars are being fought over dwindling natural resources, while mindless consumerism continues unabated; when human populations burgeon and other species go extinct; when racism and sexism cause the suffering of millions, now is the time to find a better way. Pledge to heal the wounds and serve the cause of life through nonviolence, mindfulness, creativity and strength. At the Fourth Great Lakes Bioregional Congress, we will work, take council and sing together to envision such a lifeway. We will explore the central questions of scale and place. We will make our decisions by consensus because w believe that by discussing and sharing as equals, we can arrive at a greater, more enduring truth on which to base our actions. Majority rule, however efficient it may appear to be, always results in disempowered minorities; the foundations are always cracked. Pledge to listen respectfully, speak truthfully, honor diversity and build community. Our gathering will take place at the University of Michigan's Fresh Air Camp in Hell (really!), about 25 miles northwest of Ann Arbor. The program will begin Friday evening, October 4 and continue through early afternoon on Sunday, October 6. Participants will stay either in indoor bunks or camp outside. Meals will be vegetarian, prepared as much as possible from organic, locally grown foodstuffs. There will be daytime youth activities for 6-12 year olds, but no other formal arrangements for child care. We will try to coordinate ride-sharing and transportation from the Ann Arbor train station. Portions of the site are wheelchair accessible. No dogs allowed. Musical instruments aloud. Pledge to travel lightly, eat low on the food chain and nurture the next generation. The program for the Congress is in process. Offerings of knowledge and organizational help are welcome. Plans to date include opening and closing ceremonies, an orientation to the local ecology of the camp, exhibits and bazaar, workshops, time for early morning devotions (nature walks, running, yoga, or whatever), late afternoon fun-having (music, games and stuff), and a big party Saturday night. Caucuses, microregional and watershed councils and affinity groups can claim time and space to form. Networking and friend-making opportunities will abound. Pledge to pursue the arts of peace and the politics of sustainability. For more information: GLBC '91, P.O. Box 724, Petoskey, MI 49770 (616) 347-8919. Fees: Adults (13 or older): cabin $65, camping $55; Children (3 - 12 years): cabin $43, camping $36; under 3 free. Fees include the Congress, lodging, and meals for the entire weekend. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 34 to UseNet 5 responses pfraterdeus 11:54 pm Oct 2, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: to UseNet Attn: awf.rainbownews From PNMAILONLY to UseNet (Howdy, CyberFamily!!! This is something that I should share with all of you. Any reaction to this possibility? (Of patching the conference out to the usenet universe?) I will follow up on the basis of your feedback. It would be an appropriate time to come up with a new name, as well. Even if the PeaceNet conference remained the same, the UseNet newsgroup should be established with a new name. I suppose it would be an 'alt.xxxx' group. This would bring us in touch directly with an enormous number of University sites, and overseas tribal family. Another advantage is that people with access to university computers can get free access to usenet and internet mail facilities, often from a library, or from home. This is certainly a plus over requiring folks to sign-up on PeaceNet for Minimum $10.00 a month. However, for the computer wary, PeaceNet offers a MUCH simpler, friendlier face to the user. I've been a computer user for well over ten years, and I'm just now beginning to scratch the surface of the (muchly) UNIX based networking world that exists in here (out there don't sound quite right...-) I think the PeaceNet is a very valuable resource, and we should continue to encourage folks to sign on, at least for a few months each, just to get comfortable with the concept! If this goes through, I'll be asking for the advise of those of you with usenet/unix expertise to help create a simple primer to working with "alt.rainbownews", probably with 'rn'. I still can't seem to filter the mass of newsgroups down to the ones I really want! Some name seeds..... alt.tribaltales | oooo alt.gatheringnews |\ 0 o0 alt.pot-o-gold | \ 0 o0 alt.freedomlives | / 0 alt.free-to-assemble |/ H alt.rainbowtales * | 0 alt.rainbowtribes * | O (* I know, some people (whose opinions I respect greatly) object to having "rainbow" in the title, due to the fear of perceived confusion with an official statement of the Rainbow Family Council, but I'd like to see how >everybody< feels.....(and I think an appropriate disclaimer would work to keep things clear) I feel that using "rainbow", lower case, as a keyword can help folks enormously in trying to find us. The name of the conference in no way implies the ownership by a particular group! I would encourage the name to use "rainbow" in this context. However, I will act on the feeling of the feedback I receive.) Love you all! Peter) Message 20 (45 lines) From awhitworth Wed Oct 2 21:14:54 1991 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 21:14:53 PDT From: Anthony Whitworth (IGC Support) To: pfraterdeus Subject: to UseNet > From pfraterdeus Wed Oct 2 18:39:49 1991 > > I've been getting questions from Internet users about whether > awf.rainbownews will be available on usenet... IGC conferences are not ordinarily sent out on the usenet. However since you are the shopsteward at you may want to begin negotiations with IGC on what it would take to broaden the distribution into the usenet world. I think its mostly a matter of starting a new newsgroup on the usenet, and ask tech staff here to feed the new newsgroup into . Gary Trujillo does that with and , where I must say that these originate, I think, on his own machine in MA. Anyway he sends them out as a LISTSERV to the internet / bitnet, and we format them to show up as a conference. Contact Sue van Hattum about that.<<>> seems like a likable bunch of people, quite jovial and earthy, I'll put it on my visit list. > I was wondering if you all can think of an appropriate newsgroup > that I might try posting a couple of current Rainbow messages to > give non-igc folks a chance at it! Really don't spend much time in usenet newsgroups, but you might consult the confonference directory (l)ist (o)ther (u)senet > > I've got folks all over starting to ask about internet access to > PeaceNet. I tell them to try telnet igc.org, and I was wondering, > also, if there's now an online sign-up procedure? Yes there is on-line signup. Telnet to igc.org, at the login prompt type 'new' hit return twice, and follow the signup routine. Have a credit card ready. In Peace Anthony Whitworth, IGC Support, Fairbanks, Alaska ----------Tear here-------------- To: suev@peacenet Sue-- What's involved with establishing a newsgroup on usenet? Is it something that could be initiated by an individual? Or should a group sort of create a petition? Who do I ask to create it? So much to learn, so much time to sit in the cafe....... Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 34 mendicott 4:06 pm Oct 3, 1991 Rainbow is the circle... around the Sun. The circle is the oracle. Yes, we are anarchists, but divine ones; truly inspired initiative honors itself. But, in case you've forgotten... the family is an outlaw tribe, and until further notice... is still underground. This is one reason Rainbow warriors, and their circles, are shielded with Rainbow names. I feel that starting a usenet newsgroup is a good idea for two reasons: it would not only broaden the computer circle in an absolute sense, but also provide more access for those with less money. I do not feel that two such conferences must necessarily be identical, in content or in name. The problem with having *rainbow* in the title is confusion over the authority of the continental tribal council [*great council of the Rainbow nation*], or any bioregional [*regional*] or metropolitan council. The real problems appear only when money is involved; Rainbow is not a business. But as you know, there are also many of us who are computer-phobic, and some for good reason! Do *yourself* a favour... do not put rainbow in the title of a new usenet newsgroup; you have gotten away with setting this precedent thus far precisely because of the limited, elite access here. Further, the less the computer circle has to do with the politics of ALL WAYS FREE... the better! Take a hint from one of the computer circle's earlier attempts at computerized communication: SPECTRUM. "alt.tribaltales" and "alt.gatheringnews" both implie confusion over which tribe and which gatherings. I would rather see "alt.allwaysfree" than "alt.freedomlives" or "alt.free-to-assemble". "alt.pot-o-gold" is definately mercurial and mystic enough! ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 34 pfraterdeus 3:49 am Oct 4, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: to UseNet Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM to UseNet (forwarded from usenet mail system by petros) ********************************************** Message 27 (48 lines) From salem@Think.COM Thu Oct 3 12:41:55 1991 From: Jim Salem Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 15:38:09 EDT To: pfraterdeus@igc.org Cc: jmc@vision3.anatomy.upenn.edu Subject: to UseNet Opening it up to Usenet is a bit scary to me. The usenet noise level is so high and the forum so public that I don't believe it is a good way to exchange information among focalizers. I hope there would still be some quieter way to spread sensitive information. On the other hand, it is a great way to spread information (e.g. "Howdy folks") fast and would be open to so many more people. I suspect the majority of the newsgroup's users would be people who have never attended a gathering. Because of the potentially high volume, it would be very useful to clearly state the focus of the newsgroup. For example, awf.rainbownews has received cross-postings of rec.drugs among other. I suggest that alt.rainbownews be (self) limited to news directly affecting gathering such as announcements, legal decisions vis-a-vis right to gather, as well as the inevitable squabbles about shitters, etc. Do you think there is any way we could become an "officially sanctioned" group ala rec.rainbow ? Many sites do not receive the alt groups. It would be very nice to have two newsgroups: alt.rainbow.news and alt.rainbow.flame or somesuch. This helps the signal-to-noise ratio. I have no trouble with "rainbow" in the title. I thought your paragraph discussing the issue was great. Thanks for working on this. Much love to you, Jim P.S. I don't know how to set up newsgroups, but I'm sure it can't be too hard . . . ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 34 wfoster 12:29 pm Oct 4, 1991 Hellow Cyber-Circle: I am glad to see the discussions about extending rainbownews to the UseNet community. Certainly, UseNet is an important dimension in the rapidly evolving "network without boundaries". Under a different hat, I am working to extend Internet and UseNet connections into the commercial world, and am very interested in any attempts to build "cross-domain" conferences. Clearly the issues of naming are central to "cross-domain" communication whether in X.500 (naming directories) or in rainbow circles? My perspective is conditioned by my college work "deconstructing" the illusions that "proper nouns" are somehow outside the play of signification (that a proper noun refers to a "real thing"). All attempts to "secure" identity by excluding otherness, are insecure precisely because identity is constituted by the otherness it excludes. Certainly, the Rainbow is not about excluding "difference", but there is the lingering concern that the Rainbow will fall into a "babble". The traditions have stressed the importance of having the Circle speak for the Rainbow, though what constitutes a circle is quite justifiably something very open to discussion. I am for increasing the number of "Proper Names" we use in our circles, not to protect the "sacredness" of the word "Rainbow", but because I relish the creative power of language and the free play of meaning. Yet Peter's point about indexing on the word "rainbow" is well taken as we need to use signs that can communicate and point the way. I love the possible conference name Pot-o-Gold, with its implications that there is infinite wealth in the rainbow, but it can never be possessed. Swami Veet Brahm ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 34 jjohnson@uujobs.com 11:18 pm Oct 4, 1991 I feel that becoming an alt.* group is a great idea! It is the most natural solution to the access, commerce, and organizational association objections that I have encountered many times in my discussions with those unfamiliar with PeaceNet, other nets, and computers. The best description I've ever heard about usenet is that it is an "information cooperative", and is not a commercial service, or perhaps even an entity for that matter - so much the better. This would be very appropriate. I agree with mendicott that we should stay away from "rainbow in the name, but maybe for different reasons. I often feel that we may soon be limited by continuing to give ourselves such a label, and that we are sometimes endangered by our attachment to the name. Plus, even though the Rainbow Family Tribal Council may have some gripers on the subject, they have no more claim to "rainbow" than anybody else. The main idea is that the RFTC is the only thing that can do anything in the name of the Continental/National Gathering - but doesn't control AllWays Free, for example, & any other avowed "independent" efforts undertaken by individuals. I'm not really hung up on a name either way, but really would like to avoid political hassles about using "rainbow", which would be inevitable. I suggest alt.tribes, although if we're gonna use "rainbow", I like the idea of alt.rainbow.talk, alt.rainbow.calendar, etc. Correct me if I'm wrong, peter, but PeaceNet could set this up with relatively no hassle, eh? Thump --> Options Unlimited Jim Johnson, CPC <-- --> Unix Personnel Services Internet: jjohnson@uujobs.com <-- --> Voice: (301) 587-2338 uucp: uunet!uujobs!jjohnson <-- --> FAX: (301) 585-4779 Compuserve: 72357,2473 <-- --> USmail: PO Box 11023, Silver Spring, MD 20913 <-- ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 34 sjohgart 6:58 am Oct 5, 1991 I think "rainbow" should definitely be part of the name--"rainbow" is used all the time for other than official Rainbow Family Tribal Council stuff-- regional gatherings, after all, aren't "officially" "sanctioned" by RFTC, nor are picnics or yard sales or anything we do locally. "Rainbow" is used to easily identify for folks what the focus of an event is likely to be. I don't see any reason it can't serve the same purpose for messaging. Although the other reasons given for not using "rainbow" are philosopically just fine, they ingnore the purpose of using "rainbow" in the name, which is so folks who are interested in Rainbow news can easily locate it. Someone looking for Rainbow info isn't likely to search a name containing "pot" or "gold", nice as using the name of the Chicago newsletter might be, and someone searching "tribal" is more likely to be looking for Native American info than rainbow info. I don't see where opening our info up to a lot of folks is a problemn; we have always kept "open books" as far as what is going on; we may be out of the mainstream, but we needn't be ashamed of even the controversial part of our process. We have been blessed by the Light shining on us--let it shine, I say. Gonzo ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 35 European Gypsies Attacked mendicott 7:33 am Oct 5, 1991 MOSCOW (OCT. 2) UPI - A delegation of Hungarian gypsies to the Moscow human rights conference said Wednesday anti-Gypsy sentiment was increasing in Eastern Europe, with incidents of violence and discrimination on the rise. Nicolae Gheorghe, vice president of the Romany International Union, told a news conference that attacks and discrimination against Gypsy communities were spreading in Europe, particularly in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union. ''These are not local incidents,'' he said. ''It's a trend.'' Gheorghe said the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, under whose auspices the Moscow Conference on the Human Dimension is being held, should become actively involved in monitoring the status of Gypsies in CSCE countries. He asserted that violence against Gypsies was often tacitly tolerated by local authorities, whom he said rarely prosecuted people suspected of participating in attacks on Gypsies or their property. Gheorghe said that in Romania local Gypsy organizations have documented 15 serious attacks against Gypsy communities in 1990 and 1991, resulting in six deaths and the destruction of 240 residences. He said there has been only one successful prosecution to date. ''There are cases where Gypsies are killed, their houses burned down, their property destroyed or stolen,'' he said, ''and nothing was brought to the courts. Justice was not applied.'' Gheorghe noted there were some positive signs that European governments were paying attention to the chronic poverty and lack of education among Gypsy communities which he said was a major cause of ethnic tension with non-Gypsies. He said the European Community had funded programs for teaching the Gypsy language, which is called Romany, and publishing Romany-language textbooks. He noted that the Finnish government had set up a housing progam for Gypsies, and the Romanian government was considering providing vocational training for Gypsies. There are 6.7 million Gypsies in Europe, according to the Rome-based Center for Gypsy Studies. The largest European Gypsy community is in Romania, which has 2.2 million Gypsies. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 36 ALLWAYS FREE NEW ADDRESS lbadger 2:04 am Oct 7, 1991 ALL WAYS FREE BOX 24715 EUGENE, OREGON 97402 (503) 345-7366 CARLA Howdy, no sorry Carla is not on line as of yet... although I am doing my best to bring her up to date by editing bits and pieces out of the conference... M.A.R.S. myself ( Lyonel Badger ) and ( Alan ) met with Carla, Buddha John and Sparrow Daydancer last week and held a small A.W.F. council which was rather impromptued... we are thinking of doing a winter short issue of the A.W.F. and try to update the whole family on all the comings and goings on... Yes we have great expectations and plan to put the big issue out before the gathering as we feel it can best serve everyone by coming out in Spring...istead of a post mordem of years past... Love you all,, Lyonel Monterey Area Rainbow Service ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 37 Alert-Press Release-Info needed 1 response dwirtshafter 6:42 pm Oct 8, 1991 NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 9 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT DOUG MCVAY 202-882-2283 FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO WV DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY Photos Contradict Coroner's Preliminary Report; Beating Suspected OCT. 9, POCAHONTAS COUNTY, WV -- Family members and witnesses who have seen pictures of the body of a New Mexico man are questioning preliminary reports that he had apparently committed suicide after being arrested by Pocahontas Co., WV, police on Sept. 26. According to an Associated Press story published in the Albuquerque Journal Oct. 6th, the sister of Dominic Roger Moya described his body as "covered with welts and bruises". This would appear to contradict the WV Medical Examiner's preliminary report, which only described "superficial lacerations present on the forearm and neck", and listed the cause of death as "strangulation by hanging", which the sheriff's department and state police claim was self-inflicted. Photographs taken by the sister, Debby Martinez, to prove the condition of the body, showed numerous bruises and other wounds. Moya's family as well as witnesses are challenging the conduct of WV Pocahontas County Sheriff's Department, and the willingness of WV State Police to investigate the death. According to Jeff Kimball of the FBI's Pittsburgh office, the FBI will investigate Moya's death for possible civil rights violations. Volunteer investigators turned over evidence, including pictures of the body and depositions, to FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. Moya was attending a regional "Rainbow Gathering" in George Washington and Monongahela National Forests. Rainbow Gatherings are open, free events held in many parts of US and the world that promote love, community, family, peace, and an ecological harmony with the earth. There have been several Gatherings in the area over the last eleven years. Moya was found lying in a ditch near Bartow, WV, around 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 26, by some local youths in a pickup truck. They took him to a nearby restaurant, where an ambulance was summoned. Pocahontas County police arrived at the scene first and took Moya into custody, despite Moya's pleas for medical attention, according to witnesses. An ambulance arrived before police left the scene. When a paramedic sought to attend to Moya, witnesses report hearing Deputy Troy McCoy, in charge at the scene, say "he's coming with us." An acquaintance of Moya, who visited him in his cell on the upper level of the county jail at about 2:30 p.m. later that day, described him as showing no bruises or other injuries. According to police Moya was found hanging by an electrical cord, taken from a television in his isolation cell, from a shower curtain rod at 4:58 p.m. The presence of a television set and electrical cord in his isolation cell was unexplained, especially in view of claims by the Sheriff's Office that Moya had attempted to hurt himself prior to his death. A former state chief medical examiner has disputed a preliminary finding by the WV Chief Medical Examiner that Moya had LSD in his bloodstream. According to Dr. Arthur McBay, retired Chief Medical Examiner for the State of North Carolina, testing for LSD in the blood is nearly impossible. Not only is LSD practically impossible to detect in the body, but very few labs in the country are capable of doing such testing. Also, the substance is cleared from the system within 8 to 12 hours after ingestion. Local people and witnesses to Moya's arrest express skepticism regarding any investigation which takes place within WV. "There have been a lot of mysterious deaths in Pocahontas County," said one area resident. "I'll testify, but not in any West Virginia court," said another. This is not the first time Rainbow People have died mysteriously in Pocahontas County. In 1980, shortly before a gathering of 7500 people, Vicki Durien of Iowa and Nancy Santomaro of NY were found murdered near Lobelia, WV. 11 years later, the case remains unsolved. Our hearts go out to the family of Dominic Moya, and we pray that the truth in this matter come to the light of day. PHONE NUMBERS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: FBI REGIONAL OFFICE (PITTSBURGH): 412-471-2000 DOUG MCVAY (VOLUNTEER LEGAL LIAISON, RAINBOW): 202-882-2283 DAVID MASSEY (VOLUNTEER INVESTIGATOR, RAINBOW): 202-882-2283 BARRY ADAMS (VOLUNTEER INVESTIGATOR, RAINBOW): 202-882-2283 ROBERT C. GORDON III (VOLUNTEER INVESTIGATOR, RAINBOW): 202-882-2283 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 37 jjohnson@uujobs.com 11:02 pm Oct 8, 1991 Please direct general inquiries to the Legaliaison hotline @ 202/797-3625, written to POB 5604 Takoma Park, MD 20913 important info & urgent inquiries only to Doug at 202/882-2283 - it may take a couple of days, but the outgoing message at 202/797-3625 should be getting updated with current info - & hopefully Peacenet, too - Thump (speaking without anyone's consent) --> Options Unlimited Jim Johnson, CPC <-- --> Unix Personnel Services Internet: jjohnson@uujobs.com <-- --> Voice: (301) 587-2338 uucp: uunet!uujobs!jjohnson <-- --> FAX: (301) 585-4779 Compuserve: 72357,2473 <-- --> USmail: PO Box 11023, Silver Spring, MD 20913 <-- ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 38 CO/SD Debate- No contest. pfraterdeus 4:08 am Oct 10, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: CO/SD Debate- No contest. Attn: awf.rainbownews 10/10/91 1:46 AM The Latest Squawk... CO/SD Debate: No_ Petros here, Howdy! I talked to Lyonel Badger last night, and with Water this morning. One big point that they both brought up is that the South Dakota question must be dealt with very directly by all of the regional newsletters. The current state of the situation is as follows (as far as I can tell!): There is >NO< verifiable invitation from the elders of the Lakota. While we've heard some claim that we have a standing invitation, there's quite a large question as to the authenticity of same. Water was at Sundance in South Dakota this summer and talked to a number of medicine persons, including Joe Chases Horses, many of whom have never heard of the Rainbow, and of those that have, not one expressed a desire that we gather in theBlack Hills next year. Duane from Info also called a number of Lakota elders and got the same. Lyonel pointed out that, in fact, if we were to gather under the banner of the Bill of Rights on Lakota lands held by the US Forest Service, we would actually be infringing on the very people we claim to be honoring in our traditions. Water said that the general feeling was that it was not a good time to bring the gathering to Lakota lands, and that we would very likely cause the work that they are doing to be set back substantially. That is to unite the seven tribes of the Lakota into a substantial political force, and then to join with all the indigenous peoples of the earth to demand justice for their people. While our good energy and prayers should be there, our gathering in 1992 should not be. There seems to be a very solid consensus amongst the Rainbow elders, and many national and regional focalizers that the vision council process was abused in Vermont (the good faith of many of the councillors not withstanding). The council process itself must be brought up for examination. One possible change- a block can only be brought three times, after discussion of which the blocker must either accept the consensus of the council, or barring that, they then always havethe option of removing themselves from the operation of the council. (Water) There is no question at this time as to the location of Thanksgiving council, which will be in Colorado (actual site to be determined). Not meaning to disrespect anybody's sincere feelings, we must still insist that the Spirit of the council process is not honored when the decisions cannot be rejoined by the family as a whole. The second week of clean-up is no time to make these decisions. We must call on the South Dakota vision consensees to soften their hearts, and accept the consensus of the Family. The 1992 Rainbow Gathering for World Peace and Healing will be somewhere in theFour Corners area. The state lines are not important. These are the artificial divisions that the goverment imposes. We, of all people, should keep no regard for them! If folks are drawn to South Dakota, then of course they should go, but, IN THE INTEREST OF THE WHOLE FAMILY they must not claim to be the 1992 Rainbow Gathering. This communication may be used (as of October 10 1991) as evidence of our intent to protect our goodwill with the Lakota people by denying the legitimacy of any South Dakota "Rainbow Gathering." No vision council can Govern the Rainbow tribes. The tribes are governed only by what they consent to do. No vision council has any power to force the Family to do anything. It is only by CONSENT of the family and the tribes, that the vision of the council is made manifest. As evidenced by the preponderance of recent communication, the South Dakota judgement is not acceptable to those whose efforts are most required to make the gathering whole, including CALM focalizers and many others. The focalizers council and network must work to smooth the divisions, with reasoned and calm explanations of the problems and a call for loving consideration for the sincerity of both views. But with that also, a call for unity, and for acknowlegement of the July 8th consensus on the Four Corners area for the 1992 Gathering. --Petros (speaking for myself, but with the input of many) 708 328 2733 (no collect!) 708 328 1922 (fax) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 39 Shawnee Police Hassles pfraterdeus 10:25 pm Oct 13, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Shawnee Police Hassles Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Shawnee Police Hassles Dear Thump-- Haven't seen any extra messages over here! Sounds like you've got a time loop there! Did I post a message about the Shawnee (southern Illinois, 10-15 Oct) gathering being harrassed by local sherrifs deputies? Of course, nobody thought to tell the locals, or the USFS they there was going to be a gathering! This was a non-focalized gathering. I didn't feel like it was up to me to call the regional USFS office, because, well, I'm not there! But I assume that calm heads will prevail, and things will mellow out. I asked for a call for further info, I'll report anything new here. My correspondent talked to Zeus, who said that the Sherrif had been in and out of the site, driving cars, bringing in dogs, and "spying" on the kitchens. (Didn't say why they weren't being open about it...) No arrests at that time. No State police presence, or USFS, at that time. We (Chicago circle) councilled with the folks in Bloomington and Evansville, IN to have a gathering in September, which happened the week before the Equinox. Great little gathering, Water brought the CALM bus up from Ky. and Ric and Duane were there from Madison doing Info..... Of course, the FS was there the first day, about 6 or seven guys, and later, a USFS ecologist came through and marked off a couple of rare plants that she found along the road. They just put some blue ribbons around it and asked us not to step on them! The FS was EXTREMELY friendly, literally wishing, in front of us, that they could just take off their uniforms, and join the fun! Hmmmmm. Whow. This murder in WV. The blood lust for the gypsy is deep grained into people. I wonder why? Is it that biological groups are naturally jealous of their territory? Is this made manifest in humans by the easy ability to Hate, justifying any sort of brutality against those who "come from outside", whether literally or figuratively? GrandMother, GrandFather, help us now. The soul of the beast stirs, bringing chaos and fear, death and dismay. Goddess of Stars, gaze upon us, fill us with magick and joy, fill us with Light, that we may traverse this dark sea before us. May the cup pass us by. Play for Peace. Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 40 FWD>Bounty Hunter Act of 19 pfraterdeus 10:27 pm Oct 13, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FWD>Bounty Hunter Act of 19 Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM FWD>Bounty Hunter Act of 1991 Please note the following, which could have ominous overtones. Petros -------------------------------------- Topic 59 Bounty Hunter Act of 1991 peacenet pn.announcemen 2:35 am Oct 13, 1991 From: Subject: Bounty Hunter Act of 1991 From peg!aldis Sat Oct 12 22:24:16 1991 The following item was originally posted on the conference "alt.drugs". Please direct any enquiries or comments to the conference of origin. /* Written 11:26 pm Oct 9, 1991 by RGD101 in peg:alt.drugs */ /* ---------- "HR 1356, Bounty Hunter Act of 1991" ---------- */ There is a very dangerous Bill currently in committee in the House, that would, in the case of a drug conviction, turn 50% of the value of the siezed property, over to the person providing the information leading to the arrest. HR 1356 was introduced by Rep. Richard Schulze (R), 5th Dist, PA. His toll free number is 1-800-362-5652. Anyone needing additional info, please e-mail request. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 41 NYC EVICTS HOMELESS wbai 6:43 am Oct 15, 1991 From: WBAI Pacifica Radio Subject: NYC EVICTS HOMELESS From wbai Tue Oct 15 06:15:58 1991 Return-Path: Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/072091) id AB12239; Tue, 15 Oct 91 06:15:40 PDT Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 06:15:40 PDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail Message-Id: <9110151315.AB12239@cdp.igc.org> To: wbai Status: R ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 ]pn.opinions... ] pn . opinions : Unparseable address ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/072091) id AA12235; Tue, 15 Oct 91 06:15:40 PDT Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 06:15:40 PDT From: WBAI Pacifica Radio Message-Id: <9110151315.AA12235@cdp.igc.org> To: peacenet Subject: pn.alerts: HOMELESS EVICTED IN NYC Cc: ]pn.opinions Early this morning hundreds of NYC police evicted 200 homeless people who had been living on two city owned lots on NY's Lower East Side. The homeless people, who called their encampment "Dinkinsville" in reference to Mayor David Dinkins, had formerly been residents of an encampments of nearby Tompkins Square Park known as "Tent City." This action by the city is part of a campaign that began with the closing of Tompkins Square Park on June 3rd and saw the eviction of homeless communities along the West Side highway and near Central Park. The common denominator in evicting the homeless is to get them out of sight so they would no longer be such an obvious worm in the rotting Big Apple (NYC's nickname). Also under threat of eviction are more than 500 children, women and men living in 32 squats on the Lower East Side. A parade in support of the squats was held on Saturday, Oct. 12th and got good covereage in Sunday's NY TIMES. For More Information call (212)254-2814 or (212)713-5743 or call WBAI-FM (99.5 FM) (212)279-0707/505 8th Ave., 19th Floor, NY,NY 10018. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 42 Propane Vs. Wood? pfraterdeus 10:31 am Oct 16, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Propane Vs. Wood? Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Propane Vs. Wood? (the following is from the econet conference >en.energy< Some good info here on more efficient ways to burn wood. I've asked the writer to send more specifics (on the report he mentions) and I'll post that if it arrives! Petros _______________________________________________________ Topic 212 Propane Vs. Wood? Response 13 of 13 gn:davenewman en.energy 6:58 pm Oct 14, 1991 1. Dead wood can decay in and on the soil, or it can be burnt. In either case it produces the same amount of CO2. There is a carbon CYCLE after all. If you cut down a lot of trees at once, then there is a temporary increase in CO2 - if you plant a lot of trees at once, there is a temporary decrease. On by taking wood out of the carbon cycle for long times (as peat and coal), or bringing it in (by burning the coal or petroleum products) can we produce longer term effects on CO2 levels. So on CO2 grounds - use wood not propane. 2. Soil cover is important - to reduce evaporation, protect habitats, and prevent the soil getting so hot and dry that humus cannot be produced. So the question when camping is - have you taken away so much that the soil is too exposed? How much cover is needed depends on the ecological and climatic conditions - look at books on tree planting and permaculture to get an idea (in Kenya, look at the KENGO guide to planting trees, which recommends tree and shrubs for each ecological zone). 3. On resource depletion, propane and gas use non-renewable resources. Once they have gone, we have to wait geological timescales before there is any more. Wood is renewable when local consumption is less than local production. (People rarely transport woodfuel over long distances, except in extreme cases of wood supply to city markets in Delhi and Ouagadougou). So when camping, I would always use wood (in the most efficient stove I have), except in semi-arid areas which have already been heavily degraded (you see bare soil, cracks in laterite, goats moving from tree to tree among the few you can count on one hand, ...). 4. There are many efficient ways of burning wood. African women get 20-25% of the heat in the wood into a pan, by carefully pushing three sticks into the centre of a three-stone fire, always keeping the flame under the centre of the pot. European men only achieve 5-10% efficiency. Also keep the pot low (the pot height above the fire should be about half the width of the pot), use the driest wood you can find, and use small sticks rather than big logs for small meals. On a large scale, like a mass scout camp, you can construct or bring in efficient institutional stoves, like some of the Bellerive designs in Kenya, the Alfa-laval double-walled metal stove, or the ones developed at the Institut Burkinabe d'Energie. For local construction, building walls to shield the fires (as in Lesotho) is quite useful (earth or stone walls, that is). If you are using charcoal, forget nearly all European designs - the Kuni Mbili you pick up at Shauri Moyo market in Nairobi is more efficient. It's a circular stove, with an insulated base and a metal cover. The thick layer of cement-vermiculite at the bottom dramatically reduces heat loss through the walls (you can touch the outside with your bare hands). Use wood ash if you cannot get vermiculite when lining your own stoves. All this is well documented in publications of the Foundation for Woodfuel Dissemination, Intermediate Technology Development Group, GTZ and GATE. 5. The amount of wood you use is also greatly affected by the type of cooking you do. Boiling or stir frying, pre-soaking beans or boiling for three hours, make quite a difference. Perhaps someone should write a campside cookbook for an age where wood is no longer so abundant. The wood savings in changing cooking techniques are often higher than changing your stove (although doing both is best). 6. There are aid agencies that seriously suggest poor people in African towns should be encouraged to use kerosene or bottled gas rather than wood or charcoal. I have yet to see a place where such programmes had an effect. Even when subsidised, kerosene is too expensive for the poor, and stoves cost more to buy. In every case I have studied, spending the same money on improved woodstoves and promoting agroforestry would have a greater impact. Please squash that silly idea whenever you come across it. Dave Newman, d.newman@pphub.aston.ac.uk ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 43 Thanksgiving Council Howdy pfraterdeus 6:26 pm Oct 17, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Thanksgiving Council Howdy Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Thanksgiving Council Howdy Nov 28 through 1 December Denver Boulder Area for info and exact loc call eugene 303 494 2386 whistlin dave 303 697 8540 deanna and rob 303 221 4510 RSVP It's the ROCKIES Council inside and expect snow Come ready to camp in the cold! Bring Food ------------------------------- Cumberland Gathering in KY-TN region 17th-26th Full Moon in April 1992 ___________ The above was passed on by Water Singing... peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 44 FQM to Go! Oct 1991 pfraterdeus 3:35 am Oct 18, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FQM to Go! Oct 1991 Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI FQM to Go! Oct 1991 The first Focalizer's Quarterly Mailing is ready to send out. I've got free printing for 2000 double-sided sheets (riding with anouther print job on a larger sheet) Will send 50 or so to any one that wants em. Need to send out 200+ pieces to the whole Focs List. Any volunteers to take half or a quarter or an eighth of these? Don't even have to copy 'em, I'll send the sheets and the labels, you'll just stamp and address 'em and drop 'em in the box. ASAP! Thanks! This sheet has the FQM rap (as seen on awf.rainbownews) and the LegaLiason rap) and my synopsis of the CO-SD (no contest) Contest..... Also, the new AWF Address. Didn't have room to explain about the focs mailing labels, though. (need $ to distribute) Love you all! Peter PS I had a better message, but erased it by accident (ahem...) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 45 Changes to Conference pfraterdeus 11:26 pm Oct 18, 1991 Howdy! I've been messing around with the conference a bit. The Welcome message has been changed, there is now a 180 day expiration on messages, after which they will be archived. More on this as I figure it out! The UseNet issue is still open. I'm not sure yet how to get it off the ground! Perhaps this will become more urgent as we continue to grow. In looking over the entire listing of Topics for stuff I could zap (to save space on the PeaceNet Computers) I found that almost all of the info is potentially still useful. Therefore, I removed very little. The sense of history is pretty neat. If anyone is really into it, I could download the whole shebang onto a floppy... Any way, there should be an archive for the older stuff, which you'll access using the "o" command for 'old'. Love and Light! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 46 (*) PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY! pndemo3 7:51 pm Oct 21, 1991 This is from the Archives, I thought I'd repost it for good measure! BTW, to access the awf.rainbownews archives, just type'o' for old at the conf prompt! Love and Light, Petros /* Written 9:30 pm Jun 15, 1989 by bmasel in cdp:awf.rainbownew */ /* ---------- "PARTICIPATION the KEY" ---------- */ 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 47 (*) Calendar '91-'92 pfraterdeus 9:21 pm Oct 21, 1991 Howdy! I'm thinking we should try to get a new calaendar topic going here! If you have calendar info, just post it as a reply to this topic. I'll periodically try to arrange things, or make an index, or something! Love ya! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 48 Rainbow Warrior Needs Volunteers, S mendicott 2:43 pm Oct 25, 1991 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Rainbow Warrior Needs Volunteers, S /* Written 10:32 am Oct 25, 1991 by econet in cdp:en.announcemen */ /* ---------- "Rainbow Warrior Needs Volunteers, S" ---------- */ From: Institute for Global Communications Subject: Rainbow Warrior Needs Volunteers, SF Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior Needs Volunteers The Rainbow Warrior is visiting the San Francisco Bay area for 6 weeks. They are looking for volunteers to come chip and paint and keep watch at night. Call Captian Lutz at 415/309-2424 for more information ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 49 FUTURE: GREEN OR RED mendicott 2:51 am Oct 26, 1991 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: FUTURE: GREEN OR RED /* Written 11:39 am Sep 19, 1991 by mendicott in cdp:en.ussr */ /* ---------- "FUTURE: GREEN OR RED" ---------- */ Sviat, I wish to recommend to you the new book, RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS: TOWARD AN ECOTOPIAN MILLENNIUM, by the Mexican green Alberto Ruz Buenfil, published this year by Bear & Company, Inc. (Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2860 USA; US$16.95). I will try to get a copy to you soon. You can contact Alberto at Huehuecoyotl Community, A.P. 111, Tepoztlan, Morelos, MEXICO. Marcus. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 50 Desperate Plea for $$ for 2nd Autop 1 response jjohnson@uujobs.com 2:08 pm Oct 26, 1991 As you read in Donny's "Alert - Press Release" posting above, one of our Family died in police custody during a regional Gathering in WV. His mother has requested a 2nd autopsy, fearing that a beating by police may be the actual cause of death, instead of the suicide claimed by WV authorities. Arrangements are being made for the autopsy, but it will cost $2200. We've already got pledges of over $1000, and are trying to close the gap. Please dig deep and send what you can. Any excess $$ collected will go for other expenses of the investigation, and to his family; if you want your contribution to be handled otherwise, please say so. Hopefully, the autopsy will reveal no foul play, but all of the volunteers to whom I've spoken agree that serious questions will hang over this matter until we know for certain. If, for any reason, the autopsy is not performed, money will be refunded. Please do what you can, and Pray for Justice. Peace. Onelove, Thumper --> Options Unlimited Jim Johnson, CPC <-- --> Unix Personnel Services Internet: jjohnson@uujobs.com <-- --> Voice: (301) 587-2338 uucp: uunet!uujobs!jjohnson <-- --> FAX: (301) 585-4779 Compuserve: 72357,2473 <-- --> USmail: PO Box 11023, Silver Spring, MD 20913 <-- ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 50 jjohnson@uujobs.com 2:13 pm Oct 26, 1991 By the way, mail contributions to: The 2nd Autopsy Hat PO Box 5604 Takoma Park, MD 20913 Please direct all calls to Doug at 202/882-2283 Thanks! Thump --> Options Unlimited Jim Johnson, CPC <-- --> Unix Personnel Services Internet: jjohnson@uujobs.com <-- --> Voice: (301) 587-2338 uucp: uunet!uujobs!jjohnson <-- --> FAX: (301) 585-4779 Compuserve: 72357,2473 <-- --> USmail: PO Box 11023, Silver Spring, MD 20913 <-- ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 51 FUTURE- GREEN OR RED pfraterdeus 10:56 pm Oct 26, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FUTURE- GREEN OR RED Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: FUTURE: GREEN OR RED HO! (Rainbow Nation without Borders.) I've seen the book here in Chicago. Lots of Photos of gatherings of all sorts all over the world (not all Rainbow), and plenty from Minnesota Gathering! Introduction by Starhawk (Dreaming the Dark, The Spiral Dance) Looks pretty good, though I've not read it. Lots o' Love! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 52 Energy Action Alert! pfraterdeus 10:29 pm Oct 30, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Energy Action Alert! Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Energy Action Alert! Forwarded from en.energy/pn.announcements (please let me know if it's redundant for me to re-post this. Did everybody see this already? Petros) --------------------------------------- bball en.energy 6:14 pm Oct 29, 1991 EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT! Save: The Arctic Wilderness Our Nation's Oceans Our Right To Oppose Nuke Plants You are urgently requested to call your senators now! Ask them to support the filibuster and prevent a vote on S 1220. S 1220 is Georg misguided "energy rip-off" bill. So far, 8 senators are committed to filibuster for the first 60 hours of senate debate. After that, there will be a vote as to whether the filibuster should continue. Lobby your senators to vote yes for the filibuster. Tell your senators that the S 1220 bill is wholly unacceptable, and no part of it should be considered for passage into law. Senator Cranston of California has not yet declared his position on S 1220. Call his office at 202-224-3553. The people must speak now or return to the dark ages with George Bush. Let your senators hear from you! In Solidarity For A Sane Energy Policy, Eleanor Lewallen Ocean Protection Coalition & Green Party of California, Mendocino Chapter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 53 What is CALM? by Water, Sin pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Nov 1, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: What is CALM? by Water, Sin Attn: awf.rainbownews REGARDING What is CALM? by Water, Singing-on-the-Rocks Focalizer's Quarterly Mailing Info Sheet % Oct 1991 What is CALM? by Water, Singing-on-the-Rocks CALM (Center for Alternative, Living Medicines) is the Tribe within Rainbow that seeks to help all of our sisters and brothers learn more about taking; care of themselves on physical and emotional levels. We include folks proficient and knowledgeable in many different modalities and all of us are eager to pass our crafts to others. One of the alternative "medical" systems we wish to share is called Homeopathy. Homeopathy seeks to stimulate the individual to cure her (him)self. Its practitioners believe that there is a Vital Force within each of us that is constantly correcting imbalances . We use essences of entities from the animal, mineral and plant kingdoms (queendoms?) which are potentized by specific methods discovered in the 18th century by a German named Hanneman. These remedies, as they are called, facilitate the process of self-cure and enable us to heal ourselves by following the laws of nature. Homeopathy is a "holistic" approach in that an individual's symptoms and characteristics and history form a particular pattern. These patterns can be matched with those found in plants, minerals and other animals. Following Hippocrates law that "like cures like" the matching substance can be used in a highly diluted form to help an individual re-balance thus eliminating the "dis- ease". The homeopathic practitioner views the ailing person as a whole individual and must integrate all the subjective and objective facts into an understanding of the patient's particular, unique patterns . This is the art of the system. The science of homeopathy is the empirically proven, quite strict laws that must be followed. There are 3 fundamental laws - Law of Similars, Law of Proving and Law of Potentization. The first says that the same substance that causes specific symptoms in a healthy person can cure those symptoms in a sick person. The 2nd law is the systematic verification of the first law - often done by self-experimentation. The 3rd is the method used to dilute the substance and potentize it into an effective and safe remedy . This process can be repeated from one to over one million times. The properties of the remedies thus produced are potent, non-toxic and effective. The Vital Force, mentioned earlier, is a concept that is quite similar to the "chi" of Chinese medical systems or the "prana" energy of Yogic philosophy and Ayurvedic medical systems. This Force integrates the mind, body and soul of living creatures. (The medium works equally well in my own experience with dogs, cats, horses, infants, children and adult people). Homeopathic remedies aim this Force, fine tuning and re-aligning it. In order to accomplish this a very specific and structured system of studying a patient must be followed. This is especially true when working with a chronic, constitutional, long-term problem. However Homeopathy can easily be used for 1 st aid and the system here is much less complicated. There are several good 1st aid Homeopathy books on the market and kits of 10 - 50 remedies that can be acquired to meet these needs rather inexpensively. One can also learn to create their own and or extend purchased remedies. There are no serious side-effects, virtually anyone can learn how to practise homeopathic 1st aid. At CALM we often use these remedies to help with insect stings, headaches, allergic reactions, cuts, burns, stomach and intestinal ailments, urinary and other systemic infections, difficulties in birthings and nursing, etc. If you would like to learn more about Homeopathy (or any other system/aspect of Healing) DO come visit &/or work at CALM. We'll be happy to help you . . . or write to me at the Middle of the Rainbow, Rte 3, Tompkinsville Ky 42167 and I'll correspond gladly . We love you all (us all) and will hug each and every one of you in "New Jerusalem" next June/July wherever we gather! Water, Singing-on-the-Rocks (FQM volunteer Notes: CALM is putting out the Hat for a great heavy duty water filtration system. Please do a benefit, or pass the hat around at your local events for this important family resource! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 54 RE- Seeking Movement Succes pfraterdeus 4:26 pm Nov 1, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: RE- Seeking Movement Succes Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: RE: Seeking Movement Success Stories I sent this to the editors of a Santa Cruz area papaer, The Monthly Planet, who is requesting Peace Movement Success stories. Petros -------------------------------------- Date: 10/31/91 12:15 AM From: peter f Please see the reports on the 1991 Rainbow Gathering (awf.rainbownews conference.) Also, Time Magazine, 15 July 1991 issue. I believe that the Rainbow Gathering is one of the greatest successes of the Peace Movement. It has been happening for 20 years, every summer, in a different National Forest. This year, over 20,000 people lived together in the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, many thousands of them for two or more weeks . No money is exchanged within the gathering. It is totally free and open to all. A group of folks went to Montpelier to rally at the statehouse for Native rights, with the Abenaki people. The chief of the Abenaki tribe came to the gathering and addressed the Rainbow tribal council (once we got the drummers to cool out for the occasion!). The coming year will bring the Gathering back to the west, probably near the San Juan mountains in southern Colorado. In the meantime, great numbers of folks continue to travel the Rainbow Trail, or "focalize" where ever they are. Local and regional gatherings are springing up like mushrooms all over the country, and around the world (the Europa Gathering is in its 9th year, meeting in Poland in 1992 (as in '91). Regular winter gatherings are happening in Mexico, as well.) The organized chaos is a great experiment in cooperative culture, and a great experience in Living Peace. Please watch awf.rainbownews for current info! Play for Peace! Peter Fraterdeus--awf.rainbownews volunteer focalizer pfraterdeus@peacenet ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 55 FQM Delayed 1 response pfraterdeus 12:14 am Nov 11, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FQM Delayed Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: FQM Delayed BRAHM WRITES: >>> peter: i have not recieved the mailing and am concerned because i will be out of town from the16th to the 25th. i assume it is important that focalizers recieve the mailing before thanksgiving, or am i giving too much power to time. brahm <<< -------------------------------------- Dear Brahm, and all focalizers! Very sorry about the delay! I have been in SF the last week, and had left the mailing to my family here. However, in the way of all things this season, the SD/CO debate has split our family in Chicago, and the folks I was counting on felt that they couldn't come up with the energy (green or human) to mail the packages, or the 60 individual FQM's that I had made ready before leaving. So, they'll go out tomorrow, in spite of the protests of the divided Chicago Circle, since I am acting for the Focalizer's council, which, fortunately, met and finished our business BEFORE vision council ! ! ! ! I appreciate Thomas's thoughtful words as shown on the Conference..... With Love and Light! Petros PS Sorry there's no bank to cover this mailing! ! ! I guess that's what focalizing is really about! ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 55 raven 9:26 pm Nov 12, 1991 Girdwood, Alaska First real cold of the season, it has been raining till today, niw about zero. re colorado vs sd: Oh. well, at least we should express interestt . Sadly, the reality is that on most reservations alcohol, christianity and the television culture have made for peoples who are not as (we) whitemen romanticize. Her But..... Next year in Colorado. Shine the light. Raven. Girdwood, Alaska, Tues nite 12 Nov 91 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 56 Deep Concerns.... pfraterdeus 1:00 pm Nov 11, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Deep Concerns.... Attn: awf.rainbownews Deep Concerns.... (This letter is being sent to the awf.rainbownews conference, the PeaceGarden SD faction, and the focalizers mailing list.) Hello, Petros here. I have had a lot of communication about the SD "consensus" lately, and I'd like to offer more of my feelings about the whole thing here. I have no philosophical objection to a vision council deciding to go to South Dakota, or ANYWHERE ELSE! HOWEVER, having spoken at length with many loved brothers and sisters that are very close to my heart, and communicated with many others whose experience and wisdom I have grown to respect deeply, I have concluded that my efforts will be directed towards the success of the gathering in southern Colorado next year. Towards this end, I will not be publicizing the South Dakota factional consensus. I don't think it is appropriate to have two gatherings on the 1st week of July. I do think that if dark forces wanted to divide us and discourage us, this would be the best way they could do it. I do think that if they wanted to cause us trouble with the Lakota, this would be the best way they could do it. If Family Council (July 1-7) were to agree that two gatherings in July would best serve the Earth and the human family, then I'd have no problem with a widening of the Rainbow across the Planet. Of course! I encourage Vision Council to consider this issue next year, in Colorado. ( To legitimize multiple gatherings in a global network of solidarity over the July 1-7 week) I decry the false and abusive, misleading notion that the SD faction is "coming from the heart" and the Colorado family is not, or is mistaken in their vision. This is incredibly abusive and absurd. The fact that there is anger from the CO family is only an indication of the sincerity and depth of the vision conceived by the Colorado regional family, who CAME TO COUNCIL with pictures of possible sites in the San Juan National Forest. This family has been working together for years. This is a big factor missing in the SD faction. Also the supposed invitation from the Lakota has not been verified, I have heard only stories about a letter from a Lakota elder. But not from any council of the Lakota People. In Vermont, the Chief of the Abenaki spoke to the council. Where is the invitation from the Lakota? In fact, the supposed invitaion has been thoroughly discredited by at least two independent reports of direct denial by Lakota elders. This issue is fully above the board here. I'm not interested in censoring anybody, but I will work to see that misleading and false information is not disseminated without comment! There is a sense of the insane or malicious at work here. Many sincere folks will be mislead by this issue. My clear-eyed brother Stephen Wing has as good a heart and mind as anyone I've ever met, and is no stranger to challenging the "rainbow status quo". He has expressed his firm and adamant opposition to the SD faction. Water, Singing-on-the-Rocks has worked for years in the family as a healer, and years before that in the movement for civil and human rights. Water has expressed his firm opposition to the SD faction. Donny W. has worked with Legaliason issues for the family for years, Thumper has also. I value their input. Also, Ric and Duane and Heather, and Tenderfire from Monterey. And the folks in the FQM mailing council, Brahm, and Jim. I have councilled with them, and carefully considered their words. Of the folks listed in the SD consensus council, I haven't known any one of them before this year, except for Zeus, who walks around the gathering with a sign saying " I am Zeus, you may worship me if you wish." No Thanks. I am not interested in worshiping Zeus, or any other demagog, or demigod. I will see you all in Colorado, and will do my best to establish the firm identity of a single 1992 Gathering of the Tribes, and I will continue to assert that there is ONE July 1-7 gathering in any year, until some future family council decides otherwise. I will be very happy to promote a summer solstice regional gathering in South Dakota in 1992, and I think that the SD faction should seriously consider this as a good way to learn what it takes to unify a consensus, rather than to divide one. Until that decision is made, I will have very little else to say about this issue! Oh, yes, I've also started to hear grumblings along an "anti-tech"/ pro-technology axis, saying that the SD faction is closer to the earth becaude they don't USE computers. Or maybe it's a just convenient stance because they don't HAVE any computers! To this I say -- I am a communicator. I have a Gemini Moon, Sun in Leo conjunct Mercury in Virgo, both trine Mars in Sag. Aquarius rising, trine the Moon and Venus in Libra. (grand trine in Air) I use the tools most appropriate to my work. Whether a swan quill, chisel, printing press, or a computer/fax/phone. I will not buy some bullshit about low-tech being more noble or holy. Stop writing altogether, if you like. Use no symbols. Grunt away, and see how much good you do for the Planet in its hour of need. Writing may even have been >invented< by farmers, to keep track of the goods they took to market! Will you discard this? Get off it! With lots of Love and a good bit of annoyance-- Peter PS. Forgive me for speaking so freely (and perhaps over much) on this, but I feel alot of deep concerns..... This is my final heartsong on the issue. I'll see you all in Colorado, I hope! Play for Peace! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 57 Internetters Note! pfraterdeus 6:48 pm Nov 11, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Internetters Note! Attn: awf.rainbownews Internetters Note! We are now able to add non-Peacenet addresses to our>awf.rainbownews< conference list, so that they will receive, and can respond to, any topic on the conference. If anybody here knows of folks using internet/bitnet or other that would like to be on this list, please let me know! (and send the address to me!) Love you! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 58 Rainbow Healing pfraterdeus 7:58 pm Nov 15, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Rainbow Healing Attn: awf.rainbownews Rainbow Healing Hello Family, I am an Adult surviovor of child sexual, emotional and physical abuse, there are many others like me the Rainbow Family. We can heal from the damaging painful long-term effects, but we need to connect with each other for support in our healing. Please contact me by Mail as I am focalizing this healing effort. Healing from this trauma and its effects seems to be very difficuly but together, we can do it! Iris Springflower PO Box 54 Gays Mills, Wisconsin 54631 --------------------------- We love you, Iris! Keep up the strong work! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 59 E-Mail Etiquette Pointer>>> pfraterdeus 10:58 pm Nov 15, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: E-Mail Etiquette Pointer>>> Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM E-Mail Etiquette Pointer>>> This is of interest, although we have VERY little flame problems in awf.rainbownews! Love you, Petros -----------Pointer to Article in oz.visionary follows-------------- Topic 28 ONLINE COMMUNICATION SKILLS Response 10 of 10 peg:visionary oz.visionary 3:43 pm Nov 15, 1991 4/87 The Phenomenon of FLAMING Perhaps the attribute of electronic mail systems that most distinguishes them from other forms of communication is their propensity to evoke emotion in the recipient--very likely because of misinterpretation of some portion of the form or content of the message--and the likelihood that the recipient will then fire off a response that aggravates the situation. Possible causes for this phenomenon include: - Difficulty in determining the formality of a message from its appearance. - Attempts at humor, irony, sarcasm, and wit are often misinterpreted. - Cues such as body langauge are lacking in electronic mail. - The ease of an immediate "reply" encourages "off the top of the head" responses. etc.................... -------pointer ends------ to read the entire article, go to conference 'oz.visionary' on Peacenet (igc.org), this article is response 10 of topic 28 (type 28.10 to read it directly) The other topics are also worth reading, if you've got the time! P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 60 RAINBOW NORTH raven 10:04 am Nov 16, 1991 to: peter from raven Girdwood, Alaska sat am you ask ? bioregiuon Girdwood is s small skitown, about forty miles from Anchorage, in southcentral Alaska. We live surrounded by rainforest(sitka spruce, mountain hemlock, devils club, birch and alder. At the head of the valley are huge hanging glaciers, the edge of a vast icefield. Good vibes. We have a mini rainbow gathering, the Girdwood Forest Festival every fourth of july. There are several family members here. Bones has been to fifteen gatherings, Iv'e been to three. I live in a bus/motorhome a short ski from the lifts. The computer, a recent invader is on the dashboard. I am new to cyberspace. Ive been a Luddite resister, but think this is the crucial, unregulated, hopefully allways free medium for the propagation fo the light. Time to go to the circle of trees. WE LOVE YOU ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 61 Focalizer? WhatUs a Focaliz pfraterdeus 10:34 pm Nov 16, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Focalizer? WhatUs a Focaliz Attn: awf.rainbownews Focalizer? What's a Focalizer? Focalizer? What's a Focalizer? (from Stephen Wing, included with the Foc's Mailing as a first draft of a Foc's MiniManual "Of course we have headmen! In fact, we are all headmen. Each one of us is headman over himself." A !Kung (Bushman) of the African Kalahari desert, "Life Without Chiefs" by Marvin Harris, New Age Journal) What's focalize, anyway? It's a magical word; it means anything you want it to. The catch is that you really have to mean it. In essence, focalizing is communicating: passing any info you receive through the larger network on to the network in your area, and vice versa. It's one of the basic volunteer functions in a leaderless body like RainbowQ a nerve cell. If that's all you can manage, it's enough. But as usual, the possibilities are endless. One brother mainly focalizes a bus: every year he loads it up with pilgrims to the great North American Gathering of the Tribes. Others focalize a kitchen or camp for their home-folks at the Gathering. Or focalize C.A.L.M., All Ways Free, the Rainbow Guide. Some focalize mostly on the regional level. Regional gatherings take a lot of work and a strong network, connecting several circles in the region. A dozen regional circles across the country focalize occasional newsletters or informal mailings. Others focalize strictly local circles. In New York they hold two huge picnics a year. In Madison it's a small one every Sunday. In a couple dozen other cities, circles are monthly. Some of these events take over a downtown park. Some materialize miles out in the woods. The Monterey and Santa Cruz circles pulled off a magnificent benefit for this year's All Ways Free. The circle in Tampa did theirs for the Children's Rain Forest; Tallahassee does one regularly for the victims of genocide. In D.C. and Berkeley, Family circles regularly feed the homeless. The Memphis circle does an Earth Day celebration for their city each year. Focalizing involves looking into the magic that manifests the Rainbow Gathering, learning some of the skills, and tapping the same sources on a smaller scale. Our circle springs from Spirit; Mother Earth is our teacher and guide; holding hands in a circle somehow re-connects us not only to one another but to sky above and earth below. Helping this to happen is a powerful and empowering experience. Who focalizes? If you're the first to get tired of waiting around for the 4th of JulyQ if you don't care to live where there isn't an occasional Gathering in the parkQ you do. Instead of complaining, or finding a substitute, or moving away, start a local circle. Focalizer? What's a Focalizer? The key to focalizing anywhere is: find the other focalizers. It takes as much collective familiarity with how Gatherings work as you can muster. Find all the other brothers, sisters, households in your area that feel like missing pieces of a circle; council and decide what to do about it. Do it together. The Rainbow has no leaders, only louders. You can't start a circle all by yourself, but someone has to call the first council. When three or more of you agree to invite all peaceful beings in the universe to a local park, it's already happened. The folks that show up are the circle; they'll decide what to do from there. The Rainbow Guide is a good place to start. Contact the focalizers listed for your region and ask for addresses around your hometown. Add friends who you feel are Family, and ask them to add theirs. Mail out an invitation or do it word-of-mouth. Don't be disappointed if only a few show up. Start any council with a circle; it draws the energy together. A moment of silence gathers the focus. Songs, prayers, chants help too. Passing the feather and sharing heartsongs is a good way to break silenceQ but once it starts, make sure it travels all the way around so everyone gets to speak. After that, put it away if it gets in the way of the flow. But encourage everyone to participate. (It doesn't have to be a feather. Use a stick, a rock, a shellQ once we passed a Gumby doll long into the night. So long as everyone realizes they show respect by listening till their own turn comes. Just don't let respect degenerate into a rule.) The first council may simply choose a time and place to invite the community at large to experience the RainbowQ a picnic, potluck or overnight campoutQ anything that's free and peaceful and open to anyone. You may also talk about exactly how big an area you're inviting. Your city or town, the surrounding countryside, a bioregion or state boundary? Don't take too big a bite; let it grow organically. Besides, who's going to help? The idea is not to volunteer to keep the mailing list, make the phone calls, scout the site, draw the flyer and lick the stamps yourself. Plenty of good folks have burned out like a fuse by volunteering to do too muchQ or picking up whatever other volunteers may drop. The other side of responsibility is power, and it pays to diffuse the power (defuse the powder) before any egos blow up. Some people just get too important to be much use. So make it clear from the start that the essence of Rainbow is to share, not only the potluck-eating and decision-making but the shitter-digging and envelope-stuffing. You need one person's address for getting mail, but that person isn't the focalizer. It takes a veritable Rainbow of talents to keep a circle rolling, from scouting enthusiasts to designers of flyers. This is Rainbow. Share it. What do focalizers do? Whether, when and where a second local gathering happens is the decision of the circle that shows up for the first one. The focalizer's main job from that point on is simply to communicate the when and where. This can mean occasional mailings, using a phone tree (where each person you call has four or five to call in turn), recording a message on a contact number, or just posting a flyer in a few well-known places around town. Remember that the Rainbow is not the Rainbow unless it is open, always inviting new brothers and sisters into the Family. Don't let it become the private club of a habitual few who know each other and think they're the Rainbow people around town. If your circle thinks that, you're not! Keep extending the invitation; seek out your spiritual kin. Post a flyer, maybe, at the coffeehouse or coop, Native American or New Age center. Mail one to any local peace or environmental groups. Most of all, pass the word-of-mouth. At your local gatherings, the focalizer may be the one who puts up an info board or sign-up sheet. The one who realizes folks are getting hungry and it's time to circle. The one who reminds everyone of what needs counciling before you eat. The one who proposes doing a benefit, a campout, a caravan to the regional. But as soon as you suggest it, shut up and listen. The circle may or may not jump at your idea. It may or may not want you to act on its behalf. You have volunteered only to serve and facilitate, not to lead anyone. In Babylon people don't grow up with council and consensus. We're used to being told what to doQ and Rainbows in particular often magnetically repel anyone who tries. Others are unconsciously looking for the security of a leader, and before you know it they'll be following wherever you go. Don't let them get away with it! Respecting consensus is all the more important for the one who chooses to focalize, because our circle is one of the last places people can learn this crucial part of being fully human. Even at the price of inefficiency, frustration, endless discussion, let the people decide. They'll get better at it with practice. Patience is a wonderful thing to learn (once you learn it). At first it may seem necessary to do most of everything; just don't get in the habit! When things need doing, make an effort to pass the task along. Someone is out there waiting to be useful, maybe even unaware of some talent they have. Giving away all those tasks, each to the right person, may leave you exhaustedQ but save you from burning out. Healing Babylon's bruises is one chief reason we come together. And one of the basic healings the Rainbow offers is this: the medicine of participating in something worthwhile, giving your own best contribution for free, just for love. The focalizer is therefore one of the Family healers. The ego traps are many, but stay in touch with your circle. Remember the higher calling of Rainbow, to help us all heal and grow, learn to be part of a Family again. Who are the focalizers? Each year at the North American Gathering we hold a Focalizers' Council to share what we know and do. We are young and old, brother and sister, from rural and urban places; we have different methods and ideas. We have in common only the love of Rainbow and the urge to serveQ and, gradually, a network of communication. This year in Vermont, a Focalizers' Network has volunteered to send out a quarterly update of the Focalizer List, including messages from the various Family-wide focalizing circles (C.A.L.M., Kid Village, All Ways Free, the Guide etc.) which focalizers can pass on to their local networks. This will be coordinated over the Rainbow conference on PeaceNet, awf.rainbownews. Once your local circle gets going, send a contact address and/or phone # to the Rainbow Guide. (If you want to hear from other focalizers but don't want your phone number in the Focalizer pages of next year's GuideQ or don't want to appear there at allQ make that clear. The Focalizers' Network keeps a separate list available only to focalizers.) In a bigger town or area, eventually a P.O. Box, even a Rainbow phone number make sense.) In Vermont for the first time the councils for All Ways Free and the Guide converged with the Focalizers' Council. The people focalizing these projects realize that help from the year-round circles of the Family is crucial for their work. If we distribute our Family-wide publications through the regional and local gatherings, obviously that's where much of the green energy has to come from. If every local circle dreamed up some kind of fundraiser for Rainbow communications once a year, no one circle would have to stress itself to keep the Magic Hat flowing. Regional focalizers need help from local circles too. Ho!, for example, a southeastern newsletter, never gets enough donations to pay for itself. Run off some copies of your regional mailing for your picnic, and pass the hat to help with paper, printing, and mailing costs. As your circle grows, a Bank Council of three or more is in order. The same principles apply on the planetary as on the local scale: if everybody does a little, nobody gets burnt out, and the work is a community celebration rather than a lonesome chore. No freely given volunteer energy ever goes to waste. It truly takes all kinds to build a Rainbow. The heart of focalizing is really no diifferent from the heart of Rainbow: loving service. The focalizer is just the first to figure out that it doesn't stop after Cleanup. We feel called to serve our Tribe as the Tribe is called to serve this planet in the hard hour of its transition. The joy that flows from this will sometimes seem to be its only reward ... except for patience. Q Stephen Wing __________________________________ Focalizers! This is only a beginningQ one person's thoughts. With your feedback it might evolve into a "Focalizing Mini-Manual." What would you add, subtract, clarify or elaborate? Send your comments! "Among Indian groups such as the Mehinacu of Brazil's Xingu National Park ... if something needs to be done, it is the headman who starts doing it, and it is the headman who works harder than anyone else. He sets an example not only for hard work but also for generosity: after a fishing or hunting expedition, he gives away more of his catch than anyone else does. In trading with other groups, he must be careful not to keep the best items for himself." ("Life Without Chiefs," by Marvin Harris, New Age Journal) "Of course we have headmen! In fact, we are all headmen. Each one of us is headman over himself." A !Kung (Bushman) of the African Kalahari desert, "Life Without Chiefs" by Marvin Harris, New Age Journal) If the circle doesn't set up a regular time and place, then some occasional word needs to go out. by putting up a flyer where it will catch the eye of people who might recognize Home: the coffeehouse, co-op, bookstore, university In Atlanta we hand out flyers at each picnic for the next one, filling in the date as soon as we decide it, so we can invite the folks we run into between picnics. A circle of people within the larger circle will hopefully share these responsibilities. : presto, you're just as trapped in the leader role as they are trapped in follower. Send some to A.W.F.; you might get some Frees to pass out at your next event. Likewise for the Guide. Not magician or orchestra conductor, but scribe and facilitator: simply the one with the motivation to work hardest, give the most. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 62 NERF Council Report pfraterdeus 9:17 pm Nov 17, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: NERF Council Report Attn: awf.rainbownews NERF Council Report Heartsong called from Montague, Mass. to say that the NERF Council consensus supports the Family consensus to go to Four Corners / Colorado. ------------------ Also had a report from Info Duane in Madison, who went with Ric S. and Dan-D to the PeaceGarden council of the SD faction. Duane reports that it took almost an hour to decide which way to pass the feather.. . . . (Zeus and Quetzelcoatl blocked each other....) The only other thing he said got done was to rename the council to "the Council at PeaceGarden". -- P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 63 Sky in Miami- Advise please pfraterdeus 1:04 pm Nov 18, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Sky in Miami- Advise please Attn: awf.rainbownews Sky in Miami: Advise please! Sky 12451 Sw 236th St. Miami, FL. 33032 305 258 4334 Feb regional--Southern Fla. Need advice on how (who) to deal with USFS and or Park Service (Everglades...) They need help and advice to organize a AWF benefit! Sky has gotten a Miami picnic off the ground-- 500 people last time. City is saying they'll have to pay $50. per 200 people for a permit. Needs Legaliaison advise. Got the "Rainbow Family" flyers from PeaceGardens before receiving the Focalizer Quarterly. Unfortunately sent out 500 newsletters with SD info in them. Will be sending correction in next months NL. I spoke to her (Sky) about the need for Newsletter rumor control. Call me anytime! I'll take the rap for not getting the FQM out the first of November. (Though it was due to interference from PeaceGarden faction!!!) Love You, P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 64 Hmmmm... pfraterdeus 4:16 pm Nov 19, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Hmmmm... Attn: awf.rainbownews Hmmmm... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>****!!!!!!!!???!!!!!!!!****<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>---->>>>>****!!!!!!!!?*?!!!!!!!!****<<<<<<------<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>****!!!!!!!!???!!!!!!!!****<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I still feel that if I do not want to be party to a council decision, I am free to leave that council and behave in every way as if it does not exist. Only if the actions of the council begin to affect me, at some level, do I consider the need for action. An impartial observer will be able to tell if there are two Rainbow gatherings next July 1-7. The record will show. If it's magic, it will show, can't deny that! I wrote to Sue V. the following... Sue -- Thanks for your comments! It is a difficult issue, and one that I continue to debate within myself-- whether the splintering of the Rainbow is actually the sprouting of a movement, with fresh vision and inspiration from the Great Spirit (or whoever). . . . . or is this just a bunch of looneys that are off on a whopper of a rainbowrumor (there's lots of testimonial to this account) . . . . But even then, maybe the best thing to do is to offer as much support as possible, since they're going to need it, and see what happens! As far as my facilitating, I'm in no position to keep anybody's comments off the fiber (if you will). I do as little facilitation as possible! A number of things that have gone up on the net represent the PeaceGarden Council's actions. I still believe that the vision council was mis-served in Vermont, and that the SD decision is not the consensus of the family. However, if you hold a gathering, and it's Rainbow, it's Rainbow. If it's not, it doesn't matter what you call it. It will be obvious that it's not Rainbow! Once a meme has been introduced into the mind pool, it will live out its life affecting people in ways that they would not have been but for their contact with it. So, the SD gathering will transpire, no doubt. ---------- I pray for good light to guide those in darkness. grandfather, grandmother, goddess of stars, cover our paths through these times of transition! My path will be clear ahead of me, when I am of one mind. Rainbow is not a question of counting, but of focus. A focussed vision will become clear, and produce a definite result. I look forward to councilling in Boulder for Thanksgiving... I hear a hundred or more will be there! Play for Peace! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 65 Will the circle be unbroken pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Nov 19, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Will the circle be unbroken Attn: awf.rainbownews Will the circle be unbroken... This song was mostly re-written from the gospel tune by water, singing-on-the-rocks. I had some help 10 years ago at the west virginia national and just recently found some of the 50 or so verses we wrote then. Water, Signing on the Rocks ------- Chorus: E A E Will the circle be unbroken, by and by Lord, by and by E7 Em7 E There's a rainbow home awaiting, deep inside Lord, deep inside. 1) well i told the rainbow chaser, rainbow chaser please fly high cause those colors you're revering, they are spreading across the sky. 2) hold my hand now, all my brothers, raise your voices sisters dear now's the time for jubilation, for the rainbow circle is here. 3) rainbow circle 'round the cities, rainbow circle 'round the earth singing songs of lovin' livin', celebrations of our birth. 4) we are singing rainbow verses, we are writing rainbow songs we've embracing rainbow colors, you can help us by singing along. 5) vision seekers, spirit keepers, rainbow healers what's the word? can you sing us of your visions or the teachings that you may have heard? 6) Rainbow circle 'round the full moon, rainbow circle 'round the sun holdin' hands with one another, lending wisdom & strength to everyone. 7) the Bodhisatva knew of rainbows, Jesus spoke of rainbows too now we sing of the life within us as we share our vision with you. 8) when Noah floated on the ocean rainbow colors lit the sky as the Lord- God promised mankind, not water, but fire next time! 9) reminders of His power we offer, reminders of Her love so strong reminders of their sense of justice, source of love to carry us home. 10) we respect our Earthly Mother, we restore her beauty fair and we promise our Spirit Father to let the rainbows guide us there. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 66 The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy mendicott 5:18 pm Nov 19, 1991 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy /* Written 9:23 pm Aug 13, 1990 by jpayne in cdp:cab.network */ /* ---------- "The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy" ---------- */ The Shambhala Warriors - A prophecy In workshops, I often tell this story, for it describes the work we aim to do, and the training we engage is. It is about the coming of the Kingdom of Shambhala, and it is about you, and me. It is a prophecy that arose in Tibetan Buddhism over twelve centuries ago. I learned of it from my Tibetan friends in India when, in 1980, I heard many of them speaking of this ancient prophecy as coming true in our time. The signs it foretold, they said, are recognizable now, in our generation. Since this prophecy speaks of a time of great danger -- of apocalypse -- I was, as you can imagine, very interested to find out about it. There are varying interpretations of this prophecy. Some portray the comming of the kingdom of Shambhala as an internal event; a metaphor for one's inner spiritual journey independent of the world around us. Others present it as an entirely external event that will unfold in our world independent of what we may choose to do or what our participation may be in the healing of our world. A third version of the prophecy is the one given to me by my friend and Dharma brother Choegyal Rinpoche of the Tashi Jong community in northern India. There comes a time when all life on earth is in danger. At this time, two great powers have arisen; these are the laloes (the barbarians). One is in the western hemisphere and one in the center of the Eurasian land mass. Although these two powers have spent their wealth in preparations to annihilate each other, they have much in common: weapons of unfathomable death and devastion, and the technologies that lay waste our world. It is in this time, when the whole future of sentient life seems to hang on the frailest of threads, that the kingdom of Shambhala begins to emerge. Now you can't go there, for it is not a place, it's not a geopolitical entity. It exists in the hearts and minds of the Shambhala warriors -- that is the term Choegyal used -- warriors. Nor can you recognize a Shambhala warrior when you see her or him, for they wear no uniform, no insignia, carry no banners. They have no barricades on which to climb to threaten the enemy or behind which they can rest to hide or regroup. The haven't even any home turf; for always they must move on the terrain of the laloes or barbarians themselves. Now the time comes when great courage, moral and physical, is required of the Shambhala warriors, for they must go into the very heart of the barbarian power, into the pits and pockets and citadels where the weapons are kept, to dismantle them. To dismantle weapons, in every sense of the word, they must go into the corridors of power where decisions are made. Now the Shambhala warriors have the courage to do this because they know that these weapons are "manomaya." They are "mind-made." Made by human mind they can be unmade by human mind. The Shambhala warriors know that the dangers that threaten life on earth are not visited upon us by any extraterrestrial powers, or any satanic deities, or any preordained evil fate, but they arise, rather, from our own choices, our own lifestyles, our own relationships. So in this time the Shambhala warriors go into training. When Choegyal said this, I asked, "How do they train?" They train, he said, in the use of two weapons. "What weapons?", I asked, and he held up his hand in the way the lamas hold the ritual objects of bell and dorje in the lama dance. The weapons are compassion and insight. Both are necessary, he said. You have to have compassion because it gives you the jioce, the power, the passion to move; when you open to the pain of the world you move. But that weapon by itself is not enough. It can burn you out, so you need the other. It is insight into the radical interdependence of all phenomena -- their interconnectedness, their deep ecology. With that wisdom you know that it is not a battle between the good guys and the bad guys, but that the line between good and evil runs through the landscape of every human heart. With that insight into our profound interrelatedness you know that actions undertaked with pure intent have repercussions throughout the web of life, beyond what you can measure or discern. By itself, that insight may appear too cool, too conceptual, to sustain you and keep you moving, so you need the heat of the compassion. Together, within each Shambhala warrior and among the Shambhala warriors themselves, these two can sustain us as agents of social change. They are gifts for us to claim now in the healing of our world. -- Joanna Macy ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 67 Re: Sky in Miami- Advise please 1 response jjohnson@uujobs.com 11:57 am Nov 20, 1991 pfraterdeus@igc.org (Peter Fraterdeus) writes: > Sky in Miami: Advise please! > 305 258 4334 I tried this # & got "Lore Systems" - wrong ph #? > Feb regional--Southern Fla. Need advice on how (who) to deal with USFS and o > Park Service (Everglades...) > > They need help and advice to organize a AWF benefit! It sounds like they're not working with the folks who did the last regional - any more info on why not? > Sky has gotten a Miami picnic off the ground-- 500 people last time. > City is saying they'll have to pay $50. per 200 people for a permit. > > Needs Legaliaison advise. First: no permits signed or $$ paid for peaceful assembly on public land. Any time someone pays $$ or gets "permission" from the government to peacefully assemble, it strengthens their case that the government has a "right" to do so. People have rights, not goverments. Second: if you're facing an unconstitutional city ordinance/whatever that requires $$/permit for peaceful assembly (many do), try: a) doing it elsewhere b) finding a lawyer willing to challenge the ordinance, and make the picnic a test case - c) find a similar ordinance in another city that has been struck down on constitutional grounds, and try to point out to the city council/district attorney that attempting to enforce theirs will only discredit them, etc. (this is shaky, but may not take as much energy, & may be worth a try). d) some folks skirt the issue by taking a permit as an individual doing a private gig, and "tolerate" a bunch of Rainbow People "crashing" the picnic. I feel shaky about this, `cos it's not necessarily real honest, and might not be an adequate defense against a good DA and a conservative judge. NO COMPROMISE IN DEFENSE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES! thumper -- jjohnson@uujobs.com ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 67 bmasel 4:17 am Dec 3, 1991 Figure out what official has to defend the city and it's unconstitutional ordinance (often called the corporation counsel) if you sue after an arrest. They will have an incentive to avoid a losing effort in court. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 68 Swooping Heron to SD "council" sjohgart 5:47 pm Nov 20, 1991 Swooping Heron wrote a letter from his prison cell to Peace Garden in response to the South Dakota "Thanksgiving Council" announcement. He requested I copy and post it for him, which I am honored to do. Here is Swoop's letter: "Howdy y'all! "I saw a copy of the flyer announcing the "Thanksgiving Council" in South Dakota. Please share this letter with the council circle there, for I cannot be there in person. "I am a bit confused here; two months ago, I got notice of a Thanksgiving Council to be held in Colorado. I must presume that you folks, who are focalizing the South Dakota "Thanksgiving Council" are sufficiently in touch with the rest of the focalizers to know of the planned council in Colorado. Why, then, did you decide to have another council circle, same time, different place? Did you contact the folks focalizing the Colorado council? Do you think you still have some mandate, some groundswell of support to make a gathering happen in South Dakota? I have noticed on your flyer that there are no South Dakota addresses or phone numbers listed among the focalizers for your version of "Thanksgiving Council". I have checked with some other focalizers, including Gonzo and Nancy at Great Lakes Rainbow in Ann Arbor, MI, where they are plugged into PeaceNet, and the Legal Liaison, so I can confidently say that the consensus, or at least wellspring of support for '92, is focused at Colorado. I have yet to speak to anyone who is changing their plans and going to South Dakota instead of Colorado for Thanksgiving Council. You certainly don't have my consent for moving the '92 Gathering to South Dakota. "I can comfortably say that what you have done is selfish and ill-advised at best and intentionally divisive and controversial at worst. "Please do not put so many sisters and brothers in the unpleasant position of having to choose which Thanksgiving council is the "real" or "official" one, let alone having to choose in June or July which Rainbow Gathering is the "real" or "official" one. Blatant disregard for our sacred council process, and for the sanctity of our consensuses can set our family back 25 years! "I am not angry about this; I only wish to prevent a situation in which many others are or will be angry. I love all my sisters and brothers--even those with whom I disagree. Nobody is telling you that you have to go to Colorado for any council, or for the Gathering in July, for that matter. Fell free to gather and council when and wherever you want. However, please don't misrepresent your small circle as speaking for the family at large. "It is my personal hope that since you have some good energy focused on South Dakota, you will meet there several times before spring...but try to choose dates that don't conflict with organizing for the national Gathering, which, from everything I've heard, will take place in Colorado, probably in the San Juan National Forest. I'd love to see a Summer Solstice regional in South Dakota, a caravan rallying point for people from the northeast and midwest headed to Colorado. If enough South Dakota locals, and native Lakota and Sioux folks, show up at that regional, and if all goes well with them, if scouting is promising, then we will be able to go to vision council in Colorado with a real plan and real support--in South Dakota--to bring the family Home to the Black Hills in '93. "My love, prayers and best wishes go out to all my sisters and brothers, wherever they may be, whatever they may do. Let confusion be replaced by clarity, let separation be replaced by togetherness. Let our lights come together in one brilliant rainbow. "Remain in light, walk in balance. "Peace and love, Swooping Heron" And I second those emotions. Love to you, Swoop! Gonzo ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 69 Job Announcement mendicott 3:15 pm Nov 21, 1991 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Job Announcement /* Written 3:44 pm Nov 20, 1991 by seidman@cmsa.berkeley.edu in cdp:gen.nativeam */ /* ---------- "Job Announcement" ---------- */ Original-Sender: seidman@cmsa.berkeley.edu (Peter Seidman) The Bishop (CA) Indian Tribal Council asked the National Center to REPOST the following job announcement because the search has been extended. JOB ANNOUNCEMENT TRIBAL ADMINISTRATOR POSITION: Tribal Administrator REPORTS TO: BISHOP INDIAN TRIBAL COUNCIL POSITION SUMMARY: Responsible for overseeing the implementation and operation of all projects of the Bishop Indian Tribal Council. Executes the decisions of the Bishop Indian Tribal Council. SALARY: Salaried position. $24,000 - $28,000 depending on qualifications. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Serve as liaison between the Bishop Indian Tribal Council and Tribal Operations ensuring that program activities, as set forth in the various grants are carried out as planned. Evaluates and monitors program including fiscal activities. 2. Create linkages with community resources, both public and private, that would further enhance the goals of the Bishop Indian Tribal Council. 3. Develop inter-agency agreements with entities to benefit the Tribe. 4. Write proposals for funding to assist the Tribe's needs and to help the Tribe toward its goal of economic self- sufficiency. 5. Maintain cooperative working relationships with the Bishop Utility Organization, Tribal Elders and other Tribal oriented organizations. 6. Prepare and present program activity reports to the Bishop Indian Tribal Council. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: --Experience in the administration and operation of programs serving the needs of American Indian Reservations. --Knowledge of tribal law and regulations governing Tribal operations. --Experience in negotiating contracts, evaluating program effectiveness and in reporting on program activities. APPLICATION INFORMATION: Submit resume by JANUARY 3, 1992 to: Bishop Indian Tribal Council P.O. Box 548 Bishop, CA 93515 (619) 873-3584 Lucinda Yandell, Tribal Secretary ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 70 Thumper's resignation and Legaliais 1 response jjohnson@uujobs.com 12:59 pm Nov 26, 1991 TO BE READ AT THANKGIVING COUNCIL (from thumper) ========================================================================= Dear Family: In the last few months, a couple of things happened that I figured everyone should be told about. This is a report on my last contact with the Forest Service here in DC, and a report on a Gathering that didn't get cleaned up. --> Y'all might have heard about the Gathering-by-rumor that happened this last August on the old 1986 Pennsylvania site. The Regional Family had a solid feeling that this third Gathering in five years would constitute abuse of the land, and myself and many others tried - in vain - to find some Council process to which we could appeal in an effort to relocate the Gathering. It seems to have been a sort of "road Family" Gathering, with A- Camp thrown in too. I haven't spoken to anyone who went, but I'm told that about 100 people gathered over four weeks; I hear that one person named "Odie" is now comatose in a local hospital from an alcohol-related accident. --> I saw Zeus Cosmos at a Mid-Atlantic Regional Gathering in West Virginia in September, and he told me that he'd stopped by the site after the Gathering, and that there was a big pile of trash left over. I needed to get away from the city late last October, so I drove up to the Allegheny National Forest, and sure enough, there was about 3/4 of a ton of trash & junk, all neatly piled at the trailhead in old Bus Village. Six 55 gallon drums, four big pieces of sheet metal, a bunch of partially-recycled glass and aluminum containers, lots of two-month-old dumpstered food, and about 700 pounds of rubble made of burnt trash and broken beer bottles. A number of Drum tobacco containers confirmed that it was OUR trash. I took pictures and will send them to All Ways Free when they are developed. --> It took me two days, and it was disgusting work, but it's all cleaned up now. I also found a camp downhill from supply depot that was only half broken, so I got that too. The site is beautiful. I will leave to you the question of why Zeus Cosmos didn't clean this up when he found it, or how anyone calling themselves Rainbow could have left it in the first place. --> In late October, I tried to reach Marian Connolly, Regulatory Officer in charge of writing the regulations that the Forest Service wants to use against us. She wasn't in, but I spoke with her assistant, Dinah Apple, who told me that the regs had been drafted and were currently being reviewed by another department of the Forest Service. After the Forest Service finishes their internal polishing, the regs may have to get approved by the Office of Management and Budget, or the Justice Dept.; then they get published in the Federal Register, and then there's the public comment period of 30-90 days. After a few more days, if they can get away with it, the regs take the power of law. I'm pretty certain that this'll happen soon; it could be happening right now. I haven't had the energy to keep up with it. --> Once the regs are in place, the FS has the legal power to get a judge to issue a Temporary Restraining Order against the Gathering, like they did in Texas in 1988. Although the Forest Service has destroyed more forest than we ever could, their case will be made stronger by our own lack of Respect for The Land. According to the Forest Service, the Minnesota site will never be like it was before we came. The same thing almost happened in PA - once the leaves and snow have fallen, garbage becomes part of the soil, and it's too late for a real cleanup. I had thought that Minnesota would "shock" us into tightening up on our garbage scene, but now I'm afraid that, for too many of us, Respecting The Land is simply not as important as having a Gathering. --> I've tried to quit before, but I really hope to do it this time; please consider this my resignation from doing any volunteer work for the Family, especially Legaliaison. I may continue to be active around these regs, but if I do, it will be as an independent Peaceful Assembly activist, accountable to no one. People who trash the land have Rights too, but there's better things to fight for. I do plan to attend the Gathering in Colorado next year, unless I do Europa instead. ========================================================================== SUGGESTED AGENDA ITEMS --> As a parting request, I'm asking y'all, Thanksgiving Council, to DO SOMETHING about the cleanup problems we're having. --> I'm also suggesting that a Legaliaison Volunteer call Marian Connolly [(703)235-1488] soon, and call her regularly to keep an eye on the regs; I think it's much easier to disrupt the regulatory process if you try earlier, rather than later. I don't know of anyone besides myself that has been doing this. --> I'm also suggesting that the Flame of Legaliaison be kept by your Council, and by each incarnation of the Tribal Council from now on, so that it will be closer to the People than it's been. Please contact me to arrange for shipping of files, forwarding of mail, etc. The Legaliaison Hat has $350-$400 in it, I think. Dave Massey has been sharing duty with me on the Legaliaison/DC Crew PO Box, so maybe he can help with logistics. --> Of course, each region, each circle, each Gathering, must keep their own Legaliaison flame, so that one storm cannot extinguish all of us. --> Please lend some guidance to the regions on the issue of "rumor Gatherings", which don't seem to be planned by any sort of consensus process. Note that they seem to happen at sites where more than one Gathering has already happened; if we stop re-using sites, rumor Gatherings may be less likely to happen. OneLove, Thumper -- jjohnson@uujobs.com (301)587-2338 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 70 dwirtshafter 9:17 pm Dec 5, 1991 We love you Thumper. Have a great rest. Donny. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 71 PieMan on PeaceGarden Maili pfraterdeus 10:45 pm Nov 29, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: PieMan on PeaceGarden Maili Attn: awf.rainbownews Subject: Time:8:57 PM OFFICE MEMO PieMan on PeaceGarden Mailing Date:11/24/91 Pieman called, wanted to express very strongly his distress about the swastika in the PeaceGarden mailing. While it is an ancient sign, it holds very strong connotations for many many people on the planet right now. Call to talk about it! Aron "PieMan" Kay 718 648 7055 (no collect calls) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 72 Michigan Winter Regional Scouting sjohgart 6:40 pm Dec 3, 1991 Howdy howdyHowdyhowdy! Just wanted to let folks know we'll be scouting/woodhauling at Nordhouse Dunes (near Ludington, Michigan) the weekend of December 21 in preparation for a winter regional the weekend of February 1. Scouting parking will be at the end of Nurnberg Road (where the parking was for the fall regionals). More details will be available--let me know if there's interest-- I'd love to see ya! Also if you've any tips or thoughts on winter gathering, please pass 'em on. Cold snowy love, Gonzo ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 73 Rainbow Hawk Paroled! 1 response pfraterdeus 10:47 am Dec 7, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Rainbow Hawk Paroled! Attn: awf.rainbownews Rainbow Hawk Paroled! The Focalizer Quarterly Mailing sent to Rainbow Hawk was returned marked PAROLED. Does anyone have a new address for him? Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 73 mendicott 11:16 am Dec 7, 1991 Peter, Aklea called me and said he is with the folks in Woodstock, NY. Praise God! Marcus ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 74 NUCLEAR TEST BAN NOW! fmayer 2:55 am Dec 9, 1991 Yo ho from the East Coast! Hello brothers and sisters... passing this very important message to everyone... it's important... please read. -- fmayer@igc.org (rappinfred, Fred Mayer) COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN NOW! Frank H. Lucido M.D. 5363 Shafter Ave. Oakland, CA 94618 Dear Friends, I'm making a big request. I want you, individually and collectively, to get totally involved in the 100th Monkey Project to Stop Nuclear Testing. This will be a 3 part project: April 10-12: a 3-day event just outside of Las Vegas, with world class musicians and speakers. April 13-17: a 5-day walk to the Nevada Test Site, approx. 50 miles. Earth Day - April 19: direct action at the test site. Why this project? 1. THIS IS AN ACHIEVABLE GOAL IN 1992. - The timing is right. More and more leaders are calling for a Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB). The Soviets have UNILATERALLY declared a moratorium on testing for the THIRD TIME. - It's the 500th anniversary of Columbus' invasion, and more and more attention is being and will be placed on indigenous rights. 2. IT TOUCHES ON ALL IMPORTANT SOCIAL ISSUES. -environmental -indigenous rights -militarism and peace -economic In 1963, the U.S. was one of 117 nations that signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty, which ended above ground tests and clearly stated as its goal, "to achieve the discontinuance of ALL test explosions of nuclear weapons for ALL time," and "to put an end to the contami- nation of man's environment by radioactive substances." Almost 30 years later, this goal is still elusive, because of U.S. policy. THIS IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE. OF the original 117 signers, 115 are willing to sign a Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB). Only the UNITED STATES and BRITAIN are unwilling to agree to this, and BRITAIN TESTS THEIR NUCLEAR DEVICES AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE... - only 50 miles from Las Vegas, - on land guaranteed to the Western Shoshone by the Treaty of Ruby Valley, signed in 1863. In fact, all nuclear weapons have always been tested on the lands of indigenous peoples: the French in Polynesia; the Chinese in Lop Nor; and the (former) USSR in Novaya Zemlya. Consider the following facts: - Our government detonates a nuclear device, on average, once every three weeks. - Each test costs between $6 million and $60 million to carry out. - More than one third of the Energy Department's budget is spent on nuclear military activities, rather than (peaceful) energy programs. We must stop nuking our planet! "WE'RE ALL DOWNWIND!" We want this event to break through the veritable press blackout that has been placed on all direct-action and civil disobedience at the test site. As many as 10,000 people have gathered at the site, with only minimal coverage by Nevada papers and no mention whatsoever by the nation's media. Our goal is the creation of an event on the scale of LIVE AID. The following individuals/groups have been booked: Michelle Shocked, Clan Dyken, Collective Vision, Joanne Rand, Ogie Ochoa, Wavy Gravy, Daniel Ellsberg, Dr. Helen Calcicott, John Robbins, Denis Hayes, Corbin Harney (spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone), and Bill Rosse (chairman of the Environmental Protection Committee of the Western Shoshone nation). I know that with your help we can achieve our goal. I'm committed to see this project through. My life is committed to peace and human rights, and to saving the planet. There is nothing else worth doing. I've known many of you for some years now and I feel that I've never abused or taken advantage of our friendship or acquaintence, but I am asking for something now. I know that I'm asking for something very big, but I'm not asking for myself. This is for all of us, and this event needs to be a coalition of all who have ever supported peace, environ- mental, or human rights causes. I want you to take this on as your own, just as I have taken it on as my own. I want you to find somewhere to plug into this event, and give it your energy. - donate skills and/or materials - donate financially (checks to 100th Monkey Project 5363 Shafter Ave. Oakland, CA 94618 ) - open an office or organize in your area - be a key contact for your area - present this project to your board for approval or endorsement - co-sponsor this event - offer nonviolence training sessions in your community - advertise in your newsletter - offer contacts/mailing lists - do a local fundraiser - share the vision, tell all your friends - for those in the area, attend a general meeting, usually the first week of the month (call for more information) The CTB is an achievable goal that is way overdue. It's ripe and it's ours for the picking! YOURS IN PEACE, FRANK LUCIDO P.S. I'm coordinating the medical team for the 3 day event, the 5 day walk, and the action at the test site. Let me know if you're interested in being a part of the medical team, or know anyone else who would be. ************************************************************************ The information following below, is contained in a poster for the project: STOP NUCLEAR TESTING! Address: The Hundredth Monkey P.O. Box 402 Arcata, CA 95521 Phone: (707) 826-2641 In 1963, due to international concern over fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing, the Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed. This was hopefully the first step to a total ban on nuclear testing. Since that time the radioactive poisoning of our world has continued. Over 700 underground nuclear explosions have shaken the Earth at the Nevada Test Site. For the past five years, the Soviet Union has appealed for a Comprehensive Test Ban. It is time for US to take the next step. LET'S STOP NUCLEAR TESTING! THE EVENT...April 10-12, 1992, hundreds of thousands of global citizens will gather in Las Vegas, Nevada, 65 miles southeast of the Nevada Test Site, to hear dozens of international speakers and world class musical artists to inform, inspire, and demand an end to nuclear testing. This will be followed on April 13 by a five day mass walk to the Nevada Test Site and then a direct action in conjunction with Earth Day 1992. THE PURPOSE...TO STOP NUCLEAR TESTING at the Nevada test site through world awareness, political pressure, direct action, and a mass walk to the test site. To educate the world through media exposure and a full-length feature movie of the event. To expand the nonviolence ethic through mass nonviolence trainings in conjunction with the event. To return the land to it's true stewards: The Western Shoshone Nation. THE METHOD...To envision and believe in the event as an end to nuclear testing. To secure the involvement and support of dedicated world organizers, celebrities, inspirational leaders, indigenous peoples, world and local peace groups, and individual peace activists at large. THE PARABLE OF THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY This is the story of a tribe of wild Japanese monkeys on the island of Koshima. For years the monkeys had eaten their sweet potatoes even though they were covered with sand until one young monkey washed hers off in a stream. She showed her mother and playmates how to do this and gradually all the young monkeys and some of their parents began washing their sweet potatoes. The others kept eating the dirty ones. THEN IT HAPPENED!!! At a certain point on one particular day, a single monkey, The Hundredth Monkey, learned the new trick and provided the "critical mass" necessary, so that by the end of the day, virtually the entire tribe was washing potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this Hundredth Monkey somehow travelled across the sea and colonies of monkeys on other islands began washing their weet potatoes. Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. Your awareness is needed! You may be The Hundredth Monkey! You may furnish the added consciousness to create the shared awareness of the urgent necessity to stop nuclear testing. "A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter. We must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to LIVE the way of peace; to inspire others we must continue to think of peace and to KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE. What we dwell upon we help to bring into manifestation. One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history." -- Peace Pilgrim. "The first peace, that which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers." -- Black Elk. The Hundredth Monkey Endorsement List: Abalone Alliance Napa Co. Sane Freeze Agalev - Brussels, Belgium National Lawyers Guild, Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice Bay Area Chapter. Alliance of Atomic Veterans Non-Violent Action for Arcata City Council National Defense Institute Bay Area Action (BAA) Nuremburg Actions Bill Motto Post V.F.W., Santa Cruz Pax Christi Bruce Kent - International Peace Bureau Peacemakers Television California State Green Party Peace and Justice Gophers, Citizens for Social Responsibility Corvallis, Oregon Clan Dyken Peace Alliance Collective Vision of the Lower Shore (PALS) Colorado Freeze Voter Peace Resource Project Common Ground Wholistic Healing Center Peace Ribbon Action Coalition Crawley Peace Council, England Peninsula Peace Center, Dallas Peace Center Palo Alto Denis Hayes - Earth Day Organizer Physicians for Social Responsibility Eagle Star Proposition One Committee Ecology Now Puente de Paz (Bridge of Peace) Francis-Ignatius Center Radio for Peace International Headwaters Alliance, Montana Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Helen Caldicott - Nobel Peace Prize Redwood Alliance International Earth Day Rural Southern Voice for Peace Interational Peace Lantern Salem Peace Institute, Salem, Mass. Jewish Peace Fellowship, N.Y. Sane-Freeze Joann Rand Southern California Federation John Robbins - Earth Save of Scientists Ken Keyes, Author of "Hundredth Monkey" Star Throwers Los Verdes, Madrid Spain Transnational Perspectives, Maryland Sane Freeze Switzerland Medical Campaign Against Wavy Gravy Nuclear Weapons, England Willits Environmental Center Michelle Shocked Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament Women Strike for Peace, Washington, D.C. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom World Day for Peace ************************************************************************ Please reproduce this message throughout all available networks. PEACE! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 75 Notes to Frank fmayer 3:04 am Dec 9, 1991 December 9, 1991 Dear Frank, [excerpt] Let me say, that as I write this, news is coming in from the former Soviet Union concerning the formation of a commonwealth of fully independent countries (CIC), including the former republics of Russia, Byelorussia, and Ukraine. Boris Yeltsin has announced that M. Gorbachev's idea of a Confederation with some degree of central authority is dead. The risks posed by regional conflicts within Eastern European and (former) Soviet spheres have been deliberately down-played by the national authorities of the industrialized nations. Please note that this covering up of the facts is HIGHLY DANGEROUS, and must be counteracted by all activists. With the collapse of central authority in the former Soviet Union, the following situation presents itself: [1] The Ruble, currency to hundreds of millions of people, could collapse within weeks. Such a collapse would take only afew days to occur, and could quickly paralyze all urban centers. The risk of collapse has been increased by Yeltsin's plan to remove price controls within a period of weeks. [2] Such a collapse would force the imposition of martial law, in order to prevent food riots, and in order to prevent mass starvation. [3] The mobilization of Soviet troops in such a fashion would place control of day-to-day national policy decisions in the hands of generals. This is a critical point of no return. [4] IF... IF political authority fails to be maintained, an international crisis will be precipitated. The important thing to keep in mind is that the armed forces of the Soviet Union still exist -- complete with tactical and strategic nuclear weapons -- despite the fact that the Soviet Union has vanished. The collapse of Gorbachev's confederation implies the cutting of the last thread of political legitimacy linking those armed forces to non-military authority. Recall that the August coup was carried out, in effect, by the (former) KGB. In that sense it was therefore NOT a military coup. Such a threat is still waiting in the wings. It is well known that Soviet troops have been victimized by the political uncertainty, are under-housed, under-clothed, and under-fed. In short, the Soviet armed forces -- lacking any central political authority -- constitute the single greatest threat to world peace. [5] Hopefully, control over Soviet forces will be firmly placed in Russia, in the hands of Yeltsin's political authority. This transformation, however, is by no means a certainty. The new CIC has chosen the Byelorussian city of Minsk as its capital. This clearly symbolizes the collapse of Moscow's authority over the former Soviet Union. Lines are being drawn in the sand. It will quickly become clear whether or not Soviet armed forces choose to accept Minsk's authority over all three republics (Ukraine, Byeolorussia, and Russia). [6] Underlying these scenarios is the potential response by the west. NATO forces in Europe still possess tactical nuclear weapons. The question becomes: Under what conditions will the west (i.e. Bush) decide to intervene? The world has never seen a civil war fought by forces emerging from a former nuclear superpower. This is all uncharted territory. These points relate quite directly to the campaign for a comprehensive nuclear test ban. It is my judgment that stability in the former Soviet Union will provide the best environment for a CTB. However, the points which I have elaborated make it clear that such an environment is by no means certain. All activists must address this question, and decide how the CTB campaign is to respond. Uncertainty is our worst enemy... The threat of a Soviet civil war will be used by President Bush and his allies to justify the need for nuclear readiness. A coherent plan for this sort of situation must emerge from our minds. I am currently in the process of communicating the information you have sent me to the local campus community. This will take abit of time, because of the holiday break. The Spring semester should see a great deal more interest. An important focus of the campaign's activities should be to find a Congressional agent who will sponsor a CTB resolution in congress. In my opinion, this is absolutely critical. Congress has the authority to cut off all funding for nuclear testing. This authority is greater than any arguments made by the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, or the President of the United States. We cannot expect DOD or DOE to simply say, "Your right! We've decide to stop conducting our tests..." An act of Congress is required. Please keep me posted concerning the project's activities. Best wishes to you and all yours on the West Coast! Love & Peace, Fred & Ev. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 76 FWD>62 pfraterdeus 11:09 am Dec 9, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FWD>62 Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM FWD>62 October Quincentenary Ac The full text of the following article is in pn.announcements (for those of you who are not regularly 'v'isiting the announcements conference... petros ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic 62 October Quincentenary Actions peacenet pn.announcemen 6:01 pm Dec 4, 1991 From: American Peace Test From: Western Shoshone National Council PO Box 140115 Duckwater, NV 89314-0115 TEL/Fax: (702) 386-0332 October, 1991 To all interested parties, This letter is a brief summary of the October 1992 plans being prepared by several organizations to counter "official celebrations" involved in celebrating the "Quincentenary of Columbus'" so called, "Discovery". You are invited to participate in and co-sponsor our planned events. A proposal from the Nevada Desert Experience and the Western Shoshone National Council for a series of events including an indigenous peoples conference, demonstration and Mother Earth healing ceremony received wide spread support in the US and approval from the Global Anti Nuclear Alliance (GANA) in Stockholm, Sweden in July of 1991 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 77 Thanks! FQM thumbs up... pfraterdeus 10:38 pm Dec 11, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Thanks! FQM thumbs up... Attn: awf.rainbownews Thanks! FQM thumbs up... Thanks for Helping!!!! Have already gotten a number of donations and excellent comments back on the Focalizers Quarterly Mailing! When the returns and wrong addresses stop trickling in, i'll update the Focs list, and send it out to the Net Council. By consensus of the Focs Coucnil in Vermont, the Focs List will only be distributed to focalizer volunteers who agree to be on the list. Even if they show no address or telephone, at least we'll all know who's got our names! In other words, the Foc's list will not be posted on the awf conference. All in all, I'm very encouraged by this! I think that we'll be able to really learn to co-ordinate even better! petros Disclaimer: I'm just a volunteer, acting on my own time to further the Rainbow ideals, which I believe in. Neither I nor any other focalizer volunteer are in any way acting as "officials " or "representatives" of the Rainbow Family as a whole... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 78 Madison/Wisc. Regional Coun pfraterdeus 2:48 pm Dec 16, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Madison/Wisc. Regional Coun Attn: awf.rainbownews Madison/Wisc. Regional Council Notes Howdy, Petros here! It's dark at 4:20 this afternoon! Had a great, short, peak-intensity council in the "Driftless" bioregion of SW Wisconsin this weekend, 14-15 December. ("Driftless" means the glaciers didn't move through here, leaving little piles of "drift" or "morainne" along the landscape.... It's land with a very long past. The BlackHawk Indians were massacred along the Mississippi not too far from here.... We remember them in our planning....) Planning is going forward full speed ahead for a late May (?) regional in this area. Council was facilitated by one or another person, holding the feather, and an agenda was used to help the proceedings move along. Pending arrival of the Council Notes, I'll briefly note a few things of interest... I read Thumper's letter to Thanksgiving council, regarding the "rumor gathering" in PA this summer, and the fact that there was 3/4 ton of trash left over which he had to spend two days disposing of by himself. The council seemed to agree to a number of Thump's points, including that there needs to be a regional Legaliason "flame", as he put it, to makle sure that "one storm doesn't extinguish" the effort made by a small number of focs. It was also pointed out that regional CALM, Shanti Sena, and other similar councils should be established, for the same reason--that we need to spread the expertise around, and will thus be much stronger as a whole, when the regions really have their strength "from the land". A suggestion was made for dealing with aggressive panhandling by certain persons at the gates to the gathering ("alcohol-camp"). Our Howdy Folks will be very clear about donating to the Magic Hat at Dinner Circle, and focus councils, all of which have a defined purpose and an accountable bank (like the Guide, All Ways Free, etc.) Our major strategy for dealing with the issue is education, I suppose, and a couple of other things were proposed that will be specified later. One major point was that every one that is confronted with such energy should GET INVOLVED, rather than complaining to the Info Center saying "YOU should go deal with A-Camp." Everybody's Shanti Sena. The council was very united in this, but there were a couple of alternative views and suggestions, regarding the Alcohol-Camp. Such as, "...it shouldn't be at the front gate". This was quickly responded to by people pointing out that the Alcohol-Camp is not easily controlled. We can't just go "tell them to disperse"! THAT'S THE POINT! Most importantly, We the People need to be more involved at the beginning of the Gathering (any gathering), especially at seed camps, to make sure that the alcoholics don't squeeze their way into control of the bank and supply councils. And during the Gathering (any gathering), We the People need to go to where the new folks are coming in, and welcome them Home. It is Our own lack of involvement that allows the alcoholics to control the gates at the Gathering. Nobody wants to deny these brothers & sisters their right to "worship as they please", nor to deny them their Communion with (all of us) Our Family. However, We must not take the co-dependent role in abetting their abusive behavior. It is time for the whole and healthy to confront the illness in the Family, not with disgust, or hatred, but with Strength, and Love, and Commitment to seeing it resolved. It is not the Person we reject, but destructive, and abusive behavior. It was pointed out that this regional will be happening soon after Weedstock, in a nearby area, and this is very likely to create a large contingent of alcohol users (somewhat paradoxical, no?) coming to the Gathering. We will also be right on the route (sort of) to the Colorado Gathering in July for many folks along the NE and Great Lakes states. The numbers will be pretty substantial, we suppose. In other matters, the Regional council has consensed to support the Pot o' Gold newsletter focalized by volunteers in Chicago as a "de facto" regional newsletter. As the focalizer for Pot o' Gold, I (Petros) disclaim any editorial impartiality, and reserve the right to publish as much or as little on any topic as seems appropriate to me. Anybody that can't handle that is welcome to produce their own newsletter, and to provide for their own funding! As it is, I am honored and thankful that my family in the Wisconsin/Madison and in the Southern Indiana/Western Kentucky regions have shown this degree of trust and confidence in these efforts thus far (and even sent $$) My Heart Sings! And with that, the rest will wait 'til I get some minutes! Lots o' Love to All! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 79 *Madison/Wisc. Regional Cou 1 response pfraterdeus 4:39 pm Dec 17, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: *Madison/Wisc. Regional Cou Attn: awf.rainbownews *Madison/Wisc. Regional Council Notes Howdy, Petros here! It's dark at 4:20 this afternoon! Had a great, short, peak-intensity council in the "Driftless" bioregion of SW Wisconsin this weekend, 14-15 December. ("Driftless" means the glaciers didn't move through here, leaving little piles of "drift" or "morainne" along the landscape.... It's land with a very long past. The BlackHawk Indians were massacred along the Mississippi not too far from here.... We remember them in our planning....) Planning is going forward full speed ahead for a late May (?) regional in this area. Council was facilitated by one or another person, holding the feather, and an agenda was used to help the proceedings move along. Pending arrival of the Council Notes, I'll briefly note a few things of interest... I read Thumper's letter to Thanksgiving council, regarding the "rumor gathering" in PA this summer, and the fact that there was 3/4 ton of trash left over which he had to spend two days disposing of by himself. The council seemed to agree to a number of Thump's points, including that there needs to be a regional Legaliason "flame", as he put it, to makle sure that "one storm doesn't extinguish" the effort made by a small number of focs. It was also pointed out that regional CALM, Shanti Sena, and other similar councils should be established, for the same reason--that we need to spread the expertise around, and will thus be much stronger as a whole, when the regions really have their strength "from the land". A suggestion was made for dealing with aggressive panhandling by certain persons at the gates to the gathering ("alcohol-camp"). Our Howdy Folks will be very clear about donating to the Magic Hat at Dinner Circle, and focus councils, all of which have a defined purpose and an accountable bank (like the Guide, All Ways Free, etc.) Our major strategy for dealing with the issue is education, I suppose, and a couple of other things were proposed that will be specified later. One major point was that every one that is confronted with such energy should GET INVOLVED, rather than complaining to the Info Center saying "YOU should go deal with A-Camp." Everybody's Shanti Sena. The council was very united in this, but there were a couple of alternative views and suggestions, regarding the Alcohol-Camp. Such as, "...it shouldn't be at the front gate". This was quickly responded to by people pointing out that the Alcohol-Camp is not easily controlled. We can't just go "tell them to disperse"! THAT'S THE POINT! Most importantly, We the People need to be more involved at the beginning of the Gathering (any gathering), especially at seed camps, to make sure that the alcoholics don't squeeze their way into control of the bank and supply councils. And during the Gathering (any gathering), We the People need to go to where the new folks are coming in, and welcome them Home. It is Our own lack of involvement that allows the alcoholics to control the gates at the Gathering. Nobody wants to deny these brothers & sisters their right to "worship as they please", nor to deny them their Communion with (all of us) Our Family. However, We must not take the co-dependent role in abetting their abusive behavior. It is time for the whole and healthy to confront the illness in the Family, not with disgust, or hatred, but with Strength, and Love, and Commitment to seeing it resolved. It is not the Person we reject, but destructive, and abusive behavior. It was pointed out that this regional will be happening soon after Weedstock, in a nearby area, and this is very likely to create a large contingent of alcohol users (somewhat paradoxical, no?) coming to the Gathering. We will also be right on the route (sort of) to the Colorado Gathering in July for many folks along the NE and Great Lakes states. The numbers will be pretty substantial, we suppose. In other matters, the Regional council has consensed to support the Pot o' Gold newsletter focalized by volunteers in Chicago as a "de facto" regional newsletter. As the focalizer for Pot o' Gold, I (Petros) disclaim any editorial impartiality, and reserve the right to publish as much or as little on any topic as seems appropriate to me. Anybody that can't handle that is welcome to produce their own newsletter, and to provide for their own funding! As it is, I am honored and thankful that my family in the Wisconsin/Madison and in the Southern Indiana/Western Kentucky regions have shown this degree of trust and confidence in these efforts thus far (and even sent $$) My Heart Sings! And with that, the rest will wait 'til I get some minutes! Lots o' Love to All! Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 79 wfoster 12:22 pm Dec 18, 1991 Petros: Thanks for the report from the Madison/Wisc. Regional Council. I have yet to see any reports from the Thanksgiving Council in Colorado. Did you make it to the mountains? Does anyone else care to fill us in? Love, Brahm ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 80 FWD>Thankgiving Council '91 pfraterdeus 8:04 pm Dec 18, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FWD>Thankgiving Council '91 Attn: awf.rainbownews FWD>Thankgiving Council '91 Report This just came in from Wanderer in Colorado! Looks good family! I'm very encouraged by the report about the SD question... Love you all! P. ------------------------------ Thankgiving Council Report The Rainbow Family's annual Thanksgiving Council was held near Boulder, Colorado from Thursday, November 28th to Sunday, December 1st. On Wednesday night it began snowing. The temperature dropped to below 20 degrees and stayed there. The road up became very slick and we were essentially snowed in until Saturday except for our few 4 wheel vehicles. We were able to council and sleep inside although a few of us braved the cold and slept outside in tents, a few vans, a tipi and a motor home. Doc let go of his home totally to us while we were there, and seemed somewhat surprised, and pleased, when we restored it to it's original order and left on time. Thanks, Doc. There was plenty of good food, bought at below wholesale prices and our kitchen crew kept us healthy with their excellent cooking. We even had a few turkeys with all the fillings on Thanksgiving >not< bought with Magic Hat money! Water was number one on our agenda, getting pure and good water for our family when we gather together. In the middle of council our cistern ran dry. We felt this was Spirit letting us see we didn't have our water trip together yet. We did get it together and got more as soon as the water truck could come up the slippery road, but for one long afternoon it felt like being back in Minnesota. Saturday, several of the folks who had been at the council in South Dakota came here. Sunday many of the rest appeared. We greeted them in love and took them into our hearts. By Sunday evening they had agreed to call their gathering in 1992 something like the Rainbow Family Bridge to the Native Americans and other peoples of South Dakota. They agreed that the Family would hold the 21st annual Rainbow Family Gathering in Colorado in '92. We are still hoping the South Dakota folks will change their gathering time so all who want can go to both gatherings. Several folks said it was the best Thanksgiving council ever. Everyone thought it was well organized and well facilitated. If Thanksgiving council is any indication of how well the next year's gathering will go, we should have a good one here in Colorado next July maybe the best one ever. It was a very powerful and loving council. There were no bad vibes, and no negativity put out at all. Council ended Sunday afternoon at sunset with a cuddle circle beginning with a few of us in the middle of the council room. Soon we began to om and as it grew in love and power, more and more of us joined the circle. The oming went on and on until everyone at the council was cuddling in the circle. It was a very powerful experience and we felt the presence of all of you in the family at that moment in our hearts. We love you. Wanderer and Friends ------------------------- This is the time of year when the sun is lowest in the sky It's the shortest day of the year. Our energy comes from our father, the sun. This is the time of year when our physical energy is lowest, when our positiue energy is weakest, our negative energy strongest. This is the time of year when it's easy to get into self-hate, into depression and sickness, into hassles. It's the death time of the year, the time before the rebirth, before the new years' sun. It's a time to rest, to be good to yourself, to not ask too much of yourself, time to seek out the warmth, to accept the death, and to meditate on the coming rebirth. Wanderer ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 81 1992 Scout Council, etc. pfraterdeus 8:05 pm Dec 18, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: 1992 Scout Council, etc. Attn: awf.rainbownews 1992 Scout Council, etc. Announcements 1992 Scout Council--May 1st in Colorado. 1992 Spring Council--May 28th through May 31 in Colorado. Scouting - Scouts are Welcome. Contact Billy Shawn or Eugene at 303-494-2214. And remember you can scout at home with good topo maps. You don't have to walk the land to help scout. Money - for Thanksgiving council we spent almost $500 on food, $110 on water and several hundred more on other necessities. This came from fundraising efforts of the Colorado Family and from the Magic Hat at the council. We need money. We need money for the family P.O. box, for the family information phone line, for printing and mailing expenses, for maps, for our scouts, for CALM equipment and supplies and for much, much more as the year progresses. Communications - Our family mailing address is Rainbow, 1705--14th Street, Suite 359, Boulder, Colorado 80302. You can send contributions for the Magic Hat to this address. All mail is picked up by banking council. Our Rainbow phone number is 303-494-2214. Call for information, to volunteer, to say hello, or whatever. Wanderer and Friends ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 82 Letter from Bridge next entry dwirtshafter 7:36 pm Dec 20, 1991 Letter from DonI -Don Wirtshafter, 14 N. Court #301, Athens, OH 45701 614-592-5297 I really need a rainbow gathering right now. Lonely. The following message came to me from Bridge with a request to put it on the net. Thanks to Sarah G. for the typing. Happy Holidays to all. Donny ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 83 Blessing for all of the Rainbow Fa dwirtshafter 7:37 pm Dec 20, 1991 letter from Bridge -Peter DeNevai, HC#2 Box 5, Duchesne, UT 84021 10 XII 91 There seems to be a grassroots groundswell of sentiment among Rainbows to get back to the basics of Rainbow. Recent years have seen a mushrooming of Rainbows in attendance at the National Gathering, an unprecedented amount of attention from the media in the form of pictorial news stories and television attention, a stremlining of kitchen and council operations due to the large numbers involved, and a lessening of "tribal" participation in the form of communes involved. You might say that rather than a "Gathering of the Tribes", Rainbow Nation has become a Gathering of the Neighborhoods. Think Globally, Act Locally? Maybe: Think Locally, Act Neighborly! This is all well and good, however many of us would like to see the Rainbow Nation re-grounded, re-centered in its original Spirit. Some say the answer is with a return to the sites of the founding Rainbow Gathering in Colorado, and others say return the Gathering to the place and people who gave us our use of teepees, sweat lodges, council circles, ShanteSena, and peace sacraments. The original Americans...the Natives, can remind us of the correct and proper uses of these, their gifts. Guided by Greater Spirits, the Thanksgiving Council took on a new form: while the main body of the council took place in Colorado, one organ or limb of this council was extended to the Dakotas to seek counsel with our Native American elders of the Sioux tribes. We counciled, took part in sweat lodge ceremonies, and passed peace pipes with a number of chiefs, medicine men and spiritual roadmen, including Leonard CrogDog, Oscar ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 84 Message from Bridge dwirtshafter 7:59 pm Dec 20, 1991 letter from Bridge -Peter DeNevai, HC#2 Box 5, Duchesne, UT 84021 10 XII 91 There seems to be a grassroots groundswell of sentiment among Rainbows to get back to the basics of Rainbow. Recent years have seen a mushrooming of Rainbows in attendance at the National Gathering, an unprecedented amount of attention from the media in the form of pictorial news stories and television attention, a stremlining of kitchen and council operations due to the large numbers involved, and a lessening of "tribal" participation in the form of communes involved. You might say that rather than a "Gathering of the Tribes", Rainbow Nation has become a Gathering of the Neighborhoods. Think Globally, Act Locally? Maybe: Think Locally, Act Neighborly! This is all well and good, however many of us would like to see the Rainbow Nation re-grounded, re-centered in its original Spirit. Some say the answer is with a return to the sites of the founding Rainbow Gathering in Colorado, and others say return the Gathering to the place and people who gave us our use of teepees, sweat lodges, council circles, ShanteSena, and peace sacraments. The original Americans...the Natives, can remind us of the correct and proper uses of these, their gifts. Guided by Greater Spirits, the Thanksgiving Council took on a new form: while the main body of the council took place in Colorado, one organ or limb of this council was extended to the Dakotas to seek counsel with our Native American elders of the Sioux tribes. We counciled, took part in sweat lodge ceremonies, and passed peace pipes with a number of chiefs, medicine men and spiritual roadmen, including Leonard CrogDog, Oscar BearRunner, Billy Good VoiceElk, and others, having been given their Sacred Sundance Grounds upon which to site our Rainbow Nation Thanksgiving Council lodge. We were inquiring about the feasibility of an Earth Medicine Gathering in the Dakota Black Hills. The result of this Council? We met nothing but acceptance, brotherly guidance and encouragement. It was a Blessing for all of the Rainbow Families of the Rainbow Nation. On the last day of the Colorado Thanksgiving Council, those of us who had counciled in Dakota re-joined the main council with the good Spirit Medicine given us by the Native People. We were recognized by the council and each spoke his heart and vision with regard to upcoming events. The outcome of this Thanksgiving Council Reunion is this: the 1992 Rainbow National Gathering will have a special component in the form of an Earth Medicine Retreat sited in the Black Hills of the Dakotas. This will be a Sister Gathering to the main event in Colorado. There will be Rainbow "Eagles' Bridge" buses shuttling the 9 of so hours between the two sites. The Natives are traditional people who counsel us to downplay excessive nudity and recreational drug usage. While certain "celebratory" aspects of the Gathering will be discouraged, touching Nature in our hearts and spirits as children of this, our Mother Planet, is certainly en-couraged. should the Spirit move you, and only if you are so moved, then come to the Black Hills while this window of time and space is still open. The announcements/and/or invitations will probably read something like this: THE AMERICAN RAINBOW NATION THANKSGIVING COUNCIL PRESENTS: EAGLES' BRIDGE - EARTH MEDICINE GATHERING IN THE DAKOTA BLACK HILLS ----1992 ! *This Gathering is a Sister to the main Colorado Gathering *Let the Spirit guide you to discovering Rainbow's Roots in the American Heartland ! a-HO-Mitkuwe-Asin !! I would like to have all comments, and words of constructive encouragement for the designing and building of an improved American Rainbow Gathering. Bridge , Peter DeNevai Now I want to speak to a subject that is dear to my heart --- Rainbow as a Global Family. About ten years back, the first European Rainbow Gathering took place. It was the same guiding spirit that manifested in originally having American Rainbows gather, yet different. Different in that individuals and groups from a dozen different nations speaking as many languages succeeded in making the shared vision a reality. In succeeding years, many American Rainbows attended the Internationaal event. These usually would protest the methods and forms that councils, kitchens, hat collections and medicine took, saying: "This is not how we do it at American rainbow; what you all should do is.....". These self-appointed Rainbow "Missionaries" would then, over the days, begin to realize that in an internatioanl multi-lingual setting, Rainbow has had to form some hybrid off-shoots, indeed developing an altogether new and growing way of sharing our global vision. These Americans would then wisely become students of what apparently is a wonderful 20th Century World Gathering...but it's not easy! Europeans, coming from a Babel of different tribes and languages, living on their lands for thousands of years, and having embraced the Native American methosds for living in harmony with the Earth, have come up with a whole new agenda! We American Rainbows, most of whom have bloodlines going back to Europe, can acquire alot of knowledge from our European brothers and sisters,...about how to share a truly full-spectrum, multi-hued Gathering! In many ways,the International Gathering is an arrow pointed to the future, when no one group , such as an all-American speaking Rainbow Gathering can lay claim to having all the good energies. Not to say that we American Rainbows are regarded as backward colonists trying to do a World-class gathering in our own inimitable, free, funky, and natural way,...but that we may have to send more American Rainbow delegates to the European Gathering in order to keep up to speed and mesh gears with global Scale Rainbow. There was a joke making the rounds at the International Rainbow Gathering in Poland -1991,where about 3000 Rainbows from at least 20 different lands showed up: "How many American Rainbows does it take to make a Gathering?"...the answer: "About 20,000!" Is this the original Polish joke? At one time in the far distant past, this planet was considered the Garden Spot of the Galaxy. Then some ugly, evil force, perhaps some twisted race of beings, made this planet over from a paradise to a work planet, or slave planet, introducing disease, short lifespans, warfare, hatred, and jealousy...a planetary factory putting out just the kind of bad vibes that this non-human race feeds off of. Joy is now a jealously fought-for reward rather than the birthright it was meant to be in the original creation of this planet as a Garden. All we have left of the Garden is a shared vision, and a Dream for the future when we can once again return to the Garden. The Rainbow Gathering is a place where for a couple of weeks each year we can celebrate life as it can be lived in Peace,Love, Harmony, and Friendship with other beings in the bosom of Nature, our Mother. a-HO-Mitakuwe-Asin! BRIDGE - Peter DeNevai ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 85 Mailing List..if you like pfraterdeus 9:04 am Dec 24, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Mailing List..if you like Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Mailing List..if you like Dear Dave Desertspring and Sherrie, Keith, and Julie Allright! Welcome Home! Keep an eye on the conference, and let us know how we're doing! Play for peace and Happy Solstice! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 86 Jailed Freedom Fighter Needs Help mendicott 4:23 pm Dec 24, 1991 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Jailed Freedom Fighter Needs Help /* Written 3:32 pm Dec 23, 1991 by dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU in cdp:alt.drugs */ /* ---------- "Jailed Freedom Fighter Needs Help" ---------- */ If you're caught with LSD in the U.S., and you're convicted of posession, chances are you'll be sentenced by sentencing guidelines based on the "amount" of LSD you were carrying at the time of arrest. At some point, police and prosecutors stopped going through the arduous process of determining just how much LSD was in the blotter paper and/or sugar cubes and/or etc. and decided instead to just weigh the whole banana. What this means is if you're caught with one gram of blotter paper (a gram is about the weight of a paper clip), you will be sentenced as if you had a gram of LSD. (250 micrograms is a very healthy dose, ergo 4000 hits per gram). Brian Adams is a 19-year-old first offender serving a nine- year term based on this carrier-weight system. He was sentenced as if he were carrying 14,000 hits of acid. If they had weighed the drug only, his sentence would be reduced to one- third of what it is today. Brian Adams would like to correspond with folks who sympathize with his situation. Brian Adams, Reg #08779-026 Federal Prison Camp P.O. Box 1000-pmb 695 Duluth, MN 55814 Currently, U.S. Senators Joseph Biden and Edward Kennedy are working on bills and/or amendments to bills which would revise sentencing guidelines (and/or explicitly remove carrier weight from the sentencing process) in the wake of the Supreme Court decision. The relevant bills are S1711 (especially amendment #976), S1970 (especially amendment #1716) and S2469. The US Sentencing Commission also could use some pressure on this. You can contact them at: 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 1400 Washington DC 20004 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 87 zip 1 response lbadger 11:03 am Dec 25, 1991 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 87 mendicott 6:36 pm Dec 25, 1991 Peace on Earth... every day of the year! I & I love all. Marcus ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 88 Colorado Council MARS report lbadger 1:57 am Dec 26, 1991 Baja Regional Rainbow Gathering (healer's paradise) 'Oh My God' Hot Springs, Indio, Ca. Solstice Dec 21st. Frog Facilitation progress Beloved Ones, This Lyonel Badger's report on the collective Thanksgiving Councils. This first part is a collective of three Thanksgiving councils, (Nebraska, South Dakota and Colorado) and indirectly of two others Texas and Florida. In all these following words, Michael and Lyonel are in agreement. Facilitating is the most exhaustive job TendeerFire has ever done... Michael can attest to this. Our first council was an informal, non- facilitated get together at Eugenes in Boulder, Colorado. This was our first night and of course the South Dakota faction dominated our conversations. TendeerFire and Michael acted as co-facilitators. Pony Vigil performed the peacepipe ceremony each morning. Purple White Feather helped co- facilitated also, unexpectedly. Without a word he sacrificed his own voice to be a Frog facilitator along with TendeerFire. He begin following along and focusing the circle echoing the style of moves TendeerFire made. Without explaining what needed to be done he helped work the council. Thomas had even brought a Frog Facilitator fan made up of a hawk wing. Several days later, As Michael had relayed it to me, Barry Plunker spoke extremely highly of TendeerFire & Pony Vigil (Pipekeeper of the Western Tribes Sacred Medicine peacepipe). May the Great Spirit WanKanTanka, always keep us humble, 'Allamio'; Well, only because, loved ones, the Great Spirit has demanded it and many people have told TendeerFire that he must travel swift and fast over the next six months, to help bring harmony to our national councils. The unfolding of the Frog Facilitation process is badly needed and in great demand. And so far much still had to be revealed about the Frog process of facilitation. Barry, Michael, Garreck, McCracken, Leonard Crowdog and Pony (pipekeeper) have all supported and blessed TendeerFire's facilitation vision. TendeerFire is trying to always be prepared to move swiftly and go where ever he is called to help... but how does he begin each of the silent symbolic movements of his dance when TendeerFire has taken a vow of silence??? Well perhaps this is a gift of a heartsong. His acceptance so far has been overwhelming favorable, and his methods have not comeup to controversy. At least not yet... what a funny catch twentytwo, would if he did become controversial, and should need to speak in council, what then??? Well, I guess a gift of the heart is just that. Like so many things we do for love, we do it without asking permission, we just do it as graceful as possible. The Council still goes on as we are in contact with some of the Lakota people for a direct communication to the A.W.F. via M.A.R.S. The S.D. faction have surrendered and thereby been able to further their 'cause'changing their 1992 vision into 'the earth medicine circle' They say they are also contact with a few Lakota Elders... and have smoked the peacepipe with them on several occasions; although we have yet to get any letter verifying the S. D. communications of what the Lakota elders have said. Pony Vigil (can be reached through Mars) is in direct contact with Leonard Crowdog and is working on a special communication from his 'uncle'. Even now it is said that words are being considered by nine elders of different Lakota councils. The general sense of the Lakota's un-varified invitation is still very confused. The Thanksgiving Council in Colorado was the most beautiful, respectful, high and spiritual, enlighted and merciful council, Michael John said to me, that he had ever seen (a quote in so many words). Although he did tell me he had to keep 'letting go' and allowing TendeerFire to be who he was by stepping back and observing instead of controlling.. Tears of Joy flooded their eyes as they took off in the little four seater airplane. Michael John, sensed from that day forward they 'be' tight. At the colorado thanksgiving council most of the notes were taken care of in the first three days via using butcher paper hung on the wall. (Michael John has archived these notes). Also there were two personal scribes (that I knew of) and one official Legal Liaison scribe (myself, Lyonel Badger, although I only got the minutes from the first two councils due to me other work) which meant that someone was taking notes on a continually basis throughout the week. Lee Horstman take has taken excellent minutes which I have already sent to Carla, along with my own and the updates on peacenet. Thank God, there were scribes, because TendeerFire was slowly growing more and more exhausted as he tried to introduce the first part of Frog facilitation to the family- using the Owl facilitation fan - TendeerFire exclusively worked as a co-facilitator, hushing the circle when troubles and noises arose, soothing the pains and quieting the anger - taking hand of the contraries and the children, continually re-focusing the council, over and over, each time it got off track. TendeerFire only used his Frog Owl wing fan this first time. He had never facilitated a national event, only our west coast regionals. (A subnote - in Native American terms an Owl is the animal totem of death and rebirth, and owls are usually not a good omen to receive. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** A few notes, the rest you will get in the A.W.F. Winter Jan 25th issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Out of all the minutes that I transcribed and combined, out of all the conversations on the phone with other Thanks giving councils, the following did clearly emerge. Ho...onward to Colorado in 1992. A wonderful crew is now working together and a circle was confirmed as the banking council. A word on the South Dakota thing... Peter Bridge and to some more or less degree Chris Stanley, and a few others have all agreed to backdown off their egos' and change th purpose of their dream to have the national next year in Colorado. It is Michael's and my opinion's that this took a alot of guts. Just before we left, Michael facilitated the title problem with a very satisfactory conclusion. A conclusion that I have yet to hear any objections to. ----------------------------------------------------------------- " Welcome to the 1992 Tribal Rainbow Gathering in Colorado and the Rainbow Bridge to South Dakota for our first Earth Medicine Circle hosted by the Lakota Elders." ----------------------------------------------------------------- From this Side of the Medicine Wheel Lyonel T. Badger (408) 375-2306 M.onterey A.rea R.ainbow S.ervice P.O. Box 190 Monterey, Ca. 93942 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 89 TendeerFire's Summary Thanksgiving lbadger 1:59 am Dec 26, 1991 Beloveds, Miracles reigned from the Great Spirit in abundance down upon our humbled heads, shoulder and bodies... no one was left out, everyone was fulfilled at the Thanksgiving Council in Colorado, in Nebraska, in South Dakota, in Florida, and in Texas...All in all, all agreed 'Ho' Colorado is home in 1992. As to the little coyote faction for/from South Dakota, well, I am convinced that this will turn out to be the greatest coyote medicine that we will ever witness. The last word given and agreed to was that 'A bridge to a Medicine Earth Circle hosted by the Lakota Elders will be built. Regular shuttles are being planned to transport Rainbows in Colorado to the 'Earth Medicine Circle' and Lakota people to the Rainbow in colorado. I perceives this whole thing as a seedling that will eventually develop into the South Dakota Rainbow Gathering of the TRibe; perhaps as soon as 1993. The possibility that seeds planted now in S.D. could blossom and bare fruit; this could turn out to be the longest seed camp we have ever had. Perhaps our first 'Two Winters Camp' ; but, dear sweet children, be 'Aware' (better still, pray and wait on the spirit to call you to South Dakota) because if you go to South Dakota, be prepared to be humbled, be prepared to surrender, and be prepared to jump into the blazing sacred fire. The purifying fire of Spirit. I think most of us who try to go to this 'Earth Medicine Circle' early will be unable to stay; unless we are heavily prepared... and understand something of the Lakota ethics history, and spirituality. Blessings from this side of the Medicine wheel... Love Tendeerfire (408) 375-2306 M.onterey A.rea R.ainbow S.ervice P.O. Box 190 Monterey, Ca. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 90 'Oh My God' Soltice Rebirth lbadger 2:03 am Dec 26, 1991 Colorado Thanks Giving Vision Council The Journey's End by Lyonel Badger Beloved Brothers and Sisters, Rainbow families, Lost Loves, Sweethearts, Mars has a pretty good beginning list of 'A.W.F. subscribers'. I put together this M.A.R.S. distribution list from both the Colorado 'Thanksgiving' council and the Southern California 'Baja' regional gathering where I have just returned from. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Baja Southern California Rainbow Regional Dec 21st, Saturday, thru - Dec 31st, at 'Oh my God' Hot Springs. Laff and Lynn are focalizers and brought their kitchen for this one. TendeerFire flew with Michael John and had to once again leave behind his heartthrob 'Kindling Spirit'. Of course Alan had to work on the 23rd. The 'Oh My God' Family seed camp started about two weeks in advance. No councils had been happening until TendeerFire came into the circle that day, Dec 23rd, and turned everybodys heads when he started facilitating with a silent authority. The eagle feathers, in Michael John's safe keeping, and to avoid starting a vision council, had been left back in California. This also allowed 'TenderFire' an opportunity to facilitate heartsong circles, in his own Frog style. The first circle that TendeerFire facilitated was on Saturday (dec 21). The Heartsong circle started off with a few bump and grinds. After that you could see fear had swept across his face. Then, just as suddenly as a rush of wind the Spirit gripped TendeerFire. A wild shudder of enlightenment could be seen shimmering up his spine. When the shudder finally reached his crown he was gentle tossed to the ground in a high speed tempo. You might say I watched TendeerFire offer up his body for the Great Spirits guidance and a Grandfather Spirit appeared to climb up onto TendeerFires backside, because all of sudden, he had changed into a Rainbow Warrior, exuding an air of complete confidence. The Great Spirit brought TendeerFire into the center of the circle. TendeerFire has been rehearsing at the West Coast Regional gatherings for the last 8 years. He was very familiar and intimate with the ancient Frog tradition. TendeerFire unrolled the Crystal Heartsong Halfstaff... the circle of folks gasped in awe of appreciation. One thing wrong was that the first round of Heartsongs was traveling backward, against the sunward motion around the circle. Once around the circle (of aprox.. 30 people) TendeerFire re-took the Heartsong Halfstaff and then crossed boldly around the inside of the circle until he came to a sister that had complained about the direction the crystal was moving. He looked into her beautiful eyes and just nodded at her. Heartsong circle thereafter started taking off. With the crystal now traveling sunward,as tradition urges, within five minutes our circle of thirty swelled to 50 and soon almost twice as many again. Such Harmony, respect, and peace manifested at this first heartsong circle. Once TendeerFire had instilled the circles peace he could put down the facilitators fan for long periods of time. Steve, being the brother of Lyonel, received a great healing. Steve has many deep wounds, and has bi-polar disfunction. This makes life a little harder for those. During those two gathering days Lyonel's brother experienced a partial healing. After 10 years I was so excited about seeing everyone that I had worried about and missed all these years. For five days I was unable to sleep until the day after the solstice. I couldn't afford to miss seeing everyone. My soul was taken up in the spirit of all the 'laying out of hands' that occurred. So many beautiful people. The men were lovely and evoked great warmth in my solar plexus. The brothers were relaxed around Me and allowed me to feel that desire. The straight brothers even encouraged my energy to hang loose. And so I did. Turning inward I prayed for control, all these brothers just sang to my heart, my body was limp with desire. I was way way out there, loose, open and vulnerable. Childlike, my hanging was hung'n like I had never seen or felt it before. My piece has always been pretty uptight, withdrawn like a bud. Please understand this healing because for the first time I no longer subconsciously cared about what other people thought. I hung bulging proudly. Sorry if this sound too personnel, but what can I say, I am convinced someone needs to get real about sensuality vs. sexuality. The evening of the Solstice and the night after TendeerFire danced naked to our brothers drums. The spirit of Love that surrounded TenderFire glowed warmly in every pair of eyes that watched, some out of the corner of their eyes...The lyght was pure and thirst quenching; it sustained us through the second longest night of the year. Together we all had a waking dream... ...And finally TenderFire slept...deeply, under the protective Love of the drum circle, while curled up around one end of the fire. Then suddenly, much later, a rush of spirit awakened TendeerFire, and he flew to his feet, dancing wildly to the drums, with a passionate sensual movement, naked from his shirt down. Listen, Twenty years ago Lyonel was born 'Moonwater' at deep Creek Hot Springs, just about 150 miles north of this regional gathering. The Mojave Desert became his home for just over 10 years. Tears of joyful release enclosed TendeerFire as his eyes were opened to the reality that 'all around danced my brothers and sisters of the 'AcowWee Clan' from twenty years ago...and most not seen for almost that long. You can imagine the overwhelming heartsongs that were danced that night. My heartsong and my life is naked before you... and you ask why ? The reason, because I am A Frog Facilitator have committed my life by taking the vows of a Frog Facilitator. I may never speak my political views in any council. If I am not facilitating a heartsong circle I may speak, as long as I never talk about political or controversial issues that might come up in a general or a vision council. The wish is that the dream is, that our parts are completed, for the vision we have seen, we have each began to work, in faith we worry, will we be able to, our part of the plan, we have never seen, in deed we see clearly, the lyght that may guide, if pure in the trouble, the words loose their meaning, to capture the captured, to free the damned, to help with the passing, and form void drawn nigh, too soon we afear, to fear is to troubled, to get it all done, so awaken young Rainbow, draw away from our terror, and learn of the mess, we have to leave behind us, we hope you won't too. So children, have no fear, we do to have time to plan, what we might need, in the event, in the event, in the event, of the end of time ? Love, Lyonel T. Badger (408) 375-2306 M.onterey A.rea R.ainbow S.ervice P.O. Box 190 Monterey, Ca. 93942 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 91 Nordhouse winter regional update sjohgart 4:25 pm Dec 26, 1991 a Greetings! I thought I oughta put something here about the scouting to Nordhouse, or the lack of it, as far as I can tell. Due to other commitments, I was not able to get out to the dunes until Sunday AM. When I arrived there was an old Jeep with a Gratefuls sticker on the back and a bunch of hunter-type pickups (it is muzzle-loader deer season, it turns out, and hunting is allowed in wilderness areas, to my surprise). I assumed the Deadhead(s) was/were there for Rainbow, so I took off on my skis to try and find them (foolishly not leaving a note on their windshield). I went to the lake and back, and to the traditional Autumn equinox regional site, and hollered "Rainbow!" several times, but I didn't find them, and when I got back to parking the Jeep was gone. I've had contact with several other folks who expressed an interest in scouting, but none were able to make it, so as far as I know I and the two-seater Jeep folks were the only ones there; since we didn't get together, there was no council of 3 so nothing was done. Several folks are still interested; one of those folks can't make it February 1st, so I'd like to see the next weekend instead, if that doesn't conflict with Ocala. I prefer February 6 - 9 weekend to January 23 - 26 because there will be more daylight, and also more time for Lake Michigan to form its incredible ice sculptures at the beach. Any input on this is welcome; perhaps we can have a distance council, via Peacenet and phone--does that count as a council? And hey, the skiing was great--I'm looking forward to returning! Love to you all; that rainbow's just a reflection of yourself. Gonzo ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 92 Pony V.& TendeerFire on S.D. lbadger 7:55 am Dec 27, 1991 Dec 27th, 1991 Transcribed meeting with Pony Vigl and TendeerFire Deliever Copies to: Peace Garden Chris stanley David Happy Face Peter 'Bridge' Roses Pony & TendeerFire: S.D. Pony Vigil has spoken to me (TendeerFire) about the great task at hand. We both agreed that the S.D. faction are all in for a great purging. Pony spoke of the many Rainbows over the years that have traveled to his people. How only a few after years of hard work, and only after tending many many fires through the harsh winters, have truly earned the respect of the Lakota people. We thought that as this vision moves forward, and the youthful S.D. faction begins its own initiations that eventually will tie with these older rainbows, who have earned the respect of the Lakota elders, will come to help work out the great many problems that we are all facing. Bringing even a small gathering to the Paha Sapa is going to take a great deal of co-operation and understanding. Since we would be the guests of the Lakota people we must teach everyone going to respect the Lakota people, their culture, traditions, and heritage. The work that many older rainbows, who have earned the respect of the Lakota elder, could all be undone in less then a split second screw up, so be careful, you are not alone. Pony is warning us sayin that we should be'aware' of Leonard Crowdogs own agenda. He wants as many peopl as he can to gather in south dakota over the next several years. This is to raise support for the Lakota people's fight to have their sacrad Paha Sapa returned to them; but be aware that it is Leonards agenda and we must be cautious of dividing the Lakota poeples any further then they alreasdy are, by not supporting any one elders agenda. This is a hot bed of controversey and the RAINBOW fAMILY MUST 'NOT' TAKE SIDES WITH ANY ONE LAKOTA COUNCIL. THERE ARE MANY ELDERS AND COUNCILS AND ISSUES INVOLVED HERE. The Rainbow needs to remain neutral even if Leonard Crowdog is our 'first host'...their will be other elders and other councils that we must GIVE EQUAL SUPPORT TO. Listen to the words of Pony. " I am a sundancer, a Navajo, (a young buck some say). My people are watching, listening. Leonard Crowdog is my uncle. I am carrying the Western Tribes Peace pipe as a honor to the Rainbow bridge that we have begin to build between our peoples. As traditionalists we have a duty to honor this pipe. The peace pipe is a bridge between my people and yours. Just as I am loading the Rainbow families peace pipe at the Colorado Tribal gathering this next July 1st, 1992, so will my people be loading the sacrad tobacco into thier peacepipes. Just as I light this medicine peacepipe so will my uncle smoke their peacepipe. Just as our peacepipes are being passed in a sacrad, sunward around your councils circle so will many Lakota councils begin their prayers for peace. All our Prayers will rise up from our lungs and fill the sky with our prayer smoke. The Medicine Peacepipe I carry for our Rainbow people is the bridge. Honor this way, so we may all travel on this bridge someday, one day." Pony spoke with conviction as he continued to channel the spirit of his troubles and his peoples heartsongs. " The Pipe Is An offering to the Spirit of Peace. Each prayer manifests the Bridge of hearts, giving lighyt and color to our song. Planting the seeds of life... Life without Love is Death..." Looking directly into TendeerFires eyes he spoke of many things. Of the Coyote spirit that will test everyone. Of the call the spirit has placed upon the both the two of them. Of the need to be in many places this spring. The Navajo pipe keeper and the frog facilatator, Pony & TendeerFire. TendeerFire continued to talk throught Pont of this problems we face." The youths who have taken it upon themselfs to focus this 'Earth Medicine Circle' have no idea what they doing, except in their faith like a childs. The spirit is asking from them a sacrafice that they have yet to fully weigh. The South Dakota faction are extremely brass and gutsy or just down right innocent due to the pouring out of the Great Spirit, and having been enraptured have little choice." " Children (Our South Dakota faction), loved ones, you must be prepared to learn the Native 'way' so that you can be the familys guides. You must release you mistakes and admit them quickly and turn back to the truth. Listen, dear youth, you have blundered several times. Now, I understand, you have not honored your own people, you have kept from the Lakota peoples council our own councils that you have been a part of. " " I spoke with Peter a few weeks ago and asked him if, at their last council with the 'Crowdogs', did anyone report on our Thanksgiving council and give the Lakotas a summary of the whole familys feelings about this whole thing. I asked Peter, " did you explain the whole families heartsong ?" ...And the answer astounded me...' No ; Peter replied. Opps a reeally major blunder..." " Know, it is unfair to leave the Lakota people believing that you are the whole and all of the Rainbow voice. Correct this now... and all will be forgiven. Get used to being scolded, as an acting voice of your own Rainbow people, you are going to be purified in our own sacrad fire... So we are all concerned about how you represent us. Just do this, Ok, share with the Lakota elders all the words and minutes that have been written. You can get copies of the officaila minutes through MARS. Lyonel Badger would be glad to help you (as a legal liaison Rainbow Scribe). You should have done this sharing with the lakota elders yesterdday. Now just be sure that you do it before Pony Vigil brings these reports to his uncle, and shames you. It is your place, since your have been so inspired to act as a bridge. A communication bridge must needs be open to all the ways. Carry forth all our heartsongs, even the ones you disagree with... Listen, Now we should all pray for healing and peace..." Love Pony Vigil & TendeerFire (408) 375-2306 M.onterey A.rea R.ainbow S.ervice P.O. Box 190 Monterey, Ca. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 93 Regarding Thgvg. Council Re pfraterdeus 9:06 am Dec 27, 1991 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Regarding Thgvg. Council Re Attn: awf.rainbownews Regarding Thgvg. Council Reports Many thanks, Tendeerfire, for your updates! I am pleased to see the facilitation process is in use at the level of the continental Rainbow! We had a facilitated council in Wisconsin, as well, with nearly 60 people, it becomes impossible to keep a focus on any topic without a point of some kind! What do you mean by FROG? I'm also very pleased by the apparent resolution of the SD question, which, if I may say, is pretty much what was suggested here on PeaceNet back in August! However, Chris Stanley is still claiming that the CO council agreed to "One gathering in two places", which is not what I'm hearing from Colorado! He's making posters with the double Rainbow, two sites linked together under the banner -- "1992 Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes" "Four Corners Black Hills" Now, this really doesn't seem like what I'm hearing from other places..... Should I call him, or just let it be? I'm sure getting tired of the semantics! Chris was here at the Chicago Solstice Potluck, and showed me a card from the Rosebud Reservation, signed (apparently) by Leonard CrowDog, stating that Chris is granted access to the reservation, and where the card had a space for "tribe" it said "Rainbow"! He also claimed to have been made a member of the NA church, given the right to carry the eagle feather.... I agree that Coyote may have some goodies for us this year, but he's not to be trusted (except we can count on him to be Coyote!!!) BTW, with respect, some folks do think that the "older brothers" could learn a little from us, like how to lighten up on the sister question a bit. There are folks in Rainbow that HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE! Call it what you like, reincarnation, or whatever, but WE ARE NOT ALL CHILDREN, and that has been recognized by contacts in the Tribes. The form is not as important as the Spirit and the Heart. Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin! Play for Peace! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 94 California Green Party! gmarcus 8:37 pm Dec 31, 1991 From: Genevieve Grafe Marcus -- Ph.D. Subject: California Green Party! GREEN PARTY BORN IN CALIFORNIA! Grassroots organizers have registered well over the 78,992 voters needed for Green Party ballot status despite harrassment from the Democratic Party. See green.general or en. and pn.announcements "Green Party Born in California" for details. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 95 Legaliaison Update from DC Scribe jjohnson@uujobs.com 10:36 pm Jan 7, 1992 No, *I* didn't do this - I'm still resigned!! But someone did pass this on to me, and it's good news, & they didn't have netaccess, so here it is -- thump ==================================================================== LEGALIASION UPDATE, FOREST SERVICE REGULATIONS Marion Connelly (703-235-1488) makes her living by writing regulations for the National Forest Service. One, if not the only, task which the bureaucracy has set on Ms. Connelly's desk is to draft regulatory revisions to Sections 251 and 261 of Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations, which would place severe restrictions on the ability of people to freely gather on public lands under the jurisdiction of the National Forest Service. The last information on the status of the anti-public gathering regulations was that a draft was completed by Ms. Connelly's office, and had been sent on through bureaucratic channels for approval, and publication in the Federal Register was expected within a month or so. Due to personal interest in keeping abreast of governmental incursions upon individual freedom, and owing to the interest expressed by several individuals who have attended Rainbow Family Gatherings, at 4:30 on January 6, 1991 I initiated a telephone conversation with Ms. Connelly to determine the status of the regulations. Ms. Connelly told me that the regulation "was back on (her) desk," because it had caused some "legal indigestion." She said that she was going to begin another draft, but that she was going to have to "start almost from scratch." She said she would not have another draft finished sooner than two months (early March). The Administrative Procedure Act requires the bureaucracies to publish a "proposed rulemaking" in the Federal Register, then it requires a sixty day period in which public comments on the proposal may be submitted, then it requires a Federal Register publication of a "final rulemaking" -- which should take into account the public comments on the proposed rulemaking -- finally (unless the government can show "good cause for suspending the delay of effectiveness), there is a thirty day period before the final rulemaking becomes an enforceable regulation. What this all indicates to me is that the National Forest Service will not have succeeded in promulgating any anti-public gathering regulations before July, 1992. However Marion Connelly did say that she believes that such a regulation is necessary, and she is at work on it. ============================================================================ "A population of sheep will eventually beget a | Jim Johnson (301)587-2338 government of wolves." -- William Sloan Coffin | jjohnson@uujobs.com ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 96 100th Monkey Project to pfraterdeus 2:38 pm Jan 11, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: 100th Monkey Project to Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM 100th Monkey Project to Forwarded from the en.energy conference Peter -------------------------------------- Topic 224 100th Monkey Project to Stop Nucle tgray en.energy 7:19 pm Jan 10, 1992 /* Written 3:07 pm Jan 6, 1992 by forward in cdp:en.energy */ /* ---------- "100th Monkey Project to Stop Nucle" ---------- */ 100th Monkey Project to Stop Nuclear Testing In April of 1992 the 100th Monkey Project will call for an end to nuclear weapons testing and the ratification of CTB. A program is being developed including press conference, concert, 5-day walk, and a rally and direct action. Tentatively the kick-off event is scheduled for April 10-12. The walk will take place from the kick-off site to the test site during Earth Week April 13-18, 1992. The project will culminate April 19 & 20 with a massive demonstration rally and direct action at the test site. The apparatus is in place for the largest solar-powered event to date. There is media interested in broadcasting the event and facilitating the project. Casey Kasem & Wavy Gravy have told us they will M.C. the event. Bill Graham Presents have told us they will promote and produce the event contigent on high draw headliners. Dr. Helen Caldicott, Denis Hayes, Daniel Ellsberg, and others have told us they will speak. Our deadline is soon approaching to have our program established at which point our outreach will continue. We have developed a coalition that embraces people from the Native American, anti-nuclear, environmental, academic, medical, religous, peace, and social justice communities. We have endorsements from powerful local and national groups. We are drawing from a wide range of participants to end nuclear weapons testing and to observe the rights of indigenous people everywhere. We urge you to be the 100th Monkey. Join us. Stop nuclear weapons testing in 1992. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 97 RE- Legaliaison Update from pfraterdeus 9:25 am Jan 13, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: RE- Legaliaison Update from Attn: awf.rainbownews From PNMAILONLY RE: Legaliaison Update from DC Important Announcement regarding Freedom of Assembly... ------- Some thoughts from Petros on the preceeding Legaliason Update! (See awf.rainbownews conference) Local and regional focs-- Please encourage your local families to call Marion Connelley (703-235-1488) at the US Forest Service (and to watch for those "public comment" periods). We should let her know that We the People do not appreciate her efforts, nor those of her "superiors" to restrict and encumber our natural rights and freedoms. Please, though, if you call, speak intelligently, and don't say you're calling "for the Family" (although a liaison* of a particular Rainbow council should identify themself as a liaison for that council), but that you are an individual citizen who is concerned about your First Amendment and other Self-Evident Rights, and you don't think that money should be spent on this "rule-making" when there are so many other more important things to take care of. Two times, the Federal Courts have ruled that there are already sufficient powers granted to the Forest Service, and denied them the constitutional legitimacy of the rules they have sought to impose. When many humans are cold and hungry in the streets, why is the government wasting money on yet another attempt to infringe on the Rights of We the People. They have forgotten that they work for us! (* Liaison pronounced "lee-ai-zon" , a connection or conduit, as opposed to a "representative". A Liason communicates the words of the Council to other entities, such as the Press, and governmental officers, who are not part of the Council") Perhaps, mention that you saw a "Freedom Alert" regarding this issue. It may be appropriate to keep our comments general, rather than specifically referring to Rainbow Gatherings, or the Rainbow Family. Play for Peace! Peter Thanks to brother Thumper for valued (as always) advice! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 98 New European Rainbow Guide mendicott 6:31 pm Jan 21, 1992 Froidevaux, Winter Solstice after Poland Hei Focalizers We want to print between this winter and next spring the first "European Rainbow Guide." Therefore we send you an first list. All addresses on this list which belongs to you or to your region - and could receive Rainbow-Infos from you - please mark those addresses on this list and send it back to us. This action is for to be more decentralized and to stop people receiving two or three times the same information! As well you have other addresses or an good article for the Guide please send them together with the address-list before end of February to: Rainbolo-Rolo P.O.Box 60 CH-8955 Oetwyl SWITZERLAND See you Laos ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 99 X-Yugoslav Peace Groups mendicott 9:54 am Jan 23, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: X-Yugoslav Peace Groups /* Written 8:49 am Jan 22, 1992 by gn:peacenews in cdp:wri.news */ /* ---------- "Yugoslav dossier (8 articles)" ---------- */ Anti-war centres in former Yugoslavia: Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sarajevo Centre for Peace, Dobrovoljascka 3, 71000 Sarajevo (tel +38 71 214 884, fax +38 71 216 238) Croatia: Anti-War Campaign Council of Croatia, Gajeva 4/II, 41000 Zagreb (tel +38 41 431 658; fax + 38 41 425 552) Macedonia: Green Action Skopje, c/o Jovan Nansijevski (Tel: +38 91 213 966; fax +38 91 201 75) Montenegro: Citizens Committee for Peace, Hercegovascka 15, 81000 Titograd (tel/fax +38 81 41914) Serbia: Centre for Anti-War Action, Prote Mateje 6, 11000 Belgrade (tel +38 11 431 298; fax +38 11 681 989) GAMA (Citizens Action for Peace), Prof Milandin Zivotic, Dom Omladine, Makedonska 22, 11000 Belgrade Women in Black, c/o Stasa Zajovi, Dragoslava Popovia 9/10, 11 Belgrade Slovenia: Centre for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, Mestni Trg 13, 61000 Ljubljana (tel/fax +38 61 224 666) Vojvodina: Anti-War Centre of Ada, Vera Vebel, Sencanski Put 27, 24430 Ada Anti-War Centre of Novi Sad, c/o Nenad Mirovi, Narodnog Fronta 43, 21000 Novi Sad (+38 21 363 302; fax +38 21 57 797) Peace Movement of Pancevo, c/o Sasa Marinkovic, Br Jovanovica 62a, 26000 Pancevo, Vojvodina (tel +38 13 38 82; fax +38 13 41 735) Peace Movement Vojvodina, c/o Slavenka Ljubic, Maksima Gornog 10/III, 2100 Novi Said (+38 21 619 019) Women in Black, Biljana Regodi, Vojvodanska 53, 26000 Pancevo ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 100 FWD>H.R.1969- Forest Biodiv pfraterdeus 4:31 pm Jan 23, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FWD>H.R.1969- Forest Biodiv Attn: awf.rainbownews From PNMAILONLY FWD>H.R.1969: Forest Biodiversi Dear PeaceNet Folks-- I'm not sure where else this might go. A friend forwarded it to me, and I think it could be useful to others as well! I have posted it to awf.rainbownews.... Peter Fraterdeus -------------------------------------- Sender: List Owner From: "Thomas Keays (Syracuse University)" Subject: H.R.1969: Forest Biodiversity and Clearcutting Act X-To: "Biosphere, ecology, discussion list" , ACTIV-L@UMCVMB.BITNET To: Multiple recipients of list BIOSPH-L ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Last night (1/22/92), I received a call from Save America's Forests, an environmental lobbying and activism group, informing me that Peter Jennings had broadcast a news story earlier that evening which was strongly critical of the U.S. Forest Service's handling of our national forests. Unfortunately I did not see this news cast myself, but in it, Jennings apparently blasted the USFS's management of old growth forests, being especially critical of the practice of wide-scale clearcutting on National Forests land. Jennings specifically mentioned that, over the last twelve years, the USFS has lost $12.5 billion through subsidizing the cutting of forests on federal lands. While I don't know the whole of what he said in the story, Jennings expressed support for H.R.1969, "The Forestry Biodiversity and Clearcutting Prohibition Act". Save America's Forests is urging that as many people as possible should call their Congressman today, expressing their outrage of this massive mismanagement of our nation's forests, asking them to support H.R.1969. The phone number for the House of Representatives is 202/255-3121. I would add that sending a letter to your Congressperson would be an excellent follow-up to your call. No corresponding bill has been introduced in the house, so please also write or call your Senators asking them to introduce this bill in the Senate. If you feel like calling Peter Jennings' office, complementing him on the story, that number is 212/887-3605. Now, while I didn't see the broadcast itself, I do have quite a bit of information on H.R.1969, itself, which I will briefly summarize. In addition, Save America's Forests (SAF) has been lobbying for about a year on behalf of this bill, and has put together a fairly decent four-page fact sheet on it. If you would like a copy of this, I am willing to mail them out. Contact me at htkeays@mailbox.syr.edu or htkeays@rodan.bitnet. The address for Save America's Forests is 4 Library Court, SE, Washington, DC 20003. Their phone is 202/544-9219. They also have a fax number, 202/544-7462. Send them a few bucks; they do good work. Except for a few editorial digressions from me, the text that follows is excerpted, fairly intact, from the SAF flier. I hope that I got most of the typos, but I am getting this out quickly so people have an opportunity to follow-up immediately. ------------- Introduced on Earth Day, 1991 by Congressman John Bryant (D-TX), H.R.1969 is the only bill in Congress that addresses federal forest mismanagement on a national scale. (There is other legislation that addresses clearcutting issues on specified sections of National Forest land, but H.R.1969 is the only bill to protect all forests on federal land.) H.R.1969 would ban clearcutting (even-age management) and its variations (seed tree and shelterwood cutting and group selection) on all federal lands nationwide, including National Forests, Bureau of Land Management lands, National Wildlife Refuges, Armed Services lands, and Indian Reservations. It identifies the harms of clearcutting to wildlife, the pollution of clean water supplies, impacts to our global climate, and the degradation of recreational opportunities. It mandates the managing agencies to shift to the ecologically and economically superior method of selection management, in which only individual trees or small groups of trees would be removed as timber at any one time. Logging would only be allowed to create small openings in the forests, never destroying the forest canopy or understory. The explicit aim of this new management mandate is to conserve and restore native biological diversity, the full range of naturally occurring species, from microorganisms to predators. The main technique used by the USFS and other agencies in their attack on the natural forests has been clearcutting and its associated practices of roadbuilding, slashburning, site preparation and poison chemical use. Since the Forest Service adopted even-age logging as the primary method about 20 years ago, the best federal forest timberlands have been wiped out, mangled by clearcutting. The irony is that the Federal government is paying over 2 billion dollars per year to the Forest Service and other agencies to administer this destruction of our National Forests and other federal forests. This is a 2 billion dollar loss to the taxpayers each year. The small revenues from federal timber sales never recompensates the taxpayers for the enormous costs involved in subsidized logging, road building ($10,000 or more per mile), the heavy machinery to clearcut, the expensive site preparation methods, the expensive hand replanting, and finally the enormous Forest Service and other agency timber-related overhead costs in the administrative bureaucracies. After clearcutting, the Forest Service subjects the site to preparation for replanting tree seedlings. Individual living trees which were not wanted for lumber, and which were left standing, are killed by various methods to "clean up" the site. These include bulldozing woody debris and vegetation into large slash piles, which are then burned, creating tremendous air pollution and wiping out the gene bank for natural regeneration of the site. Many times one or more applications of herbicides are applied to kill all remaining vegetation. Sometimes individual living trees are injected with poison to kill them. In their place, the Forest Service replant them with stands of genetically cloned tree seedlings. The result is not a natural forest, but a tree plantation. These mono-culture tree farms are very dependent on human management for survival as they are vulnerable to insect pests and disease. These stands, because there is no moist underbrush, are very dry and susceptible to intensely hot, catastrophic fires. Trees are managed in this way, not to restore a healthy, natural forest, but because they are being raised as a future "crop", with the premise that someday the entire stand will be clearcut "harvested" again. Animals, driven off or outright killed during the clearcutting process, are unable to repopulate monoculture tree farms. In addition, many times, replantings are complete failures. Repeated attempts to replant seedlings in some clearcut areas fail every time. Formerly healthy forests are now barren. Clearcutting causes massive soil erosion and demineralization, making it impossible for a large, healthy forest to grow on many sites ever again, with a final result of desertification. Massive erosion results with topsoil being washed into streams, clogging them with silt, and killing all the aquatic life, from microorganisms to large fish. The destruction to fisheries and outdoor recreation causes tremendous economic losses and unemployment in those and related industries. Subsidized federal timber sales to large timber companies destroys the ability of small woodlot owners to manage their own timberland economically or ecologically. Workers must suffer the ravages of boom and bust cycles of unemployment. The only beneficiaries of the federal timber program are the few timber companies and lumber mills who are taking the cream of America's public forests at bargain prices. H.R.1969 advocates selection management over clearcutting. Only individual or small groups of trees are harvested at periodic intervals. (A digression: SAF suggests that these intervals could be as little as ten years, but I, personally, don't see how old growth forests, where individual trees are often hundreds of years old, could sustain this sort of continual, frequent harvest.) The forest is able to naturally reseed itself without human labor. High quality timber is available from the same stand on a perpetual basis. Employment is stable over the long run and more jobs are assured. Soil integrity and fertility are insured since it is less disturbed initially and has natural mechanisms available to replenish itself. Timber companies all over America practice selection management on their own land. They know selection management is good financial management. It is money in the bank, with guaranteed income on continuous timber sales for decades ahead, and all this with lower capital costs than even-age logging. (Again I digress: it is impossible for me to imagine any profit-motivated company that could successfully manage old-growth stands; the harvest intervals would have to be much longer for old growth forests where the average tree age is measured in hundreds of years rather than decades, as it would be for commercial woodlots. It seems that economic incentives would encourage too-frequent harvests. Do others agree with this? This is my own gut reaction at work here.) Spread the word and be sure to call your Congressperson, write your Senators, newspapers, and, if you feel like it, give Peter Jennings some positive feedback. Media support on this scale is rare. -- Tom Keays Bitnet: LIBHTK@SUVM Internet: LIBHTK@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 101 FQM List avaiable to Focs pfraterdeus 4:50 pm Jan 23, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FQM List avaiable to Focs Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI FQM List avaiable to Focs Howdy Folks! A very generous friend here in the Chicago Circle has donated printing for the Focalizer's Quarterly Mailing mailing list (the Focalizer list). This is ready to send out to everyone on the list. I would really love to send them all out to the whole list, but don't have the cash-on-hand for postage and envelopes. Any offers to post some part of the 220 or so sets will be greatly appreciated! They'll probably go for $0.52 postage each..... We have two versions of the list, both of which are exclusively for Rainbow networking, and are not to be further distributed! Version 1 is ready to copy sheets in mailing label format, 30 to the page, 10x3. The other version includes some other info, some phone numbers, eMail addresses, and so forth, in a directory form. Note that we consensed in Vermont that this list would only go to Focalizers willing to be included on the list. (Not that someone can't make a copy for someone they trust, but there are folks that included their phone number, for instance, who don't want it generally available) We are in need of either DONATIONS of CASH, or OFFERS to HELP MAIL! Love you! Petros 708 328 2733 Focalizer's Quarterly Mailing c/o PO Box 5448 Evanston, IL 60204-5448 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 102 Pot O' Gold coming Soon! pfraterdeus 4:58 pm Jan 23, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Pot O' Gold coming Soon! Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Pot O' Gold coming Soon! Anybody wanting to submit information for the upcoming Pot O Gold Newsletter for the Midwest region, please get on it right away!!! I'm already about 2 weeks behind my ill-defined schedule, and I'd like to get it wrapped up before Feb 1st! I hope to be Printing by the 30th of Jan! If you'd like a copy, and are willing to copy and distribute further, please let me know ASAP. Pot O Gold is distributed by the Dandelion method. If you can help mail some out to your region, or to whereever they need to go, we'll send you a master copy for reproducing, and a portion of our mailing list! This keeps the costs in any one place way down! We Love You! Petros Pot o' Gold c/o PO Box 5448 Evanston, IL 60204-5448 708 328 2733 (no collect!) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 103 Translator/translation for Europa G thumper@uujobs.com 10:09 pm Jan 25, 1992 I'm posting this for a local focalizer, John Shining Tree, who got very psyched when he saw the recent European guide, written in Italian. He would very much like to find/distribute an english version, or at least a translation of some of it. How 'bout it, folks? Especially you folks in Europe, I'm sure somebody's already doing it, though maybe into french or polish instead of english... Please leave a message for John at (202)797-3625, or write him at MARO, PO Box 75263, Washington, DC, 20013. Email to me may get to him, though I hope to avoid it. Thanks! ========================================================================== I am no longer a contact for legaliaison, mid-atlantic, or anything else. Try Thomas from Peace Park @ (202)462-0757, or POB 5604, Takoma Park, MD, 20913, or Allan's Rainbow Hotline @ (202)797-3625, or the Colorado Tribe. ==========There is no way to peace == peace is the way. Onelove!========== -- thumper@uujobs.com -- | A population of sheep will eventually beget a Please clean up. Thanks! | government of wolves. -- William Sloan Coffin ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 104 Allan's Rainbow Hotline thumper@uujobs.com 10:18 pm Jan 25, 1992 There is a brother here in DC who has been offering his phone as a Rainbow Hotline for sometime, and he wants me to encourge everybody to use it. The outgoing message is sometimes five minutes long, with info on Gatherings all over. He currently has info on the Florida Gathering, for example. The number is (202)797-3625. Please disseminate this number widely. Many of you may know Allan as Pyremal, or Trunk. PLEASE PHONE IN INFO ON YOUR LOCAL GATHERINGS, SO HE CAN PUT IT ON HIS OUTGOING MESSAGE, AND EVERYONE CAN GET IT (assuming you want national exposure, which some of you may not :-). He has no direct access to the Net, thus this post on his behalf. He is not attempting to do anything in Rainbow's name, etc., etc. ========================================================================== I am no longer a contact for legaliaison, mid-atlantic, or anything else. Try Thomas from Peace Park @ (202)462-0757, or POB 5604, Takoma Park, MD, 20913, or Allan's Rainbow Hotline @ (202)797-3625, or the Colorado Tribe. ==========There is no way to peace == peace is the way. Onelove!========== -- thumper@uujobs.com -- | A population of sheep will eventually beget a Please clean up. Thanks! | government of wolves. -- William Sloan Coffin ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 105 Check this out ! 9 responses mendicott 2:19 pm Jan 28, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:stall@cilpac.army.mil Mon Jan 27 19:15:20 1992 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.44 ) id AA11469; Mon, 27 Jan 92 19:14:36 PST Message-Id: <9201280314.AA11469@cdp.igc.org> Received: from cilpac.army.mil by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:09:55 CST Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 11:55:05 JST From: Joe Stall To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU Cc: erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, joe@cilpac.army.mil, lee@cilpac.army.mil, bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, siggins@cilpac.army.mil, lee@cilpac.army.mil, reed@cilpac.army.mil Subject: replies Status: RO Marcus, your slogan "turn on, tune in and drop out "..??? you are only about 30 years late with it. Timothy leary used that way back when he was experimenting with LSD. (I understand tere are some folks still taking HIM seriously - can't beliver that) Are you recommending we start dropping a little acid now ? joe ps. i heard that timothy leary is a vegetable now, thinks he is a rutabaga, talks to lettuce and cabbage now. any truth in that ? pss. where are you located ? ----- Forwarded message # 1: Received: from [26.7.0.186] by cilpac.army.mil id aa15939; 21 Jan 92 2:57 MST Received: from sun.com by mainz-emh2.army.mil id aa17634; 18 Jan 92 18:37 CET Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05974; Sat, 18 Jan 92 09:36:35 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26973; Sat, 18 Jan 92 09:36:34 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (corpmail1) by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23037; Sat, 18 Jan 92 09:37:35 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM) by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14737; Sat, 18 Jan 92 09:36:10 PST Received: from cdp.igc.org by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05952; Sat, 18 Jan 92 09:36:09 PST Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.43 ) id AA28137; Sat, 18 Jan 92 09:37:48 PST Date: Sat, 18 Jan 92 09:37:48 PST From: "Marcus L. Endicott" Message-Id: <9201181737.AA28137@cdp.igc.org> To: technomads@bikelab.corp.sun.com Subject: Reply to Andrew & Resumes Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 10:54:52 CET Resent-From: bstring@mainz-emh2.army.mil Resent-To: lee@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, bstring@mainz-emh2.army.mil, jwash@mainz-emh2.army.mil, msteff@mainz-emh2.army.mil, stall@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, aetsbja-ans-tech@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, german@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, lschumac@mainz-emh2.army.mil, dbrown@mainz-emh2.army.mil Andrew, ...facelessly? You need my book VAGABOND GLOBETROTTING: STATE OF THE ART (Revised Editon, 1989), US$8.95 postpaid from Enchiridion International, Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723-2589 USA. It was specifically designed to liberate high school students from the illusory "necessity" of going to college. I can tell you right now that after three years of world travel I thought five years of college was great... until I got out and suddenly realized that "real life" was a hell of a lot more fun. Instead of paying them to work my ass off, I could get payed for doing it. I can also tell you that I wish *instead* of "paying my debt to society" by going to college I had gone *directly* on the RAINBOW TRAIL... following the RAINBOW GATHERINGS... and become a peaceful WARRIOR OF THE RAINBOW FAMILY TRIBAL PLANETARIAT. I have always found it much easier to work on *reducing* my expenses rather than *increasing* my income. All energy comes to us from the Sun through the Earth. Love is the only currency you need when travelling on the Seventh Ray. In the words of one great ancient sage, "Turn on, tune in, and drop out." Marcus. ----- End of forwarded messages ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 105 mendicott 2:20 pm Jan 28, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From mendicott Mon Jan 27 21:35:27 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.44 ) id AA21994; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:35:25 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05123; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:31:16 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28521; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:31:13 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (corpmail1) by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26840; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:32:31 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM) by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04598; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:31:01 PST Received: from cdp.igc.org by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04993; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:30:59 PST Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA21081; Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:22:16 PST Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 21:22:16 PST From: Marcus L. Endicott Message-Id: <9201280522.AA21081@cdp.igc.org> To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU, stall@cilpac.army.mil Subject: Re: replies Cc: bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, joe@cilpac.army.mil, jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, lee@cilpac.army.mil, lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, reed@cilpac.army.mil, siggins@cilpac.army.mil, technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM Status: RO >From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:stall@cilpac.army.mil Mon Jan 27 19:15:20 1992 >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 11:55:05 JST >From: Joe Stall >To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU >Cc: erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, > pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, > joe@cilpac.army.mil, lee@cilpac.army.mil, bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > siggins@cilpac.army.mil, lee@cilpac.army.mil, reed@cilpac.army.mil >Subject: replies > >Marcus, >your slogan "turn on, tune in and drop out "..??? >you are only about 30 years late with it. Timothy leary used that >way back when he was experimenting with LSD. (I understand tere >are some folks still taking HIM seriously - can't beliver that) >Are you >recommending we start dropping a little acid now ? > >joe > >ps. i heard that timothy leary is a vegetable now, thinks >he is a rutabaga, talks to lettuce and cabbage now. any >truth in that ? > >pss. where are you located ? Dear G.I. Joe, Thanks... I was wondering who said that; at least I was right about it being someone ancient. Actually, the poor fellow must have been just a*head* of his time; in case you haven't noticed, the military-industrial complex has only recently started to collapse in a big way. The war in Kuwait and Iraq just wasn't quite big enough to save it, as the administration hoped. By my calculations, its about time for all of us to get down on our knees and start praying... to be born again... becoming Grateful Dead! Also, in case you haven't noticed, the Grateful Dead are THE most popular band in America... by ANY objective measure. (I heard it on 60 Minutes; it must be true!) Matriot, Marcus PS I did hear T.L. and J. Gordon Liddy get it on recently. It really was quite a geriatric scene; they were both almost too deaf to debate. After being in jail, Liddy is now ten times more anti-establishment than Leary. PSS Didn't you know, we are everywhere... right under your nose... just look over your shoulder. PSSS All the secrets are in my book VAGABOND GLOBETROTTING, US$8.95 postpaid from Enchiridion International, Cullowhee, NC 28723-2589 USA. ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 105 mendicott 2:21 pm Jan 28, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:stall@cilpac.army.mil Mon Jan 27 22:22:28 1992 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.44 ) id AA24219; Mon, 27 Jan 92 22:22:22 PST Message-Id: <9201280622.AA24219@cdp.igc.org> Received: from cilpac.army.mil by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Tue, 28 Jan 92 00:18:43 CST Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 15:14:37 JST From: Joe Stall To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU Cc: erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, joe@cilpac.army.mil, lee@cilpac.army.mil, bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, reed@cilpac.army.mil, cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL Subject: G.I. Joe replies Status: RO Hi Marcus, Are you located in cullowhee, NC ? I went to school there, a longggggggggg time ago. Hey, let's don't be talking about acient. You gonna step on my toes here..... :-) TL being a*head* of his time.. ? he was a great chemist until he blew all his brain cells with LSD. can't say that I noticed the military-industrial complex falling apart. are you privy to some private info maybe ? got a pipeline to georgie bush ??? why should we get down on our knees and start praying, and to WHOM ? i am a big fan of rock and roll, but haven't noticed the GRATEFUL DEAD being the most popular band in the US. are they your favorite group ? Hey, Liddy ain't that ancient.... how old are you anyway ? ok guys, here's your chance to comment. anyway, haven't heard much about liddy lately, but i imagine if the establishment puts YOU in jail, you might be a little anti-establishment too. but he only went to a country club prison. heard he got religion, or was that chuck colson ? are you old enough to remember watergate ? you said, "didn't you know, we are everywhere... right under your nose... just look over your shoulder." my questions.. who is "we" and what is "we" going to do to "us", and if i am in the 'us' group, how do i get to be one of the 'we' group, and if i can become one of the 'we' group, what can i do to someone in the 'us' group ? er.. i ain't a G.I. but if you want to to call me 'G.I. Joe', it 's ok with me. your book was published by enchiridion INTERNATIONAL in cullowhee, NC ?? come on, you're pulling my leg, an international publishing company in cullowhee ?? ha ha ha ha !!!! so what is your book about, really ? how about a free autographed copy ? i ain't funning you. my address is below.... got to go. will get back to you soonest. hang in there. joe ps exactly what do you do ??? joe stall usacil-pacific unit 45014 apo ap 96343-0086 ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 105 mendicott 3:09 pm Jan 28, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:mendicott@igc.org Tue Jan 28 14:51:48 1992 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.44 ) id AA07547; Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:51:35 PST Received: from cdp.igc.org by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Tue, 28 Jan 92 16:48:31 CST Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA07197; Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:48:44 PST Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:48:44 PST From: Marcus L. Endicott Message-Id: <9201282248.AA07197@cdp.igc.org> To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU, stall@cilpac.army.mil Subject: Re: G.I. Joe replies Cc: bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, joe@cilpac.army.mil, jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, lee@cilpac.army.mil, lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, reed@cilpac.army.mil, vidgames@biotechnet.com, timleary%well@igc.org Status: R >From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:stall@cilpac.army.mil Mon Jan 27 22:22:28 1992 >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 15:14:37 JST >From: Joe Stall >To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU >Cc: erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, > pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, > joe@cilpac.army.mil, lee@cilpac.army.mil, bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > reed@cilpac.army.mil, cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL >Subject: G.I. Joe replies > >Hi Marcus, > >Are you located in cullowhee, NC ? I went to school there, a >longggggggggg time ago. > WCU class of '85. Remember Jimmy and Coonie? >Hey, let's don't be talking about acient. You gonna step on my >toes here..... :-) > >TL being a*head* of his time.. ? he was a great chemist until >he blew all his brain cells with LSD. > The good Dr. was actually a Harvard psychologist. Recommended reading: Leary, Timothy. FLASHBACKS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Los Angeles, CA: J.P. Tarcher, 1983. First edition. Hb. Lee, Martin A. & Shlain, Bruce. ACID DREAMS: THE CIA, LSD AND THE SIXTIES REBELLION. New York: Grove Press, 1985. Pb. Stevens, Jay. STORMING HEAVEN: LSD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Pb. Buenfil, Alberto Ruz. RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS: TOWARD AN ECOTOPIAN MILLENNIUM. Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2860 USA: Bear & Company, Inc., 1991. Pb. US$16.95. >can't say that I noticed the military-industrial complex falling >apart. are you privy to some private info maybe ? got a pipeline >to georgie bush ??? > Strictly CNN. >why should we get down on our knees and start praying, and to WHOM ? >i am a big fan of rock and roll, but haven't noticed the >GRATEFUL DEAD being the most popular band in the US. are they your >favorite group ? > Why, The One True God of Abraham, of course. I believe I said "obective measure." Actually, I prefer Celtic folk and Jamaican Reggae. >Hey, Liddy ain't that ancient.... how old are you anyway ? Actually, Liddy was the one by far most hard of hearing, and claimed it was due to shooting up. >ok guys, here's your chance to comment. >anyway, haven't heard much about liddy lately, but i imagine if >the establishment puts YOU in jail, you might be a little >anti-establishment too. but he only went to a country club You got that right. >prison. heard he got religion, or was that chuck colson ? > >are you old enough to remember watergate ? > Ehh ?? >you said, "didn't you know, we are everywhere... right under your >nose... just look over your shoulder." my questions.. who is "we" >and what is "we" going to do to "us", and if i am in the >'us' group, how do i get to be one of the 'we' group, and if >i can become one of the 'we' group, what can i do to someone >in the 'us' group ? > Us and them is an unproductive paradigm. But, the only way I know to join the "in" group is by becoming one of the "beautiful" people. This we is working hard to *convert* everyone into beautiful people. >er.. i ain't a G.I. but if you want to to call me >'G.I. Joe', it 's ok with me. > >your book was published by enchiridion INTERNATIONAL in >cullowhee, NC ?? come on, you're pulling my leg, an >international publishing company in cullowhee ?? >ha ha ha ha !!!! > Since 1984. >so what is your book about, really ? how about a free >autographed copy ? i ain't funning you. my address is >below.... > Business is business. Freebies only add to this man's *depression.* >got to go. will get back to you soonest. > >hang in there. > >joe > >ps exactly what do you do ??? > > >joe stall >usacil-pacific >unit 45014 >apo ap 96343-0086 I'm a travel writer, specializing in environmentally and culturally responsible tourism. What do you do? What in hell is "cil"? It's not listed in Tracy LaQuey's USER'S DIRECTORY OF COMPUTER NETWORKS (1990). >>From jmanwell Sun Jan 12 19:32:26 1992 >>Date: Sun, 12 Jan 92 19:32:25 PST >>From: James F. Manwell >>To: mendicott >>Subject: email in estonia >> >>Hello! >>I just read in the New York Times that you were able to communicate >>by Email in Estonia. I was recently there and would like to >>get some people on the island of Saaremaa hooked up,as well >>as some friends in Tallinn. Do you have any tips >>on Estonian Email? >> >>Thanks! >> >>Jim Manwell > > >THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, January 12, 1992 >Travel/Section 5, "The Plugged-In Traveler," Pages 14 to 16. > >- "Technology changes the face of travel." > By Terry Trucco, who writes about travel frequently. > >- "Taking off with a laptop." > By Conall Ryan, a novelist and chief executive officer of a Massachusetts > software company. > >- Museums of high tech: > Washington. > By Keith Schneider, a national correspondent in the Washington bureau of > The Times. > Boston. > By John Markoff who reports on computers and technology for The Times. > San Jose. > By Andrew Pollack, a reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The Times. > >- "Booking by computer." > By Peter H. Lewis, who writes The Executive Computer column in the Sunday > Business section of The Times. >[Page 32 (Continued From Page 15)] >> Even specialized computer data bases have travel services, for >>specialized interests. >> Marcus L. Endicott of Saint Simons Island, Ga., said that he regularly >>taps into a worldwide network operated by the Institute for Global >>Communication (I.G.C.). The I.G.C. includes forums for "green" or >>environmentally-oriented travel, and a Servas forum, for those who want to >>volunteer their skills in developing countries. >> And, of course, it helps to be able to tap into the computer system >>while traveling, regardless of mode of transport. >> "During the last six months of 1990, I bicycled solo from Yugoslavia to >>Estonia, through all of the Eastern European countries except Albania," Mr. >>Endicott said. "I took a solar-powered, fax-compatible laptop computer, >>which I used successfully to telecommunicate with the I.G.C. from each >>country." >> >>Sampling of on-line services. >> All on-line travel services require a personal computer,a modem, >>communications software and a subscription or membership. There are many >>services, and most offer access to travel planning data bases. The two most >>popular on-line services are Compuserve and Prodigy. >> Compuserve, of Columbus, Ohio, can be reached at (800) 848-8199. >>Membership kits, which include a $25 connect-time credit, have a list price >>of $49.95 but are frequently discounted or given away with modem purchases. >>Connect time is $12.80 an hour at modem speeds of 1,200 and 2,400 baud, and >>$22.80 an hour at 9,600 baud. >> Prodigy Services Company, of White Plains, can be reached at (800) 776- >>3449. Subscriptions are $12.95 monthly, with no connect-time charges. >> The Institute for Global Communication (I.G.C.) of San Francisco, is at >>(415) 442-0220. The first month fee is $15, and $10 a month thereafter >>(includes one free hour of connect time). Additional connect time is $5 an >>hour on nights and weekends, or $10 an hour weekdays. >>P.H.L. Reproduced without permission from PUBLISH February 1992. Dialog Box Dr. Leary: From Psychedelics to Cybernetics By David Sheff Photo Caption: Sixties guru Timothy Leary turned a generation onto hallucinogenic drugs. Now, he's tuned into "electronic reality." Publish: Can you describe your work in the computer field? Leary: My work involves cybernetic psychology. The personalization of quantum mechanics. Putting electronic appliances in the hands of individuals. Packaging and communication thoughts at light speeds. Publish: So, you're still the revolutionary? Leary: A new model of human being is being created. They have the intelligence and the courage to access and use high-quantum technology for their own purpose, their own profit, and their own modes of communication. Publish: What are the politics of the future? Leary: In the 21st century, he who controls the screen controls consciousness, information and thought. The screen is a mirror of your mind. If you're passively watching screens, you're being programmed. If you're editing your own screen, you're in control of your mind. Americans voluntarily stick their amoeboid faces towards the screen seven hours a day and suck up information that Big Brother is putting there. Americans spend more time looking at monitors than they do gazing into the eyes of family and friends. Here is the key to our future: We can and will control our own screens. Software is being designed to empower us to produce and direct our own mind movies, our own prime time shows. Publish: How long will it take for this technology to become widespread? Leary: The personalization and popularization of high technology is the key. Popularization means cybernetic appliances in the hands of the people. It is not just the personal computer; it's any electronic technology that allows you to change your screen. With the new tape-editing appliances, you can download any program off your TV, edit, and digitize your own optics and sound. Zap! You become the director and producer of what you and your family see. You can combine educational programs with entertainment, create collages with your own X-rated home movies and bits you taped off the CNN news. The evolution of precise technology is so seductive. There is no way you can pass laws against the relentless increase in human intelligence. Publish: You often employ scientific metaphors when you talk about personal growth. Leary: We can only understand our inner workings in terms of the external mechanical or technological models that we build. For instance, we never understood the circulation of blood until we had hydraulic systems moving water around. We had to have a personal computer movement to help us understand the brain. The psychedelic drug movement of the '60s and the personal computer movement of the '80s are inner and outer reflections of each other. You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs unless you also understand something about computers. You can't navigate around your brain unless you know how information is moved around in your skull-computer. Conversely, it is no accident that many people in the computer movement had experimented with LSD. Publish: How will computers help our inner exploration? Leary: Computers help us understand how our brains process information. The high-resolution televisions and the computer paint programs where we move pixels on a screen help us understand what neurons do. There is a wonderful paradox here. We can only navigate outside as well as we can navigate within. Publish: With what end? Leary: It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them. >From VIDGAMES@biotechnet.com Tue Jan 28 12:53:31 1992 >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 15:44:54 -0500 (EST) >From: VIDGAMES@biotechnet.com (ANDY EDDY, VG&CE EXECUTIVE EDITOR) >Subject: One world One heart One love reply >To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM >X-Vmsmail-To: INTERNET::"technomads@bikelab.corp.sun.com" > >No, Tim Leary isn't a vegetable. In fact, he is one of the sharpest >lecturers out there. I've had the opportunity to get together with him >on many occasions, due to my affiliation in the electronic-game market. >He has changed over from advocating drugs to expand our minds, to >working with "virtual reality" pioneers on their applications. As a >matter of fact, he gave me a button a while ago that said "Tune in, >turn on, boot up." (hehe) >He is one of the best anecdotists alive today as well. He could tell >some stories... >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >If you love something, let it go; >if it comes back, it was always yours; >if it doesn't come back, hunt it down and shoot it. >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >Andy Eddy--WB1FNV/6 >Executive Editor of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment Magazine >Sysop of Delphi's World of Video Games >Internet: 70007.3554@compuserve.com or vidgames@biotechnet.com >Delphi: VIDGAMES CompuServe: 70007,3554 >GEnie: VIDGAME MCImail: VIDGAMES Prodigy: CKJB66A >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 105 mendicott 10:06 pm Jan 28, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From mendicott Tue Jan 28 21:05:32 1992 Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AB07199; Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:48:44 PST Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:48:44 PST From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown Message-Id: <9201282248.AB07199@cdp.igc.org> To: mendicott Status: R ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL: Connection refused by MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, will keep trying for 2 days 550 cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL... Host unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA07197; Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:48:44 PST Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:48:44 PST From: Marcus L. Endicott Message-Id: <9201282248.AA07197@cdp.igc.org> To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU, stall@cilpac.army.mil Subject: Re: G.I. Joe replies Cc: bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, joe@cilpac.army.mil, jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, lee@cilpac.army.mil, lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, reed@cilpac.army.mil, vidgames@biotechnet.com, well!timleary >From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:stall@cilpac.army.mil Mon Jan 27 22:22:28 1992 >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 15:14:37 JST >From: Joe Stall >To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU >Cc: erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, harmonlj@snybufva.BITNET, > pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, german@cilpac.army.mil, > joe@cilpac.army.mil, lee@cilpac.army.mil, bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > jwash@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, msteff@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > lschumac@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, jconn@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL, > reed@cilpac.army.mil, cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL >Subject: G.I. Joe replies > >Hi Marcus, > >Are you located in cullowhee, NC ? I went to school there, a >longggggggggg time ago. > WCU class of '85. Remember Jimmy and Coonie? >Hey, let's don't be talking about acient. You gonna step on my >toes here..... :-) > >TL being a*head* of his time.. ? he was a great chemist until >he blew all his brain cells with LSD. > The good Dr. was actually a Harvard psychologist. Recommended reading: Leary, Timothy. FLASHBACKS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Los Angeles, CA: J.P. Tarcher, 1983. First edition. Hb. Lee, Martin A. & Shlain, Bruce. ACID DREAMS: THE CIA, LSD AND THE SIXTIES REBELLION. New York: Grove Press, 1985. Pb. Stevens, Jay. STORMING HEAVEN: LSD AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Pb. Buenfil, Alberto Ruz. RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS: TOWARD AN ECOTOPIAN MILLENNIUM. Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2860 USA: Bear & Company, Inc., 1991. Pb. US$16.95. >can't say that I noticed the military-industrial complex falling >apart. are you privy to some private info maybe ? got a pipeline >to georgie bush ??? > Strictly CNN. >why should we get down on our knees and start praying, and to WHOM ? >i am a big fan of rock and roll, but haven't noticed the >GRATEFUL DEAD being the most popular band in the US. are they your >favorite group ? > Why, The One True God of Abraham, of course. I believe I said "obective measure." Actually, I prefer Celtic folk and Jamaican Reggae. >Hey, Liddy ain't that ancient.... how old are you anyway ? Actually, Liddy was the one by far most hard of hearing, and claimed it was due to shooting up. >ok guys, here's your chance to comment. >anyway, haven't heard much about liddy lately, but i imagine if >the establishment puts YOU in jail, you might be a little >anti-establishment too. but he only went to a country club You got that right. >prison. heard he got religion, or was that chuck colson ? > >are you old enough to remember watergate ? > Ehh ?? >you said, "didn't you know, we are everywhere... right under your >nose... just look over your shoulder." my questions.. who is "we" >and what is "we" going to do to "us", and if i am in the >'us' group, how do i get to be one of the 'we' group, and if >i can become one of the 'we' group, what can i do to someone >in the 'us' group ? > Us and them is an unproductive paradigm. But, the only way I know to join the "in" group is by becoming one of the "beautiful" people. This we is working hard to *convert* everyone into beautiful people. >er.. i ain't a G.I. but if you want to to call me >'G.I. Joe', it 's ok with me. > >your book was published by enchiridion INTERNATIONAL in >cullowhee, NC ?? come on, you're pulling my leg, an >international publishing company in cullowhee ?? >ha ha ha ha !!!! > Since 1984. >so what is your book about, really ? how about a free >autographed copy ? i ain't funning you. my address is >below.... > Business is business. Freebies only add to this man's *depression.* >got to go. will get back to you soonest. > >hang in there. > >joe > >ps exactly what do you do ??? > > >joe stall >usacil-pacific >unit 45014 >apo ap 96343-0086 I'm a travel writer, specializing in environmentally and culturally responsible tourism. What do you do? What in hell is "cil"? It's not listed in Tracy LaQuey's USER'S DIRECTORY OF COMPUTER NETWORKS (1990). >>From jmanwell Sun Jan 12 19:32:26 1992 >>Date: Sun, 12 Jan 92 19:32:25 PST >>From: James F. Manwell >>To: mendicott >>Subject: email in estonia >> >>Hello! >>I just read in the New York Times that you were able to communicate >>by Email in Estonia. I was recently there and would like to >>get some people on the island of Saaremaa hooked up,as well >>as some friends in Tallinn. Do you have any tips >>on Estonian Email? >> >>Thanks! >> >>Jim Manwell > > >THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, January 12, 1992 >Travel/Section 5, "The Plugged-In Traveler," Pages 14 to 16. > >- "Technology changes the face of travel." > By Terry Trucco, who writes about travel frequently. > >- "Taking off with a laptop." > By Conall Ryan, a novelist and chief executive officer of a Massachusetts > software company. > >- Museums of high tech: > Washington. > By Keith Schneider, a national correspondent in the Washington bureau of > The Times. > Boston. > By John Markoff who reports on computers and technology for The Times. > San Jose. > By Andrew Pollack, a reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The Times. > >- "Booking by computer." > By Peter H. Lewis, who writes The Executive Computer column in the Sunday > Business section of The Times. >[Page 32 (Continued From Page 15)] >> Even specialized computer data bases have travel services, for >>specialized interests. >> Marcus L. Endicott of Saint Simons Island, Ga., said that he regularly >>taps into a worldwide network operated by the Institute for Global >>Communication (I.G.C.). The I.G.C. includes forums for "green" or >>environmentally-oriented travel, and a Servas forum, for those who want to >>volunteer their skills in developing countries. >> And, of course, it helps to be able to tap into the computer system >>while traveling, regardless of mode of transport. >> "During the last six months of 1990, I bicycled solo from Yugoslavia to >>Estonia, through all of the Eastern European countries except Albania," Mr. >>Endicott said. "I took a solar-powered, fax-compatible laptop computer, >>which I used successfully to telecommunicate with the I.G.C. from each >>country." >> >>Sampling of on-line services. >> All on-line travel services require a personal computer,a modem, >>communications software and a subscription or membership. There are many >>services, and most offer access to travel planning data bases. The two most >>popular on-line services are Compuserve and Prodigy. >> Compuserve, of Columbus, Ohio, can be reached at (800) 848-8199. >>Membership kits, which include a $25 connect-time credit, have a list price >>of $49.95 but are frequently discounted or given away with modem purchases. >>Connect time is $12.80 an hour at modem speeds of 1,200 and 2,400 baud, and >>$22.80 an hour at 9,600 baud. >> Prodigy Services Company, of White Plains, can be reached at (800) 776- >>3449. Subscriptions are $12.95 monthly, with no connect-time charges. >> The Institute for Global Communication (I.G.C.) of San Francisco, is at >>(415) 442-0220. The first month fee is $15, and $10 a month thereafter >>(includes one free hour of connect time). Additional connect time is $5 an >>hour on nights and weekends, or $10 an hour weekdays. >>P.H.L. Reproduced without permission from PUBLISH February 1992. Dialog Box Dr. Leary: From Psychedelics to Cybernetics By David Sheff Photo Caption: Sixties guru Timothy Leary turned a generation onto hallucinogenic drugs. Now, he's tuned into "electronic reality." Publish: Can you describe your work in the computer field? Leary: My work involves cybernetic psychology. The personalization of quantum mechanics. Putting electronic appliances in the hands of individuals. Packaging and communication thoughts at light speeds. Publish: So, you're still the revolutionary? Leary: A new model of human being is being created. They have the intelligence and the courage to access and use high-quantum technology for their own purpose, their own profit, and their own modes of communication. Publish: What are the politics of the future? Leary: In the 21st century, he who controls the screen controls consciousness, information and thought. The screen is a mirror of your mind. If you're passively watching screens, you're being programmed. If you're editing your own screen, you're in control of your mind. Americans voluntarily stick their amoeboid faces towards the screen seven hours a day and suck up information that Big Brother is putting there. Americans spend more time looking at monitors than they do gazing into the eyes of family and friends. Here is the key to our future: We can and will control our own screens. Software is being designed to empower us to produce and direct our own mind movies, our own prime time shows. Publish: How long will it take for this technology to become widespread? Leary: The personalization and popularization of high technology is the key. Popularization means cybernetic appliances in the hands of the people. It is not just the personal computer; it's any electronic technology that allows you to change your screen. With the new tape-editing appliances, you can download any program off your TV, edit, and digitize your own optics and sound. Zap! You become the director and producer of what you and your family see. You can combine educational programs with entertainment, create collages with your own X-rated home movies and bits you taped off the CNN news. The evolution of precise technology is so seductive. There is no way you can pass laws against the relentless increase in human intelligence. Publish: You often employ scientific metaphors when you talk about personal growth. Leary: We can only understand our inner workings in terms of the external mechanical or technological models that we build. For instance, we never understood the circulation of blood until we had hydraulic systems moving water around. We had to have a personal computer movement to help us understand the brain. The psychedelic drug movement of the '60s and the personal computer movement of the '80s are inner and outer reflections of each other. You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs unless you also understand something about computers. You can't navigate around your brain unless you know how information is moved around in your skull-computer. Conversely, it is no accident that many people in the computer movement had experimented with LSD. Publish: How will computers help our inner exploration? Leary: Computers help us understand how our brains process information. The high-resolution televisions and the computer paint programs where we move pixels on a screen help us understand what neurons do. There is a wonderful paradox here. We can only navigate outside as well as we can navigate within. Publish: With what end? Leary: It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them. >From VIDGAMES@biotechnet.com Tue Jan 28 12:53:31 1992 >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 15:44:54 -0500 (EST) >From: VIDGAMES@biotechnet.com (ANDY EDDY, VG&CE EXECUTIVE EDITOR) >Subject: One world One heart One love reply >To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM >X-Vmsmail-To: INTERNET::"technomads@bikelab.corp.sun.com" > >No, Tim Leary isn't a vegetable. In fact, he is one of the sharpest >lecturers out there. I've had the opportunity to get together with him >on many occasions, due to my affiliation in the electronic-game market. >He has changed over from advocating drugs to expand our minds, to >working with "virtual reality" pioneers on their applications. As a >matter of fact, he gave me a button a while ago that said "Tune in, >turn on, boot up." (hehe) >He is one of the best anecdotists alive today as well. He could tell >some stories... >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >If you love something, let it go; >if it comes back, it was always yours; >if it doesn't come back, hunt it down and shoot it. >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >Andy Eddy--WB1FNV/6 >Executive Editor of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment Magazine >Sysop of Delphi's World of Video Games >Internet: 70007.3554@compuserve.com or vidgames@biotechnet.com >Delphi: VIDGAMES CompuServe: 70007,3554 >GEnie: VIDGAME MCImail: VIDGAMES Prodigy: CKJB66A >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 105 mendicott 3:43 pm Jan 29, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From bstring@mainz-emh2.army.mil Wed Jan 29 00:32:01 1992 Received: from mainz-emh2 (MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL) by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.44 ) id AA23160; Wed, 29 Jan 92 00:31:36 PST Message-Id: <9201290831.AA23160@cdp.igc.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 9:15:42 CET From: BOB STRINGFIELD To: "Marcus L. Endicott" Cc: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU, stall@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, bstring@mainz-emh2.army.mil, cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, german@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, jconn@mainz-emh2.army.mil, joe@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, jwash@mainz-emh2.army.mil, lee@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, lschumac@mainz-emh2.army.mil, msteff@mainz-emh2.army.mil, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, reed@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, timleary%well@IGC.ORG, vidgames%biotech.com@VM1.NODAK.EDU Subject: Re: G.I. Joe replies Status: RO Timleary%well@igc.org. Could it be? Well now. We are in for it now... --bob ==== ==== ==== Response 6 to Note 105 mendicott 5:25 pm Jan 29, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From mendicott Wed Jan 29 16:35:40 1992 Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AB23651; Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:31:01 PST Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:31:01 PST From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown Message-Id: <9201300031.AB23651@cdp.igc.org> To: mendicott Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 mainz-emh2.army.mil: Connection refused by mainz-emh2.army.mil, will keep trying for 2 days 550 cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL... Host unknown 421 CILPAC.ARMY.MIL: Host CILPAC.army.mil is down, will keep trying for 2 days ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA23646; Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:31:01 PST Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:31:01 PST From: Marcus L. Endicott Message-Id: <9201300031.AA23646@cdp.igc.org> To: bstring@mainz-emh2.army.mil Subject: Re: G.I. Joe replies Cc: cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, german@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, jconn@mainz-emh2.army.mil, joe@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, jwash@mainz-emh2.army.mil, lee@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, lschumac@mainz-emh2.army.mil, mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU, msteff@mainz-emh2.army.mil, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, reed@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, salsbury@acsu.buffalo.edu, stall@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, vidgames%biotech.com@VM1.NODAK.EDU >From salsbury@acsu.buffalo.edu Wed Jan 29 10:32:10 1992 Received: from lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.44 ) id AA04614; Wed, 29 Jan 92 10:32:06 PST Received: by lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu (4.1/1.35) id AA29823; Wed, 29 Jan 92 13:30:03 EST Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 13:30:03 EST From: salsbury@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Caterpillar Cannot Understand The Butterfly) Message-Id: <9201291830.AA29823@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu> To: mendicott@igc.org Cc: technomads@bikelab.corp.sun.com In-Reply-To: Marcus L. Endicott's message of Mon, 27 Jan 92 20:29:31 PST <9201280429.AA17724@cdp.igc.org> Subject: Re: One World One Heart One Love Status: RO ->In the words of one great ancient sage, "Turn on, tune in, and drop out." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> ->Marcus. -Marcus, -your slogan "turn on, tune in and drop out "..??? you are only about -30 years late with it. Timothy leary used that way back when he was -experimenting with LSD. (I understand tere are some folks still taking -HIM seriously - can't beliver that) Are you recommending we start -dropping a little acid now ? - -joe Joe, Hopefully, the arrows above will show that Marcus was not claiming authorship of the slogan. (Hint: Leary is the aforementioned Sage.) I am one of "those folks still taking HIM seriously." :) Have you read any of his recent stuff? Try "Neuropolitique," it was written in 1987, and talks about things like the Iran-Contra Scandal, Pat Robertson and religious fanatacism/swindling, the privatization of space travel, and a whole bunch of other neat stuff. Please don't make assumptions based on 20 year old data. I interpret "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" to mean: TURN ON - your mind. TUNE IN - to what's going on around you in the world. DROP OUT - if what you see is not what you like. (This is not escapism, it's one of those "Don't play the game if you don't like it" kinda things. Our own list owner did just that. Decided he didn't like being tied to a desk and office, so he "dropped out" of the whole "Suit'n'tie" social structure, came up with something he liked more, and followed his dreams. Doesn't sound too bad to me! :) ) Acid has very little to do with it, in my opinion. -ps. i heard that timothy leary is a vegetable now, thinks -he is a rutabaga, talks to lettuce and cabbage now. any -truth in that ? None whatsoever. In fact, he's running a software firm in California, touring and lecturing all over the country/world, and working a lot with Virtual Reality technology. From what I hear, he's doing quite well. Again, Please don't make assumptions based on 20 year old data. Patrick G. Salsbury State University of NY @ Buffalo, USA SALSBURY@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Disclaimers are silly. ;^) Anonymous mail: wi.698@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (I will also post anonymously for people. Mail to either address.) ==== ==== ==== Response 7 to Note 105 mendicott 5:26 pm Jan 29, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From mendicott Wed Jan 29 16:38:18 1992 Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AB23816; Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:34:04 PST Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:34:04 PST From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown Message-Id: <9201300034.AB23816@cdp.igc.org> To: mendicott Status: RO ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 mainz-emh2.army.mil: Connection refused by mainz-emh2.army.mil, will keep trying for 2 days 550 cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL... Host unknown 421 CILPAC.ARMY.MIL: Host CILPAC.army.mil is down, will keep trying for 2 days ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA23814; Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:34:04 PST Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 16:34:04 PST From: Marcus L. Endicott Message-Id: <9201300034.AA23814@cdp.igc.org> To: bstring@mainz-emh2.army.mil Subject: Re: G.I. Joe replies Cc: cabiness@FRANKFURT1-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, erica@FTGILLEM2-ACIRS.ARMY.MIL, german@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, jconn@mainz-emh2.army.mil, joe@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, jwash@mainz-emh2.army.mil, lee@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, lschumac@mainz-emh2.army.mil, mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU, msteff@mainz-emh2.army.mil, pockbert@ANSBACH-EMH1.ARMY.MIL, reed@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, stall@CILPAC.ARMY.MIL, vidgames%biotech.com@VM1.NODAK.EDU, washburn@csrd.uiuc.edu >From washburn@csrd.uiuc.edu Wed Jan 29 14:07:18 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA10012; Wed, 29 Jan 92 14:07:16 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00838; Wed, 29 Jan 92 14:00:00 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00101; Wed, 29 Jan 92 13:59:52 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (corpmail1) by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28396; Wed, 29 Jan 92 14:01:11 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM) by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27140; Wed, 29 Jan 92 13:59:40 PST Received: from s46.csrd.uiuc.edu by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00800; Wed, 29 Jan 92 13:59:37 PST Received: from sp21.csrd.uiuc.edu by s46.csrd.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA25600 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 29 Jan 1992 15:59:33 -0600 Received: by sp21.csrd.uiuc.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09295; Wed, 29 Jan 92 15:59:31 CST Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 15:59:31 CST From: washburn@csrd.uiuc.edu (Mark Washburn) Message-Id: <9201292159.AA09295@sp21.csrd.uiuc.edu> To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM Subject: Re: One World One Heart One Love Status: RO I couldn't let this discussion go by without a little input from an old hippy. Patrick S. said his interpretation of TURN ON was to turn on your mind and that "Acid has very little to do with it". I agree that one can certainly broaden one's horizons - open ones mind without drugs. However, for those of us who are experienced (as Jimi would say), it is also certainly true that drugs such as LSD, mushrooms and others produce a state of mind where ones thoughts are not constrained in the usual fashion. This sometimes leads to the formation of new ideas. Because new ideas can form that are completely outside ones normal existence the effect can be startling. Suddenly you are faced with concepts that may be antithetical to your basic beliefs. It's as though you were able to have the Palestinians and the Isrealies (you may have noticed that I can't spell) not just talk to each other, but get in each other's heads and share their feelings. This can lead to a generally more open mind in that you are more likely to see both sides of an issue and be more humble. Acid can also be fun. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. ==== ==== ==== Response 8 to Note 105 mendicott 10:23 am Jan 31, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:stall@cilpac.army.mil Thu Jan 30 23:46:31 1992 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA19926; Thu, 30 Jan 92 23:46:19 PST Message-Id: <9201310746.AA19926@cdp.igc.org> Received: from cilpac.army.mil by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Fri, 31 Jan 92 01:43:10 CST Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 15:58:24 JST From: Joe Stall To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU Subject: gi joe answers again Status: RO Hi Marcus i hope you are doing ok there.... i was just funning you about tim leary. by the way, was that his real e-mail address i saw in a previous msg. more in the next msg. take care joe ==== ==== ==== Response 9 to Note 105 mendicott 10:23 am Jan 31, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Check this out ! From @VM1.NoDak.EDU:stall@cilpac.army.mil Thu Jan 30 23:47:27 1992 Received: from VM1.NoDak.EDU by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.46 ) id AA19978; Thu, 30 Jan 92 23:47:10 PST Message-Id: <9201310747.AA19978@cdp.igc.org> Received: from cilpac.army.mil by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Fri, 31 Jan 92 01:43:46 CST Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 16:11:57 JST From: Joe Stall To: mendicott%igc.org@VM1.NODAK.EDU Cc: joe@cilpac.army.mil Subject: gi joe answers again..... Status: RO Marcus, thanks for you fast response. sorry it has taken me so long to answer you. been out the last coupla of days with a bad cold. still don't feel good..... what do i do ? cil stands for criminal investigation lab the actual name is usacil-pacific -us army criminal investigation lab - pacific. i am the chief chemist here, plus the system and host administrator for our computer system.. we are not a network, simply one host amoung thousands on the defense data network (ddn). i can reach you, and other folks not on ddn by going thru the internet. we are a full service lab - we work for the army criminal investigation command. in other words the federal cops for the army. same as the FBI, but for the army only. we do work closely with the investigative organizations of the other military services. my background is in chemistry and computers. i was at one time a drug chemist - do analysis on drugs submitted as evidence in criminal cases. now that i am the chief chemist, mostly i push paper and do coputer stuff. can still go back on the bench if needed though. what is environmentally and culturally responsible tourism ? looking forward to your next msg. joe ps. where are you in the states ? ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 106 . hnewman 5:32 pm Jan 28, 1992 Peter --- is there a time planned for the Cumberland Spring gathering? Mary Ellen ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 107 Worker back on line 1 response jvigorito 2:16 am Jan 29, 1992 D[ear friends: Rainbow Worker (303) 258-7892 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 107 jjohnson@uujobs.com 11:19 pm Jan 29, 1992 Joseph Vigorito writes: > D[ear friends: > > Rainbow Worker (303) 258-7892 Hey Joe! Good to have you back!! -- Thump =================================================================== Article IX. "The enumeration in the | === Jim Johnson, CPC === Constitution, of certain rights, shall | == jjohnson@uujobs.com == not be construed to deny or disparage | (301)587-2338 * POB 11023 others retained by the people." | Silver Spring, MD 20913 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 108 WINTER RAINBOW EVENTS IN NEW YORK mendicott 8:15 pm Jan 29, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: WINTER RAINBOW EVENTS IN NEW YORK /* Written 6:00 pm Jan 29, 1992 by crobyn in cdp:en.calendar */ /* ---------- "WINTER RAINBOW EVENTS IN NEW YORK" ---------- */ THE ANNUAL NEW YORK WINTER RAINBOW POT-LUCK PICNIC will take place on Sunday, February 2, 1992 from 12:00 noon to 9:00 PM at Dick Shea's Studio on the Second Floor of 100 East 16th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Bring food, friends and musical instruments. There will be a DJ with recorded music in the barefoot ballroom and a talent show in the evening. The event is totally free. A BENEFIT FOR THE NATIONAL RAINBOW GATHERING AND WHITE LIGHT CAFE hosted by talented kinesthetic shaman Alvin/Peyote Bird and featuring Rainbow videos, music by Jim Byrne, Christina Frith, Laraaji Venus & Dancers, Matthias and Rose Hill Band will be held on Tuesday, February 11, 1992 at Wetlands environmental nightclub at 161 Hudson Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City beginning at 7:00 PM sharp. Only a $6 donation for a full night of original entertainment. Contact Gabe at (212) 927-6384 for more info about either event. Cary G. Robyn TERRACON ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 109 PSYCHIATRY: BREAK THE SILENCE!!!! chrp 10:48 pm Jan 30, 1992 Hi sisters and brothers. I have participated in only two gatherings, but they were life changing, and I have stayed in touch with the network. I also understand that psychiatric survivors have played a little known role as one of the many strands in the rainbow. For instance, a space has been set up in a few gatherings as an emotional healing space. The following is a news release to help spread the word about our little known movement. Peace & love: (and if you can make it to D.C. to help our little struggling movement, THANK YOU!!!!) (PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE THIS NEWS BULLETIN) NEWS BULLETIN: February 2, 1992 from: The Support-In co-coordinator, David Oaks PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS AND ALLIES ASK YOU TO " B R E A K T H E S I L E N C E " ABOUT PSYCHIATRIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. NATIONAL COALITION PLANS TO CONFRONT PSYCHIATRISTS AT THEIR OWN ANNUAL MEETING IN MAY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. A national coalition of "psychiatric survivors" and their allies plans to gather May 1 to 5, 1992 in Washington, D.C. one block away from the huge American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. A peaceful protest, counter-conference, festival of alternatives, and even a "Mad Celebration" of performing artists are all being planned by the 13-group coalition, which calls itself "The Support-In," as in sit-in, teach-in, etc. "In the family of social change movements, we are the cousin that's never talked about," commented Support-In co-coordinator and psychiatric survivor David Oaks. "Talk about us now. We are an 'indicator species' during authoritarian times." Electroshock has been singled out by The Support-In because shock's recent comeback has brought with it a rise in human rights violations claim coalition leaders, most of whom are shock survivors. They charge shock -- also called ECT or electroconvulsive therapy -- is increasingly given coercively, sometimes even forcibly, and always without exploring less harmful options. Though the grassroots movement of psychiatric survivors is now 20 years old, they have recently been helped by an unusual source: a psychiatrist. Dr. Peter Breggin has just authored a massive indictment of his own profession's human rights violations called "Toxic Psychiatry." Breggin will be the keynote speaker at Support-In '92. "We are counting on allies like Peter to break the silence about many stories," said Oaks. "Perhaps the most passed-over story is very, very hopeful: There are diverse, humane, empowering alternatives to psychiatric coercion working right now for people in extreme emotional distress. Some of these are model user-run residential programs and community centers that belong to The Support-In." "The other side of the story about psychiatry" is covered by the official newspaper of The Support-In, their international DENDRON NEWS. Recent news stories included: / The main family of powerful psychiatric drugs given to millions of Americans annually is now known to cause brain damage in more than half of long term users. This can include a permanent "lobotomy effect" in the very same frontal lobes of the brain targeted by that infamous surgical procedure. These lobotizing drugs, called "neuroleptics," include Thorazine, Haldol, Mellaril, Prolixin, Navane and especially the newest controversial drug, Clozapine. Brain scans have even shown brain shrinkage after prolonged neuroleptic use. Dozens of mainstream medical citations are available. / Though the death rate from neuroleptics is far higher than originally thought, they are regularly given forcibly to elderly in nursing homes, children, psychiatric inmates, etc. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled prisoners may be given forced neuroleptics without due process. Forced neuroleptics have even come outside to the community, using court orders and roving vans ("needles on wheels") in some states. / Ritalin -- a form of speed -- is now given to more than 750,000 American school kids with psychiatric labels. Asks Oaks, "If 'education-president' Bush is so anti-drug, why is his federal agency -- a key player in the supposed War on Drugs -- actually pushing more speed on children than ever before?" / Among skyrocketing health costs, it is psychiatry's costs that burst the very highest. And the cost isn't only to the pocketbook. An increase in unregulated cutthroat for-profit psychiatric institutions has infringed the Bill of Rights nationally. / While Bush recently approved more than half-a-billion dollars for psychiatric research, NONE of that money will go to the concept that community, environment, income -- in other words a person's real life -- can help hurt or heal the "biochemistry" of the mind. "Instead," said Oaks, "almost all of this tax payer money will go to the pharmaceutical industry to somehow find all of our answers in a new, expensive pill." "Dominating, mechanistic psychiatry has failed," concludes Oaks. "Our movement has carried an empowering new vision for twenty years. We take our place next to other oppressed groups calling for deep rooted social change now!" For a free copy of the coalition's newspaper, DENDRON NEWS, or for an Action Guide on the May event in Washington, D.C., write The Support-In, PO Box 11284, Eugene, OR 97440 USA. Or leave your address with zip code on their 24-hour voice mail at (503) 341-0100. NOTE: PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE this little-covered news bulletin as widely as possible!! e-mail addresses: Peacenet: CHRP. Handsnet: HN1223. PIE Online: oaksd. Ask about gateways to us via other BBS's. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 110 Cumberland Gathering 1 response pfraterdeus 1:54 am Feb 1, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Cumberland Gathering Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Cumberland Gathering >Topic 202 . >hnewman awf.rainbownews 5:32 pm Jan 28, 1992 >Peter --- is there a time planned for the Cumberland Spring gathering? >Mary Ellen Mary Ellen-- I believe that the Cumberland gathering wil be around the middle of April. I'll have to check on the specific dates. Any body have info on this? Also, watch for details on the Ohio Spring Gathering, usually around the Equinox, although last year it was a couple of weeks later. Play for Peace! Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 110 pfraterdeus 4:50 pm May 10, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Cumberland Gathering Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Cumberland Gathering Howdy Folks! This is Peter (Petros), cyberspace focalizer, for about 5 years now on the PeaceNet group 'awf.rainbownews'. I'm really happy to see the genesis of this group, which, if I had tried to do it, would have been hindered and blocked in the Focalizer/All Ways Free councils because of the name! There has always been an irrational problem (in my view) with having the words "Rainbow" or "Rainbow Gathering" in any context except that of the consensii of the Rainbow Family Tribal Council, which meets July 1-7 every year. While I appreciate the concern, it is plainly obvious that we are going to call a descriptive newsgroup by the most descriptive name! In any case, I block anybody changing the name of this group! :-))) OK, Here's the Most up to date scoop that I've got! Cumberland Rainbow Family of Living Light Bio-Regional Gathering of the Tribes Prayer for World Peace Daniel Boone National Forest -- May 9-17 1992 (Info -- 502 484 3004) " Howdy Folks, We are happy to invite you to the 4th Annual Cumberland Family Gathering. Come and be part of the vision as we create a new reality of Peace. Bring your Love and your Heartsongs and together we will experience the Joy and Wonder of the Rainbow. We Love You.... Aho Mitakuye Oyasin " (There are no written directions, only a small map, so take the following with a large grain of salt! -- Petros) At Greenwood, KY, on rt. 27 (south of Burnside and Somerset), turn west onto ForestService Rd. 859. Watch for Rainbow signs.... Hope this isn't too late for you, Mike! Peter PS. Please mail me direectly with questions. I don't always see the groups right away! (pfraterdeus@igc.org / petros@whale.ils.nwu.edu) -------------------------------------- mjs alt.gathering.rainbow 7:30 pm May 5, 1992 (at sage.cc.purdue.edu) (From News system) I am still looking for directions to the Cumberland Gathering next week. Does anybody out there have directions they can share with me? Thanks. peace, Mike ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 111 More From Technomads 9 responses mendicott 8:16 pm Feb 4, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From mendicott Tue Feb 4 12:34:31 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA17644; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:34:28 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26618; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:30:07 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03385; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:30:05 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (corpmail1) by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05227; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:31:26 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM) by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05087; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:29:52 PST Received: from cdp.igc.org by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26491; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:29:49 PST Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA17321; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:29:44 PST Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:29:44 PST From: Marcus L. Endicott Message-Id: <9202042029.AA17321@cdp.igc.org> To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM Subject: Earth's Greatest Nomadic Community Status: RO It takes more than big brother to keep this technomad up at night (nothing like a clear conscience for sleep. Who pays those guys anyway?) Get a clue, please! What is it that the federales seem to know that you don't? What does keep me up is the weeping of the Earth... dying trees... dying animals... hungry children. The Rainbow nation without borders is the modern world's greatest fulltime nomadic community. Maybe you don't know what Rainbow is? Maybe you think you know what it is? There are hundreds and thousands of people living in many dozens of encampments around the world throughout the year. For the most part, these camps are not permanent, and change locations seasonally. They are located most often in remote wilderness areas (although not in designated Wilderness Areas); feds don't usually like spending many hours daily walking in and out. We are not talking here about a bunch of teenagers playing indians in the woods; we are talking about three generations making a life together on the land. We have found that tipis are the ultimate expression of simple harmonious ecological group living. For the most part, Rainbow people have learned not to travel together in ostentatious groups or caravans. When the time comes, they scatter to the four directions using almost every conceivable form of transporation, intermingling throughout society at large and coming back together in a new constellation on down the road, not so different from traditional gypsies. So, what's the deal here? We have many needs for which we have not yet found solutions. For the past 20 years the US government has arrived at a status quo using the strategy of containment. As far as the North American camps are concerned, there are three basic zones: outside, transition, and inside. We must communicate within, around the camps. We must improve communications between inside and outside. Further, and perhaps most important, we must be able to communicate effectively between diverse camps throughout the continent and indeed on various continents. How do we communicate? We use runners, drums, CBs, 2-meter ham, and computer telecommunication. For the most part we are solar-powered using re-chargeable batteries. CBs have proved insufficient. (Is there such a thing as a CB repeater?) We have precious few licensed operators with equipment for 2-meter ham. Cell sites almost invariably do not extend to our camps. Acoustic cups and phone booths is the best we've managed with computer telecommunication so far. There are two major factors that must be taken into consideration. Rainbow camps have evolved the cultural norm of not playing audible electronic devices without earphones, and have also evolved a taboo against monetary exchange within the camps, where barter is the norm. I have lived like this virtually all of my adult life; send me a self-addressed, stamped envelope for full color photos of solar tipi computing and solar phone booth computer telecommunication in action. Peace on Earth... every day of the year. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 111 mendicott 8:17 pm Feb 4, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From bhoward@citi.umich.edu Tue Feb 4 12:57:36 1992 Received: from citi.umich.edu by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA19944; Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:57:34 PST Message-Id: <9202042057.AA19944@cdp.igc.org> From: Bruce Howard To: mendicott@igc.org (Marcus L. Endicott) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 15:54:18 EST Subject: Re: Earth's Greatest Nomadic Community In-Reply-To: <9202042029.AA17321@cdp.igc.org>; from "Marcus L. Endicott" at Feb 4, 92 12:29 pm Status: RO i'd like to go to a gathering. i've never been to a rainbow gathering but i have camped with many rainbow people i've run across while on the road. do you know of any coming up in the next several months in the michigan/midwest area? also, i was recently bounced off a plane a was given a free ticket; i was thinking of flying to an arbitrary point on the west coast and catching a green tortoise (sp) bus up to oregon (where i would then visit friends etc) have you ever done anything like that? do you have any suggestions or comments about a trip like that? bruce ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 111 mendicott 8:18 pm Feb 4, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From sws@albert.sri.com Tue Feb 4 13:14:41 1992 Received: from albert.sri.com by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA21628; Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:14:39 PST Received: by albert.sri.com (5.65/2.7davy) id AA10911; Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:14:11 -0800 Message-Id: <9202042114.AA10911@albert.sri.com> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:14:11 -0800 From: Scott Shaw To: mendicott@igc.org Subject: More info please Status: RO Your post to the technomads list caught my interest. Most of my contact with rainbows was at the redwood summer base camps. I was impressed with their attitudes of openess and sharing. Also, through a previous interest in primitive technologies, I've recently become intrigued with the idea of tipi living. So... I'd like to see your color photos and learn more about this lifestyle. Let me know your address and I will send a SASE. Thanks! - Scott Shaw sws@rml.sri.com ==== ==== ==== Response 3 to Note 111 mendicott 8:18 pm Feb 4, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From Steve.Roberts@Corp.Sun.COM Tue Feb 4 13:34:35 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA23491; Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:34:33 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11394; Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:34:32 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06374; Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:34:31 PST Received: by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05275; Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:36:03 PST Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:36:03 PST From: Steve.Roberts@Corp.Sun.COM (Steven K. Roberts) Message-Id: <9202042136.AA05275@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM> To: mendicott@igc.org Subject: Re: Earth's Greatest Nomadic Community Status: RO Interesting posts -- thanks! I'll reply with comments to the whole list later... Steve ==== ==== ==== Response 4 to Note 111 mendicott 9:29 am Feb 5, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From midnight@access.digex.com Tue Feb 4 20:44:16 1992 Received: from uu.psi.com by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA02149; Tue, 4 Feb 92 20:44:09 PST Received: from access.digex.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.1.011392-PSI/PSINet) id AA13950; Tue, 4 Feb 92 23:27:44 -0500 Received: by access.digex.com id AA24768 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3/Access-1.1 - Digital Express); Tue, 4 Feb 92 17:52:27 -0500 From: Midnight Message-Id: <9202042252.AA24768@access.digex.com> Subject: Re: Earth's Greatest Nomadic Community To: mendicott@igc.org (Marcus L. Endicott) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 17:52:26 EST In-Reply-To: <9202042029.AA17321@cdp.igc.org>; from "Marcus L. Endicott" at Feb 4, 92 12:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO Please tell me more! What do you do for medical emergencies? What forms of transportation do you use? Where does your food come from? I would appreciate more information about this (sort of) organization/community. ==== ==== ==== Response 5 to Note 111 mendicott 3:47 pm Feb 5, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From mendicott Wed Feb 5 11:52:31 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA13044; Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:52:28 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28549; Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:45:28 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10525; Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:45:24 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (corpmail1) by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06444; Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:46:46 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM) by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04386; Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:45:12 PST Received: from cdp.igc.org by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28494; Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:45:09 PST Received: by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA12397; Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:45:07 PST Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 11:45:07 PST From: Marcus L. Endicott Message-Id: <9202051945.AA12397@cdp.igc.org> To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM Subject: Re: Earth's Greatest Nomadic Community Status: R For peek behind the scenes, here's a selection of private email: >i'd like to go to a gathering. i've never been to a rainbow gathering >but i have camped with many rainbow people i've run across while on the >road. do you know of any coming up in the next several months in the >michigan/midwest area? is our cyberspace focalizer and happens to live in the midwest; and yes, there is one coming soon to your area. In both North America and Europe there are huge annual continental gatherings lasting for months around the summer solstice. Around the winter solstice and the equinoxes there are numerous bioregional gatherings. And around the full moons there are innumerable local ones. We are also gathering in Central and South America, Australia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Siberia, the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere. Strung like trade beads on a necklace for Mother Earth, these encampments form a continuous Rainbow Trail... with no beginning and never ending.... >Your post to the technomads list caught my interest. Most of my >contact with rainbows was at the redwood summer base camps. I was >impressed with their attitudes of openness and sharing. Also, through >a previous interest in primitive technologies, I've recently become >intrigued with the idea of tipi living. So... I'd like to see your >color photos and learn more about this lifestyle. Let me know your >address and I will send a SASE. Thanks! M.L. Endicott, P.O.Box 2589, Cullowhee, NC 28723-2589 USA >Please tell me more! What do you do for medical emergencies? What forms of >transportation do you use? Where does your food come from? I would >appreciate more information about this (sort of) organization/community. First of all, Rainbow is a dis-organization of non-members, which is most often referred to as a family, tribe, or nation. Rainbow gatherings have been called "something between summer camp and a state of emergency." The whole premise of the gatherings is the healing of the Earth, which begins with one's self. We have many doctors, nurses, EMTs, and alternative health care practitioners, such as midwives, homeopaths, chiropractors, etc. There is also a fulltime mobile MASH unit called the Center for Alternative Living Medicine, or CALM for short. Typically, one half of each individual's food needs are met by the group. Of that amount, one third comes from direct bulk contributions made by individuals (organic farmers, health food distributors, religious groups, etc.), one third comes from collective purchases made with pooled funds from passing what is called the Magic Hat, and one third comes from recycling widely available discarded surplus food called dumpster diving or dumpstering. This is commonly referred to as the loaves and fishes method. ==== ==== ==== Response 6 to Note 111 mendicott 6:05 pm Feb 5, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From strata@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU Wed Feb 5 15:55:07 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA06367; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:55:05 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24865; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:47:52 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22958; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:47:48 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (corpmail1) by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06811; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:49:10 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM) by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13203; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:47:36 PST Received: from FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24758; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:47:25 PST Received: by FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU id AA21329; Wed, 5 Feb 92 18:52:18 -0500 Reply-To: strata@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 18:52:17 EST From: "M. Strata Rose" To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM Subject: nomadic community Message-Id: Status: RO Well, one good start would be to have regular gatherings-- twice a year, maybe quarterly. Some could be piggybacked onto other gatherings-- a Technomads camp at the Rainbow Tribes gatherings, Technomads BOF at Usenix and InterOp, Technomads Party at the various WorldCons and WesterCons and so on. Anyone know what ever happened to the idea of the "Telecom Trappers REndezvous"? I saw a proposal posted on the WELL over 2 years ago and think I would have heard about it by now if it had happened. Any East Coast Technomads out there? You should take over the RoadKillCon bid parties! ("95 in 95": hack party/bid proposal to shut down the stretch of Interstate 95 between Baltimore and Washington DC and hold a WorldCon there, September 1995) _Strata ==== ==== ==== Response 7 to Note 111 mendicott 6:06 pm Feb 5, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From sgw@silver.lcs.mit.edu Wed Feb 5 16:06:05 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA07403; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:06:02 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27960; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:59:54 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23624; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:59:52 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (corpmail1) by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06893; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:01:14 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr.EBay.Sun.COM) by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13684; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:59:40 PST Received: from silver.lcs.mit.edu by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27940; Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:59:37 PST Received: by silver.lcs.mit.edu id AA02857; Wed, 5 Feb 92 18:59:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 18:59:33 -0500 From: sgw@silver.lcs.mit.edu (stephen g. wadlow) Message-Id: <9202052359.AA02857@silver.lcs.mit.edu> To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM In-Reply-To: "M. Strata Rose"'s message of Wed, 5 Feb 92 18:52:17 EST Subject: nomadic community Status: RO Reply-To: strata@FENCHURCH.MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 18:52:17 EST From: "M. Strata Rose" Well, one good start would be to have regular gatherings-- twice a year, maybe quarterly. Some could be piggybacked onto other gatherings-- a Technomads camp at the Rainbow Tribes gatherings, Technomads BOF at Usenix and InterOp, Technomads Party at the various WorldCons and WesterCons and so on. Anyone know what ever happened to the idea of the "Telecom Trappers REndezvous"? I saw a proposal posted on the WELL over 2 years ago and think I would have heard about it by now if it had happened. I like the idea, though I think a technonamds camp at a rainbow gathering would be a bad idea and in poor taste. Many people (myself included) go to those things to get away from modern, hi-tech lifestyles.) A Usenix BOF would be a great start. On the topic of blimps, I had been thinking a few months ago that it might be amusing to run a small company that rented out single or doubler person dirigibles off in the desert somewhere, a la hot air balloons. A dirigible large enough to hold 1-2 people shouldn't be too big a deal to fabricate. It was an amusing thought at the time, and I really liked the concept of being able to rent a dirigible and cruise around in the desert for an afternoon. Cost and lack of motivation was my downfall.... steve ==== ==== ==== Response 8 to Note 111 mendicott 6:07 pm Feb 5, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: More From Technomads From washburn@bmrl.med.uiuc.edu Wed Feb 5 16:18:56 1992 Received: from Sun.COM by cdp.igc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.48 ) id AA08783; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:18:54 PST Received: from Corp.Sun.COM (lemay.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01793; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:14:32 PST Received: from bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24586; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:14:29 PST Received: from snail.Sun.COM by bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06929; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:15:51 PST Received: from Sun.COM (sun-barr) by snail.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27858; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:14:17 PST Received: from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01747; Wed, 5 Feb 92 16:14:13 PST Received: from bmrl.med.uiuc.edu by uxc.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA03345 (5.65d/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Wed, 5 Feb 1992 18:13:55 -0600 Received: from [128.174.210.29] (cw.med.uiuc.edu) by bmrl.med.uiuc.edu (3.2/9.7) id AA26804; Wed, 5 Feb 92 18:14:03 CST Message-Id: <9202060014.AA26804@bmrl.med.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 18:14:09 -0600 To: technomads@bikelab.Corp.Sun.COM From: washburn@bmrl.med.uiuc.edu Subject: Rainbow Gatherings Status: R Gee, I'm really new to this nomadness stuff, and totally unaware of the "Rainbow Gatherings" that have been discussed by the technomads list. Could someone give me a little more basic information, like who are rainbow folks, how do you find out about the gatherings, etc.? Thanks for helping to enlighten me... ;-) Claudia Claudia A. Washburn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory 1307 West Park Street MC-478 Urbana, IL 61801 217/333-3162/OFFICE 217/244-1330/FAX email: washburn@bmrl.med.uiuc.edu ==== ==== ==== Response 9 to Note 111 pfraterdeus 8:12 am Feb 6, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: More From Technomads Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: More From Technomads Great stuff marcus! Keep it up! Love you! Petros Loaves and fishes.... Pulling two carrots with one tug.... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 112 Technocrat communications hnewman 9:24 am Feb 7, 1992 Peter et al...what are some of your internet addresses that I can use from my local internet connection in Illinois? Harry ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 113 Russian Rainbow Gathering in June mendicott 3:57 pm Feb 8, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Russian Rainbow Gathering in June /* Written 9:46 pm Feb 8, 1992 by gn:rcg89 in cdp:green.general */ /* ---------- "Russian Rainbow Gathering in June" ---------- */ Russian Rainbow Gathering ========================= This is an event to be held near St.Petersburg in June 14th-27th 1992,a Rainbow Gathering to pave the way for a possible world-wide one in the future if successful. If you want invitations for a visa,please provide: 1 - Full name 2 - Date and place of birth 3 - Citizenship 4 - Passport number 5 - Permanent address 6 - Occupation and work address by March at the latest if possible,because of likely delays. Please send these details to: Nick Vinogradov Akademician Baikov St. 11-3-137 195427 St.Petersburg Tel.: 812-5561741 Fax: 812-1135896 If you can fax,please send details with your fax number if you have one;also you can ring in case of any problem Due to high expenses,donations would be welcome to: Lloyds Bank,3,High Street Glastonbury,England Sort code 30-93-47 Acc. name: Vladislav Kirbiatev Acc. n.: 7045545 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 114 Guides to Go pfraterdeus 11:53 am Feb 9, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Guides to Go Attn: awf.rainbownews Guides to Go Ric reports: Soon after they arrive in Madison, 300 photocopied Rainbow Guides will be bulkmailed to focalizers. The Rainbow Guide PO Box 3213 Madison WI 53704 608 249 0955 Please continue to send green energy, and up-dates, cards, etc. Spring edition coming before Colorado gathering..... ********************************************* Petros adds: Included with the guide willl be the Focalizers Quarterly Mailing (FQM) mailing list, in both Label format (to be copied onto sticky labels) and in directory form (with phone numbers, and eMail addresses, etc.) Please send donations, info and updates for the FQM to FQM Volunteer c/o PO Box 5448 Evanston, IL 60204-5448 More Info about the Focalizer Quaarterly Mailing: 708 EAT BRED (petros) (No Collect! After 8:00 pm Central time!) ********************************************** We Love You! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 115 CALM News Flash pfraterdeus 3:50 pm Feb 9, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: CALM News Flash Attn: awf.rainbownews CALM News Flash Well now Thanksgiving Council has happened, the Family has decided, and the preparations are ongoing and politics can be put aside--so back to the important stuff: ATTENTION If you have chronic headaches often taking (or having given up on) various over-the-counter and prescription drugs for the problem - COME SEE US - we'll show you how to alleviate your headaches with finger pressure and/or give you an adjustment to correct the spinal/nerve causes and/or suggest herbal tinctures/teas to safely replace the synthetics (more cheaply too) and/or refer you to homeopathic remedies that can help your Vital Force decide to never have chronic-type headaches again and/or perform accupuncture to begin (restart or redirect) the Chi energy and/or get a stress-relieving massage and/or ... If you want to learn about any of these or if you need any of these or if you know how to do any and want to share ... please COME TO CALM - that's why we're here. CALLING ALL FAMILY CIRCLES To please help - please sponsor/organize a benefit for CALM this winter/spring and send 2/3 to Stuart Watts/CALM 1161 Maez St. Santa Fe, NM 87502 (the CALM bank account) for the water system (purification and storage of up to 20,000 gallons a day to get us off bleach and away from buying water to truck in!) and send 1/3 to CALM/Water Singing-on-the-Rocks, Middle of the Rainbow, Route 3, Tompkinsville, KY 42167 to help with the CALM Bus expenses such as our new oxygen system and propane system (and hopefully solar system) that'll arrive at early Seed Camp and stay through most of Clean-up and also goes to several Regionals (and a SunDance or two) every year. The money will also help maintain/repair the bus, buy gas for the trip (at 6 mpg because of the weight - we are trying to do better on the gas mileage hence the switch from automatic to standard transmission last year and some of the upgrades planned for this year), and the money will go for things such as the 2 stretchers we need to replace cuz they were wasted at either Vermont or the Wabash Regional, the herbs and alcohol and bottles used to create, so far, 40 quarts of our most used tinctures (much stronger and cheaper than commercially available), such as the first aid supplies like gauze, bandaids, peroxide, first aid tape, etc. we'll need for Seed Camp and on ... such as the mini-water filter/pump unit that needs replacing since the old one was broken at the Florida Regional, such as the Electric shock machine that quickly and easily deals with spider/snake bites ... etc. HERBAL LORE For respiratory problems, lung and sinus problems I create a combination of mullein, coltsfoot, comfrey, ephedra, sage and eucalyptus plus a dash of goldenseal - these can be tinctured to use a few drops in a cup of water or under the tongue, or done in tea form plus should also be done in a mini-steam chamber around head, face, neck and chest. for sore throats I tincture Wild Cherry, Slippery Elm and Horehound - a few drops will disappear most sore throats especially if caught when symptoms first appear. I make an oil with olive oil, almond oil, garlic, goldenseal, and mullein that I then strain VERY CAREFULLY - a few drops of this does amazing things to earaches with no side effects. A cheaper, easier to make and often effective remedy for earaches (with no side effects) can be created by mixing half white vinegar and half rubbing alcohol and dropping a few drops into the ear. Make sure either drop is room temperature cuz cold or hot could hurt. Don't forget that even if the problem is only with one ear you must treat both ears, one at a time, or the infection will surely spread across. If you'd like to learn how to create tinctures, how to homeopathically potentize and dilute herbal tinctures to change and dramatically increase their efficacy, how to use these medicines to help yourselves and your family, COME ON DOWN! to CALM. If you can bring any supplies to help us, please please DO SO. We need all the help we can get. WE LOVE YOU ALL ... see you in New Jerusalem, 1992. aho metakuye ayacin Water, Singing-on-the-Rocks ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 116 RE>Re- RE>Next Rainbow Gat pfraterdeus 4:03 pm Feb 9, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: RE>Re- RE>Next Rainbow Gat Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: RE>Re: RE>Next Rainbow Gather Hven't heard anything about St.Petersberg, Russia! I thought you were asking about the Florida St. Pete's! However, there will be the Europa Gathering again in Poland, as there was last year. In August, I think. There will be the North American Continental Gathering in SW Colorado, July 1-7, 1992. Watch for details as the time approaches! Do you receive the awf.rainbownews conference on gn? If not, I'll ask the igc crew to make sure it gets over there. Where are you writing from? I'll ask around about a Russia gathering..... Play for Peace! Peter -------------------------------------- Date: 2/9/92 5:45 PM To: Custodian From: gn!trrichers u Message 21 (21 lines) From gn!trrichers Sun Feb 9 15:30:19 1992 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 92 15:30:19 PST From: gn!trrichers To: cdp!pfraterdeus Subject: Re: RE>Next Rainbow Gathering Cc: gn!trrichers Thanks a lot for the speedy reply. I have faxed it on. Will there be a worldwide Rainbow Gathering any time soon? I have also read about a RG in St. Petersburg, Russia, this year. Any more info? Thanks again, Thomas ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 117 Cumberland Regional Gathering mrose 3:50 pm Feb 17, 1992 Howdy Folks! The Cumberland Regional Rainbow Family had their Winter Council on Feb 15-17. The council consensed to change the dates of this year's regional gathering from mid-April to the new dates of May 9 thru May 19th. The Gathering will be held in Southern Kentucky and more specific site information will be coming out soon. We Love You. - Marcy and Clearwater, Cumberland Family Scribes ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 118 European Peace Pilgrimage 2 responses mendicott 5:05 pm Feb 20, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: European Peace Pilgrimage /* Written 5:03 pm Feb 20, 1992 by mendicott in cdp:peacewalks */ /* ---------- "European Peace Pilgrimage" ---------- */ European Peace Pilgrimage 1992 A Walk Across America We walk 2600 miles across America. We started February 1 in St Marys, GA. We finish October 12, Columbus Day, at the nuclear test site in Nevada. We come from a dozen countries around the world. We walk together to call attention to dangers so serious and so urgent that we have given up our jobs and homes, our incomes and comforts for nine months to cross the USA. As citizens of the world it is our responsibility to our children, the planet, and ourselves to act for Peace, Justice and safeguarding of Creation. Statement of Purpose We regret what was begun on this continent on October 12, 1492 by European ancestors. We apologize to all indigenous peoples for centuries of injustice. We stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples everywhere. We support their rights to the use of their own lands. We call for a worldwide ban on nuclear testing, which occurs on the lands of indigenous peoples, violates human rights, and threatens life. We seek to understand history from the perspective of indigenous peoples. We have to learn from both indigenous cultures and our culture the practical guidelines, we need for sustainable ways of living. We seek to deal with controversy in openness and respect. We try to maintain a spirit of harmony while engaged in our efforts. We walk across the land, called America, in a spirit of compassion for all creatures. We honor the Earth as a Creation we have to safeguard. Mobile EPP Kantor Addendum: I met this group at noon, Sunday, February 16, at the front gate of Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base. After a pipe ceremony with native American indians, I walked three days with more than twenty people from this group as far as Brunswick, Georgia, 16 miles a day. Tomorrow they leave for Darien, Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta and... across the sacred Trail of Tears to Oklahoma and beyond... toward Ground Zero. They have three support vehicles: two vans and an RV named "Frodo." The group is using a laptop computer to maintain contact with their home office in the Netherlands via the Institute for Global Communication in San Francisco and GreenNet in London. They have no photovoltaics. Nor do they have the possibility to get a cellular modem. IF THERE IS ANYONE OUT THERE WITH THE POSSIBILITY TO DONATE OR OTHERWISE CONTRIBUTE A CELLULAR MODEM FOR THIS GROUP, I CAN IMAGINE NO MORE SUITABLE OPPORTUNITY. I can give you my personal assurance that the Great Spirit is working with this group. Marcus Endicott ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 118 chicken@maria.wustl.edu 6:59 pm Mar 19, 1992 Subject: Re: European Peace Pilgrimage From: Mike Ezrine Marcus, I would be interested in finding out where the group is and possibly walking some distance with them. if you could send me and information that would be host helpful! In the Quest for the Light! CM ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 118 mendicott 7:30 pm Mar 24, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: European Peace Pilgrimage /* Written 4:38 am Mar 21, 1992 by mek in cdp:peacewalks */ /* ---------- "European Peace Pilgrimage" ---------- */ From: D. J. Dullemond Subject: European Peace Pilgrimage On Monday March 9 the members of the European Peace Pilgrimage held a vigil at the Jacksongate of the Savannah River Site. They planted a tree as a positive contribution to save and heal the Earth. During the last days we walked along Hwy 278 and walked through the following towns: Thomson, Warrenton, Deserted House, Union Point, Greensboro (Athens), Madison, Rutledge, Conyers. On Monday 16 we had a very good reception at Athens, some 30 miles of the original route we were shuttled there. The city of Athens offered the Pilgrims a proclamation in which they basically agreed with the pilgrims. Fr the following days (20-25 march) the Pilgrims will be walking in the Atlanta area. Basically the pilgrims will follow the Hwy 278/12 (Covington Hwy), Mc Lendon, Euclid, Edgwood Ave, Auburn Ave., Techwood dr, Northside Dr (Hwy 41) upto Paces Ferry Rd. March 23 The Pilgrims will be at the King Center and perform a small remeberance service March 24 The Pilgrims will be at Kenesaw battlefield memorial where they will offer a prayer especially for the Native American victims of the civil war. March 25 The Pilgrims will be at Etowa Mounds. If you want to join us for sometime, you are welcome. Join us and all the other walks that will finish at the Nevada test Site in the week before 12 October! Help your self and us to heal the Earth. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 119 1992 Colorado National Gathering. emarks 9:55 pm Feb 24, 1992 25 February, 1992 Howdy Folks. Well it's 1992 already and all's well so far. I've been waiting to write until I had something to say. So here goes. I've been hibernating, enjoying the slow, the anonymity. Then I get a letter from Buddha John and Sparrow Daydancer and Little Dipper. On the back of the envelope someone had added, P. S. "Hint, Hint". Inside the envelope were copies, rare copies it looked like, of the Nevada Sagebrush Dispatch, issues number 1 and 2. Weeell, better late than never. So that we may have a Sagebrush Dispatch or the equivalent here in Colorado with all the office and help behind it, I am thereby opening the Ball. "Ladies and Gentlemen, all look towards the center ring, all look towards the circle that is the center of our family that is us." "We are opening up in sweet surrender...". We are opening up once again, to ourselves, to the world, come this July 1st, somewhere in the high mountains of Colorado! We need everything. We can use anything. We are not formed at all yet. Come early and help put it together. We don't have a storefront, an office in that sense, but we do have a family phone and mail box. We have three musical fundraisers scheduled for this spring. We're getting it together. For now, we need people and money energy. Come and help out. This gathering is everyone's. Colorado is where we began as a family. This is our 21st reunion. This is where we take it back to where it all began. This is where we decide where to go with it from here for the next 20 years or so. This is a crucial crossroads for the family. Much will be decided and made clear in the Silence on the Fourth. What can I say? I have a vision of us all meditating sacramentally in the Silence, one head, one vison, one spirit. I have a vision of a true medicine healing circle, for ourselves as a Family, and spreading out from our hearts for the whole world. We have our medicines. We have our ways to the sacred. I vison us using our medicines and our ways to the sacred in order to create a new reality, for ourselves as a tribe, for our place in the whole, and even beyond us for the larger world. I vision us using our medicines and our ways to the sacred so that when we come down off the mountain this July fourth we will walk on sacred ground, the water and the air will be pure, there will be no holes in the ozone, the world will smell sweet, and Bad George will just be someone we scare the kids with. I mean we will have made a real difference. That's the whole point of the gathering anyway, to bring us to July fourth and that magic moment of silence when all at once we all know we are One. We are not alone in ourselves anymore. This Oneness is empowering. The last time we felt it fully, it got us through 20 really hard years as a Family and as individuals struggling to survive to make it to here and now. Come to Colorado, folks, come and be part of the Silence this year on the magical mountain this fourth of July. Put your mind to it! I love you all. Announcements Fundraisers. There are three scheduled rainbow benefits. February 29 at Bill's Grocery, 6PM, and April 12 and May 24 at the Mercury Cafe. All shows, all ages. Call 303 795-7294 for details. All proceeds go to the Magic Hat. Scout Council. May 1st in Colorado (site to be announced). All Scouts welcome. Contact Billy Shawn, scout focalizer, at 303 494-2214. We will be scouting this spring. Come and help. Spring Council. May 28th through May 31 in Colorado (site to be decided at Scout Council). Come and help make this year's gathering the best ever since 1972. Banking. The Magic Hat is empty! Send donations. Make checks and money orders out to the Magic Hat. We will soon have a Family banking account. We need money for printing, for stamps, for our family mail box and our family phone, for a longer message tape for our answering machine, for gas and map money for our scouts, for CALM, and for all the expenses of the Scout and Spring Councils. The Colorado family is raising Magic Hat money with Rainbow benefits. This is a National Gathering though and we all need to help. The printing and mailing of this Colorado newsletter alone will cost $75 or so. And we will need much more money to go on to the land in June. The 1992 Banking Council was created at the Thanksgiving Council. There are 5 members at present, all here in Colorado. All money sent to the family mail box (see below) is opened by members of the Banking Council and immediately recorded in our 'official' ledger. Receipts are kept for all money spent. Please let us know if you would like your Magic Hat donation to be used for a particular purpose (office, scouting, CALM, communications, Councils, whatever). Communications. Our family mailing address is Rainbow, 1705-14th Street, suite 359, Boulder, Colorado 80302. You should send contributions to the Magic Hat to this address. Make checks and money orders payable to the Magic Hat. All mail is picked up and opened by banking council members. Our Family phone number is 303 494-2214. Call for information, to volunteer, to say hello, or whatever. When we can afford it we will put a longer message tape on the Family phone answering machine with more information about regional gatherings, the location of the Scout and Spring Councils, and other pertinent information. Please call and let us know of all regional gatherings, councils, and other regional news. We can include this information in the next newsletter as well as on the answering machine tape. This newsletter is going out to all national focalizers by mail and is going out to the awf.rainbownews electronic conference on PeaceNet. Anyone receiving this, please make copies and send them on. Thanks. Happy Trails. If you are coming early to help organize the gathering, please come prepared to take care of yourself. Be able to support yourself when you get here. It is usually cold and snowy until May in the Boulder/Denver area and on into June in the higher country. If you're driving, watch the roads for black ice! Denver and Albuquerque are probably the best airports to fly into, although Durango and Grand Junction have airports. You'll pay more though. Greyhound will get you to Durango, maybe nearer. The trains goes through Denver, Albuquerque and Grand Junction. Hitchhiking is legal in Colorado except on the interstates. The gathering in July will be probably around 9000 feet so you'll need plenty of warm clothes and bedding. Go in beauty. Wanderer and friends ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 120 News from the Fronts.... 1 response pfraterdeus 8:11 pm Feb 28, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: News from the Fronts.... Attn: awf.rainbownews News from the Fronts.... February 27, 1992 Vern the Helper called the other day, said that if folks want to help support the Woodstock Earth community (the land where Yasger had his farm) they should get in touch with Day up there in NY state, 914-679-2527. They're looking for donations to help pay the purchase the land and cover expenses going back to the Ithaca regional gathering...... Vern had Some Questions for you all, to prompt the local councils to think about these things... I've added some of my ideas, also. 1. What can the Rainbows do for the locals? When we go to a National gathering, or help make a regional, do we just stock up in town, and split for the woods, or do we try to do something neighborly for the folks that live around there? Love the Cops. Make them laugh. Clean the streets. Feed the homeless..... 2.How about Teaching Circles! More focus circles at regional and national gatherings! (Maybe encourage kitchens to host focus councils on certain topics. In Vermont we did such a circle on "Drugs and Drug Abuse". Petros) 3. Regarding the MiniManual. Everybody should have a sense of how to respond to emergencies, like lost or hurt person/child, etc. Also, a Directory and Map of Sites, based on the Info Map. Is it possible to make many copies of this for the Gates? (Best bet is a good portable computer with inkjet printer for masters, mimeo/silkscreen for dups... petros) Revised Rap 107... everybody's Shanti Sena. Know your neighbors! (How about silkscreen for quick posters, updates. Could be done w/ biodegradable water based inks, and either hand drawn or photo(sun)sensitive screens! P.) 4. Remember to bring to Colorado the following! Silvered Mylar, and duct tape. for SunShields. (CALM) Unperfumed Sunblock (CALM) Water barrels, etc. Anybody with a water truck please call home! Need donations of CBs, anntenna, Solar chargers, 12 volt Auto batteries. And all associated equipment. A good deal for CB users would be a major supply of AA rechargables, and a bunch of 12 volt rechargers that could run off the Car batteries that a rebeing charged all day by Full sized solar panels. (CALM, Shanti Sena, Legaliason, Water and Supplies,Info, Parking, Co-operations... All of these working councils use CB communcation during the Gathering.) (If a donation of equipment is brought to Info, we'll try to make sure that it goes home with you, too! Petros(an unofficial Infomaniac)) 5. Focalizers co-ordination meeting in NY State. Mar 20-22 Call Vern the Helper for info. 212 929 5147 (between 7-9 pm ET) at the Synapse Square Community Center in Chichester, NY. Right on main drag. Directions: Take Rt. 214 to Phonecia, or (Trailways from NYC). Then to Chichester. (2 mile walk if you take the bus to Phonecia) Call in you suggestions or questions for consideration at the council. Notes will come out in the next Focalizer Quarterly Mailing... (remember to send a donation if you can! ) 6. How can we keep Alcohol Camp at a respectful distance from tha gates, but not distance ourselves from those that come asking for help and healing? Is any body reading this near to Woodstock NY so Day and friends can have a conduit to the PeaceNet? Please let me know (pfraterdeus@igc.org) or call Day at 914 679 2527. ********* South Dakota council is moving ahead with thier plans for " 21st Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes" in the Black Hills. Apparently there is enough support amongst certain leaders in the Sioux nation to allow this gathering to happen. My greatest concern is that there will not be too many people for the existing culture there to absorb. With this in mind, I am encouraging everyone I talk to to go to Colorado, where the main logistical appartatus of the Rainbow Family will be, able to handle the multitudes without mishap. I can only wish well, in any case to the family who have chosen their path. I hope that the lessons learned are brought to the family circle to share. My understanding is that the 20 year continuous Rainbow Family Tribal Council has decided to council in Colorado, and that at that time will be able to decide how to deal with the phenomenom of multiple family gatherings. These are now happening on at last three or more continents. There can be no denying that we are a baby who has outgrown our criib. The planet seemds to want us to fly like dandelion seeds and take root anywhere, everywhere. I have no love lost for my Family who have taken their bliss to South Dakota, but I wish them well. However, I will not print their maps. Look forward to the SW Wisconsin regional may 28th-June 5th! Watch for Details... Midwest Regional Spring Council late March, early April -- Site TBA -- Probably NW Illinois near a river..... First rush of 1992 Guides should be out very soon (Ric/Duane) Lots O' Love! Peter at FQM Central! Focalizer Quarterly Mailing Volunteer Send stuff for the next FQM to FQM Volunteer C/O PO Box 5448 Evanston, IL 60204 or via PeaceNet: pfraterdeus@igc.org ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 120 jmc@vision3.anatomy.upenn.edu 6:02 am Mar 4, 1992 From: jmc@vision3.anatomy.upenn.edu (Jim Cummings) Subject: Re: News from the Fronts.... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 121 Hello bmatson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu 2:04 pm Mar 1, 1992 From: Barbara Matson Subject: Hello I am not really sure how to send this to all of you, but I'll give it a try. I would like to let you know that I am studying information and library science here at the University of Iowa (master's level) and I would like to offer my services to you. I can't promise perfection but I'd like to try to help. I've never written to anyone but Peter before. I'd like to get to know you. I live in Iowa City where there is a surprisingly large Family. It is truly one of the Meccas of the Midwest with none of the pollution or crime. We have a free clinic here and free lunch is served 6 days a week. Also there is a great emergency shelter and a wonderful domestic violence project and shelter. If you are in need of these services or need a place to layover while on I-80, contact me at 319-354-6913. I can also supply food and get you at least a tank of gas. I only ask that substance oriented people contact me for community services but not to crash at my place. I am burned out on road dogs and A-campers. I would love to connect with others who are sincerely into the spiritual and universal focus of the Family. I am interested in archiving the Family history and mythology. Iwould like to have you contact me if you know of anyone who is or has done this. If it would do you any good, I have a degree in stress management with a focus on substance abuse prevention and rehab. On the personal side, I am a 34 year old single mother of three, a biker-hippie-metalhead-yogi-vegan-musician-Aries w Leo rising and my moon is in Scorpio, so basically, look out. Please contact me and say hello. Let me know in advance if possibly when you are coming through so I can facilitate resources for you. If you also are into offering services, send me your vitals so I can have a resource list. And if you are just curious or lonely and like to communicate, write to me or e-mail me. My address is: Beej 15 N. Johnson St. Iowa City, Iowa 52245. Namaste and enjoy these quotes: "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."- Oscar Wilde "All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar "Life's what happens when you're making other plans."-Mike Cross's album By the way, I play hammered dulcimer. Contact me if you know of anyone else. Thanks. Love is all.. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 122 WEEDSTOCK, the Festival bmasel 6:24 pm Mar 10, 1992 4 days of.............., .............., ............, and ............... Memorial day weekend on a mountaintop in Central Wisconsin. Watch this space for further details, or write WI NORML 911 Williamson St., Madison, WI 53703 for flyers. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 123 Chief Seattle's Speech mendicott 2:56 pm Mar 12, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Chief Seattle's Speech /* Written 9:22 pm Mar 10, 1992 by rdp7784@yak.COM in cdp:gen.nativenet */ /* ---------- "Supposed 'Speech of Chief Seattle'" ---------- */ Original-Sender: rdp7784@yak.COM (Randy Payne) There have been many "versions" of Chief Sealth's (Seattle's) speech in print and posted on the net. Below is a copy of the "honest-to-goodness" original speech reprinted (without permission) from a book titled, Chief Seattle's Unanswered Challenge (John M. Rich, Ye Galleon Press, 1977). The following note precedes the book: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The speech of Noah Sealth, anglicized as Chief Seattle, was delivered in Seattle in the autumn of 1854 in response to an address by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. It was delivered in front of Dr. Maynard's office near the waterfront on Main Street and a near verbatim translation was made by Dr. Henry A. Smith. The speech was given in the Duwamish tongue as Sealth had never learned to speak English. The speech was not printed until November 5, 1887, in the Seattle Sunday Star. It has been reprinted many times since in various books. The John M. Rich version was first printed by the Pigott-Washington Printing Company, Seattle, in 1932. It was printed again by Lowman and Hanford, Seattle, in 1947, and by Glen Adam, Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, Washington, 1970 and 1977 [and 1991], from a copy supplied by Mrs. Ben Morgan (Bernice) of Ocean Shores. Statements of recent publication that John M. Rich wrote the speech need not be taken seriously in view of the fact that at least two nineteenth century printings exist, the second being in the Frederick James Grant, History of Seattle, 1891. Chief Seattle died in 1866, supposedly about eighty years of age. Many Indian chiefs were orators of ability and Chief Seattle was no exception. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- start of speech ------------------------------------ Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon our fathers for centuries untold, and which to us looks eternal, may change. Today it is fair, tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never set. What Seattle says the Great Chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as our paleface brothers can rely upon the return of the seasons. The son of the White Chief says his father sends us greetings of friendship and good will. This is kind of him, for we know he has little need of our friendship in return because his people are many. They are like the grass that covers the vast prairies, while by people are few; they resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. The Great - and I presume - good White Chief, sends us word that he wants to buy our lands but is willing to allow us to reserve enough to live on comfortably. This indeed appears generous, for the Red Man no longer has rights that he need respect, and the offer may be wise, also, for we are no longer in need of a great country. There was a time when our people covered the whole land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea covers its shell-paved floor, but that time has long since passed away with the greatness of tribes now almost forgotten. I will not dwell on nor mourn over our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, for we, too may have been somewhat to blame. Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, their hearts also are disfigured and turn black, and then they are often cruel and relentless and know no bounds, and our old men are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man first began to push our fore-fathers westward. But let us hope that the hostilities between the Red Man and his paleface brother may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain. It is true that revenge by young braves is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better. Our good father at Washington - for I presume he is now our father as well as yours, since King George has moved his boundaries farther north - our great and good father, I say, sends us word that if we do as he desires he will protect us. His brave warriors will be to us a bristling wall of strength, and his great ships of war will fill our harbors so that our ancient enemies far to the northward - the Sinsiams, Hydas and Tsimpsians - will no longer frighten our women and old men. Then will he be our father and we his children. But can that ever be? Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds His strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as a father leads his infant son - but He has forsaken His red children, if they are really His. Our God, the Great Spirit, seems, also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax strong every day - soon they will fill all the land. My people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide that will never flow again. The white man's God cannot love His red children or He would protect them. We seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How, then, can we become brothers? How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? Your God seems to us to be partial. He came to the white man. We never saw Him, never heard His voice. He gave the white man laws, but had no word for His red children whose teeming millions once filled this vast continent as the stars fill the firmament. No. We are two distinct races, and must ever remain so, with separate origins and separate destinies. There is little in common between us. To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their final resting place is hallowed ground, while you wander far from the grave of your ancestors and, seemingly, without regret. Your religion was written on tablets of stone by the iron finger of an angry God, lest you might forget it. The Red Man could never comprehend nor remember it. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given to them in the solemn hours of night by the Great Spirit, and the visions of our Sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the ports of the tomb - they wander far away beyond the stars, are soon forgotten and never return. Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its winding rivers, its great mountains and its sequestered vales, and they ever yearn in tenderest affection over the lonely-hearted living, and often return to visit, guide and comfort them. Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the white man, as the changing mist on the mountain side flees before the blazing sun. However, your proposition seems a just one, and I think that my people will accept it and will retire to the reservation you offer them. Then we will dwell apart in peace, for the words of the Great White Chief seem to be the voice of Nature speaking to my people out of the thick darkness, that is fast gathering around them like a dense fog floating inward from a midnight sea. It matters little where we pass the remnant of our days. They are not many. The Indian's night promises to be dark. No bright star hovers beyond the horizon. Sad-voiced winds moan in the distance. Some grim Fate of our race is on the Red Man's trail, and wherever he goes he will still hear the sure approaching footsteps of his fell destroyer and prepare to stolidly meet his doom, as does the wounded doe that hears the approaching footsteps of the hunter. A few more moons, a few more winters - and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land and that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes or lived in happy homes, protected by the Great Spirit, will remain to weep over the graves of the people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own! But why should I repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge and they are gone from our longing eyes forever. It is the order of Nature. Even the white man, whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, is not exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers, after all. We will see. We will ponder you proposition, and when we decide we will tell you. But should we accept it, I here and now make this the first condition - that we will not be denied the privilege, without molestation, of visiting at will the graves of our ancestors, friends and children. Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe. Even the rocks, which seem to lie dumb as they swelter in the sun along the silent sea shore in solemn grandeur thrill with memories of past events connected with the lives of my people. The very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch, for the soil is rich with the life of our kindred. The noble braves, fond mothers, glad happy-hearted maidens, and even the little children, who lived and rejoiced here for a brief season, and whose very names are now forgotten, still love these sombre solitudes and their deep fastnesses which, at eventide, grow shadowy with the presence of dusky spirits. And when the last Red Man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe; and when your children's children shall think themselves alone in the fields, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night, when the streets of your cities and villages will be silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead - did I say? There is no death. Only a change of worlds! ------------------------------- end of speech --------------------------------- Randall D. Payne ** Standard Disclaimers Apply ** ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 124 Water's hello 2 responses mrose 7:58 pm Mar 15, 1992 Howdy Folks! This is Water just wanting to say a special howdy to everybody as an individual, each and everyone on line. We love you. see you in new jerusalem! Water, Ruth, Harmony and William ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 124 pfraterdeus 10:43 am Mar 16, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Water's hello Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Water's hello Hey Water! Is this your personal sign-on? Good to see you! Love Always! Peace and Light! Petros PS Just got a call from Nora in Minneapolis with concerns about SD activities. Will post more when I talk to her! One Love! P. -------------------------------------- Date: 3/16/92 2:59 AM To: Custodian From: v u Visiting awf.rainbownews...2 unread topics, 0 unread responses 'u' to see next unread item, '?' for command summary, 'h' for more help Topic 201 Water's hello mrose awf.rainbownews 7:58 pm Mar 15, 1992 Howdy Folks! This is Water just wanting to say a special howdy to everybody as an individual, each and everyone on line. We love you. see you in new jerusalem! Water, Ruth, Harmony and William ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 124 mrose 8:23 pm Mar 16, 1992 Greetings Petros Sorry, this is not really Water's personal sign in. He was up visiting myself and Clearwater. However, we have at least weekly mail and phone contact with him and can forward messages to him that come over the net to us. We're doing the Cumberland Regional mailing list and Howdy folks this year so any questions, answers, additions and howdys for Cumberland stuff can be sent over the net to my mailbox or if anyone wants to. We also have a PO box for non-byte mail: Cumberland Rainbow PO Box 901 Lexington, KY 40587 We'll keep the conference up to date on Cumberland regional happenings. We Love You, Peace, Marcy and Clearwater ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 125 . coyote 8:15 pm Mar 15, 1992 Brothers and Sisters just a hello from Coyote in Chicago. Love and Light!! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 126 Messages from Russia 1 response mendicott 3:06 pm Mar 16, 1992 All we to welcome you. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Andray Pinchyk. I'm from Saratov, Russia. I've heard so much about you. I'll wanna receive information, about you, and your activity but more detail. Very interested to do learn your intentions, aims, tasks. I think we're have experience. If you can send me some literature or metodic textbooks. I be very thankful you. All desire make up nation for you. Second set sorry me for anxiety and my poor English language. Andray Pinchyk Bolshaya Kazachya 118-55 Saratov 410026 RUSSIA Tel: 8-8452-990393 ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 126 mendicott 3:07 pm Mar 16, 1992 January 20, 1992 Moscow (Birthday Janis Joplin) Good day dear friends, This 2 moons we have lose 5 people (mans without women) all SUICIDE. December - January 1991-92 1) Artyr Voloshin, 25 years old 2) Misha ("Myrzilka"), 30 years old 3) Andrey ("Angel") 4) Igor ("Locust") 5) Kostia Sagdeev We got many rage and want satisfaction. Good-bye. Write. Yuri/Tani ("Systema") Yuri Popov Novokosinskaya 18-2 Moscow 111672 RUSSIA . ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 127 Message from Germany mendicott 7:38 am Mar 17, 1992 3-3-92 Hello - how are you doing? Last few days I remembered you all once in a while. In a short time (21 March) we will have a small regional Rainbow gathering here. It's more for preparing new people and to have some organization to the one in Poland (7-17 July). In Spain they have also a regional gathering from the 14th -> 22, Jeff wrote me. Are you thinking to come to this year's Europe gathering or are you planning to go to 4 corners gathering? This might be the last year to be more calm than what will come in the future. I heard - and also think myself. Maybe it counts only for Europe but probably it's global and already started to be harder in other part of the world. People get more & more isolated over here, if they haven't been already. Wished I could be closer to my Rainbow family & friends. One reason for the local meeting over here is to keep in touch over the year. Hope to see you on one of the next gatherings. Happy Trails with Love, Georg Goyke Kunigundengarten 16 5202 Hennef-Bierth GERMANY ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 128 Greetings to all! 1 response mmitchell 6:21 pm Mar 17, 1992 Howdy folks! My name is Brian and I'm from Ann Arbor, MI I've been reading awf.rainbownews for a while and am now finally getting around to saying hello. Is it too late to get in entries for the 1992 Rainbow guide? Can I e-mail info someplace or do I have to do it by snailmail? If someone wants to send a message to me personally, please send it to: Brian G. Feller@um.cc.umich.edu, as I am using a professor's account (by permission) to access Peacenet. I love you all and am looking forward to Colorado. -Brian ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 128 pfraterdeus 10:59 am Mar 22, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Greetings to all! Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Greetings to all! Howdy, Brian! Welcome Home! YOu can still get into the Summer edition of the Rainbow Guide! Send a post card and some green energy (donation!) to The Rainbow Guide PO Box 3213 Madison, WI 53704 With your Name(Any and all) Contact Info, Skills, wishes, Dreams, visions, etc! See you inColorado, and try to make it to the Wisconisin/GreatLakes gathering may 30- jun 7th! Petros (Virtual-infomaniac!) PS. You know your regional focalizers, right? Gonzo is online here at sjohgart@igc.org (that's Peacenet). Topic 202 Greetings to all! mmitchell awf.rainbownews 6:21 pm Mar 17, 1992 Howdy folks! My name is Brian and I'm from Ann Arbor, MI I've been reading awf.rainbownews for a while and am now finally getting around to saying hello. Is it too late to get in entries for the 1992 Rainbow guide? Can I e-mail info someplace or do I have to do it by snailmail? If someone wants to send a message to me personally, please send it to: Brian G. Feller@um.cc.umich.edu, as I am using a professor's account (by permission) to access Peacenet. I love you all and am looking forward to Colorado. -Brian ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 129 Note to Folks not on PeaceN 2 responses pfraterdeus 1:52 am Mar 18, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Note to Folks not on PeaceN Attn: awf.rainbownews Note to Folks not on PeaceNet Howdy! If you're getting the awf.rainbownews as a mail feed from igc.org, please note that PeaceNet is a non-profit organization that counts on the support of folks like us to keep it going! If you've been getting the mail feed for awhile now, maybe it's time to sign-on to PeaceNet directly. If you're using a University or School account, you can probably get into PeaceNet for about $3.00 an hour. On the other hand, if you're overseas, or economically challenged, please do let us know that you're receiving the material, and that it's of use to you! Send email to pfraterdeus@igc.org, if you've got ideas, or responses to the stuff you see going by on the conference! One Love, One Light! Peter (petros) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 129 mendicott 7:29 pm Mar 24, 1992 Peter, I have arrived at the end of my patience with PeaceNet (IGC) for a long list of reasons. Please add my new email address to the Internet echo. Also, please add our friend, brother, and focalizer, Igor Rudnik in Moscow, Russia, to the Internet echo. Zigamus is trying to develop a dedicated secure satellite based packet radio system with the intention of making this PeaceNet conference obsolete and can be reached in care of . In peace, love, and light, Marcus ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 129 pfraterdeus 5:09 pm Mar 26, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Note to Folks not on PeaceN Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Note to Folks not on PeaceNet Marcus-- What are your problems with PeaceNet? Just interested...I've found the folks there generally friendly and helpful. Happy Spring! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 130 CUMBERLAND GATHERING UPDATE mrose 11:00 am Mar 19, 1992 Howdy folks! Just wanted to confirm our earlier message and make sure that the word is getting out. After a council held in February it was consensed that we would change the dates of this year's Cumberland Regional Gathering to MAY 9 THRU MAY 17. Unfortunately, this consensus was reached after word was put out in HO! and other Rainbow info sources that the gathering would be in April in the Red River Gorge region of Kentucky. We are concerned that some of our brothers and sisters may be arriving very early to the spring gathering and find themselves in the wrong time and place. As well as the date changes, the site for the gathering will NOT be in Red River Gorge but rather south of Somerset, KY. The exact location will be announced on the Net and in a mailing through a Howdy Folks coming out at the beginning of April. Please help spread the word about these changes. Also we are happy to hear that the ride has begun in Colorado. We Love You. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 131 ALASKA RAINBOW FAMILY raven 11:29 am Mar 21, 1992 hello from Alaska brothers and sisters The snow is beginning to melt, and the birds are singing. We have been reading rainbownews and thinking of the family. Look for us under the Alaska flag (gold big dipper on blue) in Colorado. we love you. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 132 Great Lakes/WISC Spring Cou 1 response pfraterdeus 2:52 am Mar 22, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Great Lakes/WISC Spring Cou Attn: awf.rainbownews Subject: Time:1:12 AM OFFICE MEMO Great Lakes/WISC Spring Council Date:3/22/92 Howdy folks! Let this serve as your invitation to the GreatLakes/Upper Mississippi bioregional Spring Council, to take place April 18-19 (Seedcamp on the 17th) North of LaFarge, Wisconsin. This is about 30 miles east of the Miss. River, and La Crosse, WI. Two or three mile N of LaFarge on SR 131, look for RB banners on the W side of road, going down toward the Kickapoo River. Hope to see folks from all over Great Lakes, Iowa, Missouri, Minn. etc! Look forward to the Wisconsin/Mississippi Rainbow Gathering, May 30-June7th. Site TBA. This event is free and open to all peaceful beings. We gather in the Temple of Nature to celebrate our Common Humanity. The First Amendment is the legal protector of our Inalienable Right to Assemble and Celebrate the Gifts of Freedom in the manner of Our own Choosing... Come in Peace. Do No Damage. Leave nothing but our well dug compost! Bring Bulk Food. Waterproof gear (April Showers!) Warm clothes and sleeping stuff. Water Containers. Tarps, Good Nylon Rope. Cooking Gear. Light and Love. Your Hopes and Dreams. Please don't Bring (by long time Rainbow experience) Dogs, pets, Alchohol or any other dangerous drugs!!! We Love You! Happy Spring! (It's snowed 6 inches today in northern Chicago!) Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 132 bmatson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu 7:13 am Mar 23, 1992 From: Barbara Matson Subject: Re: Great Lakes/WISC Spring Cou Hello from Iowa City - the Mecca of the rural midwest and stopping off spot point on I-80. We are between Chicago and Omaha, St. Louis and Minneapolis. Call or write in advance if you can, but come see us. Iowa City has a free medical clinic, free lunch program, and many places to crash. There's more Family here than you might think. We also have a crisis center that hands out food and will fill your tank with gas. You can call me at (319) 354-6913. I'd like to offer my services to Family. I am interested in archiving Family history. I have an exhibit already that I am able to travel with. It was a multi-media project I did at the University of Iowa about the Family. I am also interested in networking and email. I am involved in the area of civil liberties and access and dissemination of information and networks. If you have any facts to tell me about surveillance, others who are also involved in this area, or are interested too, contact me. I just quit the library and info science grad program at the University here. They didn t want me due to my radical approach and inappropriate questions and comments, I guess, not to mention my biker-hippie-metalhead appearance. Oh well, now I'm free to pursue reality. Contact me and keep me busy. Zygamus, are you out there? I've heard I should be in touch with you. Anybody and everybody contact me. I'm ready to get involved. I have search- ing skills for information seeking on any subject and some access to online databases. You should see the info I got on Bush's oil company he founded. The man is into a multi-trillion dollar, highly diversified company! So stop by when on the road, write, call, send me email. Personal interest areas are: my three kids who are very alternative lifestyle, guys with gumption but no need for mind altering substances, Harleys, hammered dulcimer, infomaniacs, others who are into small cottage industries (I freelance for mags, rdo pr for local bands and events, advocate for the homeless,teach yoga, and fo strees mgmt. programs.(Damned typos) ....Namaste. At your service, Beej Matson P.O. Box 1231, Iowa City, Iowa 52245. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 133 FWD>Tommy's letter 1 response pfraterdeus 5:44 pm Mar 25, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FWD>Tommy's letter Attn: awf.rainbownews From PNMAILONLY FWD>Tommy's letter The following is in response to Vern's request for input on the A-Camp situation. I'll be real intersted in the response that this receives! Petros (I'll reserve my comments!) -------------------------------------- My name is Thomas Jay Wasserberg. I am known variously (and fairly widely) as Crazy, Rabbi, Doctor, Professor, Admiral or Ptomaine Tommy. It is my blessing to be possessed of a very highly inbred set of genes of families descended from the tribe of Levi, the priestly tribe of the House of Israel. I have been further blessed with many excellent teachers, comrades, and fellow travelers on a path strewn with terrible obstacles and marvelous opportunities. My way focuses on manifesting myself from peace, love and respect for all life forms and ways. As a Melchizedekan priest to whom alcohol is a sacramental substance, it has been especially distressing in my relations with the Rainbow Family -- both at Gatherings and in the community -- to observe the damage being done by the alcohol conflict. It should be obvious by now that banning recreational alterants is a losing proposition. I firmly believe that the Rainbow Family must establish an alcohol supply and an appropriate site for a camp within the body of the Gathering. In order for the Family to maintain its cross-cultural identity, just as we do not ban carnivorism, we must become brothers and sisters of alcoholism. As a semi-famous dumpster diver, I would be willing to focalize with anyone interested in creating a recycling center and cantina. I can bring equipment for a kitchen that can handle one hundred people daily. With some creative energy input we can manifest a trading center for trash with food and drink. I propose that the Family accept alcoholism and cater to it in a way that is harmonious with the Rainbow. Establishing a trading post within the body of the Gathering that deals in alcohol could answer the problem. So long as people are not hurting themselves or others, it is wrong not to love them in the same way as everyone else and when they are causing pain because of the alcohol, we must respond to the spirit of the Gathering and treat them with more love and bring them healing. A point was raised to which I agree: that the hat money should not go to big corporations. If it is not possible to establish an adequate supply with Family brew -- any moneys spent should be with smaller local brewers and distillers. To sum up, please consider an alcohol camp on or near a main trail, supplied by the hat, trading alcohol for labor (trash collection, shitters, food prep, etc.) or goods. By doing so I truly believe we can convert all the conflict to a more peaceful, healing Gathering. Tommy 630 Vernon Glencoe, IL 60022 Transient American Project 26126 Forest Antioch, IL 60002 (commercial campground for self-contained units near state park with free camping) ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 133 chicken@maria.wustl.edu 3:43 pm Mar 31, 1992 Subject: Re: FWD>Tommy's letter From: Mike Ezrine I have been giving the alchola situation some though and here or what I have come up with. I feel that to condown the responsible use of alchohal is one things but to suport alchocholism is another. One of the problem I have and have seen with it use is that it is not used resposibly. Meaning that the people who use ait at gathering are noisy and disruptive to the group as a whole. That they tend to also be violent with totaly goes against my own pasifism. Also in this same thread people are not drinking a little alchachol g to get the effect of it but are basically drinking to get drunk. This point get back to the part of the difference for me between drinking and alchochism which is a real problem and I do not feel that we should condone this is any way. Just as how I think that if someone is abusing other things people/nature/animals it is seen as going a not so good things. additionaly I have a further problem with alchol because at least from my experinces in the past it is not made or produced by family but baught. I feel strangly that money should go to necesisties first. I feel the difference between al. and other things is the people usally bring with them from where ever and either give it away or trade it. It seems to me that with al. this is a lot harder to do. And therefor it winds up being baught with green energy which I have problems with. and especialy if other things are not being baught because money is being used to buy al. Another concern of mine is that I have heard in the past that a-camp has basicaly come in drank untill they exusinged with money and left. Leavint their camp a mess this is just not the way I try and aproach gatherings. Ithese are thew key issues for me and I feel that since the banning of al. has (or the discuring of it use) has not been sucesful in the past we should look at ways of dealing with these issues and comming up with constructive ways of solving them. Actualy I feel that it is the a-camper who need to do this since it is them who this most directly effects. Well thank you all for reading and if anyone has a responce or anymore question or would like me to clearify anything please let me know Yours in the Struggle for the Light and with Love and Hugs! Cm ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 134 RE- DeKalb, IL Mailing from pfraterdeus 9:14 pm Mar 26, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: RE- DeKalb, IL Mailing from Attn: awf.rainbownews RE: DeKalb, IL Mailing from Zeus A young Brother named Gary Sandine called me today from DeKalb, IL. Gary is very concerned about the material that was sent out under his name and address by Zeus Cosmos. He had been approached by Zeus, who is very persuasive, for a mailing contact for a book that Zeus was writing. He received the "book" along with a number of the rest of us (focalizers) without knowing that it would be filled with Zeus' rantings. Please note that Gary is not responsible for the Mailing, and he wishes to dissociate himself from it. From my understanding, he had no knowledge of Rainbow before this, and was just trying to be a helpful brother, to someone (Zeus) who turned up in DeKalb, and showed him how to dumpster good vegies! Please note that Zeus is pumping out dis-information about Colorado, and has started to print a sheet calling it Always Free Rainbow News. Pass the info that the family is producing the All Ways Free in Eugene,OR. That Zeus is seriously deluded and megalomaniac (In my humble opinion.) and is dedicated to sowing confusion and deception in order to bring chaos. He wants to control whatever scene he's in, and the chaos helps him assert his personal view onto the scene. Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 135 Nebraska Regional Jun 5-7 pfraterdeus 11:24 am Mar 29, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Nebraska Regional Jun 5-7 Attn: awf.rainbownews Nebraska Regional Jun 5-7 Nebraska Rainbow Regional Gathering of the Tribes June 5th, 6th, 7th, 1992 Come and share your heartsongs and visions as we celebrate the essence of Mother Earth! Be prepared for the elements (rain, snow, tornadoes, etc.) Bring tents, tarps, sleeping bags, cup, spoon, & bowl! Bulk foods for the community kitchen would be nice! Bring you friends Musical Instruments, Heartsongs.... Please! Alcohol is absolutely Not Appropriate! For more Info: 402 475 6796 402 464 1193 Nebraska Rainbow Focalizers 610 S. 30th Lincoln, NE 68510 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 136 Howdy! FQM request! 1 response pfraterdeus 3:32 pm Mar 29, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Howdy! FQM request! Attn: awf.rainbownews Howdy! FQM request! Is there anybody out there willing to help mail a Focalizer Quarterly Mailing within the next week or so? We're about finished with the spring "Pot o'Gold", (two sheets, legal-size, one fold), and will be sending master copies out to about 80 midwest micro-regional focalizers. Anybody willing to make a few copies and send them out, please let me know ASAP! The Pot o' Gold deals with issues of regioanl importance, as well as global rainbow issues. It is produced (at this time) by Rainbow volunteers in the Chicago region. We are actively focalizing that the 1992 Gathering of the Tribes is in Colorado, and controlling any rumors to the contrary. Pot O' Gold also re-prints items of interest from the 'awf.rainbownews' electronic council on PeaceNet. FQM volunteers, please let me know if you consent to send this out, when you get it! We wil be bundling some other info with the Pot O' Gold, which should also be included (1992 Colorado Howdy Folks, etc.) Play for Peace! Love and Light! Petros ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 136 muwas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu 10:20 am Mar 30, 1992 From: muwas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Lost Chord) Subject: Re: Howdy! FQM request! Peter, Sign me up.. I'd like to help out.. plus get the Howdy Folks to a few people out here. If there's any way you could get those to me before 4/14, I'd really appreciate it, I'm holding a rally down here, and I think that that would be a good place to get this out. Just tell me if there are any parts of the FQM I could give them. Once again, thanks for everything.. Bill Bill Steele Help Me! I've Tripped and I Western Illinois Marijuana Initative Can't Get Down!!! muwas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu :-) ;-) :-) ;-) Western Illinois Micro-Focalizer, Rainbow Family Tribal Council ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 137 Madison, Wi. Picnics pfraterdeus 3:33 pm Mar 29, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Madison, Wi. Picnics Attn: awf.rainbownews Madison, Wi. Picnics 3/28/92 8:10 PM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! Every Sunday in Olin Park off of John Nolan Drive (S. of Capital ) Bring Drums and food to share! Last Sunday of the Month is Council Sunday. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 138 WELCOME HOME!!!! chicken@maria.wustl.edu 7:46 pm Mar 29, 1992 Subject: WELCOME HOME!!!! From: Mike Ezrine Welcome HOME!!!!! *HUGS!!!!!***** :) not quite the same but it is the best I can do. I would like to introduce my self. I am Chicken and well where do I start. I am basicaly region 16 meaning that I do not necesary live anyone one place but do have a mailing address (not sure if that excludes me from 16 but I want to be 16 so I am) well I travel around from time to time finding a place to log in and answer mail and such. I have a fair amount of experince with computers I am aslo interested in intentional communites and hope to visit some as a travel. what else I am very involed in/struggling with issue ralated to the pro-feminist men's movement (I am interested in having brother circles at gathering to talk about with men about stuff (for I feel male bonding in the pro-femistist sence is very important)) I also am involed in Feminish (by the way I will be in D.C. on sunday if anyone will be their or needs a place to stay (can't make garunties right now but drop me a note and I will c let me know) I look at my traveling time as a long Cumlechka (Vision Quest) and look forward from hereing from people who has similar interestes or would just likje to talk. but the way for the next few weeks I will be able to check my mail every few days or more offten. Their is a lot more to tell but that should give you a little background. Oh. by the way in turms of future plans- starting a commune is one of my goal this may be soon (in the next few month or several years off). I Love You! Cm ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 139 Forrest Service to end appeals? bmasel 9:26 pm Mar 29, 1992 Reposting ** Topic: USFS to end Appeals Process ** ** Written 9:10 pm Mar 24, 1992 by paw in cdp:ef.general ** US FOREST SERVICE TO DO AWAY WITH APPEALS PROCESS In response to President Bush's oly-oly-oxen-free call on federal regulations in his last state of the union address, Sec. of Agriculture Edward Madigan has called for the elimination of the Forest Service appeals process. In a report entitled, " Information on the Forest Service Appeals System", the United States General Accounting office reported, "Consistent with our findings for earlier years, ...delays were not due to the appeals process itself. Rather they were due to underlying problems with Forest Service environmental analyses that did not meet all requirements." (statement of John W. Harman, Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, GAO). Of the 132 appeals studied by the GAO, 0% were found to be without merit, and 98% were due to Forest Service environmental analysis problems (Table 3, GAO report). Rather than begin tom follow the law, the Forest Service has opted to do away with the process that has exposed their violations. n Without the appeals process, there will be no public recourse short of hiring a lawyer to address the violation of the National Forest Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Senator Pat Lehey, head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees the Forest Service opposes these changes, "Consistently, the courts have found that the administration was not following the National Forest Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, which govern the management of public lands, " Leahy said. "In the face of these court decisions -- that the administration has refused to obey the law -- it is disturbing that the administration is trying to limit citizen's rights to appeal decisions rather than complying with the law." Write to Leahey and thank him for his efforts. Tell him you don't want citizen's rights to appeal National Forest decisions to be taken away. Cite the GAO report, and ask that your comments be entered into the federal register. You have 20 days to enter comments. PAT LEAHEY US SENATE WASHINGTON DC 20510 For All Things Wild, Buck Young Preserve Appalachian Wilderness ** End of text from cdp:ef.general ** ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Response 1 of 1 ** Written 9:57 am Mar 27, 1992 by paw in cdp:ef.general ** tosend comments diectly to federal register write -- Appeals Staff, Forest Servi ce, USDA, PO Box 96-090, Wash. DC, 20090-6090. ** End of text from cdp:ef.general ** -- Transfer complete, hit to continue -- i ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 140 FRENCH TAKE 'RAINBOW WARRIOR' mendicott 3:51 pm Mar 31, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: FRENCH TAKE 'RAINBOW WARRIOR' /* Written 6:05 pm Mar 29, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */ /* ---------- "ENVIRONMENT: FRENCH TAKE 'RAINBOW W" ---------- */ Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved. Permission to re- print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'. Reference: Europe, western Title: ENVIRONMENT: FRENCH TAKE 'RAINBOW WARRIOR', CUT COMMUNICATIONS sydney, mar 27 (ips/kalinga seneviratne) -- french commandos friday boarded the environment protest vessel 'rainbow warrior' as it entered the 27-km territorial waters surrounding the french nuclear testing site at muraroa atoll in the south pacific. a spokesman for the international environmental activist group greenpeace said in auckland, new zealand, that about 30 french commandos are now on board the 'rainbow warrior' and have occupied the ship's radio room. the spokesman said the ship's international crew had shut the radio room anticipating the move, but the soldiers broke into it anyway, cutting all communication from the ship to the outside world. the australian broadcasting corporation (abc) which had a correspondent on board the vessel said in sydney it was unable to contact him. the french forces have also arrested 12 other greenpeace activists who were on inflatable dinghies within french territorial waters off muraroa, the spokesman said in auckland. the 'rainbow warrior' is named after an earlier greenpeace protest ship which was bombed and sunk by french commandos in auckland harbour in 1985. greenpeace has been trying to draw international attention to the environmental hazards of french nuclear testing underneath the fragile atolls in the south pacific. the 'rainbow warrior' set sail from the united states earlier this year in an environmental campaign leading up to the earth summit in rio de janeiro in june. greenpeace also wants to stop france's 1991 nuclear weapon testing programme, which includes a new round of underground blasts set to begin in may. since 1966, france has conducted 44 atmospheric and 120 underground nuclear tests in the pacific at muraroa and fangataufa atolls. at least six such tests were conducted at muraroa in 1991 alone. france ceased atmospheric tests at the site in 1975, but has continued to test under the coral atolls. environmentalists say the water-permeable atolls fragile and their geology is not suitable for underground tests. they fear radioactivity is leaking into pacific waters. (ends/ips/ks/kd/92) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 141 Scout Rig to CO. pfraterdeus 11:50 pm Apr 1, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Scout Rig to CO. Attn: awf.rainbownews Subject: Time:12:33 AM OFFICE MEMO Scout Rig to CO. Date:3/31/92 Scout Rig needs driver to Colorado scout council from California. Please call Michael John -- 805 473-3779 Driver pays gas..... ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 142 Hot but no flames. pfraterdeus 1:53 am Apr 2, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Hot but no flames. Attn: awf.rainbownews Hot but no flames. Star Goddess / From your Rainbow Bridge / Watch over our Paths / Give us your Love / As we Love each other! Grandmother Earth / Our feet praise you / from the Ancient Directions / we come to your Heart! Grandfather, Wakan tonka, Great Mystery / Ho! Just received a copy of a letter from Rainbow Hawk, claiming that there's some conspiracy of "High-Holy Hippies" forcing the family to go to Colorado, in contradiction of all the ancient Native prophecies. (To condense quite a bit...) I guess it's up to every focalizer to either decide to send out all the info from both Colorado and South Dakota, or to choose one or the other on the basis of their own heart's song. My feeling is that the SD gathering will be healthiest if there are very few people there. I'm very concerned that since most of the folks with longest experience (de facto "elders", whether or not we like it) will be in Colorado, the SD gathering will have many of the problems of an extra large regional. However, there are many possible scenarios! I pray that all goes well at that time. However, my feeling is that the family should go to Colorado. I'm sorry that there will be many faces that I will miss seeing if I don't get to both sites. The biggest loss is the loss of unity in the family. Yet there is a way to divide without dividing. After all, "unity is plural and at minimum two" ! (Bucky Fuller--Cosmography) But the egos involved, the confrontational intransigance of brother Zeus, who truly thinks of himself as an Olympian God..... The pretension in forcing ourselves on the Black Hills, just as some of our Europeans ancestors did. I have heard alot more blocking of that decision than I have heard consent. But there is no going back. Zeus and the others in the SD council accuse the rest of the family of stealing a consensus for Colorado through the manipulation of the council process. I have seen Zeus in council. I believe that the man is not fully rational. I believe that he is driven by unfortunate and complex urges. He is not an Olympian God. Not except how we all are. But he wants to control, and be noticed in his skin. He wants to force people to his viewpoint. His viewpoints on nudity, circumcision and the swastika for instance. His ranting is not made more bearable by his polite demeanour when he wants to be polite. I have had a young brother here in Illinois call me saying "I'm very concerned about the stuff that was sent out under my name. I didn't know that Zeus would be mailing this package with my return address! " The package contains a pseudo-AllWaysFree, a full page or two on circumcision, and a major multipage rant about the state of the Rainbow World through Zeus' eyes. With lots of "those Fuckheads" and similar language. I love Zeus. I'm sure he's got plenty of wonderful qualities, but I don't love his behavior. I hope to be able to talk to him someday as a brother, not as a challenge. I also received a copy of a letter from Rainbow Hawk, who writes as if he is the final arbiter of appropriateness in all things Rainbow. I have never met Rainbow Hawk, but I have read of the Peace Projects which he claims to be the "Global Co-ordinator". How is it that two versions of an event can take such utterly divergent positions? I am writing from a viewpoint of reconciliation. From what Rainbow Hawk says, it seems that I'm attacking the very grounds of Rainbow existance. There's alot of anger toward those "high-holies" that are supposedly controlling the whole thing. Who are they??? Let's name some names. See some evidence. Well, maybe I'm just a baba-in-the-woods, but from what I've heard, it takes one to know one. I've never seen any high-holies at a Rainbow Gathering. I sometimes see folks that pretentiously act as if the Rainbow owes them something, or that have some special spiritual sight not available to the rest of us, but surely these are not "holies". The only holies I've seen are the ones that stay up all night looking for a lost kid, or talking someone through a long forgotten trauma, are hauling garbage with a smile and a howdy-do, or are welcoming a frightened local cop to have a cup of RainbowJava. If there's a con-spiracy, it must be all of us breathing together.... The distortion of the truth, brother Hawk, is a trick of the Light. If one is by nature a contrary, the sun appears as the moon. Perhaps we are both seeing a mirage. I would never deny that the some of the Lakota have welcomed the familiy that have gone to them. I have no reason to Lie. However, I have heard plenty of reports from very sincere people closely connected to the Sioux nation. And people who Sundance every year with substantial amounts of the "Turtle Island hertitage" that you also claim. And people I know and respect and love. Reports of big questions un-answered. Who can decide. I may be mistaken. May you? If the consensus in Vermont is tainted by intransigance and corruption, it was because We the People went home, disgusted by the manipulation of the council. There has been a good three years of talking about returning to Colorado for the second Decade of the Gathering. This is not something that was forced down the throats of the family. Anybody who was at Minnesota, and wanted to get up on the latest gossip would know that We were already considering Colorado. That's We the People. Now obviously, We the People will form circles around many centers. I feel it is a good thing for the Tribe to scatter our seed. But not in anger, nor in confrontation. With two gatherings both called the 21st Rainbow Gathering (etc.) there a will forever be a schism over the site and resources for future continental gatherings. How will we heal this? That's the main question. If I have been hard in my language about the South Dakota council, it is out of frustration and concern. I do not take this path lightly. Nor do I take unsolicited advise easily. There is an awful lot of strong language going around these days, considering that we're all so peace-loving. If anyone reading this feels I have been dealing with the situation inappropriately, please let me know. I will happily resign from the PeaceNet focalizer position, and from the Focalizer council if the balance of consensus tends toward that conclusion. In fact, I will happily resign from this Tribe, if it is to continue to devolve into confrontation and contraryism. You all can have the "Continental Gathering". Seems to me the Spirit has moved to the Regions in a big way anyway. (That's Regional Family Gatherings, not wandering beer-bashes, by the way.) These Words are Deeds. Play for Peace. Mitakuye Osasin, All my relations!!! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 143 Fights in Sarajevo mendicott 7:13 pm Apr 6, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Fights in Sarajevo /* Written 3:48 pm Apr 6, 1992 by gn:wamkat in cdp:en.europe */ /* ---------- "Fights in Sarajevo" ---------- */ Centar Za Antiratne Aktivnosti Fax:+38-71-219866 Ul. Hasana Kikica br. 8 Sarajevo Bosna I Hercegoyina Dear Friends around the globe, At this moment we are in the parliament building of Bosnia and Hercegovina, outside the building they are shooting , since they hope to scare us that way. But, there is no fear among us at the moment, WE ARE NOT AFRAID. All we want is our peace and freedom. Pass this message to the rest of the World, they can help us to defend the city of Sarajevo and our homeland Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our beautifull Bascarsija is being destroyed, and the old parts of the city are being bombed with rockets. Snippers are all over the city and shooting at barehanded people. Friends, we shall not give up ! Please support our pledge for peace !! Best regards from all of us who want peace and freedom. Sarajevo 6-4-1992 Nada Selimovic -------------------------------------------- This message came in by fax this morning at the office of the anti-war campaign in Zagreb, the latest news is that about 50.000 desperate citizins of Sarejevo has gathered outside the parliament building to protest against attack of Serbian Melicja (special Police forces) and avoid a civil war. The people demand to stop the fighting immediatly and new elections. If more faxes will get through to Zagreb we will try to put them on the net. Message by e-mail can be send to GN:WAMKAT, we will pass them through to our friends in Sarajevo. Support faxes can be send to the people in the Parliament, +38-71 39 819 (keep trying, telephonelines are not always working, but sometimes you can get through and they really need support from all of you.). ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 144 Ah, back on line... 1 response sjohgart 8:00 pm Apr 9, 1992 Howdy! I'm back on line, this is too excellent! My modem, or PRAM, or serial port, or something, was spaced for the last month, so I've missed a lot of good info and rap, it appears. We'll see how long this hookup keeps truckin'; I hope I'm back in touch for good! If I am, I'll upload a calendar for Michigan soon. If I knew that I'd be able to log in, I'd have had it ready now--ah, well... I'm gonna take off and read all this long download now--catch y'all later. --Gonzo-- ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 144 pfraterdeus 12:55 pm Apr 11, 1992 Hey, Gonzo! Love to see you bro! Did you get the mailing about the SW Wisc. Spring Council? See you Soon! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 145 message from Water singin[e mrose 8:27 pm Apr 10, 1992 Message from Water Singing-on-the-Rocks regarding the fact that there will be 2 Circles in July. And also that there's a lot of frustration and anger hiding the love in messages I keep receiving from the four directions. Included in these messages were letters from Gary, Michael and Heather who live at the address Zeus Cosmos used to send out his version of the Rainbow philosophy and news. I apologize to Michael and Heather in advance for quoting their letters in this discussion without getting their permission first. The letters were more than disclaimers, they were also reactions to the anger I expressed towards Zeus and his messages. Michael said that "the stuff that Zeus sent you is not representative of the SD Gathering". He said that he was saddened that I choose to not be part of the SD Gathering, he suggests that I have let the Darkness make my choice for me and points out, "there will be Light and Beauty in SD as there will be in CO, your love and Beauty will be missed there". I take "you" to refer to all of us who will circle in CO. Heather's letter to me said in part "please realize brother, that you have wished such Darkness on what you call the `anti- Rainbow Gathering ', but your Rainbow brothers and sisters will be gathered there...many of us were not at the Vision Council, many of us cannot know what happened and must use our gut feelings to decide which direction to go...we really must be more gentle with one another... We all should intentionally gather as one and begin to heal the unlove between us. Is this possible? What power is there in our Family if we cannot heal within...now more than ever our Family needs to draw upon its great power of love". First, Heather I must thank you for helping me see the Light with understanding instead of fear, disgust and sorrow. I have never wished Darkness. I made a mistake by referring to anti- Rainbow anything. My sorrow and disgust must certainly be directed towards Zeus Cosmos' present state. After years of watching and waiting for him to finally grow out of just walking naked through our Gatherings wearing his sign that said, "I am God, you may worship me if you wish"...and after many hours in the VT Vision Council trying to reach through to him through understanding and heartsong...I am still trying to reach Zeus Cosmos with love. My fear is that many innocent others will be captured by the misinformation spread by those who have themselves been captured by the evil that is lurking within and taking over Zeus to try to destroy the Rainbow, the Light. Our Magic is strong, our Circle will withstand but the innocents, clothed in the wondrous strength of their innocence will be used and twisted and discarded and hurt by this evil. THAT IS MY FEAR. I am learning to answer fear with love, not confrontation I return Light to every Darkness... I am told by many I love and trust that this is all part of the Great Spirit's plans and that the separation of our Family is somehow for good and inside somewhere deep I pray this is true but I am still fearful for those who do not yet know or understand the spirits that can invade a body and soul and take it over and use it to their own purpose. My heart sings prayers of protection for all of my Family wherever they Gather. Let us perceive the Darkness and chant Circles of Light to surround and protect. Of course all we can do is to keep our Circle open and available in Love and Beauty and have faith that all our Family will one day come Home. I trust that there will be Light and Beauty at the SD Gathering. I pray that the Rainbow Magic will provide all the necessary systems to protect our Mother, our SD gatherers, our relations with the Lakota People and the USFS foresters: But am worried that naivete and inexperience will interfere. I am saddened that our Circle is splitting apart in July. This is because I have become attached - attached to being with my whole Family in July, with smaller Circles at the regionals in different months. I am saddened if Darkness is coming between us. I have been gladdened for so long that our Light has kept the Dark out for 20 plus years. Know that all of one Circle will be missed by all the other Circle. I feel my place is in CO with my Family: I will be in CO because I respect the Council process and reject the manipulation and because I spent time among the Lakotas at the Wambli Sundance and spoke with several and heard/watched how some feel/relate to "white people" and heard of their plans and aspirations and dreams and visions for the next few years and learned how our presence could interfere with all of that but mostly because my place is with my Family in CO. Let us all pray that the Vision Councils of both camps bring us all together again in 93 in love and respect and trust unbent and unbroken. I pray that both Circles will grow and prosper and return to One and make our Family stronger than ever because we don't have too many years left to save our Mother and our freedom and our species. I have spoken. Aho metakuye oyacin. Please don't stop reading here but read the following public letter to Chris Stanley et al. Water Singing On the Rocks ************************************************************ From Water to Chris Stanley ( I ask all my Family to help Chris get my message) Dear Chris Stanley, my loving brother and all of the Peacegarden folk and all travelers on the Rainbow Path It takes two sides for confrontation and we have to look into our hearts and know that we won't be confronting, we must instead be praying. The word to use is never "you" but always we. As the Spanish use "tu" rather than "usted", we must remember to include statements of our love within our expressions of sorrow, dismay, disgust or anger. These emotions are positive emotions only because of our love. Thank you Petros for helping me remember this. Know that we love you I love you We love us Especially we love us all in the Circle all in the Magic all in the Light Prayerfully our Circle will remain One even in Two. But know also that I too am worried by the consequences and the actuality of a large Gathering in what I perceive to be the wrong place at the wrong time. I am worried by the Di-Vision Council, the manipulation we allowed, the idea of consensus by attrition. I pray the Great Spirit will help us to provide all the necessaries for both Rainbows to be peaceful, healthy, loving, growing and prayerful. I pray that the two will remain One. Aho metakuye oyacin. Water Singing-on-the-Rocks Please don't stop here but read the following public letter to all focalizers. *************************************************************** From Water Singing-on-the-Rocks to all Rainbow focalizers We have taken upon ourselves the responsibility of facilitating communication among our family so that our brothers and sisters who are adults can make informed intelligent decisions. Of course we must share our opinions and conclusions but we must also allow our Family members to reach their own conclusions and form their own opinions. Censorship is abhorrent to me. Therefore I believe that out of respect for my brothers and sisters who will be in SD and out of respect for my brothers and sisters who are relying upon my abilities as a facilitator I must pass on all the information that I receive regarding both Circles. Needless to say I will include my own opinion and the reasons for it and I will hope that my words will be received with the same respect. While we may all hope that everyone would share our opinions, based as they are upon fact and reality (of course), do we have the right to not allow others to reach totally different conclusions? Do we have the right to censor? ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 146 (*) Rainbow Family - One View pfraterdeus 3:08 pm Apr 11, 1992 This was originally uploaded before the Nevada Gathering. It's still wonderful! -- Peter ------------------------------------------ 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 21 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 common 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 enforces, 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 1-7; 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.) It's like visiting any foreign place, strange customs, strange costumes- 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 awry. 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 -- Stephen Wing ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 147 BC Regional June 1-7 pfraterdeus 6:37 pm Apr 11, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: BC Regional June 1-7 Attn: awf.rainbownews BC Regional June 1-7 Aura writes from British Columbia: Many thanks for F.Q.M.... ...We are planning a regional June 1-7 in B.C. Further info regarding place and date will forward... Great to feel Family feedback, Thanks, again! Love, Light, Aura ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 148 Conciliation Re-council 9/9 pfraterdeus 6:40 pm Apr 11, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Conciliation Re-council 9/9 Attn: awf.rainbownews Subject: Time:6:42 PM OFFICE MEMO Conciliation Re-council 9/92??? Date:4/11/92 Howdy, Folks! It's starting to be suggested that there be a Continental Council AFTER the July Gatherings. I like this idea alot! Can it be suggested that neither Colorado or South Dakota Council Circles decide on a site for 1993 Gathering? But bring as much info as possible from those circles to the Continental Council? Can the 1993 site be left to the decision of a Continental Council? Which might meet in (Missouri ! ?) (Nebraska ! ?) (somewhere inconvenient equally to the far flung family !?!) around the end of September???? There will be those who will argue that this would reward contraryism with more respect than it deserves. However, there will be plenty of dearly loved family in two substantial circles this summer, with some old-timers, and more importantly, the new folks, who may not ever have heard of Rainbow before they got wind of South Dakota. If these sisters and brothers are encouraged to feel that there is nothing that can be done to heal our wounds, they will most likely consider Rainbow to be made up of hypocrites and fools...and there are some, if I may say so, but that's because We reflect the world around Us. But the important question is whether we allow the affairs of our family and our Tribe to be run by the same. I propose for the Ear of >We the People< an idea, and I ask for Consensus, which by my brother Thumper's current definition, is >> not "absence of objection", but "the unspoken solidarity of individuals acting in a synchronous manner". -- Thumper (Webster's: "1. group solidarity in sentiment or belief [notice they didn't say 'agreement'] 2.a. general agreement; unanmity 2.b. the judgement arrived at by most of those concerned") << May it Be Consensed by the active North American Rainbow Councils -- to have a single late September North American Council in 1992. (1) to come to agreement on our definition of consensus process. (2) (See above for the first suggestion... If this council happens, it will mean that this definition is sufficient, right!?! Case Closed!) to decide, as a single family, the appropriate bio-region for the 1993 North American Rainbow Family Gathering of the Tribes. (3) and/or to address the issue of multiple July 1-7 Gatherings in a non-polarized setting (4) to share and share alike, the sweet tears of re-union.... Out of every heartbreak there is the opportunity for greater Love. Let us Gather as a Family in September to Harvest our Bounty, and truly plant Good Seeds in our most important Garden, the Future, for 1993 and for our Children. Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin! All my Relations! These Words Are Deeds. Play for Peace! Peter Please tell me your thoughts on this! A new Pot o' Gold will be produced in May, before the Wisconsin Regional. Can we get some feedback before that? Love you ! ! ! P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 149 SE Michigan Calendar sjohgart 4:38 am Apr 13, 1992 --RAINBOW FAMILY-- --SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN CALENDAR 1992-- "The most radical act of this age is perhaps to experience four straight days of joy, without anxiety or guilt or regeret"--George Leonard Greetings! Another year spins round, and once again 'tis time to consider what is going to happen as the seasons unfold. Here follows some of the coming together of interest: May 30 and 31 - Yard Sale. This is to provide the green energy to mail the Howdy Folks and Rainbow Guides to the region, and if any is left over, to help with networking Autumn events. Please save your stuff, and come on out and join in. This may be at Rainbow House in Ann Arbor again, if they'll host it, or it may be elsewhere (if you'd be interested in hosting, contact us!) June 20 - Picnic, Gallup Park, Ann Arbor, Michigan - Rainbow Noon until... A chance to renew old howdys, make some plans for the Don't Spit Turtles in the Soup Kitchen and to make some connections for rides and caravans to the 1992 Rainbow Family Gathering of the Tribes in Colorado July 5 - Council at Don't Spit Turtles in the Soup Kitchen, Rainbow Gathering, Colorado - Rainbow 1:00 PM. Council to discuss the Autumn Equinox regional and a possible Valentine's Day Love-In Camp-Out winter regional, and any other regional items which are brought to council. July 25 - Rumor Control. Last year, for the second year in a row, we scrupulously complied with the regulations of the Arb (in Ann Arbor) that dictate no organized events without permission. We responsibly announced that there would be no organized picnic in the Arb on the last day of the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. So many people came out to check and see if we were serious that we thought we had better once again let you all know: there will be no organized picnic in the Arb from 2 PM until dusk on July 25, 1992. We should mention, though, that the Arb is a real nice place to hang out; if you happen to be in the area, you might want to wander out there (impulsively, of course) just to enjoy the day. Sometimes spontaneous things happen which are quite delightful. Remember: IGNORE ALL RUMORS OF ORGANIZATION, WHATEVER THE SOURCE!!! August 20 - Picnic, Belle Isle, Detroit, near the Livingstone Light on the north end of the island. No reason, no purpose, no structure. Drop out, turn on, tune in. September18 - 21 (if tradition holds) - Autumn Equinox Regional Gathering. Details to be decided in council. October 17 - Picnic, Rose Lake Wildlife Area, east of Lansing, Michigan. Wow, man, check out the COLORS! Far out! February 11 - 14 - Valentines Day Love-in Camp-out, Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness, near Ludington, Michigan. Details to be discussed in councils - and there is much to discuss. This would be a fine adventure. It didn't work out in 1992, but with the Spirit, it can happen in 1993. All Saturday events will magically move to Sunday in the event of Saturday rain. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 150 Legend of the Raibow Warrior 1 response chicken@maria.wustl.edu 7:24 pm Apr 13, 1992 Subject: Legend of the Raibow Warrior From: Mike Ezrine If anyone has a copy of this legend would ytou please mail it to me chicken@maria.wustl.edu Love and HuGs! Me ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 150 LIVINGSTONM@RASCAL.GUILFORD.EDU 10:11 pm Apr 13, 1992 From: Mike Livingston Subject: Re: Legend of the Raibow Warrior Nope, no legends just now. But I'll keep an eye out. Where have your travels led? -- Mike; ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 151 Response to Rainbow Hawk 1 response sjohgart 8:18 pm Apr 13, 1992 I wrote this letter to Rainbow Hawk in response to his letter. I think it is relevant to the whole discussion here. Note that I wrote it before reading any of the recent (in the last month) postings, including the proposal for an after-Gathering council--so consider this my vote in favor!! ------- ------- Howdy! I had the opportunity to read your open letter, and wish to respond. Your letter was quite eloquent, and expressed a deep respect for the traditions of the Rainbow Family. Unfortunately, despite that, I find myself in serious disagreement with much of what you say; I think you misread the intent and spirit of many who plan to make Colorado home for the first week in July, and of others in the family who are folkalizing (yes, I know it isn't the traditional spelling...) Colorado. My strongest disagreement with your letter is in your complaint about the "Rainbow Bridge" suggestion. I think you totally misread the intent of that statement (although I was not a part of the decision, so I am inferring). I know no one in the Family who is arrogant enough to think the Rainbow Family has much to teach the Native Peoples. Clearly the Rainbow Family is in its adolescence. Perhaps we think we know more than we do and pretend to a wisdom beyond our age, but there is no question we have much to learn from and little to offer to those who have come to their wisdom and spirit through the centuries. I believe the Rainbow Bridge was intended not as a bridge across which to take our knowledge in teaching, but rather a bridge across which to carry our ignorance in search of greater truth. I also question the "consensus" that supposedly established South Dakota as the Gathering site. It is clear to me that there is a serious problem with referring to a decision by attrition, at least to the extent that the South Dakota decision was achieved, as consensus representing the spirit of the Family Circle. Such a decision clearly disenfranchises many who care a whole lot and who put a lot of love and energy into trying to make the circle whole--only those few who have enough stamina and few enough other commitments are around after that much time. I also have heard from several folks who sincerely thought consensus had been reached for Colorado--apparently enough time went by after consensus call that a number of people left the Vision Council thinking consensus had been reached, and began spreading the word. It is clear to me that no consensus was reached for anywhere, since it seems obvious from the subsequent controversy that neither "consensus" reflects a united vision of the Family. My feeling is that, in the future, if no consensus is reached by, say, sunset on the 8th, council should be suspended, and a decision be made for a later date to continue the process, far enough in advance (perhaps Thanksgiving) and in a central enough location that those who really care to be there can arrange to be there. I do not like the consensus-minus-one (or two, or three) idea at all. To accuse unnamed would-be elders for undermining South Dakota is unfair to many people who are trying to bring about a beautiful homecoming in Colorado. Consensus was unanimous at the Michigan Autumn Equinox Regional that our sense was for Colorado to be our home in 1992; this was not a decision coerced by anybody. Those I have heard from who are going home to Colorado have been to many Gatherings, or have been to only a few. They have been active in the Family, or they have never attended a Rainbow event before. They are focused, and they are scattered; humble or arrogant, foolish or wise. They are us, just as you are us, and they are family just as those who are going home to South Dakota are family. When it is stated that the Lakota have invited us, I wonder: have they been told of A-Camp, which will go through several hundred kegs of beer before the Gathering even begins? Have they been told of the young people wandering the paths with "Dose Me" signs around their necks? Are they aware that although thousands come in reverence for the land and the Spirit, thousands of others come for a huge party? Is the Family really ready for the power of the Black Hills? It seems to me that the solution this year is a good one--it would seem that those of you committed to the Black Hills will have a marvelous spiritual circle, and will bring a great power and wisdom from your Gathering to the Family circle when we again come together. At the same time, those of us headed for Colorado will not only have our own spiritual circles, we will also have a fine 21st birthday party without disrupting the focus of the Black Hills circle, and help shepherd the disruptive elements of the Family in the bargain; perhaps in another year or two the Family will have grown in spirit enough to make the Black Hills home for all. I agree that there has been some arrogance and bad raps from a few of the Colorado crowd, as apparently was manifested in "HO!". There has certainly been the same from a few in the Black Hills crowd--witness for example the bogus All Ways Free which was mailed out (the All Ways Free council is separate from the Rainbow Family Tribal Council, and reached clear consensus that the focus of All Ways Free would be in Oregon this year--and I congratulate the AWF folks for maintaining a calm sense of balance in their winter issue). I see no point in playing politics--I was going to say "by either side" but there is no need even for sides. Without a true consensus, we are all doing the best we can to keep the dream alive, and we are all on the same side, even if we are headed for different homes. My sense is that the vast majority of the Family have chosen to head for Colorado; that is what I have heard from the many folks I have talked to and corresponded with, and that is what I am telling those who ask, but it is not out of any sense of disrespect for you who are not going to Colorado. I think you will have a really wonderful circle, and I wish you love. Peace, Namaste, Gonzo ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 151 pfraterdeus 8:30 pm Apr 14, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Response to Rainbow Hawk Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: Response to Rainbow Hawk Right on, Gonzo! Thank You good brother for your clarity and wisdom! We all could use more of your vision! In talking with Don Joseph last night, and then with Wing, I am adjusting my call for a re-conciliation council to the following: Can both Councils consense to a Wyoming or Nebraska Vision Council after July 7th? Perhaps this could be as early as the 14th of July, or as late as mid August, or September. Again, there will be some who will say that this grants too much respect to the contraries, on either side of the question, but isn't our way simply to love the problem to death? In making this call, reasonable folks on both sides of the issue will be channelling the energies of the July 1-7 circles into a progressive and loving resolution of the question. I hope there is no objection to this idea (though the details are wide open.) It will become apparent where the obstinate and arrogant individuals stand...they will insist that only their own council is legitimate, and that there is no reason for them to re-concile. Thereafter, the whole world will see them for who they are. However, I do not mean that this idea is the only possible means of reconciliation. Please let's come up with a consensus (as Focalizers) before the gatherings, though, to take with us to all Circles this summer! Play for Peace! Mitakuye Oyasin! All my relations! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 152 Book: The Glastonbury Festivals mle@well.sf.ca.us 9:36 am Apr 14, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Book: The Glastonbury Festivals "Glastonbury? Fantastic! It's the variety on the bill that does it" Andy Kershaw "Man I can feel those strong vibes. An amazing place to be" Loudon Wainwright III "It's good and it's real and people come" Mike Scott (Waterboys) "CND's links with the music industry must be one of the most important ways of securing the support of younger people" Paul Johns "People come here year after year with their children. It's something to look forward to, and for some it's the only holiday they get" Billy Bragg >The Glastonbury CND Festival is the largest of its kind in Europe - and >probably the world. It has its origins in the simple gatherings in the early >70s - the days of flower power and of hippies, and now attracts in the region >of 80,000 people each year. This book traces in words and pictures the >development of the festival to the present day. THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVALS by Lynne Elstob & Anne Howes @ CND Publications Limited 1987 Gothic Image Publications & Cahlme ISBN 0-906362-10-5 U.K.PoundS 9.95 [Distributed in the United States by New Leaf of Atlanta, Georgia.] >Born in London, Anne is a State Registered Nurse and has lived in the West >Country for 20 years, sttling in nearby Shepton Mallet in 1978. She is >married to a local doctor and has two children, Catherine and Daniel. >Together with her husband Chris, she has been involved in the organization of >medical services at the Festival for the past seven years. > Her interest in popular music began with the Stones and Beatles in the >mid-sixties, when she worked as a secretary and fashion model in the West End >of London. > She is a member of CND, Greenpeace and the Medical Campaign Against >Nuclear Weapons. > >Lynne comes from Southampton and spent her student years in Salford, >Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Paris and the south of Spain before moving to Somerset >in 1977. > She lives in Shepton Mallet with her husband Colin and sons Christopher >and Robert, teaching part-time at the local sixth-form college. > For Lynne, a CND member and long-standing lover of rock and roll, the >Festival has magical appeal. >to our children Catherine, Daniel, Christopher and Robert > >If there is to be peace in this world, some hope lies in the younger >generations and these festivals are for them just as much as for us older >festival goers >FORWARD > >Seventeen years ago the original Worthy Farm Festival happened here, and from >that moment on the place has never quite been the same. Every year the thing >gets bigger and more and more of our lives gets drawn into this huge machine >of phones, bills, meetings, negotiations, post mortems, and plans and ideas >for the future. > I suppose I started it all partly out of boredom with years and years of >just milking, but the influence of those late '60s festivals started me off. >I thought there might be a way of combining the traditional country fairs >with the ideals of the pop festival culture, where people could come together >and have a good time in a more relaxed way that those huge stadium gigs! By >adding theatre, drama, alternative politics and kid's entertainments it would >broaden the scope of appeal and could become part of a regular midsummer >festival of joy and celebration of life. > Volumes could be written about the festival, but hopefully this book >will give you an insight into some of the brighter and happier moments that >have happened in these fields if ours. > >Michael Eavis >INTRODUCTION > >As the sun disappears behind the ruins of St. Michael's Church on the >mystical summit of Glastonbury Tor, the gently sloping pastures of the lush >green Vale of Avalon take on more muted tones, and the last remaining rays of >light fall on a strange metallic structure - the Glastonbury Pyramid. > Erected as a farm building in 1981, it has since become for thousands of >people the focal point of the Festivals which are now the largest fund- >raising events for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. > However, the story of the Festivals at Worthy Farm really begins eleven >years earlier, in the aftermath of Flower Power, psychedelia and the swinging >sixties... >A rainbow did actually appear in the sky on a hot afternoon at Glastonbury. > I saw it, honest. > We didn't have a religious experience, but in a strange way we found >some kind of enlightenment. > We discovered a confirmation that if our culture is left to itself it >can survive. > We are able to live in harmony with each other. Ten thousand or more >people, living for nearly a week in tents and makeshift shelter, were able to >keep it together through five days of hot sunshine, a torrential rain, >laughing, dancing, sharing food, dope and shelter, listening to rock and >roll and throughout maintaining a community that lived peaceably without the >need for restriction or authority. > Sure a few people has stuff ripped off, sure some trees were cut down, >and people had bummers some got lonely and others got sunburnt. > Nobody says there weren't problems. > But they got solved; maybe the solutions weren't the best, but the >problems were solved and the people came together and kept it together. > The free festivals like Phun City and Glastonbury gave a glimpse of >alternative ways in which people could live their lives outside the present >death culture. > This album is a memorial to what was achieved in those five days; that >makes it valuable. > The most valuable thing is not that the vision of five days in >Glastonbury is only remembered, but that the vision is repeated and extended >until it becomes reality. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 153 Re: TestUploadofBinaryFile 1 response irudnik@sovusa.com 12:21 pm Apr 14, 1992 From: irudnik@sovusa.com ( ) Subject: Re: TestUploadofBinaryFile I receive you message but can't read it. Explain please it how to do it. All the best. Igor Rudnik. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 153 pfraterdeus 10:07 pm Apr 14, 1992 Sorry! I removed the original here at igc, but it had already been networked! The binary file needs to be downloaded using XMODEM, or similar protocol. It's nothing important, just a short script, I think, This is how we could send fully formatted documents (as PostScript) and images over the Network. Peter from Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago, on Lake Michigan. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 154 NEWS FLASH: 100th Monkey mle@well.sf.ca.us 5:32 pm Apr 14, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: NEWS FLASH: 100th Monkey I just saw Felipe and Diamond Dave the poet interviewed on CNN about The 100th Monkey Project (April 13-18) "organizer" named Springer who is accused of "threatening" former president Reagen. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 155 =={ CO National? }== 1 response ttibbetts 9:56 am Apr 15, 1992 Greetings: I have just logged onto Peacenet. I ran straight to this conference!! Any news on Colorado National. I'm flying into Denver (on a plane.) Is it true that the last posting date in this group was in 91 or am I lost. Be cool & don't drool ! Todd ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 155 pfraterdeus 7:50 pm Apr 16, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: =={ CO National? }== Attn: awf.rainbownews Reply to: =={ CO National? }== Howdy! Are you looking at the top or the bottom of the index?!?! There's been stuff posted every day for the last week or so, and very regularly since 1988! The CO continental Rainbow Gathering will be in (ta da) Colorado!!!!! However, the site will not be decided until Spring Council which is at the end of May. Scouts are in the woods even now, checking out the best possible sites for our Best Welcome Home ever! Keep your eyes on this conference for immediate updates! Play for Peace! Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 156 Book: Rainbow Nation Without Border mle@well.sf.ca.us 12:47 pm Apr 15, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Book: Rainbow Nation Without Borders RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS: TOWARD AN ECOTOPIAN MILLENNIUM by Alberto Ruz Buenfil, 1945- Copyright @ 1991 by Alberto Ruz Buenfil Bear & Company, Inc., Santa Fe, NM 87504-2860 ISBN 0-939680-75-0 (pbk.) Translation of: Arcobaleno US$ 16.95 >Discover how the Woodstock Generation of the 1960s has become the Rainbow >Warriors of the 1990s! RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS recounts the spiritual >search of the post-war generation, which has tried to bring about a new >balance and harmony to a world in turmoil. The leaders of Greenpeace >International, Rainbow Gatherings, and eco-feminist communities worldwide >describe how legend and myth are transformed into the reality of historical >change as the Earth moves toward an "ecotopian millennium." >What Theodore Roszak's MAKING OF THE COUNTERCULTURE was to the '60s and '70s, >and Marilyn Ferguson's AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY was to the '80s, Alberto Ruz >Buenfil's RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS will be to the '90s. Weaving >together radical history, visionary politics, and Native American prophecy, >Alberto Ruz Buenfil's message is bold and clear: if the rainbow nation does >not become the mainstream of the 1990s, you can forget about the 21st >century. Jose Arguelles, author of THE MAYAN FACTOR and EARTH ASCENDING >Written in a clear and concise manner, RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS will >let you discover and even feel from a first-row seat the emergence and >maturation of some of the most extraordinary seeds of change in this world. >From the beatniks' spontaneous experiences of the '60s to the New Age >communities and events of the '80s, an ever-growing army of Rainbow Warriors >is actively preparing the way for a soon-to-come golden age of peace and >wisdom. Jean Hudon, director of Global Awareness in Action >The international Rainbow phenomenon is the most important social movement of >our time, and RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS represents the first >comprehensive study of its origins and current developments. Steve Hager, editor-in-chief of HIGH TIMES magazine >Alberto Ruz Buenfil is a noted radical of the 1960s, who participated in >political protests worldwide. In 1973, he began a spiritual quest that took >him to India, the Middle East, the North American deserts, and northern >Africa, where he was initiated by many great spiritual teachers including the >Dalai Lama. He is founder of a land-based, eco-feminist-community in Mexico >and is a ceremonial leader for the opening of planetary sacred sites. >CONTENTS > >Acknowledgements and Dedication >Foreword by Starhawk >Prologue > >The Rainbow: A Universal Archetype > Roots of the Rainbow in Africa and Australia > Roots of the Rainbow in Asia > The Rainbow in Native America > European Roots of the Rainbow > The Rainbow in Science and Philosophy > Energy, the Rainbow, and the Aura > Color, Sound, and Perception > The Rainbow and the Psyche > The New Rainbow Movement > >Return of the Rainbow Warriors > The Task of the Warriors of the Rainbow > The Rainbow People > >Toward a New Tribalism: 1930-1970 > The Postwar Beat Generation > The Tribal Vision of Gary Snyder > The Living Theater Tribe > The Merry Pranksters > The Hog Farmers and Their Friends > The Diggers and Motherfuckers > Woodstock Nation > >The Birth of the Rainbow Tribes: 1970-1980 > The Rainbow Gatherings > Greenpeace International > For Christiania with Love > Pilgrimage to Huehuecoyotl > The Rainbow Communities in Spain > >Shining Specter of the Eighties > Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition > The Rainbow Networks in Mexico > The Rainbow Gatherings in Europe > Roots of the Gatherings > The Gatherings Expand > The Making of Pasta Scuitta > The Gathering's Magic > The Rainbow Alliance in European Politics > The Rainbow Banks > >Toward the New Millennium > The Myth of the Eternal Return > The Legend of the Fifth Sun > The Aquarian Conspiracy > The City of Ram > The New Age > Ecotopia Here and Now > For All Our Relations > >Appendix A: Rainbow Artists >Appendix B: Rainbow Songs, Chants, and Poems >Appendix C: Directory of Rainbow Resources >Notes >Bibliography >About the Author ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 157 URGENT! BLM Rules Proposal pfraterdeus 2:31 pm Apr 16, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: URGENT! BLM Rules Proposal Attn: awf.rainbownews Subject: Time:4:00 PM OFFICE MEMO URGENT! BLM Rules Proposal Date:4/16/92 (Note to Peacenet Support, please post as appropriate in pn.alerts, etc. Thanks!) Sorry this is so late, but the BLM is proposing extremely repressive rules against "camping" on public lands, with outrageous fines of $100,000-$200,000. The Comment period ends tomorrow!!!(4/17) Please send telegrams urging the withdrawal of Proposed Rule NW-050-92-4333-12, published March 18, Federal Register, Page 9427. Also, write to your Congressperson, and Senators. Send comments to: Ben F. Collins BLM District Manager Las Vegas District 4765 Vegas Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89108 Following is a letter from DC Scribe from PeacePark in Washington, DC, who has been keeping up with these issues. I'll try to keep up with these issues better in the future! Peter, a concerned citizen! ****************** DC Scribe PO Box 27217, Washington, DC 20038 April 8, 1992 Dear All, ...the government is chippping at the First Amendment on more public lands. The rule covers "Certain Public Lands; Las Vegas District Nevada," and essentially provides: "Camping is defined as: The erecting of a tent or shelter of natural oor synthetic material, preparing a sleeping bag for use, or parking of a motor vehicle, motor home, or trailer for the apparent purpose of overnight occupancy.... "This camping restriction is established to assist BLM in reducing the incidence of occupancy tresspass under the guise of camping public lands in the Las Vegas District.... "Violation of this camping closure is punishable by a fine not to exceed $100,000 ($200,000 is the violator is an organization), imprisonment not to exceed 12 months, or both...." Coincidentally, this proposed rule was published the same time and in the very area where the 100th Monkey Project is holding a demonstration for the end of nuclear weapons testing. Rumor has it that the BLM has admitted that the regulation would be a good way to stop the Mo9nkey Project. If Freedom of Assembly on We the People land is important to you, perhaps you would be intersted in writing a letter to oppose the new regulations. THE COMMENT PERIOD ENDS ON APRIL 17, 1992, so you'll have to write fast. Letters should be addressed to Ben F. Collins BLM district Manager Las Vegas District 4765 Vegas Drive Las Vegas, NV 89108 Letters of this kind can actually make a difference. According to law (the ADministrative Procedure Act) the government must take public comment into consideration. If BLM receives no public comment then it would be free to go ahead with the final rule. On the other hand, if they receive many letters in opposition to the rule, they might very possibly withdraw it. Letters should refer to Proposed Rule NW-050-92-4333-12, Federal Register, March 18, 1992, page 9427. We Love You! DC Scribe ***************** My Letter follows: Dear Mr. Collins As a public servant, it should be a matter of conscience and of law to uphold the letter and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution in all your actions on behalf of We the People. Proposed Rule NW-050-92-4333-12, published March 18th in the Federal Register, page 9427, is not in the best interest of the People. It is an attempt to unlawfully and maliciously restrict the Freedom of Assembly, and the Freedom to Petition for Redress of Grievances, of We, the Citizens of the United States. It may be appropriate to remember, Mr. Collins, that this is still a government of the People, by the People, and FOR the PEOPLE, as Abraham Lincoln observed. The government does not exist to satisfy the needs of the bureaucracy. It exists for one thing onlyQto provide for the Protection of Our Natural and "God-Given" Rights. The pretentious and arrogant attempt of the BLM to regulate away these primary Rights of American Citizens to protest and assemble where and when they choose is just one more example of the growing tendency of public servants to forget whence their temporary power arises, and in fact, where their paycheck comes from. While I am sure that you, yourself, are serving as you see best, I encourage you to examine the policies that you will be liable for enforcing on behalf of the BLM. Please consider the place of your Bureau in the context of American History. It would surely be a shame to go down in History as being a tool for the repression of the Freedoms that Americans hold so dear. I urge the BLM to withdraw the proposed rule. Thank You Very Much. Peter Fraterdeus cc: Hon. Sidney Yates, (9th, IL), Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Alan Dixon ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 158 Fasting Gathering pfraterdeus 2:33 pm Apr 16, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Fasting Gathering Attn: awf.rainbownews Fasting Gathering Shenoa Bruce from Minnesota called with a plea for a Rainbow Gathering of Fasting, where the divisions could be resolved--whereever it happens. Where all could Sit and be quiet together. He feels that this is not a time for Celebration, but for Introspection. Peter ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 159 1980 W.Va. Murders Solved mle@well.sf.ca.us 4:02 pm Apr 18, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: 1980 W.Va. Murders Solved >WEST VIRGINIA MURDER PROBE BEARS FRUIT AFTER 12 YEARS > >Marlinton, W.Va. (AP) - Suspects in four states have been arrested in the >slayings of two women shot to death 12 years ago while hitchhiking to a >counter-culture gathering in a West Virginia forest. > Police arrested three former Pocahontas County residents Friday in the >slayings. Four others were arrested earlier in the week. > Nancy Santomero, 19, of Huntington, N.Y., and Vicki Durian, 26, of >Wellman, Iowa, were found shot to death June 25, 1980, in a field near Droop >Mountain Battlefield, a Civil War battlefield in southeastern West Virginia. > The two friends has been hitchhiking from Arizona to visit Santomero's >family in New York and planned to stop in West Virginia to attend a Rainbow >Family Gathering. Both were shot several times at close range. Neither was >sexually assaulted, according to the coroner's report. > The loose-knit Rainbow Family had been holding a national meeting in the >Monongahela National Forest when the women were killed. The back-to-nature >group gathers periodically in secluded areas for several weeks. > "It's not been out of anyone's mind or thoughts in 12 years," said >Pocahontas County Prosecutor Walt Weiford. He refused to discuss motives or >evidence. > But Sheriff Jerry Dale said the case was reopened six months ago after >authorities learned that a convicted serial killer who confessed to the >Rainbow killings had read about them in a magazine. Dale declined to name >the killer. > "We found that he in fact wasn't responsible," he said. "At the same >time, some other leads came up." > "People got older and became less intimidated and frightened about the >subjects who were responsible for the murders. Information just started >coming our way." > According to published reports in 1980, a Rainbow Family spokesman said >he told police local residents has shot at the group's campsite several times >before the slayings. Nobody was injured in those shootings, the reports >said. > The seven men, all of whom were living in Pocahontas County at the time >of the slayings, were charged with two counts of first-degree murder, >authorities said. Additional arrests are possible, Weiford said. THE BRUNSWICK NEWS, Saturday, April 18, 1992 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 160 council of visions/mexico 1992 agduna 12:19 pm Apr 19, 1992 /* Written 12:13 pm Apr 19, 1992 by agduna in cdp:bioreg.congres */ /* ---------- "council of vission/mexico" ---------- */ VISION COUNCIL : GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH MAZUNTE, OAXACA, MEXICO: 1st to 5th May, 1992 Greetings Brothers and sisters In the spring of 1991, a regional gathering was succesfully held in the %ah$u Ceremonial Center in Temoaya, near Mexico City. More than 150 persons of different nations, groups, tribes, clans and families spent there about one week. A Rainbow Vision and Peace Council, a Bioregional Congress, a Women's Council and a Pow Wow of American native nations were simultaneously all four able to reach tha conclusion that they are all part of a single action network: "The Guardians of the Earth." For 1992 a similar, but wider, gathering will be held in Mazunte, a fishing village on the state of Oaxaca, in the Pacific coast. The southernmost point in Oaxaca. The date will be May 1st to the 5th, 1992. We have agreed with our hosts to some restrictions and rules. No alcohol, drugs or weapons. And if you stay with a native family and eat there, there will be a payement to them of some $20.00 US per day per person, hich, considering the real extreme predominant poverty of the place is a fair price. If you camp on your own, the event even if a non commercial one will imply some sort of donation to a "magic hat" for the village. We recommend a $7.00 US per diem, if you are camping with some of the intentionally non-Rainbow family groups such as the various mexican "greens" or other similar groups and you take care of your own food. Unlike most Rainbow and bioregional gatherings, this event will involve heavy interaction with the local communities. We intend to teach, learn and work with them, largelly through the practice and a tradition locally known as "tequios" (communal work). We will be teaching them practical skills involving appropiate technologies such as building biogas digestors, mural painting, solar energy stoves and heathers, water recicling, beadwork, waste recicling and or other similar. Mazunte is a community of around 100 families in a beach area, surrounded by tropical jungle, swamps and tidal lakes well stocked with fish, crocodiles and birds. With a small, magical peninsula "Punta Cometa", the southernmost point in Oaxaca, which is an ancient sacred area and a place of power for the Olmecs and other ancient cultures. It is also an internationally known place, because some species of giant turtles dig and ovulate in some of their beaches. This last phenomena was until recently the basis of Mazunte's economy. Centered formerly on turtle catching, slaughtering and even turtle meat canning and processing, and also on an undiscriminated turtle's eggs recolection and processing by the local fishers. In 1990, through a great continuous, long and hard national and international effort, turtle catching was forbiden, and Mazunte had to seek new means of surviving. This was partially resolved, mainly through a very poor subsistance agriculture in the area, which involved slash-and-burn techniques for corn and bean production, which are ecologically very negative and primitive, and very uneconomic and low yielding. A year and a half ago, a respected group of ecologists known as "Ecosolar" has started in the area a project of ecodevelopment, hoping, with the help of the local community, to introduce and popularize various alternative means of livelihod which will improve quality of life as well as healing the peoples' relationships with each other and with nature. Your participation in this Vision Council will certainly help support this project. Not only because of your mere presence, but on account of your possible involvement in the "tequio" work. And also with activities such as tree planting, potable water system construction, therapy, music, mural painting, tai-chi, sculpture, sweat lodges, alternative healing,bioregional cultural activities, and any others that will help strenghten the Mazunte community and improve their spiritual, material and economic self-sufficiency and well being. The involvement will extend well beyond the duration of our gathering. If you cannot come in May, you can come again at a latter date, and this will be a possible way to contribute with your skills as healers, bringing along also joy and happiness. Coming in this spirit you will certainly be welcomed by this community and by the mexican Rainbow families. The area is beautiful but needs healing. Besides fine beaches and coral formations and plenty of algae and fish species, there is the wetlands, the lagoons, some jungle and nearby the mountains with pine forests. Also quite a lot of prehispanic temples and ancient cities, colonial architecture, and native villages. Zipolite beach, about 3 miles away, is a nudist place which is also very famous for its gentle waves and white sands. Weather in the area is hot, with abundant mosquitos and various other insects of the kind. Please come equiped accordingly. To get there you can fly to Huatulco, a commercial beach resort area with an international airport about 50 miles away, or from Mexico City to Puerto Escondido's national airport, which is about the same distance. From both places there are plenty of minibuses to Pochutla and Puerto Angel, from where you can get a taxi to Mazunte, which will cost about $20.00 US for five people. You can also take a taxi to Zipolite for about $14.00 US and then walk 3 miles to Mazunte. If you drive, the best route is Mexico City to Acapulco and then head south towards Puerto Escondido. It takes about 10-12 hours. We will have some free transportation from the San Antonio crossroad, near Pochutla, to Puerto Angel and to Mazunte. There will be a lot of activities during the five days of the gathering. Groups and individuals that will assist will teach musical instruments construction, polarity theraphy, massage, dynamic meditation, bioregionalism, snorkeling, astronomy, hammock weaving and others. Besides workshops and councils, there will be a kid village and activities for children. Quality, more than quantity of communication and/or networking will be underlined, so congruence, experience. representativity and diversity are necessary from all participants. There will be an alternative market and trading area, so bring in whathever you wish to sell or trade. For any questions or/and more information: Ecosolar : Fax/tel : 6-82-05-07 (Mexico City) ESACI : Cristina Mendoza: 6-05-78-45 Rio Abierto: Alicia Zappi :5-39-08-91 HueHuecoyotl: Alberto Ruz : 5-34-67-24 Rainbow family: Rodolfo Rosas : 5-49-22-34 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 161 rainbow wanderers raven 1:07 pm Apr 19, 1992 WPC Subject: Cellular Repeater System Extend-A-Cell Cellular Booster and Repeater Systems cost-effective new strategies for expanding cellular system coverage Extend-A-Cell II low-power boosters can fill small holes up to two miles across and can be located up to six miles from the donor cell and as far as two miles from the boosted area. High-power Extend-A-Cell IV repeaters can cover an area the same size as a conventional cell - an entire town or suburb, in some cases - and can be located 30 miles or more from the donor cell. 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A battery charger is provided as standard equipment. A battery system which is float-charged by the standard battery charger may be utilized if required (customer supplied). Extend-A-Cell IV can be operated from a customer-furnished 24 VDC battery plant. Also, remote operation from a solar panel array and battery system can be furnished upon request. DC Power Requirement.......... 19-30 Vdc (nominal 24 VDc) DC Current Requirements....... Maximum-35 A @ 28 Vdc Standby-15 A @ 28 Vdc Battery Backup (Customer provided)........... 4 hrs (typical) using 100 Ah external batteries Weight........................ 690 lbs The Antenna Specialists Company 30500 Bruce Industrial Parkway Cleveland, Ohio 44139-3996 USA Tel: 216/349-8400 Fax: 216/349-8407 Tlx: 4332133 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 163 TEST mle@world.std.com 12:44 pm Apr 22, 1992 From: mle@world.std.com (Marcus L Endicott) Subject: TEST TEST ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 164 death (fwd) 1 response chicken@maria.wustl.edu 11:29 am Apr 23, 1992 Subject: death (fwd) From: Mike Ezrine I received this message am not sure about the part at the bottem but though as a whole it was worth reading. > > Greetings. (I'm sending this message to everyone who might be interested.) > > Last night, California executed one of its 200+ death row inmates, using its gas chamber for the first time since the reversal of the Supreme Court decision banning capital punishment. Anticipating last-minute legal maneuvers, the members of the > Supreme Court stayed up all night. Indeed, four seperate stays of execution were issued by various Federal judges in California for several different reasons. The Supreme Court, by a 7-2 majority (the 2 being Blackmun and Stevens), vacated each sta> y, sounding more annoyed each time. Finally, Chief Justice Rehnquist -- on record as being politically opposed to any attemptto delay executions once sentence has been passed -- issued an order that NO FEDERAL JUDGE COULD ISSUE ANY STAY OF EXECUTI> ON IN THIS CASE WITHOUT GETTING THESUPREME COURT'S PERMISSION FIRST. > > Sound a bit un-kosher? > > Indeed: that order was not only unprecedented but very, very unlawful. > > It was, in fact, a sufficiently blatant and grievous contravention of the legal system to require the impeachment of Chief Justice Rehnquist at least, if not also Justices White, O'Connor, Kennedy, Scalia, Souter and Thomas. > > PLEASE take a minute tomorrow to call your Representative's office and demand the introduction of articles of impeachment -- before this November. > > And sleep well, knowing that you are no longer under the protection of law. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 164 LIVINGSTONM@RASCAL.GUILFORD.EDU 7:19 pm Apr 24, 1992 From: Mike Livingston Subject: Re: death (fwd) Clarification: by "you are no longer under the protection of law," I most certainly do not wish to imply that there should be greater regulation of individual conduct by government; rather, it is the government that needs to be held in check. Essentially, the Supreme Court gave itself dictatorial power over the legal system Tuesday night, and now, as a result, you can be executed without any inquiry into the validity of the sentence. -- Mike ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 165 (*) MORE ON SEATTLE:hoax natlaw 1:37 pm Apr 23, 1992 This article was published originally in my newsletter, NATURAL RIGFHTSHTS, some years ago: Natural Rights Vol 5, Number 1, Spring, 1990 The Gospel of Chief Seattle: Written For Television? "This we know. The earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Those eloquent lines are one of the most oft-quoted, if not the most oft-quoted statements of deep ecology in history. Here at the Natural Rights Center, we emblazoned them across the masthead of our first newsletter in 1978. They have since graced the pages of hundreds of magazines, from Newsweek to Nationof Seattle. Trouble is, they were never spoken by Chief Seattle or any other Native American. They were written for television. There really was a Chief Seattle, or more precisely, Chief Seeathl, of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes of the Pacific Northwest. He lived from about 1786 to 1866. At a meeting with the territorial governor on Monday, January 22, 1855, Seattle was asked to respond to the governor's long speech concerning the Point Elliott Treaty. He said, in Southern Puget Sound Salish or Lushotseed language, "I look upon you as my father. I and the rest regard you as such. All of the Indians have the same good feeling towards you and will send it on paper to the Great Father. All of them, men, old men, women and children rejoice that he has sent you to take care of them. My mind is like yours. I don't want to say more. My heart is very good towards Dr. Maynard. I want always to get medicine from him." The following day, after negotiations were concluded in which the tribes made a very large cession of land, Seattle said, "Now by this we make friends and put away all bad feelings if ever we had any. We are the friends of the Americans. All the Indians are of the same mind. We look upon you as our father. We will never change our minds, but since you have been to see us we will always be the same. Now, now do you send this paper of our hearts to the Great Chief. That is all I have to say." Two other short speeches by Chief Seattle are in the National Archives. One was a fragment of a speech recorded in 1850 and the other, from May of 1858, was a lament by Seattle that the Port Elliott treaty had failed to win ratification in the U.S. Senate, leaving the tribes in poverty and poor health. Those four short speeches are all we really know of the words of Chief Seattle. The myth of Chief Seattle's famous oration began on October 29,1887. On that date, Dr. Henry A. Smith published an article in the Seattle Sunday Star under the heading "Early Reminiscences No. 10." Dr. Smith wrote of the Port Elliott negotiations, "Chief Seattle arose with all the dignity of a senator, who carries the responsibilities of a great nation on his shoulders. Placing one hand on the Governor's head and slowly pointing heavenward with the index finger of the other, he commenced his memorable address in solemn and impressive tones. 'Yonder sky, that has wept tears of compassion upon our fathers for centuries untold, and which today appears changeless and eternal, may change. Today is fair. Tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never change. Whatever Seattle says, the Great Chief in Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun of the seasons... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of the tribes that are now but a mournful memory. I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it as we too may have been somewhat to blame... To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. You wander far from the graves of your ancestors and seemingly without regret. Your religion was written upon tablets of stone by the iron finger of your God so that you could not forget. The Red Man could never comprehend nor remember it. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestorsQthe dreams of our old men, given them in the sacred hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander way beyond the stars. They are soon forgotten and never return. Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the Happy Hunting Ground to visit, guide, console and comfort them... And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. eed memorable, and one is left wondering how Dr. Smith managed to translate a lengthy address in the obscure Lushotseed language into such florid Victorian prose, or why he waited 32 years to publish his translation. Another question is how Seattle, who had been a devout catholic since 1830, could say something like "Your religion was written upon tablets of stone by the iron finger of your God." Giving Seattle, and Dr. Smith, the benefit of the doubt on the original Seattle speech published in the Seattle Sunday Star, there is still the question of the later Seattle speech, which is reprinted frequently. It bears little resemblance to Dr. Smith's translation and nobody ever heard of it before 1972, when it appeared in Environmental Action. In 1974, it was displayed in the U.S. Pavilion at the Seattle World's Fair. That same year, the entire text appeared in Northwest Orient Airlines' Passages magazine under the title, "The Decidedly Unforked Message of Chief Seattle." A Dutch translation appeared in 1975, followed by a Swedish translation in 1976 and a German translation in 1979. After the World Council of Churches reprinted it in book form, it saturated the Eastern Hemisphere from Finland to South Africa. It has since found its way into dozens of languages and is frequently quoted in books and magazines all over the world. Where did Environmental Action get it? According to investigator Rudolf Kaiser, EA received a xeroxed clipping from the Seattle office of Friends of the Earth, which someone had cut from a now-defunct Native American tabloid. The tabloid had transcribed it from a tape of a television show called Home, produced by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1972. The filmscript was written by Texas screenwriter Ted Perry in the winter of 1970-71, after listening to an Earth Day rendering of Dr. Smith's Seattle oration read by Professor William Arrowsmith (who poetically enhanced the speech to remove what Arrowsmith called "the dense patina of 19th century literary diction and syntax"). Ted Perry picks up the story from there: "I asked Professor Arrowsmith (he and I were both teaching at the University of Texas) if I might use the ideas a basis for the script; he graciously said yes... So I wrote a speech which was a fiction. I would guess that there were several sentences which were paraphrases of sentences in Professor Arrowsmith's translation but the rest was mine. In passing the script along to the Baptists, I always made clear that the work was mine. And they, of course, knew the script was original; they would surely not have paid me, as they did, for a speech which I had merely retyped. "In presenting them with a script, however, I made the mistake of using Chief Seattle's name in the body of the text. I don't remember why this was done; my guess is that it was just a mistake on my part. In writing a fictional speech I should have used a fictitious name. In any case, when next I saw the script it was the narration for a film called Home aired on ABC or NBC-TV in 1972, I believe. I was surprised when the telecast was over, because there was no 'written by' credit on the film. I was more than surprised; I was angry. So I called up the producer and he told me that he thought the text might seem more authentic if there were no 'written by' credit given." Arrowsmith adds: "Perry tried to insist to his producer for the film (the Southern Baptist Convention) that the speech was not in any sense a translation. But they overrode his decision... Hence they talked glibly about a 'letter' to President Pierce... In the course of their work, the Baptists added still more 'material' to the speech. The bulk of their additions is the religiosity of their Seattle." Now that the author, or authors, of Seattle's famous speech is known, what becomes of the myth? In our search for truth, are we losing sight of something more important? The Seattle speech captured the imagination of millions of people and has influenced ecological philosophy and enChristi in Britain says, "it's a whole religious concept... I think it's really a fifth gospel, almost..." Ted Perry's remarkable little piece destroyed the dualism of the sacred and the profane; it united them into a holistic Web of Life. It was a profound statement at precisely the moment western civilization was emotionally ready for it. If we can quietly forget the attribution to Seattle, perhaps we can still retain the tremendous value of the speech itself. "Every part of This earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing, and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man. "We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and manQall belong to the same family... "We know that the Whi next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his fathers graves, and his childrenUs birthright is forgotten. He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert. " "This shining water that moves in the streams and the rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you this land, you must remember that it is sacred, and you must teach your children that it is sacred and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father... The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. And if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where even the white man can go and taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow's flowers." The intrinsic value of these sentiments is so enormous, that it hardly matters who wrote them, or whether they accurately reflect the philosophy of Chief Seattle or the Duwamish people, or even Native Americans generally. The important thing to notice is that the statements have a ring of truth. The message is that we have to stop being an adversary of nature and begin seeing ourselves as part of nature's family. We have to live with, instead of in spite of, natural laws. Whether that thought originated with Seattle, Smith, Arrowsmith, or Perry doesn't matter. Sources: % Callicott, J., American Indian Land Wisdom? Sorting Out the Issues, J. of Forest History 33:1:3542 (Jan. 1989). % Editorial, The Gospel of Chief Seattle is a Hoax, Environmental Ethics 11:3:195-196 (Fall 1989). % Kaiser, R., "A Fifth Gospel, Almost" Chief Seattle's Speech(es): American Origins and European Reception, in C.F. Feest, ed., Indians and Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays (Aachen: Rader Verlag, 1987). % United Native Indian Tribes, Inc., Chief Seattle Speaks (leaflet). % Vanderwerth, W., ed., Indian Oratory: Famous Speeches by Noted Indian Chieftains (Norman: U. of Okla. Press, 1971). For a mreore recent, if less thourough traeatmemnt, see The New York Times, Apriul 21, 1992, page 1. Albert Bates NATLAW /. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 166 Florida 1st Amendment Case naturist 5:18 pm Apr 24, 1992 Thought I'd upload this item, which relates to freedom of speech and use of public areas from Florida. It's an interim victory of special interest to nudists-Naturists, but it also has general appeal. News Bites of Interest Associated Press, April 23 -- Atlanta. A Singer Island (Fla.) park manager who told a group of nudists where and when they could demonstrate -- with their clothes on -- may be liable for damages, a federal appeals panel ruled. The Naturist Society sued John Fillyaw, manager of John D. MacArthur Beach State Park on Singer Island, in 1988 after he confined the group's demonstration to a small table north of a beach entrance, limited distribution of fliers to three hours and prohibited signs and banners. The Wisconsin-based group contended in a lawsuit that Fillyaw violated its constitutional rights to free speech. TNS also sought damages. The district court in Miami ruled that the park is not a public forum and upheld Fillyaw's interpretation of the state's law on attire, speeches and conduct. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the lower court must consider whether Fillyaw correctly used the state restrictions, and ruled that the park is a public forum. TNS/Pat ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 167 Chicago--Western Suburbs Ra pfraterdeus 11:21 pm Apr 27, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Chicago--Western Suburbs Ra Attn: awf.rainbownews 4/27/92 % Office Memo 11:08 PM S U B J E C T Chicago--Western Suburbs Rainbow Picnic Chicago Rainbow Circle, Council, Picnic May 17th, Sunday Herrick Lake (near Naperville) Butterfield Road entrance I-290 West (Eisenhower) onto I-88 tollway (.50 toll) exit at Rt 53. (Morton Arboretum) N. (right) to Butterfield West to Park entrance (51 mi) Welcome Home from our Western suburbs family! Zeeb -- 708 515 0629 Robin-- 708 469 4336 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 168 U. S. Forest Service Data General mendicott 6:14 pm Apr 29, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: U. S. Forest Service Data General /* Written 5:20 pm Apr 26, 1992 by awhitworth in cdp:gateways */ /* ---------- "U. S. Forest Service Data General" ---------- */ Dear Friends: Recently I have been experimenting a lot with sending mail to the Forest Service Data General (DG). I am happy to say that most of the bugs are out and am pleased to give you these directions on how to do it. Please test this new link and report any trouble you may be having to me. Enter at the To: prompt in (m)ail ... x400:/S=S.BEAR/OU=R06F99A/PRMD=USDA.FS.X400/ ... where "S.BEAR" is the recipients username on the DG, and "R06F99A" is the recipients Forest and/or Region number. For many Forest Service employees yours may be the first message they ever received from a person outside of the USFS DG system. Your mail message will be routed from EcoNet to the Merit Internet Gateway where it is converted from the SMTP/RFC822 format to the X.400 format. From there to a gateway at the USFS Washington DC office, and via FTS2000 to the recipients Data General terminal. Users on the Forest Service Data General can send mail to you by using the syntax .... C=US/ADMD=TELEMAIL/PRMD=INTERNET/DD.RFC-822=yourusername(a)igc.org/ ... where "yourusername" is the name of your account. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 169 Russian Regional Howdy Folks mle@well.sf.ca.us 6:27 am May 4, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Russian Regional Howdy Folks Postmarked: 03 February 1992 Dear Sisters and Brothers You are welcome to the first local Russian Rainbow Gathering which will take place near St. Petersburg in June 14th-27th 1992. It will be very exciting event for Russian people, since for most of them this will be their first experience of Rainbow gatherings and meeting the Rainbow family. This event should bring the spirit and ides of the Rainbow Gathering and gave [pave] the way for the possible future world-wide gathering in Russia. To make invitations for your visa we need you to send us: 1. Your full name. 2. Your date and place of birth. 3. Your citizenship. 4. Your passport number. 5. Your permanent address. 6. Your occupation & work address. Taking into consideration the turtle speed of Russian mail deliveries, please send these details as soon as possible, and certainly by March if at all possible. It is easier for us id you use our fax number. If you have a fax, please include the number with your details. Please send these details to: Nick Vinogradov Academician Baikov St. 11-3-137 195427 St. Petersburg RUSSIA Tel: 812-5561741 Fax: 812-1135896 In case of problems, please phone (preferably in the morning, Moscow time). It will take about one month to process these invitations, which we will than send to you. Please take the invitation with your passport to the Soviet Embassy to apply for your visas. This could take up to one month. What to bring: Mosquito repellant, tents, sleeping bag and cutlery. Because of the difficult economic situation here in Russia, it would be a good idea to bring some toilet goods and foodstuffs, for example, nuts, dried fruit, muesli, butter/oil, tea, condensed milk, etc. No narcotics or alcohol. The Rainbow Gathering will be held on a wonderful field near a beautiful clean lake, river and forest. It will be a very special time because of the "white nights." How to get there: From St. Petersburg take a train at the Finland Railway Terminal to Myullyupelto (Priozersk direction). Take a bus to Vasilyevo (Melnikovo direction). On arrival follow the Rainbow sings [signs] by foot to the bridge on the river Vesyolaya, about 15 kms. We are looking forward to the possibility of meeting all of you in our country to spend a joyful time together. With Love and Peace Your Russian Brothers and Sisters All donations would be gratefully received as expenses incurred organizing this event are great, and the rouble has very little value. Please send to: Lloyds Bank Glastonbury, High Street 3 England Sort Code 30-93-47 Account name Vladislav Kirbiatiev Account number 7045545 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 170 alt.rainbow.gathering 2 responses pfraterdeus 10:04 am May 4, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: alt.rainbow.gathering Attn: awf.rainbownews alt.rainbow.gathering Well, well! Somebody's got us an alt.group! I'm not sure about the consensus to get it started. Maybe it's one of those volunteer things. (I'm all in favor! If nobody named it, who can object?) Haven't checked it yet, but will be doing so this evening! Peace and Light! Peter PS I hope to get a soc.* group started. There are a few folks working on it now.... Play for Peace! Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 170 naturist 5:07 pm May 5, 1992 Peter, Either I'm missing it or there is not an alt.rainbow.gathering on here. Anything further on this? Pat ==== ==== ==== Response 2 to Note 170 pfraterdeus 5:45 pm May 5, 1992 Hmmmmm. Maybe it's not being fully distributred yet.... I'll have to ask Wild Bill. He told me about it! Peace and Light!!! P{eter PS. Thanks for the posting on the Kickapoo stuff! P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 171 Midwest Gathering Update naturist 4:02 pm May 4, 1992 To Whomever: George Siemon met May 4 with Vernon County (WI) Sherrif Jeff Banta regarding the upcoming Midwest Regional Gathering to be held on U.S. Corps of Engineers property near La Farge. Banta was extremely concerned at start of discussion because the Rainbow function follows by one week Weedstock. That will be in same area and Banta expressed concerns that Rainbow activity would be a drug supermarket. George told him that cash transactions of all types are discouraged at Rainbow Gatherings and that drug sales are not condoned at all, which the sheriff liked hearing. He then said much was up to the Corps, which could reject Rainbow's wanting to use the land, the so-called Kickapoo Impoundment, some 23,000 acres of hilly river country in the southwestern part of the state. Banta said if Corps said no to the request, then he would have to stop entry into the area, with roadblocks if necessary. George repeatedly told him there was no way to stop it and that participants would just park and walk into the site. Banta then requested information from George that any of may be able to help with. Banta wants to hear first-hand from law enforcement types who have had good experiences with Rainbow Gatherings in the past so he knows what he's up against. Banta will call your favorite lawman if you call him and give him a name; in Viroqua, Wisc., he can be reached at 608-637- 2124. Next step is meeting with local and supervisory Corps officials, Rainbows and sheriff Friday at 9 a.m. in sheriff's office. Pat/Naturist ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 172 u 1 response coyote 8:18 pm May 5, 1992 There is Elf fest comming up in Lothlorian on 5-21 thru 5-25. A nature spiretuall gathering. Anyone know anything about this? Contact Coyote. Love and light, Coyote ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 172 naturist 1:06 pm May 15, 1992 It's Lothlorien Nature Society, near Bloomington, IN. They say thet get several hundred people at each of their five or so festivals each year, more than can easily be handled, I gather. It's all clothing optional and sounds real interesting. The phone numbers for there are 812-331-8829 or 812-332-0048. I'd be real interested in hearing more about Lothlorien. Thanks Pat ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 173 Add me to the mailing list? roise@u.washington.edu 11:20 pm May 5, 1992 From: Linda Roise Subject: Add me to the mailing list? Can you add me to the Rainbownews mailing list? Thanks! _____________________________INTERNET:_____________ roise@sumax.seattleu.edu roise@u.washington.edu or lroise@sun.lclark.edu Linda L. Roise FREENET: ___________aj023@cleveland.freenet.edu ____________________________ PRODIGY: _______________________________JXCX33A ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 174 Description of awf.* 1 response pfraterdeus 5:03 am May 6, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Description of awf.* Attn: awf.rainbownews Description of awf.* 5/6/92 2:03 AM Design Online* Alphabets Design Group [X]Please Review! Can we get our listing in the Confs descriptions changed? Currently it's: >>> awf.rainbownew Description: Distributes Rainbow Family News to local circles, including timely and accurate information about upcoming gatherings. Sponsor: AWF - Rainbow Tribe Contacts: pfraterdeus keys: community, family, rainbow, newsletters <<< I suggest: >>> awf.rainbownews Description: Discussions, news, and rumor-control of the Rainbow Tribe from local circles, including timely and accurate information about upcoming gatherings. "awf" is for the All Ways Free newspaper, from which this conference sprung. Sponsor: Rainbow "Focalizer" Council - A Volunteer Group Contacts: pfraterdeus@igc.org keys: community, rainbow, newsletters, gathering, freedom of assembly, tribal, lifestyle, nomads <<< Any comments? Anybody else want to facilitate? Peter ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 174 petros@whale.ils.nwu.edu 9:32 am May 6, 1992 From: petros@whale.ils.nwu.edu (Peter Fraterdeus) Subject: Re: Description of awf.* ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 175 RE>alt.GATHERING.RAINBOW pfraterdeus 8:22 am May 7, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: RE>alt.GATHERING.RAINBOW Attn: awf.rainbownews 8:16 PM 5/6/92 RE>alt.GATHERING.RAINBOW Good! I'm still looking for a site that's carrying the new group./ Hope to see you in CO. Ask for me at Info! Love & Light!! Peter PS. I'm going to send this on to the awf. conference... -------------------------------------- Date: 5/6/92 3:09 PM To: Custodian From: dking@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu u Message 33 (39 lines) From dking@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu Wed May 6 08:54:17 1992 From: dking@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu Subject: alt.GATHERING.RAINBOW To: pfraterdeus@igc.org Date: Wed, 6 May 92 10:52:55 CDT Hi Peter: FYI, it's alt.gathering.rainbow, (not alt.rainbow.gathering) on usenet, and it's already thriving (with lots of curious newcomers). I took the liberty of posting wanderer's note with the Boulder number etc., also some other tidbits I'd saved from the peacenet conference that gets forwarded to me via mailing list. Thanks for your efforts that bring that stuff to me -- nice to have it mixed in the usual email of busted software complaints :-). It would be nice to get some formal cross-posting set up, but I don't know much about this, and in any case must leave this job (and the net :-( ) (to go to rainbow & beyond... :-) ) soon (5/15). Anyway, post this onfo, if it's not already known. Hope to meet you in CO (Probably popping corn at the Palace, or helping Scruffy or at lovin ovens, or...) Happy Trails, Dave's Not Here David L. King University of Texas System Center for High Performance Computing ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 176 Nevada Anti-nuclear Protest mendicott 6:24 pm May 8, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Nevada Anti-nuclear Protest /* Written 8:59 am May 6, 1992 by milo@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM in cdp:alt.native */ /* ---------- "Nevada Anti-nuclear Protest" ---------- */ [I'm posting this article here because the Western Shoshone Nation is asking for support to stop the U.S. government from using their land for nuclear weapons testing. -Michele] ------------------------------------------------------------------____________ Copied without permission from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Monday, April 20, 1992. [My apologies for any misspelled names or other mistakes, I'm transcribing from a very bad FAX. -Michele] [Photo at top of column has caption reading, "Police carry off a protester Sunday waving a permit from Indians, who claim they have rights to the Nevada Test Site. The man was one of 493 arrested during the Easter demonstration."] Anti-nuclear protest nets 493 arrests The continued testing of nuclear weapons in the U.S. is the subject of a protest by 1,000 activists. By Keith Rogers Review-Journal - With drums pounding and a breeze blowing, 1000 peace activists converged on the Nevada Test Site for an Easter Sunday demonstration that led to the arrest of about half of them for trespassing on the world's only nuclear weapons proving ground. The 493 who were arrested Sunday brought the total to 761 arrested since Friday for civil disobedience actions at the test site. All those cited Sunday, primarily for misdemeanor trespassing charges were expected to be released Sunday night from the Nye County jail at Beatty, Dept. of Energy spokesman Derek Scammett said. The Energy Department runs the test site, 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, where more than 700 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted since 1951. With a moratorium on nuclear tests in effect in France and Russia, the Nevada Test Site is the only known active nuclear proving ground. A U.S. nuclear device was detonated there March 28 under the watchful eye of Russian scientists who were on hand to verify that the teat did not exceed the 150-kiloton explosive yield limit set by treaties in the 1970s. The British also test their nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site. China has not made any announcements this year on nuclear test limits. Rick Paul Springer, 41, of North Las Vegas, - the heckler who startled former President Reagan a week ago by smashing a 30-pound crystal eagle while Reagan spoke at a Las Vegas convention - attended Sunday's demonstration but was not arrested. Springer was charged with threatening an ex-president, but released on his own recognizance by U.S. Magistrate Lawrence Leavitt, who ordered him not to break any laws during the weekend protests. He is scheduled for arraignment May 4. Springer, wearing a brown leather cap and sunglasses, watched while protesters he had organized for Sunday's 100th Monkey Project demonstration were carried off by police as they sat or lay down near the cattle guard that marks the entrance to the test site. "They have plenty of police officers here. They should carry them without using their batons," Springer said. Arrests aside, Springer said the "real issue" is continued nuclear weapons testing. "Saying that nuclear weapons are a deterrent to war is like saying guns are a deterrent to murder. They aren't," he said. "If there is one thing we've learned from history it is that violence doesn't work." Dressed in yellow coveralls with a plastic nose that served as a makeshift rabbit suit, Hugh Romney, the 1960's anti-war activist better known as Wavy Gravy, stood before the line of police at the cattle guard. "There's nobody left to blow up but ourselves," he said about nuclear testing moments before his arrest. "It's an insult to our planet." Then in 1960's fashion, the throng chanted, "the whole world's watching," while some threw flowers in the air and put some flowers on a barbed wire fence. Sunday's demonstration began at 11:00 a.m. when the first wave of peace activists approached the cattle guard and surrendered to the police following a prayer service by Rev. Alain Richard and another Franciscan, Sister Rosemary Lynch. Vladimir Iakimeta [sp?], a senior researcher for the Russian Academy of Sciences, discussed the world nuclear testing situation while the first arrests were being made. He said he fears the Russians will resume testing in the fall when the moratorium is set to expire. "This will be extremely dangerous if this country (the United States) will not impose a one-year moratorium," he said. Despite claims by U.S. scientists that the United States needs to continue testing to ensure existing warheads are safe and reliable. Iakimeta said that reason "is myth," and the real reason is to develop more warheads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" The Hundredth Monkey Project to Stop Nuclear Testing Contact: Sue Navy (702) 399-4399 April 30, 1992 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nuclear Bomb Exploded Despite Public Outcry After being held off for two weeks by Veterans, Internationals, Native Americans, and environmentalists involved in The Hundredth Monkey Project to Stop Nuclear Testing, the DOE has detonated yet another nuclear bomb in Nevada today at approximately 9:45 AM PDT. Despite the Radiation Victims Compensation At announcing awards of $50,000- $100,000 to victims of past nuclear tests for deaths and illnesses, the U.S. government continues to violate international law and Treaties with the Western Shoshone in the face of global support for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB). Over 700 nuclear bombs have been detonated in the Nevada desert, each costing between $6 and $90 million, according to the Department of Energy. Anti-nuclear activist Rick Springer stated, "The Cold War has been the most devastating war in world history. Today's test, "Diamond Fortune", is proof that this war on our own people is not over. A more appropriate name for this bomb test would be "Grandchildren's Inheritance". Says Springer, "My action at the National Association of Broadcasters convention had no focus on Mr. Reagan but totally on the nuclear testing issue. It is today's nuclear bomb test that is responsible for the destruction of that crystal symbol of freedom, the eagle. It is our right to live in a world free from the threat of nuclear radiation." *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+**+ * Michele Lord * Walk in Peace with milo@scicom.alphacdc.com * our Mother Earth. milo%scicom.alphacdc.com@csn * +=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=*+=* ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 177 1992 Rainbow Gathering-Colo pfraterdeus 4:47 pm May 10, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: 1992 Rainbow Gathering-Colo Attn: awf.rainbownews 1992 Rainbow Gathering-Colorado The 21st Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes, July 1-7, 1992, will be in Colorado, probably southwestern. However, Spring Council (end of May) makes the final decision, and so the site will not be announced before June 5th or so. Probably later! For More Info, call the 1992 Rainbow Family Gathering focalizers in Colorado 303 494 2214 Send donations for the Magic Hat to: Rainbow 1705-14th Street Suite 359 Boulder, CO 80302 There is another gathering, variously known as Earth Medicine Gathering, or again, the 21st Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes also happening July 1-7, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. However, somebody else will have to find and post the info, if they desire! This gathering grew out of last year's di-Vision council, which reached a consensus on Colorado which was then rejected by a small minority of those present (that's what I saw, they will tell you different.) They continued to council after the rest of the camp had cleaned up and gone home, eventually deciding to go to South Dakota. This decision was greeted with great trepidation by many folks who have been working for years to build trust with the Sioux Nations of the Dakotas, for whom the Black Hills are sacred and ancient holy grounds. An attempt was made at Thanksgiving Council to reconcile the rift, but the SD gathering appears to be moving forward. While I know and Love some of the family involved in the SD gathering, I am painfully aware that this is a broken circle. Even so, the Great Spirit has lessons for us all. There can be unity in division, but it will take great strength and humility on all sides to heal this wound. My heart is heavy, feeling the draw toward the beautiful Paha Sapa (Black Hills), but more so feeling the call of Unity with my Family in Colorado. I know that our brothers and sisters of the Lakota and Oglala will bring us great lessons, as the people of the high mountains will as well. We need not go to South Dakota to find them, and I pray that they will find Us in one Heart, again. Come Home to Colorado. This is the Birthplace of the Rainbow Tribes, 21 Years ago. Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin! (All my Relations!) Petros PS If you need info on the SD gathering, write to Chris Stanley, 23857 Pilgrim Road, Sterling, IL 61081 Mention that Petros told you. He'll be pleased, I'm sure.... PPS. I've already said my last word on this subject. The above is just for background. Don't ask me about it anymore! Thanks! P. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 178 Wisconsin Howdy Folks, May pfraterdeus 4:49 pm May 10, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Wisconsin Howdy Folks, May Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM Wisconsin Howdy Folks, May '92 Howdy, Folks! Here's the Whole Scoop on the Upcoming Great Lakes/Wisconsin/Upper Mississippi Valley Bio-Regional Rainbow Family Gathering of the Tribes!!!! Petros ____________________________ >> GreatLakes/Mississippi River BioRegional Rainbow Gathering May ThirtiethPJune Seventh 1992 / Kickapoo River 'We the People' Public Gathering Site We come together in the Cathedral of nature to Celebrate Freedom, to Learn Co-operation and to Pray, each in our own way, for Peace on this Beautiful Blue Planet that is our home! All Peaceful Beings are invited to Gather in Nature in the beautiful Driftless Bio-Region of SW Wisconsin. Bring your Love and your free offerings of service to Our common needs. Bring bulk food Spices, Juice, Coffee, etc., for Our Kitchens. Tarps, warm clothes, 5-gallon water jugs, wheelbarrows, picks & shovels & rakes, healing herbs and 1st-aid kits. Bring your own Cup/Bowl, and spoon. Bring a sleeping bag or blankets. If you have extra, bring it to share with someone who has none. Don't bring Pets, Guns, or Alcohol. Bring Green Energy for the Magic Hat. Feel free to donate, if you want, to anyone that asks, but there is only One Magic Hat, which is passed at dinnertime. Other times it lives at the Info station. This Gathering is Free and open to the Public. Our Inalienable Right to Peaceably Assemble is Guaranteed by the First Amendment. Rap 107/701 (condensed)! We are all responsible to Keep It Clean! If you Bring it In-TAKE IT OUT! Clean-Up starts when you arrive! Keep your CigButts in your pocket. If you see Trash, PICK IT UP! There's no Prizes except the Great Feeling we get from Being Part Of IT!!! Early folks help out building Kitchens, digging Latrines, marking off Fragile or Dangerous Areas (bluffs, dunes, etc.) >>> Participation is the Key ! ! !<<< If you're a first-timer, go to Info, or a friendly Kitchen, and offer to help out. Follow someone who looks busy, and ask if they can use a hand! Gather wood for a Kitchen, or wash some pots for dinner! If you're not a first-timer, you know better! If you are sick or hurt, go to CALM. Kids and their families check-in at Kid Village. Attend Council every day at high noon. Look for Notices, and put your campsite on the Map at Info. Community Fires only (no private campfires, please!) Every Fire must have a 5-gallon Water bucket. We Are All Shanti Sena (Peacekeepers/FireWatchers). If you see someone that needs HelpQGO HELP! DirecTionZ! US 14 to Wisc. Rt 131. Go North through La Farge (15 mi.) Q 7 miles North of Rt. 82 (La Farge) to Rockton. Cross Long Bridge, Left on Cty. 'P'. 4 Mi. to Potts Corner (no houses there!) Left, about 200 yds. to first Drop off point. (Artesian well on left) Walk up the Hill, about 300 yds to Main Gate. Watch for Rainbow Banners and Signs... Save your money for the Magic Hat. Accept No Substitutes! Shuttles (if available) are run by usQfeel free to volunteer! Fuel costs are reimbursed by the Hat, not by cash at the Gate. Welcome Home! Please Copy And Distribute! Ingnore all rumors of Cancellation! << ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 179 Cumberland Gathering mrose 9:21 pm May 10, 1992 Howdy Folks, Just got back from Cumberland Rainbow Family Gathering. All is going very well. The site is beautiful. The directions are as follows: From Somerset, KY go south on U.S. 27 about 15 miles. Look for forest road on left with large wooden sign saying "Hammons Camp", there will be ribbons. Go east on road 2 miles and take right at ribbons and go 2 more miles and you'll be home. There may be a road block by government so make sure your papers are in order. This gathering lasts til May 17th and then cleanup begins. We Love You, Clearwater and Marcy ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 180 Gov't Dirty Tricks ? mle@well.sf.ca.us 9:27 am May 11, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Gov't Dirty Tricks ? Excerpted without permission from the FLORIDA TIMES UNION, May 09, 1992: >RANSOM NOTE FOR EXXON EXEC A PRANK ? > >Associated Press > >Morristown, N.J. - A group calling itself the Rainbow Warriors sent a ransom >note demanding money after the disappearance of an Exxon executive, but law >enforcement officials say they aren't convinced. > Morris County Prosecutor W. Michael Murphy Jr. said investigators hadn't >verified that any group is holding Sidney Reso, president of Exxon Co. >International, which is based in Florham Park. > Reso vanished the morning of April 29. His car was found idling in the >driveway of his suburban Morris Township home after he left for work. > A law enforcement source who spoke to The Associated Press on condition >of anonymity said investigators hadn't determined whether the note came from >a kidnapper or a prankster. > The note ordered authorities to "have a lot of money ready.... >Instructions will follow." > Exxon spokesman Jim Morakis said he didn't know if the report was true. >The FBI referred questions to Murphy. > The Rainbow Warrior, a ship of the environmental group Greenpeace, was >sunk in 1985 by French security agents and replaced with the Rainbow Warrior >II. > Greenpeace officials disavowed any involvement in the disappearance. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 181 Midwest Regional naturist 2:31 pm May 13, 1992 Peter: I have tried to reach George since my last posting on his meetings with lawmen in West WI, but unable to get through. Anything new from the La Farge region on the regional? Pat ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 182 Ann Arbor Yard Sale sjohgart 5:53 am May 17, 1992 The Ann Arbor '92 spring yard sale will be at Rainbow House, 2890 Hawks, Ann Arb Arbor (corner of Packard east of US 23 and Carpenter Rd.) May 30 and 31 from noon till dusk.If you happen to be in the area we'd love to see ya! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 183 FWD>The Government Wants to pfraterdeus 12:53 pm May 21, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: FWD>The Government Wants to Attn: awf.rainbownews From PNMAILONLY FWD>The Government Wants to Tak Please take Note: This and other types of insidious activity on the part of the increasingly despotic regime in power threaten to force each and every person in this country to bend their personal healthcare preferences to the will of the goverment. (Even further than usual!) P. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This is a forwarded post: Article 1083 of alt.psychoactives: Path: taco!rock!mcnc!uvaarpa!caen!sdd.hp.com!wupost!psuvax1!hsdndev!morrow.stan f ord.edu!news From: GQ.PAW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Peggy Williams) Newsgroups: alt.psychoactives Subject: The Government Wants to Take Away Our Vitamins and Supplements Message-ID: <1992May19.223020.28727@morrow.stanford.edu> Date: 19 May 92 22:30:20 GMT Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service) Distribution: usa Organization: Stanford University, California, USA Lines: 102 Perhaps you have heard about the pending legislation that will give the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) considerable power and enable them to severely restrict the vitamins and supplements that have been available to us for many years. You can help prevent this from happening by contacting your Congressmen and Senators. I am posting this message on behalf of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Health Federation, a non-profit health rights organization. The bottom line is that in Fall 1992, laws may be passed (HR 3642/S 2135) that could likely result in the following: * Dramatically reduce the potency of vitamins and minerals, (such as Vitamin A and C) reclassifying high potency vitamins and supplements as drugs. This means that common vitamins and minerals that are in potencies greater than is found in foods will be regulated as drugs, and only available through prescription. * Make supplements now on health food store shelves (and even in your supermarket) unavailable for over-the-counter purchase. Amino acids will be among those supplements that will be available by prescription only. * Eliminate certain kinds of nutrients altogether, those which "have not been shown to be essential in human nutrition," including selenium, chromium, rutin, bioflavonoids, and other "similar substances." * Stop the importation of supplements such as herbs, which will be highly regulated and possibly eliminated. * Any education material, whether product specific or not, may be considered a "third party endorsement," and therefore any person even referring to a book about herbs or vitamins may be considered to be "making a health claim for an 'unapproved' drug." How is this possible? The Nutritional Labeling Education Act (NLEA) was enacted in 1990 and was primarily designed to provide the American public with clearer information and standardized terms about the nutritional content of foods. The NLEA mandates that the FDA develop guidelines for how health claims can be made on food products. However, the FDA has proposed strict regulations that extend far beyond the initial intent of the legislation. Historically, the FDA has shown an inherent bias against the dietary supplement industry. Now there is concrete evidence -- the FDA has taken severe actions to limit the public's freedom to access these nutrients and alternative forms of health care, as indicated by their latest gun-point raid on Jonathan Wright, M.D, a physician well-known and well respected in Washington state who used alternative vitamin therapy. The thorough confiscation of this doctor's vitamins, minerals, patient medical records, computer equipment, and other inventory occurred on May 6, 1992. Although many people question the use of vitamins, supplements, and herbs in the maintenance and regulation of human health, these products have been available to the general public for many years with comparatively few adverse consequences, as compared to the thousands of complaints registered yearly against medical drugs. In this age of increasing health concerns, we must maintain our FREEDOM to choose the kinds of health care we feel is appropriate for us, and not allow the FDA to take over this very personal responsibility! What can you do to help prevent this from happening? * CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE. Let them know how you feel about the proposed regulations. You can: 1. Write a letter voicing your concerns. For those who are interested, I have a couple of sample letters I can send you via e-mail. Handwritten letters carry the most weight, though a form letter is better than nothing. If you need information about your local Congressmen/Senators, contact me; I may be able to provide you with specific names and addresses. 2. Call your local office (in the local Government section of the telephone book). 3. If you are aware of the Jonathan Wright case (described briefly above), you can also send a FAX to Sam Skinner, Chief of Staff and the President, letting them know your sentiments about the recent FDA attacks. A dedicated FAX line has been set up for this function; it is (202) 456-2461. * COPY THIS INFORMATION AND DISTRIBUTE IT WIDELY. Tell your friends, and family. Check with your local health food store and natural health care provider for up-to-date information. I have more details on the proposed legislation; contact me via e-mail if you want more information. Let's act now to preserve our FREEDOM in Health Care! Peggy Williams gq.paw@forsythe.stanford.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: The views expressed above do not necessarily represent the views of my employer. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 184 late summer/fall gatherings chicken@maria.wustl.edu 1:14 pm May 22, 1992 Subject: late summer/fall gatherings From: Mike Ezrine a friend is looking for more information on the gatherings that will take place after the national specifical those which take place which in a 500 mile radius of Tulsa Oklahoma Peace Cm ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 185 stuff for people to read and reply chicken@maria.wustl.edu 11:17 am May 23, 1992 Subject: stuff for people to read and reply too From: Mike Ezrine Ok here goes: :). I would like Steve who is from Phila to get in contact with me (regarding item :):)) and something else. :):). If anyone is looking for a ride from East Coast Ny,Ct too St. Louis Let me know. :):):). I am wondering if anyone in the MidWest is headed to Wisconin in the next 10 days. I am right now in St. Louis and plan on hitching but if Someone is going from around here or Chicgo or something let me know. :):):):). I though I still had the copy of the letter about the Nivado test site could you please e-mail it to me. Peace, Love and No Flush toilets!!!! Cm ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 186 Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin!!! pfraterdeus 8:57 pm May 23, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin!!! Attn: awf.rainbownews GOOD MORNINGI Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin!!! Well, it looks like home to me! I am really overjoyed to see this alt.gathering* group get off the ground! Answering a few questions here that I've seen over the last few days.... 1. There is an archive started at igc.org. That is PeaceNet. I'm working on getting anonymous ftp for the archive. (PeaceNet is a subscription service) 2. Don't blame me, I just work here.... 3. "Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin" is Lakota for "Ho! All my Relations!" This is in the context of "Thanks, GrandMothers, Thanks, GrandFathers, Thanks, Earth People (Rocks, Mountains, Rivers) Thanks, Plant People (Trees, Herbs, Fungus*), Thanks, Winged and Four-footed People, Insect People, Microbial People, Thanks, Human People, my Family, Thanks to all of You, All my Relations! For Bringing me In, for Supporting me, for Gifting Me, for Receiving my Gifts. Thanks to You, Infinite Spirits of the Infinite Directions, for Leading our Hearts to this Circle today. Thanks to You Star Goddess, for watching over us and sending us the Signs that help us keep on the Rainbow Trail!" Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin! (* Actually, I believe the Fungus people are now considered a separate Kingdom, distinct from the Plant Kingdom) 4. If you have specific questions that need answers quick, feel free to mail me directly, as I don't check the group every day... that's "pfraterdeus@igc.org". Love you all! Oh, Yeah, I've got some wonderful stuff from our Family in Mexico. When I get it transcribed, I'll get it up here. Til then, just this.... >>" We hope to hold a regional gathering for about 2-3 weeks either on the Pacific coast-- the state of Oaxaca, very likely -- or in the Gulf Coast, probably in the South apart of the State of Veracruz. We hope to inform you where exactly in Colorado. It will be in Dec. 12 - Jan.5th. Rodolfo Rosa Escobar Rainbow Family Focalizer Nadadores 67-A Col. Country Club Churubusco 04220 Coyoac'an M'exico 21, D.F. (read accent over following letter) Tel: 549-2234 "<< Should be great, eh! Love to all, Peter (Petros) "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" -- Albert Einstein "Unity is plural and at minimum, two" -- R. Buckminster Fuller PS. For the time being all of my posts will be sent explicitly to both the awf.rainbownews conference on PeaceNet, and to alt.gathering.rainbow. Once we get a pipe, one way or the other, this will not be neccesary. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 187 On rage in the streets -- b pfraterdeus 4:25 pm May 24, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: On rage in the streets -- b Attn: awf.rainbownews On rage in the streets -- by We the People The rage in the streets could better be stemmed through the establishment of great neighborhood festivals going on for 7-10 days, one for each season, if possible, than by the further establishment of bunkers and greater police presence in afflicted areas. With co-operation the keyword rather than materialistic competition, these would be times of Community Building, and Re-Building, as great tracts of glass-sharded inner-city wasteland become temporary home to a 24-hour, 7-day long festival of Music and Celebration and Waste Removal. The catch is that Shared Responsibility for the very success of the festival is distributed through the whole community. Think of All those good, honest, real people, that give help in a disaster, the ones that not only saved lives in the streets of LA, but commit small random acts of kindness every day. If they were encouraged to come out into the streets of their communities, to find enjoyment and friendship in their neighbors, to appreciate, and be appreciated as they and guests invited from every part of the society help to sweep, hose, haul trash and re-plant public walkways and parks. Evenings would be pungent with outdoor kitchens on every corner, with food for all regardless of ability to pay. In the evenings, Music from small informal stages would drift through the streets. A few Kitchens stay open all night, for Video or presentations, or perhaps health, job or personal counseling. Clinics and Information Booths would be staffed 24 hours. Unfortunately, Our "Government", under the guise of the "war on drugs" has already turned many of these areas into armed-camps, effectively "protecting the people from themselves". When the keepers of the Peace have become an occupying force, it is apparent that civic and societal structures have been compromised. Community activities should be funded in perpetuity by We the People of the United States, through our agents, the US government. Otherwise the Repression that leads to rage in the streets will inevitably wear away the last tatters of Our Constitution, and the very Freedom that should encourage every one of us to help those in need. In fact, if one were to ask what price our Freedom really has, it would be that. That if we so abuse Freedom, that there are those amongst us that cry out, and are not heard, that stumble and are not helped, then our Freedom will retreat into a storybook time, where the old will remember a country which, though imperfect, still strove for an ideal never before reached on this wide blue worldQthat all humans are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, among them Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Note the fact that this last phrase contains three objects, not just life, nor even merely Liberty, but also the Pursuit of Happiness. One could very well argue that this foundation Document, the Declaration of Independence, has a status overarching the Constitution, since clearly, it is the statement of We the People, who then through Our Constitution designed and empowered the "Government" to manage Our lands, and Our Interests. In this statement, We affirm Our right (not a priviledge, but a Right!) to discard any form of "goverment" which disturbs or threatens Our inalienable Rights, and replace it with a form more suited for the times, or circumstances of Our pleasure. These Three Inalienable Rights are more fundamental than Constitutional Rights. The Supreme Court even at its most sour may not legally compromise, or even dare to interpret these Rights. However, there is no easy, well defined path to ascertain and protect Our Rights from the assault of Forces injurious to them. We the People must learn to assert Our Rights against this government which steals, and wastes, and lays siege to Our Freedom and our Priviledge. While the current Constitution still retains the form of the government, We must make Our pleasure known to our agents in the Congress, and We periodically must select a president who shall bear personal responsibility for the successful management of Our Realms. If either Our agents or Our president fail in their responsibility, or if any person who accepts the lawful payment of We the People, for any service, shall so fail, We must require their resignation. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 188 A modest proposal 1 response pfraterdeus 8:16 pm May 25, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: A modest proposal Attn: awf.rainbownews From PEACENET_QM A modest proposal Forwarded from the en.energy Conference on econet (igc.org) Petros -------------------------------------- Date: 5/25/92 6:30 PM From: u Topic 322 A modest proposal planthemp en.energy 9:40 pm May 24, 1992 To: UNCED and all World Governments From: Richard Davis and Chris Bradfield, California Green Party, Sacramento and Mendocino Working Groups Subject: Declaration of an International Emergency The following is motivated by a green concern for the planet earth - our common home. Ecological wisdom calls for a definite change in priorities toward survival thinking. Earth's atmosphere is in a crisis state. Our ozone layer is being destroyed worldwide. Adam Trombly, noted physicist and co-founder with Buckminster Fuller of Project Earth, says we have only a couple of years left to do anything about it. The U.S. National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed worldwide ozone destruction. Global warming has been called "the most serious environmental threat of the 21st Century," by 49 Nobel Prize winning scientists. They appealed to President Bush to curb greenhouse gas emissions, saying: "...only by taking action now can we insure that future generations will not be put at risk." These related atmospheric issues demand a worldwide emergency declaration by the Rio Summit accompanied by action to halt destruction, and begin immediate remediation. People are the only cause of ecological devastation, but they are also the only source of its recovery. Therefore, we as greens of the world demand consideration of the following plan for the healing of our atmosphere: 1. Declare an emergency worldwide shutdown of all chlorine and bromine production except for pharmaceutical uses. The entire family of chlorine and bromine compounds, and any other ozone destroying compounds must be banned immediately as well as removed and detoxified of storehouses of chlorine and bromine products. Alternatives to these substances are available and we must pay the price for conversion. We have no choice. The health of the entire planet cannot be compromised. 2. An immediate worldwide emergency program to supplement the oxygen in the STRATOSPHERE. Trombly, who is also co-director of the Institute for Advanced studies at Aspen, Colorado, suggests this will cost $4.9 billion annually. 4. Emergency supplementation of oxygen into the TROPOSPHERE. To do this, we propose a two phase program, remembering that the fate of our common home is at stake. A. An immediate 5 year ban on logging worldwide. Forests can help provide this oxygen, while removing CO2 from the atmosphere. B. To supplement our depleted forests worldwide in the production of oxygen and removal of carbon dioxide, we call for an immediate worldwide planting of Cannabis sativa (hemp), to create a carbon sink that can be measured and monitored as we reverse global warming. We call on the United Nations to remove Cannabis sativa from the Single Convention on Drug Use, in the light of its extraordinary industrial potential and its long history in service to people, including its medical uses, dating back many thousands of years. 5. An emergency worldwide effort to get off fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. Fossil fuels are largely responsible for the greenhouse effect, adding CO2, with no natural mechanism for removal of such large quantities. Acid rain, which kills 60,000 people annually in the U.S. and Canada, is also a result of burning fossil fuels. 6. We demand governments remove all secrecy from the atmospheric studies, thereby allowing scientists to come forward with full information to focus on this emergency crisis. Persons found to be withholding pertinent information, should risk dismissal or incarceration. 7. Daily health warnings and media notifications regarding abnormal levels of ultra-violet B (UVB) radiation must be broadcast in all localities in the world. Public health measures to deal with skin and eye exposure to UVB must be encouraged and investigated on a priority basis. We as one world must do the right thing and act in concert or we may all perish. Again there can be no compromise with the health of the earth. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 188 LIVINGSTONM@RASCAL.GUILFORD.EDU 5:20 pm May 29, 1992 From: Mike Livingston Subject: Re: A modest proposal Students from around the U.S. will be holding a vigil at the U.S. UNCED dele- gation's headquarters in Washington throughout the summit (around the clock, beginning at noon on June 6). Having spent two years demanding a broader agenda, A SEED (Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development) is now demonstrating to counter public satisfaction with UNCED. Join us on the Jackson Place side of Lafayette Square. For more details, call the UNCED Youth / A SEED coordinating office at (202) 797-6642. Peace! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 189 Rumor Control RE- Zeus Cosm pfraterdeus 8:27 pm May 25, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Rumor Control RE- Zeus Cosm Attn: awf.rainbownews Rumor Control RE: Zeus Cosmos The following is my own opinion, not the consensus of any council. However, I am consolidating the reports and concerns of many who have counciled with me over the past 18-24 months regarding the Info/Rumor situation. I stand by what I say. Petros ************************************** Great Spirit, keep my heart true, may I now speak the truth. Contrary to anything that our dear well loved brother Zeus Cosmos may say, there is absolutely NO TRUTH in his report that there will be any THANKSGIVING COUNCIL in GEORGIA!!!! Or anywhere else!!! Not until it is decided in Colorado at the Rainbow Family Tribal Council! That ONLY MEETS July 1-7, in Colorado this Year!!!! Nor will there be any other gatherings just because Zeus starts a rumor. Please note that Zeus Cosmos has his OWN AGENDA. His agenda is rumor and confusion. It is contrary-ism. It attracts contraries, as well, who though they are in our Tribe, are not of it. The Contraries are a tribe of their own, which has other truths, and other lessons. This agenda IS NOT IN THE INTEREST of We, the People, we, our Family. He has come up with a way to be in the spotlight, which is where his ego desires to be. The way is to create scenarios out of "whole cloth", and then try to convince people that there is a movement in that direction. This is how the South Dakota gathering evolved.... (While I have great respect for some of the folks now involved therein, I still can't respect the way it happened.) This devisive and coercive intent can bring all of us closer to great harm in the long and short of it! PLEASE DO NOT SPREAD ANY RUMOR THAT ZEUS FEED YOU. Be Careful with your Messages. Don't spread thought disease. Wash your hands of rumor and half-truth before working in the Kitchen of Communication! (A lesson learned by hard experience!) Please leave a message for Peter at pfraterdeus@igc.org, if you hear anything from or about Zeus Cosmos. My Mail address is Peter Fraterdeus, PO Box 5448, Evanston, IL 60204 Love and Light! Thanks, Great Spirit for our Contraries, they sure help us learn to sift truth from fantasy! Petros ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 190 e-mail to s-mail person needed chicken@maria.wustl.edu 10:02 pm May 25, 1992 Subject: e-mail to s-mail person needed From: Mike Ezrine I am looking for someone who is mostly computer bound (not region 16 most of the year) who would be willing to print out and smail both alt.gsther*.* AND AWF.RAINBOW NEWS (which I hope are joined early this week) to me so that I can see them and also share them with people as a travel both to gatherings and elsewhere. If you are interested let me know I can/will help in anyway I can Techinaly and other wise and it would be a great help to the Region 16 family and the gatherings in general. Peace and No Flush toilets!!!! Cm ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 191 Save Colorado Old-Growth --Boycott mendicott 6:19 pm May 26, 1992 From: Marcus L. Endicott Subject: Save Colorado Old-Growth --Boycott /* Written 6:17 pm May 19, 1992 by sshea in cdp:boycott.alerts */ /* ---------- "Save Colorado Old-Growth --Boycott" ---------- */ Boycott Stone Container Corporation!!. Stone Container is logging the very last of Colorado's old=gr-growth forests. As the world's largest supplier of cardboard and newsprint, Stone is irreparably damaging the last 3% of Colorado old-growth in an attempt to keep up the status quo and keep its mill in southern Colorado open for business. The next time you go shopping, check the bottom of the grocery bag you get. If it says "Good News", Topco, or Stone, you are supporting yet another raper of the forests. Here in Colorado, we have very little merchanable timber. It's high and dry here--not the optimum for growing 300-400 year old trees, yet we still have some!! ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 192 *CyberSpace/NetSpace Region pfraterdeus 11:48 am May 27, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: *CyberSpace/NetSpace Region Attn: awf.rainbownews *CyberSpace/NetSpace Regional Council Howdy, Y'All! How about a NetSpace Council for all us cyber-regional focalizers (anyone that reads this with understanding!) on July 2nd in Colorado? This will give us a chance to meet each other in the body before the madness of Focalizer Council begins! Do I hear a consensus (ie. "the unspoken solidarity of like-minded individuals?"--Thumper)? Good, I don't hear anything! So nobody objects? If you've got a better idea, let's hear it! My vision of the cyberspace Online Council is to serve our Family and Community by publishing, in a very timely fashion, the important news that we receive from this amazing network, that spans the Whole Earth. It is a position of great responsibility and challenge, in that only a few of us have the time or access to this network to be able to use it to the best advantage. The net is a powerful resource which we must learn to use with respect. I encourage all good hearted people to read and reproduce anything that you find in this conference, >IF< you feel it is appropriate to pass it on. As a focalizer (as you are if you do this), it's finally up to you to decide what is true to your heart. (My position is that this is a public forum, and that the words herein are in the public domain, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. If an author wishes to publish material with a copyright notice, we should be honorable, and respect that notice. However, I encourage any such author to grant rights to reproduce for non-commercial purposes!!!) My belief is that this medium is the only truly free and democratic one currently available today (In terms of freedom from manipulation by the PTB (powers that be)). Yet it's only accessable (as I said) to a few of us that have the knowledge and understanding to get to it. Therefore, it is up to us, our service to our tribe, to act as conduits and channels for this info. Print out a few pages whenever you get the chance. Start a mailing list of other folks on the net that would like to know this stuff. Tell your friends at school about alt.gathering.rainbow. Take copyie to your local circle picnics (you do have a local circle picnic, don't you?!) Tell your friends on Tour, and in the GD conferences on the WELL, and elsewhere. Take printouts with you wherever you go!!! Be a Region 17 (NetSpace) walking Info Center! BUT>>> "Be Careful with your Messages. Don't spread thought disease. Wash your hands of rumor and half-truth before working in the Kitchen of Communication! (A lesson learned by hard experience!)" StarGoddess Shine on us All! Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin! Om Shalom! Petros (Peter) pfraterdeus@igc.org (Dum teki dum dum Tekidi tek ! ! ! 3>) "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" -- Albert Einstein "Unity is plural and at minimum, two" -- R. Buckminster Fuller PS. For the time being all of my posts will be sent explicitly to both the awf.rainbownews conference on PeaceNet, and to alt.gathering.rainbow. Once we get a pipe between them, one way or the other, this will not be necessary. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 193 Hemp for Victory!!! pfraterdeus 12:02 pm May 27, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: Hemp for Victory!!! Attn: awf.rainbownews Hemp for Victory!!! Weedstock just ended (in SW Wisconsin), and all the "straight" press could think of to write about was that there were 100 busts (for "drug offenses". NO KIDDING, DUH!)..... NOTHING about WHY people would want to see hemp legal! That the seeds have more and better quality protein than any other plant except soybean (and easier to digest than soy). That those same seeds have 35% high quality edible oil from which fuel, solvents and lubricants can be made (non-polluting, bio-degradable). Nothing About the strongest fiber in the plant kingdom, from which the best Paper, Linen and Canvas (canvas-cannibis, same root word!) were made for thousands of years before the middle of this century. Nothing about how cannibis acreage makes a top quality carbon sink, offsetting the greenhouse effect of urban-based fossil-fuel burning, and producing bio-mass tonnage for energy production. Nothing about the complete waste of human resources involved in repressing a natural and HARMLESS plant medicine, safer than asprin. Thousands of peaceloving harmless fathers, mother, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, busted into PRISON for YEARS of their lifes, just for believing in the freedom to grow, trade, smoke and use Hemp products. This is an absolute travesty of Justice. It is a violation of Natural Law. No government has the right to outlaw a naturally living species. There will be a time in the not-so-distant future that people will look back on this time with horror, not only at the evils of war and racism, sexism and facism, but at the deliberate repression of a peace-loving and productive culture, through the repression of their chosen recreational herb. If we don't do something about this, it's our own fault that it keeps getting worse. Get out register and Vote. Write to your representatives. If they don't hear from us, they'll only hear from the OTHER SIDE!!!! WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT WE'VE GOT TO USE IT! If we don't get involved in the process, we have only ourselves to blame. Think about it. Petros (Peter) Responses to: pfraterdeus@igc.org "Imagination is more important than Knowledge" -- Albert Einstein "Unity is plural and at minimum, two" -- R. Buckminster Fuller Read "alt.gathering.rainbow" for up-to-date info about Rainbow Tribal Gatherings and events. (Not an official Rainbow function!) ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 194 June 5, 6, 7 -- HEMPSPLASH -- Libe esterling 6:42 pm Jun 1, 1992 June 5, 6, 7, 1992. HEMPSPLASH '92 at Arrowhead Ranch, Parksville, N.Y. Benefit the Cannabis Action Network. $23 for camping and three days of music on 800 acres. Swimming, hiking, horseback riding. Hemp meals. Rock'n'roll. Reggae. Funk. Dead. Rap. Folk. Fusion. No alcohol, pets, firearms or drugs. Call Cannabis Action Network -- 606-873-5604. Or call Arrowhead Ranch 914-292-6267. 2 hours northwest of New York City in the beautiful Catskill Mountains. From New York Rt. 17 at Exit 98 Cooley Road. Go north 2 miles to Ranch. Bus service from New York's Port authority bus terminal on Shortline Bus. Leave bus at Liberty, N.Y. or Parksville. Free shuttle to Ranch. Bands! INclude Cypress Hill, The Deadbeats, Dharma Bums, Rastarafiki, LifeForce, The Hour, Gravity, Blind Mans Holiday. Music outside all afternoon Saturday and Sunday. Music inside Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night. Drum circles after bands. The most exciting hemp legalization gathering this summer. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 195 TV show/Families that "gather" esterling 7:37 pm Jun 1, 1992 The Sally Jessy Raphael TV show is interested in producing a show on families that go to the Rainbow Family Gathering. If you are interested in this, call the producer, Jodi Turk, at 212-582-1722 in New York City. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 196 Democratic Convention 1 response wbai 7:27 pm Jun 2, 1992 I'm the pieman... I am involved in helping to organize protests at the Democratic convention in NYC July 13-16. I', asking all social justice minded rainbows to converge on Central Park. We have been turned down for a camping permit by the Parks Department. We need to go in and take the park for the people. I can be reached at the following numbers: 718-648-7055 (home)/718-934-5635 (messages)/or care of Unconvention hotline 212-465-2548. See you in Colorado. ==== ==== ==== Response 1 to Note 196 esterling 9:15 am Jun 3, 1992 When John F. Kennedy was running for President, Harry Truman said at one point, "Anyone who votes for Nixon is going to hell!" Kennedy, who was being attacked for his Roman Catholicism reportedly sent a note, "Dear Harry, Let's not raise religion as an issue." Whatever we do in New York City that ties marijuana law reform to Bill Clinton will hurt Clinton. Almost all social minded registered voters and Rainbows who don't vote Libertarian are likely to vote for Clinton. Indeed, most pot smokers are likely to vote for Clinton over Bush or Texas War on Drugs Perot. For Clinton to win, and become the first publicly self-declared pot smoking president, he will have to convince a lot of undecided voters in the middle. The more pot-smoking is tied to Clinton, the fewer of those undecided votes he will get. If we have to raise hell around a campaign, let's go to Houston and expose that bozo Dan Quayle as a hypocrite and liar. Eric Sterling ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 197 Ride to Colorado needed DMCOLES@NUACVM.BITNET 6:47 am Jun 3, 1992 From: Denise Subject: Ride to Colorado needed Hi! This is Denise in Evanston, IL (near Chicago). I'm trying to find a way out to the Gathering in Colorado. With airfares so cheap, I could fly out most of the way if I had someone to meet up with who could give me a ride, but I have to know by June 5 to get the cheap fares and I don't really feel comfortable with the idea of trying to hitch a ride to the site from the airport. So--is there anyone out there closer to Colorado than I am right now who could give me a ride if I flew out to meet them? I can leave Chicago anytime after the late evening on June 26 and have to be back by the night of July 12. I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who could give me a ride from Chicago. Does anyone know how close I could get to the Gathering if I went by Greyhound or Amtrak? Is there anyone I can meet up with if I did that? I can't drive unfortunately, but I can pay for gas/expenses/whatever. This will be my first Gathering and I am eagerly anticipating it, but haven't been able to find a ride yet. :-( If you can help me out or know someone I can contact who might be able to, please get in touch with me. Suggestions on ways to finde a ride are welcome too. Thanks! Peace and love, Denise dc@nwu.edu dmcoles@nuacvm.acns.nwu.edu ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 198 no subject (file transmission) mike@bcserv.wustl.edu 10:44 am Jun 3, 1992 From: mike@bcserv.wustl.edu Subject: no subject (file transmission) Path: wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hoptoad!rob From: rob@cygnus.com (Rob Savoye) Newsgroups: alt.gathering.rainbow Subject: Denver Post Article Message-ID: <30763@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 3 Jun 92 01:10:02 GMT Sender: news@hoptoad.uucp Distribution: alt Organization: Cygnus Support -- +1 415 322 3811 Lines: 69 Nntp-Posting-Host: cygnus.com I saw this in today's Denver Post, June 2. Figured some folks might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Western Slope site For July 'Groove-in' The rainbow Family, a global tribe of aging hippies, earnst New Agers and countercultural spirit seekers, is returning this summer to Colorado, scene of its first encampment 20 years ago. Organizers for the patchwork, post-Woodstock assemblage of peace-and-love spiritualists expect as many as 40,000 followers to descend omn a remote national forest site somewhere on the western slope for the July 1-7 gathering. Officials for the US Forest service are counting on at least half that number. "They eat and they make merry, and they commune -- and if their prediction is met, it will be the largest city on the Western Slope" said Dennis Neill, a Forest Service spokesman in Denver who expects the throng to begin arriving in mid-June. "If we don't have 1,000 people in two weeks, I'll be surprised." Just where the Rainbows will park their old school buses and pitch their tents, tepees, and lean-to's is unknown. The family's "spring council" meeting, now underway at Taylor Park Reservoir near Gunnison, is still debating a site. For more than a month, scouts have crisscrossed the Western Slope, looking at locations in Sab Juan, Gunnison, Rio Grande, and Uncompahgree national forests. "They've been telling us since late last week, "We'll tell you tomorrow,"" said Neill. "We've got lots of gorgeous placews in Colorado, so I can understand that. Barry Adams, a Montana member who helped organize the Rainbows's first gathering, outside of Granby in 1972, said "People go to where the Earth and the spirit calls them. Everybody in the world is welcome to come. It's a gathering for peace." Adams enthusiastically looks forward to what some family members have dubed "The 20th Anniversity Return To Home." "It'll be a beautiful gathering, a happening," said Adams, a self-described Rainbow "hip-storian" nicknamed "Plunker" for the two stringed musical instrument he plays. "To me, Colorado was the Pinnacle, a major moment and time of my life." Know officially as the Rainbow Family Of Living Light, the group drew more than 15,000 spiritual revelers to it's inagural, four-day convergenence at Strawberry Lake east of Granby. Initially, it caused bad vibrations for unprepared state and local officials. But legal standoffs, road closures, and law enforcement hassles eventually gave way to a spirited gatjering that peaked on July 4, 1972, when about 3,000 Rainbow members trekked up Table Mountain for a dancing, chanting, and mediating love-in with God. Planning for subsequent gatherings has been refined over the years, and Rainbows are working closely with the Forest service and local agencies on water, garbage, and sanitation, security, and other arrangements. On one of the busiest weeks of the summer, merchants in neighboring communities are likely to do a booming business in food, gasoline, and other nessities. Perhaps anticipating possible run-ins between some Rainbows and law officials, Neill noted that while the family describes itself as opposed to drug use, "they say marijuana is not a drug, but an herb." Most years, babies are born and a few people die natural deaths at the gathering. In fact, a boy born at the original Granby groove-in, now 20 years old, is expected to return this year. ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 199 mt. shasta gathering? suev 12:48 pm Jun 3, 1992 we just got a call here , asking about the mount shasta, ca gathering . does anyone know anything about this gathering? if so, please call vincent johnson at 916-299-3249 and leave a message. thanks. -sue ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 200 From Mexico Rainbow Family! pfraterdeus 9:35 pm Jun 3, 1992 From: Peter Fraterdeus Subject: From Mexico Rainbow Family! Attn: awf.rainbownews From Mexico Rainbow Family! ( This event happened already, but its worth reading about! And contains a model for possible actions in any part of the world! I hope to hear soon how it went, and I'll post that report, when it's received! -Peter) ********************************************************************** Greetings Brothers and Sisters! In the spring of 1991 a regional gathering was successfully held in the Nahnu Ceremonial Center in Temoaya, near Mexico City. More than about 150 persons of different groups, tribes, clans and familiars spent there about one week. A Rainbow Vision and Peace Council, a Bioregional Congress, a Woman's Council and a Pow-Wow of some native American nations were simultaneously all four able to reach there the conclusion that they are part of a single action network: "The Guardians of the Earth." For 1992 a similar, but wider, gathering will be held in Mazunte, a fishing village on the state of Oaxaca, in the Pacific coast. The southernmost point in Oaxaca. The date will be May 1 to 5, 1992. We have agreed with our host to some restrictions and rules. No alcohol, drugs, or weapons. And if you stay with a native family and eat there, there will be a payment to them of some $20.00 US per day per person. Which, considering the real extreme predominant poverty of the place, is fair. If you camp on your own, the event is absolutely free and non-commercial. Except for voluntary donations to the "magic hat" or a charge of some $7.50 US dollars per diem if you participate with or are affiliated with some of the intentionally non-Rainbow family groups such as the various mexican "greens" or other similar well-funded, subsidized groups. Unlike most Rainbow gatherings, it will involve heavy interaction with the local communities. We intend to teach, learn and work with them, largely through the practice, and custom locally known as "Tequio". Teaching them practical skills involving appropriate technologies such as building biogas digestors, mural painting, solar energy stoves and heaters, ater recycling, beadwork, and/or others similar. Mazunte is a community of around 100 families in a beach area, surrounded by tropical jungle, swamps and tidal lakes well-stocked with fish, crocodiles and birds. With a small, magic peninsula, "Punto Cometa". The southernmost point in Oaxaca, an ancient sacred area and place of power for the Olmecs and others. It is also internationally known because some species of giant sea turtles dig and ovulate in some of the beaches. This last phenomena was until recently the basis of Mazunte's economy. Centered formerly on turtle catching, slaughtering and even turtle meat canning and processing. The eggs were also processing. The eggs were also sought on account of their commercial demand, mainly as a supposed aphrodisiac. In 1990, through a great continuous, long and hard national and international effort, turtle catching was forbidden. Mazunte had to seek new means of livelihood. Mainly through poor subsistence agriculture in the area, which involved slash-and-burn techniques for corn and bean production, which are ecologically very negative and primitive. Also uneconomic and low yielding. Since about a year and a half ago a spiritual and yoga group known as "Ecosolar" has started in the area an ecodevelopment project hoping, with the community, to introduce and popularize various alternative means of livelihood which will improve quality of life as well as healing themselves and nature. Your participation in the Vision Council will certainly help support this project. Not only because of your mere presence, but on account of your possible involvement in the "Tequio" work. With activities such as tree-planting, potable water system construction, therapy, music, mural painting, sculpture, and any others that will help strengthen the Mazunte community and improve their spiritual, material and economic self-sufficiency and well- being. This involvement (hopefully) will extend well beyond the time of the gathering. If you come again at a later date, or if you can't come in May and can come later, and have some skill to contribute for healing, joy or happiness, you will certainly be welcome by this community and by the Mexican Rainbow family! The area is beautiful but needs healing. Besides fine beaches and coral formations and plenty of algae and fish species, there is the estuarine lagoons, some jungle and nearby mountains with pine forests. Also quite a lot of prehispanic temples, cities. And a lot of colonial architecture, towns and native nations. Zipolite beach, about 3 miles away, is a nudist area and also famous for its gentle waves and very safe conditions. Weather in the area is hot, with abundant mosquitos and various other insect pests. Please come equipped accordingly. To get there you can fly to Huatulco, a commercial beach resort area with an international airport about 50 miles away, or from Mexico City to Puerto Escondido's airport, which is about the same distance. From both places there are plenty of minibuses to Pochutla and Puerto Angel, from where you can get a taxi to Mazunte, which will cost about $20.00 US dollars for abou persons. You can also take a taxi to Zipolite for about $14.00 US dollars and then walk about 3 miles to Mazunte. Or you can walk about 5 miles. If you drive, the best route is Mexico City to Acapulco and then head south towards Puerto Escondido. It takes about 10-12 hours. We will have some free transportation from the San Antonio cross road near Pochutla to nearby Puerto Angel and Mazunte. There will be a lot of activities during the 5 days of the gathering. Groups and individuals that will assist will teach musical instrument construction, polarity therapy, massage, dynamic meditation, bioregionalism, snorkeling, astronomy, hammock weaving, and others. Besides workshops and councils there will be a kid village and activities for children. Rodolfo Rosas Escobar Rainbow Family Focalizer Nadadores 67-A Col. Country Club Churubusco 04220 Coyacan. Mexico 21, D.F. Tel.: 549-2234 ***Side Two*** TOPICS I. Rainbow Vision and Peace Council a) Alternative and Integral Education b) The art of living c) Alternative and holistic healing d) Decentralized and autonomous civil organizations e) New scientific paradigms f) Astrology g) Spiritual groups h) Unification processes i) Rituals and Cosmogony II. Green, Alternative Bioregional Visions a) Genocide and ecocide, peace and harmony b) Integral democracy c) City-rural imbalance d) Human rights e) Identity, dependence and free trade agreements f) Survival and quality of life g) Multidiversity III. Sacred network of Indigenous Nations vision council a) Our history. Past. Future. b) Land, mother nature and health c) Cosmovision, sacred thought and ceremonial centers d) Culture, art, education and language e) Councils of Elders f) Childhood, children and native woman g) Self-sufficiency, economics and communal work and projects h) Self-determination, law of native nations. i) 500th Anniversary. Revival and alternative projects j) Organization, coordination, networking, communication THE ORGANIZERS AND CONFIRMED ASSISTANTS: Sacred Councils of various Indigenous Nations: Pact of Ecological Groups, Green Space Conclave, Bicycle movements, Assembly of city neighborhoods, Cetamex, Occidental Ecological Community, Survival group, and several other green and alternative groups. If you wish to participate with a paper on any (or similar and/or related) of the before mentioned topics, make it maximum 3 double-spaced typewritten pages, so it can be suitably reproduced and handed out. Quality more than quantity of communication and/or networking will be underlined, so congruence, experience, representativity and diversity is necessary in your participation. There will be an alternative market and trading area, so bring in whatever you wish to sell, trade and/or advertise. Questions will be answered by: Comunidad Arcoiris Apartado Postal 24-514 06700, Cuauhtemoc. Mexico, D.F. Phone 549-2234 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Note 201 No Subject Line chicken@maria.wustl.edu 4:45 am Jun 4, 1992 From: chicken@maria.wustl.edu I want to aporogize in advance this message will be a little long and have some misspelling and stuff. But I leave in a few hours for Ca and need to deal with a bunch of stuff. first off Peter F. and tech. support and me have worked out with igc to cross post alt.gathering.rainbow and awf.rainbownews (actualy awf.rainbownews name will change to alt.g* but tech support will make you head to the right place) my guess this will start sometime today and I will ask Scott (tech support) to send a message out once this has happened. If you have any questions or problem drop me a note chicken@maria.wustl.edu I will not be able to responde until monday or tuesday but will try and help then. Second thing is we are in need of a site to archive the alt.gathering.rainbow stuff at current the archive is about 1.6 m 5m should be enough for the forseeable furture. We are looking for a site on the internet which would alow anonymous ftp. also a person to administer the archive is also needed. this is simple but will take a few hours to deal with the archive that we presntly have since they are in two very large files and then to deal with the archive on an ongoing basis. some technical experince would help but if you know how to use vi that would be enough. the third thing is I am looking for a ride from the Bya area or anyplace west of the gathering to the gathering around the end of next week friday or saturday the 13,14 I think. oh also the archives of awf.rainbownews are avalible from anonymous ftp at igc.org in the pub/awf.rainbownews dir their are two files archive.Z which is the older stuff and regular which is after April of 1991. also if anyone if the Chigo area knows where I miught crash tonight drop me mail soon. Well thanks for your time and if you have any questions or info drop me a note at chicken@maria.wustl.edu Love and e-mail Chicken (of the HI-HO tribe) 1(*) Welcome Home! pfraterdeus 9:20 pm Apr 13, 1989 1 2(*) Mailing List..if you like! pfraterdeus 9:26 pm Apr 13, 1989 1 3(*) Capturing Calendar Text Instructio pfraterdeus 6:06 pm May 11, 1989 9 4 PA Gathering Rumor Control pfraterdeus 2:23 pm Aug 7, 1991 9 5 25 char max in titles! OK? pfraterdeus 11:38 am Aug 9, 1991 10 6 50 ways to reach consensus dwirtshafter 5:19 am Aug 10, 1991 11 7 New Mexico Regional? Indian pndemo3 9:55 am Aug 12, 1991 16 8 MANY RAINBOWS FILL THE BLAZING SKY tec@web.UUCP 4:45 am Aug 17, 1991 16 9 RE- Soviet Union pfraterdeus 6:59 pm Aug 20, 1991 17 10 Detroit Picnic 8/24 sjohgart 7:58 pm Aug 20, 1991 17 11 Questions after the 'war' pfraterdeus 3:02 am Aug 22, 1991 18 12 FWD>Info on GlasNet - USSR pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Aug 23, 1991 19 13 Heather re: RB-blurred Vision bmasel 8:59 pm Aug 25, 1991 23 14 Heather re- RB-blurred Visi pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Aug 26, 1991 24 15 9/20-23 EQUINOX CELEBRATION IN NYS ddepuydt 5:40 pm Aug 26, 1991 25 16 Australian Gaia Foundation mendicott 10:54 am Aug 31, 1991 25 17 Is Shawnee Happening??? pfraterdeus 3:18 pm Sep 4, 1991 28 18 Indiana Regional Sept 13-15 pfraterdeus 3:19 pm Sep 4, 1991 29 19 FWD>Soviet Nuclear Test Sit pfraterdeus 9:29 pm Sep 4, 1991 30 20 Thanksgiving Council Info! jjohnson@uujobs.com 2:43 pm Sep 7, 1991 32 21 N. Calif New Dates pfraterdeus 6:40 pm Sep 7, 1991 32 22 OCTOBER WORLD-WIDE LINKUP PLANNED tec@web.UUCP 5:34 am Sep 9, 1991 33 23 Oct. 5 March on Kennebunkport mendicott 2:35 pm Sep 9, 1991 33 24 Indian Representation at United Nat mendicott 5:56 pm Sep 10, 1991 35 25 Howdy from the N.W. CMMMentrl bclements 9:45 pm Sep 13, 1991 35 26 Message from eastern Germany mendicott 7:01 am Sep 14, 1991 35 27 Swooping Heron's comments sjohgart 6:14 pm Sep 25, 1991 38 28 Swooping Heron's comments pfraterdeus 1:40 am Sep 26, 1991 40 29 The Huichol Tribe of Mexico mendicott 2:18 pm Sep 26, 1991 40 30 Reflections from the Beaver Pond sjohgart 7:51 pm Sep 27, 1991 42 31 Regarding PFDA Ads pfraterdeus 10:25 pm Sep 28, 1991 44 32 Gonzo! (also Hoosier story) pfraterdeus 10:28 pm Sep 28, 1991 45 33 Great Lakes Bioregional Congress sjohgart 2:55 pm Sep 29, 1991 46 34 to UseNet pfraterdeus 11:54 pm Oct 2, 1991 48 35 European Gypsies Attacked mendicott 7:33 am Oct 5, 1991 54 36 ALLWAYS FREE NEW ADDRESS lbadger 2:04 am Oct 7, 1991 55 37 Alert-Press Release-Info needed dwirtshafter 6:42 pm Oct 8, 1991 55 38 CO/SD Debate- No contest. pfraterdeus 4:08 am Oct 10, 1991 58 39 Shawnee Police Hassles pfraterdeus 10:25 pm Oct 13, 1991 59 40 FWD>Bounty Hunter Act of 19 pfraterdeus 10:27 pm Oct 13, 1991 60 41 NYC EVICTS HOMELESS wbai 6:43 am Oct 15, 1991 61 42 Propane Vs. Wood? pfraterdeus 10:31 am Oct 16, 1991 62 43 Thanksgiving Council Howdy pfraterdeus 6:26 pm Oct 17, 1991 64 44 FQM to Go! Oct 1991 pfraterdeus 3:35 am Oct 18, 1991 64 45 Changes to Conference pfraterdeus 11:26 pm Oct 18, 1991 65 46(*) PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY! pndemo3 7:51 pm Oct 21, 1991 66 47(*) Calendar '91-'92 pfraterdeus 9:21 pm Oct 21, 1991 68 48 Rainbow Warrior Needs Volunteers, S mendicott 2:43 pm Oct 25, 1991 68 49 FUTURE: GREEN OR RED mendicott 2:51 am Oct 26, 1991 68 50 Desperate Plea for $$ for 2nd Autop jjohnson@uujobs.com 2:08 pm Oct 26, 1991 69 51 FUTURE- GREEN OR RED pfraterdeus 10:56 pm Oct 26, 1991 70 52 Energy Action Alert! pfraterdeus 10:29 pm Oct 30, 1991 70 53 What is CALM? by Water, Sin pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Nov 1, 1991 71 54 RE- Seeking Movement Succes pfraterdeus 4:26 pm Nov 1, 1991 73 55 FQM Delayed pfraterdeus 12:14 am Nov 11, 1991 74 56 Deep Concerns.... pfraterdeus 1:00 pm Nov 11, 1991 75 57 Internetters Note! pfraterdeus 6:48 pm Nov 11, 1991 77 58 Rainbow Healing pfraterdeus 7:58 pm Nov 15, 1991 78 59 E-Mail Etiquette Pointer>>> pfraterdeus 10:58 pm Nov 15, 1991 78 60 RAINBOW NORTH raven 10:04 am Nov 16, 1991 79 61 Focalizer? WhatUs a Focaliz pfraterdeus 10:34 pm Nov 16, 1991 80 62 NERF Council Report pfraterdeus 9:17 pm Nov 17, 1991 84 63 Sky in Miami- Advise please pfraterdeus 1:04 pm Nov 18, 1991 85 64 Hmmmm... pfraterdeus 4:16 pm Nov 19, 1991 86 65 Will the circle be unbroken pfraterdeus 4:24 pm Nov 19, 1991 87 66 The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy mendicott 5:18 pm Nov 19, 1991 88 67 Re: Sky in Miami- Advise please jjohnson@uujobs.com 11:57 am Nov 20, 1991 90 68 Swooping Heron to SD "council" sjohgart 5:47 pm Nov 20, 1991 91 69 Job Announcement mendicott 3:15 pm Nov 21, 1991 92 70 Thumper's resignation and Legaliais jjohnson@uujobs.com 12:59 pm Nov 26, 1991 94 71 PieMan on PeaceGarden Maili pfraterdeus 10:45 pm Nov 29, 1991 96 72 Michigan Winter Regional Scouting sjohgart 6:40 pm Dec 3, 1991 96 73 Rainbow Hawk Paroled! pfraterdeus 10:47 am Dec 7, 1991 97 74 NUCLEAR TEST BAN NOW! fmayer 2:55 am Dec 9, 1991 97 75 Notes to Frank fmayer 3:04 am Dec 9, 1991 102 76 FWD>62 pfraterdeus 11:09 am Dec 9, 1991 104 77 Thanks! FQM thumbs up... pfraterdeus 10:38 pm Dec 11, 1991 105 78 Madison/Wisc. Regional Coun pfraterdeus 2:48 pm Dec 16, 1991 105 79 *Madison/Wisc. Regional Cou pfraterdeus 4:39 pm Dec 17, 1991 107 80 FWD>Thankgiving Council '91 pfraterdeus 8:04 pm Dec 18, 1991 109 81 1992 Scout Council, etc. pfraterdeus 8:05 pm Dec 18, 1991 111 82 Letter from Bridge next entry dwirtshafter 7:36 pm Dec 20, 1991 112 83 Blessing for all of the Rainbow Fa dwirtshafter 7:37 pm Dec 20, 1991 112 84 Message from Bridge dwirtshafter 7:59 pm Dec 20, 1991 112 85 Mailing List..if you like pfraterdeus 9:04 am Dec 24, 1991 115 86 Jailed Freedom Fighter Needs Help mendicott 4:23 pm Dec 24, 1991 115 87 zip lbadger 11:03 am Dec 25, 1991 116 88 Colorado Council MARS report lbadger 1:57 am Dec 26, 1991 117 89 TendeerFire's Summary Thanksgiving lbadger 1:59 am Dec 26, 1991 119 90 'Oh My God' Soltice Rebirth lbadger 2:03 am Dec 26, 1991 120 91 Nordhouse winter regional update sjohgart 4:25 pm Dec 26, 1991 122 92 Pony V.& TendeerFire on S.D. lbadger 7:55 am Dec 27, 1991 123 93 Regarding Thgvg. Council Re pfraterdeus 9:06 am Dec 27, 1991 123 94 California Green Party! gmarcus 8:37 pm Dec 31, 1991 124 95 Legaliaison Update from DC Scribe jjohnson@uujobs.com 10:36 pm Jan 7, 1992 125 96 100th Monkey Project to pfraterdeus 2:38 pm Jan 11, 1992 126 97 RE- Legaliaison Update from pfraterdeus 9:25 am Jan 13, 1992 127 98 New European Rainbow Guide mendicott 6:31 pm Jan 21, 1992 128 99 X-Yugoslav Peace Groups mendicott 9:54 am Jan 23, 1992 128 100 FWD>H.R.1969- Forest Biodiv pfraterdeus 4:31 pm Jan 23, 1992 129 101 FQM List avaiable to Focs pfraterdeus 4:50 pm Jan 23, 1992 133 102 Pot O' Gold coming Soon! pfraterdeus 4:58 pm Jan 23, 1992 134 103 Translator/translation for Europa G thumper@uujobs.com 10:09 pm Jan 25, 1992 134 104 Allan's Rainbow Hotline thumper@uujobs.com 10:18 pm Jan 25, 1992 135 105 Check this out ! mendicott 2:19 pm Jan 28, 1992 135 106 . hnewman 5:32 pm Jan 28, 1992 158 107 Worker back on line jvigorito 2:16 am Jan 29, 1992 158 108 WINTER RAINBOW EVENTS IN NEW YORK mendicott 8:15 pm Jan 29, 1992 159 109 PSYCHIATRY: BREAK THE SILENCE!!!! chrp 10:48 pm Jan 30, 1992 159 110 Cumberland Gathering pfraterdeus 1:54 am Feb 1, 1992 162 111 More From Technomads mendicott 8:16 pm Feb 4, 1992 163 112 Technocrat communications hnewman 9:24 am Feb 7, 1992 172 113 Russian Rainbow Gathering in June mendicott 3:57 pm Feb 8, 1992 172 114 Guides to Go pfraterdeus 11:53 am Feb 9, 1992 173 115 CALM News Flash pfraterdeus 3:50 pm Feb 9, 1992 173 116 RE>Re- RE>Next Rainbow Gat pfraterdeus 4:03 pm Feb 9, 1992 175 117 Cumberland Regional Gathering mrose 3:50 pm Feb 17, 1992 176 118 European Peace Pilgrimage mendicott 5:05 pm Feb 20, 1992 176 119 1992 Colorado National Gathering. emarks 9:55 pm Feb 24, 1992 179 120 News from the Fronts.... pfraterdeus 8:11 pm Feb 28, 1992 181 121 Hello bmatson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu 2:04 pm Mar 1, 1992 183 122 WEEDSTOCK, the Festival bmasel 6:24 pm Mar 10, 1992 184 123 Chief Seattle's Speech mendicott 2:56 pm Mar 12, 1992 184 124 Water's hello mrose 7:58 pm Mar 15, 1992 188 125 . coyote 8:15 pm Mar 15, 1992 189 126 Messages from Russia mendicott 3:06 pm Mar 16, 1992 189 127 Message from Germany mendicott 7:38 am Mar 17, 1992 190 128 Greetings to all! mmitchell 6:21 pm Mar 17, 1992 191 129 Note to Folks not on PeaceN pfraterdeus 1:52 am Mar 18, 1992 192 130 CUMBERLAND GATHERING UPDATE mrose 11:00 am Mar 19, 1992 193 131 ALASKA RAINBOW FAMILY raven 11:29 am Mar 21, 1992 193 132 Great Lakes/WISC Spring Cou pfraterdeus 2:52 am Mar 22, 1992 194 133 FWD>Tommy's letter pfraterdeus 5:44 pm Mar 25, 1992 195 134 RE- DeKalb, IL Mailing from pfraterdeus 9:14 pm Mar 26, 1992 197 135 Nebraska Regional Jun 5-7 pfraterdeus 11:24 am Mar 29, 1992 198 136 Howdy! FQM request! pfraterdeus 3:32 pm Mar 29, 1992 198 137 Madison, Wi. Picnics pfraterdeus 3:33 pm Mar 29, 1992 200 138 WELCOME HOME!!!! chicken@maria.wustl.edu 7:46 pm Mar 29, 1992 200 139 Forrest Service to end appeals? bmasel 9:26 pm Mar 29, 1992 201 140 FRENCH TAKE 'RAINBOW WARRIOR' mendicott 3:51 pm Mar 31, 1992 202 141 Scout Rig to CO. pfraterdeus 11:50 pm Apr 1, 1992 203 142 Hot but no flames. pfraterdeus 1:53 am Apr 2, 1992 204 143 Fights in Sarajevo mendicott 7:13 pm Apr 6, 1992 206 144 Ah, back on line... sjohgart 8:00 pm Apr 9, 1992 207 145 message from Water singin[e mrose 8:27 pm Apr 10, 1992 207 146(*) Rainbow Family - One View pfraterdeus 3:08 pm Apr 11, 1992 211 147 BC Regional June 1-7 pfraterdeus 6:37 pm Apr 11, 1992 212 148 Conciliation Re-council 9/9 pfraterdeus 6:40 pm Apr 11, 1992 213 149 SE Michigan Calendar sjohgart 4:38 am Apr 13, 1992 214 150 Legend of the Raibow Warrior chicken@maria.wustl.edu 7:24 pm Apr 13, 1992 216 151 Response to Rainbow Hawk sjohgart 8:18 pm Apr 13, 1992 216 152 Book: The Glastonbury Festivals mle@well.sf.ca.us 9:36 am Apr 14, 1992 219 153 Re: TestUploadofBinaryFile irudnik@sovusa.com 12:21 pm Apr 14, 1992 221 154 NEWS FLASH: 100th Monkey mle@well.sf.ca.us 5:32 pm Apr 14, 1992 221 155 =={ CO National? }== ttibbetts 9:56 am Apr 15, 1992 222 156 Book: Rainbow Nation Without Border mle@well.sf.ca.us 12:47 pm Apr 15, 1992 222 157 URGENT! BLM Rules Proposal pfraterdeus 2:31 pm Apr 16, 1992 225 158 Fasting Gathering pfraterdeus 2:33 pm Apr 16, 1992 227 159 1980 W.Va. Murders Solved mle@well.sf.ca.us 4:02 pm Apr 18, 1992 227 160 council of visions/mexico 1992 agduna 12:19 pm Apr 19, 1992 228 161 rainbow wanderers raven 1:07 pm Apr 19, 1992 231 162 Cellular Repeater System mle@well.sf.ca.us 11:22 am Apr 21, 1992 231 163 TEST mle@world.std.com 12:44 pm Apr 22, 1992 232 164 death (fwd) chicken@maria.wustl.edu 11:29 am Apr 23, 1992 233 165(*) MORE ON SEATTLE:hoax natlaw 1:37 pm Apr 23, 1992 233 166 Florida 1st Amendment Case naturist 5:18 pm Apr 24, 1992 237 167 Chicago--Western Suburbs Ra pfraterdeus 11:21 pm Apr 27, 1992 238 168 U. S. Forest Service Data General mendicott 6:14 pm Apr 29, 1992 238 169 Russian Regional Howdy Folks mle@well.sf.ca.us 6:27 am May 4, 1992 239 170 alt.rainbow.gathering pfraterdeus 10:04 am May 4, 1992 240 171 Midwest Gathering Update naturist 4:02 pm May 4, 1992 241 172 u coyote 8:18 pm May 5, 1992 242 173 Add me to the mailing list? roise@u.washington.edu 11:20 pm May 5, 1992 242 174 Description of awf.* pfraterdeus 5:03 am May 6, 1992 243 175 RE>alt.GATHERING.RAINBOW pfraterdeus 8:22 am May 7, 1992 244 176 Nevada Anti-nuclear Protest mendicott 6:24 pm May 8, 1992 245 177 1992 Rainbow Gathering-Colo pfraterdeus 4:47 pm May 10, 1992 247 178 Wisconsin Howdy Folks, May pfraterdeus 4:49 pm May 10, 1992 249 179 Cumberland Gathering mrose 9:21 pm May 10, 1992 250 180 Gov't Dirty Tricks ? mle@well.sf.ca.us 9:27 am May 11, 1992 250 181 Midwest Regional naturist 2:31 pm May 13, 1992 251 182 Ann Arbor Yard Sale sjohgart 5:53 am May 17, 1992 251 183 FWD>The Government Wants to pfraterdeus 12:53 pm May 21, 1992 251 184 late summer/fall gatherings chicken@maria.wustl.edu 1:14 pm May 22, 1992 254 185 stuff for people to read and reply chicken@maria.wustl.edu 11:17 am May 23, 1992 254 186 Ho! Mitakuye Oyasin!!! pfraterdeus 8:57 pm May 23, 1992 255 187 On rage in the streets -- b pfraterdeus 4:25 pm May 24, 1992 256 188 A modest proposal pfraterdeus 8:16 pm May 25, 1992 257 189 Rumor Control RE- Zeus Cosm pfraterdeus 8:27 pm May 25, 1992 260 190 e-mail to s-mail person needed chicken@maria.wustl.edu 10:02 pm May 25, 1992 261 191 Save Colorado Old-Growth --Boycott mendicott 6:19 pm May 26, 1992 261 192 *CyberSpace/NetSpace Region pfraterdeus 11:48 am May 27, 1992 261 193 Hemp for Victory!!! pfraterdeus 12:02 pm May 27, 1992 263 194 June 5, 6, 7 -- HEMPSPLASH -- Libe esterling 6:42 pm Jun 1, 1992 264 195 TV show/Families that "gather" esterling 7:37 pm Jun 1, 1992 264 196 Democratic Convention wbai 7:27 pm Jun 2, 1992 264 197 Ride to Colorado needed DMCOLES@NUACVM.BITNET 6:47 am Jun 3, 1992 265 198 no subject (file transmission) mike@bcserv.wustl.edu 10:44 am Jun 3, 1992 266 199 mt. shasta gathering? suev 12:48 pm Jun 3, 1992 267 200 From Mexico Rainbow Family! pfraterdeus 9:35 pm Jun 3, 1992 268 201 No Subject Line chicken@maria.wustl.edu 4:45 am Jun 4, 1992 271