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BRC 911: Black Rock Rangers and The Law Jul 22, 2020

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The Burning Man event started as a “temporary autonomous zone” with no law enforcement of any kind. Then the community came together to create its own, homegrown public safety organization, the Black Rock Rangers.

Could the Rangers serve as a model for other cities looking to defund or demilitarize their police forces?

Are social capital and good communication skills enough to inspire positive civic behavior when wielded by unarmed volunteers with “approximately the authority of a Cub Scout?”

If so, do we really need all those heavily armed federal officers to keep the peace in a city that has one of the lowest crime rates in America?

Stuart and Logan talk law enforcement and alternative public safety models with Rangers Tool and Thespian of the Black Rock Rangers, and with Roger Vind, who in his previous career as a Nevada Highway Patrolman was the first law enforcement officer to set foot in Black Rock City, and now works for Burning Man Project as its law enforcement liaison and associate director of public safety.

The Black Rock Rangers podcast:

The DIM Podcast Series - Radio Check.. from the BRR

https://rangers.burningman.org/

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Fly Ranch and the Land Art Generator Initiative Jul 15, 2020

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An otherworldly oasis in the desert. Water, wildlife, possibility, and responsibility. Zac manages Fly Ranch in Nevada. He shares about stewarding the majestic and extreme natural sanctuary.

Elizabeth and Robert direct the Land Art Generator, and challenge artists and engineers - anyone - to design aesthetic and harmonious energy infrastructure for prototyping in the extreme environment of Fly Ranch.

Zac Cirivello, Operations Manager of Fly Ranch, Nevada

Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian, founding Co-Directors of the Land Art Generator Initiative

Will Roger Peterson, one of the 6 founders, tells of how “Burning Man” became Black Rock City at Fly Ranch in 1997 - a crucial year in Burning Man's legacy - when its citizens took ownership to the streets.

Caveat is convinced that Leaving No Trace lowers car insurance via the chakra-razing technology that NASA uses when astronauts need vision quests.

https://flyranch.burningman.org/

https://www.lagi2020flyranch.org/

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Harley K. Dubois and the Evolution of Black Rock City Jul 08, 2020

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Stuart talks with one of the Founders Harley K. Dubois about how Burning Man evolved since the 1990s... and what now…

Power, money, and consumer substitutions for real experiences.

Rain and rave camps at Black Rock City, and living under a lucky star.

Maker Culture, social capital, and seeing ourselves through the coming changes.

Coyote tells of the time a woman in white emerged from the mud to face off with a post-apocalyptic flame thrower on wheels.

Caveat asserts that Radical Inclusion transforms cat memes, game night, and society.

https://burningman.org/network/about-us/people/founders/#HarleyKDubois

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Racial & Radical Inclusion: What Can Burners Do? Jul 01, 2020

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How does the Burning Man community engage in the fight for racial justice? What skills do we have to share? Burning Man Project’s Senior Communications Manager Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley speaks with three guests who have devoted much of their lives and time to these questions.

Élida Margarita Bautista, Erin Douglas, and Marlon Williams join Burning Man LIVE and discuss the current landscape of the Black Lives Matter movement, where we are as a country, and how the 10 Principles, especially Radical Inclusion, play into it all.

Andie Grace distinguishes between being open to all and being welcoming to all.

Caveat gets excited about the principle of Communal Effort, maybe too excited.

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Dark Angel of Black Rock & Restoration Destiny Jun 24, 2020

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Stuart Mangrum and Logan Mirto talk with DA (aka Dominic Tinio) about Playa Restoration, the team that returns the desert to a pristine state after each Black Rock City, and the meditative pride that comes with it.

They recount launching a burning piano from a trebuchet at the world’s largest Leave No Trace event.

They discuss environmental sustainability, MOOP (Matter Out Of Place) and DA’s Black Rock MOOPATHON, an 85-mile desert clean-up starting this week.

Coyote shares about losing his car under a massive pile of garbage.

Caveat shares about how socks - Civic Responsibility socks - provide a comfortable step, and a fun and functional democracy.

https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/moopathon

https://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/moop-maps/

https://burningman.org/event/volunteering/teams/playa-restoration/

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Duncan Trussell and the Multiverse Jun 17, 2020

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Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk with Comedian & Podcaster Duncan Trussell about the show The Midnight Gospel, the secret sauce of Black Rock City, the BRC art theme and temple, alternate realities, death, mourning, gurus, absinthe, “Drunk History,” and Terrence McKenna... and the Tibetan Book of Dreaming and Sleep… and some other stuff too...

duncantrussell.com

Caveat Magister shares about how Decommodification can lower your car insurance, even if it doesn't.

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Regionals Out-Weirding the Pandemic Jun 10, 2020

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Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk to leaders of the Burning Man Regional Network about creative ways organizers around the world are out-weirding the pandemic.

Iris Yee, Head of the Burning Man Regional Network

Steven Raspa, Associate Director of Community Events

The Burning Man Regional Network plays a key role in the year-round extension of the Burning Man experience, supporting it as a global cultural movement.

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Clovis Buford shares about being the keeper of the hat - Burning Man founder Larry Harvey’s iconic Stetson hat.

Caveat Magister sprinkles Radical Self Expression on his salad, and suddenly he’s putting all of his childhood doodles on the wall to make a museum of his unconscious.

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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Temple Jun 10, 2020

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Stuart Mangrum and Dicky Davies talk with three temple builders of Black Rock City. What does “temple” mean in the context of Burning Man, a secular culture based on humanist principles, where ritual is a vector for culture, not really a religious thing..?

Lawrence “Renzo” Verbeck is an architect, contractor, and sculptor.

Sylvia Adrienne Lisse collaborates on large-scale, interactive art teams at Black Rock City, Regional events, and festivals.

For Black Rock City, they worked together on the Temple of Direction (2019) and are co-creating the Empyrean, the 2020 temple, now being developed in virtual space, to be unveiled in real life in 2021.

Arthur Mamou-Mani is an architect and director specializing in digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He was the Temple builder for Galaxia in 2018 and designed the Catharsis project for the next Black Rock City.

Empyrean: Meet Your 2020 Temple Artists

Galaxia: The 2018 Temple

VR tour of Arthur Mamou-Mani's Catharsis amphitheatre

Simon of the Playa shares his story of how a little girl grieving her mother, and burning embers raining down, taught him how to be human again.

Caveat Magister shares about the principle of Gifting, and teddy bear profanities.

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Creative Solutions to Mass Destruction May 31, 2020

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Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk with Tom Price, a Founder of Burners Without Borders, and its current leader Christopher Breedlove.

They discuss BWB's creative solutions to crises, from Hurricane Katrina to COVID, and how Burning Man is a permission engine for people to develop new attributes and expressions, have fun, and surf the chaos.

Pyrotechnics Expert DaveX makes the impossible possible - and fires up a jet engine under a bridge…

Caveat Magister signs up for a subscription box of Radical Self Reliance, then immediately cancels it because he’s radically self-reliant.

Burners Without Borders is a grassroots, socially innovative, community leadership program whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems.

https://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/

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