ReRaveAll Come and party with us this Saturday 6th August, Sonic and Arena sound Systems are puting on a 2 room party. 10.pm until late.
Room 1: Breaks, Techno, Drum`n`Bass, Bad Acid.
Room 2: Disco, Ska, Funk, Tech House, Minimal Techno.
Phone after 10.pm 0798 555 2013
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chester forest party party in the forest
start 10:00 pm saturday 6/8/05
a hole plethora of tuneage
all tucked away in urchin's kitchen (a sand stone gorge)
http://www.freeparty.fotopic.net/p17658877.html
for directions e mail before 8:00 pm saturday
freeytrap@yahoo.co.uk or
daveknows@gmail.com
THIS IS A PRIVITE PARTY ;-)
Brief History of UK Rave Traveller Scene from a spiral perspective. http://www.beyondtv.org/network23/page.php/376/soma/
http://www.schnews.org.uk
SchNEWS PEACE DE RESISTANCE ANNUAL 2003
The Spring of 2002 saw the 10th anniversary of the now
legendary Castlemorton Free Festival, the biggest and
most notorious free party ever to take place in the
UK. The anniversary was celebrated on Jubilee weekend
with a massive Teknival on Steart Beach in Somerset.
At least 50 rigs and 10, 000 party people gathered on
the beach for a five day party to commemorate the
creativity and determination of the original sound
systems and to celebrate 10-years of underground rave
culture. At a time when most of the country was being
bored shitless with television specials about the
anniversary of the coronation, the Castlemorton
anniversary was a powerful reminder that real culture
grows from the ground up, and that to stay alive it
has to constantly mutate.
It's important to remember Castlemorton because that
was where the battle lines were drawn up for many of
the struggles of the last decade. The government
clampdown that followed the festival , which beagn
with the arrest and prosecution of of members of
Spiral Tribe for their involvement in the event and
culminated in the 1994 Criminal Justice Act, made it
clear that the authorities saw the emerging free party
community not as just a nuisance but as a political
threat. In the following article, one of the
defendents in the Castlemorton trial explains the
history, and the connection of the free party movement
to other struggles to reclaim public space for public
use.
Rightly or wrongly, the names Castlemorton Common and
Spiral Tribe have become synonomous with the biggest
illegal free party in Britain to date. But behind the
outrage and the glamour of the front page headlines of
the time, there was another, more important story
unfolding. To understand what actually happened we
must go back and take a look at events leading up to
that weekend in May 1992.
Spiral Tribe were a ragtag collective of musicians,
artists, rappers, DJs and cyber-punk types who bounced
around the country in a convoy of black, jelly-moulded
trucks, putting on free parties. They identified with
the primordial, all connecting symbol of the spiral -
a representation of the asymmetric shape of nature and
the turbulance in it' fractual flow. With no door
policy (and often no door), the parties set out to
create, and maximise, free social space. Bringing into
being a place of contact for all people - all tribes.
Actively resisting the rightwing regime built upon
violence, private ownership of land and profiteering,
the Spirals aligned their artistic and musical spirit
with a relentless campaign of events that for breif
(yet intense) moments took back the land into the
realms of common shared experience. [1]
In the decade immediately preceding the Spiral's
whirlwind tour of the British Isles, it was buisness
as usual with UK plc violently oppressing free
gatherings, protests and nomadic life styles:
1981, 5th Sept: Peace Camp at the US base at Greenham
Common starts, and survives several violent eviction
attempts and serious abuse form troops.
1982: The meandering convoy of free festival types is
named "The Peace Convoy" after travelling from the
Stonehenge Free Festival to join the peace camp at
Greeenham Common.
1984: The last Stonehenge free festival before the
English Heritage ban.
1984: Nostle Priory near Leeds. The violence against
the Peace Convoy steps up.
1984-1985: The Miners Strike. Police use unprecedented
violence and make 11,000 arrests.
1985 Feb: Rainbow Fields Village protest camp,
Molesworth US base. Violent eviction involving over
2,000 troops and police.
1985, 1st June: Battle of the Beanfield. 140 vehicles
smashed and the men, women (including pregnant women)
and children are viciously attacked by 1,000 police
officers following "Operation daybreak".
1986: New Public Order Act gives the police more
control over public gatherings and greater powers to
evict trespassers from land.
1986, June: Stoney Cross, authorities launch massive
attack against travellers, impound all vehicles and
attempt (unsuccessfully) to snatch 47 children from
their parents [2].
1989: Chief Superintendent Ken Tappenden, of miners
strike fame, starts national database on illegal
parties and organisers.
1990, March 31st: The Poll Tax Riot.
1990: The introduction of the Bright Bill, which
increased fines for throwing an unlicensed party from
£2,000 to £20,000 and 6 months in prison.
The Spirals staged their first party in October 1990.
By June 1991 they had a mobile rig and had pulled off
events at some of the most sensitive areas in the
country - namely the displaced Stonehenge Solstice
Free festival at Longstock and another at Stoney
Cross. A flyer from the Tribe at the time read, "We
are here to re-connect the Earth."
>From then on the Spirals held an event every weekend
(weekends that often overlapped into weeks) and by
Febuary of 1992 they'd taken a string of cheeky, high
profile venues. This helped to boost the morale of the
festival scene, despite the jack-booted oppression it
had suffered.
To the Spirals, building a creative culture
independent and out of the reach of the parasitic
commercial cartels was of the utmost importance. " The
real energy in the rave scene comes from the illegal
parties, the pirate radio stations and from white
label 12 inch singles that by-pass the music industry
altogether." [3]. But the police and their paymasters
were already well aware of this, "....cracking down on
illegal raves while allowing night-clubs to stay open
longer - was intended to undermine the basis of the
scene" [4].
Undaunted, the Spirals beat the shamanic drums,
liquefying the air with gurgling techno and skipping
breakbeats. New life germinated in decaying urban
voids. Inner city kids were teleported into the deep
and mystic green of the British countryside. "The
Spirals understood [the countryside] as a politically
charged environment. A historic arena for a clash
between rebels and oppressors...that free parties were
shamanic rites which could reconnect urban youth to
the Earth with which it had lost contact, thus
averting imminent ecological crisis." [5]
But the contempt they displayed for authority and
consumer culture was making a mockery of the
bureaucrat's clampdown on unlicensed events. And, as
is always the way when corrupt politicians run out of
plausable argument, they resorted to violence. The
Territorial Support Group were sent in - an anonymous
paramilitary squad, their faces maskedand ID numbers
removed.
The TSG surrounded the Spirals' crowded warehouse in
Acton Lane, London, on Easter Monday. They beat
everyone who tried to enter or leave. Panicked
partygoers barricaded themselves into the building ,
but after a bloody two and a half hour siege the
police breached the concrete walls and beat everyone
inside to the ground, including a pregnant woman. One
boy who had tried to escape onto the roof was thrown
off by officers, breaking both his arms and legs.
Outside victims were frog marched past three gloating
fat-hats. Two were British; the third wore a US police
chiefs uniform. he was heard to say "In the states we
would have cleared the building in twenty minutes"
[6]. To this day there has been no explanantion as to
who this man was and why he was there.
The next day the Spiral's convoy was escorted out of
London by a low flying police helicopter. There were
no charges brought against them - it had been a terror
attack, pure and simple.
Shaken and bruised with most of their equipment
smashed, the attack had left the Spiral's with a
strengthened resolve. The following weekends they
staged huge gatherings on Chobham Common, Surrey
(another Digger stronghold), Stroud Common and then
the Cotswolds where, for Beltane, they teamed up with
Bedlam to stage a 10,000-strong outdoor event at
Lechlade. Then on again to party in Wales. But as the
Spirals played in a honeycombe of ancient mines,
another trap was being devised for them in the bowels
of Whitehall.
After regaining some of their former strength, they
decided to go and take it easy at someone else's party
for a change. So the next morning they set off to the
Avon Free Festival. On route there was a phone call.
Avon had been quashed and JCB's had dug ditches around
the site. Hundreds of vehicles were being moved off by
police, but allwas not lost: the caller was a Bedlam
scout just ahead of the evicted convoy (according to
one of the Avon Free's organisers, it was, "more like
a 35 mile traffic jam" [7])., and the Bedlam crew had
managed to get on to the Common at Castlemorton.
The Spirals cut across countryand by the afternoon
they were approaching the common. Smiling policemen
waved them onto a track that ran under the strangely
abrubt slopes of the Malvern Hills, to the deep blue
lake in a flooded quarry. On either side were
beautiful expanses of flat springy turf - too perfect.
The Spirals swung their vehicles into a wide circle
and joined the other systems and circuses that were
already rigging up. Great heaps of speakers were
dumped out of the trucks. The infamous instrument of
G-force exhilaration, the Gyrocycle, was set up centre
stage. Black flags and banners with silver designs of
crop-circle circuitry were hoisted high.
Terror-strobes strategically positioned. And still the
convoy of travellers rumbled onto site.
Soon the music was on (from all directions) and the
crew could relax in a summer haze of bassline
vibrations. But for some there was an uncomfortable
feeling about the place. It's difficult to say whether
it was just a delayed reaction to the hammering they'd
taken at Acton Lane, or a sense of impending doom
triggered by the eerie sight of smiling policemen. But
there was no turning back, the convoy was still
pouring onto site - in fact it continued throughout
the weekend, swelling the numbers to 50,000 plus.
The festival was cool - untold systems all putting on
a great show, ravers, travellers, tourists, TV crews,
a shed load of liberated battery hens, skinny dippers,
daredevil divers, and even a few police (but they were
too busy enjoying the sunshine and playing rounders to
bother anyone). Military jets buzzd the site (why do
they do that?) and a police helicopter filmed, in
minute detail, every scrap of rubbish being picked up
by the people below - evidence that was later used in
the court case to prove how clean the site was kept.
At the time a spiral type commented to the press:
"since we've been heresthere's been more taken out of
the ozone layer by jets and helicopters than any
damage we've done" [8].
By the end of the weekend everyone was exhausted, the
rig was blown, the back drops in tatters, the
vehicles' batteries flat. Time to go chill. No such
luck. As the Spirals drove off site they were ambushed
by police and arrested for conspiracy [9].
Everyone was locked up, along with some innocent
bystanders who got caught in the swoop. Vehicles,
equipment, money, personal effects - all were
confiscated as evidence. After being formally charged
and sent before a magistrate they were released
awaiting trial. They walked out of the police station
with nothing - so they camped on the station steps for
almost two weeks.
In that time a man drove up to them in a large white
Rover and handed them a piece of paper. On it was a
pencil sketch of riot police kicking a pregnent woman
who was lying on the ground, underneath was written
"oh my god what have we done?"[10].
Later, on the steps of the court of the committal
proceedings, Superintendent Clift (the chap who's
jurisdiction the Common was under) came up to the
accussed and said, "I just want you to know that I
don't agree with what is happening to you here, this
is a political stitch up"[11]. Evidence he later gave
(from his hospital bed) was of great help to the
defence. But the case would take two years to get to
crown court.
In that time the Spirals wangled a small record deal
to buy a recording studio, which they installed as a
community resource in a converted showman's trailer.
They got a rig and vehicles together and disappeared
into Europe to start the Teknival movement and
numerous independent record labels. When the case
finally got to Crown Court it became one of the
longest running and most expensive cases in legal
history, lasting four months and costing the country
£4 million. Before the end of the trial, the judge
told the defendents that if they were found guilty, he
would be giving them each two years in jail. But the
jury (bless 'em) found everyone not "guilty!"
Despite the vindication of the Spirals, the huge
police investigation and court case finding nothing
criminal about the Castlemorton gathering, UKplc, hell
bent on protecting it's interests, went on to install
the monstrous Criminal Justice Bill. An act that has
not delivered the intending deathblow to the
dissenting masses, but has instead catalysed a
generation into action and inspired a blossoming of
creative resistance.
Footnotes;
[1] At that time 87% of land in the UK was in private
ownership. Marion Shroard, This land is our land, '87,
Paladin, p.120
[2] From conversations between the aauthor and Spider
from Circus Normal.
[3] A Spiral in Melody Maker, 06/06/02
[4] Matthew Collin on Cheif Superintendent Ken
Tappenden's role in setting up the police database on
illegal parties, in Altered State, '98, serpents Tail,
p120
[5] Ibid.p.203-4 [6] Witnessed by the author.
[7] John quoted in George Mckay's Senseless Acts of
beauty, '96, Verso, p.120.
[8] The Guardian 28/05/92
[9] Later modified by the CPS to causing a publice
nuisance, "We prefer to call it causing a public new
sense." said a Spiral quoted in Lowe and Shaw's
Travellers. '93, Fourth Estate, p.169
[10] Witnessed by author.
[11] Witnessed by author.
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[birmingham] Inukshuk July 22nd Dirty Bass, free party Inukshuk are back at the Sanctuary on 22nd July 2005 for a free party 10pm -
5am 3 rooms of Techno, Deep/tribal house and new to Inukshuk Psy trance
hosted by Stereo Chemistry.
Main Room Techno
Dirty Bass live P.A (Dirty Bass Records)
Heretic (citric City
Herne (Hanky Panky)
Mack (Inukshuk/Osmosis)
DK Roon (Inukshuk/Osmosis)
Second Room Deep/Tribal House
Sarah G
Paul The Hat (Mud)
Jester (Hanky Panky)
Rowland Cooper
Adey
Third Room Hosted By Stereo Chemistry decor By Jinket
Psilocy-Chill Room
Downtempo Psychedelic Ambi Dub Trance
Si Splatt (Cabage Leeds)
CosmoNaughty (Stereo Chemistry)
Gerry Aum (Sunrise Manchester)
Jon Kenobi (Stereo Chemistry)
10pm till 5am free party to help the homeless, please bring a food donation
for the homeless or alternate donation on the door. Packets and tins only.
Thank you to everyone that has supported us over the last 2 years and
forseeable future.
VIBEALITE vs TOTAL BEDLAM TOTAL BEDLAM TOTAL BEDLAM vs VIBEALITE - THE SUMMER SIZZLER part 1
9pm- 4:30am £12 otd (£10 b4 10pm)
@THE VENUE, STATION ST. LONG EATON, NOTTS
Roll up, roll up the first part of our Total Bedlam Summer Sizzlers, to celebrate our first event of the summer in style we bring in the mighty and well respected vibealite on the first leg of their summer tour! A careful selection of both events best Djs and artists make up this one hell of a nighy, Krafty promotions wlll also be bringing more backdrops and imaging to the event to totally transform the venue how it has never been seen before! We also bring you our brand new concept "Bedlam Breakers Yard" with the best Hardcore Breaks in our scene with a tint of old skool hardcore, Drum n Bass and trancecore, And for a special treat Kevin Energy will be launching the New NEC LIVE album with a host of collective give aways!
Oh and happy birthday Big Red!!!
ZONE 1 TOTAL BEDLAM v VIBEALITE
CLSM B2B KEVIN ENERGY
A 1hr 30min set 1st Time ever exclusive launching the brand new NEC LIVE ALBUM due out on resist this month, with give aways and exclusives a plenty
MARC SMITH B2B LEE UHF
Lee UHF Launche`s New label, High Contrast, and smithy will be dropping loads of fresh Notorious tunes that are ready to rock the spot
THUMPA B2B FLYIN
Yet more exclusives, the 2 cheesemiesters go head to head for the 1st time
WIZBIT
London Breaks master and lucky breaks label owner
CRUZE
Bladcore back at the venue, and in the main room too
INFARED PA
The birthday boys first main room set after causing havoc for so long in the blue room
TOXIC
Warming up the night with some filthy techno and hard bass
MAIN ROOM MC`S ON THE NIGHT
WOTSEE
FRICTION
KEYES
CHIT CHAT
GAZY J
ORTIE
OBIE
ROOM 2- BEDLAM BREAKERS YARD
A Brand new concept from us at Total Bedlam showcasing the best in old skool, hardcore breaks, drum n bass and classic trancecore
WIZBIT
LEE UHF
THUMPA
VAPOUR
DJ ST
DAVE SKYWALKER
RAMPANT
CRUZE
TOXIC
MCS- OBIE, JUTT, DIZZYVIBE, GAZY J, FRICTION & ORTIE
ZONE 2- FACTION vs TOMORROWS WORLD HARD TECHNO
SIMON UNDERGROUND
He`s Back!!!!
THE TERRORIST B2B SAWYER
INFARED PA
D-STROY
SPARKY
CUTBACK
ROOM 4 - LUXURY CHILL OUT ROOM PLAYING BREAKS AND BEATS
DIRECTIONS-
Come Off J25, M1. At the 1st roundabout take the exit towards Long Eaton. B6002. Then take a right at the mini roundabout towards Long eaton. Stay on the road till you reach the 3rd round about and take the 1st exit. Then at the 4th roundabout take the 2nd exit. At the 5th roundabout you will see An Asda on the left take a right here (3rd Exit) go straight on till you come to a set of lights at a junction. Turn Left. And the club is on the left
ATTRACTIONS
BRAND NEW KRAFTY DÉCOR, FREE GIVE AWAYS. LAUGHING GAS, TOTAL BEDLAM & VIBEALITE MERCHANDISE. HARDCORE DISTORTION RECORDS STALL. NEW IMPROVED DÉCOR AND SOUND SYSTEM. SPRING LOADED DANCEFLOOR. UV CANNONS. VIDEO SCREENS. LAZERS. SCANS. MULTI ROOMS. POLITE SECURITY. DANCE PLATFORMS. CLOAKROOM. UV RAVER STALL. + LOADS MORE!!!
E- info@totalbedlam.com
W: www.totalbedlam.com
www.bedlamrecords.co.uk
T: 07932 988866
NO BLAGGERS OR CAP WEARERS PLEASE
DONT FORGET THE TOTAL BEDLAM SHOW EVERY TUESDAY FROM 8pm with Lee UHF & Guests JUST LOG ONTO
www.hardcoreregime.co.uk For Nuff upfront hard banging hardcore to wet your appetite before each and every event!
INCENTIVES FOR PEOPLE TRAVELLING BY BUS OR COACH WITH A NUMBER OF GUESTS WITH THEM, PLEASE CONTACT uhf@totalbedlam.com for more info
FOR FLYERS DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR DOOR STEP PLEASE EMAIL `FLYER REQUEST` TO uhf@totalbedlam.com
AVAILABLE NOW:-
TOTAL BEDLAM DVD (TBDVD001) £8.99
The Exclusive DVD filmed at our first allnighter on November 26th 2004, crammed with extra's and a special bonus mix cd from our event!
TOTAL BEDLAM 12PACK 1 & 2 AND DVD 1 & 2 AVAILABLE NOW!
For purchase please send a cheque or postal order toVibealite HQ. 26 Pecks Hill. Mansfield. Notts. NG18 2NN Include your contact details OR Pay by credit Debit Card Call 0871 2106585
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BOTANICA afterhours will NOT be happening this Sat. 08/06 We are sad to announce that we will not be hosting BOTANICA again this week. Apparently the city has been cracking down on zone laws, permits and licenses at many different venues in Los Angeles - Club XES being one of them.
The club is confident that the license issues will be solved by next week and that BOTANICA afterhours is back in action on Saturday, August 13th and we'll have a bunch of freebies to give away, as well as, $5 RSVP all night long.
for updated and last minute info you can always subscribe to our newsletter @ http://deepershades.net/botanica
stay deep ..
the BOTANICA crew
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
What do I need to start a party? Hi peeps I'm new to this site. Reason why I joined this forum is to get information on how to organise my own party.
So I found a venue which has been derelict for couple of years now so me and my mates went in there to make sure it was suitable (ie. cleaning the place out and making sure there are no hazardous objects) and we decided on holding a rave here. I'm sure you can tell by now that this is not going to be a legal rave.
Anyway after reading the posts on this website I have an idea of what I need and what to do to have my own rave, but one thing I didn't see (or missed) is what kind of generator will I need to run the decks, sound systems and lightings. If you can answer those question for me, when this rave happens you will get an invite for sure.
Thanks
Galloway praises Iraq ‘martyrs’ MP George Galloway is being accused of putting UK troops at risk after calling insurgents in Iraq "martyrs".
During a tour of the Middle East, Mr Galloway spoke of "poor Iraqis" using the most basic weapons to write the names of their towns "in the stars".
The Respect MP accused the UK and America of "raping" Baghdad and said the US was losing the war.
Labour MP Eric Joyce said the comments endangered UK troops "in a small way" but Mr Galloway held little influence.
Mr Galloway's Respect party stresses that it and the Bethnal Green and Bow MP condemn suicide bombings, whether in London or the Middle East.
Any loss of civilian life is profoundly wrong, says the party, but it blames the US-UK coalition for turning Iraq into a war zone by their invasion.
Mr Galloway claimed the insurgents were ordinary Iraqis defending their country against "foreign invaders".
"It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony."
'Martyrs'
In one speech, the MP said: "These poor Iraqis - ragged people, with their sandals, with their Kalashnikovs, with the lightest and most basic of weapons - are writing the names of their cities and towns in the stars, with 145 military operations every day, which has made the country ungovernable.
"We don't know who they are, we don't know their names, we never saw their faces, they don't put up photographs of their martyrs, we don't know the names of their leaders."
Mr Galloway was expelled from the Labour Party over his outspoken remarks about the Iraq war.
He told Syrian Television: "Two of your beautiful daughters are in the hands of foreigners - Jerusalem and Baghdad.
"The foreigners are doing to your daughters as they will.
"The daughters are crying for help and the Arab world is silent. And some of them are collaborating with the rape of these two beautiful Arab daughters."
Troop dangers?
Mr Galloway said Tony Blair's idea of a "war on terrorism" was absurd as terrorism was a tactic, not a strategy.
"It's not the Muslims who are sick. It's Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It's not the Muslims who need to be cured. It's the imperialist countries that need to be cured."
Falkirk MP Mr Joyce said Mr Galloway was trying to maximise his infamy in the UK with his latest comments, which would not impress people in the Middle East.
"It clearly puts British troops at greater risk in a small way and that is a pity," he said.
Mr Joyce said the words would at least be seen as encouraging resistance in Iraq and would upset troops' families in the UK.
But he said Mr Galloway was now a "marginal" figure who had limited influence.
'Occupation'
John Rees, national secretary of Respect, told BBC News the Iraqi resistance would not be encouraged to attack UK troops by what British politicians had said.
"Respect and George Galloway have made it plain on a number of occasions that we believe that the people who are putting British troops at risk are the people who have sent them to occupy someone else's country," he said.
Mr Rees said troops' families were often the most vociferous opponents of the Iraq war.
Labour MP Bruce George, former chairman of the Commons defence committee, said UK and US troops would leave Iraq if there was an end to the insurgency waged by remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime and religious fanatics.
The UK wanted to see Iraq's democratically elected government succeed, he said.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw this week said the UK was part of the security problem in Iraq and things are "not good" in the country.
He said an agreement on the new Iraqi constitution would be a step to reducing UK troops in Iraq.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk_politics/4744685.stm
Published: 2005/08/04 11:09:46 GMT
Gratis kaarten Dance valley Hallo,
Ik zag dat www.Toazted.nl gratis toegangskaarten weggeeft voor Dance Valley, 2005.
Je moet wel met een prijsvraag meedoen. Las dat het registreren gratis is!
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Peter
HouseBreakin’ – Friday 5th August @ Exit Bar, 174 Brick Lane, E1 HouseBreakin'
Friday 5th August @ Exit Bar, 174 Brick Lane, E1
8.30pm-1.00am | Free Entry
Djs on the night
Louise Plus1 (Re-Rave-All)
Mysteryguest (OCB)
Henry G (Re-Rave-All, Phuturesonic)
Ben Scammin' (Silverback Records, Chichime)
Playing our usual mix of nu and oldkool breaks, tekhouse and house
See ya there.
The HouseBreakers
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Opium erradication leads to Ya Ba The prefix is for the Peoples Demeocratic Republic of Lao (country code .la) not Los Angeles (in case anyone was confused...)
Lao tribes suffer from drug crackdown
The opium poppy that has long bloomed across the mountains of northern Laos has almost been wiped out by the government's drastic eradication campaign.
But what is being hailed as a victory by the international anti-narcotics agencies has also spawned a humanitarian crisis, due to the massive displacement of hill tribes and their loss of economic livelihood.
The campaign was spearheaded by the US government, with support from the European Union.
Such was its success that the authorities in Laos claim the country has achieved its 2005 deadline to become an opium-free country. The UNODC (the UN Office for Drugs and Crime) has confirmed that Laos had achieved a poppy reduction of 73% since 2000.
But unlike the major opium producers such as Afghanistan and Burma, Laos was only ever a marginal player in the international drugs trade.
And in order to eradicate production, an estimated 65,000 hill tribe people have been displaced from the mountains of northern Laos where the opium poppy thrives.
A survey by UN development consultant Charles Alton found that "hill tribe people moving to new villages not only lack sufficient rice, but they face fresh diseases - malaria, gastro-intestinal problems and parasites''.
Many are said to be dying of malaria and dysentery, and mortality rates as high as 4% have been recorded - rates normally found only in war zones and areas of refugee resettlement.
Change in approach
In the past, the Lao authorities tolerated opium poppy cultivation among the hill tribes, which make up more than 45% of the population.
Vientiane's liberal policy was spelt out in a 1999 memorandum entitled "A Balanced Approach to Opium Elimination in Laos."
Back then the government argued that poppy cultivation could not be eradicated until alternative crops and economic development were already in place.
However the US government and narcotics agencies escalated the pressure in 2000.
In the words of one NGO leader, who prefers to remain anonymous, "they pushed for opium elimination before economic development was in place, so they put the cart before the horse".
The dangling of a $80m carrot in aid, promised by the UN drugs control agency, led to a capitulation. In 2001 the Lao authorities plunged headlong into a hardline Western agenda of all-out war on the opium poppy.
Western embassies concede that their anti-drug policy may have been over-zealously implemented.
Sandro Serrato, the EU's chief of mission in Vientiane, admitted that "the implementation of opium eradication has probably been too rapid and [has] lacked resources".
But he also sympathised with the government's resettlement strategy, arguing: "There is such a scattered population, the government feels that only by bringing people down from the remote areas can they provide social services and development."
The EU is in favour of offering financial aid for future resettlement, as long as the government respects three points: there should be consultation, economic alternatives and the relocation must be voluntary.
But the monitoring of government compliance with any of these criteria is regarded as highly problematic, given the authoritarian nature of this one-party state.
Critics question both the sustainability and objectives of a policy that appears to have inflicted more harm than good. "Resettlement has caused the disruption of the hill tribes' way of life," one highly respected Lao academic, who wished to remain anonymous, explained. "Opium has many uses - as a major cash crop, for medicine and in traditional ceremonies and festive events."
Now, he warned, "it is the lack of opium that is far more dangerous".
Lack of alternatives
The inhabitants of Laos - both lowland and hill tribe people - have recently become victims of "ya ba" (amphetamines) and heroin flowing across the country from laboratories in neighbouring Burma.
The apparent success in wiping out opium has only contributed to far worse drug, social and economic problems, according to anthropologist David Feingold.
He warned that "likely long-term consequences will be increasing heroin and amphetamine use, [and] greater vulnerability of highland girls and women to trafficking and unsafe migration. Both of these outcomes will contribute to exacerbating HIV/Aids".
Lao specialist Bruce Shoemaker also pointed out that opium produced a high value crop using a very small amount of land.
The average opium farmer could earn about $200 a year, and Mr Shoemaker said that "no one alternative crop can come even close to matching this - it is just not sustainable".
A growing number of development specialists support an entirely different approach. Instead of destroying the poppies, the anonymous Lao academic advocated "a legal opium quota under strict international supervision, to be sold to pharmaceutical companies".
"If the farmers of Tasmania get benefit from opium, why not our poor farmers too?" he argued.
Although no feasibility study has ever been done, the UNODC chief in Vientiane, Klaus Nyholm, instantly rejected any prospect of Laos joining the club of legal opium producers - which includes Australia, India, and Turkey.
Whether opium is grown under legal control or illegally, many aid workers are convinced that only by ignoring human rights can they stop poor farmers from growing such a lucrative crop.
William Dangers from Church World Service development agency in Laos said these farmers would " always go back to opium unless the government uses repression to stop them".
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Lao tribes suffer from drug crackdown
Amsterdam Dance Event 27-29.10.05 This year we celebrate the tenth edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event
(27-29 October) and expect over 300 DJ's in the finest clubs of our
capital.
Among the first confirmations are Dave Clark (uk), Derrick May (us),
Armin van Buuren (nl), Marco Passarani (i), StoneBridge (sw).
An press notice follows early next week with more names. It would be
nice to be listed in your Party Calendar.
Please let me know if you would like to receive more information
Kind regards,
Inge
03-08-2005 First DJ's and acts confirmed for Amsterdam Dance Event
27/29 October 2005
Jeff Bennett (Kung Fu Dub, sw), DJ Armin van Buuren (Armada, nl),
Cantankerous (Tommy Boy, uk), Dave Clark Presents... (Decked Out, uk),
Francisco (Pigna, i), Illicit (nl), live: Jetlag (We Rock Like Crazy,
d), live: Charly Kent (Kommando 6, d), DJ Sebastien Leger (Blackjack
Rec/Intec Rec, f), DJ Derrick May (us), MedienGruppe Telekommander (d),
live: Eric Nouhan (nl), Marco Passarani (i), Quazar (Magma, nl), live:
Ra-X (Angelmaker/Bunker, d), Sneak (us), Stonebridge (Stoney Boy Music,
sw) and Taho (Lumina, f).
More names expected really soon...
http://festival.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/page.php?pageAlias=ade05f.home
French Teknival: May 1st 2005 @ Marigny Hey people,
Check this out, my photos from the Teknival in Marigny, France from April 28th to May 1st. Peek of 45,000 people, good sound, performers, happy people...
Don't miss the next French Teknival!
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Keep da free spirit,
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