{"id":2650,"date":"2011-03-23T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T17:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2024-01-20T05:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T05:02:59","slug":"save-the-rave-at-city-hall-next-stop-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/save-the-rave-at-city-hall-next-stop-sacramento\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Rave at City Hall: Next Stop Sacramento?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"save<\/a>In my 12+ years in the scene – if I ever questioned how diverse we all really are, it was certainly very apparent tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n

— Samantha Marie, on Facebook<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a huge success for the electronic dance music community. With the diversity of attendance and the overwhelming support for Supervisor Scott Wiener’s resolution supporting electronic dance, it’s a harbinger of how we’ll work together in the battle over AB74.<\/em><\/p>\n

— Save the Rave co-chair Matt Haze Kaftor<\/em><\/p>\n

Over 400 people turned out on a rainy Tuesday night for the San Francisco Youth and Entertainment Commission’s special joint hearing. Several hundred of us were in the overflow room, watching on video until we were called to speak, and cheers erupted again and again as dozens of people spoke beautifully.\u00c2\u00a0 We heard from teens, students, teachers, parents, business owners, promoters, lawyers, harm reduction experts, an astrophysicist — and somebody from the San Francisco police department, who described it as the most professional hearing he had heard on the subject.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If you missed it, Trance Family SF has posted the video<\/a> and mp3 audio<\/a>.*\u00c2\u00a0 I’m so proud to be a member of this community.<\/p>\n

Save the Rave had done a remarkably good job of organizing before the meeting: checking in and encouraging potential speakers, posting and emailing talking points, and suggestions<\/a> from organizer Liam Shy including “when the time comes tomorrow for you to speak, speak from your heart!”<\/p>\n

\"They<\/a>And people most certainly did.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I talked with Omega after his moving description of himself as a veteran who felt like “a lost puppy” as he transitioned into civilian life until he found the SF electronic dance community, and he summed it up beautifully: “I am who I am because of the people I’ve met here.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s just a smattering of what others said:<\/p>\n