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Article: Rainbow Family volunteers join hurricane relief effort.(Disasters)(Crews set up a kitchen and a clinic in Mississippi and now plan to join Emergency Communities in New Orleans)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2005
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Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard
The Rainbow Family - a worldwide, loosely knit group practicing the hippie values of peace and love - has moved from the backwoods to the front lines among a coalition of private organizations providing hurricane relief in the Gulf region.
It's a natural mission for the family, whose members annually carry portable kitchens and clinics in psychedelic buses to their fabled weeks-long summer gatherings on mountains and national forests, says Eugene lawyer Brian Michaels.
"It's second nature for us to do it together. It's relatively easy for us to drop into an area and feed people - without any politics, ...