Book The Rainbow Gathering: Five Decades of Beta-Testing Anarchist Society

One of the biggest questions that anarchists face when spreading the message is, "If it works so well, why isn't anyone doing it on a large scale?" Unfortunately, most anarchists stumble at this question, because they don't realize the correct response is: "they are." The largest, long-running experiment in anarchy is something that most have never even heard of: The Rainbow Gathering. Since 1972, this metropolis of freedom & healing has been forming all around the world, often with a population in the tens of thousands. In staying true to the nomadic nature of humans, the Gathering is not a single physical location, it is a set of principles & agreements, a way of being, that coalesces around the world for weeks or months at a time. There are also permanent Rainbow Gatherings, as I will get into later. Having lived the last 3.5 years on the road, attending conferences, festivals, and other world-changing events, I've found Rainbow to be by far the best of them. It engenders the most authentic connection, the most practical application of the philosophy of self-ownership, the most 'act as if' intentions.