Video: Oregon, 1970, Vortex 1

[Danee]

Program: Oregon Experience
 Episode: Vortex I
 
In the summer of 1970, some tens of thousands of people converged in
 rural Clackamas County for an event called Vortex I. This festival
 celebrated freedom - freedom from violence, from drug laws and from
 clothes. It also served as an elaborate ploy to lure young people away
 from Portland. Vortex I is the only state-sponsored rock festival in
 U.S. history.

http://watch.opb.org/video/1408509315/#

And for several hot summer days, Vortex 1 created a sort of clothing optional alternate reality, underwritten by the Republican Governor. 10s of thousands converged. Traditional law enforcement had been suspended

[leedee]

Cool video, Danee.  I don't know how you find these things, but I am glad you do.

[bdot86]

Can anyone else not see it?

Perhaps it's a Canada thing?

[Brad]

It took a minute to load but I was able to view the video. It is amazing that this was able to happen and supported rather than shut down.

[Ed]

It's still not working for me, but I think this is the same video?

http://www.opb.org/programs/oregonexperience/programs/player/28-Vortex-I

:)

[Normabq]

It only plays in the US. Great video Danee. Thanks for sharing.

[AElf]

This festival celebrated freedom - freedom from violence, from drug laws and from clothes.

Does no one else get the irony in "freedom" having to be celebrated by being herded off into a remote location and segregated from society in general?  May we all be saved from such freedom.



French liberty is naked . . .



and while bare-breasted "Marianne" leads the revolutionaries  . . .



American liberty is draped from neck to foot . . .



sort of like wearing a burka