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Peaceable Assembly
We made two flags to take to Rainbow gatherings.
- One is the small blue and yellow
Polyfidelity flag
that we hang over our tent.
- The second is a larger black and white flag that
we hang near main meadow. It reads as shown to the left below
(but with better calligraphy):
We made this flag out of a white plastic tablecloth, with edges rolled
around rope, and fixed with heavy-duty rubber cement,
We made it because at a previous gathering I had spoken to a LEO who
told me that the First Amendment to the Constitution was irrelevant
because preventing a Gathering did not interfere with our Free Speech.
I began to suspect that he had never actually read the First Amendment
or had forgotten part of it.
The full text of the amendment follows on the right.
Our flag displays the part he seemed to have forgotten
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AMENDMENTS
Article One
Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.
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The flag was first displayed at the first Rainbow Regional at Branch Pond,
tied to some bushes at the top of the ridge to the right (east) of the road,
so that everybody who came in could see it.
We also took it to National Gatherings in Michigan (2002), Pennsylvania (2010), and Tennesee (2012).
