{"article":{"id":17892,"heading":"RAVE bill scary! kill!  kill!","author":"teknotastic anarchistik!","created":"2002-07-19 15:39:19","modified":"2003-02-20 14:11:46","last_modified":"Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:11:46","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>i don't like calling \"my\" senators either, but this bill could have serious impications not just for \"raves\", but for house parties, benefit parties, etc., anywhere where electronic music is played!  so please help out - it could be voted on today! <br><br> More YOU Can Do to Stop the RAVE Bill: Call Senators <br>  <br> Boxer + Feinstein and ask them to put a HOLD on the <br>  <br> bills and to vote against any \"unanimous consent <br>  <br> request.\"  even if you've called\/written already!  <br>  <br> more below: <br><br>  <br>  <br> (A Drug Policy Alliance and Dance Safe Joint Action) <br><br> As you may know, a bill to give federal prosecutors <br>  <br> the ability to shut down musical events they don't  <br>  <br> like is rapidly moving through the Senate, and could  <br>  <br> be voted on as early as this week. We have flooded the <br><br> Senate with almost 20,000 faxes and thousands of phone <br><br> calls. We need Californians to call Senators Boxer and <br><br> Feinstein and ask them to put a hold on this bill -  <br>  <br> even if you have already contacted them. <br><br> IT IS URGENT THAT YOU ACT RIGHT AWAY. If the anti-rave <br><br> Senate bill is enacted, property owners may become too <br><br> afraid to rent or lease their property to groups  <br>  <br> holding hemp festivals or putting on all-night dance  <br>  <br> parties, effectively stifling free-speech and banning  <br>  <br> raves and other musical events!!  <br><br> ACTIONS TO TAKE <br><br> ** Call Senator Boxer's DC office. Tell her that you <br>  <br> are  <br>  <br> very concerned about the civil liberties and free  <br>  <br> speech implications of S. 2633 (the RAVE Act). Urge  <br>  <br> her to put a \"hold\" on the bill and to vote against  <br>  <br> any \"unanimous consent request\". Boxer's DC office is  <br>  <br> 202-224-3553. After you call her DC office, call her  <br>  <br> California office that is closest to you and say the  <br>  <br> same thing.  <br>  <br> Fresno - 559-497-5109;  <br>  <br> Los Angeles - 213-894-5000;  <br>  <br> Sacramento - 916-448-2787;  <br>  <br> San Bernardino - 909-888-8525;  <br>  <br> San Diego - 619-239-3884;  <br>  <br> San Francisco - 415-403-0100 <br><br> ** Call Senator Feinstein's DC office. Tell her that <br>  <br> you  <br>  <br> are very concerned about the civil liberties and free  <br>  <br> speech implications of S. 2633 (the RAVE Act). Urge  <br>  <br> her to put a hold on the bill and vote against any  <br>  <br> \"unanimous consent request\". Feinstein's DC office is  <br>  <br> 202-224-3841. After you call her DC office, call her  <br>  <br> California office that is closest to you and say the  <br>  <br> same thing.  <br>  <br> Fresno - 559-485-7430;  <br>  <br> Los Angeles - 310-914-7300;  <br>  <br> San Diego - 619-231-9712;  <br>  <br> San Francisco - 415-393-0707 <br><br> ** Forward this alert to your friends, family, and  <br>  <br> co-workers. <br><br> MORE INFORMATION  <br><br> The Senate is considering legislation that would give  <br>  <br> federal prosecutors new powers to shut down raves or  <br>  <br> other musical events they don't like and punish  <br>  <br> businessmen and women for hosting or promoting them.  <br>  <br> The bill (S, 2633), also known as the Reducing  <br>  <br> American's Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act), is <br><br> moving very rapidly and could be considered by the  <br>  <br> full Senate as early as this week. (A similar bill is  <br>  <br> also pending in the House.)  <br><br> S. 2633, sponsored by Senators Durbin (D-IL), Hatch  <br>  <br> (R-UT), Grassley (R-IA) and Leahy (D-VT), expands the <br>  <br> so- <br>  <br> called \"crack house statute\" to allow the federal  <br>  <br> government to fine or imprison businessmen and women <br>  <br> if  <br>  <br> customers sell or use drugs on their premises or at <br>  <br> their  <br>  <br> events. Property owners, promoters, and event <br>  <br> coordinators  <br>  <br> could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars or <br>  <br> face up  <br>  <br> to twenty years in federal prison if they hold raves <br>  <br> or  <br>  <br> other events on their property. If the bill becomes <br>  <br> law,  <br>  <br> property owners may be too afraid to rent or lease <br>  <br> their  <br>  <br> property to groups holding hemp festivals or putting <br>  <br> on  <br>  <br> all-night dance parties, effectively stifling <br>  <br> free-speech  <br>  <br> and banning raves and other musical events. <br><br> The new law would also make it a federal crime to  <br>  <br> temporarily use a place for the purpose of using any  <br>  <br> illegal drug. Thus, anyone who used drugs in their own <br><br> home or threw an event (such as a party or barbecue) <br>  <br> in  <br>  <br> which one or more of their guests used drugs could  <br>  <br> potentially face a $250,000 fine and years in federal  <br>  <br> prison. The bill also effectively makes it a federal  <br>  <br> crime to rent property to medical marijuana patients <br>  <br> and  <br>  <br> their caregivers, giving the federal government a new  <br>  <br> weapon in its war on AIDS and cancer patients that use <br><br> marijuana to relieve their suffering.  <br><br> Health advocates worry that the bill will endanger our <br><br> nation's youth. If enacted, licensed and law-abiding  <br>  <br> business owners may stop hosting raves or other events <br><br> that federal authorities don't like, out of fear of  <br>  <br> massive fines and prison sentences. Thus, the law <br>  <br> would  <br>  <br> drive raves and other musical events further  <br>  <br> underground and away from public health and safety  <br>  <br> regulations. It would also discourage business owners  <br>  <br> from enacting smart harm-reduction measures to protect <br><br> their customers. By insinuating that selling bottled  <br>  <br> water and offering \"cool off\" rooms is proof that <br>  <br> owners  <br>  <br> and promoters know drug use is occurring at their <br>  <br> events,  <br>  <br> this bill may make business owners too afraid to  <br>  <br> implement such harm-reduction measures, and the safety <br>  <br> of  <br>  <br> our kids will suffer.  <br><br> The RAVE Act punishes businessmen and women for the  <br>  <br> crimes of their customers and is unprecedented in U.S. <br><br> history. The federal government can't even keep drugs <br>  <br> out  <br>  <br> of prisons, yet it seeks to punish business owners for <br><br> failing to keep people from carrying drugs onto their  <br>  <br> premises. If this bill passes, federal authorities <br>  <br> will  <br>  <br> have the ability to scare business owners away from <br>  <br> using  <br>  <br> or renting their property for all-night dance events, <br>  <br> as  <br>  <br> well as any other \"politically incorrect\" event. <br><br> For more information on this bill, go to <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/\">http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/<\/a> and under \"bill number\" search  <br>  <br> for S2633. <br>  <br> ######## <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"anarhotekno@yahoo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"More YOU Can Do to Stop the RAVE Bill: Call Senators\r\nBoxer + Feinstein and ask them to put a HOLD on the\r\nbills and to vote against any &quot;unanimous consent\r\nrequest.&quot;  even if you've called\/written already! \r\nmore below:","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/07\/17892.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":30442,"heading":"im so against this bill s.2633","article":"i had heard about this a few months ago but had no idea that it was this far along im going to call my senate today. this upsets me so mutch because my friend and are Iin the process of geting a dj line up and starting planing on our oun rave in april and i was wondering if it would effect our party. \r\n                       *love the music not the drugs*       \r\n                                           *P.L.U.R.*\r\n                     *PEASE LOVE UNITY RESPECT*\r\nBEEN RAVING FOR GOING ON THREE YEAR AND I LOVE IT ITS ONE OF THE ONLEY THINGS THAT GIVES ME HAPPYNESS IN THIS MESS OF A WORLD WE LIVE IN ","author":"jesse m.","parent_id":17892,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-02-20 14:11:46","modified":"2003-02-20 14:11:46","fileurl":""}]}