Minnesota / Wisconsin Gathering 2019

The Iron River Police Department will be holding a meeting on Thursday, June 20 at 7 pm at .Community Center: 8275 East Mill St, Iron River, WI 54847. Please note, while rainbow gathering participants may be in attendance, this meeting is being planned by the local police department.

Information being provided by the United States Forest Service on the annual Rainbow Family Gathering is available here .  Please check this site for parking information and other changes info about the roads.

Bosnia - 2007 Circles helps us focus our energy, ensure that everyone's voice is being heard, and create a grounding for the gathering as a whole.  When good strong circles happen, the entire energy of the gathering is changed. Not only the people who participate in the circle, but all those bellies hard at work around the gathering will pick up on the positive vibrations coming from the circle and we'll all be a bit more loving, a bit more peaceful and a bit higher in spirits.  Have a problem, call a circle.  Want to share your love, call a circle.  Want to focus energy in your area, call a circle.  Having cop issues, call a circle off to the side.  When you hear the call "C I R C L E,"  please participate. If world peace is what we're after, a circle never hurts and often helps. July 4 Om in California 2004 (photo taken by Greg Van)  

Every year the United States Forest Service Law Enforcement (USFS) Incident Management Team (the cops) attempts to write as many tickets to family coming home as they possibly can to justify their presence. They give out tickets for broken tail lights, failure to use a turn signal in a deserted parking lot at 2 AM, lack of seat belts, controlled substances (even just a trace amount), beads hanging from your rear view mirrors, prescription medications if the label doesn't clearly have your name on it and you can't prove who you are, dogs off leash, a vehicle missing a front license plate even if you live in a state that does not issue a front license plate and a lot more violations of the letter of the law. You do not want to go to Kangaroo Court However, these tickets are not the type of citation you would probably receive for any of these issues in your hometown. These are Federal mandatory court appearance tickets. There will be special cour...

Thanks to the Free Assembly Project for putting up court documents on their website. This specific excerpt is from a Hearing Transcript, 5 July '07 near the Annual Gathering in Arkansas with this comment: (NOTE: The accuracy of this official transcript is under review, yet to be determined.) The answers (A) are from from Gene Smithson. The questions (Q) are from Don E Wirtshafter. Q Is there any ongoing training that officers receive in 19 1 crowd control? 2 A Every year we are -- we are going to be recertified in it. 3 Q Uh-huh. 4 A Yeah. 5 Q And what do you have to do to get recertified in crowd 6 control? 7 A You have to complete the course that the park police 8 requires you to complete. That's as per our agency's direction 9 we follow in accordance with their policies. 10 Q Is there anyone receiving training as part of their 11 participation in the National Incident Management Team? 12 A Every officer on...