Karin's Rainbow Gathering 2024 news and ideas for creating a peaceful and healing gathering of the tribes somewhere in California, Oklahoma or Washington State, July 1 - 7, 2024. As with all things related to Rainbow Gatherings, this is not an official source of information and represents my thoughts and opinions only. Other people will have different ideas.
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Updates on June 30
We are about 73 people on the original site. There are 1 or 2 other gatherings happening in the Plumas National Forest. Ignore all rumors of cancellation or organization. As far as I know now no permits have been issued for any gathering. Ingress and egress is spoty. Love everyone and cleanup amazingly where ever you land. Welcome home!
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Why do you continue when tribal leaders have already told you NO?
ReplyDeleteLeaders?
DeleteWe are Gathering by the Rights of the First Amendment of the People to Peacefully Assemble! Blessings & Peace & Love to the Rainbow Tribal Family of Living Light! 🌈 💕🌟 ☔ ☀ ☪ 🌈 💕 🌟 ☔ ☀ ☪ 🌈
ReplyDeleteTribal leaders with ancestral claims on the land? They do nothing for Land Back, never have. I will listen when they take up arms against their oppressors.
ReplyDeleteA local perspective 2024.
ReplyDeleteExploring up there, not far from the first site, I encountered the scouts before anyone knew. They seemed furtive, unfriendly, secretive. Not like folks I usually encounter in the backcountry. Out of state plates. If they had talked, asked, I could have added some perspectives.
Two fires really devastated the area, including the million acre Dixie fire. The area chosen for the first site has been described as an “island” of unburned nature that somehow escaped the infernos. If you are familiar with the area, you can see that. It can also be ascertained from internet map layers showing wildfire footprints.
I’ve heard the same thing from local Native Americans, and a wildlife biologist: When the wildfires burned so much, wildlife that survived fled to the refuge and cover of the unburned “island”, resulting in a concentration there. This year young, including fawns, were born there.
Then, hundreds, thousands, of humans plan to occupy that “island” for weeks, with sounds, smells, activity that terrifies and confuses the wildlife taking refuge there, the deer, the fawns, what the local Native Americans respectfully call “The Bear People” and their cubs. Driving them into burned areas that lack cover.
The local Janesville area community includes human refugees who lost homes to the horrific Paradise Fire and relocated. A few even relocated first to Greenville, which was then turned into a moonscape by the Dixie Fire, forcing them to flee again. As the Dixie Fire approached Janesville, wildfire experts explained that if the fire came around the ridge, Janesville, in a dense line of forest, could not be saved, no matter what the efforts. Residents were traumatized. But the Dixie Fire was heroically stopped before it reached that point of no return for the town.
The spot chosen for the first site is in a line of unburned forest that leads around the ridge and down to Janesville, including the most dangerous points. And the prevailing, and predicted winds, are, were, and often are SW. Which means wind blowing from the first site through flammable masses of tree right to flammable forested Janesville.
You didn’t talk to them but you knew they were scouts for the Gathering by their “out of state plates”. Interesting. Assume much?
DeleteRegarding the first 2024 site.
ReplyDeleteIn May, alone, I carefully approached the meadow. I picked up a bit of duff from the forest floor and let it drop, to check the breeze, ensuring that I was downwind in my approach. One of the Bear People was eating grass in the middle of the meadow. Quiet, not leaving the forest, I sat and watched from a distance, then left the way I came as the bear continued to feed, undisturbed.
The Bear People only have half the year to obtain the nutrition that allows them to survive without eating in the cold and dark of Winter.
The wild Bear People of the first site are extremely human shy, as is natural for truly wild bears, and they are nothing like the corrupted, habituated bears that raid park campgrounds and Tahoe cabins. Had I not used great care, checked breeze, in my approach, I’d have never seen the bear. It would have run, fast, far, using energy needed to survive the Winter rather than gaining it. I didn’t want to be responsible for it losing even a day of needed energy.
So what happens when a human bomb consisting of thousands of people with human smells and sounds and disturbance is dropped by surprise on the meadow of the Bear People? And not just for a day? Including for set up. For clean up. For “restoration”. How many days can the Bear People lose, and still survive the Winter? Especially the cubs? Will anyone know what happens with the cubs in the cold and dark when snow is deep? Does anyone care? Plan? Isn’t the meadow really their home?