{"id":2633,"date":"2011-03-22T09:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2011-03-22T09:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:47:21","slug":"tonight-save-the-rave-live-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/03\/22\/tonight-save-the-rave-live-at-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight: Save the Rave &#8212; live at City Hall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_onRBxhIFYM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dealing with the most difficult-to-motivate generation ever. People today feel so powerless, like they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an impact on anything that matters. But you can! So one of the things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to share with the community is that when you come together, we can make a difference. \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Save the Rave organizer Liam Shy<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/blog\/?p=176\"><em> <\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA lot&#8217;s happened in the five weeks since I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/blog\/?p=176\">A Community Coming Together on Facebook<\/a>: the Electric Daisy Carnival relocated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasweekly.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/24\/largest-us-rave-electric-daisy-carnival-leaving-la\/\">from LA to Vegas<\/a>, AB 74 sponsor <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2011\/03\/fiona_ma_rave.php\">Fiona Ma went to Beyond Wonderland<\/a> in San Bernadino, and the San Francisco electronic dance music community has continued to organize.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s the meeting with the San Francisco Entertainment and Youth Commissions.\u00c2\u00a0 I had signed up on Save the Rave&#8217;s site,\u00c2\u00a0 the mailing list, and over the weekend, I got a call reminding me.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, they posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savetherave.org\/rsvp\">talking points<\/a>, and suggestions from Liam in the Facebook group on how to approach the meeting<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the time comes tomorrow for you to speak, speak from your heart!   Tell City Hall why EDM events are important to you and how they have  bettered your life.  Share a funny story, an emotional story, YOUR story  about the positive change the music and community has realized in and  around you.<\/p>\n<p>We are here to celebrate peace, music, art, culture,  community and LIFE.  We seek only understanding, compassion and a  promise that our constitutional rights will be protected, so that we may  dance and thrive!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah really!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve blogged so much over the years about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?tag=psytrance\">how much electronic dance music means in my life<\/a> that there&#8217;s no way I can convey it in two short minutes, but if I get a chance to speak I&#8217;ll do my best &#8212; and also try use myself as an example of somebody who visits SF because of the EDM scene, talk about the time I hired Geomagnetic.tv to do work for me at Microsoft because I had been impressed by their work at psytrance parties, and talk about constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?sk=group_132907476771264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5300\/5538603547_2f069a196f.jpg\" alt=\"Save the Rave\" width=\"200\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>None of the legal experts I&#8217;ve talked to think AB 74 is constitutional.\u00c2\u00a0 Freedom of assembly is a first amendment right.\u00c2\u00a0 And on top of that, electronic dance parties can be political speech &#8212; Liam&#8217;s set in the Castro at Pink Saturday 2008, right after a big marriage equality victory; or a benefit for a political organization.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Saving the rave is a civil liberties issue too, and it&#8217;s really great to see so many people step forward and speak up for our rights.<\/p>\n<p>SF is a city where the &#8220;rave\/nightclub&#8221; vote is enough to decide a lot of elections and it&#8217;s exciting to see a new generation of activists start to flex their muscles.   See you at City Hall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dealing with the most difficult-to-motivate generation ever. People today feel so powerless, like they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an impact on anything that matters. But you can! So one of the things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to share with the community is that when you come together, we can make a difference. \u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Save the Rave organizer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7,14,16],"tags":[75,269,283,306],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-personal","category-political","category-social-sciences","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-civil-liberties","tag-politics","tag-psytrance","tag-save-the-rave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}