2025 Ozarhoma Rainbow Gathering

  We, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, peacefully assembled as Vision Counsel, in the Mark Twain National Forest on the land, at the site of the 54th Annual Rainbow Gathering, in 2025, have lovingly reached consensus on the following:    We invite all beings to cocreate the 55th Annual Rainbow Gathering from July 1-7, 2026, and to participate in a silent prayer and meditation for peace from dawn until noon on the fourth day of July, in a national forest in the lands currently known as Pennsylvania or New York.    We lovingly invite all Indigenous and Native peoples of Turtle Island to join us in love and peace and solidarity. We recognize that all lands in this region are traditional Indigenous lands, and we invite your guidance to respect these sacred lands in a good way.    We gratefully acknowledge the indispensable aid of veterans of foreign wars in visioning and creating the Rainbow Gathering we cherish today. We invite all veterans to join us...

 For those who received a citation from the Forest Service, please read.  This is based on what we learned from the citations issued in California 2024. I can't guarantee everything will be identical, but it does seem to be so.  Most of the citations issued read "Mandatory Court Appearance" but did not list a court date. The citation indicated you would be mailed a court date. In approximately 2-4 weeks, you can go to the website listed on the back of the ticket, enter your citation # and additional information and then the website will list how much the ticket costs.    For most of these tickets, there will be a dollar amount listed that you can pay before your court date in lieu of going to court in Springfield, Missouri or possibly St. Louis, Missouri.  If you want to fight your ticket, you will have to go to your court date for arraignment. In 2024, we had to appear in person for arraignment. However, you can call the Clerk of the Court for more in...

Lost People Every year people go to the gathering and their loved ones worry.  Just a reminder, that in the mountains, we often don't have cell reception and even if there is some service near the gathering, it varies by cell service. Plus, phone run out of batteries, get dropped in the mud, or get lost. If you haven't heard from your friends and/or family since they went into the gathering, odds are they are still down in the gathering and can't call you due to one of the above reasons. Again, on the road where the cars and cops are is the area where problems occur. We strongly recommend that people stay inside the gathering. Going in and out increases a persons risk of a negative experience with law enforcement. Again, people on the land will strongly suggest to your loved one that they stay inside the gathering until it's over.  This may mean that you won't hear from your loved one for a couple of weeks. That being said, if you're going to the gathering, call...