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Eco Couture

recycledfordancing — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:34:30 GMT

Hi, I'm seeking like minds.

I grew up designing and making my own clothes since a little girl, and apprenticed with Mirage in Melbourne, Australia’s largest CMT house for major Oz designers; before studying fine art at Heatherleys in London. I was also sponsored by Mirage and a runner-up in the Australian Fashion Awards. Then I traveled and lived in a few different countries and got into planet activism and events, then running an online arts community, then helping manage festivals. Now current fashion has caught up with the designs in my head and the ideals in my heart and I recently returned to designing eco-friendly wearable art.

The stuff I’m now designing and reconstructing are Eco Couture, individual one-off’s made from recycled and vintage fabrics. My design skills are coming back and improving with each collection batch. Sketches and photos of recent experiments are up at http://www.recycledfordancing.com plus I already have clothes in 2 boutiques, addresses are on the site under Retail Stores.

I also do custom stage gear; before working on festivals full time I actually did costumes for Music TV dancers, musicians, and theatre. I had a few designs on national TV way back when, on long running music TV show called Countdown. And I designed costumes for a whole Bertolt Brecht play at the Chelsea Playhouse in London, plus whole wardrobes for nightclub dancers and contemporary cabaret, and fire dancers for festivals in Byron Bay.

My current designs are inspired by San Francisco and Japanese street fashion, as well as European Couture and Burning Man. For me it is sculpture using textiles with a wearable framework and chaos, I take something that I see and mix it with something else that I see, each piece inspiring the next piece. Anyway take a peek at http://www.recycledfordancing.com for art’s sake, and keep me in mind when you are thinking of new additions to your wardrobe or recycling your wardrobe.

Thank you for being here.

Deborah Paulino

Eco Couture

http://www.recycledfordancing.com

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WANTED: Rainbow Press Crew SALARY: Good Karma!

Rainbow — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:06:11 GMT

Going to the Gathering?
NOT going to the Gathering?
Want to plug-in in a vital way?
Be a part of the Rainbow Press Crew!

Rainbow needs a Press Crew to balance the information handed out to the media by the Law Enforcement Officers ("leos"), to tell our side of the story.

What can you do? Be a small part of our big crew!

Here's how it's going to work:

1. Assorted folks "on the land" will write up a daily summary of the day's events, legal issues, fun stuff, etc.

2. That summary is dropped of at a specific vehicle where someone will type it out, and print out 7 paper copies.

3. Meanwhile, Info will help direct volunteers to head out to the Parking Lot after dinner, stop by the vehicle, and pick up the paper copies.

4. Those seven copies will be brought to the road and divvied into 7 different cars already leaving the Gathering with instructions to call a number as soon as possible and read the summary into a voice mail box. Hopefully, at least 3 copies will be called in, in a timely fashion each day!

5. A person (not attending the Gathering) at the voice mailbox will transcribe the summary into a concise press release and email it out to 100 media outlets.

6. 20 different folks (also not attending the Gathering) will follow-up by calling 5 media outlets each. This is the professional way to send out press releases; the press expects this and it is a sure way to be taken seriously. The callers will ask if they can answer any questions (making it clear that they can't speak for Rainbow) and stress that the most accurate story is at the Gathering. This will take about a half hour a day.

7. Directions to the site will be included in every release. When the press arrives, they'll be directed to a Media Check-In Area and check in. Tours will be available to escort them thru the camp at 12 pm daily.

Voila! Fair and Balanced Media!

So far, thanks to the help of many, videos, quotes and info has been collected for the press, a list of well over 100 media outlets and press emails from regional, national and international areas has been built, both mainstream and alternative, a phone line has been set up, a printer and printer drivers are at the Gathering, reports have been leaving the Gathering and two press releases have already gone out!

We also have 12 kind and loving brothers and sisters lined up to do different jobs in this chain, but still have quite a few spaces to fill. Three of the 12 are off-site "press release follow-up phone callers." The remainder of volunteers will be attending the Gathering. Many of the jobs will be done by more than one person to prevent burnout. PLEASE consider helping out with this awesome project!

What job openings are still available?

* 17 folks not attending the Gathering to be off-site press release follow-up phone callers, to total 20; now that's a crew! To get yesterday's news out today, callers need to make the calls early to meet the press's news-acceptance deadline of 1pm. That's 12pm PT, 1pm MT, 2pm CT and 3pm ET.
* Detail oriented, accurate summary writers on the land with legible handwriting and decent grammar
* Typists and Printer-outers of 7 copies a day
* Assorted people to take turns finding responsible drivers/callers on the road heading out
* Printer vehicle security
* Diligent yet entertaining Rainbow Tour Guides with RADIOS to STAY WITH the MEDIA throughout their visit in case they (the media) need to be dispatched to an incident. Periodic and loud announcements of camera presence is needed so folks are always aware. And give 'em a great tour!

Please Join Us!!

If you have any questions read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) below. To sign up, contact us at rpcreww@gmail.com

In Harmony,
FireFly

Rainbow Press Crew FAQs:

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Why do we need a Rainbow Press Crew?

It's hoped that peaceful, safe Rainbow Gatherings will exist again. However, two gatherers were tasered at the '07 Arkansas Annual Gathering. Two months after that Gathering, the Forest Service (FS) purchased 700 tasers.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070919&ID=7496520

They've informed the Family that their leos are trained to use these "less-lethal" weapons http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/15taser.html and will be outfitted with them at this year's Gathering. FS guideline documents have even been updated to include the protocol for taser use.

http://www.fs.fed.us/im/directives/fsm/5300/5380.doc
http://www.fs.fed.us/im/directives/fsh/5309.11/5309.11_50.doc

This year's Annual Gathering is being held in Wyoming; the #1 least populated state in America, where accountability will be most unlikely. If a tree falls in the woods and no one saw it fall, did it ever even fall?

If, God forbid, an incident does happen, we need the press to see it. But a main reason for getting mainstream press, namely cameras, into the Gathering, is to keep the leos on their best behavior and deter them from committing any more acts of violence against us folks whose purpose in gathering is to pray for peace.

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Won't our own cameras be enough?

No. It would be great if that were true. The more civilian cameras coming out only to capture Law Enforcement Officer ("leo") violence the better. By all means; should an incident occur, please put calls out on Rainbow radios for all cameras to head to the incident. This way even Rainbow Tour Guides hear the call and can bring mainstream cameras to the scene immediately.

But know the risks if you decide to approach a violent leo attack and get it on film. Your camera can be taken right from your hands, without sufficient warning, and you can be arrested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_1PH7KakcY&NR=1

Then you and your footage are in custody. Often leos will keep cameras, footage, bicycles, etc. for months after your release, as was the case in the Ocala inident. And/or you could be injured, or worse.

We've placed several calls and emails to Wyoming authorities to confirm how far a civilian must be from an leo and still be allowed to film. So far we've received no response. We'll keep trying. This may be a good time to remind everyone to always film the filmers.
Instances in which police attempt to snatch TV news cameras are rare. When civilian cameras capture valuable footage, even if it makes it onto Indymedia or YouTube, it's considered "amateur" footage and rarely results in any accountability.

Sometimes in Rainbow, if the footage is found, it doesn't get used. At the '05 West Virginia Annual Gathering, a gatherer videotaped an leo sneaking up on and macing a dog who was tied to a van. The leo was never found liable.

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What could be the long-term effects of this increase in harassment?

Police harassment has been known to completely squelch events. For example, the monthly New York City Critical Mass Bike Ride is currently down in numbers from thousands to dozens. The evident increase in leo harassment towards Rainbow is succeeding in decreasing our numbers as well. Each of us Rainbow gatherers know of really peaceful folks who've gradually stopped attending because of the rise in law enforcement, and the agro vibe that often comes with it.

Even High Times Magazine's Steve Hager agreed back in 2001, when he wrote in the July issue in reference to the government's intensified campaign against the Rainbows, "If the spirit of Woodstock is going to be passed down to a new generation, the Rainbow Family must find a way to protect and defend itself."

The FS has really stepped it up since then; especially by outfitting themselves with these deadly weapons to police a peaceful event that has policed itself successfully for over 35 years.

It is essential for the future numbers of our Family that measures be put into place, now, to provide for a safe, comfortable and truly peaceful Gathering. It's hoped that these measures will be carried forth and implemented at every Gathering so that soon our old friends will feel comfortable returning Home.

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I don't want to put myself out there.

Everything being done and requested is legal. Taking a pro-active stance towards protecting our brothers and sisters may be frowned upon by some in babylon. And yes, even though what we're doing is entirely within the scope of the law, it may be frowned upon possibly to the point in which our actions may be watched. But really, who cares what they think? You're going to let their thoughts control your actions, to the point of inaction? As far as being in the 'scope' of some monitoring system, "If you don't have a file on you, you're not doing something right!" -Stevie S.

Maybe i'll plug in to Rainbow Press Crew a bit, if I see it work. A machine must have cogs for it to work. So there's that leap of faith thing again. And, "be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi.

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How often will press releases go out?

The goal is for short updates to go out every day, please. The FS sends out press briefings on a regular basis throughout the duration of our stay in the woods, reporting how many tickets they've given out and for what, etc. It would be smart for us to do the same. Remember, the FS is now carrying tasers, this is serious. The call heard in the woods can be "Zap Up" or something now, since the FS is much more likely to taser folks with these "non-lethal" weapons rather than shoot them with guns. Really, why did they buy both the tasers and the training to use them, with such a low budget due to last year's fire season, if they don't intend to use them on us? http://www.docuticker.com/?p=18223 They're not going to use them on lions and bears; they have tranquilizer guns for that.

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Aren't tasers non-lethal?

No. The "non-lethal" status of these weapons becomes a "less-lethal" status when someone with a pre-existing medical condition gets tased. Here are the types of tasers the FS has, the kind they specifically requested.
http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_taser_justification.pdf

Not the old stun gun type, but the kind that shoots wires up to 35 feet out, which have projectiles on the ends capable of piercing through one inch of clothing.

And agencies themselves are ever increasingly replacing the term "non-lethal" with the term "less-lethal" when referring to these lethal weapons, as noted in the New York Times, June 15, 2008. The article continued, "Also on Wednesday, Amnesty International said it had tracked more than 300 cases since 2001 in which people died after being shocked by a Taser."

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But they say they're going to be nice this year.

I cannot even begin to count the times I've heard that before. Please, just look at the history of the FS's relations pre-, mid- and post-gathering. It's evident that they are notorious for saying one thing before the gathering, doing another thing during the gathering, and then raving about how well we cleaned up in the end.

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Is this idea all talk? Who's FireFly?

A part-time mover and shaker. At the '06 Colorado Annual Gathering, hundreds of gatherers were ticketed, had to leave the Gathering to go to a makeshift court, and wait outside all day with no food or water (the spigot was shut off) until their names were called. This went on every day. I was able to help by establishing and implementing a system within the gathering of preparing and delivering 'food for court' on a daily basis, and our ticketed, satellite, off-site Family was fed. Dozens of folks plugged in to make it work, you know who you are, THANK YOU! And THANK YOU in advance to all who remember to carry on sharing food with our not inevitably ticketed, extended, off-site Family who hopefully won't have to spend any time away from Home at some kangaroo court.

If you are considering helping and can commit, please contact rpcreww@gmail.com for more info and FAQ's.

Please forward

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The Big World Gathering - Take Your Power Back

michael_irving — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:25:27 GMT

THE BIG WORLD GATHERING
http://www.worldgathering.net

What is The Big World Gathering?
The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.

"Awake, awake, the world is young,
For all its weary years of thought.
The starkest fights must still be fought,
The most surprising songs be sung."
~ James E Flecker

Surprising Songs for The Big World Gathering ...
The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (5+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg1.mp3
The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (1+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg2.mp3
Big World Gathering Love Song ~ Time ~ (2+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/time.mp3
World-Action Big Gathering Theme Tune ~ (1+ mins):
http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wa18.mp3

Special Images for The Big World Gathering:
http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html

Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering

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'THE GATHERING' by Sitting Bull

It is very important that as many people as possible, in different places, should take part in the Gathering. Decide where and when and how to gather. Your participation is needed.

This is the beginning of the break we are all waiting for; for you all on Earth and ourselves out here. This is the beginning of the turn around. We have waited so long for the change. It is time. This is the beginning of the end of the old ways; the turning of the tide.

State what you believe is true. Courage is the ability to go beyond the familiar. Exchange the information and hopes you have. Always in the world, a change starts with a few people. These few speak the feelings and thoughts of a multitude. They speak the heart of humanity's soul.

The people and ETs who will come together shall ring in a return, a turn around. There will come a flow on Earth which will burst the dark energies surrounding you and your planet. That which you believe is true must be stated. The truth is the key.

May strength and vision be yours as you establish the new. Follow your hearts. Let your inner light be your guide. Realise the beauty and greatness you have within yourself and step ahead. This is the time so many have waited so long for. Never doubt it has started.

The young of all nations are looking for a new direction. It is time to light a beacon to show the way for all humanity. Let your feelings, thoughts and beliefs be your guiding light. The power of the moment. The wishes of the people. The good times ahead.

It is time for the gathering.

Tatanka Yotanka - The Sitting Bull
(This message is through a clairvoyant in Holland, Europe, in recent years)

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Special Words for The Big World Gathering:
~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope: "This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to create it together." ~
~ A Central American Mayan Elder: "Human beings must come together in support of life. At present, each person and group is going his or her own way. There is hope if people can come together and unite." ~
~ E F Schumacher: "We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure." ~
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'The Gathering' by Matthew

Last night I had a gathering for all my departed friends
I asked Jim Morrison where he'd been
He just laughed and smiled,
Spoke of what he'd seen

He said "I've been to the end of the rainbow"
He said "I've seen supernovae burst"
But before I could ask a question,
He said "Let me finish first"

He said "I have something to tell you",
This really is the MASTER KEY
ONLY! ONLY LOVE!
Will set this planet free

He then spoke ok Atlantis,
And what has come to pass
In an alien war of genocide,
He and his friends escaped the blast

* * *
Now these ones are returning,
They see our hearts are burning
The Universe is yearning,
For us to break on through

Well now you see here is my request,
The letter to your heart
Will you join us now,
Let the healing start

First there came THE question,
Then I found THE door
Now I have come through it,
A stronger man for sure

I will ask you the same question,
I can lead you to this door
If you will walk through it,
You will be Wiser than before

Yes now I have this question to put to you
Are you going to resist,
Will you break on through?
Will you break on through?

I am waiting for you...

The Gathering

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Special Images for The Big World Gathering:
http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html
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Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
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The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.
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The Big World Gathering ~ http://www.worldgathering.net
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What happened to welcomehome.org?

WanderingBear — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:43:27 GMT

I went to the site and it was compleatly advertizements.

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Fraud Alert regarding North Coast Earth First! Aka NCEF! Media. Completely independent from any activist group!

White Rabbit — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:04:56 GMT

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NCEF! Media in Humboldt County Ca.(AKA NORTH COAST EARTH FIRST!), is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Active and legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group.

Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitimate environmental nonprofit:

From: northcoastjournal.com/100407/...004.html

October 4, 2007

"Money On Trees"

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: northcoastjournal.com/101107/...011.html

"Trees Foundation Wins"

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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One Family Gathering needs more volunteers!

Kelsey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:34:42 GMT

The One Family Gathering will be a three day unity gathering near Christmas Valley, Oregon. The festival intends to unify a variety of cultures from many other peaceful gatherings. It will manifest as a weekend long event encompassing barter fairs, music festivals, parties, and reggae shows, surrounded by a free camping area.

One Family Gathering is looking for additional volunteers. Volunteers receive a free VIP Pass, 3 meals a day and a t-shirt in exchange for 3 four hour shifts.

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The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom

michael_irving — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:54:49 GMT

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~~~~~~~~~

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

Introduction by Aleran
Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope and vision into life. During this time many prophecies come to us trying to lead us in many different directions.
Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies create a vision of joyful transformation through quantum leaps into love and light.
As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell.
But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth.
Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the hell we have created will spur us on into visions and creations of a world formed in love?
It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each and every one of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through divine transformation.
This prophecy on the following pages is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
Prophecies of The Native Americans
1993-2012

PART ONE ~
The distribution and giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count.
In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the time of finding one’s path with heart.
The time of seeking perfection, growth and development.
Most importantly the time of trust and innocence, when mythologies of the world are revealing secrets.

PART TWO ~
The critical time. The time of the animal. The time of Tuwalananie, the dark force.
The reason for this is that seeds of light have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting to come out and all those ones who have taught partial truths, who have taught deliberate lies in history, are going to be threatened by the awakening of the Rainbow people because the Rainbow people exist in every country, in every nation, in every land.
The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology. We are going to see new technology appearing which will be a tremendous threat to the survival of humanity.
We must exert our influence by gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans for alternative power and for world peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for, we can change it. We can change it.

PART THREE ~
The time of human to human communication.
The time the human family finally starts to become human.
There will be more information brought out into open format than has ever been seen on this planet.
We will re-establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars.
So mark that down because it will happen. The first contact will be with the Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all the world powers. The second contact will be with Sirius.

PART FOUR ~
When truth seekers begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds, we will see our memory circles.
Many of the leaders who are trying to keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall.
Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the tagashala will be fully awakened.
People will begin to link up with other people in gathering together circles.
Many of these will be the so-called 'common people' and not the teachers you see up there now.

PART FIVE ~
The various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams all over the world and these rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest of humanity.
We will sit in a new circle of law.
All civil and social laws will have to be in conformity with natural laws or the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary to reject those laws.
Science will once again become metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space continuum which is the limitation of the age and once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws that are cosmic laws.

PART SIX ~
We will once again see the way to continue a new dream.
We will be given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual great sleeper-dreamer form.
A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it.
I am a great dreamer but I don’t know if I dream that large.
We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness.
Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to drop away.
We will totally gain the light of the great light wheel.
There will be one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony in the great gathering together circle.
All the seeds will be planted.
The Earth will have its true reality formed.
It will join the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman and it will create within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything.
We will see a whole new way of perfection.
There will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life and sustenance as never before seen.
Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. There will be total balance and harmony.

PART SEVEN ~
The new race of humans will begin to design their new reality of life on this planet as they intended it to be when they first came here from the stars.
We will begin to establish this planet and use the collective consciousness to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the planets. There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet.
The dream will be actualised and this planet will hold its space in the great council of planets and become a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles. It's happened on many planets and it's expected to happen on a lot of other planets.
There will be a moment when the population will be 'the' Population, and something great will happen.
This planet will have its design of energy movement guided by all of humanity living here.

The Great Spirit will leave its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of light and this prophecy ends as I have been given it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now.

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Put a double amount of energy with what we are for. We can change it.

Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman

http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Background information ~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen

~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen ~
~ The Rainbow Dream of Freedom ~

http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

RDV extract: ~ A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it. ~ We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness. ~ The Earth will have its true reality formed. ~ We will see a whole new way of perfection. ~ Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. ~

~ VISION of FREEDOM ~

I hope many people will send the Vision of Freedom to friends, groups, etc.

I have been involved with the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom since 1984. In that year, three musicians and healers came into by one-man printing and publishing office, and said, "You really must look at this." They seemed a little (funny how life is at times) like the three wise men bringing gifts. Two days later I was distributing copies at a conference, and like me, people were amazed and astonished.

That's when my life started to be 'larger than life'.
And, in 1987, I went to visit the Hopi in Arizona, North America.

As I drove in from the west, an older man sitting by the roadside waved down my car... later, it felt to me that I was expected. He took me to meet Qwa David Monongye, and in the evening I was taken to a ceremony in the kiva. A dozen or more men descended from a ladder in the roof, and formed up in an arc of a circle.

They faced one direction, and started a slow foot-shuffling dance. Then fairly suddenly, domino-effect, turned one-by-one 180 degrees to face the other direction. At that point I very nearly fell off my chair ... something had hit me. A year or more later, thinking about it, the realisation seemed to be: 'We can change the direction the world is going in. It is possible.'

I drove off, eastwards, along the Hopi mesas to find somewhere to park up, and sleep the night. In the morning I got out of the car, and was surprised to see the face of the large rock only feet from the car had a carving on it. This was the Hopi's 'Prophecy Stone', and it shows people moving in a direction, and the path splitting into two. One path goes nowhere, it fades out. But the other path goes on, and corn symbols by the path indicate that this route leads to life and prosperity.

Many other unusual and significant things occurred out there in this ancient place where it feels like time had stopped. Indeed, after visiting the oldest township on the Hopi mesas ~ a tall, sharp-ended mesa, rather like a ship of the desert ~ my watch stopped, and never worked again. There is much more that happened.

In 1986 ~ the year before my first visit to the Hopi ~ I was within sixty feet of three disc craft, for around 25 minutes. This too, was like events were coming together to inform me of something significant, something much bigger than myself. In 1993, with friends, we were very close to craft in the area of the crop patterns of mid southern England on several occasions.

Since 1993, on most days when I first step out of doors I frequently see one or more flashes in the sky, seemingly from a source fairly close, and at a lowish elevation. I have always taken the flashes to indicate the locations of disc craft which are 'parked up' and are stationary. In 2007, possibly because I was loaned a camera with an unusual infra-red setting, many craft and aerial objects started to appear in my general scenic photographs. Most images are archived here: http://worldgathering.net/scotland

(A) The Rainbow Dream Vision says: "We can change it (the direction the world is going). If we put a DOUBLE AMOUNT of effort into what we are for."

(B) The Hopi Nation has a prophecy stone which predicts the world will come to a time of choice. And if we choose the good direction, we can go on into a good life.

(C) The craft appearing all over the world, seem to be waiting and watching. To see if we can figure things out. To see if we can: 'Seize The Day'.

The writing is on the wall, and it says: 'We CAN change direction.'

Please send the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom to your friends. And let's make a stand for what we really believe in. Put a DOUBLE amount of effort and energy into what you believe is important.

Don't feel disheartened. It looks like there are some unexpected, good moves to happen yet: "There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet."

Text of The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom:
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

Michael Irving
World-Action and The Big World Gathering
Scotland, United Kingdom ~ http://www.worldgathering.net

http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html

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If you like this vision, please copy it and send to friends. Thanks.

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Rainbow Warriors - Arise!

SammyJo — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:15:06 GMT

This sums it up nicely! All the sages, all the prophecies, point towards our salvation. Now is the time. Turn off your TV forever. Leave behind your mind, like a castle made of sand, it slips out to sea eventually, as another sage named Jimi said.

Watch: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=6625296

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The UberVault

kryntaal — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:32:39 GMT

Links, Links, Everywhere Links! Welcome to my humble attempt to create an information hub; a place where internet based sources of info, little known online shops, neato tribes, & the like can be easily shared for all to enjoy! Come on over & check it out!
The UberVault
http://tribes.tribe.net/megahub

Oh, by the way, I still maintain my original tribe, Rainbow Tribe, Kryn's Kitchen. It's a fun place for family & definitely worth lookin' at!
Rainbow Tribe, Kryn's Kitchen
http://tribes.tribe.net/cuzlifeisworthit

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PANAMA RAINBOW 2008 (WORLD PEACE GATHERING) VERAGUAS (MARCH 07 TO APRIL 27)

Ras Swami — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:24:37 GMT

PANAMA RAINBOW 2008 (WORLD PEACE GATHERING):

WHERE:
(VERAGUAS)...HOW TO GET THERE: BY LAND COMING FROM COSTA RICA..TAKE A BUS IN DAVID TO SANTIAGO AND FROM THERE TAKE SMALL BUS TO MARIATO (ALL THE WAY TO RESTAURANTE BRISAS AND FROM THERE...LITTLE HIKING TO TORIO) AND WELCOME TO THE RAINBOW SITE.....
FROM PANAMA CITY...GO TO THE BUS TERMINAL AND TAKE A BUS TO SANTIAGO AND FROM THERE TAKE SMALL BUS TO MARIATO (ALL THE WAY TO RESTAURANTE BRISAS AND FROM THERE A LITTLE HIKING TO TORIO) AND WELCOME HOME

WHEN:
MARCH 07 (NEW MOON) TO APRIL (NEW MOON)

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING: POSITIVE VIBRATION AND ONE LOVE UNITY

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: RAS SWAMI.....SWAMIRASTA2008@YAHOO.CO.IN OR SWAMI@SOON.COM OR CELLPHONE (507) 678 85545 OR IN SPANISH: ALEX SANCHEZS: POETANDARIEGO@YAHOO.COM.MX

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My new Kitchen...

kryntaal — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:09:39 GMT

Here it is:

http://tribes.tribe.net/cuzlifeisworthit

Rainbow family, Kryn's Kitchen

Come check it out! :) Always looking for new members, or just good family wanting to talk, share, love & grow.

Love & Light to you all,
Kryn
Kelly
(me.)

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2012 where are you gonna be ??

Paulie — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:48:31 GMT

2012 a predicted change for all beings on this planet

..what are your plans for this year of the Dragon?

Where will you be ?
what do think is going to happen ?
and why does 2012 have such a huge meaning to you.?

...Do you believe the Mayan calender were pointing toward a new Epoch or the Last epoch??

Where will the Rainbow Family be in 2012??

Let me Know what you feel and think :)

Paulie crystal Ballie

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Musical Veggie, Anyone?

kryntaal — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:27:21 GMT

So anybody here remember/sit in with/participate in/know anybody from the Musical Veggie Kitchen? i camped with them a few years & fell in love, over the course of the last few years of not attending gatherings i lost touch with them, then someone told me they dissolved/retired, and are no longer a kitchen..
I would like to share stories about happy times and warm memories with that amazing kitchen here, so if you have any, post away! i'll be posting some of my own here shortly.
Oh, and if anyone can get in touch with them, please let Question Mark know that Kelly (Kryn) misses him & the whole group. :)

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Looking for Loved Ones? / Calif. wildfire victims / aid sought

Zen — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:45:28 GMT

Looking for Loved Ones - Safe and Well: Safe and Well is a nationally accessible website, developed as a free community service by the American Red Cross, that provides a way for individuals affected by a disaster (within the U.S.) to list themselves as "safe and well." Then, loved ones can check on the status of their family and friends. Register and connect at 1-800-RED CROSS or www.redcross.org.

Orange County Rescue Mission is accepting all non-perishable donations and gift certificates to restaurants Monday through Friday between the hours of 8am and 6pm Map to Orange County Rescue Mission. They are also asking groups to organize canned food drives, for more information please visit www.operationoc.org

Wildfire Volunteer Information
If you would like to help please do not attempt to go to the affected areas. Trained first responders are in place and assisting where needed. Intentions may be for the best but going to evacuated or hazardous areas only slows efforts and creates distractions.

Below please find additional resources which may be useful to people affected by the fires:

• County of Orange Public Information Hotline: 714/628-7085

• 2-1-1 Orange County (resources and connectivity): 2-1-1, or on a cell phone dial 1-888-600-4357

• Orange County Fire Authority (fire containment/evacuation information): 714/573-6000 or www.ocfa.org

• San Diego Update Hotline: 619/570-1070

• San Bernadino County Public Information Line: 909/355-8800

• Food Donation Drop Off Sites (as of 10-25-07):

Community Action Partnership Food Bank (12640 Knott Ave., Garden Grove, CA 92841)

Second Harvest (426 A Almond, Orange, CA 92866)

Rescue Mission/Village of Hope M-F 8am-6pm - non-perishable food or gift certificates for food (1 Hope Dr., Tustin, CA)

• Donation of Goods (as of 10-25-07):

Goodwill (check your phone book for your nearest location.) When your donation is designated for fire victims, Goodwill issues vouchers to Red Cross. These vouchers are then distributed through Red Cross disaster service centers to individuals affected by the fires.

Community Action Partnership Food Bank - accepting personal items, hygiene kits (toiletries, shaving kits, etc.), diapers, clothing, household goods (12640 Knott, Garden Grove, CA 92841)

Working Wardrobes (11614 Martens River Circle, Fountain Valley, CA 92708)

The American Red Cross of Orange County is staffing its emergency operations center around-the-clock and is working to assist our communities with Red Cross services as needed. Thank you for your support.

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Council on the future of the Black's Beach Rainbow drum circle in San Diego

Dave-R — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:50:41 GMT

The gathering at Black's Beach is sick and needs focused intention to fix it. The alcohol energy is out of control and more help is needed at clean up. Please do get involved if you are staying in Southern California and you possibly can. Dedicated Rainbow Warriors are needed. Here are details I recieved about the time and place of council. Love you all.

>Saturday, October 13 @ noon @ Stonehenge on the UCSD Campus
>- across from the Che Cafe.
>"A council to discuss how to create a safe, sane full moon circle
>at black's beach that supports peace and healing and the positive
evolution
>of the planet. All people who attend or want to attend the full
>moon circle are strongly encouraged to come and share their ideas
>and suggestions"
I heard through the grapevine that more detailed information may
be available at the Sunday afternoon circle in Balboa Park.
Visit http://home.earthlink.net/~scrollinfo for directions.

Just an FYI, Rainbow councils are open to everyone and the more
people come and share their thoughts the better. NO EXPERIENCE
NECESSARY
If you haven't participated in a Rainbow Family Council, you might
want to check out this link and get an idea of what to expect
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/focalizers/council-mini.html

We have held councils at this location in the past to discuss issues
with the Full Moon Circle. The directions we used in the past were

Directions: Stonehenge is at the Southwest end of the UCSD campus
adjacent (just north) of the Theater District.

If you're coming by car, from Interstate 5 exit La Jolla Village
Drive and go west. Get in the far right lane as soon as you are west
of the Interstate. Exit onto Gilman Drive North (the far right lane
will veer off onto Gilman Drive. Turn left on Scholars Drive South
(the first left). Continue past the Che Cafe. Stonehenge is just past
the Che on the right hand side of the road. For parking, continue
past Stonehenge and turn right into parking lot P103 (the first lot
on the right). No parking permit is required on weekends.

If you're coming by bus: take the North County Bus 101 or San Diego
Transit buses 30 or 41 and get off at La Jolla Village Drive at
Revelle College/Theatre District. Walk north past the theaters. We'll
be south of Revelle Plaza.

Here's a link to UCSD's interactive online map
http://maps.ucsd.edu/Viewer.htm?Map=Visitor

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HOwdy Folks !!!! Oregon directions - Find your way home!

evilive — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:00:50 GMT

www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html (this shows the Oregon 1997gathering, which is the exact location this year. ) The directions are taken directly from welcomehome.org.

Howdy Folks,

Welcome Home to the Oregon gathering in the Ochoco National Forest from September 11, 2007 until September 23, 2007. Seed camp begins September 6, 2007.
For more information, contact:
groups.yahoo.com/group/mountainspirit
or call 240-863-6250 or email mountainspirit@yahoogroups.com.

Where the Ochoco Gathering in Oregon will Be.
The 2007 Rainbow Gathering is in Ochoco National Forest at a place called Indian Prarie in central Oregon. (between Prineville and Mitchell)
From Prineville:
Take hwy 26 east towards Mitchell. Make a right turn onto hwy 23,(this road is not marked, but is the next two lane paved road after the reservoir, a few miles out of town, to the right) which later turns into hwy 22 and continues to Walton Lake. Soon after the lake, turn left onto FS 150, a dirt road. Go a little ways till 150 ends in a T. Go right onto FS 2630, and continue to the parking lot and Bus Village.
From Mitchell:
Take hwy 26 west towards Prineville. A little ways past the Bandit Springs rest area, go left onto FS 2630. This later becomes FS 2210, and 2630 becomes a less maintained road. Follow FS 2210 to hwy 22. Turn left onto hwy 22 and follow past Walton Lake. Soon after the lake, turn left onto FS 150, a dirt road. Go a little ways till 150 ends in a T. Go right onto FS 2630, and continue to the parking lot and Bus Village.
More map details
This is right near the Bridge Creek Wilderness area, and north of the Big Summit Prarie. I can see several springs on the map. Sortof behind the site is the Mt. Pisgah Lookout. It looks to be no more than 6000-6500 feet in altitude.
For general information about the Rainbow Family and regional events, please first look around an unofficial family website- go to Welcome Home at
www.welcomehome.org or email rob@welcomehome.org

www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html

What is a Rainbow Gathering?
Carla's Gathering Basics
What follows is my take on it. No one put me in charge (thank goodness), so you may get other answers from other folks that add or subtract stuff - but basically I think most folks will be in agreement with what I see as being the basics for a gathering.
It is free and non-commercial. This means no entry fee and no money charged for any service at the event (food, medical, etc.). There are people at gatherings who hang out with the barter circle and essentially have a commercial trip going either with trade or cash, but this is their own personal trip and has nothing to do with the actual set-up of a gathering. I personally consider these folks in violation of the basic spirit of the gathering and wish they would go away, or at least put away their trade goods. But since we have no cops, no courts, and no jails, they continue to do as they please, over the objections of many but also with the support also of many. Anyway, with the exception of these folks who are taking advantage of the free space, you shouldn't find any commercialism at a gathering whatsoever.
Rainbow gatherings are non-aligned both spiritually and politically. There is no one right religious or spiritual belief; people of all faiths are welcome to come gather. Often, people from specific churches or temples come set up their own camp and feed lots of folks from their kitchens (the Krishnas and the Bread of Life Christian camp being the most notable). There are no hassles towards any church group proselytizing or trying to win converts - if people want to listen, that's their own business.
Rainbow also does not support any specific political cause, party, issue, or candidate. Many people come to gatherings to recruit for their own specific Peace Walk, Drums around the Pentagon, environmental action, or whatever; but again, that is their own trip. They certainly have the right of free speech to spread the word about whatever event they are sponsoring. But they do nothave the right to call it a Rainbow event or claim they have support of the Rainbow Family. If they do make such claims, they are ripping off the Family name. Folks involved in such actions have every right to also mention, if asked, that yes, they consider themselves to be Rainbows. No reason not to fly your colors, especially when you're doing something you consider a good cause and are proud of being involved in. You just can't say that your event (protesting logging the rainforest, for example) is a Rainbow protest as such.
We have no leaders. We operate by consensus process. No one is in charge, we have no board of directors. For many regional events, a small circle of people often initiates the event, and the circle grows and becomes many. All the labor of getting the gathering together in a safe and healthy manner is done by volunteers.
The only rule we have is that of peaceful respect. That actually encompasses a lot, when you stop and think about it. Sure, no one can tell anyone else what to do, but if someone builds an unsafe fire under a tree, they will hear about it (hopefully in a sweet way) from many people who are worried about the safety of the camp. We like to say that everyone is Shanti Sena (Peacekeeper). The idea is to communicate in such a way that folks doing something non-peaceful, non-respectful, unhealthy, or unsafe will see the error of their ways and choose to get with the program. When something really out of line occurs (a violent individual hitting someone with a club, for example) a Shanti Sena council (consisting in the ideal of all interested parties, as well as some experienced folks from the Shanti Sena Clan to give guidance and physical safety) forms to deal with the issue. If the victim of the violence wishes to press charges, the incident is dealt with accordinly, and the Shanti Sena folks cooperate in turning the perpetrator over to local law enforcement - a controversial move, to be sure, but in some cases unavoidable and sometimes even desirable. If no one wants to see the local authorities involved but a person is considered a danger to the safety of folks in camp, two options are commonly turned to: someone capable of handling the situation volunteers to accompany the offending person 24 hours a day around camp; or the person must leave the gathering and not come back that year.
As per a standing consensus by the Rainbow Family Tribal Council, we don't apply for or sign permits. With the new group use regulations instituted by the Forest Service this year, this has become a difficult position to hold.One regional gathering signed a permit and gathered under a different name than Rainbow. Weird, and lot of people were angry at the folks who signed the permit,but what are ya gonna do? Take away their hippie cards? Anyway, theoretically,if a gathering has a permit, it is by definition not a Rainbow Gathering.
Also, by long tradition, we do not gather anywhere but public land. Occassionallythere may be focussed councils (Thanksgiving Council, regional councils) that happen on private land, but gatherings themselves are always held on public land. Again, if it happens otherwise, it is by definition not a Rainbow Gathering, though the event may be very rainbow in nature otherwise.
We take responsibility for every aspect of the gathering, from set-up to clean-up. We don't ask for help bulldozing roads, getting donations from local charities or food banks. We are self-sufficient in every aspect of our gathering, and responsible for ourselves. Most important, when the gathering is over, many people stay behind to totally clean up the site. No janitors are paid to clean up after folks. Gatherers are expected to use the recycling center set up on site and to pack out what they packed in. The clean up crew takes out all trash to recycling centers and to landfills, then restores and rehabilitates the site. This may involve scarifying the earth to loosen up compacted areas, filling in ruts caused by vehicles, water-barring hilly areas, and reseeding the ground. All shitters and camps are disappeared and naturalized. This is a lot of work folks! If you've never stayed for cleanup, you've never really done a gathering. This is not a dead lot - this is real, this is a labor of love, and it's one of the only reasons, both karmically and politically, that the powers that be haven't put the ax to us long ago.
A Rainbow Gathering is not a rock concert or a platform for speakers. If cars are allowed in the gathering area proper, and if there is amplified music as a central theme, it most certainly is NOT a Rainbow Gathering (the drive-in gathering in Texas was an exception, as we were not allowed to close the road).
If it were up to me to define it, I would say this is the most important aspect of the Gathering: It is a free assembly of individuals who come together to practice peace. The focal point of the Annual Gathering July 1-7 is a coming together in a large circle, each person praying silently in their own way for peace. Most of the regional gatherings also set aside a day for the Silent Circle. A Rainbow Gathering is not a party, although partying certainly happens. It is not just a big hippie campout, although there are lots of counter-culture and new-age types camping in the woods. It is not just the world's largest love-in/be-in/ smoke-in, although a lot of that certainly goes on. For me, without the element of prayer we might as well not gather at all. For me, without the element of the Circle in which we participate, we mights as well have a hippie convention at the Hilton. For me, without the practice of Peaceful Respect and continuing attempts to create harmonyamong each other and all beings of the Earth, me might as well give up any pretense that the human race is evolving.
So, does that make things more clear? You'll probably get as many different answers as you will people answering. Good luck sorting it all out. The annual Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes will take place in the Northwest next July - Oregon or Washington. Stay tuned for directions, which will probably come out about amonth before the gathering!
Love and Light,
Carla

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This is Not an offical document of any kind by the Rainbow Family. This invitation is my own creation, and as such only represents my own ideas. In no way does this mean I or anyone else represents the Rainbow Family, regardless of what the Family wingnuts say.

RAP 107
www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/.../107.html
Gathering Consciousness
Please protect this Beautiful Land. Walk softly. Harm no living thing. Harmonize - Blend
in. Use only down, dead wood. Cut no living trees. Preserve the Meadows....camp in the Woods. We are caretakers of this land. Everyone sharing makes a strong Human Tribe!
Please Protect the Water Sources by staying out of DELICATE spring areas. Avoid camping, peeing, washing above spring areas. Keep ALL soap out of streams, springs or the creek!
Use a bucket to take your bath 60 feet away from the water source. To be certain of drinking water: boil it! Use the slit trenches or covered latrines - cover your paper & waste with ashes or lime, wash hands. Break the fly/illness connection: shit-fly-food-you! Dig no shitters near water areas or kitchens. Protect our Health! Use your own cup, bowl & spoon! Wash them after eating and rinse in bleach-water. Visit C.A.L.M./M.A.S.H. if you feel ill - especially if you have a contagious disease - or are injured. Camp Together - Establish neighborhoods. Community Fires only! ~ Each with 5 gallon water bucket and shovel for Fire Protection. If you are the last to leave a fire PUT IT OUT! Watch your gear: Be Responsible ~ "Tempt Not Lest Ye Be Lifted From." Pets are discouraged but if you must bring them keep them fed, on a leash and out of the kitchens, springs & fights. Clean up their poop. Love them. PACK IT IN - PACK IT OUT !!! Cleanup begins when you arrive. Bring in only what is necessary. There is no janitor here...you are the cleanup crew. Separate Garbage for recycling. Don't litter - Find collection point. Compost in pits only. You are the Gathering! Participate in Shanti Sena, the peace keepers council, and all activities, councils, work crews, workshops. Volunteer wherever needed: kitchens, welcome home, firewatch, parking lot, shitter digging, supply, front gate, etc. R-E-S-P-E-C-T your Sisters & Brothers energies. Keep the Balance: Earth, Sky, Trees, Water & People! Alcohol is Discouraged, Guns are Inappropriate, Violence is contrary to the Spirit. Please take no photographs or videos of people without permission. Discourage Drug Abuse. Buying and selling endangers our legal right to be here. The Magic Hat is our Bank, donate early to fund our Needs. The Magic Hat goes around at mealtime circles and with the Magic Hat Band. Our power together is many times our power separated. Enjoy the Rainbow with an open heart and you Will see the Vision. Join us for July 4th Silent Contemplation & Prayer for Peace, respect those maintaining silence from dawn. Hold the silence until the arrival of the Children's Parade.

WE LOVE YOU!!!!

Note: If you packed it in then pack it out.

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Devotional Folk Fusion with Fearless Love & Mystic Travelers Sat. Sept. 1st 8 pm Eugene OR

matura — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:53:04 GMT

Devotional Folk Fusion with FEARLESS LOVE
featuring Eostar Kamala and KIRTAN featuring THE MYSTIC TRAVELLERS and the Devotees of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Ashram

SATURDAY, SEPT 1st 8 pm

Location: Far Horizons Montessori School
(2490 Hilyard, the other side from Sundance)

Delectable Food offering by the Sri Chaitanya Saraswati temple

Program:
8 pm – 9 pm : Kirtan with the Mystic Travellers and the Devotees
9 pm – 11 pm : Fearless Love
- original songs by Eostar Kamala, Ben House, Matura Das and Gopal
Das. Devotional folk fusion, lyrical dance music that elevates the
Spirit, anchors the mind to contemplate the divine, and moves the body
to dance. Fearless Love and the Mystic Travellers celebrate the unity
of all faiths, evoking ancient wisdom, cross-cultural spiritual
traditions and mysticism.
All are welcome, please bring a pillow!
Suggested dontation: $10

Fearless Love and the Mystic Travellers include:
Matura Das – vocals, whistle, harmonica, harmonium, guitar
Eostar Kamala – vocals, guitar
Glenn Falkenberg – celtic harp, mandolin, bass
Ben House – vocals, whistle, guitar, mandolin, bass
Gopal Das – vocals, bass, guitar
+ friends

For further info: 541-543-7748
http://www.myspace.com/fearlesslove
http://www.myspace.com/mystictravellers
http://www.myspace.com/maturamusic

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Looking for Rainbows on Oahu

Mistie — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:48:24 GMT

I'm here for the summer & I need some friends...Where is everyone on the South side of the island??

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Ride to National leaving LA as soon as we can hook up

teafaerie — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:10:50 GMT

Very sweet 10 year + Rainbow couple desperately needs a couple of gas helping riders to get to the National Gathering in Arkansas this year. We had a plan but our riders just fell through and we can't foot the bill alone. Leaving as soon as possible and heading back West on the 5th. Clean well tuned roomy vehicle, loving vibes, good music etc. Please mail me (Jessica) right away at ruespieler@yahoo.com or call my husband Jason at 310-804-2376

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Looking for a ride from SF to the gathering

Sarah — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:12:25 GMT

Hi, if you know anyone leaving late (jUne 27th) from San francisco and has room in their ride, then I'm their rider!! This will be my 13th national (if I make it). I have gas$ and other goodies to share. Thanks,Sarah

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directions to saltspring soltice rainbow gathering 2007

elfintom — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:05:32 GMT

Rainbow Familly of living Light invites all beings to gather peacfully
with
Love

Seed camp is getting under way this week, Preparing for the main
gathering to
run from Thursday the 21st through sunday the 24th.
Please be aware this is a healing gathering and that alcohol and hard drugs are discouraged!
The gathering will be up Mt. Tuam in a 90acre park.
about a 45min drive from Fulford turn left after the Fulford inn onto
Issabella pt Rd, then the first rd on the right, Musgrave rd. will be
followed over the mountain. Musgrave rd will turn to dirt then you will
need to stay to the right to stay on it. Heading up the mountain there is
one main junction in which you must stay to the left. Then heading down the
back or south side you will need to keep right at another junction, both
times it is basicaly staying with the flow of the rd.
After a good desent you will be looking for a small rd on the left
immediately
After a green rd sign on the right (Hope Hiil rd). This left, then
another left will bring you to a small clearing, the road or this clearing
being used for parking, (well see which).
Follow the Rainbow signs!
If you go straight on the rd off of musgave(by foot only) it goes down
to the ocean. Please be aware of very strong currents may develope
quickly.

The park boundry roughly follows the rd from the ocean and through the
clearings to the stream and the stream down to the ocean. Please be
respectfull of and "cabins in the woods" which will not be in the park.
Please Bring your camp gear, Organic food to share, Hugs, Musical
instruments, skills/Knoledge to share, lots of Love and Healing
vibrations/
intentions for the earth and your familly of light.

Please forward, invite a friend, set you intention for us to bring
healing
to the earth and ourselves

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Summer Soltice Gathering(june21-24 2007)on SaltSpring Island

elfintom — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:36:30 GMT

Come gather with us canucks up here in B.C. we are folkaling a healing rainbow up here on our beautiful Island, so git your yayas out an boogie to the bingaa! heal your hearts, an sing your songs, om your vibration,and heal the nation!

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ride to nationals

Isa — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:15:46 GMT

hiya, i'm a oregon native but passing through the south east right now, specifically atlanta. anyone headed to nationals. i need a ride. lotsa love and light! ~isa~

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need woodworker for collaboration or advice

spunessa humingbyrd — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:31:45 GMT

im trying to build a piece of art and i need someone to help...i would be willing to collaborate...and kickdown money from sale of piece... im on a limited budget....grant....cost of wood shouldnt be much....but the frame for the piece will be art as well...its going to be either 3' but preferably 4' in diameter circle frame to hold a 45-55lb glass piece...access to equip is a must to make this piece....anyone interested in making a installation...for a colorado festival? contact me...the art for the piece is in my album..dreamcatcher...suncatcher image...love and light... humingbyrd

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Enjoy this years Thai World Rainbow pics

mandala — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:52:53 GMT

Hi Everyone
Enjoy this years Thai World Rainbow pics
http://picasaweb.google.com/Mandalaworldmusic/RainbowThailand2007
Eric Tumblingfox Mandala
http://www.mandalaworldmusic.com

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rainbow gathering BELIZE

Katheryn — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:48:15 GMT

june 12-14th 2007. BELIZE

i just heard a rumor!
regardless lest make it true!

Namaste

-Kathy

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looking for a gathering

habore — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:40:19 GMT

i havent been to a rainbow gathering since nov 05, and even then i was just on weekends, because of school.
are there any gatherings in the following months in centeral america or mexico?
cheers,
mijael

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Where have all the rainbows gone?

WillowBear — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:26:27 GMT

I just got this email. Here it is, with my reply interspersed:

=====================

W^B reads this and pret'near gasps

XxxxxYyyyyBear@aol.com wrote:
> I cant find any real family anymore. Is it just me?
Word: not 5 minutes ago I was thinking, "What about all the people I got to know over the years, where are they all? Maybe I should have stayed with the commune in Williams Lake, or with the kids in Squamish. Maybe it was a mistake to move east ... or spend so much time on street-politics isntead of music."

Bro', I been watching it come apart since '70 ... is why I studied Tib Buddhism: I figured things were gonna get hard.

> The last few small regional's I went to had alcohol all over inside the gathering.
I drink, k? Believe it or not as much as anything else so I can chill the boozers. But I really hear you ... that just ain't right.

> People were fighting constantly, and the land was not treated with respect.
Fundamental.
Now, thing is, did others just not notice? or did they notice but are so wrapped in shame and guilt that they dug themselves down into a stinking heap of denial?

> I miss the original Rainbow Gatherings.
In the place I was there was no locals. And I've always been too far away and too broke to go to a national.
I've been with "tribe" but have actually met few Rainbows. I got "WillowBear" from a beautiful woman I met at a folk fest in Northern Alberta ... 1976 ... she was with a band of 5 ... true soul-family.

> Did things change? or was I having to much fun when I was a kid to notice what I see now?

*sigh* You're astute.
When I tried to signal danger, folk were just bothered ... downer, wet-blanket, pessimist (which I ferr shurr ain't) ... part of the problem of folk not paying attention / being too busy and distracted is that, well, folk aren't paying attention.

What happens is that those who are seeing the problems leave ...
... cuz the "bliss kiddiez" and the space-caditiots and live and luv delusionists don't want to see and hear.

> I moved to Mmmm Nnnnnnn knowing that there would be lots of good rainbow family here. I was wondering if you could maybe direct me to some one who can help answer my questions on what happened to the Rainbow Family. I want to go home, but I don't know how to find a safe gathering without Drainbow's everywhere.

Can you imagine, in your mind's eye, a sizable group that is not Drainbow?

> I am from Nederland Colorado and noticed this problem of fake directions to fake gathering's start in the mid 90's. Is there such thing as a true real actual Rainbow Gathering anymore?

*listens for answers*
You know, both the BC and Quebec circles have gotten right private ... they don't let it be known ... so out in Babylon it's as if the family doesn't even exist. Putting up walls as a defense strategy seems to make sense, but it's what a species tries to do just before it dies out completely.

> Sorry if my words sound negative.
If someone discovers that the water supply has gotten tainted, is it negative to talk about?
I appreciate this "lion's roar" coming from you.

I pledged my life to voluntary simplicity and communalism as my cohort from the bus in '68 and '69 became careerist yuppies ... and wealthy.
Now I'm broke and alone.

> But I need to know if it's just me. And if that's the case, I definitely took to much!
huh huh ... sensitivity means doing reality testing rather than conquering / convincing others.
It often enough becomes a reasonable question to wonder if we've lost our sanity.

> Please help me with some answer's
You cannot know what a blessing it was to receive your letter.

> Loving you family
clan and family
circle

> XxxxxYyyyy Bear.
WillowBear aka Karma Chopal aka ben

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US NW Regionals '07

Gibson — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:02:45 GMT

Hi brothers and sisters!
When?
Where?

Peace
Love
Gibson

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Rainbow Gathering Thailand: still Going on?

Anthony — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:47:53 GMT

We're here in Bangkok; just arrived. We were wondering if the Gathering is still happening, even though it's already the 19th of January. ???
-anthony & mariah

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