Anti War Flyer Protest!!! Here's a copy of an Email I received with some info on another anti-war protest.
Hi,
Don't normally use this list for anything other than Barras updates but this
is a strange time!
For those of you that know me you will be aware that I served as a soldier
in the last Gulf War and I was proud to be part of the liberation of Kuwait!
That was then and some 12 years later I have become disillusioned with what
I see as a UK Government oblivious to the fact that the total lack of
credible evidence suggests Iraq poses no real threat to world peace and a
government who would rather side with a megalomaniac Bush, than listen to
its own public.
I know we can't all be brave enough to protest march, lobby or take part in
day-long strikes etc but I truly believe that if we all give 5 brief minutes
of our time at 11 am Wednesday 5th of March 2003 we can make a massive
statement to Tony Blair! Please put 11 am Wed 5th Mar 2003 in your diaries
now!
It is a really simple idea; go to the link below and print out the flyer,
then at 11 am Wed 5th Mar 2003 stop what you are doing for 5 minutes, go out
into the street or to the nearest window and throw this flyer down to show
your disgust at this needless war!
Click for flyer
The date I have chosen is poignant, on the 5th of March 1945 in the home of
Human Rights at the Hague Holland, RAF Bombers killed 511 innocent civilians
believing they were bombing Dresden. Please don't lets us make this mistake
again and please use the power of the internet to get this message to
everyone in UK and let us hope we can be heard, just for 5 minutes!
Aye Yours
Alec
An end to the ban on Free Parties!!!! It's official! The Jedi religion exists. Over 400,000 people call themselves Jedis in the UK. (According to the 2001 Census).
The next stage is to call all Free Parties a Religious Event. (As religious persecution is illegal it would be illegal to stop a Jedi event!)
Please copy, print and forward the following at all events:
Good luck!
The
Rites and Rituals
of the
Jedi Religion
*
The Jedi Religion has finally been recognised in the United Kingdom. It’s followers now enjoy the right, established within law, to pursue the rites and rituals of this, the one true religion, without fear of persecution and without prohibition.
The law of this land now stands to protect us and to protect our ways.
*
Many newcomers to the Jedi Religion often ask me what are the basic Rites and Rituals of this religion. We see the truth of it’s ways, we wish to practice it, but we do not know where to begin.
Inside this pamphlet you will find all the information you need to know.
‘May the Force be With You’
1 Basic Beliefs
2 Basic Form of Worship
1 Basic Beliefs
Jediism, the way of the Jedi, is in many ways an ancient religion.
It’s basic beliefs are very similar to those expressed by Pantheists and Animists throughout the ages and throughout the world. Many of these beliefs are also found within the major world religions – such as Christianity and Islam.
What are those beliefs?
In their simplest form they can be listed as follows:
· Respect the Earth
· Respect all living things
· Respect yourself
Respect the Earth
It is not possible to live today without causing some harm to the environment. However much we may not wish to – we all use things like Petrol, Plastics and eat crops from poorly managed farms.
Jediism does not expect this to stop.
The aim of Jediism is merely to do as little harm to the environment as you possible can. And, at all times, to bear this aim in mind.
Whatever you do, wherever and whenever you do it – try not to harm the environment any more than you absolutely need to. Always try your best.
Respect All Living Things
The basic belief can, in part, be summed up as follows: Do unto others as you would be done by.
In other words, to give a current example, if you would not like to have your mobile phone stolen – do not steal someone elses!
But we also go further.
Jedi’s must also Help others whenever they have it in their power to do so.
Jediism also extends this respect to ALL living things.
Jediism does not ask – nor does it expect – it’s followers and adherents to be Vegetarian. (Or Vegan). If they wish to be, then that is fine. But if they wish to eat meat, that is fine as well. Only there is one proviso: if at all possible, and whenever possible, if you eat meat, you must eat meat from a Free-Range and/or Organic source.
In this way, as many peoples have throughout the history of the world, you respect ALL living things.
Respect Yourself
In some ways this is the simplest Belief of all.
If you Respect the Earth and if you Respect All Living Things then you Respect Yourself: You are doing no wrong and you are beyond reproach.
I suppose, in one sense, Respect Yourself is therefore the most basic of all Jedi beliefs.
2 Basic Form of Worship
There are two forms. Both of which must be practiced.
· Live the life of a Jedi (see beliefs as outlined above)
· Celebrate the Earth
Celebrate the Earth
We harm the environment every day. It is because of the way we live.
In order to make good some of that harm it is absolutely essential – a bounden duty upon all individuals concerned – to celebrate the earth with music and dance and art.
We may not be able to return non-renewable resources to the Earth – but in dance and music and with other arts we return our spirits to the Earth and restore it’s health with the love that we give.
Any music, any dance and any form of art will suffice.
So long as it is pursued in the Jedi spirit.
Most specifically, however, the Jedi must worship outdoors.
Their worship must be marked with numerous banners upon which the word JEDI is emblazoned.
Any outdoor event which so displays these signs and where at least some there are aware of the beliefs of Jedi – any such event is a religious ceremony. Sacred to the Jedi.
Prepared by GDB Sept 2002
On behalf of the JEDI.
Stop The War! I would just like to say a BIG thank you to all the countries that have said "NO" to war. It takes alot more guts to walk away from a fight than it does to walk into one.
Disinformation Agents In Net Groups DISINFORMATION AGENTS IN NET GROUPS
Remember that George Bush Senior said within a few
hours of the attacks of 11th September 2001, that the
Internet was dangerous and needed to be limited and
monitored.
But they can't do that, because if they harass the Internet
any more than they are doing, 100s of MILLIONS of people
are going to know that there really are dictators in charge
of this planet. So they have to keep as secret as possible.
However, what is to stop them putting two or three agents
in every group that covers the truth on 9-11 and the Daft
War On Terror, and also Chemtrails? Nothing. Only us.
I see a lot of groups getting nowhere fast... because
some people keep posting trivial stuff - or - when someone
is calling for ACTION, a few people start a philosophical
debate on that action, or some other diversion which
then seems to sideline the whole group into nowhere land.
Yes?
We really are in the smelly stuff.
This isn't the time to mess around.
DIVERSION...... DIVERSION...... DIVERSION
As soon as someone gets a good plan going, or is
working on some important information, along will
come an egg-head, and change the subject.
PEOPLE: If you want to get out of this mess
you gotta start speaking UP.
Or these one or two egg-heads will lead the whole
group off course. Yes?
YES. You've noticed it. And so have I.
I am not talking about useful conversation and good
fact-finding, but people who seem like they have
totally lost the plot.
Your choice. Endless soap-opera conversation or
planning and action for survival - AND - making the
world a MUCH better place. But, SURVIVAL first.
[If you've got a good group going, just ignore this.]
SPEAK UP PEOPLE.
Just keep an eye out for them - and don't let
them keep putting us back to square one.
If you feel diversion is going on, speak UP.
Or, just join in and support the action.
Michael
World-Action, British Isles
http://www.world-action.co.uk
Leading Conservative MP Opposes War Even If Weapons Discovered in IRAQ IRAQ NOT A 'SERIOUS AND IMMINENT THREAT'
SAYS TORY
A leading Conservative MP has reiterated his
opposition to war on Iraq even if weapons of mass
destruction discovered. Douglas Hogg says the
'majority' of Conservative MPs have 'very serious
reservations' about the planned war.
1) Partial transcript of interview with Douglas Hogg
MP on Radio 4 Sunday 12 January 2003.
2) Transcript of speech by Douglas Hogg MP in the
House of Commons, 24 September 2002.
INTRODUCTION
Douglas Hogg, Conservative MP, a former Cabinet
Minister under John Major, a Privy Councillor, and a
leading lawyer - a Queen's Counsel, or 'QC' - opposes
war on Iraq even if it is established that Iraq possesses
weapons of mass destruction.
In January 1991, during the first Gulf War against
Iraq, Mr Hogg was a British Foreign Minister with
responsibility for Middle East policy - on one occasion
answering questions regarding the war in the House
of Commons on behalf of the Foreign Secretary.
(Please note that Mr Hogg offers the argument that
the war could be justified if there was a threat to
Britain's "interests". This is not a position recognised
in the UN Charter or in international law more
generally.)
1) Partial transcript of interview with Douglas Hogg
MP on Radio 4, The World This Weekend, Sunday 12
January 2003. Interview conducted by James Cox.
Radio 4: 'Mr Duncan Smith [Conservative leader] is
not supported by all of his backbenchers. The senior
Conservative and former Foreign Office minister
Douglas Hogg has expressed and repeated his doubts
about the moral and strategic justification for war
against Iraq. I asked him how many of his Tory
colleagues agree with him.'
Douglas Hogg: 'Very difficult to say, but I would have
thought the majority have very serious reservations.'
Radio 4: 'The majority?'
Douglas Hogg: 'Yes.'
Radio 4: 'When Parliament was recalled last
September the 24th, you made a significant speech in
which you said, and I quote in part, "Facing the facts as
they are known to the House today, I have come to
the conclusion that war is not justified." The facts have
not in your view changed, and your view has not
changed?'
Douglas Hogg: 'Not at all. You see the real problem is
this, it seems to me, that if you're going to go to war,
you've got to identify a good moral basis for war. That
has to be the case or you're not justified in going to
war. The only moral basis that exists in the modern
world is self-defence. Now you can give self-defence
an enlarged meaning, but ultimately it has to be a
serious and imminent threat to yourself, your allies or
your interests. And I do not myself believe Saddam
Hussein poses a serious and imminent threat to those
interests, and therefore I don't think self-defence
runs, and therefore there is no moral basis for war.'
Radio 4: 'You instanced a number of cases where you
thought there had been that evidence: Pearl Harbour,
the Falklands, the whole of the Second World War,
and the last Gulf War - when you were a Foreign
Minister of course.'
Douglas Hogg: 'Indeed, absolutely.'
Radio 4: 'The real problem, it seems to me, is the
interpretation of the weapons inspectors' assessment.
Dr Blix has said there is no "smoking gun". On the
other hand he says there are difficulties, there are
gaps between what Iraq has admitted and what it may
have. American and indeed British intelligence say,
"We know he has these things. If the weapons
inspectors can't find them, well that's because they're
not being very efficient." At that point, who do you
believe?'
Douglas Hogg: 'I don't know whether I have to believe
either of them. I'm perfectly prepared to assume that
Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction or
alternatively is capable of making them. But that surely
is not actually the direct question. The real question is
not whether he's got weapons of mass destruction,
but rather whether - if he has got those weapons - he
is a grave and imminent threat to the rest of us. Now,
there are lots of other countries in the world that do
have weapons of mass destruction, or are likely to
acquire them, but we don't necessarily conclude that
they are a grave and imminent threat sufficient to
justify war. So even if he had these things and I'm
perfectly prepared to assume that he's got them for
the purposes of this discussion, unless he's a grave and
imminent threat there isn't a moral basis for war,
because the doctrine of self-defence isn't properly
invoked.'
Web address for Radio 4 The World This Weekend
(requires RealAudio):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/worldthisweekend/
2) Transcript of speech by Douglas Hogg MP in the
House of Commons, 24 September 2002.
House of Commons Debates (Hansard) 24 September
2002 : Column 49
Mr. Douglas Hogg (Sleaford and North Hykeham): As
my right hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr.
Ancram) said, the central question that the House has
to face is whether we are prepared to authorise war
or a course of action likely to lead to war. I recognise
that we can only make a judgment on the facts as they
are known today. Those facts may change, and if they
do, as individuals we must be ready to change our
conclusions.
Facing the facts as they are known to the House today,
I have come to the conclusion that war is not justified.
My principal conclusion and the reason for that
conclusion is that I do not think the threat we face is
either sufficiently grave or sufficiently imminent to
provide the moral basis for war. I shall develop that
argument in a moment, but first let me say that I
believe there are a number of practical, military,
political and diplomatic objections to war, many of
which were touched on by my right hon. Friend the
Member for Devizes in the questions that he posed.
I would like to illustrate the nature of those problems
by raising a number of questions which I do not
purport to answer today. First, what is the military
strategy, how many troops will be engaged, where are
the bases and what are the military risks? Secondly,
will the Arab states rally behind the purpose and
provide bases for a coalition? Thirdly, what will Prime
Minister Sharon do if Iraq attacks Israel? Fourthly,
would Iraq survive as a unitary state, and if it seemed
likely that Iraq would collapse, what would be the
impact on regional stability in the middle east? How
long would coalition forces have to remain in Iraq
after an attack and, perhaps most profound
24 Sept 2002 : Column 50
of all, what is the likely impact on middle eastern
opinion or perhaps on our wider relationship with the
Islamic world if we commit ourselves to war?
I do not know the answers to those questions, but the
probable answer to most of them raises a powerful
case against war which only the most powerful
arguments in a contrary sense would surely displace.
My real objection to war is a moral one. I do not
believe now, looking at the evidence that we have, that
there exists a moral justification for war and I do not
wish to sanction a range of policies likely to lead to
that event.
I am not a pacifist. I am a strong supporter of
American engagement in world defence. I accept too
that war, even pre-emptive war, can be justified.
Proportionate self-defence accords with one's notions
of international and national law, personal morality,
and indeed, common sense.
For obvious reasons, I have to concede that at the
time of the last Gulf war I was the Foreign Office
Minister of State immediately responsible for
departmental decisions concerning the middle east. In
that capacity, I supported and participated in decisions
that resulted in war. However, we must always keep
in mind how terrible war can be. We have been
extremely lucky in the conflicts of the past 20 years. In
the Falklands, in the Gulf, in Yugoslavia and in
Afghanistan the costs have been remarkably low, but
when we authorise war we sanction action that may
result in the deaths of thousands or in injury to many
thousands of our own troops and citizens, but also to
the Iraqis, in this case, many or perhaps even most of
whom will be wholly innocent of blame.
If the concept of self-defence is to provide a moral
justification for the giving of such authority, the state
against which that military action is being taken must
either have embarked on an act of aggression or there
must be compelling evidence that such a state poses a
grave and imminent threat of aggression either within
its region, to its neighbours or to ourselves and our
friends and allies.
We had to fight the second world war because of the
German acts of aggression. The attack by what is now
North Korea justified the action in Korea. We were
right to use force in the Falklands, Kuwait and
Afghanistan. To use another example, had the United
States been aware of the Japanese carrier fleet sailing
towards Pearl Harbour a pre-emptive strike would
have been justified. Surely the nature of those
illustrations where self-defence was invoked indicates
how rare the cases really are. Surely we have to
adhere closely to the proposition that one can invoke
self-defence only when we face an act of aggression or
it seems likely that one is imminent. Here we have to
make a judgment and I am the first to admit that
judgments in this sphere are extraordinarily difficult.
Saddam, as the dossier makes plain, is an evil, wicked
man, an aggressor and a killer who has acquired
weapons of mass destruction and has no moral
inhibitions about using them. However, I do not think
that he is irrational. He must know, and I believe he
does know, and he must understand, and I believe
that he understands, the consequences to Iraq, himself
and his regime if he uses force against his neighbours
or the western alliance. Throughout the cold war we
based our security on the concept of deterrence.
Ultimately the Soviet Union collapsed. In this case, too,
we should base our security on a concept of
deterrence, not on a pre-emptive strike.
24 Sept 2002 : Column 51
I have two final points to make. First, in a democracy
public opinion will sustain a war only if the justification
for it is overwhelmingly clear?so clear that the public
will view the horror shown on their television screens
being done in their name and comment, "It has to be
done." I do not believe that public opinion will be
satisfied that war in Iraq is justified. To lead a country
into war without overwhelming public support seems
not just wrong, but profoundly dangerous.
Secondly?this point follows on from what the Father
of the House said and from what I have articulated
here previously?in a democracy no Government
should commit forces to war without the authority of
this House expressed on a substantive motion, so that
those who oppose war can seek to change the policy
by their vote. To commit Britain to war relying on the
royal prerogative and without the explicit authority of
this House seems to be an affront to democracy.
Anti-war train drivers refuse to move arms freight Kevin Maguire
Thursday January 9, 2003
The Guardian
Train drivers yesterday refused to move a freight train carrying ammunition believed to be destined for British forces being deployed in the Gulf.
Railway managers cancelled the Ministry of Defence service after the crewmen, described as "conscientious objectors" by a supporter, said they opposed Tony Blair's threat to attack Iraq.
The anti-war revolt is the first such industrial action by workers for decades.
The two Motherwell-based drivers declined to operate the train between the Glasgow area and the Glen Douglas base on Scotland's west coast, Europe's largest Nato weapons store.
English Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS), which transports munitions for the MoD as well as commercial goods, yesterday attempted to persuade the drivers to move the disputed load by tomorrow.
Leaders of the Aslef rail union were pressed at a meeting with EWS executives to ask the drivers to relent. But the officials of a union opposed to any attack on Iraq are unlikely to comply.
The two drivers are understood to be the only pair at the Motherwell freight depot trained on the route of the West Highland Line.
An EWS spokesman declined to confirm the train had been halted, although he insisted no drivers had refused to take out the trains.
"We don't discuss commercial issues," he said.
"The point about the two drivers is untrue and we don't discuss issues about meetings we have."
Yet his claim was flatly contradicted by a well-placed rail industry source who supplied the Guardian with the train's reference number.
The MoD later said it had been informed by EWS that mechanical problems, caused by the cold winter weather, had resulted in the train's cancellation.
One solution under discussion yesterday between the MoD and EWS was to transport the shipment by road to avoid what rail managers hoped would be an isolated confrontation.
Dockers went on strike rather than load British-made arms on to ships destined for Chile after the assassination of leftwing leader Salvador Allende in 1973.
In 1920 stevedores on London's East India Docks refused to move guns on to the Jolly George, a ship chartered to take weapons to anti-Bolsheviks after the Russian revolution.
Trade unions supporting workers who refuse to handle weapons could risk legal action and possible fines for contempt of court.
Lindsey German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition, said: "We fully support the action that has been taken to impede an unjust and aggressive war. We hope that other people around the country will be able to do likewise."
The anti-war group is organising a second national demonstration in central London on Saturday February 15. Organisers claimed more than 400,000 people attended a protest in September.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,870967,00.html
Say yes to peace *Please pass this email on to your band members or anyone you know who plays in a band*. Some of you may want to sign the petition below. - it is to be found: here in case you don't want to wade through the explanation:
The Government is intending to introduce new licensing laws Governing the performance and rehearsal of music in public buildings, a move that will drastically affect the whole culture of music-making in England and Wales. Essentially, what they are also trying to do is legally redefine the notion of "performance" to include "performance and/or rehearsal." They want all venues (and this includes any church holding rehearsals or performances not directly related to the religious function of the building) to be subject to a Public Entertainments License. Currently they haven't published a fee but leaks to date have suggested that this fee will be between £500 and £1000 per annum. Clearly this will do a lot of harm to both amateur and professional music, drama, and dance - informal rehearsal venues will be a lot thinner on the ground as smaller organisations that play host to choirs, amateur theatre, musical groups, and concerts will simply not be able to afford the license. It will be illegal even to burst into song spontaneously in the pub, as the current two-in-a-bar rule will be abolished, and any "entertainment" at all, however informal, will require a license. Failure to comply? Currently suggested penalties include a £20,000 fine or a 6 month prison sentence.
It's worth noting that not only the administrator of an unlicensed venue but also any musician performing in such a venue would be criminalised. If you want to read the whole Bill (great fun, I can assure you!), it can be found here.
This threatens the whole spectrum of musical performance, from a production of Dream of Gerontius at Worcester Cathedral in the Three Choirs Festival, via school performances, music at weddings, and hospital concerts, right through to folk sessions in the local pub (a spontaneous activity encouraged in Scotland and Ireland).
There is a petition on-line, to be found here (the wording of this is taken from an early day motion, the text of which can be found here.
If you are a musician, or feel strongly about this, please can I urge you to sign this petition, and also forward this message on to anyone you can think would be affected or would care about the issue.
PLEASE put the details of this protest event in your calendar and pass it on to as many people as possible, and please attend if you can. Monday 27 January 2003, 1:00 PM Parliament Square, London Mozart's Birthday Silent Protest To illustrate the appalling impact that the Government's Licensing Bill will have on live and community music-making. Bring your instrument (AND A GAG (medical-type mouth-coverings work well), but *don't play it.
Contact: Caroline Kraabel 020 7237 1564
Many thanks TONY WREN
SAY YES TO PEACE.... SAY YES TO PEACE.... SAY YES TO PEACE....
Other classic case of this and previous governments robbing the poor, yet they (corrupt politicians) have conveniently lowered co-orperation tax to the massive multinationals by 20% in real terms over the last 20 years!!
Maz
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Bushisms "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" — Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." — Speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. — As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." — Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher." — South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"I understand small business growth. I was one." — New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." — Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists." (sic). "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." — Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" — Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people." (sic) "I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth." — Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000
"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position." — Quoted by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 What!?
When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." — Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house." — Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2000
"I read the newspaper." — In answer to a question about his reading habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999
"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?" — Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, in the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember." — On discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999
"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas." — To a Slovak journalist as quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia.
"If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a statement." — Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, June 16, 1999
"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then." — From a 1994 interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio
TAX ON ENTERTAINMENT The new law concerning 24 hour drinking will soon be on the statute books,bringing us into line with most other European countries. Great, you might think,but there are some hard hitting little bits and pieces tucked away in the Act,which will be difficult to fight against once it is law.
Basically,you will need an entertainment licence for something as trivial as singing 'happy birthday' to your grandmother in a public place
"At the same time as revising the law on pub opening, the Government is proposing to tidy up the situation on entertainment licenses which is riddled with anomalies; but rather than making the situation better, the proposed bill makes it far worse.
For a start, all the pubs and clubs that have 'got away' without needing a Public Entertainment Licence in the past because they've never had more than 2 musicians appearing at the same time will need a licence in the future. The two-in-a-bar rule was a long outdated regulation and needlessly restricted live music performance but what it is being replaced with will limit live music still further.
Then there are all the other areas of public entertainment. The bill currently before parliament contains provisions that will have a serious impact on all branches of the performing arts, both amateur and professional. All premises in which performing arts activities take place will require a licence from the local authority. No costs have been revealed, but licences will be granted only after inspection by the police, fire authority, health and safety inspectors and consultation with local residents and interest groups, so the cost will be far from nominal. At present a license for a pub can be anywhere between £100 and £3,000 depending on where in the country.
Churches, schools, village halls, pubs, restaurants, even private houses will have to be licensed if used for performance events, whether they take place frequently or only occasionally.
Performances for members of clubs or for charitable purposes are also subject to this legislation, as are recording studios and premises used for rehearsals. Any performance in unlicensed premises will be a criminal offence, punishable by a large fine and costs, or a prison sentence.
Religious gatherings are exempt but here¹s a prime example of the madness of this legislation. 100 people attending a church service and singing hymns with orchestral accompaniment will not require a license. But if the same 100 people go into the same church simply to listen to the orchestra (i.e. a concert) it will require an entertainment license. It really will be a tax on entertainment.
Existing legislation relating to law and order, noise nuisance and health and safety makes the licensing of premises specifically for entertainment superfluous. There is no need for new regulations. No other country imposes such restrictions on artistic activities and a leading legal authority has determined that this legislation is incompatible with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights relating to freedom of expression."
What i'm really interested in is how the Police might try and tie this in with what already happens to free parties.
Dubya…… whats YOUR thoughts?? .
Alright! ...... I just wonder if this is how he reads his daily intelligence briefings?? ......... I fear for the fate of my country, for we have an idiot behind the wheel
Police Brutality Reprinted from Noise
If you were a copper in Leeds you probably gassed a load of innocent people who were having a good time, without giving them any warning, gave a few innocent people a kicking round the back and generally threw your weight around and destroyed what little confidence anyone in Leeds had in you ...
If you were someone who liked a good party you would probably have gone to a good party... then the first thing you know in the middle of a crackin acid techno set was the filth kickin the door in and lobbing CS gas and pepper spray at ya... very good idea in a house with 400 people in I hear you say... then they'd march you outside and give you a good kickin if you said owt.....
Maybe the HUNDREDS of police could have been put to better use... make note of the point that this was a LEGAL party, the police had no right to use that level of force and aggression in order to break up a PARTY... yep not an Al Quaeda training session.... a party......why the riot gear? Why the dogs? Why the violence? Why the heavy handed tactics?? Why not just ask people to leave?
Be careful.....don't believe what you read... journalists ain't about to make people happy, they wanna make money and political gains and therefore there is a slant on everything you read. I know.... I was there I saw what happened, I've talked to other who were there....... and this ain't an accurate summary.
Who do you go to for help when it's the police who've beaten you up, this is England...it aint a hotbed of extremists and terrorism. Human Rights are being ignored all around the world, look at the CIA targeted assassinations of Al Quaeda suspects.... note the word SUSPECTS.... personally I was of the opinion that in this world you should be innocent until proven guilty, obviously the powers that be do not agree with me on this one...
Look after yourselves...
Critical Mass Bycicle protest this friday and the last friday of every month meets at the south bank.@6PM
This month finishes at the southbank for a reclaim the beach party starting at 7.
Bring effigies for burning, bbq, etc.
THE RADICAL DAIRY For those who dont know,
There is a new social centre opened in Stoke Newington. Its in a small squatted building ands got loads of things happening in it!
Yoga.singing.drama.djworkshops(forkids).shiatsu.english.veganfood.cafe.internet.library.chillspace.etc.(donations)
Every friday is acoustic night so bring instruments... its kinda folky music until the hiphop kids turn up around 1:00.
Every saturday is a benefit party for worthy activist causes... bring vinyl
the building needs help in all forms ... so come and lend a hand during the day...
Its part of the london Social Centres Network - settin up free spaces ... turning them into vialble community spaces ... practical anarchy ...
contact...
47 kynaston road
stokenewington.hackney
n16
tel.02072496996
post us ideas:
24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE CAN YOU HELP?
I am doing some research for a documentary about the early years of rave, which basically means late 80's to early 90's. I am really keen to find contributors who can comment on one of the most important eras in modern history.
Were you there? Are you still there? Are you still here? Do you have any stories you'd like to share? If so please email me at RaversReunited@Chrysalis.com
Thanks lex :D
CALLING ALL RAVERS CAN YOU HELP?
I am currently doing some research for a documentary about the early years of rave, which basically means late 80's to early 90's. As part of my research I am keen to track down some authentic ravers from one of the most important eras in our modern history.
WERE YOU THERE? ARE YOU STILL THERE?
ARE YOU STILL HERE? DO YOU HAVE ANY STORIES YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE? IF SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH AT: RaversReunited@Chrysalis.com
Thanks
lex :D
