Czech ravers protest in Strasbourg against violence Czech ravers protest in Strasbourg against violence
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz
Strasbourg- Czechs were among some 2,000-3,000 ravers from various countries who participated in a demonstration against police brutality and violence in Europe staged in Strasbourg today.
The protest rally was accompanied by techno music played from amplifiers on ravers' trucks.
The happening was staged in Strasbourg since several European institutions, including the European Human Rights Court, are seated there. A protester wanted to hand over an appeal to the court.
One of the organisers, Benjamin Rochefort, told the French news agency AFP that ravers had arrived in Strasbourg to defend their rights to alternatives in culture and society and protest against police suppression.
Last July, Czech police dispersed the CzechTek rave near Mlynec, west Bohemia, using water cannons and tear gas. Dozens of people were injured during the police action and ravers accuse police of brutality.
A young man died during the rave being knocked down by a car on a nearby motorway when he was trying to get to the CzechTek venue. The Czech ravers participating in today's protect rally in Strasbourg brought photos and video recordings from the police crackdown on CzechTek 2005.
Czechtek Love Found this earlier, anyone seen it?
Czechtek Love (2005)
Plot Outline: Jan is a member of a sound system and for him, CzechTek is the rave party of the year. Fragile love story shot in documentary style, featuring black and white animation and an explosively loud soundtrack.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491634/
next big czech free event? hi there,
we are planning to have a trip to praha and would like to do it in connection with a nice tek there. Anybody knows the next czarotek/shot down the witch/whatever in calendar there?
tnx
Czechtek 2005 Open invitations for all sound systems
29.7. - 30.-31-?-?-?.7.
legal place
meeting point: 29.7. at 1:00am on the same place as last year
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Shot Down the Witch 3: PAYING Festival of Electronic Music
[strike]Free[/strike] Festival of Electronic Music
30.04.2009 until 03.05.2009
klokočov - Czech Republic (CZ)
[strike]All sound systems and performers invited.[/strike]
Contact: protoss@email.cz12
CZ : "Last" czechtek? I don't understand why he would give up as its still a free event without problems; and there are not many parts of the World where you can get the military to lease you a venue for two weeks for only £600? We'd be celebrating if this was the case in Britain!
Doesn't make sense. Although there is a risk of commercialism, surely its not got that bad yet - and surely someone who had pulled off such a good rave would want to do it again?
Anyone from CZ know why the man would seem so downhearted?
Quote:
Allegedly last CzechTek rave ends without trouble
Mastov, North Bohemia, Aug 7 (CTK) - CzechTek organiser Tomas Vainer announced that this year´s 13th CzechTek music festival was the last one as it lost its original atmosphere, he told journalists today.
"CzechTek has become a mass event and its atmosphere of a techno music rave has disappeared," Vainer said.
It is estimated that some 40,000 people attended the event that started on July 28. The organisers leased the site from the Czech military for 24,225 crowns until tomorrow morning.
"The area is almost in the same state as it was before CzechTek started. It can again be fully used for military purposes," Defence Minister Karel Kuehnl said today.
Kuehnl said that the area has already been cleaned up. "The rave took place without major incidents. The cooperation with the organisers, police and the medical service worked well," he said.
Last year, police dispersed the CzechTek rave near Mlynec, west Bohemia, using water cannons and tear gas, and dozens of people, both ravers and policemen, were injured. The police action was strongly criticised by media, but also part of politicians.
(USD1=22.169 crowns)
kva/dr/ms
Source is CTK Czech news agency (not sure how "independent" this is from Government).
Does anyone know how to contact the Czech police? I'd really like to tell them how I felt when I saw the Czechtek vidio.
I'd like to tell them quite loudly.
I'm not going to write anymore now because I'm becoming fucking angry and I don't want to offend any of you.
CzechTek 2006 hello peeps,
Nonny here, working in Karlovy Vary in the lovely Czech Republic.
Czech Tek is happening here again this year, only about ten miles from me, all free, all legal, all fun, all techno.
On the equivalent of MOD land near Ostrov in West Bohemia with full permission and licenses or so my techno loving students tell me.
28th July till whenever in August.
Would love to see ya all here but me an Prole are doing a flipping summer school in flipping Suffolk all July... doh!
Nonny
will post updates as i hear 'em
xxx123
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do like we do for partyvibe radio an spread the word xxxxx nonny
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CZ : Actual words from CZ PM (translated) post Czech-Tek here is a full translation of the CZ PM's speech to a local newspaper which I found on SJ. Relayed here as text because of workplace net filtering blocking SJ in many places...
If Mr.Redactor Kubita of LN (Folk's News) charges me for the alleged massacre done by riot police against dancing and singing children, then i can't but doubt his goodwill to objectively judge the situation.
There are bitter experiences all over Europe with the hard core of initiators of technoparties. These are no dancing children. We should call things by their right name, because they are international, and also in our country politologically, sociologicaly, with the help of police and journalists well documented. This core is build from people with dangerous anarchist's thrives and they are internationally connected. They provoke massive demonstrations against the peacefull society, started with alcohol and drugs . The logic of these violent persons is similar to the system of organizing their parties.
Through Internet and mobile networks they inform themselves so that the domestic and foreign groups, crossing the country in big vehicles, get to know about the secret place in the moment when they are ready to be fast there.
All that happens in such a way that, hour after hour thousands come and the police forces cannot stop them. Of course, all of this is covered in a flavour of romantic adventure and musical celebration, which manages to get thousands of novices which want to try it.
We already know what happens next: this is no music celebration, but seems more simillar to risky adrenaline activities, which in combination with alcohol and drugs can cause dangerous situations for their surroundings, including thousands of youngsters which come with the best will to celebrate. Lets add also: terrorizing of the population with sound, dirt and all other torments and that in all of neighbouring towns, through which the caravans pass, not to speak about the towns in immediate proximity.
Its neccesary to await destruction of the natural enviroment and elementary hygiene, with risk of spreading AIDS, jaundice, salmonel, etc. until all places are infested with trash. There are tons and tons of such experiences in our towns.
It is really true that our citizens have no right to sleep, raise their children and a right for safety? Thats why in all the western-european countries the police attacked uncompromisingly and very hard these wild parties and pushed them out of their land. In France, England and else a uncompromising legislature was approved against every not-announced music event defining strict rules for loudness, hygiene, etc. which the organizers have to fullfil.
That's why the technoparties started to move to us and in the last years our police was too tolerant and couldn't stop them. After all the hard days, that the neighborhood had to go through, oposition dramatized all of this against the police and the consequences have been felt for the rest of the year.
But this time it is the first time we managed to interrupt this wild party. Of course we were also paying the price of public and private damages (just in the area of Primda the damages are estimated to over 600 thousands Czk) and the price for a series of injuries. Most of the injuries are on the side of the policemen - almost 50 persons, while the aggresive attacks have been started by the fans of the party. The policemen have been pushing them out and defending themselves. At the end they defended not only themselves but also the broad neighborhood and has proved this way that we are a proper democratic country, which can protect its citizens from the wild riots.
Such are the facts. Pararells with the communist regime, or the SNB praxis, or even the november 89' assault of the SNB against students are not appropriate. It is a offence to our citizens, which went to the street in november 89' with a pure human message, and every analogy with this fury of young anarchists is absolutely not correct and is intentional.
[next follows a blabla about him on holydays and freedom and democracy]..
Jiří Paroubek, Prime-Minister
I have added the red colour to a very important point. The PM is clearly trying to introduce a licensing system in for music events such as in other countries...
His fears are as usuall exaggerated - but sadly it does not look now like "one soviet-style dictatorial politician against an entire country".
Instead, we have the words here of a clever statesman who has made research into how the unlicensed party network works throughout his own country and the EU (and has added his own negative spin to these findings).
He may, unfortunately, have a certain amount of popular support from those who claim to have been inconvenienced by CZtek and other rave events.
He has seized on the negative aspects of large unlicensed gatherings such as environmental damage, lack of sanitation, noise, whilst it appears that CZtek organisers may not have paid as much attention to these problems over the years and carried on regardless of locals' complaints.... (incidentally on the Indymedia traffic I noticed a post from a local who although they claimed the cops were out of order, also said that Cztek was too near villages and there were far better locations which could have been used which would not have caused disruption)
In the UK and France exactly the same mistakes were made - and that is why the laws were tightened up here.
Perhaps this can be a lesson to the rest of Europe and any countries where these events are still permitted without lots of licensing procedures and paperwork - please think of the locals and minimise disruption - otherwise your country as well will have such an incident and a clampdown on events...
However none of this excuses the excessive level of force used by the Police - which was unacceptable by any EU country's standards.
Complaints should and must still be made against those in charge of the Police operation - a police officers uniform is not a mask for angry men to take out their prejudices against sections of society they do not like.
As for the future, perhaps we should all look to the East....
in Goa, India, some of the rave parties there are now organised with full consent of the locals, many of whom provide stalls and help with safety infrastructure such as water and sanitation.
in Thailand, a German party crew which was in Thailand helped re-build the area after the tsunami disaster gained so much support their events are fully licensed and supported by the local council and even the Royal Family!
Both these countries had the traditional Asian anti-drugs ethos and were initially hostile to rave events. But by a process of legitimate negotiation with local people and authorities [not corruption and bribery to override the law of the land], a situation has been reached where all concerned can hold their events without problems. This is a situation we could all strive to attain in Europe...
CZECHTEKK 2005 A 'Freetekno' Party was stopped during the weekend ( July 29 th ) by a series of brutal and irrational actions of the Czech Police. Around 6000 people were attacked by the riot cops while having a party. The Highway was blocked and people entering the Czech Republic were turned away at the border, discriminated against on the basis of their looks.
http://www2.policejnistat.cz/English/News-English/A-Police-State.html
CZECHTEK vs CZECH POLICE !! ..A LEGAL PARTY WAS STOPPED BY POLICE !!!
IN ENGLISH:
http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=20050801F01562;story=Bublan-not-considering-resigning-over-CzechTek
http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?id=20050801F01334;story=Protest-against-police-action-at-CzechTek-held-in-Letna
http://www.policejnistat.cz/content/view/18/30/
http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=servis/z_en_2005_0195
IN GERMAN:
http://www.tschechien-online.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=983
http://www.tschechien-online.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=979
IN CZECH:
http://tuleni.com/html/Cztekk05/
http://www.idnes.cz/
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/fotogalerie/czechtek/index.php
BRAZIL:
http://noticias.terra.com.br/mundo/interna/0,,OI611620-EI294,00.html
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