DdC

Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003
From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@crrh.org
Subject: The Rave Act stops NORML benefit concert

Well, you may or have not heard by now but the Rave Act has hit very close to home. On the 30th of May the Billings chapter of Montana NORML/SSDP had organized a highly publicized and expensive benefit concert featuring a number of local acts, the proceeds from which would have gone to help the medical marijuana campaign in Montana in 2004. Unfortunately, not only did my probation officer arrest me the day before, but the DEA came and shut things down the day of. The reason being of course that due to the RAVE Act anyone caught on the premisis with marijuana would automatically subjects our generous venue to a fine of $250,000. Not only did this cause us to lose money, hope, and face, but it will seriously endanger the chance of trying anything like this again in Billings.
What the hell happened to my first amendment?
Adam Jones

Billings NORML/SSDP
<a href="http://www.montananorml.org " target="_blank">http ://www.montananorml.org </A>


Demonkrat Joe Biden

RAVE Act Protests Across the Country, May 31, 2003

Have you ever wanted to dance for a good cause? Here's your chance. On Saturday, May 31, protest gatherings will be held in cities across the country to call for repeal of the RAVE Act. Click here to find a protest near you.
<a href="http://actioncenter.drugpol icy.org/ctt.asp?u=184&l=1849 " target="_blank">http ://actioncenter.drugpol icy.org/ctt.asp?u=184&l=1849 </A>

<a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org" target="_blank">Drug Policy Alliance</a>
<a href="http://www.ssdp.org" target="_blank">Stud ents for Sensible Drug Policy</a>



<a href="http://www.aclu.org/news/NewsPrint.cfm?ID=970 0&c=228" target="_blank">Citi ng Free Speech Rights</a>
The ACLU brought its case against the government on behalf of local rave enthusiasts, including a former member of the armed forces and an insurance agent whose masks and glow sticks were confiscated at a rave last summer, and an internationally renowned performance group that faced cancellation of an act incorporating glow sticks.

An <a href="http://www.aclu.org/issues/drugpolicy/cases/McClure_v_Ashcroft/McClure_v_Ashcroft.h tml" target="_blank">ACLU online feature on this case, including links to court papers...</a>

Repeal the RAVE Act Now

--- Drug Policy Alliance alerts@actioncenter. drugpolicy.org wrote:
Dear Friends and Supporters,

Today, President Bush signed the RAVE Act into law. Although it's a sad day for American freedom, I am also proud. I'm proud to be part of the thousands of people who, like you, came together to oppose the RAVE Act. I'm proud that your opposition made waves on Capitol Hill - waves that are seldom felt in Washington when it comes to draconian drug war bills.

The RAVE Act's sponsor, Senator Biden, angrily deplored the fact that his bill faced "fierce resistance." He then denounced Drug Policy Alliance in the official Congressional Record. Senator Leahy, one of two original co-sponsors of the RAVE Act that you helped turn against the bill, told reporters the RAVE Act faced "serious grass-roots opposition."

"Fierce resistance"? "Serious grass-roots opposition"? I like that and I've got one thing to say.

We've just begun to fight, Senator Biden!!!!

With your support, we will take on Attorney General John Ashcroft and the DEA every time they use the RAVE Act to try to shut down electronic dance events, raves, rock and hip hop concerts, hemp festivals, circuit parties, and other events. We will organize thousands of people to oppose this new government intrusion. We will launch an aggressive and relentless lobbying campaign to repeal the RAVE Act.

To do it, we need your help. This campaign costs real money. Contributions from people like you help us pay for lobbyists, grassroots organizing, and all the faxes we send to Congressional offices. If everyone on our 43,000 subscriber e-mail list gave us just $10 we would have what we need to repeal the RAVE Act. If you're willing to pay more than $10 to see your favorite shows, wouldn't you be willing to give at least $10 to protect them?

Will you commit to this fight and help us overturn this bad legislation? Since not everyone will be able to help us out, we ask that you consider giving $20 or more. Please donate $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000 or whatever you can afford at:
<a href="https://secure.ga3.org/05/raveact" target="_blank">http s://secure.ga3.org/05/raveact</A>

Dance Safe!
<a href="http://www.dancesafe.org" target="_blank">http ://www.dancesafe.org</A>



May 2003
Saturday May 31st Demonstrations

<a href="http://www.dancem.org/f2d2.html" target="_blank">Los Angeles - Freedom to Dance 2</a>
Westwood Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd.

<a href="http://www.blackkat.org/events.html" target="_blank">New York - Freedom of Assembly in NYC!</a>
Foley Square, Center Street between Worth and Duane

<a href="http://www.nwlnc.org/SinglePressRelease.a sp?id=21" target="_blank">Seat tle - Free Movement</a>
Westlake Park, Downtown Seattle

Apr 2003
Congress Passes "Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act"
Without public notice, a hearing, or debate in Congress, the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act was passed by both houses of Congress as part of the PROTECT Act S.151 (the Amber Alert child abduction bill.) In a gross abuse of the legislative process, Senator Biden snuck his Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act into the PROTECT Act during the bill's conference committee. S.226 more info

Feb 2003
CLEAN-UP Act Re-introduced in House (H.R. 834)
The "CLEAN-UP Act of 2002" (H.R. 3782) has been re-introduced in the U.S.House as the "CLEAN-UP Act of 2003" (H.R. 834).

Feb 2003
RAVE Act Re-introduced in the U.S. House (H.R. 718)
The "RAVE Act of 2002" (H.R. 5519) has been re-introduced in the U.S. House as the "RAVE Act of 2003" (H.R.718). H.R.718 more info

<a href="http://www.emdef.org/s226" target="_blank">Illi cit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act S.226</a>

<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16114.shtml" target="_blank">S.F. Clubs Rip Feds'Rave Bill</a>

<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=rave+act " target="_blank">Cann abis News Search: Rave Act</a>

<a href="http://www.mpp.org/USA/news_1665.html" target="_blank">Behi nd czarist 'truths': Deception is no way to wage the drug war</a>

<a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm" target="_blank">The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937</a>
The history of how the Marihuana Tax Act came to be the law of the land.

<a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/communities/raveact" target="_blank">Drug Policy Alliance: Dance, Music and Entertainment</a>

<a href="http://www.emdef.org" target="_blank">EM EF: Electronic Music: Defense and Education Fund</a>

<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58663,00.html " target="_blank">Joe Biden, D-Del., has introduced a bill</a>
(the "Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002)

<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie= ISO-8859-1&q=rave+act&btnG=Go ogle+Search" target="_blank">Goog le Search: RAVE Act</a>

<a href="http://www.yahooka.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=g et_topic&f=10&t=0031 58" target="_blank">Yaho oka Forum: When Holding a Party Is a Crime</a>

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Maybe if the Aussies would keep their own fascist and not send them here?
Hell, we have enough of our own!
DdC

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Fox News hits a new lowest common denominator It's the inviolable first rule of democracy that all politicians will praise the wisdom of the people -- an effusive flattery that intensifies when they ask "the people" to swallow something exceptionally inedible. What the people never hear from anyone, or from anyone with further ambitions, is the truth...

But the scariest thing about Fox and Rupert Murdoch, the thing that renders them all fear and no fun in a time of national crisis, is that they channel for the Bush administration as faithfully as if they were on the White House payroll. Like no other substantial media outlet in American history, Fox serves -- voluntarily -- as the propaganda arm of a controversial, manipulative, image-obsessed government. To watch its war coverage for even a minute was to grind your teeth convulsively at each Orwellian repetition of the Newspeak mantra, "Operation Iraqi Freedom." I swear I hate to stoop to Nazi analogies; but if Joseph Goebbels had run his own cable channel, it would have been indistinguishable from Fox News.

Fox's truculent patriotism is misleading, of course. Rupert Murdoch is not exactly an American patriot, he's not even exactly an American. Though he became an American citizen in 1985 (solely to qualify, under US law, as the owner of a TV network), the Australian Murdoch was already 54 and his tabloid formula had already polluted the media mainstreams in Australia and Great Britain. Murdoch is an insatiable parasite, a vampirish lamprey who fastens himself to English-speaking nations and grows fat on their cultural lifeblood, leaving permanently degraded media cultures in his wake. Rabid patriotism is a product he sells, along with celebrity gossip, naked women and smirky bedroom humor, in every country he contaminates. And a little "white rage" racism has always gone into his mix for good measure. ("He tried so hard to use race to sell his newspapers that he became known as "Tar Baby' Murdoch," Jimmy Breslin once charged.)

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