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I wonder about a membership list...
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> Subject: SNET: Annual Bohemian Grove draws Bushes, Kissinger, Powell,
> Gingrich
> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 02:52:21 +0100
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> >From The Sacramento Bee,
> http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local11_19990802.html
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> Movers, shakers from politics, business go Bohemian: Annual Sonoma fete
> draws Bushes, Kissinger, Powell, Gingrich
> By Suzanne Bohan
> Bee Correspondent
> (Published Aug. 2, 1999)
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> MONTE RIO -- The Bohemian Club's Annual Summer Encampment came to a close
> here Sunday, ending a two-week retreat for the rich and powerful that
> President Herbert Hoover once called "the greatest men's party on Earth."
> The club's famed annual gathering has been held for more than 100 years at
> the 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, about 70 miles north of San
> Francisco in Sonoma County. This year's event drew in notables such as
> former President George Bush, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger,
> retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow
> Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff, as well as actor Danny Glover.
>
> The men gather to celebrate what they call "the spirit of Bohemia," said
> Peter Phillips, a Sonoma State University sociology professor who wrote his
> doctoral dissertation on the Bohemian Club.
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> "This is a place men can go and hang out with people who are similar to
> them," he said.
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> The annual gathering near the Russian River, which was first held in 1879,
> starts with the "Cremation of Care" ritual, in which the club's mascot is
> burned in effigy, symbolizing a freedom from care. Members also perform
> several plays, and gourmet food and expensive wine are plentiful.
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> While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists,
> the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the
> group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15
> years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members.
>
> The club has drawn criticism for years because of its emphasis on privacy.
> What particularly concerns Phillips and others are the "Lakeside Talks" held
> during the summer retreat. This year, Powell was expected to deliver a talk
> titled "America's Promise Leading Armies and Leading Kids," and Popoff, of
> Dow Chemical, was to give a speech called "Environmental Journey."
>
> "These are often public policy speeches," said Mary Moore, with Bohemian
> Grove Action Network, a protest group. "And the American public is not privy
> to it."
>
> No one from the club returned several calls from The Bee.
>
> Bohemian Grove Action Network has periodically held demonstrations at the
> grove, although none were held this year.
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> The point of the protests, Moore said, has been "to let the American public
> know that what they've learned in civics isn't the full story on how
> decision-making . . . is made in this country." The Bohemian Club, she said,
> "is one of the most elite organizations on the planet."
>
> When the group sponsors public policy talks that are held without public
> scrutiny, "the average American feels left out of the process," she said.
>
> Phillips echoes Moore's objections to the off-the-record nature of the
> Lakeside Talks.
>
> "These are extremely powerful people and private discussions on policy
> issues that affect us certainly go against democratic principles," he said.
> "There's no reason that those speeches they're giving couldn't be
> transcribed and made public. They have a responsibility to be open about
> it."
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