{"id":307,"date":"2026-04-30T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinksterlanddagen.org\/?p=307"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:58:39","slug":"about-our-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinksterlanddagen.org\/?p=307&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"About our rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anarchists and rules aren&#8217;t, on the face of it, the best combo. Radical personal liberty, right? Well, yes, but without some agreements it&#8217;s gonna be hard to organise an event like the PL. And we can hardly have a yearly meeting with all the visitors to reach consensus on everything. So the logical way is that an organising team weighs everything decides the best ways to get it running smoothly. <strong>Resulting in &#8216;house rules&#8217;.<\/strong><br>Partly, they&#8217;re a given cause the campsite has these rules. This terrain, run by an anarchist collective, happily hosts the PL year after year. It&#8217;s part of why this place started, nearly a century ago. The rich history of this place has resulted in social norms and agreed upon rules, and we as visitors naturally follow these.<br><strong>To make sure there&#8217;s not just a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/pinksterlanddagen.org\/?page_id=91&amp;lang=en\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"91\">practical<\/a>&#8216;-page listing what you&#8217;re not allowed, we do want to explain a bit.<\/strong> Cause in the end we&#8217;re anarchists too, and feel the same resistance against rules we don&#8217;t know the &#8216;why&#8217; of.<br><strong>On the other hand we do ask for your trust that we don&#8217;t just make stuff up<\/strong>. Rules and decisions have a context and reasoning behind them, even if it&#8217;s not clear straight away. We\u2019re not asking you do do as we say without question, but please assume we\u2019re not saying or doing stuff without reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting off with something so obvious it&#8217;s not even in the &#8216;house rules&#8217;: t<strong>his is an anarchist event<\/strong>. Anarchism can only exist if people are conscious and understanding towards eachother. We expect this of ourselves and our visitors. It&#8217;s broad and sometimes subjective, but in general: <strong>no racism, sexism, queer\/transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, islamophobia, antisemitism, classism or other forms of oppression.<\/strong><br>Big words, but pretty straightforward: treat other people kindly and respectfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a few pretty simple rules:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>No cars on the terrain.<\/strong> There&#8217;s not a lot of space, which we want to use to meet eachother and have kids running around safely, rather than having polluting hunks of metal standing and driving around.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>No dogs on the terrain. <\/strong>Dogs, even really nice ones, can give all kinds of problems. We attract hundreds of people, a good chunk of which have a dog companion, which results in quite the pack. On a busy terrain full of people, kids, unknown smells and noises, they can act out weirdly. Can&#8217;t arrange something to leave them home? At least keep them at your tent or camper. Service dogs are obviously excluded from this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>No camping in the forest.<\/strong> The space on the terrain is limited, but there&#8217;s more than enough room on the field &#8216;outside&#8217;. Our neighbours and the forest ranger ask us not to camp out in the woods. The clients living in our neighbouring facility, and the forest itself, need this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The gym<\/strong>. We &#8216;borrow&#8217; this from the facility next to us. They house vulnerable people, which we should stay out of contact with as much as possible. So stay in the clearly designated area&#8217;s. Also: shoes off, and don&#8217;t damage the floor!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And that leaves us with the most controversial one: <strong>No drugs or alcohol. <\/strong>Since the founding of the terrain it has been free of these substances. You could fill books about the history and reasons behind this, but in short: <strong>&#8216;Drinking workers don&#8217;t think, so thinking workers don&#8217;t drink&#8217;.<\/strong><br>This principle was more popular in the movement a century ago, but for the camping and it&#8217;s collective this is still important. But we as PL don&#8217;t copy this rule just because. A lot of people give us the feedback that they like being in a space without alcohol and other drugs. Especially for a gathering where people get into deep and sometimes heavy subjects, it&#8217;s good to keep our minds clear. Adding to this, a lot of people feel safer in alcohol-free spaces.<br><strong>So we ask our visitors to follow this rule, and not use drugs or alcohol on the terrain, or the camping\/parking field &#8216;outside&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are we gonna enforce this? Well, we sure hope not. <strong>We trust our visitors to be responsible anarchists, who don&#8217;t need no enforcing.<\/strong><br>If something goes wrong anyway, please speak up and try to work it out together. If needed there&#8217;s the A-team, who can mediate or help find solutions. But the experience is that that team doesn&#8217;t have to do much.<strong> Together we can make sure the PL is a smoothly running event, fun and safe for everyone!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anarchists and rules aren&#8217;t, on the face of it, the best combo. Radical personal liberty, right? Well, yes, but without some agreements it&#8217;s gonna be hard to organise an event like the PL. And we can hardly have a yearly meeting with all the visitors to reach consensus on everything. 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