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RAINBOW BRIDGE TO JAPAN _DRAFT, updated Sunday 14th March 2010

Proposal:This is a proposal to set up sister village/city links between communities/towns in the rainbow region of New South Wales, Australia and

like-minded towns in…

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This is Blog 3 on the Rainbow Dreaming tour of the US, which started in Oct 2009 in New York and ended in San Francisco. Rainbow Dreaming is an exhibition on the alternative movement in the rainbow region of New South Wales. For more info see www.rainbowdreaming.org



Welcome Home!



“Smile, you are in San Francisco”, said the black baggage handler at the airport.



“Welcome home”, said Canyon, a native American activist,… Continue

The Rainbow Dreaming exhibit, just returned

from a tour of USA, attracted an appreciative audience @ Byron's 4th Annual Beggars Banquet, on Sat 5 Dec, Railway Park.

Hundreds of patrons, supporters, donors and some contributors got to see the exhibit for the first time.

Co-curator Harsha said:... " We were under the impression locals would be blase about the stories from the rainbow region. We were pleasantly surprised by the response, especially from young punters. Clearly, this… Continue

Van Gets Ripped, or The Sleep of Unreason



Harvest Fest



Marijuana legalization activists and their supporters on the East coast were to meet at Camp Minglewood in the Catskills, a couple of hours north of New York, for the Harvest Festival & Freedom Rally, on 9 Oct. It was an opportunity too good to be missed. Our hosts from the Woodstock Museum, Shelli Lipton and Nathan Koenig, had booked us a spot at the Festival. They had also booked us into a bunkhouse, with 10 bunk… Continue

A Fairy Tale of New York



Lords of the material universe

The first signs were auspicious. At Brisbane airport, waiting to catch the flight out to LA, we bumped into Elizabeth Thorpe and Debbie Lee. Elizabeth and her partner Ray, proprietors of Happy High Herbs, were the principal sponsors of Rainbow Dreaming and Lee, artist and designer, is an old connection from Nimbin. Elizabeth and Lee were headed for USA to open Happy High’s first US store, in Arizona. And Hans and myself… Continue