SchNews on Bristol Party Progress

People are considering legal action against Avon and Somerset Constabulary after 50 officers in full riot gear broke up a free dance party at Cumberland Basin, near Bristol a couple of weekends back, seriously injuring at least nine people. Cops made no attempt to negotiate with party-goers, telling them "If you're down there, you're going to get hurt." The police had even thoughtfully brought an ambulance with them just in case they kicked anyone's head in - which they did. Police blamed party-goers for the injuries commenting "It was clear a rave at this location would put a risk of harm to those attending." The 'location' was under a motorway flyover, far away from residential housing, which had been used as a party site on numerous occasions before. Avon and Somerset Police seriously got their fingers burnt over the massive Steart beach party over the Jubilee weekend (SchNEWS 363) and local media have been busy whipping up a frenzy as "hooligan ravers" descend on the countryside to have fun. One party organiser told SchNEWS "We reckon the cops decided it was payback time."
The Free Party Defence Collective is now appealing for witnesses to
mount legal action 07810 601703 www.guilfin.net

· Four Brighton based sound systems have finally been charged after having rigs seized from a Shoreham warehouse during Easter bank holiday. Despite never getting to turn on sound systems, attract a crowd or actually disturb anyone other than local plod, party organisers have been charged with 'Conspiracy to cause public nuisance' - and all for not quite getting to throw a free party.
· Thanks to the cops and the local council this year's Welsh Green Gathering was cancelled

THE DEVIL'S MUSIC "So-called Jazz compositions may contain at most 10% syncopation; the remainder must consist of a natural legato movement devoid of the hysterical rhythmic reverses characteristic of the music of the barbarian races and conductive to dark instincts alien to the German people (so-called `riffs')." From legal regulations on dance orchestras in Nazi occupied Prague "Jazz is music that is based on rhythm and entirely ignores or even shows contempt for melody, music in which rhythm is indicated primarily by the ugly sounds of whining instruments so insulting to the soul...." Josef Goebbels 7th March 1942. "Powers in relation to raves" 63. - (1) This section applies to a gathering on land in the open air of 100 or more persons (whether or not trespassers) at which amplified music is played during the night (with or without intermissions) and is such as, by reason of its loudness and duration and the time at which it is played, is likely to cause serious distress to the inhabitants of the locality; and for this purpose ................ (b) "music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats. Criminal Justice Act 1994 Michael Howard MP.