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[kennyskitchen]

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[lovejoy]

I am stunned to be the first to comment here. I re-steemed your first post weeks ago, but I just finished reading through all five parts! Well done! I love the tag-line of this series: "Decades of Beta-Testing Anarchist Society". That's so real.

I'm almost ashamed to say that in my 40 years on the planet I still have yet to make it to a Rainbow Gathering... Though I've been to countless other festivals, large and small, it does seem the RG has been overlooked in a way, perhaps as anachronistic or something, but reading your series reminded me of what a pioneering effort in sustained human cooperation this has been throughout the years.

I think I'll find my way to one of the next gatherings! It's about time.

Thanks again for writing this, I hope you continue to refine and expand it to your liking, and for the benefit of all who are looking for examples of anarchism in action.

[kennyskitchen]

Thank you so much for your reply, I don't know how I never replied to it, as I remember reading it.

I truly believe that everyone would benefit from a trip to the Gathering, and I hope it's in the flow for you soon :-)

[totoafrica]

WAU!! Thank you thank you thank you!

I was just about to start writing about Rainbow and then I decided to do a quick search and came across this. Beautiful. Thank you for being such a warrior!

I'm especially happy to learn more about the permanent Rainbows like http://www.eastwindblog.co is. It's good to see a functioning model in Babylon.

Please share more permanent project if you can.

With loVe

[kennyskitchen]

Thanks so much for your comment!

There are so very many permanent projects, some spun-off from Rainbow specifically, and others simply holding many of the same principles.

I'd highly recommend checking out ic.org, NuMundo, the FEC, the New Earth Nation, and the StarTribe Alliance just to name a few umbrella projects.

[catherinebleish]

I so badly want to attend one!!!!!! I LOVE the title and the premise.

[kennyskitchen]

Thanks @catherinebleish! I truly cannot recommend it highly enough. This year a handful of folks from Anarchapulco came out to experience it :-)

[grossefreiheittv]

I would like to know how do the "Rainbows" see private property? And what do they think of Marx?
My experience with this kind of people is that most of them are lefties who want to redistribute property first before the have their Anarchy.

[kennyskitchen]

Rainbows don't share any beliefs or thoughts outside of what I wrote about in the first part of this series, which may even have some of my own bias attached to it. As a truly decentralized, non-organization, there is no shared dogma to the Rainbow Family besides that we are all family.

One of the "rules" of the gathering is that there are no ground-scores until after it ends, so even if someone finds an item on the ground somewhere, they are going to bring it to the nearest public place (or all the way to Info Camp) and hang it up for the owner to find if they come looking. All exchanges of physical items at the Gathering are done on the gift economy or barter as well, so whatever you would like to extrapolate from all of these things and their relationship to property.

As for Marx, I would guess that most Rainbows haven't read him, just like most other humans on the planet who have no actual idea what his ideas were, just brief comments on him from other people.

I am curious what you mean by "this kind of people", because that's generally the sort of phrase someone uses when applying a prejudice to a large group of humans based on a couple of experiences, that often aren't even applicable. The Rainbow is an event, a family, an idea based fundamentally on peace, cooperation, and voluntary interaction, so the idea of forced redistribution is completely anathema to the concept of Rainbow.

[grossefreiheittv]

Thanks Kenny for your answer! Yes, like you say, I got prejudices because if met some people before who went or were planning to go to the gathering. I just should give it a try!
Thanks for bringing my attention to this event! :-)