World-traveling supposedly “headless” supposedly “antiwar” organization [or front group?] that has been around throughout the Cold War. Interesting that one of them would want to be a mercenary for Russia.
...Were it not for their gatherings numbering in the tens of thousands, the odd murder (here) and the heaps of trash they leave behind, Rainbow Family remains as elusive to the authorities as the so-called Bigfoot. “The Associated Press reported 600 members of the Rainbow group are already camped near Flagtail Meadow in the park, but Malheur National Forest officials are expecting between 10,000-30,000 to arrive by July 4. “The group refused to sign a special use permit, required for groups of more than 75. The group has noted that it claims no leader, and consequently there is no one to sign such permits.” Even their website homepage is “unofficial”. The Rainbow group doesn’t gather only in American forests, they stage gatherings in Belgium, Israel, France, Mexico and Canada. “Started in the late 1960s as an outgrowth of the anti-war and hippy movements, the Rainbow Family of Living Light describes itself as “the largest, best coordinated, nonpolitical nondenominational nonorganisation of like-minded individuals on the planet. (Vice.com, June 24, 2014)
“ The flagship Rainbow Family Gatherings, which have occurred every July since 1972 in a different US national forest, are like longer, more authentically weird versions of Burning Man, bringing together upwards of 10,000 “Rainbows” from a cross section of fringe culture: bikers, Jesus freaks, computer programmers, naked yogis, and gutter punks looking to escape “Babylon,” the Rainbow shorthand for the various evils of modern life. The gatherings are free and open to anyone....
Rainbow Family is an outgrowth of the Living Theatre, linked to the Diggers (1960s San Francisco anarchist group known for street theater, predecessor of the Yippies) and Situationists (Marxist avant-garde revolutionary group involved in the 1968 Paris uprisings).