The politics of naming Mahmood Mamdani one of the world's most prominent scholars on African talks to DemocracyNow.org about the politics of genocide, civil war and economic aid...
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President Bush has ordered new sanctions to be placed on the Sudanese government for its role in the violence in Darfur. Last week's announcement blocks thirty-one companies tied to the Sudanese government from using the U.S. banking system.
The sanctions were seen as a victory for the Save Darfur Coalition, a U.S. group leading a vocal campaign pressuring the White House to take action. But the New York Times reported Saturday some of Save Darfur's public efforts have angered aid groups working on the ground in Sudan. The aid groups say Save Darfur's call for imposing a no-flight zone could lead to a halt in aid flights and put their workers at risk.
Aid groups have also criticized Save Darfur for not spending its multi-million dollar budget on aid to Darfur's refugees.
Watch: http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/june/video/dnB20070604a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=35:05
Podcast: http://www.archive.org/download/dn2007-0604/dn2007-0604-1_64kb.mp3
Can sacrifice work? Have you ever given up something intrinsically important to you for someone else or had the reverse happen?
e.g. emigrated to another country because one half really wants to but the other doesn't? (just an example)
Festivals with more police this year at glasto apparently (even though crime levels have dropped to next to nothing since the fence went up) they say they are gunna clamp down on drug use. i hate the fact they are doin it... 'cos drugs never caused any harm at glasto, and are part of the experience. but oh well
wonderin if anyone knows whether its worth the risk. sniffer dogs are unlikely at the festival, but thorough searches are likely...
TBH i'd much rather stomp to the chemical brothers pilled up and lovin it than pissed on shit loadsa beers... :groucho:
Free Drugs Dont think i've seen this link on here so here goes.....
First 1000 people to register with funk pills on this link http://www.funkpills.com/RegistrationPromotion.aspx
get a free pack of siver bullets or flying angels or extreme.
These are bzp pills and are quite strong (extreme being the mildest)
Enjoy
The Doha Debates This is a very good store of former debates on a range of topics with many well known speakers in movie and podcast format all free available for download:
http://clients.mediaondemand.net/thedohadebates
http://clients.mediaondemand.net/thedohadebates/podcast/
3 words if you had to pick three words to describe the first free party you ever went to what would they be...
mine would be - muddy and mind blowing123
The G8 summit we seem to have lost our activist members
two points about G8
the most powerful 8 countries in the world...
1) the cannot agree on defence
2) they cannot agree on climate change
the two most pressing subjects of the world right now
and the summit hasn't even started
all power to everyone who is in Germany right now protesting against the power of G812
Paris Hilton Petition Should Paris Hilton be sent to jail or let off by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger?
The petition for sending Paris to jail:
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For as long as she has been in the public spotlight, Paris Hilton has knowingly and willingly broken the law, and her actions have gotten more and more brazen over the last few years. Her actions indicate that she feels the law doesn't apply to her as she has repeatedly flaunted the law in full view of witnesses, often paparazzi and camera crews.
A few of the many examples:
In June of 2006, she knowingly backed into a parked car and then sped away, in full view of the paparazzi. This is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in jail. Paris was never charged.
In September of 2006 she was arrested for driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or higher. In January, Hilton pleaded no contest to those charges and was sentenced to 36 months probation, her drivers license was suspended and she was ordered to enroll in an alcohol education program within 21 days. She never enrolled in the program and she was photographed driving her Bentley convertible just two days later.
Just one month later (on February 27), she was pulled over by Los Angeles County Sheriffs deputies at 10:30 at night for driving 70 miles per hour, without her headlights on, down Sunset Boulevard, which is a 35 miles per hour zone.
In March 2007, the Los Angeles City's Attorney's Office filed a motion citing Hilton for violating the terms of her DUI probation, asking for 45 days in jail, even though the law allowed Paris to be sentenced to 90 days in jail. Hilton violated at least three conditions of her probation; driving at 70 mph without her headlights on in a 35 mph zone, driving with a suspended license, and failing to enroll in the court-ordered alcohol education program.
This petition asks Governor Schwarzenegger to ignore other petitions asking for clemency and show the people of California that no one is above the law. This petition asks that Governor Schwarzenegger do everything in his power to ensure that Paris Hilton serve her full 45 day sentence.
The petition for not sending her to jail:
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To: The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebrity and socialite. She is an heiress to a share of the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as to the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. She provides hope for young people all over the U.S. and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives.
Hilton is notable for her leading roles on the FOX reality series The Simple Life and in the remake of the Vincent Price horror classic "House of Wax". In addition to her work as an actress, she has achieved some recognition as a model, celebrity spokesperson, singer, and writer.
As most of America now knows, Ms. Hilton was just charged in a Los Angeles court with DUI and sentenced to 45 days in Century Regional Detention Facility in California beginning on or before June 5, 2007.
We, the American public who support Paris, are shocked, dismayed and appalled by how Paris has been the person to be used as an example that Drunk Driving is wrong. We do not support drunk driving or DUI charges. Paris should have been sober. But she shouldn't go to jail, either.
As depicted on Friday night's episode "Nancy Grace" on Headline News (May 4, 2007), countless celebrities have been "slapped on the wrist" for similar incidents recently. Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson, Tracy Morgan, Wynonna Judd, to name a few, were arrested and never did a day in jail after their initial arrests for drunk driving /DUI /DWI charges. Rappers Busta Rhymes and Eve still walk free after both being arrested for the same charges as Ms. Hilton just this past week. Brandy's California Highway accident, although no proof of DUI was evidenced in her accident, resulting in the death of a young wife and mother in California, yet Brandy walks free as of today, never doing any time and A WOMAN HAS BEEN KILLED most likely due to her reckless driving!
Yet, Paris Hilton did not hurt, injure, or kill anyone or anything, and yet she must do jail time.
This petition is to ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon Paris Hilton for her mistake. Please allow her to her return to her career and life. Everyone makes mistakes. She didn't hurt or kill anyone, and she has learned her lesson. She is sincere, apologetic, and full of regret for her actions as she explained tearfully to the Judge handling her case in court yesterday.She is distraught and understandably afraid.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT to save our Paris from ending up at the Century Regional Detention Facility! Please sign to tell The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of the State of California, to think about the welfare of this young woman who has made a mortal error and deserves a second chance like so many others in our great nation have been served with after a mistake they have made . If the late Former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late Former President Richard Nixon after his mistake(s), we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned for her honest mistake as well, and we hope and expect The Governor will understand and grant this unusual but important request in good faith to Ms. Paris Whitney Hilton.
For: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jailparishilton/index.html
Against: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/PH21781/1234
Changes in the parties since the 1990s..
General Lighting wrote:
PV has been around since the late 1990s, very soon after the Internet was released to the public.
Yes it is stuck in a 1990s timewarp when raves were supposedly a bit "fluffier", (albeit with more advanced software these days) but thats how we like it :groucho:
you're lucky enough to live in East Anglia where there hasn't (yet) been too much of a problem with this.
The problem isn't so much that people fight - boys especially will always fight - but that now they are prepared to do this in the middle of a party rather than just in their own "ends".
if parties and the party scene becomes places for people "settling scores" (as they have already done in London/SE England) the Police can claim every moral right to clamp down on them- they can argue that they are a source of serious violent crime.
WTF? Its not just PV that stuck in the 90s GL,
You know I don't even recognise a lot of the so-called free party scene now, as described quite a lot on here, one of the reasons I don't particularly like SJ, the attitude is ????????:you_crazy
There's still a good scene going on around my way, albeit smaller and more private I guess.
Is the violence and mainstream bullshit a more London SE thing? An I mean no disrespect to London or the SE but it seems to have a different edge,am I just seeing the bad bits, or am I just proving myself a hopeless hippy? :wink:
Sort the litter out! the one thing crews and partygoers are really being pulled up on is litter/environmental damage (as people are finally getting smarter about noise)
OK the feds might try and frighten people away at the end of the party saying they might quiz them for being "organisers" - but the fact they actually do this must show how valuable a weapon the mess left behind (plus its forensic value) [1] is to try and justify raves being stopped.
So why not try and stop the litter building up during the daytime, rather than at the last moment?
I reckon nos is one of the biggest causes of extra litter due to balloons and metal canisters[2] but ravers perhaps need to check themselves and not constantly drop stuff around the place!
At the last forest party I went to the crews had actually set up a framework to which black bags were attached (and at least some people were using this!)
for the crews, one of those litter picker things that council bods / janitors use only costs a tenner or so from industrial equipment places (so you don't have to pick up rank rubbish with your hands)
With society finally realising the environment is worth protecting, theres more of an urgency about preventing any environmental damage from raves, especially as not all of society feels you have the "right" to put them on..
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[1] people mislay bank cards, they use cashpoint slips as snorter tubes, flyers get used as wraps. All these things can be used to identify individuals or groups. Cops collect flyers of legal events as they consider all dance events to be linked with drugs and organised crime.
[2] these have scrap value, as do bottles and cans!
smoking ban and free parties i spose this will be another law that will be put infront of the organisers surely, or will it be alright cos its actually outside, rather than a small place, what about tents tho
Police tackle 3000 bank holiday ravers in Wales Wales 8 April 2007
BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/6537353.stm
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Police are trying to disperse around 3,000 people who have gathered for an illegal rave in a forest.
Gwent Police are working with the fire service and the Forestry Commission to try to break up the crowds at Wentwood Forest near Caldicot, Monmouthshire.
A force spokeswoman said officers were alerted to the "illegal gathering" at around 1030 BST on Saturday.
Officers were sent out overnight to stop and speak to people at the scene and take details of their vehicles.
Specialist officers and the force helicopter are at the scene.
Gwent police decided it was unsafe to enforce action under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Acts which allows police to force people to move on.
The fire service is also attending a fire on scrubland in the forest which began on Sunday afternoon.
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