Changing Vision Council to Site Council
- From: 菩薩 <psychedelictourist@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:57:46 -0700
At last year's Vision Council in Colorado there was a group of kids
from Washington State who lobbied a whole day for Washington being the
"Vision" for the 2007 Annual.
The next day the feather was passed to Sailor, who informed the kidz
that there are no sites suitable in Washington State for a gathering
as large as the Annual.
Two things struck me about this exchange:
1) Why hadn't the kids known about past attempts to find a site in
Washington? They're Family and they live in the state. Why hadn't the
kids come prepared with topo maps and site suggestions if they
believed there existed such a site?
2) Why do we rely on outside the area scouts like Sailor and Val to
find a site, when the majority of the burden of scouting should rest
on the Family living inside the state in question. Local Family should
have better knowledge of their National Forests.
For example: I never saw anyone at Vision Council from Arkansas
recommending potential sites in their state. The focus at Vision
Council was on Texas.
I suggest we take the "vision" out of Vision Council. At Vision
Council in Oregon 1997 we chose Arizona because a group of folks
attending that Council had a "vision" of the Rainbow Family having
their Annual on Hopi Land. That didn't happen.
Today on AGR we have a couple of wingnuts suggesting Alaska and
Washington State as next year's gathering. Imagine if they had their
friends attending Vision Council this year. We be wasting everybody's
time looking for a site in Washington or some impractical location no-
one could attend in Alaska.
But if we changed "Vision" Council to "Site" Council then we could
then require folks suggesting their State as a potential Annual to:
1) Live in the state they're suggesting.
2) have some topo maps of potential site available in the state rather
than placing the burden on outside scouts. Local Family who have
scouted areas for regionals should be more knowledgable than some
wingnut "vision".
We could avoid the problems we've had in the past and insure a better
gathering site for next year.
namaste;
bodhi
http://psychedelictourist.blogspot.com
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