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Segments are about unhoused individuals led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.","Be advised that this video may contain sensitive, triggering, and offensive language and content.","Digitized with funding provided by the Council on Library and Information Resources' \"Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices\" grant program."]},"provider":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["MARMIA"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["MARMIA"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/053/original/cropped-marmia-logo-copy1.png?1586173104","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/217/502/small/open-uri20231127-944977-sw5lbl_1701116990.jpg?1701098991","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - open-uri20250109-552-62i7t4.mp4"]},"duration":1029.071,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/217/502/small/open-uri20231127-944977-sw5lbl_1701116990.jpg?1701098991","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-marmia.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/217/502/original/open-uri20250109-552-62i7t4.mp4?1736442757","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1029.071,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["AUTO_TRINT_WJZ-UNKN-003-005.mp4 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It has been two weeks since Messenger is of an Indian guru called Rajneesh came to Baltimore and recruited the poor and homeless to join their commune in central Oregon. Tonight, I begin a series of Eyewitness News extras on this religion, its people, their way of life, and the bitter controversy that has produced trouble in Paradise. To know him is to love him. That's what his disciples who know him only through books and recordings. At this daily drive through town will tell. Look what the Sri Rajneesh is to them a living messiah. Baltimore's Anthony Thompson does not know anything. He does know that his life at a Baltimore public housing project was going no place. So when the book Once Messengers offered him a better life, a chance to start over the class, less cash, less society of Rajneesh, plural, he took a one way ticket to Paradise by a Trailways bus. 1500 homeless street people took the same ride. This is what Anthony has come upon. The confrontation issues their followers of Bhagwan Sri Roshni. Finding Anthony and the other Baltimoreans in Rajneesh Puram was not so easy. The ranch is 3.5 hours by road from Portland, Oregon. Mountains outnumber people in this remote western area of the state. The road leading to the ranch funneled down to a one lane dirt and gravel cliffhanger. We traveled for over an hour and a half across Wasco County to reach the ranch and past only to establish towns along the way. And here on 64,000 acres of land that nobody wanted these Rajneesh Plural. It's the only city in this world where there's no crime, there's no violence, there's no drugs. It's a place where people can walk safely. It's a place where people can relax.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502#t=23.9,152.73"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's a community that was in the middle of the desert. And now it's made that desert green. The Bhagwan supposedly hasn't spoken for three years. He called for a city to be erected in this mountainous wasteland. Russian issues. Three years later, a well on the way to completing it. They are also well on the way toward a collision course with their Oregon neighbors. What I like about it, if they let me in there, is going to get the circle, you know, and they slap hell out of each other. I'd love to be an old man. I'd have me a ball. White Cloud now finds himself in a shrinking majority. Earlier this year, the Russian issues were strong enough in number to change the name of Antelope, Oregon, to the city of Rajneesh. Then, with an election approaching, the call went out for street people, and native Oregonians got restless. That's the way they're going to be. The whole state, you know, they're going to be a threat. It is nothing against the law. Yet they're creating laws against us to stop us from voting. The new Register's ruling that even a person who has lived here three years and had to address change has to go through the hearing 200 miles away from here. It is ludicrous to. So we are going to the court. All is clearly not well in Paradise. Caught in the middle of this strange land, this unusual religion and customs are a handful of Baltimore restaurants into a lot of places and a lot of cities and. Never been nowhere on this earth in my 24 years of life. Like this place here. Tomorrow night, we'll begin looking at some people who no longer call Roshni. Poor them home. Those who no longer see it as a land of milk and honey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502#t=153.81,269.81"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You will also meet other Baltimore and Maryland residents who do call it home. The poor and homeless are also leaving the Oregon religious commune of Rajneesh Puram in droves, but under different circumstances. Tonight, they're clogging shelters in nearby Portland. At least 150 who had been bussed into the commune run by the Bhagwan Rajneesh left the same way last night. Some say they were dumped because they had failed to register to vote by the deadline, which was yesterday. So far, more than a thousand people have left the commune, still homeless and without money. Tonight, in part two of my Eyewitness News Extra, we journey to this troubled Paradise to shed more light on what it's like to live there. This is not a life for everybody. 12 hours a day of work or worship, as it is called, by ration issues. Those who choose to become disciples of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh using an inventive master plan. Roshni. She's turned treated sewage and seasons of heavy rain into irrigation for desert mountain country. They dig in the soil to plant seedlings nurtured in greenhouses, then harvest enough crops to provide 90% of what they eat, enough to feed up to 15,000 people a day. Scraps of what we call garbage are fed to livestock or returned to the soil as compost to keep the cycle turning. And we've done a tremendous amount of reclamation work on the on the land. We've conserved the water. We've held the water back and used it as at times when we when we dealt when we wouldn't ordinarily have it. No farmer could afford to pay the wages of such a workforce. But remember, Roshni, she's aren't paid for their labor in dollars. They stand in long lines to eat a free vegetarian diet in military style mess halls.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502#t=270.05,378.76"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We weren't permitted to photograph that. They live a communal life in prefab housing. We weren't permitted to see inside their homes either. But living quarters, too, are free to permanent resident ration issues who have abandoned the lives most of us live. I have wonderful friends here. I reach out to any person any time and hold their hand and they'll hug me. And if I feel like crying, somebody will cry with me. And it's the most beautiful, fantastic place I've ever lived in my life. And I believe that that's what civilization is about. Free of the worries of personal achievement of material gains. This new Roshni, she accepts a new name. Her new life. But again, it's not for everybody. In nearby Portland, living proof that the jury is still out on the bold plan to bus America's homeless and street people to a ranch in Oregon. This collection of humanity is now back on the street again. Some kicked out of the ranch. Some who got out. They now prepare to take out their frustration on the people whose tempting offer of a free ride to the land of milk and honey soured. If you don't participate in the party, the drive by after I finish, they don't want you around or anything to participate. You get to, like, pretend like you like the man. Other than that, don't come or show up. And they kicked me out just because I'm a few months pregnant. You be bound down the road by one guy, you know? Like he's God, you know, And he ain't no God. He ain't got nothing. The one time offer of Roshni, she's to return the disenchanted to the point they were picked up is over. Now the homeless wait for the Salvation Army to provide a warm meal, a bed and a bus ticket back to the streets of another city.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502#t=379.69,488.44"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Seven homeless people boarded Trailways busses on this day to be returned to the places where they were picked up by Russian issues. That makes a total of 132 people sent home by the Salvation Army from Portland so far. Right now, our return trip program is operating in the red, but we do have a special appeal out to the public. And this is a national appeal. If they don't want to stay here, I'm not going to hold anybody against their will to stay here. If these people then become. It is their choice that they have been fully explained. What the deal is. So far, no Baltimoreans have been returned home by the Salvation Army. I didn't meet any at the ranch who wanted to come back just yet. The first day I got here, it's just us. I was just really amazed with it. And as time goes on, it gets it just gets more beautiful as time goes on. You're doing okay. You could leave if you wanted to. Nobody's holding you here. Nobody's holding me here. Any time I want to leave. All I have to do is just ask the people to provide me with transportation back home. They will not hesitate. But I'm not leaving. This is my home now. Talbot has become a Roshni. She. He works as a member of a moving crew. Says he has never been happier. Never in dark glasses is Anthony Thompson, the Baltimore man we came to find. He has come a long way to escape the poverty and joblessness back home. Tomorrow night, he answers his mother's plea for him to wake up and come home. We will also conclude our reports on Rodney Perram tomorrow night with a look at the future. Now, the battle for control of a rural county in Oregon shifted to the courtroom today for a hearing that may decide whether street people staying at an Indian guru's commune can vote next month.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502#t=489.25,608.81"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have taken you this week to the commune known as Rajneesh, Plural. Tonight, we'll look at the trouble in Paradise that worries one Baltimore woman. Try understanding the crisis confronting at least one Baltimore parent. She now knows her son is here. In a world so strange to anything she has ever known, a world inhabited by Russian issues. They are, in the words of some fanatics, flower children of the 60s who were led in the 80s by the teachings of Indian guru Bhagwan Rajneesh. They live a communal life free of the headaches of drugs, violence and sexual repression. It seems like a novel. Julius Jones James Joyce Jones told Jim Jones here. This will seem like to me this would be Stella Thompson's son. Anthony left for Rajneesh, Plural. A week before I met her. She had not heard a word from him, so I took a note from her, promised to give it to Anthony if we found him at the ranch. Anthony is jobless, but not homeless. Something promised by Rajneesh recruiters got him on a bus for this remote desert wasteland. John Wayne made movies here before grazing herds of sheep and cattle remove the green from the land. Slowly, the green is coming back. But now a fight over the alleged Rajneesh plot to bus in the homeless for voting strength in an alleged attempt to take political control of their county, threatens to explode and once again darken the land. I think it's a little early to say they really are a Jonestown type of cult, but there is a potential. There are a few similarities. It remains to be seen how far they'll actually go before any kind of violence erupted. Channel two news in Portland has been barred from Rajneesh Param.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502#t=609.47,739.39"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This following several investigative reports centered around the rumored build up of arms on the ranch. We are armed and enough to protect our people and that is within the constitution. This movie was the only weapon. Eyewitness news photographer Norm Vogel and I saw during our day and a half stay in Rajneesh, Parab. It was carried behind the McGowan's car during his daily drive through the ranch in one of the Commune's 60 Rolls-Royces. But Roshni shows have shown greater force in the past. Some street people claim they feared for their lives. It's easy to see why some people feel trapped at the ranch. Take a look around. Winter has already arrived around the mountain ranges that separate Rajneesh from from civilization in Portland and with clothes said to be in short supply. Some people are trapped at the ranch waiting until the Bhagwan provides bus transportation to town. They were here in 45 yesterday and we're down in what they call the city or the town ranch downtown, and they were carrying 45 automatic weapons. And yes, sure they were. That's got to be a little frightening, isn't it? But I couldn't get out of there fast enough. There's no peace of mind out there. Everybody's fucked up. And it seems like the whole area is hyped up over every wasteland. Glenn Williams of Madison Street in Baltimore and Alonzo Cooper of Baltimore Street are in Rajneesh, Plural. They aren't sure yet whether they will stay too. I've done Doc has become a rash Nishi and does not want to leave. Terry Johnston of Brooklyn plans to stay. John Talbott of Woodbine Avenue is convinced his life now has new meaning and he loves it. And here, a week after leaving Lexington Street in Baltimore is Anthony Thompson.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502#t=740.23,852.76"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/114447/file/217502/transcript/62057/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm okay. Like, I like it here. You know I am. I met new friends like Brother Bauman. You know, everybody is equal. It's love here. It's not another Jim Jones on the way. A lot of people keep saying it. Jim Jones Well, I guess you got to be here to really find out what is really about. Anthony, I promised your mother I give you something from her indirectly through me. She just wants to let you know that they do care about you. You know, I think about his brother. Trust me. And we do love and we do not want it back. Problems? Michael? Yeah. Michael's not sure he understands this. You know, he's going to have to come back and stay with me a long time. We don't have a one away. Well, I have to write my mother in law. And I love you both, too, you know? But I'll be fine. Hopefully I'll be. Anthony, please. The Roshni. She's who stood by during the taping of our meeting. In some cases, the interviews we recorded were also taped by the Russian issue TV crew. We were never permitted to roam freely about the ranch or interview people without a Russian guide. Did that affect the answers we got or the sites we saw? Have the street people who have journeyed here really found a second chance in life? Or are they just the pawns of a clever attempt at a political coup? Is the book one's dream of a city still on course? 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