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| Wyoming: Officers Are Attacked (New York Times) |
| About 400 members of the Rainbow Family, a loose affiliation of eccentrics, young people and hippie types, threw stones and sticks at 10 federal officers as they tried to arrest a group member near Big Sandy. |
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| ACLU plans to investigate Rainbow Family treatment (The Charlotte Observer) |
| The American Civil Liberties Union said Saturday that it plans to investigate the actions of federal law enforcers who arrested five Rainbow Family members in western Wyoming during their annual gathering. The U.S. Forest Service says a mob of about 400 members of the Rainbow Family, a group of hippie types and eccentrics who camp on public land every year, threw rocks and sticks at Forest ... |
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| A passionate end to a bohemian rhapsody (Guardian Unlimited) |
| In her native Australia, Helen Garner is known for using the material of her life as the bedrock of her novels. Her debut, the semi-autobiographical Monkey Grip, exposed the messy, tangled lives of a hippie household in Seventies Melbourne. |
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| Hippies stick it to the Forest Service (Pioneer Press) |
| CHEYENNE, Wyo. — About 400 members of the Rainbow Family threw rocks and sticks at officers as they tried to arrest a member of the group, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday. Five in the group were arrested, and one officer was slightly injured. About 7,000 members of the Rainbow Family, an affiliation of eccentrics, young people and hippie types, are holding a weeklong gathering near Big ... |
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| Rothbury rocks on (Ludington Daily News) |
| “It’s a music festival revolution,” they say. It’s big and it’s green. Sort of like The Incredible Hulk of music festivals. Just add a splash of activism and some hippie garb, and you’ve got Rothbury. |
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