(REALITY CHECK) ALL WAYS FREE, Summer, 1993, page 16
Statement of Non-Endorsement
Rainbow Family is an a-political consensus-bound body of individuals. Our foremost consensus are
peaceful respect, and maintaining a position of non-endorsement.
We support the right of the people to Gather, to council, to state opinions, and to redress; we do not endorse any opinions other than the right to formulate and express one -- the right of the people to caucus.
We do ask that everyone participate in a silent circle for peace and healing of the planet.
Participation is the key.
Introductory Note: The following article was drafted by the editor with the help and input of many. Our “round table" discussion took place over a period of many weeks in face-to-face meetings and over the telephone. It is lovingly offered as one presentation of a multi-faceted issue, and is in no way intended to be an official Rainbow position or statement. As with all Rainbow group process, each individual person is at liberty to think, write, speak, etc., in our own way, and thus add in our part to the overall whole in
our effort to retain our freedoms
The Family has not yet made a consensus statement on the regulations. Any "official” strategy and/or statement can only come out of consensus of the Rainbow Family Tribal Council, as the Family's will and intent is resolved at the annual Rainbow Family Gathering, July 1- 7.
Each of us should understand that as we join together in any Peace Culture or Affirmative Living action that it is our responsibility to make clear that we speak for ourselves as individuals only and do not and cannot represent anyone else.
It is especially important that folk be aware that representing their political/spiritual social (or whatever) cause as being conjoined with any Rainbow 'cause" is wrongly presumptive, as well as being short-sighted and possibly injurious to the advancement of said cause(s).
It should be noted that the current Legaliaison team is also bound by this reality. Any statement or strategy issuing to date from the current Legaliaison volunteers falls under the previous disclaimer.. We thank these folks whole-heartedly for their efforts in keeping the Family abreast of the developments of the proposed regulations. We also feel that their call to a Legaliaison meeting in Washington D.C. the second week of July is premature and out of process. Only the RFTC gathering on the land between July 1--7 can put out such a call. Such a meeting with the White House may indeed yet occur, but until the Council consensus that it should, 1 cannot be seen as a "sanctioned" Rainbow event.
May you always be all ways free.
Carla