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--- In ColoradoRainbowFamily@yahoogroups.com, "Allen Butcher" wrote:
>
> The Rainbow Trail toward more simultaneous July 4th Rainbow
> Gatherings begins with simultaneous Thanksgiving Councils.
>
> Many of the most active Rainbow Focalizers are advocating the use of
> Operating Plans in place of signed Permits, so the way toward more
> peaceful Gatherings with less LEO harassment may be through the use
> of Operating Plans. A good example of one, set up so as to be
> edited by many people, may be found here:
>
> wikinfo.org/index.php/Fo...Service_draft
>
> By using the Operating Plan in negotiations with the local Forest
> Service Resource staff, mutually respectful, amicable relations may
> result. The Operating Plan provides a method for Focalizers to
> engage with the Forest Service in a reasonable advance time frame,
> which is always appreciated by the Resource staff. (I was Main
> Focalizer for an Indiana Regional and that was their main criticism,
> that I didn't give them enough time to prepare for our event.)
>
> Given the potential for Operating Plans to manage many of the issues
> with the Forest Service, and therefore hopefully less LEO
> harassment, this removes one of the reasons (i.e., "safety in
> numbers") people have given for the need to have only one July 4
> Rainbow event. I never accepted the idea anyway that only one 7/4
> event brought all Rainbows together, as this country is just too big
> for any one event to bring all Rainbows together.
>
> Instead, I think that the argument that we must have only one 7/4
> Rainbow event keeps Rainbows from Gathering on July 4th, if they
> can't or don't want to travel to a National far from their Babylon
> home.
>
> So the response must be to support Rainbows in Gathering on July 4th
> in various locations around the country. Whether the Family chooses
> to support just three 7/4 Rainbow Gatherings, East, West and
> Central, or whether many small Gatherings take place here and there
> depends upon the Focalizing energy that develops.
>
> And where Focalizing energy has to start is at multiple Thanksgiving
> Councils.
>
> If you can't or don't want to travel to Wyoming next year to Gather
> on July 4th, I hope that you will support a Thanksgiving Council in
> your part of the country for beginning the process of focalizing an
> alternative 7/4 Rainbow Gathering.
>
> The Rainbow Family of Living Light has much to share with all people
> in this time of massive cultural, economic, political and
> environmental change. Please don't hide the Light by clinging to
> the idea that there can only be one July 4th Rainbow Gathering in
> America. There can be two, three or a thousand Points of Light on
> July 4th. There can and must be an alternative to watching
> militaristic parades and fireworks all over the country, and we of
> the Rainbow Family can cause such alternatives to happen.
>
> Allen
> Denver
I was catching a lot of flack from some phamily for promoting this Idea after the '05 nationals. Maybe coming from one of the elders, more of the Hawaii family can celebrate in family style as well. I am ready for it. - Zen
>
> The Rainbow Trail toward more simultaneous July 4th Rainbow
> Gatherings begins with simultaneous Thanksgiving Councils.
>
> Many of the most active Rainbow Focalizers are advocating the use of
> Operating Plans in place of signed Permits, so the way toward more
> peaceful Gatherings with less LEO harassment may be through the use
> of Operating Plans. A good example of one, set up so as to be
> edited by many people, may be found here:
>
> wikinfo.org/index.php/Fo...Service_draft
>
> By using the Operating Plan in negotiations with the local Forest
> Service Resource staff, mutually respectful, amicable relations may
> result. The Operating Plan provides a method for Focalizers to
> engage with the Forest Service in a reasonable advance time frame,
> which is always appreciated by the Resource staff. (I was Main
> Focalizer for an Indiana Regional and that was their main criticism,
> that I didn't give them enough time to prepare for our event.)
>
> Given the potential for Operating Plans to manage many of the issues
> with the Forest Service, and therefore hopefully less LEO
> harassment, this removes one of the reasons (i.e., "safety in
> numbers") people have given for the need to have only one July 4
> Rainbow event. I never accepted the idea anyway that only one 7/4
> event brought all Rainbows together, as this country is just too big
> for any one event to bring all Rainbows together.
>
> Instead, I think that the argument that we must have only one 7/4
> Rainbow event keeps Rainbows from Gathering on July 4th, if they
> can't or don't want to travel to a National far from their Babylon
> home.
>
> So the response must be to support Rainbows in Gathering on July 4th
> in various locations around the country. Whether the Family chooses
> to support just three 7/4 Rainbow Gatherings, East, West and
> Central, or whether many small Gatherings take place here and there
> depends upon the Focalizing energy that develops.
>
> And where Focalizing energy has to start is at multiple Thanksgiving
> Councils.
>
> If you can't or don't want to travel to Wyoming next year to Gather
> on July 4th, I hope that you will support a Thanksgiving Council in
> your part of the country for beginning the process of focalizing an
> alternative 7/4 Rainbow Gathering.
>
> The Rainbow Family of Living Light has much to share with all people
> in this time of massive cultural, economic, political and
> environmental change. Please don't hide the Light by clinging to
> the idea that there can only be one July 4th Rainbow Gathering in
> America. There can be two, three or a thousand Points of Light on
> July 4th. There can and must be an alternative to watching
> militaristic parades and fireworks all over the country, and we of
> the Rainbow Family can cause such alternatives to happen.
>
> Allen
> Denver
I was catching a lot of flack from some phamily for promoting this Idea after the '05 nationals. Maybe coming from one of the elders, more of the Hawaii family can celebrate in family style as well. I am ready for it. - Zen
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Re: found on myspace Rainbow family group
Thu, September 27, 2007 - 1:27 AMHi Zen, thanks for sharing. From what I have read from the Colorado Rainbow Yahoo Group, I respect Allen Butcher, his ability to focalize, his ability to write, and also his collection of pagan/rainbow chants. An Operating Plan like that thankfully hasn't been needed yet in Hawai'i. We haven't had a U.S National Rainbow Gathering type show-down with the authority figures-- and from what I have heard there has been nothing but pleasant harmony if not aloha between Hawaiian Rainbow Warriors and the authority figures who have discovered us. Therefore we have been spared the "permit-or-cease-to-exist" paradigm metastasizing on the "National Forests" of the U.S. mainland. Let us hope this continues or we may have no choice but to draft a Hawaiian version of that Operating Plan.
wikinfo.org/index.php/Fo...Service_draft
If you want a Hawaiian Thanksgiving Council, call it, and see what kind of creatures creep out of the jungle. We need more gatherings in general-- and in Hawai'i in particular-- there is a certain irony in celebrating only one "Independence Day" gathering. Perhaps someday the world will be ready for "Hawaiian National Gatherings".
Meanwhile, a enjoy this forward from some local peace activists and have a happy Mid-Autumn festival and harvest full moon.
Subject:
Fw: Report on Hilo Stryker EIS Hearing
From:
"Janet- Village Toy Shop" <alohajan@hawaiiantel.net>
Date:
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:16:17 -1000
To:
<Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
I was there, it was good.
There is still time to submit written 'testimony' - (I wrote a simple statement that I'm opposed to military expansion and
would like to see Hawaii be the Peacemaking state)
The Army has extended the deadline for comments until October 30, 2007
Submit written testimony:
Public Affairs Office
USAEC, Building E4460
5179 Hoadley Road
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5401
Attention: IMAE-PA
Telephone: 410-436-2556;
e-mail: publiccomments@aec.apgea.army.mil. .
Janet Codispoti
CODEPINK Coordinator
969-7888
From: Jim Albertini
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: Report on Hilo Stryker EIS Hearing
Aloha Kakou,
It's after ten PM on Tuesday, Sept. 25th and I'm just back from the Hilo Stryker hearing on the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). There were about 100 Big Island residents in attendance. When our Malu Aina peace group arrived at 5PM at Aunty Sally's Luau Hale, the doors were locked with about 2 dozen military people inside. We decided to set up our literature table and protest signs on the lanai outside the main entrance and greated people as they came. We also played the DVD "Poison Dust" about the hazards of depleted uranioum (DU). By 5:30 when the doors opened there were about 30-40 people milling about outside.
Inside, there were sign up sheets to terstify on each of five chapters of the EIS and then a last sign up sheet marked "general comments." The format was first to have informal viewing and Q&A at military displays, then to take testimony by those who signed up on the various chapters and finally, -- time permitting, to take general comments.
At 6:30 following a pule The military gave a brief overview of Chapter one and then speakers who signed up were called forward with a 4 minute time limit.
Moderator Annell Ameral asked each speakers if they were going to speak about Chapter one only. She then stood guard right next to the podium were the speaker stood. It was offensive and insulting. People told her so. I believe I was the third speaker and I carried my "Shut down PTA" sign and placed it in front of the podium. I noted that at the last Stryker forum held earlier this year, police attempted to prevent residents from opening the event with a pule and that we had to bring our own sound system to have a hearing and that no chairs were even provided for kupuna or anyone to sit. So tonight's forum with pule, sound system and chairs showed progress. I emphasized however that we reject ther entire premise of increased mlitarization in Hawaii, that we view and reject Strykers as modern chariots of empire used to fight an illegal and immoral war in Iraq and continue the illegal occcupation of Hawaii. Four years ago at the initial Stryker scoping meeting citizens testified for more than 6 hours in Hilo and made perfectly clear there was no aloha for a Stryker Brigade in Hawaii. People wanted military clean up not build up.
