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I’ve watched enough of the hurricane news on the boob tube to seriously believe that as many family as possible with busses, kitchens, trucks, medical supplies, etc., should head for New Orleans and surrounding devistated areas to help. We know as much about surviving and feeding masses of people as anyone. Donations of food etc. would be quite easy to come by right now, enroute, because so many people are looking for ways to help. The refugees could definately use our love and experience right now. Where better to put our energies? It makes more sense than hanging out in the woods somewhere, partying. And with so many people angry at the government now, for not doing enough to help, it would be a great time for Rainbow to lend a hand and a great big F— YOU to the government. If I had the means, I’d already be on the way. Lets mobilize!!!

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I wouldn’t want to go into New Orleans at all right now. Some of the people are SHOOTING at rescuers trying to help them. It’s getting out of control there.
i think there are man yof us that would love to do that,,, although for us it is impossible… we are however going to open up the land here n offer what ever we have to who ever we can. we have the fifth wheel for a family n possibly an extra room n we always have tent space which aint the greatest but atleast we have phone, net, water, n food etc…. and today alone i have heard so many say they would also like to do the same but cant find anythign in that direction anywhere, tonite i called the red cross for our area n asked how to host folks and to please find a way to get something running for folks to be able to list them selves …. i tried talking the boss man into a truck n n taking donations n we take it down ,,, paid of course since we cant afford to take time off but would love to go n help :P… but lets not forget that this is not going away anytime soon….. this is just in the beginning stages n to begin to clean up alone will literally take months if not years n the whole rebuilding process will take a damned long time,,, i just hope that folks dont tire of all of it way too soon n fizzle out n say fukkem cuz we all know deep down somewhere that that just wouldnt be fawkin rite… even in a few weeks when people think it should be well on its way to recovery,,, it just aint gonna be,,, it is still gonna be in its infancy…. so even if we cant all go n help now or take folks in now,,,,, remember it is still gunna be there in a few weeks, months …..
Wow this idea rocks…I wish I could go down with a group of yall and help. I’ll be sending some good positive vibes your way, though, if a team of yall gather up to go down. Well, I’m sending those vibes towards the rescuers, volunteers, etc anyway…that are down there already. There was just a big story on the news!
I was having the same thoughts i am trying to pull the swamp kitchen back together and trying to help these people,any one interested ?
There’s a brother on AGR asking folks to set up a Emergency Rainbow Gathering in a Mississippi National Forest (HHB-if you could copy the AGR thread or something-it’d be great) This is definately a good idea-maybe mini-gatherings near all the hardest hit areas is what we here were thinking. maybe the folks who can’t get away to help could donate supplies & food to help keep these gatherings going as long as they are needed. It’s an idea and maybe if we all spread it as fast & far as we can; maybe we can show folks what Love & Rainbow is all about.
It would be nice if we could find some of the other kitchens and make a "mass efort"
Wow! My family & I are from Biloxi Mississippi, were safe in Austin Texas now . We were out today looking for a new home , trying to get a new bank account set up so that my husband would have somewhere to recieve his checks etc… Just trying to get our lives in order , somehow .Everywhere we went & everyone we met tried to help in some way or another. I found myself in tears many times because of the love coming our way from complete strangers . Its Amazing !!! We’re going through alot right now & it can be very overwhelming at times , but I feel so Lucky ,Everyone in our family is safe , we’ve all lost alot , but we have oneanother & thats what really matters.I just wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU for thinking about all of us .It means the world right now . Thank You !
I know it’s not much but if you and your family need a place i live in NC and you are more than welcome to come and stay with me and mine
What do you mean , it’s not much ? Thats Awesome ! We were lucky my husband recently left his job of 8 years to take a higher position for another company .Otherwise we would have no money coming in for our family , now he works all over the U.S & Canada. We were planning to relocate to Austin , just not this soon .So now weve decided to push it up , we feel like we have no choice . But thats really awesome of you to offer .Thanks !
if folks go to set up kithens and sutch and come through east tn. i got two hands and more than willing to put them to use pm me!!!
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I’ve had Emails from Green Circus Kitchen,
and the bro that drives the bus that hauled Iris Kitchen to WV out of Asheville.
It is terrible that the fricken government wont get some food or water etc down there . There has got to be a place to get these people where they are safe and not going to get shot at. Fuck Bush and the gov. if they are not going to do anything . Let the fellow citizens form a gov. if they have to to help those in need !!!
rainbow to the rescue
it just goes to show the power & compassion & unconditional love that is the rainbow family of living light.
let our love shine like a beacon of hope, let ou hearts guide us to do what is right, & let our hands do the work needed to make the world a happier place
if all who have bellybuttons are family, we can not ignore the millions of our brothers & sisters suffering..
however i must say this since noone else has, the very last thing they need there is 1 single drainbow who would be a drain on the already severely limmited rescources, if you choose to go & i hope many do make the choice, go in the knowlefdge that your going to be giving all you have, & working your asses off to releive the suffering & dont expect to be having much time to just bliss
although i am glad granola is doing the stage too, cause the entertainment wi,ll go a long way towards restoring a sence of normalcy to life..
we love you
The forest is probably NOT a good idea right now…the flood waters will have awakened a whole new generation of mosquito…and the reptiles (snake and gator alike) need a chance to settle down before people come tramping through….especially down by the water. I still can’t get a call thru to Brooklyn 90% of the time…the phone companies are having a heck of a time…even cell phones have been down.
BTW…this is coming from someone that was a Brooklyn,MS local for half a decade. I’m just not sure sending people into the wildernes at this point is a good thing.

Still going down and lending a hand getting clean water and food,etc to displaced people cant be a bad thing….just dont set your mind to the whole "its bad ’cause its in babylon mentality"..it’s humanity and it’s always there…even on the pavement.
i wish i could go….but i help in the only ways i know how…and that are afforded to me…

yay for all that are doing what needs to be done….
how can i help….what can i donate for your cause…i cant go personally….what would be the best i can offer..
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agreed, going to the forresst makes no sence, the people need help in the towns & cities, i think a kitchen within a few blocks of the convention center & another near the stadium or airport is a great idea, & what about calm?
any plans in the works for calm going to help out?
which convention center? New Orleans? they won’t let anyone in New Orleans without proper credentials. bout to go check with Austin folks to see in Food not Bombs is doing a Zilker Park feeding or what-Zilker isn’t very far from where some of the refugees are housed. the Funk & Green Circus might be heading toward Mississippi & Alabama-those folks aren’t getting much help cuz everyone is wrapped up with New Orleans
well i think we have a way of being able to get around the baricades & go where we are most needed wether the powers that be want us thee or not…the people in need would be overjoyed to have us there…so i say go where the need is greatest, & if they try to stop us use the old rainbow magic to confuse them into submission & slip on by to where we need to be
it has been sooo long since i visited this forum that i forgot my info and had to make another account. I knew with all the devastation someone here would be doing something to help. I live in Indiana just a few miles south of indianapolis. I cant offer much but i can come up with some clothes and canned goods and offer the weary travelers a place to rest up before you journey on. please let me know if you will be traveling through my area and can detour. Peace be with you.
I have a small kitchen and I’m itchin’ to get down there somethin’ fierce. I have help and the ability to manifest food and supplies. I can leave the week of the 12th and be gone for about a week. I would really like to be around family. Where do I go? How hard is it to find gas down there?

Also, some friends of mine have room for a family in Greensboro, NC area. If anyone knows of a family that needs a place to lay their heads, contact Lisa & Loren at or call 336.685.5760.
gas is hard to get, best to top off every chance you get, maybe bring a few 5 gal cans. one kitchen heading down from NC is Nola’s Ark.

it might be wise to connect with the other Rainbow kitchens to see where each is heading. we’ll try to get a kitchen connection thread going on alt.gathering rainbow and make sure all info gets back here to HipForums. we’re trying to get a direct e-line with the other kitchens, but so far no word.
i hope that u all who decide to go down there go well prepared and are EXTREMELY self-sufficiant.
many displaced i feel will come to Shawnee and the other coming gatherings and my place is there. i am currently in broad ripple in indianapolis trying to procure gas money and basic supplies for Shawnee seed camp.
i read a north Georgia regional a few threads ago will be beginning oct 15? that will be another gathering i think alot of displaced will go. this problem will be needing 2 be dealt w/ for months.
i honestly think the best way we can help people is to get them to a gathering or out of the immediate area.
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Here’s another pertinent thread thread from AGR:

NOLA’s Ark, with my lady and I on board, is departing from Asheville, NC, probably Friday. The hold up is mostly related to finding a place to land. We won’t be able to afford to drive a sk00lie all over south LA/MS/AL looking for a place the Offishuls will let us set up shop, and, yes, we’re in touch with those Offishul Guvmint folks. Latest word from Green Circus is that they have landed in Gulfport, and are feeding a couple hundred per day.

Contact aaronfun@hotmail.com to donate funds for this project via PayPal.
If anyone wants to see whats going on, go to New Orleans imc.org, go to phillyimc.org, and see what’s happening in that area of houston, those people are locked in the superdome, and no way out. The food and medical supplies is not goping to the people for six days, they are not being told where they are going as they get on a bus. Again this is genocide, where is FEMA, AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING??? tHIS IS HORRIBLE, TO SEE our own people, under the Bush regime suffering. And now the military is down there they have guns. THERE ARE THOSE, WHO HAVE JUST taken the food, and supplies, because they are so poor.
well stand up as family should an if yer close go help,, wheres the warrior in you??

stand up for the family!!

Do what ya can,,, quit bitchin about whos guilty an help!!!

Cause to my light,, mother nature did her thing…

Luv N Lite
go to yeah its mother nature sayin shes pissed,, quit spewin hate in a family forum please!!

this is not a time for hate or blame!!

be a warrior for the family in a productive way,, dont focus on guilt an hate all the negative energies are only making things worse..

Please..

luv n lite..
We’re puttin’ together a benefit concert in a couple weeks and wonder who/where would be the best folks to send the proceeds to. If Granola funk or CALM is headed down, We’d like to send it their way unless another kitchen needs it more…
wanderin turnip says green circus an nolas ark(granola funk in cogneto), ,, both are outta asheville,, green circus is in gulfport,, nola is hangin for clearence,, turnups on board an he will send a quick link to help when they figure it out,, although i think theres already a link in these threads somewhere??

All i know is i wish i could be there..
more from AGR:
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From: Hawker <Hawker{removethispa…@ashevillecommunity.org> - Find messages by this author
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:20:56 -0400
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More on Dough-Nating….

Below is an e-mail I got from the person handling the dough-nations via
Granola Funk for this relief effort….

Here is a link to the financial support network we have set up in
Bloomington, Indiana. The funds will be directed by Michael White, the
director of 4 access tv stations in the Bloomington area, reach him at
The Monroe County Public Library at M_F 9-5 812.349.3111, ask for Michael.

Set up payment thru
*
* If you want to donate through your bank account go to bottom of page
and click continue. From there, the prompts will help you set up.
* if you wish to donate through credit card, go to a premier account and
click continue…

Paypal charges a small fee for transactions. You can close your account
once the money is accepted and have no fees.

Once your account is set up, you use this address to send your support:

neworleansreliefkitc…@healwithlove.org

Thank you for your support,
The Rainbow Family New Orleans Relief Kitchen
Way to go HHB!!!

Either people are part of the solution or part of the problem. Politics & Hate won’t get people fed & clothed.

There’s a benefit for this project in Asheville NC at the Emerald Lounge Thursday 8 September ’bout 9 PM. If you’re in the area, come on down. I’ve heard Filippe is bringing his bus, and we have access to a bunch of the Family’s water filtration equipment. We need a website! If you are a good enough TechnoHippie to be able to whip one up real quick, contact me, please!
Can one of those Moderator-type guys merge this thread with the older and more viewed "Rainbow Hurricaine Disaster Relief" thread?
e-mail circulating among Family-Calling Volunteers of the Rainbow

Howdy,**********PEOPLE ARE YOU READY? YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!!
**Please send this Worldwide… the Rainbow Response Team, with folks like
AAron Funk, Felipe, Diamond Dave, many others, hopefully, together with
Seeds of Peace and Food Not Bombs, will be on a Site in Louisiana within
the next couple of days…
********Setting up Rainbow-style is being "authorized’**as "legitimate" HELP…

********A call is being made for anyone inthe area, and/or skilled, repeat
skilled, availble people to come to this Site… the
**SITE WILL BE ANNOUNCED WITHIN NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS…
**a massive effort, similar to**putting together a Gathering for 50, 000
people will be undertaken by this RRT - Ainbow Response Team.. to put up a
PEOPLE’S VILLAGE …
****obviously, persons wil have to make their own way to the area.. bring
good, tools, positive vibes… etc…

********please stand-by… get ready to go, those of you who can…

**AND PLEASE FOLKS, PLEASE RALLY TO THIS CALL… Rainbow et. al. can/will
make a real, good, positive contribution to helping folks get through the
chaos…
********** and prayers are welcome…
******a bank account, mailing address… rendezvous SITE**will all be
announced within next couple of days…
********PEOPLE GET READY! TIMES THEY ARE CHANGING… RAINBOW HELP IS NEEDED AND
BEING APPRECIATED…
********love you,
******************Barry, plunker, Montana, Rainbow Family Tribe
**These are Rainbow Response Teams’ emails
**************** <crazycircusdogs@yahoo.com>
<Dmndv@hotmail.com>
<aaronfunk81@hotmail.com >
<littlewhiteshackofamerica@yahoo.com>
My cousin was going to LSU and lost everything in the hurricane. He is now looking to relocate to Cali near UCLA where he has a job lined up. he is a white male 29 years old and formerly worked for green peace. My cousin is the most loving and wonderful guy I know, it would be great if someone could help him make a new start. He has a car but would need a place to stay for at least 3 to 6 months while he gets adjusted in Cali. He does work (alot) and would be willing to help with rent after he starts his job and gets settled(about 2 months). By the way he was training to be a chef at one point in new orleans and would be more than happy to help in that area(amazing cook).Please respond ASAP, hes ready for a new beginning. A community inviroment would be great as well as individual

Tosha Janise
youre right , FEMA isint doing shit . My husband makes a decent salary , but when your banking system is down & you have no way to get your cash , and youre 10 hours from home , it creates a problem . As soon as we found out that everything we owned was destroyed due to flood waters , we called FEMA . They had every excuse in the book for why they may not be able to help us ! So what are we to do ? Starting from scratch for a family with three small children , in a strange place on 1 average salary isnt cake . This goverment sucks !!!!!
people are people everywhere,, you know this,, its not the "country" its not neccasarily the "goverment"

Do ya not beleive in the prophecy sister??

tis all good,, let not yer heart be troubled..

luv n lite..
hey all, I was requested to blend a couple threads. That’s why the new name!
please keep the helping out posts here for a couple reasons, ease of location and it will keep the thread at the top part of the list!
In Lakesh
dm
Duplicate deleted by author. Trying to get this in the right place in the tree.
Here’s another email, widely distributed:

Pronoid Central <pronoidcentral@excite.com> wrote:

To:

Subject:
From: "Pronoid Central" <pronoidcentral@excite.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:26:17 -0400 (EDT)

Contact:
Aaron Funk:
Arjay Sutton:

Donations to the rainbow kitchen paypal account:

Alternative First Aid/Medical Donations:

Attention Rainbow Family and Kind Souls:

The Rainbow Family is mobilizing a New Orleans Relief Kitchen and Kids’ Safe Play Area (including entertainment, games, etc.) and needs volunteers and donations to help the relief work based out of Baton Rouge (home to 500,000 refugees). Opportunities include
Food Service, First Aid including Naturopaths and Alternative Medicine, Counseling of all kinds including Crisis Counseling and Therapy. We also need people with carpentry skills and tools.

A main focus of the group is on creating a safe area for children and families to play together and have fun and have some sense of normalcy in an otherwise very hectic time.

So far we’ve received many generous pledges of assistance of all types.

People with skills in any of the above areas are welcome to come and work, also anyone able to help bring volunteers & kitchen equip. to the area. First caravan leaving from Asheville on Friday. Location to be announced in the next couple of days as details are worked out with the authorities.

WARNING: *This is not a Rainbow Gathering.* If you show up, be prepared to work hard in a kind and loving environment assisting your fellow beings. Blissininnies and alcoholics strenuously discouraged.

Rainbow Family volunteers have experience setting up kitchens from 30 years of practice at Rainbow Gatherings (annual spiritual camping in national forests) and the folks at the helm of this relief operation are kind, experienced at serving food and entertainment and medicine to thousands of folks a day, and are bringing a full array of kitchen equipment with volunteers from Granola Funk Theater’s Kitchen, Everybody’s Kitchen, quite possibly Phillipe from Kiddie Village, definitely Jane from C.A.L.M. (Center for Alternative Living Medicine) and other CALM volunteers, and the crew is in contact with the Louisiana Dept. of Emergency Preperaedness as well as local grassroots activists researching the needs, resrources and locations for relief work.

Feel free to forward this message widely. More info soon.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This message was brought to you by Pronoid Central (c). STILL absolutely, positively convinced that you are out to help us.

anyone heading down please take care of yourself and be safe. i wish everyone well. *hugs* lovin you!
please turnip keep us appraised as to were we are needed. i was hoping to be avail. the 10th now it looks like 17th im so glad pepole are thinking of the kids outher than the regular structure of millitary style order!! peace!
just got this in a email…

"Greeting from kid village, by way of Organic Valley’s generous
offerings of the sacred food to be shared with the relatives. Don’t
panic, keep it the organic.
We’re putting the band back together again. What an honor this is.
We’re on a mission from God to the people in need around Baton Rouge,
La. & the devastated areas.
We are asking for donations for fuel and needs as we go to and from the
kind people in the wake of Katrina. Lend a hand if you can, and by all
means come and join us in our effort to help others.
Donations to: Felipe Chavez
c/o Mary Root
600 West Main Street
Gays Mills, WI. 54631
Baton Rouge contact number: 808-987-8213
Deanne has a non-profit tax number if you choose to go that route.
Give until it feels good."
_____________________________________

Deanne is really cool and is with the barefoot doctor’s academy, a
holistic medicine group that trains doulas and midwives and has a long
history with the family and national gatherings. She told me that the
rainbow crew is getting there today and welcomes any volunteer and/or
resources.

If you can’t make it south, please make a donation, and at the very
least keep the entire effort in your prayers.

Focalizing,
Prince Caspian
I’m heading down there tomorrow. Does anyone here know where they landed? I’ve left voicemail messages with a couple of folks who went down there. I don’t know if they have phone service. Pls feel free to PM me.

Thanks!
Hawker just called me back. They’re in Waveland, MS for now. For anyone else who may be going down, he says:

DO NOT bring clothes or water.

DO bring cleaning supplies, camping gear, liquids with electrolytes like Gatorade, AND your very own special Rainbow abilities.

There is a curfew at 8pm - martial law. So, make sure you get to where you need to be before then.

I’m so excited I about need to sit on my hands to keep from clappin’!
haha..you are so cute…enjoy your service, may you be touched and may you touch!
So its strange,, we know in our souls weve directed 2 people to the kitchens in hell(katrina land),, an we know at least a few who are down there helpin ,, helpin hell makin a diffrance…

The family ,,well man ,,wow,, we may become ,,accepted again??/

i got two e mails today from a brother on site.. goddess bless him,, an all those there..

one is a mass mail,,it can be found all over the web,,,..
just look up aint no party aint no disco rainbow,,

So i wont waste yer time,,..

other was from a brother,i assume its personall cause there wernt the trail of ,addys in the header.. really made my day an id like to share it…

luv n lite..

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I got the same email hillbilly, and the brother who sent it out (wanderingturnip) called me last night so I could post up all the info. BTW, for anyone who wonders why he didn’t call you, it’s just cause I’m on the west coast and it was earlier here, lol.

anyway, that email basicly says it all. Also, they need more people down there, and supplies but (and this is a direct quote) NO WATER and NO CLOTHES. They do need Gatorade, and people, lots of people, who are willing to work. Also, turnip’s partner is trying to set up a blog on blogspot.com called New Waveland Cafe (they’re in Waveland Mississippi, by the way)

umm, that’s it, hope this helps! I’ll make it into it’s own post later maybe, if people think it should be
does anyone know if any of the calm folks headed down? any medical support?
i really would love to go down &n do all i can to help, i’m just really brainstorming on how i could plug in most effectively ..i wouldnt want to show up & have it be a too many cooks in the kitchen situation & just get in the way, but if theresa need for someone with no real medical training to help out with calm, doing like a bobo calm or organizing like a database for reconnecting displaced families..i can help there..i’ve also had some experience with trauma counceling & defusing gang-violence type stuff but all in semi unoficial ways so..i really dont know what or where would be the best way to plug in.. (or how i’d get there yet..)
ok…i looked up aint no party aint no disco rainbow and found 2000 sites and not a thing on katrina…..
hmm…maybe if i add katrina to the list….
hmm…brb
yeah i knew who sent it paix im just not one to exspose someone when they send me a personal e mail whithout there permission,, but i guess that dont bother you…

heres the mass mailing..

To:
> Subject: This Ain’t No Party, This Ain’t No Disco
> From: "Pronoid Central" <pronoidcentral@excite.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> This Ain’t Not Foolin’ Around
>
> RAINBOW FAMILY RELIEF IN FULL GEAR
>
> (FOR WIDE DISTRIBUTION)
>
> Contact:
>
> Arjay Sutton
> New Waveland Cafe Blog:
>
> Donations:
> Cell phones don’t work well here.
>
> Greetings from the New Waveland Cafe in the remnants
> of Waveland, MS.
>
> The Rainbow Emergency Management Assembly (REMA) is
> happy to announce that relief efforts are going
> splendidly here in Waveland, MS, thanks to to
> tireless efforts of all volunteers and exellent
> cooperation with authorities at all levels of
> government, the Red Cross, and myriad ad hoc relief
> groups.
>
> Believe it or not, FEMA wants to make us a "pod,"
> whatever that is. (It’s a Point Of Distribution,
Arjay. JSB) We’ll just do what we’ve been
> doing: feed, inspire, listen and FEMA can call us
> whatever makes them happy. Many thanks to FEMA for
> providing the wireless internet service I’m using to
> send word out.
>
> Please note: while the New Waveland Cafe needs
> good, experienced, responsible volunteers to meet
> our ever-expanding needs, THIS IS NOT A RAINBOW
> GATHERING–IT IS THE WORST NATURAL DISASTER IN US
> HISTORY. The area is under Martial Law and an
> 8pm-6am curfew that is strictly enforced. The area
> is extremely toxic having been recently covered by
> some of the nastiest water you’ve ever imagined.
> CHILDREN SHOULD NOT COME HERE UNDER ANY
> CIRCUMSTANCES.
>
> Volunteers should expect to work long days in
> scorching heat with 90% humidity. We don’t need
> extra mouths to feed who are not contributing and
> disruptive elements will be removed immediately. WE
> ARE SURROUNDED BY EVERY KIND OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
> OFFICER IMAGINABLE ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT and they
> are all about keeping the peace. We are working
> very well with the National Guard, FEMA, Red Cross,
> Florida Highway Patrol and other agencies I don’t
> know about….and we’d like to keep it that way.
>
> Reality check aside, the work is very rewarding and
> it feels good to make a difference. Our sincerest
> thanks go out to all the supporting cast who cannot
> make it to Mississippi but made this possible. We
> tell the folks down here about you every day and
> they send their heartfelt appreciation your way.
>
> The New Waveland Cafe is feeding thousands in the
> coastal community of Waveland in a kind and loving
> Family way. For continuing updates from Waveland,
> please visit our new blog at
> .
>
> For directions to our location, email me.
>
>
> Much Love
> Arjay
>
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> This message was brought to you by Pronoid Central
> (c). STILL absolutely, positively convinced that
> you are out to help us.
The Rainbow Emergency Management Assembly (REMA)
i love it!
thats always been an aspet of rainbow that i both loved & felt we needed more of in the past i’ve seen so many beautiful rainbow responces to many different situations where the pressent powers that be fell short in theyre rsponce, i remember floods that left contaminated sandbags everywhere & the government spending millions to "research the best way to dispose of a biohazard" meanwhile monthdss went by & the sandbags remained & rainbow folks rolled up theyre sleeves put on some gloves & trucked those bags away & donated em to an organic farm
& the funy thing was..the city tried to stop us from cleanning up a mess they spent millions on with no ressult & we did it in 4 hours for free.
but i’m getting off track (1 hourssleep last night)
it warms my heart to see mobilization on this scale..cause lets face it..natural disasters are going to be getting worse, & more frequent (according to scientists, not only hopi prophesies) & the governments responce will continue to be half assed at best..& the real burdon will fall onto the general public to help out & it will come down to rainbow showing the way to take minimal rescources & add alot of love & return maximum ressults
for awhile now i’ve been advocating this on a more local scale..i.e. seeing a need & comming together to fill it (i’m guilty of burning out the past year & slacking off in my personal efforts but this has inspired me to continue with renewed energy ) soits really beautiful to see this happening on a larger scale..i really believe we could overcome just about anything if only enough people put theyre energy into it

pease forgive the horrible spelling & random ramblins, i had less then an hours sleep last night & only 2-3 hours the past 4 nights
love & light & keep your beauty shinning bright
together we can change the world
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hey sister dont assume by my words on yer screen that i feel any emotions,,or intend to stir them in others just because ya interpret them the way ya do…
well ya said i was bein bitchy,, but i see ya deleated that part,, no biggie…

luv n lite
I deleted it cause you said not to assume there was any emotion behind it, so I assumed there wasn’t and took it back, that’s all. I didn’t want to start anything, the words seemed harsh to me, but if you say they’re not then no worries. Blessings
peace luv n lite..

people misenterpret my words on there screen all the time.. its no biggie..

if im ever startin shit in this world it damn well wouldnt be in this forum…
hahaha, so true, last thing anything needs in life is internet drama, lol.
Wow.. this thing is massive, and we all have the natural essential knowledge, to do our part, in the heightening times.

No foul, molly. I have a hard time accessing this site, I guess because of all the heavy graphics. I have more luck getting email out. Sometimes the network is up at the same time all two or three generators needed it to run it is on. My list is Bcc, so that’s why you don’t see the string of eddys. Our partners, the Bastrop Christian Outreach Center, scored a 150 kW generator late last night, only took us 12 hours for us to figger out how to get it off the flatbed with forklifts rated for only 3500 pounds, while fighting off the Powers that wanted to requisition it from us. It should be up and running by Tuesday morning at the latest, so that will fix the power problem! Of course, so would running a temporary box off the main power lines, since I’m told they’re hot, but who would the power company bill for this service? And the military still amuses me by asking us hippies for stuff one would think they oughta have, like a compass to align a satelite antenna. One of our Methodist volunteers said of the Cafe "The Kingdom of Heaven must look a lot like this."

I think the only folks on the forums on my mass mail list are paix, hippieestesd, and hillbilly, and unless I specifically state otherwise in the email, PLEASE post them, and foreward them all over the place. You three can arm wrestle over who gets to be my proxy poster. Rumor has it that since we have that generator, City Hall will be moving into this parking lot, so the New Waveland Cafe is gonna be right on the town square. Can anyone out there donate a statue of a Confederate soldier?

Could someone merge this thread with the sticky, please?
ah no foul anywhere ,,, we areselves just will not post anything that we dont know can be posted for sure ,,,, other than some sorta mass mailing … hhb just has the attention span of a gnat at tiems n initially he didnt see that you had spoke to turnup n he said to post it,,,, was really nothing more than a respect thing on hhb part til he realized he hadnt read the whole post,,,,,,, luv you all turnup,,,,
hhb says we are on the conf, soldier …. how long does he have?
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I think it’s wonderful that the family is ready and willing to respond to the peopel that are in need.It proves to me we are not only out for ourselves and that all our planning and learning how to live in the woods and on the road is not just for parting and having a good time.We can make a difference with love and a helping hand.I can’t be there for this one but you can bet there will be more natral disasters to come because she’s just as fedup as we all are.Who better adapt to with the aftermath of an act of nature than those who have dedicated themselves to her.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had a couple of valuable laughs at some of the odd requests we’ve had from military personnel. But we’re all on the same team, and some of our most valued regular customers are senior NCOs. Those folks would much rather eat stuffed peppers, in a casual social atmosphere, while sitting next to one of the folks that they’re here to help, than eat something that comes out of a green plastic bag while sitting on the back of their truck. And a well-placed sergeant or petty officer has the ability to really return a favor.

Dang Fundamentalist Rainbows! Some of our folks want to sort recyclables, and stash them until someplace can be found that will take them away. Aluminum is at $0.41/lb in Gulfport, but no place around here wants cardboard, plastic, or #10 cans (the biggest parts of the pile). An entire city has been trashed here. If we had a hundred hippies with nothing to do but sort recyclables for 12 hours a day in the heat and humidity, they wouldn’t be able to make a dent in it. Reality check!

Back to work. More later.
hold your positions! and keep a weather eye on tropical storm rita. We might have to bug out in a couple-three days if that thing turns north, or go feed Houston, or something. HB, that should kind of answer your question you pmed me about, but I’ll try to get you an address for wherever we’re gonna be
we’re on stand-by for Rita, Turnup. the hippiestead is about 100 miles from Houston; we can do weekends if this is as bad as they’re saying. Bastrop Co is where we live, Lee Co. side; volunteered packing those bedrolls for y’all; called the thrift store for pillows, they were out cuz of the folks who evacuted from Louisiana; didn’t know that stuff was for Waveland.

HHB & Paix can handle the Hippyland posts if they want, we’ll cover the MySpace Rainbow groups. Texas Rainbow chat group will have any news about Rita’s damage as long as we have electric; predictions say we’ll get 70 mph winds & lots of rain, even this far inland.
Ok, so you want to help? We were a week or more on the phone planning and networking before we made our move, and Prior Planning did prevent piss-poor performance, even though little of our plan survived once we landed. Now is the time to start planning our response to the impending disaster in Texas. Now is the time to ask your boss for a week off in a couple weeks so you can come here, or Texas, and help out. Now is the time to get on the phone, or on your computers, and start networking in your area to gather supplies and equipment. We have the infrastructure together now to move proactively (I’ve been going to too many damn meetings if I’m using words like "proactively") on some small, quiet coastal town that’s about to be devastated. We won’t know where exactly until after Rita makes landfall, but it will probably be someplace few folks have heard of before, and the Government and Media will ignore, the Waveland of Texas. Our partners from Bastrop are already laying down supply lines, and we’ve been in contact with Family from around Austin and San Antonio. Some crew will stay here, but the New Waveland Cafe can run on Auto-Pirate now if it has to, even if it might loose some of it’s Rainbow ambiance, and if you’re coming down I-10, we’re on the way. We’ll land a crew where it’s needed as soon after the storm as the roads are drivable.

Things are getting downright civilized here. There’s a wringer washing machine. I’ve gone from showering with bottled water, to using one of the public showers, to having a private shower for me and my Lady, and our immediate camp neighbors. Radio Waveland went on the air today, a low wattage public access station, and I spent most of the day on the ‘net looking up stories of local interest for the news. Lt Moore seems so have a lot of the kinks worked out of our wireless network. Go Navy! But we also made contact with a Rainbow Sister who has been running a small kitchen about 7 miles from here in a poor neighborhood, and she’s still making contact with folks who are just making it out of their homes for the first time since the storm. The conditions she described there are horrible. We’re able to send her all the food she’ll need, but there’s still a shortage of family sized tents, like cabin tents, and propane stoves, and ice chests, and batteries. 12-volt fans! Especially the kind that run off D cells, but that some local handyman can re-wire to run off a car battery if needed. I could give away thousands of those here.

Arjay writes:

New Waveland Cafe Expands Rita Threatens Texas Coast REMA Activates the Rainbow Emergency Network FOR WIDE DISTRIBUTION Contact: Arjay Sutton Blog Cell (828) 280-6338 Donations: While the New Waveland Cafe moves into spacious new quarters, the Rainbow Emergency Management Assembly (REMA) continues to monitor the progress of Hurricane Rita as it races across all that 90 degree water in the Gulf of Mexico on a collision course with the densely populated Texas Gulf Coast. We’re now working in conjunction with ACT, a Seventh Day Adventist disaster response group, BCOC, as well as all local authorities who tell us the New Waveland Cafe is the largest feeding kitchen on the Mississippi coast. Accordingly, they have provided multiple large shelters, supplies, equipment, National Guard engineering troops for design and construction projects. The expanded New Waveland Cafe should be able to accommodate 5000 people comfortably at each meal. Some people travel 50 miles just to get our home cookin’ and to visit our friendly clinic that is open and staffed 24/7. Meanwhile, we’re closely monitoring the progress of Hurricane Rita in anticipation of landing another emergency relief kitchen on another devastated area in Texas as soon as the weather permits. Our Rita response will be a consuming topic of discussion at tonight’s 8pm meeting. After our 8pm meeting, we will discuss possible joint operations with the folks we’ve been working with here, Bastrop Community Outreach Center (BCOC). These folks have families in the path of Rita because they are from Texas. We’ve had the opportunity to work closely with them for the past week and a half and they are Family whether they know it or not. I will disseminate the contents of these meetings later. I think we need to be realistic about this one, folks. Assuming the 90 degree Gulf waters and favorable winds don’t slow down Rita, this storm could be even worse than Katrina and will affect a far more densely populated area. Jim Gray, the meteorologist whose forecasts on hurricanes have been the most accurate over the years, said today that he’s only seen one storm that looked worse than Rita: Katrina. I’m on the ground here and can make the following observations and predictions based on our experience. 1. The federal government will put on a show but will provide very little of value. Brownie may be gone, but the upper echelons of emergency management are populated with incompetent cronies who appear to be more concerned with PR and their own comfort than the people they allegedly serve. What resources and competent line officers they do possess (most of FEMA) are thinly stretched over the vast wasteland left by Katrina and bureaucratic mismanagement. I can see the spin machine warming up now. 2. The Military and National Guard response will be inadequate. Over half of the Texas National Guard is in either Iraq or MS/LA. Bush trumpeted the great feat of sending 5000 Guard Troops to Texas. To do what? Secure Houston’s shopping district? Multiply that number by ten and we’re getting more realistic. As a side note, the military and National Guard deployed here in Waveland have been helpful, hard-working, and qualified for the jobs they are doing (which is what they signed up for). However, they are too few. BTW, about 50 of them are regulars at the New Waveland Cafe. 3. Texas Gov. Rick "Goodhair" Perry will prove to be the most incompetent public servant in history, eclipsing Brownie as government boob of the year. The State of Texas is completely bankrupt due to insane fiscal policy since 1994 (stealing from the government and giving to Enron). Count on very little from the state except for well disciplined professional law enforcement officers who will rise above the chaos above them. And spin. 4. The Red Cross, Salvation Army, and the usual relief groups had to fill so many gaps usually filled by the federal government during emergencies, they are deployed in numbers that defy their capabilities. They are already stretched far too thin and will only be able to mount a minimal response that will detract from ongoing and extremely necessary operations responding to Katrina. As a sidebar, the Red Cross is attempting to break through its own red tape and deploy the wave of volunteers who showed up in the wake of Katrina, attended disaster training, and awaited assignment. If you intend to take the Red Cross route, go get your disaster training now. Deployment often takes a long time. That leaves the folks who have responded so generously to Katrina: all the churches, civic organizations, and our own little anomoly, REMA. It started out as a joke sign I hung on my bus. Now it looks like something able to raise a coordinated quick response from our base of operations here in the central Gulf Coast at the New Waveland Cafe. One thing we showed ourselves and other disaster responders: we’re really good at landing quickly and getting aid to folks who need it. We take our experiences from Katrina with us as we consider expanding into another theatre. Stay tuned for updates. As I wrote before, we are monitoring Rita and preparing a potential response based on need and resources at hand. Be prepared to be drafted into REMA. We may need you, whatever equipment you have in your garage or barn, your expertise, and most of all, your prayers. Because we may be all the stands between life and death for the millions about to be impacted by Rita on one side and a criminally inadequate government response on the other. Let’s all pray for a cold wind to blow out of the north and blow Rita apart. Much Love Arjay ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This message was brought to you by Pronoid Central (c). STILL absolutely, positively convinced that you are out to help us.
You can’t even slow us down! Well, OK, you can slow us down. But it takes a near miss by a hurricane to do it. As Rita swung farther and farther to the North and east, we started to get a bit nervous. Friday night and Saturday morning, every other aid organization in the County ran like the Mexican Army at San Jacinto. But the Hippies stood firm, tike the Texans at the Alamo, only without that massacre afterwards. We had moments when things got a bit on the panicky side, like Saturday morning when the ‘net was down, and we heard a tornado warning for Waveland. (But it hit well north of here.) We had heard rumors that Rita was swinging farther north, and prepared to leave on short notice if needed, but once the computer came back online, and we had access to accurate, up-to date information, folks calmed down. Friday and Saturday we had the best weather I’ve seen since I’ve been here. I’ll take wind and a bit of rain, with clouds, over that blazing sun any day! We still served 3 meals Saturday, in our newly redecorated Tornado Lounge. Fed the entire Waveland Police and Fire Departments supper, and afterwards, a Virginia State Trooper played drums with us for a while.

Civilization is a fragile thing. The storm knocked down most of our showers. Radio Free Waveland is off the air for another day or so. We had to drop all our large tents, for fear of them being damaged by high winds, so today we’ve had no shade, and the sun is back, off and on. The wind should mellow out enough tomorrow so we can get tents back up. Ice has been short today, and our drink kegs got temporarily reorganized out of existence in our rush to batten down, so we’ve been unable to mix Gatorade or juice. Water just isn’t enough in this heat. But our Bastrop partners came back this afternoon, and are helping us get back to running at full capacity tomorrow.

Fillipe left Friday also, but he’s preparing to deploy to Texianna. Folks will be scouting areas of need as soon as they can get in. I understand that most of the roads in Southern Louisiana are under water, but he should land somewhere in a couple-three days. We’ll probably hear from him in about a week. Harrison County Emergency Operations Command wants us to stay through Thanksgiving. My lady and I have to leave Monday, though. Perhaps I can come back in a couple weeks to a month..

Radio interviews with Diamond Dave, Fillipe, and David here:

Good to see ya’ll are holding strong Bro! If D. Dave’s around say Hi! for me and ask him to get in touch please.
I finally got out of camp today, took a bike ride down to the beach. I had seen the pictures, heard the descriptions, but still wasn’t prepared for the sight of everything south of the railroad tracks destroyed. Buildings–Substantial brick and masonry buildings–scraped down to the slab, the 2X4s that were the bases of the walls and bolted to the slab ripped off, nothing left but bolts sticking out of the concrete. No buildings standing within a half mile of the beach. Half mile to a mile inland, buildings washed off their foundations, roofs sitting atop piles of rubble (Was that pile the house that was originaly under that roof? Or did the roof come from somewhere else?) And not just here. Bay St Louis, Pass Christian, Pearlington, D"Iberville…The Works of Man on the Mississippi Gulf Coast are gone.

Cops found two more bodies near the beach while we were there.

Leaving tomorrow. Should be back by Early November.

green circus folks in gulfport have finished their job & are leaving within a week. businesses are running & gulfport is well on it’s way to recovery. the new waveland cafe will be running into nov . more updates later
No no! The cops figured out that Green Circus Kitchen in Gulfport are hippies. I got back from down there a week ago and Gulfport was healing - businesses opening, people going back to work. Gulfport is a lot better off than Waveland. Green Circus getting the impetus to move on has nothing to do with the New Waveland Cafe.
Thanks for the clarification, we fixed our post above; thought it sounded strange since Turnup said New Waveland Cafe would be running into Nov.

Talked to New Waveland Cafe and they need

They are also seeking an air conditioned RV, bus, truck, someplace where people can get out of the heat for a while.

The Tornado Lounge is now serving iced coffee smoothies & Gatoraid Arjay said.
Hawker posted this on AGR..

REAL HELP AND A TRUE MODEL OF EFFICIENCY

WAVELAND - Across from the Waveland Police Department in the Fred’s parking lot is a group of people set up to feed up to 5,000 people a day. Let me repeat that….5,000 people a DAY. They have a clinic set up like a battlefield triage center. They are giving out tetanus shots and vaccinations, prescribing heart medication, fully licensed medical practitioners who have made it a life style to camp out in national parks all over America every year surviving on nothing more than the land. They subscribe to no religion or political party, they have no hierarchical structure to speak of and they don’t take "no" for an answer when it comes to helping those who desperately need it. They pitched a tent, started working with a Christian organization out of Texas who were already on the ground there by the second day after Hurricane Katrina hit, and began forming what may be the most efficiently run disaster relief center on the entire Gulf Coast. And who is funding this well-oiled machine, you ask?

No one.

Meet the "Rainbow Gathering" out of Asheville, NC. A group (more like a "tribe") of PhDs, MDs, nurses and other professionals who took it upon themselves to purposely take their survival skills and their medical and professional experience into the "battle zone" with nothing more than the small amount of money they raised between themselves and a small fund raiser in their town of Asheville, North Carolina. They have been braving unbearable heat, ungodly humidity and the sheer numbers of people coming to them for help. Feeding up to 5,000 people a day can take its toll on anyone…but imagine doing so in one of the most inhospitable environments in the United States today? Even so, they have affectionately named their haven and hovel "The New Waveland Cafe". A fitting and friendly name, befitting a fitting and friendly group of people.

With little more than tents over their heads during the day, sleeping in the backs of their cars at night and pulling 16-hour shifts, Brad Stone, RJ, Scott and Hawker - along with about 30 other associates - are doing what no government or donor-funded organization has done so far….gotten organized. And I don’t mean just your average organization. This is a totally non-competitive, non-hierarchical, transparent accounting, complete sharing of lessons learned each and every day group. They have a plan of attack each and every day. They have a HAM radio set up to call out to the EOC for supplies (and thanks goes out to Mike Sweeney at the EOC who has been in touch with them, getting them all the supplies they ask for! Thanks, Mike!) They teamed up with the Bastrop Christian Outreach Center, out of Bastrop, TX () who had been on the ground there from the very first days after Hurricane Katrina struck. What is interesting here is that a Christian ministry and a secular organization who holds to no set religious beliefs have come together, joined forces and are a powerhouse of efficiency! They have been gaining momentum in caring for the people of Waveland, including getting medical supplies, but they have received very little assistance from FEMA in any way.

"The problem with FEMA," says RJ, the newly appointed Communications Department, "is that they work from the head…not the heart. It’s a job to them and they don’t know what it takes to work in this environment." Since the Rainbow group has for years been setting up camp in inhospitable climates, living off the land and surviving by honing their outdoor skills, they were able to set up directly on the asphalt pavement, where heat indexes rise to well over 100 degrees every day. "It’s hot! We see dozens of people each and every day that are dehydrated and suffering from heat exhaustion. Water won’t do in this heat, people need to replenish their electrolytes. We bought 84 boxes of emergency packets (multivitamins) with our own money. Mix this in with an eight-ounce glass of water and in about ten minutes, the person is fine again. We’ve gone through all of them in a matter of days and need to get more. We’re used to this since we do this all the time, but these FEMA people don’t have a clue. They can’t manage what they don’t understand."

Brad Stone (just call him "Stone") is a PhD / MD and spent $2,500 of his own money to purchase a defibrillator to have on hand, just in case. So far, the Rainbow volunteers have treated two heart attacks, provided neonatal care, wound dressings, dozens of vaccinations, tetanus shots, triage, dispensed medication and have written prescriptions for people who can then go to the Walmart, which had just opened up in Bay St Louis, to fill what the Rainbow people don’t have in stock.

Even though they feel they have been hampered in their efforts to care for people, a representative meets with the EOC every morning a 9 a.m. to fill them in on what is happening. FEMA has actually inspected their "facility" and checked out their credentials. According to Stone, "Some guy from FEMA stormed in and demanded that I show him some credentials. So I showed him my medical license to practice. He said "Oh" and just left. I haven’t seen him come back yet. We have been asked by the EOC to stay until Thanksgiving because we are providing such a necessary service."

Where are they in terms of this crisis, I asked? "We are in the middle of half-crisis, half-chronic problems now," says RJ. "We are working in sweltering heat with no break from it. We desperately need a van, large camper, blood mobile…something air conditioned just to get people out of the heat for even a little while. They have plenty of trailers running over at the EOC but when we ask for them, the people just give us this stare and say ‘we’ll try to do something.’ We need camping gear to get people back to a semblance of order in their lives. When we have cots or tents, people snap them up immediately. We could use a large circus tent, trailer with AC, propane stoves, pots and pans. We also need doctors and nurses…we feel like we’re working with one hand tied behind our back."

If this is what these "non-official" volunteers are doing with one hand tied behind their backs….they are certainly in the running for citizens of the year. And more importantly, showing the world what common sense and a structured plan with experience can do without having to wade through useless red tape and bureacracy.

The Rainbow Gathering, on their own and donated funds from Asheville, have sent ANOTHER fully stocked kitchen to Lake Charles, LA to help the citizens there, as well. "We have yet another fully stocked kitchen that we asked for and is being delivered down here to Waveland, too," says RJ. "We’re thinking of sending it over to Pass Christian where we know there is a huge need over there, especially with the Vietnamese population there that is not being cared for." How are you going to handle all three sites, I asked. "We are getting some volunteers coming down from North Carolina to help us out, but we’re gonna do this any way we can. We’re not asking for a hundred doctors or nurses or volunteers because we do things a little bit different from regular organizations, but we could sure use the help."

Any medical person or volunteer wishing to donate their time to a truly outstanding cause, please contact the Rainbow Gathering’s medical contact, Stone at 773-407-0854. For those who wish to get more information, donate money to help them continue on working, or volunteer to help, contact RJ at 828-280-6338.

Want to know more about the Rainbow Gathering, go to , RJ has been posting some interesting blog entries and photos when he can.

When I investigated this group and had a chance to talk with the different members, I felt it was all important to focus an entire article on them, simply because this was the kind of effort we were expecting from the larger, more well-funded formal organizations. Since this support never materialized, even after FOUR WEEKS, it was apparent that energy and funds needed to be pushed in the direction that was doing the most good. According to Stone, the Red Cross has officially made it known that the Rainbow group’s facility is now serving as the largest relief facility along the Gulf Coast by far. I can honestly say that when I got off the phone from talking to Stone, Scott, Hawker and RJ, I was singularly impressed. In addition to the fine donations sites addressed below, I will also be including the Rainbow Gathering as a truly exceptional and worthwhile donations cause, as well. As soon as I receive word that they are set up to receive donations, I will post the information immediately.

FEMA, Red Cross….take notice. THIS is how to operate. Friends reading this…help them in any way you possibly can. They deserve it!
Well, if anyone here is at the Cafe, then I look forward
to meeting you.

Im gonna head down Sunday, my first time going that far
down the coast since the strom hit, and volunteer.
Will stay through Monday.

Some of our tribe are getting some supplies together,
and I will be bringing them.

I have a large tent, who do I contact to give it to?

Anyway, see you folks in a few.
just find them,, an they will find you,, waveland cafe,,..
It’s pretty obvious that REMA can do a lot with very little (course most of us already knew that) Had an idea today, if we can get some hippie bands to help raise funds for REMA, they’ll be able to spread the Love even farther. Maybe the an air conditioned RV would show up quickly. If everyone e-mails the Dead, String Cheese, Phish and anyone you can think of, maybe they’d help. It’s worth a shot.
Here’s the latest from AGR. The folks in Waveland don’t have much time to be on the internet and part of the crew is in the process of moving. Please give them a hand by distributing this info. Thanks!

Greetings from the New Waveland Cafe!

New Waveland Cafe Reconstructed after Rita
Announcing the Tornado Lounge
Please Call Before Coming Here and Don’t Bring Children

FOR WIDE DISTRIBUTION

Things are running smoothly again here in Waveland after everyone
EXCEPT the New Waveland Cafe bugged out for Hurricane Rita. *Many folks

still living in tents and tarps on the toxic ground were unable to flee
and
were grateful for three hot meals a day in spite of high winds, lots of

rain, and scattered tornados.

We had to take down our large tents, but the structure we served under
for those five days–an army tent donated by China–remains standing as

the Tornado Lounge, serving ice cold smoothies all day long.
Inaugurated on Monday night after re-setting the kitchen and Cafe under
our
large tents, the Tornado Lounge serves as a mellow place for playing
music,
reading, socializing, and forgetting the day’s traumas in this troubled

corner of the world.

If you plan to volunteer at the New Waveland Cafe, please call me at
(828) 280-6338. *We now have a procedure in place for plugging in an
appropriate number of volunteers for what we are doing here. *We match
your
dates and skills with our needs.

Once again, please note: *IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN, DO NOT BRING THEM HERE
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER. *WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY VOLUNTEERS
WHO BRING CHILDREN. *This is a disaster zone. *The level of toxicity in

the area coupled with extreme and unrelenting heat (index at 105-115
every day) make this a graveyard for infants, small children, sick
people, and folks in not the best shape.

Only come here if you are in excellent health and physical condition.
A volunteer with our partner, BCOC, has been hospitalized with a heart
attack due to heat stroke. *Others drop every day from heat exhaustion.

We have no need whatsoever for volunteers who cannot put in a full
day’s work in extreme heat. *Furthermore, we all worry about the
effects of
long-term exposure to this environment.

WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SUBJECT YOUR CHILDREN TO THESE CONDITIONS ON
OUR BEHALF.

On a side note, you should leave your dog at home, too. *I regret
bringing Calvin, a tough old road dog who is having an extremely hard
time
here even with a somewhat air conditioned bus to live in. *Other dogs
who have arrived are not happy either. *There’s too much toxic mischief

for them to get into here, no water in which to cool off, no non-toxic

place to lay on the ground–in short, not a good place for dogs.

Hancock County EOC has asked the New Waveland Cafe to remain open until

Thanksgiving. *Aaron, Clovis, Stone, and I have accepted and plan to
remain. *Others will probably also stay or come and go. *Again, please
call before showing up.

I’m going to attempt to post the minutes from our 8pm Meeting every
day. *Like everything I do in communications, it depends on how much
time
I have available and how well the internet is working.

Thanks for your Continuing Support
Arjay Sutton

Phone: *(828) 280-6338
email: *newwavelandc…@yahoo.com

Donations: *

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This message was brought to you by Pronoid Central (c). *STILL
absolutely, positively convinced that you are out to help us.
(question from fayeautumn. i tend to forget that heron is already logged on. i apologize.)
you kept mentioning about "level of toxicity," will you explain more? and "we all worry about the effects of long-term exposure to this environment."
what kind of effects do you think will happen? i’m worried for all of you good people. i wish i can lend a helping hand, but at the moment, i’m expecting and very close to my due date. a happy occasion for sure. i’m just happy my husband can be down there to help, though i don’t think he called first . i hope everything continues to get better. thank you for all the good you guys are doing down there.
sorry everyone for the confusion. i’m sure heron is getting tired of me posting using his nick. imagine all the confusion. especially the earlier comments about husband…..lol

New Waveland West Rumors
VA Highway Patrol Entertains
Need New PA Gear and Soundman (Hawker!)
Many Comings and Goings

FOR WIDE DISTRIBUTION

Howdy from the Rubble…

Deanne tells me that the Barefoot Drs Academy along with Felipe and
crew are getting ready to set up in Washington Park in New Orleans. Still
awaiting details, but the New Waveland Cafe will do everything it can
to support this effort. More as this breaking REMA news develops.

Here at the New Waveland Cafe, we’ve been blessed by Eli Jones and his
magical PA gear, which has come in very handy now that curfew has been
moved back to 11pm. There’s been music in the cafe at night and
revolution in the air. This past evening, Jason–who comes to us courtesy of
the Virginia Commonweatlth Highway Patrol–played a smokin set on
acoustic guitar backed up up by Dr. David on drums, a guy with the word
"Herb" displayed largely on the back of his shirt on percussion, Eli Jones
on bass, and his father Jimmie Jones on lead guitar. I opened
tonight’s festivities and a local man named Wes played a set as well. Tonight
was the second night Jason spent on the New Waveland Cafe Stage and we
will miss him. Today was his last shift in Waveland. Bon Voyage,
Jason. Come back soon.

Alas, Eli and his PA system have to return to medical school on Friday
morning. Both will be missed. The atmosphere is electric and it was a
joy to see folks in Waveland enjoying themselves at the show. They’re
starting to come down just for the show.

So the New Waveland Cafe is now putting out the APB: WE NEED A PA
SYSTEM AND SOMEONE TO RUN IT. Also helpful: At least one guitar that plugs
into a PA system, SM 57 and 58 microphones, chords, stands. A decent
electric keyboard would also be a good thing. Drums and other
percussion instruments will also help. There’s nothing like a drum circle to
bring a community together. Lots of folks just get up and join into the
jam session. If they had instruments before, they doin’t have them
now. This can be nothing but a good thing for Waveland.

Let us know if you can help.

Eli is one of many difficult goings this week. We learned recently
that Leviticus, Theodora, Daniel, and Amber all have pressing committments
elsewhere. We’ve been through a serious chapter in one anothers’ lives
here. Friends you make here are friends for life. I know how
difficult it is to leave here. Many who have left have returned. It’s a
joyful reunion. Hopefully their absence will be temporary.

Organic Valley/CROPP in Wisconsin is sending several volunteers to the
the New Waveland Cafe next week. Clovis’s hometown in Wisconsin has
also recently sent us its second wave of High School students
volunteering at The New Waveland Cafe as part of the YIHS program. Two of the
students from the first wave snuck into the second. One of them
facilitated our 8pm meeting two nights ago. Good kids. Hard workers. We
anticipate a third wave next week.

We’ve decided to expand our staff, so please call if you wish to
volunteer. It’s starting to cool off outside and things are getting a little
more relaxed. But please, no children.

Beautiful Things are Happening in Waveland. I wish I had time to tell
more stories right now, but it’ll have to wait. Look for a long blog
post about how everyone bugged out during Rita–except us–within the
next day or so.

Thanks for your Conitinuing Support
Arjay Sutton

Phone: (828) 280-6338
email:

Donations:

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This message was brought to you by Pronoid Central (c). STILL
absolutely, positively convinced that you are out to help us.
Hey Arjay, thanks for the update. Looking forward to see you guys
again soon i hope, and again and again as long as i can.

I am still high off the love i felt from all the brothers and sisters
there. Doing a beautiful thing there, and making a mark.

Keep up the good work man. Scratch ya doggy for for me.

Laters!
oh heron, i’m so glad you went & proud of u my brother, i so wish i could have as well,
much love & deepest respect to all who followed theyre hearts, & cared enough for strangers to give al they could & help make theyre ves just allittle safer
your doing amazing work, all of you
The New Orleans kitchen (Welcome Home Cafe) is up and running alongside the Barefoot Doctors in Washington Square Park. Cold weather has hit the Gulf Coast and the need for tents and warm clothes is great.

hi everyone. just got back from waveland this morning, while things are going well, there is still much to be done. while not everyone can make the trip down, there is still plenty that can be done from wherever you are. one of the biggest issues is the sanitation department decided to haul off most of the clothes we had to share in the wee hours of the morning a day or so ago. there are also people still living under tarps and there is a waiting list just to get a tent. any warm clothing, sleeping bags, blankets or tents in usable shape would be greatly appreciated. more kynd folks to help out would also be a blessing. i’ll be in the lafayette, La area in a few days, anyone wanting to donate anything or would like a ride to help in waveland please pm me. i will be returning to waveland on november 15th or 16th. peace and blessings to all, and special thanks to all who have helped us in every possible way.

Thu, 27 Oct 2005

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REMA Website Up
Wilma Thrashes South Florida
Welcome Home Cafe getting busier
Wish List Attached
New Waveland Cafe goes Postal

Howdy All…

Hope you’ve enjoyed all the news articles about our efforts on the Gulf Coast. I’ve been taking a well-earned but still working vacation in Florida. Much good karma and good wishes go out to the folks at Magnolia Fest, who graciously took me as a volunteer at the last minute so I wouldn’t have to pay the admission fee. I did manage to put a flier in Peter Rowan’s hand and talked to a lot of musicians, potential volunteers, and others about what we’re doing.

As many of you probably know, Rob Savoye has set up to house the ever-growing volume of information surrounding our various relief efforts as they blossom in many locations stricken by hurricanes this fall. Our new and improved donations page lives there as well. And yes, you can finally make a tax deductible donation to the New Waveland Cafe, thanks to the Action Hero Network and the National Institute for the Humanities.

Most recently, I’ve been in touch with Barry Sacharow who lives in Hollywood, FL. Barry tells me things look grim in South Florida, which took a direct hit from Wilma as a strong Cat 2 it wasn’t expecting. FEMA has apparently shown the same competence it has with Katrina and Rita except that it wasn’t able to put up a fence to keep media out of South Florida like it did with Rita. Barry is currently assessing how and if REMA may be of assistance. We’ll know in the next couple of days if we need to put something together.

Rob tells me the Welcome Home Cafe in New Orleans continues to serve more and more people as folks return in greater numbers. We’ve identified at least one more potential kitchen location in New Orleans and expect this to heat up in the next week or two as the picture becomes clearer in NOLA.

I’m attaching the most current wish list for the New Waveland Cafe in Word format. I’ll try to get a PDF version posted to the website.

Here is our new postal address:

New Waveland Cafe
PO Box 2631
Bay St. Louis, MS 39521

Waveland’s Post Office doesn’t exist anymore.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned.

Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe

email:

Donations:

Media Links:
Locals aided in Katrina relief

With the media focusing on the hurricane Katrina devastation in New Orleans, often overlooked is that other parts of the Gulf region were also hard hit by the storm.

Two local women, Terra Costello and Ty Speck, recently returned from two weeks in Mississippi where they worked at a relief kitchen in the town of Waveland in the Gulf of Mexico.

For more of this story, click on or type the URL below:

The following comes from Turtle, a volunteer at the
Welcome Home Cafe in New Orleans.

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Hey all!
As Rainbow Family, I’m emailing you because there is a
serious need on the Gulf Coast due to Hurricane

Katrina and we need your help! Make no mistake, this
disaster is FAR from over and the hurricane victims
need our support more than ever.

If you don’t already know, several kitchens, the
CALM/MASH unit from the gatherings and dedicated,
focused brothers and sisters came down to Waveland, MS
and shortly after, New Orleans, to set up a rainbow
emergency management assembly to give support and
relief.

There have been thousands and thousands of people
helped, and even more are on their way (in the case of
New orleans). However, the work is intense and
constant and our crew people can only go on for so
long. So, as a result, we are putting a CALL out to
you, our Family, for SEASONED, DEDICATED,HEALTHY,
RAINBOW SAAVY brothers and sisters, AND, functional,
MOBILE KITCHENS, to come down and HELP! The time is
NOW to take what we’ve learned from all those years of
Gatherings and put it into practise in Waveland and,
especially, New Orleans.

If you are one of those brave individuals who wish to
plug in, please R.S.V.P. at this email

The need for mobile kitchens is solely for New
Orleans, as more people are returning to the city,
only to find that they don’t have utilities, or simply
can’t even live in their own home. So, they are
turning to us.

We need to set up several sattelite relief stations
thruout the hardest hit neighborhoods. SOOOO, if you
are wise in the ways of focalizing a hygenic, large
community kitchen, people who have the ability to work
people thru post traumatic stress disorder,
psychological councelors, social workers,working at
dessiminating and gathering information (INFO. at the
gatherings), have knowledge about focalizing main
supply at gatherings (i.e. ordering and acquiring
large amounts of supplies, or are simply one of those
kind, family members who just knows how to plug in and
fill in the holes when needed, PLEASE CALL OR E MAIL!

We can provide a place to stay and food, if you are
dedicated to being a full time volunteer while you are
down here. Please remember that one of our greatest
threats to a peaceful and unified future being made
for these victims, indeed all of us, is apathy and
complacency. The time to exercize what we have learned
from the gatherings and the Earth is NOW!

Love and strength,
New Waveland and Welcome Home Relief Stations
Waveland, MS & New Orleans, LA
Turtle

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Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe

email:

Donations:
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New Waveland Cafe to Close After Thanksgiving, Parade
New Waveland Clinic Needs Doctors & Nurses
Many Volunteers & Resources Heading to New Orleans
Call for Donations to Deal With Move
No Need for S. Florida Response

Greetings

When we first landed in Waveland back in early
September, no one figured we’d stay here for more than
a couple of weeks. Personally, I thought I’d be home
in Asheville by October 1. Then Mike Sweeney of the
Hancock County EOC asked us to stay until
Thanksgiving. That seemed very remote and far off
until now.

The New Waveland Cafe 8pm Meeting addressed this issue
in detail tonight, as many individuals had expressed a
desire to remain in Fred’s parking lot and continue to
assist the good folks of Waveland beyond the date
agreed upon. However, with numbers declining
(800-1200 meals/day) and the community showing signs
of recovery, the New Waveland Cafe will completely
disappear–every tent, box, tennis shoe, pot, pan, and
burner–by December 1, as agreed upon with the Hancock
County EOC back in September.

After a huge Thanksgiving Day Feast followed by a
parade the next day, that is. It’s a difficult time
here at the New Waveland Cafe. We’ve formed a Family
and made some really good friends here in Waveland.
The cultural landscape will never be the same and
neither will the people who served the good folks of
Waveland.

In the meantime, the New Waveland Cafe will continue
to serve the best hot free meals on the MS Coast, give
dance lessons, entertain the masses, provide a
community center, and treat many many patients at the
New Waveland General Clinic.

Stone has informed me that we have an immediate need
for doctors and nurses at the Clinic. After Saturday,
no doctor has made a committment to be in the clinic,
which is treating 50-100 patients every day. So if
you are a doctor or nurse, or if you know of any
doctors or nurses who can come volunteer for any
amount of time, please contact Stone at 773-407-0254.

Following the next three weeks and cleanup, many
volunteers plan to either plug into continuing efforts
to help Waveland recover or move on to the new focus
of great need: New Orleans. As shelters close and
FEMA stops paying for apartments in other places, a
wave of New Orleans residents has begun to flock into
the city. Many of these people have lost
everything…homes, cars, family members. Their homes
are uninhabitable and there’s nowhere for them to go.
And to continue the perfect storm, winter’s close at
hand. Outside the Potemkin Villages of the French
Quarter and downtown, no one has basic services like
water, sewer, and electric, whether their homes are
destroyed or not.

I cannot stress enough the scale of the humanitarian
crisis blooming in NOLA. The situation is compounded
by a complete breakdown in civil authority as the
mayor was forced to lay off most city workers. The
resulting power vaccuum has left an environment rife
with corruption and chaos that threatens to explode.

It also creates a unique opportunity for everyone to
work together; not to build a cross between Disney and
Las Vegas (as envisioned by some seriously misguided
individuals), but to re-build communities that work
for everyone because everyone has a stake. We can
help everyone to work together by providing a
community space where communities can pull themselves
back together, share food with one another, and help
each other recover.

Now for the Good News. Welcome Home Cafe continues to
grow, serving the local community, the blossoming
activist community, workers and volunteers. Now
Diamond Dave has shown up in NOLA and seems to be
setting up a kitchen in the Upper 9th Ward. (More on
this when I have it). The call has gone out for more
Rainbow style free kitchens and volunteers for New
Orleans.

As the New Waveland Cafe breaks down, more and more
resources have been made available for folks in NOLA.
Some of our volunteers have been delivering overflow
goods to the Welcome Home Cafe, Common Grounds, Mama
D, and other grassroots efforts helping New Orleans
recover. We’re also offering the last three weeks of
the New Waveland Cafe as a training center to educate
volunteers and others on how to create small,
community-based kitchens to serve residents,
volunteers, and workers in stricken areas.

One result of breaking down will be the sudden
dispersal of our volunteers. Many of us–especially
those who will have been here for three months at
dearture–will return to our homes and need to pick up
the pieces of our existence pre-Katrina. There are
long overdue bills to pay. Travel expenses. Many
everyday costs that were covered in Waveland.
Vehicles used in service to the Cafe that need repair.
Personally, I’d like to see these folks (and I’m one
of them) not go home hobbled.

Also, when we break down, a lot of materials, gear,
and people will move to New Orleans and other places.
The quantity is staggering and will require resources
we do not currently possess. The job ahead is a huge
one. Many obstacles still remain, including goverment
gridlock and many competing forces that must be
appeased or circumvented. And it’s gonna cost money.

Most folks want to believe that Katrina recovery is
over. It’s not in the news so it’s not happening.
But it is far from over and if we’ve learned anything,
we’ve learned not to count on the government or the
huge operations to handle it. The crisis is simply
too large and the potential for large populations to
slip between the cracks too great. It’s time to dig
deep. For all of us.

The donation pages are at .
Everyone down here appreciates your generosity.

One final note: I spoke with Barry Sacharow last

Friday and he informed me that a community kitchen
would have been useful for the first three days after
Wilma sucker punched the southeast Florida coast. But
things were slowly getting back to normal, power
restored to many residents, and many businesses were
back up and running by last weekend. Barry spent
Wilma’s aftermath serving in a FEMA Pod handing out
MREs, water, and ice.

Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe

email:

Donations:
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Volunteers, Materials No Longer Needed
Some Volunteers Seeking New Location Elsewhere
We Need Help to Get Outta Here

Greetings!

As things begin to wind down here in Waveland, we are
happy to announce that the New Waveland Cafe is no
longer in need of more volunteers or materials. We
wish to thank you all for your generosity with your
time, prayers and donations. We really made a
difference here on the Mississippi Coast and we
continually remind folks here that we’re only the face
on a much larger effort.

The New Waveland Cafe will serve its last meal on
Thanksgiving, followed by a day of rest, then a Party
complete with Parade on Saturday, November 27, down
Hwy 90 through the middle of Waveland. By December 1,
we expect to leave an empty parking lot and lots of
good memories in the Fred’s parking lot.

Many of our volunteers are currently seeking a
different venue where hurricane survivors still
require services. Some have formed a new non-profit
organization called Emergency Communities to carry on
the work we started here in Waveland, serving people
in a good way in cooperation with anyone who will work
with us regardless of political or religious views or
affiliation. We’ll pass on the information as it
becomes available.

Others are heading for home after what will be nearly
three months to pick up where we left off back in
September. I’m trying to address some special needs
for volunteers who have donated all their energy for
the past couple of months. Perhaps folks out there
could help. (Note: No one asked me to do this. I
just hope we can find these things).

Theodora and Leviticus arrived a few days after the
New Waveland Cafe opened, on foot because their van
blew up on the way under the strain of the supplies
they were hauling. (The supplies made it, btw). They
have become the heart and soul of the kitchen
operation in that time. It would only be appropriate
if they drove away from Waveland in their own van.

If you have a van within 1000 miles of here (and/or
that you will deliver) with a clean title that runs
well to donate, please contact me. To make a cash
donation to the van effort, just use our donation
page, , and
note that you are donating to the van effort.

Anne, who many of you know from Camp 44/Everybody’s,
etc., Kitchen, arrived eight weeks ago hasn’t stopped
working in the kitchen since. While making a produce
run to the farmer’s market in Jackson, her
transmission died on her Suburban. The estimate is
$2000, which is more than we have in the bank right
now. To make a cash donation to the transmission
effort, just use our donation page,
, and note
that you are donating to the transmission effort.

Additionally, we need to provide travel expenses for
25-30 volunteers who, due to their service, have no
means to pay for their transportation out of here. We
hope to be able to help them along their way.

This would be a good time for folks in undestroyed
places to hold fundraisers in order to help us with
these needs.

Stay tuned.

Thanks for Your Loving Support
Arjay sutton
New Waveland Cafe

email:

Donations:
we are on our way south as of now and if there is any more need of volunteers anywhere in the affected area it would be an honor to help out. i have good carpentry skills, exp. and mad kitchen exp for years.we are self sufficient though on foot, bus, etc. i would love to hear that no more help is needed, but am sure it is, pm or email me in the next couple of days if you are in a spot that still needs voluteer labor. peaceandloveallways fuzzElogic and Dee

turn out the lights the parties over,,but hey we made npr,,an they actually interveiwed a kid we know,,kiki…

Oh I love kiki, she is sunshine! Just saw her yesterday morning.
We are excited about whats going on down there, LA Times, Chicago Tribune,
front pages man!

Glad I got to be a part of it all, since going down the first time in September,
and the tours of duty that followed, the cafe has grown amazingly.

I met so many new brothers and sisters, had about 8 come to my house
for Halloween, and some coming to vacation with us after its all over.

I love what the cafe is, and i am sad that yesterday was my last time to see
it again.
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Guess not, i dont remember a dan. I met Kiki about a month ago in Waveland, and dont know who she was with really, just new that she has the most beautiful smile ever.

If i knew what dan looked like, then maybe, but by name, not sure.

Thats a great AP article, and there are several more good ones,
and Arjay says MSNBC is down there, and doing a piece on it.
Thought I’d add another audio article:

Peace,

David

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Hey, I’m a lost rainbow kid….I’m stuck in a little town in michigan and I want people that are like me in my life. I want to live with other loving people….I need musical, free-thinking, open minded people in my life….I’M LOSING MY FUCKING MIND WITH SO MUCH NEGATIVITY IN MY LIFE….I NEED HELP!!! I WANT TO TRAVEL, I WANT TO SEE LOVE!!!! I WANT MONEY NOT TO BE A PART OF MY LIFE!!! HEEEELLLLLPPPP!!!!! ARGHHHH!!!!!!! ARGHHHH!!!!!
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I’m from New Orleans and I am going back for the first time since Katrina in April. I live on Long Island now. I have been plugging in around here. I feel the need to connect with displaced folks. I want to help. I have all this energy to share. Anyone got any ideas?
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we also just got this email from a brother who is in New Orleans…. was working with a kitchen type set up but now…

"Just a short note to keep you up to speed with events here in the Big Easy. I have relocated to downtown to a huge warehouse that used to be an arts cooperative and was destroyed by Katrina. Common Ground which is one of the many relief groups here is restoring the building and it will eventually become a learninging center for ecoloigy related things like permaculture,photoelectric development,solar heat and power and things like that."

so many newer options opening up now for folks other than the basic necessities of life,,,,, not all are cut out for the kitchen n basic life needed stuff immediately after a disaster…. n have chose not to go …. with things finally settling down a bit all sorts of neat n new opportunities are there,,,, we encourage anyone we can to head down that way… ..we just rearrange how we operate round here when we have noone here helpin out…. we aint gonna starve n hell fence posts can go another year,etc etc…. (we couldnt n cant go so tis the only way we can do our lil part in it all..)
Hi Everyone , I read bits & pieces of this thread & I just wanted to say Thanks for all that you are trying to do.
My family & I were living in Biloxi when Katrina hit & like so many others, we lost everything. We relocated & Austin has been great for us , we’ve started over & have started to rebuild our lives w/ the help of great people like you.
I wanna leave a link of photos from The Mississippi , Gulf Coast….New Orleans is in great need for help , but please don’t forget everyone who needs your help in those areas also. From talking to people , I’ve realized that b/c of the media , not as many people realize how devistated Mississippi is from Katrina.

Thanks Again ! =)
glad to hear yall are doin well with resettling your lives….
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Hello brothers and sisters! I just got back from the Made With Love Cafe in the St. Bernard Parish/9th ward area where I was a voulenteer for 2 1/2 months there. We really need as many voulenteers there as we can get! Look at so you can get a better idea of what we are all about. peace love and light
I, too, just ended a hitch with Emergency Communities. Anyone thinking of heading there expecting to find a "cool Family scene" is likely to be disapointed. Don’t think about showing up there unless you know someome there that is expecting you, or have made arrangements with the E.C. HighHolies. Feel Free to PM or Email me for more details.
Just stopin’ In to say THANKS for all that you’re still doing…It’s Really Great ! Thanks for caring
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> Hello friends,
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> I am writing you with a two part massage.
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> One.
> I would like to invite you all to the Funk theatre , please feel
> free to camp with us , and get ready to have a real good time. We
> will be building a theatre indeed , but in addtion we will be adding
> a tea house for the greater community hydration needs. With parades
> everyday , and a perverbial barrle of monkeys.
>
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> Two.
> I have been orginizing with a growing group of people, to prepare
> for this upcomming storm season. We will be focusing on short term
> recovery. We have finalized the nessasary steps to non-profit
> status and set up a home office in Asheville NC. I will be talking
> with whoever might be interested at the gathering.
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> It has a name………
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> American Rainbow Rapid Response
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> Love Ya’ll
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> Aaron Funk
I am a New Orleans resident and I would like to express my appreciation to the Rainbow Family and all of the volunteers who came to the city in the aftermath of Katrina. Fortunately in live in the French Quarter, so my home did not suffer any damage as a result of the storm. I stayed throughout the hurricane and its aftermath. This gave me the opportunity to see the best and worst aspects of human behavior. The Rainbow Family provided much needed assistance despite encountering all sorts of obstacles. The park where the camp was established is located in the Marigny, just outside of the Quarter. These wonderful volunteers provided assistance despite being fought by Marigny residents, police and local politicans. Thanks for all of your help. YOU GUYS ROCK!!! Peace, Love and Happiness to all.
Just thought i would say thanks for caring. I am from new orleans myself. After the storm i moved to Asheville NC, which i love more than anything.
i’ve been wanting to go to New Orleans for a while now and have been looking online at organizations that take in volunteers to help out.

is there still any Rainbow camps(???) in the area i could help work with? i’d rather be helping with the Rainbow community than anyone else. it’s not an attitude thing, just a preferance.
oh my god…reading this thread gave me chills and i had to stop and cry. i live in laurel, ms, in jones county, the hardest-hit inland county during the storm. you guys don’t know what it was like. you have no idea how terrible it was unless you lived through it. it was awful! we were scared to death! there was absolutely no power or water of any kind…almost all the occupants of the local nursing homes died! they didn’t have anything to drink AT ALL so they dehydrated. babies were dying as well. we had no way of communicating with anyone and since there were trees down on all the roads for months afterwards and there was no way to go offroad in most places, we didn’t know if our families were okay. i spent a week wondering where the hell my boyfriend was, crying over him and dehydrating myself. his house was empty when i was finally able to get there. but you couldn’t drive that many places becasue gas was either a ten-hour wait or completely gone OR inaccesible due to the lack of electricity. the work crews who attempted to fix the power and phone lines passed out because they’d had nothing to drink in days. some weren’t willing to share anything because without police or any means of communciation other than face-to-face, crime was rampant. there were murders everywhere, and theft of food and stuff. i think some girls were raped. someone in my community shot their brother in a fight over a bag of ice. there were guns everywhere, either because people were taking advantage of the anarchy and shooting their neighbors, or people were afraid of just that happening and trying to defend themselves.

the worst part had to be not knowing who existed, or what was going to happen next, and knowing that noone knew or cared where you were or what was happeningto you. but a few people got out and helped. if it weren’t for the crazy rednecks who live here, we wouldn’t have made it. they had all been waiting for just such an opportunity to present itself. out came the huge chainsaws and the four wheel drives! they really did do a great job clearing the most important roads so that FINALLY, we could wait in line for ice and water.

sorry i got off on such a huge thing here, but it really was awful. thanks for letting me vent and share my story.