2009 Rainbow Family Gathering

2009 World Family Gathering
Rainbow Family of the Living Light
July 1st ~ 7th, 2009

The 2009 Annual Rainbow Gathering of Living Light will be celebrated July 1st through July 7th. Consensus at the 2008 Annual Vision Counsel was that the 2009 Annual Rainbow Gathering of Living Light will be celebrated in New Mexico.

Dear Family, You are invited to attend this year's ThanksGiving Council at "Frenchy's old place" outside Tres Piedres and Taos New Mexico. Here are the directions:

From Taos: Past the traffic signal at the north of town go northwest approx 24 miles on Highway 64. One block west of The Colorado Road turn right and go 1/4 mile north. You're there! From Tres Piedres: Go 3 1/2 miles eastward on Highway 64. Turn north one block west west of The Colorado Road and go 1/4 mile. You're there!

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Comment by Janice Blakely on June 21, 2009 at 5:05pm

Too many companion animals to care for...we cannot leave this year. Our thoughts and prayers will be with our brothers & sisters, Peace Janice

Comment by Little Bear on June 11, 2009 at 8:58am

We missed spring council because we are working on a ranch in co. anyone here know the concensus?? we are ready to go home. oh yeah we gots a complete new kitchen set up!!

Comment by Motorcycle Hippy Al on June 6, 2009 at 10:51am

RAINBOW GATHERING RE-VISITS NEW MEXICO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Website: www.rpcnews.us
Email: rpcrew1 at gmail.com

National Forest to be determined, (June 2, 2009) - The 38th annual Rainbow Family World Peace Gathering will be held in one of New Mexico's breathtaking National Forests from July 1 through 7, 2009. The annual reunion welcomes "everyone with a bellybutton" to a cost-free, rustic, back-to-nature encampment in a different National Forest across the nation every summer, culminating in a massive silent prayer for world peace on July 4th. Clean-up runs from July 8 to completion. Past gatherings have landed in New Mexico in 1995 and 1977. Thousands of peaceful people will gather, from babies to veterans of wars dating as far back as Korea and from vacationing professionals to adventurous backpackers, bringing millions of dollars into the small rural communities surrounding the site.

The Rainbow attendees are an international affiliation of individuals who gather together on public land to create a cooperative village that focuses on peace, love, healing and respect for the earth.

A specific location has not yet been selected for this year's gathering, but volunteers have been scouting both the Carson and Santa Fe National Forests, working with the United States Forest Service (USFS) to hone in on the best possible site.

The gatherers have a more than 37-year history of success in providing their own all-volunteer crews for parking, communications, and fire patrol. The gatherers are also very proficient in implementing their own security, public health, water, sewer and sanitation systems. Military-style slit latrines are dug. Kitchens are set up Swiss Family Robinson-style. The equipment and methods used to cook for thousands is immaculately clean; the kitchen volunteers adhere to the strictest of sanitation policies even in such primitive conditions, much to the approval of local Health Departments.

During the gathering, supplies will be trucked in daily, courtesy of donations given at meal circles large and small. Theatrical performances, religious services of all kinds, workshops, campfire musical jams, poetry slams, sign-language classes, pie bake-offs, parades and more will unfold amid the trees.

Cooperation between the Rainbow gatherers and government officials has become strained in recent years, often due to the conflicting agendas of the resource-protection and law-enforcement divisions of the USFS. District rangers are repeatedly impressed with the gatherers' respect for the chosen site - often cattle-grazing areas - and the intensive cleanup that follows. Dennis Havig, district ranger in Wisdom, MT, said he witnessed Gatherers at the 2001 Annual Gathering in Montana working long hours collecting trash and sorting recyclables. "There were 23,000 people here and you can find virtually no trash" – Missoula Independent, June 7, 2001. But the agency's Incident Command Team overrides the resource division's authority, turning the Gathering into a law-enforcement exercise and racking up millions of dollars in expenses every year.

So far, however, this year has marked a high point in peaceful relations between the gatherers and the cash-strapped federal agency. Besides working together on the site-selection process, early gatherers and USFS representatives are seeking an alternative to a recently passed unconstitutional regulation which states that a signed permit is required for gatherings of more than 74 people in a National Forest. This regulation is in violation of the First Amendment requiring that “Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

The narrator of a YouTube film entitled "Effects of Rainbow Gatherings on Local Residents" states that "the Rainbow Gathering takes place in a National Forest. This allows the event to be open to all and free of censorship, in keeping with the right of peaceable assembly and free speech as guaranteed by the First A

Comment by Edward Caraccioli on June 5, 2009 at 3:42pm

If you can provide a ride from the Los Angeles, CA area to NM gathering please contact me via email: mr.boojangles@live.com or theartofdying@live.com. We need a ride for two men, who can pay gas expenses, etc.....Please notify if you can provide transportation and when, how much $....etc.

Comment by Ground score Montana mike on May 27, 2009 at 5:19pm

I am in helena montana would love a ride,do have gas funds

Comment by clyde wayne plott on May 19, 2009 at 1:50pm

I reside in Tucson,Az. In the event that anyone that may be passing through on their way to this years gathering I am in desperate need of a ride there. I strongly feel the need to be there this year.
clydeplott@yahoo.com

Comment by Old Hippie Dave on May 7, 2009 at 8:40pm

Is this going to be the spot ,I need to know for sure so i can make plans

Comment by SpLiT~ on May 3, 2009 at 2:50pm

I wanna leave A.S.A.P...jus lost my job, the only thing keeping me back, and would love to get in on a kitchen, if anyone knows the earliest I could get there and help in a kitchen I'd love a message back, thank u and LoViN u all

Comment by Wensday Greene on April 30, 2009 at 9:16am

Hello Lovelies! I am a lonely Georgianer in search of a ride to the Gathering in New Mex. I am near the Atlanta area but I would be willing to meet up anywhere in the Southeast pretty much. I could also help with gas and stuff. Thanks and hope to see you all there!

Comment by Luvione on April 24, 2009 at 10:06pm

Greetings,
I dont want to burst any bubbles, but as some of us know, the Gila area is in consideration as well. Any ideas on this? I personaly like the woods/water.But will go wherever the site is to be, of course!

Peace & Light, luvi

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