12 Facts About Rainbow Gathering

Original Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, and since then gatherings have been held annually in the United States from July 1 through 7 every year on National Forest land.

Shanti Sena sometimes act as liaisons to observers and law enforcement officers who patrol the Rainbow Gathering, often tracking the movements of police and park rangers through the gathering, and overseeing the interactions between officers and people attending the gathering to ensure that neither group instigates or takes part in illegal or inflammatory confrontations.

The ACLU-VT sent letters to law enforcement officials calling for an end to the illegal targeting of Rainbow Gathering attendees expressing First Amendment rights on public land.

Notable account of Gathering relations with law enforcement, Judge Dave and the Rainbow People, was written by U S Federal Judge David Sentelle.

The book provides a firsthand account of Sentelle's role in presiding over the 1987 case brought by the State of North Carolina in an attempt to stop the Rainbow Gathering, including site visits to the Rainbow Gathering and related legal actions.

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Willoya and Brown had briefly met with Banyaca before publishing Warriors of the Rainbow Gathering in 1962, a Christian tract in which they fabricated the Rainbow Gathering Warrior concept, claiming it was an ancient Native American legend and a prophecy about the Second Coming of Christ.

Rainbow Gathering said Rainbows who likely don't recognize the Biblical overtones continue to cite Warriors of the Rainbow and mischaracterize it as containing a message that aligns with the Rainbow ideology, often inventing entirely new versions of the myth that they still attribute to Willoya and Brown's 1962 tract.

Police say the woman, identified as 18-year-old Amber Robinson of Florida, hitchhiked with Capstraw after leaving the Rainbow Gathering and was beaten to death by him after an altercation.

The first European Rainbow Gathering was organized in 1983 in Val Campo, Ticino, Switzerland.

The 2011 Rainbow Gathering was in Portugal, 2012 in Slovakia, 2013 in Greece, the 2014 gathering in Romania, the 2015 gathering in Lithuania, 2016 in the Alps, 2017 in Italy, 2018 in Poland, 2019 in Sweden.

The 2009 World Rainbow Gathering was held outside Murchison, New Zealand, 2011 in Argentina, 2012 it began in Brazil, where the gatherers caravaned to Guatemala and completed the second half of the WRG, carrying their vision counsel finally to Palenque, Mexico.

The 2020 World Rainbow Gathering was to be in Siberia, Russia, but was postponed to 2021.