Just gave my kid my Omaha Hippie Survival Manual 1972 Spring Edition

[acmavm]

to look at. She's amazed. Asked if there really was an 'apothecary shop' on 33rd Street.

Of course there was.

[patrice]

1. May I salute you for being an alternative-culture pioneer

in freaking NEBRASKA!! You and your daughter are evidence of how "big" small things can be in some environments, for without you there would be "nothing" to sound the call to Freedom.

[acmavm]

2. There were more of us than one would be led to believe. But I just for

the life of me can't understand what happened. Some went to prison, some turned into fundies, some just gave up and slipped into conformity and obscurity without another thought to what was so unique and important about those days.

Whatever, as Paul McCartney is not singing on my stereo "It's just another day..."

[Gyre]

3. Some of us grew up when we decided to have kids

I went from being a Kharma patrol (to keep the narcs and other sources of violence and discord outside) at 17 to a career prosecutor as a middle-aged adult. I see nothing but continuity in that. I'm still protecting my community.

Gyre

[acmavm]

5. Please give me a break. I've grown up and am gainfully employed and

supporting a family. I also learned not to throw the 'baby out with the bathwater' so to speak.

If you think that it was all childish and a game, then you certainly were not paying attention.

[Why Syzygy]

4. "Drop out" used to actually mean "Drop In".

I know too many who have given up all hopes. Resigned from life.

I go ahead and do the hippie cheer anyway. NEVER GIVE UP!

[acmavm]

7. Yeah, look at post #3. Thinks it was all about drugs and existentialism.

There were the bigger issues such as war and death and discrimination and equal rights and civil rights and truth in government.

Apparently when you grow up and resign from the 'Karma Police' you forget all that and become a prosecutor.

[Traveling_Home]

9. Bigger Issues

There were bigger issues but there were also HIPPIES (counter culture, sex, drugs, rocak and roll, and brown rice, communes, gurus - tune in, turn on, drop out) and there were the YIPPIES - Youth International Party - (Chicago 8, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, SDS making things go boom), not ususally the same group of folk. Yippies frustrated with the hippies cause it was like herding a bunch of cats and the hippies weren't committed and serious enough; hippies frustrated with the yippies cause they just didn't understand it was the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

Free Love

Sweet memories

[stevedeshazer]

10. Bingo. I'm with you.

It makes me sad to see so many with this attitude today.

"How's the man been treatin' ya?"

[Why Syzygy]

13. My take

is that you may have a little over reaction going to that post. It happens.

I never thought of "karma police", but have felt like a "karma angel" from time to time. I hate that job. Guess someone has to do it.

[Traveling_Home]

8. Not NEVER GIVE UP

Peas and Carrots

;-)

- Peace Out

Traveler

[Why Syzygy]

14. Well, I'm pretty sure

we can have more than one. I like your's.

PEAS.

[Traveling_Home]

6. Hippies

http://welcomehere.org
http://welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html

Rainbow Guide http://rainbowguide.info/

Also has lists of intentional communities, etc.

First National Rainbow Gathering was in Colorado in '72. Been held in nation forests each year since. Gatherings in the west tend to have about 20,000. When held in the east about 10,000. There usually also regional gatherings held at different times. This year's national was in West Virginia. Next year's is in Colorado.
Here's a list of "Lightlines" (Rainbow Family of Living Light). There are also international Gatherings - a list can be found on welcomehome.org. There are almost always issues with the Forest Service and the constitutional right to gather. I think both websites have the legal background and history.

Update 4/05 (from the Welcomehere.org)
- Dutch RB Info-line 020 468 3344
- Philadelphia LightLine [phone]
- North East Rainbow Family NERF [phone]
- California Rainbow [phone]
- North West Tribes Hotline [phone]
- Mid Atlantic Hotline 202-PYREMAL (Wash. DC)
- Ozark Rainbow Circle 417-831-5570
- Colorado Rainbow Tribes 303-595-1077
- HO! Lightline 770-662-6112 (Atlanta)
- OM Valley Rainbow 513-956-1675
- Great Lakes Rainbow (Ann Arbor MI) 734-761-4243
- New York Lightline 212-560-7111
- Texas Drum Hotline 214-823-DRUM
- Northwest Rainbow Portland [phone]
- B.A.R.F. 205-699-9712
- North Central Arizona Tribes [phone]
- 503-727-2498 Oregon N W Tribes
- G.A.E.A. Fest (Ohio) 419 232 4679
- Black Swamp Tribe (Ohio) 419 435 4444
- Cincinatti / Cleveland 1-888-511-4783
- Upper Applegate Community (So. Missouri) 417-938-4606
- Ripple Ranch Plains, MT [phone]
- Casa Grande/Coolidge AZ 520-723-5345
- Campa Tampa (Fla.) 813-831-7228 or 813-831-4980

Texas Drums
PO Box 141354 Dallas Texas 75214
Drum Circles every 3rd Wen.

Please use respect and not call collect or at unreasonable hours.
If you find a number that has been changed or disconnected we would appreciate notice so that we may update and correct the list.
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Some of the Rainbow Kitchens (used to making meals for large groups) have been doing Katrina relief in "The New Waveland Cafe" and C.A.L.M.(Center for Alternative Living Medicine) http://welcomehome.org/rainbow/calm/ has been set up there too (Wavewland, Miss). Here's some links http://www.newwavelandcafe.blogspot.com/ and pictures and a posting from DailyKos at http://ashevillecommunity.org/hawker/katrina/index.html.

WELCOME HOME - SEE YA IN COLORADO IN '06

[Traveling_Home]

12. "New Waveland Cafe" - Hippies helping after Katrina

http://www.subkommanderdred.blogspot.com/

good blog, many pictures.

"New Waveland Cafe" - Waveland, Mississippi

[huskerlaw]

11. There used to be hippies in Omaha??

Dang it, I always miss the good stuff. That must have been one kick ass group of people. And ballsy too. Hippies in Nebraska? Who woulda thunk it?!