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Alex welcomes Rob Savoy of the Rainbow Family. The Rainbow Family are a loosely affiliated group of individuals committed to principles of non-violence and non-hierarchical egalitarianism who meet in a forest each year. During this year's meeting, feds arrested five members of the group for the crime of having an "unregistered gathering".
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I've created a Rainbow Gathering Legal DatabaseHERE for those interested in legal issues surrounding the Gathering. I will be adding databases that contain legal info about the Gatherings. Any suggestions or links will be appreciated. love, blue
Hello, I'm a reporter with the Associated Press in Cheyenne. I'm trying to reach people who were present at the Forest Service arrest of members of the Rainbow Family on July 3. If you or anyone you know was there, and saw what happened, please have them call me as soon as possible: Ben Neary, Reporter, The Associated Press 1-800-442-2451.
Jul 10 08 - 10:26 AM Pinedale – A fire was reported near the Bear Trap Meadows on the border between the Bureau of Land Management Land and the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The fire has been named the Gathering 2 Fire and has burned approximately 3/4ths of an acre of dead trees that have fallen. The fire is located about 31 miles southeast of Boulder, Wyoming near the Dutch Joe Guard Station. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Several Interagency firefighters are responding to the area. A Type I helicopter, which is a specialized helicopter for combating forest fires, has been ordered for this incident. Currently, the fire appears to be moving in an easterly direction. As a precautionary measure, the Bridger-Teton is ordering the evacuation of two peripheral camps associated with the Rainbow Family Gathering.
The annual Rainbow Gathering was held in the Dutch Joe area of the Bridger-Teton National Forest last week. Some of the camps associated with the Rainbow Gathering that was held in that vicinity of the Forest, have not yet been vacated.
If you were a witness to the incident, the Wyoming ACLU would like to talk to you SOON. Their contact info is on their website: http://www.aclu-wy.org/
I was witness to the pepper bullet incident at Kid Village and I am still outraged!!!!! The man they arrested was smoking out the kitchens and was caught with a considerable amount of pot. I agree it was poor judgement to "hide out" at Kiddie Village when you're being followed by the feds, but Kiddie Village is (or suppose to be) a sanctuary. I watched a group of federal thugs invade a kitchen where there are women and children and brutally exercised their authority by firing their weapons into the crowd. The cops were awful this year and I'm just glad their irresponsible actions didn't cause violence against them to flare up. We need to ban the L.E.O. from the gatherings fore the sake of our children. namaste; bodhi http://psychedelictourist.blogspot.com
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I have detailed what I witnessed and have have provided links to the information that I have found about the July 3, 2008 encounter with LEO's in kiddie village on my blog. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=32694... If you have located any additional video of that event on the web I encourage you to post the links there.
Tune in to We the People Radio Network, the Rule of Law show with Deborah Stevens, http://www.wtprn.com/listen.shtml, this Thursday (7/10/08) at 8 p.m. CST. She will be discussing this incident and how they intend to proceed in bringing the LEO's to justice. Deborah was at the Rainbow Gathering so she has some very valuable insight into this incident. Tune in - it's a great show!
This is all a bullshit story made up by the police. I was there when this happened. The police fired shots at a safe haven for kids called Kiddy Village. They first tried to arrest a woman for no reason. When she resisted, the police tackled her. That is when us Rainbows started calling for help, and the police fired on us with pepper spray filled paintballs. The police then fired shots and hit a child, before turning to fire upon another man carrying a child on his back. The man went down and the child fell. How the police turned this around to say that we were throwing rocks at them is astonishing when I personally witnessed no rocks or sticks being thrown. However I did see armed police officers firing at unarmed citizens.
MIKEWORKMAN Bullshit is right!!! I was at the time of the incident in the main meadow, gathering with the family. All of the sudden people start yelling FIRE FIRE so me and many others raced toward kiddy village with buckets in hand. The fire we saw however was that of complete chaos. Forest Rangers were firing a wave of pepper spray paintballs into a crowd of helpless women and children. Never once where there any sticks or rocks thrown at the rangers the entire time this occured. slowly we pushed them back away from kiddy village, away from the children and families; all the while taking a senseless and painful beating. Both myself and my dog were shot repeatedly during this peace push to protect the FAMILY.This incident was really the only one to occur for the last three weeks of the RAINBOW and was provoked by these "Peace Officers". But as it stands it is an issue of controling what they just can't and racist values tained into our federal employees. We are too different and therefore a threat. I was shot ten times, six of which were in the back. Where is the truth? Justice for Rainbow!!! HTML
Anonymous said...
Yes..there was a response force of 60 confirmed armed officers with dogs and riot gear that stormed the gathering. Then suspiciously 3 EXPERTLY placed confirmed arson forest fires started amid all of this chaos, far from easy to get to. I participated in extinguishing the fires and personally think the incidents are related becuase of the timing and level of precision in placement..The fires were being doused by barefoot hippys that had to run through a mile of steep hills and deep, dangerous bogs and requiring scaling a barbed wire fence with 5 gallon bucket fulls of water just as darkness set in. The few of us that could respond got very lucky a FULL evac didn't happen...
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson, in letter to William S. Smith, 1787
Anonymous said...
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary security deserve neither. And now the thugs attack pacifists ?
The police presence at the Rainbow Gathering this year was quite unsettling. There is always some type of police presence near the Gathering and sometimes within the Gathering, but this year seemed to be heavy on that presence (at least ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A U.S. Forest Service official says the agency must consider banning the Rainbow Family from its land after a confrontation led to the arrest of at least eight people in Wyoming.
John Twiss, director of Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations in Washington, D.C., said Monday that he was among the officers who responded last week when Rainbow Family members threw sticks and rocks at federal officers.
The Forest Service says the episode started when officers tried to arrest a member of the Rainbow Family, a group of hippie types and eccentrics who camp on public land every year.
About 7,000 people turned out for this year's event, held on Forest Service land near Big Sandy in western Wyoming. ADAP2K
Digg: We were attending the 2008 Gathering in Wyoming - staying in Kiddie Village. During the pre-dinner prayer circle I noticed Sheriffs sprinkled through the woods between us and dinner. They arrested a mother and attempted to take custody of a child. We reacted nonviolently however this was what happened. More to come later - Shot by Linnea ...
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This is all a bullshit story made up by the police. I was there when this happened. The police fired shots at a safe haven for kids called Kiddy Village. They first tried to arrest a woman for no reason. When she resisted, the police tackled her. That is when us Rainbows started calling for help, and the police fired on us with pepper spray filled paintballs. The police then fired shots and hit a child, before turning to fire upon another man carrying a child on his back. The man went down and the child fell. How the police turned this around to say that we were throwing rocks at them is astonishing when I personally witnessed no rocks or sticks being thrown. However I did see armed police officers firing at unarmed citizens.