This is your gathering.  You make it happen.

PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY.  Those you see around you hauling
water, toting supplies, gathering firewood, cooking or cleaning
up, sorting trash or digging shitters, staffing the Info Center
or the Parking Lot have learned the inner esoteric secret of
Rainbow Consciousness:  you have more fun if you pitch in and
help.  No one created this village in the wilderness for us, we
did it ourselves.  Our Mother Earth provided this place;
everything else you see has manifested by no higher magic than
the needs of the multitude is the best around.  It's also the
best way to meet and get to know your Family.

PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY.  The consensus decisions that guide
the Family from year to year are the result of countless hours
in council.  Come to the councils happening at Main Circle
every day at noon and participate, always remembering to listen
before you speak.  Witnessing this process is the best way to
understand how Family traditions have evolved through the
practical experience of past Gatherings.  Respect the council
feather; hold your response until your turn with the feather
comes, or till invited by the feather-holder to speak.  This
way we hear each other.  Remember that we council not for our
own interests but for the best interest of the Whole.  Respect
likewise the consensus of past councils, and consider carefully
the effect of any new proposal, as the Natives of this country
did, "unto the 7th generation."

PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY.  A consensus of the Rainbow Family
since the beginning is that our Gatherings are absolutely free
and non-commercial.  It is our spiritual calling as a Family to
give and share freely what the Creator has freely given, to
sanctify this ground and these seven days by exchanging no
money whatsoever here.  This means that to feed ourselves we
depend on each person's free donation to the Magic Hat that
goes around at dinner.  Caesar's image has no place among us
except as our individual gift to the Whole.  It is on this
basis that we exercise our First Amendment right as a spiritual
Family to Gather.  Exchange of green energy on any other basis
endangers our future right to Gather, and undermines our sacred
purpose for doing so.

PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY.  We govern ourselves, rather than
each other, by observing the consensus of peaceful respect.
Weapons, fireworks, pollutants and other hazards are
inappropriate.  Peaceful means not only that we act responsibly
in all our relations, but that each of us takes responsibility
as well for the safety and calm of our area of the camp.
Respect means that we not only consider the rights and welfare
of one another, down to the smallest, but take care of the
earth, water, plants and animals that were here before us and
will remain.  Feel the vibe, listen to the harmony around you
and add your unique note.  Help keep your Gathering clean,
happy, harmonious, peaceful and safe.

PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY.  The Gathering itself is a
participatory workshop in self-government; the Family also
encourages the free flow of information through workshops and
other forms of teaching and expression.  Consider this your
opportunity to share any knowledge or skill you have, simply by
pinning your notice up on the boards at Info Center.  As
always, no single person speaks for the Family.  We offer this
opportunity to all without endorsing any single spiritual or
political point of view.  Please, our Gathering is for
heartsongs, not for proselytizing or selling.  All workshops
are, naturally, free.

PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY.  The center of our seven days
together is the Silence at high noon of the 4th, when we Circle
to send forth our gathered energy for the Peace and Healing of
the World.  Respect the Silence; join hands with us in the
Circle.  Carry this high, solemn & joyful moment through your
Gathering, both before and after the 4th.  Join the campfire
sing, the drum jam, share what you have at Kid Village or
C.A.L.M., learn what the Welcome Center or Supply is all about.
But remember that it is for the Peace and Healing of the planet
that we gather, and carry that vision back with you to the
world of wars and preparations for war.  The Circle is
unbroken.

PARTICIPATION IS THE KEY.  Just as each of us is responsible
for bringing what the Family needs to manifest its vision, each
of us is responsible for carrying it away again.  Consider as
your own the Family's sacred pledge to the Mother, and leave no
trace of your stay.  Use community shitters and compost pits,
separate your trash for recycling and deposit at community
Garbage Yoga stations; disappear your camp completely before
separate your trash for recycling and deposit at community
Garbage Yoga stations; disappear your camp completely before
you go.  Beyond that, take responsibility for the cleanliness
of the camp as a Whole:  pick up any litter in your path,
including what was already here.  Carry out a sack of trash any
time you hike to the trailhead.  If you can, stay after the
multitude and help restore the natural beauty of the site.  But
be aware that cleanup is ongoing throughout the GatheringQ all
of us are the cleanup crew.

HO!

We Love You!