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34 Years of Hippie Camps, Now in Tinder-Dry Woods 
Posted by CN Staff on June 30, 2006 at 20:59:16 PT
By Kirk Johnson
Source: New York Times
Hahns Peak, Colo. -- As many as 8,000 hippie-tinged campers arrived here this week in Routt National Forest for the annual Rainbow Family gathering. The event, which began in 1972, has become a national pilgrimage of the fringe, the flower empowered and the spiritually engaged. They expect their numbers to double through the holiday weekend.
The forest around them is tinder dry and more stressed by disease, insects and drought than at any time in at least 120 years, fire experts say. That was when it burned to the ground.Just one narrow dirt road in and a single-track trail after that lead to the heavily wooded Rainbow camp.Kent Foster is losing sleep."You wake up and play out the scenarios," said Mr. Foster, zone fire management officer for the Forest Service in Steamboat Springs, about an hour south. "It's an accident waiting to happen."Some of the Rainbows are nervous, too. A man who calls himself Circus Maximus — in non-Rainbow life a chef and property manager in Seattle — has become a restless fire nag, patrolling the camp and spelling out the fire rules night after night at the Circle, where people gather at dusk to eat and socialize. The rules forbid individual campfires and allow group fires only in pits that the Forest Service has approved. Five gallons of water are supposed to be on hand at all times."If you see someone making a fire near you, please ask them to put it out!" he yelled as he made his way around the Circle on Thursday night, wearing cowboy chaps and a rainbow-colored neckerchief. "If you're going to have a fire, have closer to 10 gallons tonight!"Some people paid attention. Others treated him as one more shouter in the raucous round of evening rites. Spontaneous groups of musicians had sprung up by then, with guitars, mandolins and bongos. A woman with a baby slung on her chest slowly swiveled a Hula-Hoop in the center. Other people chatted and waited for the wedding that rumor had it would soon unfold. Dogs and children roamed about. People smoked regular cigarettes and marijuana in the grass in violation of the fire rules even as Circus gave his best fire-warden speech.Anxiety and worry are emotions that the Rainbows, as they call themselves, by and large try to shed for these weeklong get-togethers. The group has no hierarchy or organizational structure. No commercial activity is allowed — though barter is encouraged. And things occur on Rainbow time, which means not by the clock. Spontaneity and do-it-yourself democracy, from the communal kitchens and free-massage tents to the volunteer-staffed first-aid centers, are held out as the highest social expression. Strangers passing on the trail say they love one another.But the confluence of forces increasing fire risks across the West this year — a parched spring, an intense June heat wave and the steady march of the bark beetles that have killed millions of spruce and lodgepole pines —has imposed a darker tone, many people said.Dan Chambers, a stay-at-home dad from Cleveland, has been attending Rainbow gatherings around the country since 1983 and was here with his wife, Louise Foresman, and their 7-year-old son, Devlin. Mr. Chambers said he had never seen anything before like the drumbeat of fire safety this year. "People are scared," he said. "I think the Forest Service is really worried about us."Others say the spirit of the Rainbow is immune from gloom. Some people talked about their proven success in praying for rain or said they believed that the Forest Service, which they say has been antagonistic to Rainbow gatherings over the years, is exaggerating the risk as a new harassment tactic. Although alcohol is discouraged, except at a smaller camp down the road, partying of other sorts seemed unhampered by the supposed threat. At one spot on the trail, a topless young woman who said her name was Sunshine was lying on the ground having her body painted by friends she said she had just met. Passers-by were asked whether they had any marijuana and were invited back for naked mud wrestling after dark.At a tent called the Blue Stars Rest Stop, James Bradford, a massage therapist from Cape Cod, Mass., was playing an Australian didgeridoo. Passers-by stopped and listened to the moaning, throaty tones. Some entered to sit around the little altar that Mr. Bradford created not long after his first Rainbow experience in 1992.The altar collection began with the seashells that once belonged to Mr. Bradford's grandmother, he said, and has grown every year through new donations. Every year, he returns with the expanded collection because he said the items are part of what creates the Blue Stars' sense of peace.Circus Maximus said he was confident that spontaneous firefighting crews would arise in the camp if fire broke out, as happened in past gatherings in Arizona and Wyoming, and that evacuation instructions that he and others have talked about in camp meetings — to head toward a nearby streambed and follow it to safety — would be followed. Mr. Foster at the Forest Service said he was less worried about fire in the camp than about the unguarded woods beyond. Most summer wildfires in this part of the Rockies start from lightning strikes, especially "dry lightning," from a thunderstorm without rain.About 5 p.m. on Thursday, not long before the Circle was to begin, lightning flickered on the horizon and clouds gathered over Rainbow camp. But just a drop or two fell. Deep thunder boomed. A spontaneous cheer arose as the sound echoed out through the forest.Source: New York Times (NY)Author: Kirk JohnsonPublished: July 1, 2006Copyright: 2006 The New York Times CompanyContact: letters nytimes.comWebsite: http://www.nytimes.com/Colorado Rainbow Familyhttp://www.coloradorainbowfamily.orgCannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml
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Comment #56 posted by FoM on July 13, 2006 at 12:31:40 PT
LWW Video Download Soon
AFTER THE GARDEN VIDEO DOWNLOADWithin hours, After the Garden will be available here in a new LWW video, which is the first in a series.   The download features scenes from Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”, a film of great importance to the planet Earth. http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html
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Comment #55 posted by FoM on July 13, 2006 at 10:46:20 PT
Hope
I don't know if you are still around but it doesn't look good for Barbaro. He foundered in his good hind leg. They removed part of his hoof to let the pressure out but this will probably require him to be destroyed. They tried real hard to save him and that was good. Once a horse founders they just keep going down hill.NYT: Barbaro: http://tinyurl.com/r3yqw
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Comment #54 posted by FoM on July 13, 2006 at 07:13:45 PT
Whig
Have a fun and safe trip out to sunny California. I think this new movie about John Lennon will be one that I will buy when it is released on DVD. I wouldn't be surprised in they would try to do the same thing to Neil Young for speaking out. 
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Comment #53 posted by Hope on July 13, 2006 at 05:02:46 PT
Whig
I'm so excited for you! Have a safe trip!
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Comment #52 posted by whig on July 13, 2006 at 04:53:04 PT
OT: Happy Merck Day
http://tinyurl.com/rjmab
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Comment #51 posted by whig on July 13, 2006 at 04:15:30 PT
FoM
That's exciting to hear they are releasing a new movie about the political persecution of John Lennon. I couldn't watch the trailer from my laptop but the website had some great pictures of John and Yoko and links to interesting articles. I especially liked this one:http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8721/8721.intro.htmlSo anyhow, Mrs. Whig and I are on the road, the movers have taken our stuff, we stayed with my parents last night and are going to a hotel tonight, flying out early in the morning tomorrow. I might not be able to post here for a few days, depending on whether or when we have internet connectivity.
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Comment #50 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 20:57:33 PT
New Movie: The U.S. Versus John Lennon
http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/Trailer: http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/site/trailer.html
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Comment #49 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 14:56:56 PT
We had our share of streakers down here...
and more than our share, I think, of mooners. Last time I got "mooned" was in broad daylight. A guy with a bunch of men friends that probably were egging him on. A twelve year old daughter was with me and it happened at a gas station we were passing. After a little bit, I said, "Did you see that?"She said "Yes". I said, "Don't act like that." She said, "I won't."Kids used to moon people out their car windows fairly often. They may still be doing it...but I don't notice it.Heck, I had to see Billy Bob Thornton's butt about three times in one week, in two or three different movies. It's just no big deal to show your butt anymore. I believe the first main stream "mooning" on screen must have been Richard Harris in A Man Called Horse. Butt shines are funnier than frontal nudity. Frontal nudity is more "flasher" than funny.
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Comment #48 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 13:25:17 PT
Hope
Glad you liked it. Streaking was very popular for a while. We had a friend who had them stop the car at the one side of a Burger Chef. He and his girlfriend streaked thru the door and out the other side. They were suppose to open the door and they would jump in. He got thru the exit door too soon and ran into the car and slid up on the hood. I guess we were a zany bunch of young and crazy people.
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Comment #47 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 13:13:36 PT
Lol!
That must have been Ethel in one of the last pictures!
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Comment #46 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 13:11:45 PT
Aaahhh. Don't look, Ethel!
I haven't heard that in years. It's so funny.
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Comment #45 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 12:57:52 PT
Lol! A cheerleader? That's funny.
To each his own. I prefer, in general to enjoy the protection from the elements that clothing offers.At least they're getting a lot of vitamin D!I'm not repressed by any means...but I am modest.It will take me a bit to download the music.
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Comment #44 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 12:30:25 PT
Don't Look Ethel!
I found you a song.http://www.geocities.com/michellesrockingirlfiles99/TheStreak-By-RayStevens.rm
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Comment #43 posted by museman on July 12, 2006 at 12:18:15 PT
FoM, Hope
I think that freedom is expressed in many ways. Way back in 1972-somewhere in so. Ca. I participated in the short-lived college fad of 'streaking.' It was a total expression of liberty and freedom, with some humor too.I can remember the first time I spent some time around 'clothing optional' beaches and hotsprings, the nudity was overwhelming, but yet it seemed so silly to get in the hotsprings (for example) with a swimsuit, that I got over it real quickly. All my aprehensions about potential embarassment (I was a young un-married man at the time) proved to be unfounded, and, at least in certain situations it became easy for me to accept. The human body is the fact of our corporeal existence, and should be taken as such. Our sexual fears, and mis-understood 'guilts' instilled by the various religious moralities prevalent in our culture, are mis-associated with the 'flesh' and the nude human body.Some people, like hedonists for example, worship the 'beauty' of the human form, and that translates just as easily into the fashion of 'drapery' as well as the nude form itself. The fact that this religion (deeply ingrained in our culture) exemplifies the prime-time of the youthful form, and selectively with certain Helenistic standards of 'beauty' does not change the artistry of the human form, or all of the other natural manifestations of the 'Creators Hand.'The moral assessments that some may make concerning nudity have their root in the 'original sin' concept. That concept is in error, and is the root of much confusion and contention amongst us.Though I feel much more comfortable myself with clothing covering my not-so-youthful form in a public sense, I can appreciate the need of some to expereince that freedom from inhibition and fear. If I don't want to see something, I merely don't look.
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Comment #42 posted by afterburner on July 12, 2006 at 12:10:20 PT
It says cocaine destroyed peaceful Laurel Canyon
society of Folk-Rock stars in the 1970s. bugmenot.com
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Comment #41 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 12:00:52 PT
afterburner
I can't get the article. What does it say?
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Comment #40 posted by afterburner on July 12, 2006 at 11:54:34 PT
Past Distraction: On with the Tour! 
How music scene shifted from cosmic to coke
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/books/story/3585273p-4143312c.html
Winnipeg Free Press (subscription), Canada - Jul 10, 2006
By Barney Hoskyns. By Michael Walker. ASKED what torpedoed supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's meteoric career by 1974, Neil ... 
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Comment #39 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 11:46:12 PT
afterburner
That was what I was taught about the Garden of Eden.That's different. That would be like having a cheerleader around. That is strange.
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Comment #38 posted by afterburner on July 12, 2006 at 11:23:50 PT
My Understanding of Nudity
In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were clothed in "glory." When they ate of the apple of the knowledge of good and evil, they became aware of their nakedness (because they lost their glory "suits") and they were ashamed.Other religions have other explanations and feelings about public nudity. In some South Seas islands people would watch each other make love and offer constructive feedback!
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Comment #37 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 11:00:23 PT
Nudists
I like clothes and shoes to PROTECT my body and feet, too. I got a nude sunburn once and I decided it just wasn't for me, for sure.It makes a person feel helpless, too. I always think about the way Hitler's victims were herded around without clothing.Besides...when you want that little presentation...it's fun to unwrap it instead of it just being flung at you.I fear I might be close to stumbling into that "Blue" territory if I don't stop commenting now!
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Comment #36 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 10:54:24 PT
Hope
Oops. I believe that God doesn't make mistakes except one. People look much better with clothes on! Maybe He then thought up the need for a designer fig leaf. LOL!PS: He had a cute smile. Too much!
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Comment #35 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 10:50:43 PT
I liked his
smile. 
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Comment #34 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 10:50:01 PT
I'm not offended
but probably some of the people I sent it to, will be. I sent them a warning about the "nudes"...later.I should have known there would have to be a few people enjoying the breeze...fully...at a Rainbow gathering. Oh well. It's beautiful and it's not the first time I've been "frowned on" by those less tolerant than I.
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Comment #33 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 10:45:44 PT
Hope
Well he was cute though. LOL!
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Comment #32 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 10:36:31 PT
The pictures
Well...I'm not crazy about the old naked guy picture...but the whole slide show is a definite work of art.
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Comment #31 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 10:22:18 PT
Hope
It is totally beautiful to me too. Putting these pictures together with Imagine is perfect.
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Comment #30 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 10:19:39 PT
The pictures
I just wish I could save them and print them for people that I know that don't have a computer.
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Comment #29 posted by Hope on July 12, 2006 at 10:16:48 PT
Oh my
I don't think I've seen it all yet...but what I've seen of it is so utterly beautiful. Utterly beautifulGod smiles.
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 09:58:26 PT
museman
I thought it was a wonderful slideshow. I'm a little worried today about Neil and Stills. They both fell last night in Toronto. They are playing over 30 songs and I hope their health holds up. Here is a little bit about the accidents last night. On a good note they have a booth for Progressive Democrats and Vietnam Veterans Against The War. I want to visit both booths. Stills said something in an article I read that they think we are liberals so lets show them what a liberal really is or something close to that. http://neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html
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Comment #27 posted by museman on July 12, 2006 at 09:46:21 PT
FoM
Thank you that was a wonderful rendition, and short but sweet synopsis - the gathering in 2.8 minutes.
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Comment #26 posted by FoM on July 12, 2006 at 07:34:09 PT
Museman and Everyone
I know what you mean. Here are pictures in a slide show of the Rainbow Gathering.http://kentmeireisphotography.com/slideshows/Rainbows/
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Comment #25 posted by museman on July 11, 2006 at 23:37:50 PT
FoM
It wasn't 'wrong' so much as contrived. The focus of the article seemed to be on images with (I felt) negative connotations. The song was always a favorite of mine, and in my repetouire. Yes the gathering was a success, and exactly as you say, it is the differences, the multi-faceted nature, the many colors, of freedom that make it what it is; the Rainbow.There is also so much more, of a 'higher' nature that is sloughed off by the media (in general) as superstitious nonsense - because it is belief, and faith which does not fit into the established norms of accceptable religion.The Rainbow gets a lot of bad P.R. Of course, how could one expect to get accurate media coverage of a collective spiritual epiphany of intergalactic proportion?
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on July 11, 2006 at 22:13:46 PT
museman
I'm about done for the day but this evening I walked out on the front porch and saw a young buck grazing on our lawn. I quick got the camera. Figured out how to turn it on and got this poor picture of the deer. The young buck was very pretty to see. I wish the picture was better. I cut it down but it didn't help with clarity. It's cool though.http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/deersm.jpg
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Comment #23 posted by FoM on July 11, 2006 at 21:47:38 PT
museman
I always loved this song.CROSBY STILLS NASH YOUNG | Teach Your Children LyricsYou who are on the roadMust have a code that you can live byAnd so become yourselfBecause the past is just a good bye.***Teach your children well,Their father's hell did slowly go by,And feed them on your dreamsThe one they picked, the one you'll know by.***Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
 Teach Your Children: http://singulartists.com/artist_c/crosby_stills_nash_young_lyrics/teach_your_children_lyrics.html
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on July 11, 2006 at 21:29:03 PT
museman
I didn't see anything wrong with anything your son or any one said in the article. The Rainbows have been around for a long time and a new generation is moving in and will change it somewhat because that is how life is. If the Rainbows attract some people who are without any direction maybe they might get a little focus about life from the experience. I guess I see so much news I automatically read between the lines. The Gathering was a success and even with something that is successful there is always something that doesn't fit. Maybe that's what keeps us humble. 
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Comment #21 posted by museman on July 11, 2006 at 21:09:07 PT
I meant
I was refering to comment 16...
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Comment #20 posted by museman on July 11, 2006 at 21:01:44 PT
denver article
Funny thing that.Seems that the two "19-year-olds" are my son, Jeshuel, and Aaron the son of my good friend.After reading the article my son realized that his name had been used to perpetrate a very biased rendering of the actual events, including the misquoting of what they actually said. That article is slanted, biased, selectively presented as negative and ugly. That reporter misrepresented his intentions to these young men. Lesson learned. They won't be so willing to trust the media any more.Just thought I ought to clear that up since my sons name is associated with it.
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on July 11, 2006 at 17:18:13 PT
Vail Daily News: Feel The Om...
By Nicole FreyJuly 11, 2006ROUTT COUNTY - An elderly man with gray dreadlocks down to his waist and a weatherworn face closed his eyes and blew into a conch shell. The sound echoed over the meadow and up the hillside. And the people responded.Thousands of Rainbow Family members - hippies/pseudo hippies, regular Joes and everything in between — started moving from the campground in the woods down to the wide expanse of the meadow.Like the widening rings in an onion, thousands of Rainbows joined hands to make half a dozen circles in the meadow — Om circles. Then, together, thousands of men, women and children of a multitude of races and creeds raised their voices in a chorus of “ohm.” When the chant finally died, the family raised their arms skyward and shouted in celebration. They celebrated being together, peace, unity, love and freedom. But the littlest among the family knew at the end of the chant came a treat — dinner.Complete Article: http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20060711/AE/60711006
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on July 04, 2006 at 10:38:32 PT
The GCW 
I understand. I feel a kindred spirit with the Rainbow Family. Museman and his family made the very long trip to the Gathering. When he gets back I want to hear all about it. I am sorry to read you are having a throat problem. Take care of yourself. We might forget how long it has been since we have lost a child but one thing we never will forget is them.
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Comment #17 posted by The GCW on July 04, 2006 at 10:26:26 PT
FoM,
No, I'm not going.I have thought about it but it is not the kind of thing I would ordinarily attend. I don't care for large party crowds and it would bore Me greatly. I am and feel like an old hippy type and they sound like part of My / Our tribe, and it is only about 90 miles away to the 'Boat... but...I like the thought... and to see big kitchens... and being around hip people.I like the rebellion against the government.I'd kind of like My children to see it, although naked mud wrestling isn't what I want to expose My children to. Even though a few seasons ago, while watching the Montezuma's Revenge 24 hour bike race, We all watched 3 male and 3 female competitors come out from the middle of lap one with nothing to pad their butts from the bumps of the trail...
That was interesting to watch My childrens faces when racers were racing naked... Floppy part a floppin'... MTB racing is bumpy... For 2 more laps, even.I also have work, a throat problem which at times is causing excruciating pain and requiring class A narcotics to control and Dr. visits, and childrens activities along with a neighbor's picnic bbq after parades and before Montezuma's fireworks. And then work before and after along with My sons MTB XC racing schedule and velodrome schedule and work and then coming soon a trip to Sonoma, Cal for the MTB XC National Championships.My wife is taking flowers to My sons memorial at the high school today... it has been 9 years... I almost forgot.I Am not going, but I Am always of that frame of mind.Thanks for asking.
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Comment #16 posted by FoM on July 04, 2006 at 09:30:16 PT
Rainbow Gathering Update: Age Dividing Rainbows
By Steve Lipsher , Denver Post Staff Writer 
July 4, 2006  
 
 
 
Hahn's Peak Village - Aaron Griffin was 3 months old when his parents brought him to his first Rainbow Gathering, and his buddy Jeshuel Hubbard hadn't even been born. Today, the 19-year-olds mark the new generation of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a disorganized collection of counterculture connoisseurs that has been congregating in the woods for 35 years. "I just got my first real job, paying taxes, $15 an hour. It has its place," said Griffin, sporting several days of scruff on his cheeks beneath his Boston Red Sox cap. "But we come here to listen to what people have to say. It's like a tribal reawakening." Scattered over nearly 4 square miles of the Routt National Forest some 35 miles north of Steamboat Springs, this year's gathering reflects the young and the old: Neo-hippies and drifters, Deadheads and Earth Mothers make up a group in which everyone is accepted but in which a generation gap is developing. 
Complete Article: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4009473
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on July 03, 2006 at 22:46:33 PT
The GCW 
Thank you. Are you going th the Gathering?
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Comment #14 posted by The GCW on July 03, 2006 at 22:41:25 PT
FoM, That's My local rag; the Summit Daily...
The Summit Daily has printed a number of pieces about the Rainbow...Once a week the Summit Daily prints, "Cheers and Jeers" about local interests... and last week this was one of them:JEERS: To the residents and law enforcement in northern Colorado near Steamboat threatening the Rainbow Gathering which, in reality, is just the counter culture fashioned in the new millennium. Think of the gathering as not a protest against the establishment, but as the annual meeting of those who believe that peace and love can, actually, exist. If it can't, then we'll find many in the gathering behind bars.http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060630/OPINION/106300060&SearchID=73249577729717
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on July 03, 2006 at 17:50:00 PT
Rainbow Gathering Includes Eclectic Souls
By Andrew HarleyJuly 3, 2006BIG RED PARK - In case you wondering, here at the 35th Annual National Rainbow Gathering in the Routt/Medicine Bow National Forest, the Rainbow Family of Living Light keeps its members well-fed, safe and conscious of how they approach the thousands of acres of U.S. National Forest they are temporarily inhabiting.The members - anyone not a cop or a Forest Service official - spent the last week setting up a spur-of-the-moment community, complete with group kitchens and a main circle where many gather each night at 6 p.m. to share meals, and discourse about ... well, being well-fed, safe and conscious. The dishwashing areas, compost heaps and toilets are works in progress that involve a little science, muscle and some shovels.Everyone holds hands in a collective wish for peace to settle on the Earth before the food gets delivered by the kitchens.Complete Article: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060703/NEWS/107030055
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Comment #12 posted by FoM on July 02, 2006 at 14:05:19 PT
ekim
Thank you and I hope you do too. What a wonderful thing it is to read about.
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Comment #11 posted by ekim on July 02, 2006 at 14:03:15 PT
just passen it on FoM
 her is hopen that you and stick and all the critters on the farm feel the wonderous vibs ricocheing back from this site.
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on July 02, 2006 at 10:48:31 PT
Event: A Gathering of the Tribes
Peaceful Freedom Assembly  July 1st ~ 9th, 2006This is not the Annual / National Rainbow Gathering for Peace and HealingAll peaceful beings are welcome to come share the gift of harmony and prayers for world peace as we celebrate interdependence day in unity without glorification of war. A circle of silent meditation will commence with the rising sun on the morning of July 4th until noon.http://www.welcomehere.org/gathering_of_the_tribes/
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on July 02, 2006 at 10:16:29 PT
ekim
Thanks so much for your post!
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Comment #8 posted by ekim on July 02, 2006 at 09:54:41 PT
Apollo Challenge 
on behalf of
David Crockett Williams
http://www.myspace.com/davidcrockettwilliamswww.Apollo Alliance.org
Redford Tells Liberals to 'Forget Bush' on 'Global Warming'
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com
June 14, 2006Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - Actor/activist Robert Redford told liberals attending a political conference on Monday to "forget Bush" when seeking solutions to "global warming" because "you can't reason with a stone."During one of the opening events of the three-day "Take Back America" conference, Redford also blamed what he called an inadequate response to "serious climate change issues" on "a lack of leadership at the top" of the federal government."They're not going to change," Redford said of President George W. Bush and his administration, "and it's pretty clear why. They have a stranglehold on both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court to boot."If that's the case, then "where can such leadership come from?" Redford asked. "It can only come from one place, and that's from the bottom up," the actor noted, calling a grassroots movement "the best way, the American way" to deal with "global warming."Noting that he has been involved with environmental issues since 1969, Redford said that "only now is there a perfect storm of opportunity" to begin countering the effects of man-made climate change.As people begin to "take responsibility into their own hands," a coalition is forming of "entities from across the board that represent just about all of American industrial society," Redford said."You've got religious leaders, you've got labor, you've got military leaders, you've got farmers," Redford added. "You put them all together, and you have the real American voice speaking."While acknowledging that former Vice President Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" is "full of gloom and doom," the actor stressed that "this is a time for optimism, because it's a time of opportunity.""New technologies are available that will create new products, which will also create new jobs that will stay home," Redford said, which will end the "sad issue of outsourcing and being dependent on other countries."As a result, the future will be a time when "we can get back in touch and start thinking big again and dreaming again and thinking about hoping again," Redford added. "That's been so savaged over the past few years."When you really understand this planet and its evolution, how it got here, it's just a miracle," the actor noted. "You have to ask yourself, how can we not care for what we've got?"Chris Horner, senior fellow with the free market environmental group Competitive Enterprise Institute, found little to agree with in the actor?s remarks."Redford is certainly right about one thing: President Bush has nothing to do with Kyoto -- beyond, that is, continuing the Clinton-Gore policy of opposing ratification of the abhorrence that even now is undergoing its death throes in Europe," Horner told Cybercast News Service.During Monday's event, Redford shared the stage with Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation, who said that environmentalists should be "listening to the wildlife" that might become extinct before the year 2050."Global warming" is "the defining issue of the 21st century," Schweiger added, warning that a failure to deal with manmade climate change could leave our world "a fundamentally different planet.""Good planets are hard to find," Schweiger said, and climate change issues are "not left or right, but right or wrong. We must set aside our political differences and work in the grand tradition of Americans" to change our "ridiculous energy policy."Another speaker during the program was Jerome Ringo, president of the Apollo Alliance, who announced a new effort called the "Apollo Challenge" to enlist 250,000 volunteers "to rise up and challenge our national leaders" to create "a 21st Century clean energy economy."The final participant in the event was Leo Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers union, who was the recipient of the Apollo Alliance's first "Right Stuff" Award.In presenting the trophy resembling an astronaut and an American flag, Redford called Gerard "a unique labor leader" who realizes that "an unregulated global economy will ultimately destroy good jobs and our healthy environment."Gerard responded that the honor actually belongs to his union, which has been involved in environmental issues for decades and was actually one of the groups that founded the Apollo Alliance.As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Gerard's union of blue-collar workers and the "green" environmentalists of the Sierra Club joined forces on June 8 to create a "Blue-Green Alliance."-----------------------------------------------------------------Take the Apollo Challenge! Take the Apollo ChallengeNot so long ago, President John Kennedy challenged our nation to accomplish
what seemed impossible - to send a man to the moon and return him safely to
earth in just ten years.Inspired by the "can do" spirit of the Apollo moon launch, the Apollo
Alliance asks for your help to challenge our nation's leaders to achieve
energy independence within a decade.Yes! I pledge to challenge our country's leaders to empower America --
within the decade -- to: (check which ones:)[ ] Kick the oil habit. 
[ ] Harness clean, homegrown energy sources. 
[ ] Save energy with high-performance buildings & cities. 
[ ] Create 3 million good, clean energy jobs.See Robert Redford kick off the Apollo Challenge at Take Back America 2006.
mms://cdncon.wmod.llnwd.net/a277/o2/fotf/Apollo_Challenge.wmvTake the Challenge Home - Print out a copy of the Apollo Challenge and get 4
more signatures from your friends and family!
http://www.apollochallenge.org/assets/challenge_petition.pdf
http://www.apollochallenge.org
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Comment #7 posted by whig on July 01, 2006 at 22:35:55 PT
Why do they hate hippies?
They hate us because we make their conscience hurt.
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on July 01, 2006 at 20:28:32 PT
Hope
I'm glad you liked it. That experience for the Church people and Rainbows is how you win friends and influence enemies. When we see that different lifestyles aren't important sometimes we can grow and learn and the world becomes a better place.
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Comment #5 posted by Hope on July 01, 2006 at 20:06:52 PT
FoM Thank you...
That's a beautiful story. Gives one hope.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on July 01, 2006 at 19:54:14 PT
Article: Katrina Flood Victims and The Rainbows
This is from November 2005 after Katrina and I thought it was a good article.Christians, Hippies Bond in Katrina Efforts: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12908Pictures from The Rainbow Gathering: http://tinyurl.com/e8jq6
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Comment #3 posted by Hope on July 01, 2006 at 19:47:01 PT
Rainbow news
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/01/D8IJIC202.html
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Comment #2 posted by Wayne on July 01, 2006 at 07:34:25 PT
keep reading between the lines
Check out the next to the last paragraph:"Mr. Foster at the Forest Service said he was less worried about fire in the camp than about the unguarded woods beyond. Most summer wildfires in this part of the Rockies start from lightning strikes, especially "dry lightning," from a thunderstorm without rain."Why are they even mentioning the Rainbow crowd in this article? They just said, the lightning is what causes the fire. They know that the campers aren't going to cause it. What do the Rainbowers have to do with any of this? They're a nature-loving crowd, they know how to keep from lighting fires.It's a classic example of how the media keeps on controlling us like string puppets. They just don't realize that if they keep scaring the bejesus out of us, eventually we won't be scared anymore. Then their days will be numbered...
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Comment #1 posted by Sam Adams on July 01, 2006 at 06:27:53 PT
Fire!
How quickly we (in the media) forget - remember a couple years ago, when 3 of the worst fires in US history were all started in one year by US Forest Service employees? One burned a letter from her boyfriend and ignited half of Colorado, another in the Southwest wanted to avoid getting laid off, I forget the reasons for the 3rd one.
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