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STOP NUCLEAR MURDER
Is it important to you that the 38 acre Woodstock site be left free where people from all over the world can continue to come together, to meet and share with one another? We have submitted to arrest for trespassing on the Woodstock festival site in Bethel to defend your right of easement as a member of the public to visit there day or night. Will you join us in defense of that right? Will you defend the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States as the Supreme Law of the Land?
More
than 5 million
people from over 30 countries
have
visited this web site in the last 5 years.
WHY?Because Woodstock
evokes an attractive and challenging dream of a large free assembly
of people, mostly strangers, gathering together in the spirit of caring
and sharing , called love.
That dream
is strong enough that every year for 30 years, thousands of people have
returned toBethel
in Sullivan County, New York to visit the site of the historic
1969 Woodstock Festival.
What is so valuable that people
would keep returning?
Its
the people you meet there. for 30 years people have been coming to
Bethel to discover new friends and renew inspiration.
The
historic Woodstock siteis 38 acres located at the corner of Hurd
Road and West Shore Drive in Bethel, New York, 60 miles west of the
Catskill
Hamlet of Woodstock from which the festival gets its name.
Two miles west of the festival
site on 17B is Max Yasgur's Barn and Homestead where, for several
years, thousands of the annual pilgrims have assembled when turned away
from the original site by state police because of a false claim of ownership
by a local business man who has never produced any evidence of ownership.
Is the 38 acre Woodstock site
exclusive private property?
By the laws of the State of New
York and The United States of America it is not exclusive private property
because for 30 years it was open, unfenced and used openly, obviously and
exclusively by the public as a place of assembly and recreation. New York
State Law is that such use for ten continuos years without interruption
from a deeded owner establishes an easement by prescription or right of
way.
In July 0f 1997 six people submitted to arrest, prosecution and fines for trespass in order to force the alleged owner to present any evidence of ownership, which he could not and did not do. But the Bethel town magistrate ruled against the defendants anyway. There is now a fence around the site and during the reunion dates of August 15,16, and 17 visitors are discouraged by the State Police from peacefully assembling at the site. We continue to question their authority to threaten, remove or arrest
| What is the Woodstock Nation Foundation? | ||||||
We are a charitable organization chartered to protect people's rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. The Woodstock Nation Foundation got its name from the phrase coined by the former Abbey Hoffman, an outspoken activist and revolutionary thinker in the 60s and 70s.. He said that he was referring to everyone that was involved in or was affected by the Woodstock Festival. The Woodstock Nation itself is nothing more than a dream, or an ideal that no one can officially interpret. Many people around the world associate Woodstock with hippies, even though it wasn't really a hippy event. It was a large-scale Rock and Roll concert, geared toward a general message of peace, love and music, and somehow it seams to have identified the "spirit of the sixties", if not consciously then perhaps subconsciously or emotionally. What is Woodstock today? Actually, it's difficult to say. Although it is so undefined, hundreds of thousands of people, all over the world, who hold Woodstock memories and dreams close to their hearts, continue to respond to any hint that what was started with Woodstock '69 still lives on. The WNF does not claim to be the final authority on what Woodstock is. We just want to help provide opportunities for people to get together and celebrate life, while at the same time getting inspired by art and a positive message from the entertainment. This year (2005) the WNF is gearing up to respond positively to the ongoing messages that we keep hearing from the masses of Woodstock fans of all ages, by giving them the news that they want to hear, which is that the celebration continues, and there will be another big one in 2006. With our affilliation with Global Alliance Distributions we have the ability to host a memorable celebration of Global Consciousness in Bethel, NY the home the 1969 Woodstock Festival. So, in response to the 60's generation, who never gave up hope and the younger generation, who may have lost hope, we say the memory lives on, and what's even more import is that the positive energy and love that was manifested in 1969 is not only alive but is still growing stronger every year. The Woodstock Nation Foundation will continue to work with other likeminded organisations that are working towards healing the world, in one form or another. We will also be aloting funds to give grants to developing artists and musicians for any education and tools that they might need.. This website (www.woodstocknation.org) is going to be continuously updated with current events to help keep the visitors informed and we will be providing discussion forums for people to post their comments. | ||||||
