Status of Arrangements Dynamics
Greenbelt National Park Campgrounds
2018 Global Peace Council
October 24-31, 10am-2pm Sweetgum Free Speech Area

Status of Arrangements as of September 22, 2018:

Depending on how many people show up to camp in the various campsites for rent in Greenbelt Park to participate in the eight day Global Peace Council, the Park officials will offer various levels of cooperation and accommodation, from the “business as usual” rules and regulations explained below if the numbers are low, up to the kind of higher numbers accommodated in 1978 and 1980 during the camps at the end of the Longest Walk and the Long Walk for Survival which even had the Maryland National Guard set up tents and kitchens to feed the hundreds of participants and rules were changed.

The basic plan for business as usual accommodations is for teams of six people each to rent one of the campsites available in “the loops” and coordinate council activities from the Campfire Circle in Loop B, shuttling the mile to the Sweetgum Picnic Day Use Area for the daily four hours general council sessions and back to their camps after that.

The Sweetgum Day Use Picnic Area is located on the left just after entering the Park, past the Park HQ and Park Police offices. The campgrounds are about a mile further into the park just past the Park Ranger Station.

Even though Sweetgum is officially designated as the Park’s “Free Speech Area” normally special permission from the Park Superintendent is required for more than 25 people to gather even there.

When the several hundred walkers arrived from California conducting the 1980 Long Walk for Survival, the Park Superintendent let them camp together for a week or so in the large grass area where deer now graze in the dusk hours in Sweetgum.

As of Sept22 it is unknown how many people will come to camp and participate; it could be less than 25 people or if the idea catches on well in coming weeks it could be a few dozen or a few hundred but not reasonably expectable a few thousand like the Longest Walk where they had to close the park to the public to accommodate that camp, a very undesirable and untenable result at this time due to a change in process where campsites are now all reserved and paid for online via recreation.gov or their toll-free phone number 877-444-6777.

If you intend to participate, campgrounds have drinking water faucets, bathrooms with hot showers and dish washing sinks, for $20/day or $10/day with a lifetime senior pass available for $80 at that website, where each camp reservation is good for 6 people, 2 vehicles including RV’s without electricity etc, and 3 tents.

The Council will be coordinated from the Campfire Circle in Loop B, where a kitchen bus will provide free meals to participants and accept donations for supplies, located in Campsite 55 at the far end of Loop B.

There is a usable strength ATT cell signal in the area.

For general information about Greenbelt Park, their website is:

https://www.nps.gov/gree/index.htm

Rainbow Support Peace Camps:
https://global-emergency-alert-response.net/RainbowVolunteers.html

See below the email to the Park Superintendent explaining the purpose of this event with an alert to the potential of more than 25 participants.

The horseback riders of the Leonard Peltier Freedom Ride for Executive Clemency from South Dakota to Coleman Florida ends there today. They have decided to next ride their horses to the White House to appeal to the President to grant clemency and free Peltier after over 40 years of imprisonment due to his conviction on evidence now well acknowledged and documented as falsified by the FBI, as they have done on many other cases now publicly known and acknowledged.

If the Peltier Freedom Riders are able to cover the 838 miles from Coleman Florida to Washington DC in time to ride on 12 more miles to Greenbelt Park to join the last days of the Global Peace Council and the November 1st Walk to the White House to deliver its results, that may mean a few hundred will participate instead of a few dozen.

See indigenous spiritual leader Leonard Peltier’s Message of Peace at:

https://global-emergency-alert-response.net/peltier.html

This is the 2018 Sept21 United Nations International Day of Peace status announcement of plans for the Great Spirit Relay from Greenbelt National Park Peace Camp Oct20-Nov2 to the White House Nov1 and on to UN headquarters in NYC from the White House Nov2-11 to deliver the Message of Peace represented by the six symbols on the Global Peace Pole, carrying and sharing the results of the Greenbelt Global Peace Council Oct24-31 to develop a comprehensive multi-issue platform for the cause of the global unity, harmony and peace required to redirect resources to healing the environment and ameliorating social justice issues nationally and globally, by comparing and integrating the knowledge of traditional indigenous cultures with that of advances in modern science.

This is posted to Facebook with 5 images at:

https://www.facebook.com/764546801/posts/10156873380126802

Here is the Sept21 status of arrangements advice to the Park Superintendent asking for his understanding, cooperation and support of this project and its intentions:

Begin forwarded message:

From: Great Spirit Relay gr8spiritrelay@gmail.com
Date: September 21, 2018 at 11:42:01 AM EDT
To: Greenbelt National Park Superintendent Matthew Carroll
Cc: Greenbelt National Park Ranger Kevin Barry, Greenbelt National Park Ranger John Reid, Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo, Art Cisneros - Chumash Elder, Jose Manik Ajpu Munoz - Mayan TimeKeeper, Chief Arvol Looking Horse c/o Paula Horne-Mullen, Chief Phil Lane Jr, Marc McGinnes - Global Environmental Movement Leader, Felipe Chavez, Plunker Barry Adams, Diamond Dave Whitaker

Subject: Great Spirit Relay Oct20-Nov3 Greenbelt Park Camp, Global Peace Council, Walk to White House and UN

September 21, 2018
United Nations Annual
International Day of Peace

From: David Crockett Williams Jr (III)
Santa-Barbara-Science-Center.Info
2018 Great Spirit Relay Project
https://global-emergency-alert-response.net/GreatSpiritRelay.html
805-708-0252
gr8spiritrelay@gmail.com

“Once you have achieved this oneness, when you talk, God talks; when you act, God acts. Great Spirit, remove from me those things that block me from You. Allow me this day to experience the oneness.”

To: Greenbelt National Park Superintendent Matthew Carroll
National Park Service
US Department of the Interior
Park Headquarters
301-344-3948
6565 Greenbelt Road
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
matthew_carroll@nps.gov

Cc: Greenbelt National Park Supervisor Kevin Barry
(301) 344-3948
kevin_barry@nps.gov

Cc: Greenbelt National Park Ranger John Reid
(301) 344-3944
john_reid@nps.gov

Re: Operating Plan for Greenbelt Park 2018 Global Peace Council, Great Spirit Relay to the White House and United Nations, Oct24-Nov11, a Free Speech Spiritual Unity Event featuring the Global Peace Pole symbol of the Message of Peace through the Practice of Unconditional Love

Dear Superintendent Carroll,

I’m writing to you as an individual representing no organization, on behalf of the 2018 Great Sprit Relay project initiated in Santa Barbara California and conducted from there March 11 to Atlanta July 11 to the White House August 30, to offer the Global Peace Pole Ceremony with the President in the Circle and to promote the beginning of a Season of Unity, Harmony and Peace as proclaimed to start on October 24th by the Mayor of Petersburg Virginia:

https://www.global-emergency-alert-response.net/Petersburg.jpeg

Our Aug30 prayer ceremony at the White House to further this mission is shown in the photos and video in the New American Journal news article of September 7, which also discusses two of our previous attempts to deliver The Message of Peace to the White House, in 1978 and 1980:

New Peace Pole Makes Its Way to Nation’s Capitol – Native American Longest Walk History Remembered in Washington and Greenbelt National Park

https://www.newamericanjournal.net/2018/09/longest-walk-peace-pole-returns-to-washington-and-greenbelt-national-park

At the end of our Great Spirit Relay fifteen city tour from Atlanta on the way to the White House, a couple of us conducted a Spiritual Unity Summit observance while camped in Greenbelt Park for the Aug20-28 annual White Buffalo Prophecy Fulfillment Recognition Days honoring the August 20, 1994, birth of the non-albino female white buffalo calf named Miracle in apparent fulfillment of the Lakota Prophecy of Hope for these troubled times left nineteen generations ago when the original Chanupa Sacred Pipe was delivered to the people by the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman and passed down to this day being kept by indigenous spiritual leader Chief Arvol Looking Horse.

https://www.global-emergency-alert-response.net/2018SpiritualUnitySummit.html

During this time we began preparing, from a windfall tree, three new peace poles, each to display the six symbols depicting the Message of Peace represented by the open source Global Peace Pole. One of these Peace Poles we want to offer for installation in Greenbelt Park on October 24th either at the Campfire Circle in Loop B, or somewhere in Sweetgum Meadow, depending on your advice, as a token of gratitude for your hosting our 1978 Longest Walk and 1980 Long Walk for Survival.

https://www.global-emergency-alert-response.net/GPPsymbols.html

https://www.global-emergency-alert-response.net/peacepole.html

The other two are also being offered to NPS, one for installation in the center of the flower garden lawn of Lafayette Plaza where we offered our prayer pictured in the news article cited above, and one in the White House lawn opposite it, both locations on property administered by the National Park Service whose cooperation and acceptance of this offer we seek with your assistance.

Our plan is to convene a Global Peace Council, 10am-2pm daily, October 24-31, 2018, in Greenbelt Park’s designated First Amendment Free Speech Area, the Sweetgum Field, and afterward to carry its results for delivery to the White House walking the 12.3 miles in 5 hours from Sweetgum departing at 9:11am Nov1 and returning walking back to Greenbelt Nov2 for our final night stay on the way to arrive at the United Nations in NYC on the Nov11 Veterans Day annual observance of the armistice agreement ending “The Great War”, to initiate the Great Planetary Peace Pilgrimage.

https://global-emergency-alert-response.net/GPPP2018.html

See flyer attached, also posted at:

https://global-emergency-alert-response.net/GSR-WH-UN.jpeg

At this point we have no clear idea of how many people will be participating. From my past experience as a pitiful organizer of big idea events with minimal participation, it can be reasonably expected that less than the 25 people threshold for a permit will be gathering in the Sweetgum Picnic Area at any one time during Oct24-31.

This estimate may change if this proposal is accepted more widely than any I have made as an unsuccessful American Peace Movement Organizer over the past three decades.

I will keep you advised should this estimate grow into the kind of numbers that normally require a permit so that instead we can develop an Operating Plan following the example and Federal Court recognized legal precedent of the annual Rainbow Family Gatherings held in the National Forest each year July1-7 as a constitutionally protected free speech assembly of individuals.

So far we have reserved and paid for one campsite in Loop B for the 14 night limit, from October 20 through November 2, for six people, 2 vehicles, and three tents, in the name of the indigenous spiritual leader of our 1995 United Nations 50th Anniversary Global Peace Walk from New York to San Francisco, one of the Sacred Pipe Carriers and Sundance Ceremony Practitioners under the guidance of Chief Leonard Crow Dog who lead the 1980 Long Walk for Survival, Felipe Chavez with his Rainbow Family Kitchen Bus.

https://global-emergency-alert-response.net/gpw.html

It was in Sweetgum Field that your predecessor hosted the few hundred people encamped at the end of the 1980 Long Walk for Survival from California. There we created the first version of the Rainbow Family Peace Pole for the White House, from a windfall log in the forest, as a symbol of the message of “peace through the practice of unconditional love.”

You may know the entire Park was closed to the public when your predecessor hosted the 1978 Longest Walk encampment of a few thousand campers, who also walked from California to petition the US Government in Washington DC for a redress of serious grievances. These included the call for an end to the US eugenics policy of the covert forced sterilization of Native American women, which policy President Carter refused to stop in spite of three formal requests during those years according to the Longest Walk’s international coordinator Chief Lehman Brightman of the United Native Americans organization who was its prominent spokesman after he visited Mahatma Gandhi’s Guru in Japan to gain his support to initiate the Longest Walk, the most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii whose Longest Walk speech is at this link:

https://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/Guruji16July78.html

As the first American lay disciple of Fujii Guruji since December of 1976, and as a participant in these two previous spiritual walks’ camps in Greenbelt Park, this year I have revived the Great Spirit Relay project initiated in 1986 by my first teacher of Guruji’s spiritual practice of nonviolence, the Reverend Nippashi Masao (meaning Rainbow Warrior in English, where Masao is coincidentally also the Hopi language name for the Great Spirit), using the same style prayer drum and universal medicine word mantra taken up by Gandhi from our Fujii Guruji in leading the unprecedented Indian nonviolent spiritual political revolution to success.

It is a telling tribute that the title of the document compiled and presented to President Carter and the US Congress by the Elders Council of the Longest Walk was, “Spirituality is the Highest Form of Politics”.

This year’s Great Spirit Relay revival began in my hometown Santa Barbara on March 11th with a ceremony featuring our Mayor reading her Proclamation at the Santa Barbara Tree of Peace symbol of the Great Law of Peace foundation of the Iroquois Confederacy after whose system American Republican Democracy was largely patterned by our Founding Fathers, who left out the key element of respect for the inviolably sovereign Law of Nature by which our three dimensional reality operates, the Great Law of Peace, the “Wonderful Law” (Myo Ho) represented by the admonition for its veneration, the Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo universal medicine word mantra.

https://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/311SBMayorProc.jpg

Thank you for taking the time to read this message and for your kindest timely consideration of this request for your understanding and support of our Great Spirit Relay of Peace through Love.

In Gratitude,

David Crockett Williams
Independent Presidential Candidate 2020
https://global-emergency-alert-response.net/DC4P2020.html