ganja DAY! march to free the weed!

[USE]

..all you caners, roll this way!


i received this from BASS, so if anyone wants to help out, contact this bloke:


Greetings,

Please pass this around your email lists, request for stewards from
Steve Pank.

M i l l i o n M a r i j u a n a M a r c h L o n d o n 2 0 0 5

Saturday May 7th Gathering in Kennington Park [opp Oval Tune Stn] 11am
There will be a stage, speakers and refreshments will be available.

The March will move off from 12.15, down Brixton Road, through
Brixton High St, Effra Road, Dulwich Rd, and arriving at the
Cannabis Festival site, Brockwell Park, between 1.15 and 1.30.pm.

Stewards needed for the march. There will be a briefing session before
the march, Tabards and armbands will be provided Those with Mobile
phones especially welcome. If you would like to volunteer to act as a
March Steward, please send an email to:
marchstewards@thecannabisfestival.co.uk or
telephone 01508 480528, giving your name, and contact details.

More info available on www.thecannabisfestival.co.uk

[globalloon]

last 'bis march i went to i met a reporter

she was reseaching an article and wanted me to say that secretly i wanted weed to stay illegal so i could seem cool

controversy

:rolleyes:

[PaulM]

I miss it every year! ! ! ! !
If not in cornwall I will b there... :)

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basically BASS have decided against running the tent because they always lose money...so NATIVE BEATS and TECHNOPHOBIA have picked up the baton...as we are both part of BASS we will still be representin them, but we have more control, basically!

it looks like i might be in charge of the decor and vis and lighting, within a crew, obviously (i'm not a meglomanic, just enthusiastic!).

if anyone has anything they would like to contribute, be it funds (we're doin it for free and looks like its gonna cost about a grand and a half), some lighting, decor, stewarding skills, a set of djing, vjing, a band or whatever, if u send me a demo, we'll give it a listen, defo.

more info to follow...questions/ suggestions all appreciated.

[TigerMoff]

Last years BASS tent was wicked. Lets hope you can keep up the good work from last year

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Last years BASS tent was wicked. Lets hope you can keep up the good work from last year


ooh! pressure! panic! etc... always nice to have a challenge. and nice to see you here, tigermoff, a pleasant suprise!

my initial thoughts were to start out with breakbeaty hip hop, maybe a nice mc or beatbox for soem crowd interaction, go thru some live DnB, and into dj sets of DnB, techno etc later on.

i'm designin decor based around the stage structure, and couple o back drops, projections behind the acts, and hopefully a dirty lightin system...

any suggestions?

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theres another tent doing hiphop, so looks like the BASS tent will be Drum n Bass and Techno the whole way, there are some mental sets being prepared....we are gonna blow the roof off.

technophobia are sorting lighting, i'm in charge of decor and projections. the main problem i have is making sure everything complies to health and safety and fire standards..does anyone have a link for somewhere i can get the relevent documents?

[General Lighting]

www.hse.gov.uk

look for "entertainment industry", there is a fair bit of info there.

there's also a large booklet HSE publish. They may sell these online but you can also buy this at a bookshop with a "TSO" (The Stationery Office) section which sells government produced papers and books.

[Unregistered]

so is anyone planning any big parties round london after the ganja frollics during the day? Ill come on the bus/train but if i know something goods going down ill try and get a car sorted.

[USE]

we are well up for sorting an after party, but getting the stage funded is missions enough, in terms of cash (the 414's £1,200 on the night).

if anyone knows some good cheap venues around brockwell park that aren't crackhouses, that would be phat.

[Unregistered]

looks like it's not happening - bollox

[suspect]

looks like it's not happening - bollox



Your comment is a bit vague, do you not think?

Please explain.

[USE]

UK : LDN : Tories stub out cannabis festival

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From www.icsouthlondon.co.uk


Quote:

Cannabis march to be banned

Feb 25 2005


IT USED to be the home of the so-called 'softly-softly' approach to
cannabis possession and for many it's the natural place for a festival
calling for the drug to be legalised. For six years, thousands of
revellers descended on Lambeth to back the campaign. CLARE CASEY finds out
why the event has been banned


LOVE it or hate it, it was an established fixture in the cultural calender.

In less than a decade the annual Cannabis March and Festival in Lambeth
became better known than the borough's country show.

But not any more. Lambeth council this week announced it would not let the
event's organisers hold the festival at Brockwell Park in Herne Hill.

The authority has banned what would have been the seventh festival,
alleging drug dealing took place in the Victorian park at last year's
bash. The move has angered organisers who claim the decision was taken for
political reasons. Thousands of people marched annually from Kennington to
Brockwell Park for the festival in support of a global call to legalise
cannabis. Similar events take place around the world to mark Cannabis
Liberation Day.

But Lambeth's executive member for environment, Councillor Clare Whelan,
said it would be "irresponsible" to let the festival go ahead.

The Conservative councillor told the South London Press: "Residents and
council officers who went to last year's event were offered drugs by
dealers.

"It is against the law to sell drugs and I was horrified to discover
families - not just one or two but a substantial number - had been
approached by dealers. Brockwell Park is council land and it is up to us
to take a stand.

"We cannot condone letting an event go ahead where drug dealers operate,
because that would be completely irresponsible.

"I absolutely support liberty of speech and people campaigning for a
change in the law but this is a different thing altogether.

"Lambeth has had a reputation for turning a blind eye to cannabis smoking
but we must remember it is still illegal."

This so-called "softly-softly" approach was undertaken in 2001 when
Lambeth police pioneered a lenient approach to cannabis possession in
which people caught with small amounts of the drug were cautioned rather
than arrested. This is no longer the case.

Festival organiser and Green Party drugs spokesman Shane Collins claims
the Liberal Democrat and Conservative-run council axed the event because
of Cllr Whelan's political persuasion, an allegation Cllr Whelan denies.

Mr Collins said: "The council is making itself look foolish.

"Cllr Whelan is a Tory and that's why she doesn't want it to go ahead.

"I would be interested to see a list of all these residents who complained
to her officers - I suspect it's very short.

"On the one hand the council bleats on about a sense of community and says
it is really important to provide events for the people of Lambeth, but
then they stop us doing just that.

"Thousands of people look forward to this free festival every year and to
pull it with no explanation is a disgrace. It's a safe event which is all
about people having fun.

"By stopping it they have made themselves look extremely stupid yet again."

The festival might be banned but Mr Collins said the march to the park,
via Brixton, would go ahead as planned on Saturday, May 7.

On the same day similar protests calling for the legalisation of cannabis
will take place around the world.

Residents neighbouring the park had mixed views about the festival ban.

Simon Cobban, of Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, was disappointed.

He said: "I have never seen any trouble and it's a good festival. It's not
only the march but there's good food and it's a fun day out.

"It tends to attract the 'dogs on strings-type' but my only complaint is
there are a lot of camper vans that park on this road for the couple of
days surrounding the event."

A pensioner in Norwood Road, who asked not to be named, said: "I'm sure
the council has stopped it with good reason.

"Sometimes the music is a bit loud - but not as bad as the megaphones you
hear when the Lambeth Show is on.

"Those young ones don't cause any trouble but they leave a lot of litter."

Staff at Tanley's Irish bar in Dulwich Road said the ban would be bad for
business and the community.

Full-time bar worker Evelyn McDonagh said: "I always choose to work when
the cannabis festival is on because it's such a fun day.

"You get loads of people popping in for a couple of pints and it's a good
atmosphere.

"I think it's a shame for everyone that it's not going ahead."



we are just carrying on as usual in somekind of vague hope :)

[General Lighting]

we are just carrying on as usual in somekind of vague hope :)

have you tried the other S london boroughs? They are close together, and some may not be as hardline as others. What about Lewisham or Southwark?

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have you tried the other S london boroughs? They are close together, and some may not be as hardline as others. What about Lewisham or Southwark?

in the grand scheme of this, i am but a projectionist and decorator,
i'm not organising anything but the stewards and visuals for the dance stage, there are a couple of layers abovce me, and theyre all caners. it's a slow communciation chain and there's not much time. i'm hardly an authority on london licencing laws, not to mention the other million things i dont know about festivals.. i'm sure theyre on it.