Sober J

Power in numbers.

Klubmasta Will

councillor olivia chow held a VERY interesting meeting tonight. we met with representatives from other cultural communities that would also be affected by the proposed provincial "raves act" (i.e bill 73).

representatives from the circuit party scene, pride day, the unity party, caribana, fashion cares, etc. all came out to talk.

we figured the meeting would go in one of two directions - the various communities could have said "hey, this legislation should not be applying to my events, we should work toward tightening up the definition of 'rave' so that my scene will not be affected" or they could say "they are targetting a marginalized community and this is unacceptable so we will rally our community and stand WITH the rave scene in opposing this bill".

fortunately, they chose the latter.

so now we are planning a press conference at which representatives from all of these different groups - and these are groups with a significant amount of political clout - will be speaking out against the provincial bill.

the tentative date for the press conference is this coming monday, june 12 but we will push it back if that is not enough time.

should be interesting. post your thoughts.

Klubmasta Will

Klubmasta Will

if you don't know about the provincial "raves act" bill, read this:

www.hullabalooraves.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/000047.html

candE kid

Good idea. I mean, sooner or later, this act WILL have a ripple affect on the other scenes, especially on the gay clubs...

Bean

it is good to hear that other communities are supportive of what the rave community is facing.

much thanks to those who are putting effort into this plight.

peace,

sabina

"share what you know, learn what you don't."

Astroboy

This is probably one of the best things to happen to the rave scene in a LONG time....

the fact that these other communities have chosen to see our plight for what it is, not just as something they need to figure a
way out of.....

too tired to think too much now but this is great news for us

Astroboy out...

*~*Sparkle18*~*

Very good news!!!
I was getting worried that everyone was against us!! but not anymore...
nah nah nah....
woohooo!!
go ravers!!

sHeLbEe

all i gotta say is, damn straight! :P
plurr to all of us!

EsSe / DaY DrEaM

good job guys.

Thanks to all the other communities for coming to help us.

Massive respect to all those who support us.
Massive respect to Klubmaster will, and all the promoters who help
Massive respect to those who keep an open mind
Plur to the MASSIVE

dawn
(that was my raver thank you rant )

Junior Flip

After reading the bill, I can make the observation that the guidelines have to MATCH in order to hold any sway at all. You might be able to go around this bill by holding the events during the DAY as opposed to nights. Basically, the hours you miss from 2am-6am get appended to the beginning of the evening because you'll have to vacate at 1am, and you wanna keep all those hours, so the partie starts at like 4pm. However, I know that a lot of ppl would be working during this time as well, which is why it's prolly be unfeisible to try. Same with having the partie AFTER 6am. I dunno, I'm just ranting right now.

NEways, it'll be interesting to see what happens in the near future. Like if this affects things like Caribana and Pride Day, you'll have a LOT of pissed off ppl methinks. Hell, you might have to be careful about rock concerts too 'cause you can call sh*t like moshing a dance, can you not? And it could go till 2-3am maybe, and you have to pay admission, etc., etc.

Personally, I think the government is looking for another fight that they almost can't possibly win. Well I say---

BRING IT ON, BIZNATCHES!!!

(]=>FlipKyd<=[)

dj shift

um junior flip.. the government has already passed 2nd reading of the bill. and the fact that it states between 2am-6am doesnt really make that big of a deal, they will still crack down on raves. the fact that other communities may be hit because of the governments vaguness is now our advantage because we will have other more respected cultural communities on our side. i look foward to the press conference and hear what the other communities go to say.

crackie

so when is/was the press conference?

Subsonic Chronic

Hey Chris, there's this:

Tuesday June 13, 2000 @ 8:00 p.m.

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue (at St. George Street)$5 donation at the door

go here: http://204.225.245.116/scripts/ubb/...TML/000260.html

for more info.

Later! (wish I could make it)

Pete

crackie

once again, can't make it. fucking work....oh well, gotta pay the bills

(i work hard for my money so you better treat me right!)

heh

Lite Sabre

i think itz great we have the support from other communities behind us. its quite clear that the provincial bill was not thought up well, because it is impacting sooo many different communities in such a horrible way. hopefully the bill will not be passed or it will be redone.

in different cities, the city or the mayor forms a youth council...so youth have the opportunity to express themselves...and not the viewz of the city or the mayor. i know mississauga, brampton, and markhem have one. these might be good people to pressure to speak up for our views. i know more stuff about it if anyones interested. thatz just a thought!

lates!