ESSONOGO!//YOU UPGRADEmag// may 15.  2001
The UPGRADEmag is a global edutainment round-up ‘broadcast’ weekly to =[9537]= Trance// New Age// Alternative// Activist folks who have been recommended to the Parallel YOUniversity/ Megatripolis Dance Dept as "showing signs of life".  Since many choose to forward it to their own lists, we estimate 19,000+ recipients. And, because of its less 'specialist' content, it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide, making a total weeky ‘readership’ of, conservatively, 200,000+

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CAMPAIGN  ESSONOGO!  YOU 2372
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May 16-22, 2001 ASTROLOGY ENERGY FORECAST   
This week is close up time, and we can close up and close off much. Time to let things go, finish things up, say good-bye to those conditions which have outlived their usefulness, and re-orient ourselves. If we don’t do this purposefully, it’s guaranteed the universe will help us.
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
Drop the past and peer into the future.
Our 'leaders' are up to no good. Make an effort to see through the fog of government-corporate power, and just hold onto that vision until next week. It affects YOU.
The weekend is made for fun. Have it and share it.
It could include reading the Daily Calendar of Maya del Mar who contributes this
FORECAST to the UPGRADEmag:
www.daykeeperjournal.com
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London
SAT JUNE 2              DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT 3  
Ancient Future Mysteries Nite.
"Fraser Clark, the Cecil B De Mille of Fluoro Trance, offers up more higher-dimensional clubbing"  Big Issue.
Presented by
Parallel YOUniversity (purveyors of legendary clubs like Megatripolis and the Warp Experience)
1. 
DIN OF ENLIGHTENMENT DANCEFLOOR - enlightening psi-fi trance
 
Youth (Dragonfly Records)  Zebedee (Restless Natives, Trancentral)   ULTRA (Area 51)

2.
TRIBADELICATESSEN Pok Star, Now Age Radio, New Space Goats + Renegade Spinners   
3am After Party with DJ Frankie Dee

3. CROW'S NEST THEATRE  Tantric Cabaret @ Scenes from John Constable's Southwark Mysteries, previously performed at the Globe theatre and Southwark Cathedral"Like Shakespeare on acid"  Time Out
3am After Party with Ambient DJ Steve Radford (Mr.Night & Mr.Day / Knights Of The Occasional Table)

4. PLAYSHOP Ancient Stonehenge Mysteries & Modern Histories with CJ Stone (author of Fierce Dancing, Last Of The Hippies etc TBC) Susanna Lafond, Faery Queen and Battle Chieftain of Loyal Arthurian War Band, Tales from Stonehenge by Willy X, video footage, Talking Circle, Bards, Priestesses etc
PLUS
Guru Dave's Enlightenment Intensive + Ference the poet etc etc

@ Imperial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, SE5   11pm- 6am.   £10/6concs  
INFO: 0207-813-9685  Advance tickets from
Access All Areas, Camden.
www.parallel-youniversity.com

"Everywhere people are actually talking to each other!"  Time Out

YOU
Leeds, UK
WED MAY 23      OZRIC TENTACLES
Leeds Irish Centre, York Road   £9    0113 248 0887
http://www.ozrics.com

YOU 2372
CAMPAIGN  ESSONOGO!
One corporation donated more dollars to get Bush into the White House than any other oil company.  Esso, known as ExxonMobil in the US, does not want clean energy from wind, wave and solar power to replace oil, coal and gas because fuelling America's oil addiction means big big profits.
And now
President Bush has ditched the only international treaty to stop global warming.  As far as he's concerned, US corporations have the "right" to pollute the entire planet.
Esso and Bush thought that, once they'd bought the election, they'd be too big for the rest of us to stop them. But they just might be wrong!  We can choose not to buy their products.

JOIN CAMPAIGN ESSONOGO NOW & BOYCOTT ESSO!
1.      Esso (and Bush) pretend global warming isn't happening while being a major cause of it. They spend millions of dollars on misleading propaganda every year.
2.      Esso have played a leading role in sabotaging international attempts to stop global warming.  If it's a choice between protecting future generations and selling more petrol their choice is clear.
3.      Esso refuse to invest in clean, green energy and instead spend all their money on dirty oil and gas.  Even Shell and BP will invest $500 million each over the next 3 years in green energy projects.  Let's reinforce their small moves by penalising the worst of them.
4.      Esso are the biggest oil company in the world - £12 billion profits in 2000.  If anyone can afford to help stop global warming it's them!
5.      Esso's driving motive is profit, so let's give them an argument they can't ignore!

JOIN
CAMPAIGN ESSONOGO NEXT TIME YOU FILL UP!

www.stopesso.com

YOU 2373
London
SAT MAY 19              PENDRAGON
Mark Sinclair, Matt Darey, PsyNRG, Juno, Jarrah, Marcella Woods 'LIVE'
Fridge, Town Hall Parade, Brixton Hill, Brixton, SW2   £12   020 7326 5100
http://www.hal2000.demon.co.uk/pendragon.html

YOU 2374

THURS EVE JUNE 21       FIRST DAY OF SUMMER ROLLING BLACKOUT
7-10PM WORLDWIDE, ALL TIME ZONES
As an alternative to George Bush's lack of emphasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, you are encouraged to participate in a global voluntary ROLLING BLACKOUT on this, the first day of summer.  If everyone does it from 7-10pm in his or her time zone, it will roll it around the planet.
In a
simple protest and symbolic act, please turn out your lights, unplug whatever you can unplug, light a candle to the Sungoddess, kiss and tell or not, take a stroll in the dark, invent ghost stories, anything that's not electronic - have fun in the dark.
Conservation/high efficiency technologies are ALREADY on-the-shelf.  If implemented, these revolutionary ideas would pay themselves off within five years, after which we'd be pumping far less greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and saving bucks to boot.
Forward this email as widely as possible, not forgetting your government representatives and environmental allies.  Let them know we want global education, participation and funding in conservation, efficiency and alternative fuel efforts - and an end to over-exploitation and misuse of the earth's resources.
In the same breath that the
Cheney-Bush team is telling us that "conservation can't help, it'll just be too expensive to implement those technologies," they're also telling us how easy it is to develop technology to deploy weapons for blowing incoming ICBMs out of the sky.

YOU 2375
UK
FRI MAY 25-27   SUMMER GATHERING
Presented by PADRAS (Pagan & Druid Rights & Services)
Wheatstone Community, North Herefordshire
Music includes Late Night Rock'n'roll [Glastonbury's RIPPLE EFFECT]
Early Morning Techno
Workshops on permaculture, paganism and other topics
2 nights Camping included
Vegan cafe & other refreshments
Booking in advance recommended (200 places on site) 
Bookings to Rowena, c/o Wheatstone, Dark Lane, Leintwardine, nr Craven
Arms, Shrops SY7 0LH.  Cheques etc. to "PADRAS."
£15/10 concs. Teenagers £5 (employed teenagers pay full rate)
You are supporting the work of PADRAS including The Stonehenge Peace
Process and the Stonehenge Peace Stewards.

YOU 2376

Dear Fraser,
I was on your email list for a few years, and then I went to live in India for two years (where I have been working for an enlightened master called
Dolano). So please put me back on it!
I was interested to go to the
Den of Enlightenment - my first night out since I've been back in this country. Especially interested because I have been living in Pune, seeing masters come and go.
I found
Guru Dave's speech somewhat interesting but also somewhat confused. Is he representative of London's current Satsang style?
I would also like to hear more trance, the music was so hard.  But I loved the drumming in the front room. 
Thank you for a great night.
It is SO good to see someone trying to bring London clubs beyond the usual boring drugged out mess that they are.
All the love eternal,
Shashi

YOU 2377
Los Angeles
SAT MAY 19              BLISS II
Sacred
(Sammy Khorchid), Gabriel D Vine, DJ Myke, Charles in Charge
Live: Psychosurfoxtic sounds of the
Sir Smooge Orchestra, Flaming Hoola Hoops,
Spoken Word by
Sariah: "Alan Ginsberg in Trance", Champa 51.
3D Fluorescent Twister, UV Volleyball, Beach Blanket Go Go Dancers.
Dress In Fluorescent Beach Attire.  $15 with Tropical Costume, $20 without
@ downtown LA, 310.358.7338

YOU 2378
Chile
una invitación
Esto es una invitación para que conozcas el sitio web de música electrónica del Colectivo Euphoria (de Santiago de Chile). en: http://euphoria.chilesat.net
Este sitio además, difunde TODA la actualidad local en lo que eventos relacionado con las corrientes electrónicas se refiera. Desde Drum and Bass hasta Techno. Del House
al Psyko Trance...
Todo lo que ocurre en Clubes (Tantra, La Feria, Casa Club, etc), Pubs y bares  (La Boheme, Amsterdam, Café Journal, etc), o eventos de otros colectivos (raves y fiestas de Dreamvibe, Real Underground, Fou Actions, etc.)
Si quieres recibir el mailing semanal con los encabezados de la agenda... haz REPLY
ha este mail y serás suscrito a la lista! (Actualmente este mail llega a más de 1600 personas.)
d.j. Zikuta, Miembro Fundador, Colectivo Euphoria
Verifícalo en: http://euphoria.chilesat.net/html/agenda.htm
***end of trance-mission***

YOU 2379

RAVE CRACKDOWN CONTINUES
New York
NEW YORK CLOSES DANCE CLUB - PROBLEMS WITH PERMITS
Popular Chelsea nightclub Twilo has been shut down, at least temporarily, after the police and building inspectors raided the club and evicted hundreds of patrons, saying that several of the club's building permits were missing or invalid.
The move comes as the
Giuliani administration intensifies its long-running battle against a handful of Manhattan dance clubs that city officials say are havens of drug use and occasional violence.
No one at
Twilo was arrested, police officials said.  Instead, officials shut the club, at 530 West 27th Street, after determining that its certificate of occupancy and place of assembly permits had not been properly issued or maintained. Officials also said that the club's fire protection plan was not up to date and that it had not gotten required approvals for first-floor renovations.
A Department of Buildings spokesman said the six year old club, known for its electronic music and dancing that lasts until well after dawn, would not be allowed to reopen until the violations were resolved.
"They are shut down until further notice, indefinitely," said the spokesman, Paul Wein, adding that a June 21 court date had been set.
Peter R. Sullivan, a lawyer for the club, said the violations were technical and called the club's closing unjustified. "It's absolutely guaranteed it will be reopened," he said.
The enforcement tactic used yesterday reflected a strategy by the city to no longer issue or renew permits to
Twilo and other troubled clubs, unless directly ordered to do so by the court.  So, if a permit expires or needs amending, even for a minor inconsistency, the city may refuse to do so and then shut the club down, Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington said.
For example, part of the justification for closing
Twilo yesterday, officials said, was that its basement assembly permit was invalid, at least in part, because it was issued to Sound Factory, a club that used to operate at that location.
Mr. Washington was not ready to declare a lasting victory against
Twilo, saying that the city's action could be overturned in court.
The
Giuliani administration has been trying to close Twilo since at least November 1998, when the city, citing the drug overdose of a patron, filed a lawsuit declaring the club a public nuisance.  City officials contend that clubs like Twilo and the Tunnel, another West 27th Street establishment, do not do enough to prevent the use and sale of drugs like ecstasy.
But the clubs have just as vehemently responded that they are doing their part, hiring private security officers, including some who work undercover.  Mr. Sullivan said the fact that the state courts have allowed
Twilo to stay open despite the lawsuit was proof that the club was well managed.  He claimed the city's efforts were misguided. "It is very sad that the city continues to hide the absence of a policy concerning drug abuse by the dancing public by demonizing Twilo".
Twilo regulars, some of whom learned of the news yesterday on the club's Internet site, seemed to agree with Mr. Sullivan. "Almost all clubs have fire code violations," one patron wrote on the site's message board.  Another called the code violations an "excuse to ensure that there are no bumps in the road in Giuliani's Disney-gentrification plan to have NYC become an ultraconservative suburb."

RAVE CRACKDOWN THE FIGHTBACK CONTINUES
 San Francisco
BORDER CANTINA GRANTED LATE NIGHT PERMITS!
New Pro Late Night Legislation Introduced!
San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly has introduced new legislation which, if passed, could abolish the Dance Hall Keepers' Permit, currently one of the biggest hurdles to holding late night events in the city.
Despite the current RAVE CRACKDOWN, groups are fighting back on too many levels to itemise or for the authorities to respond to! (they just don't have the manpower or the money!)  In San Francisco SFLNC helped organise the above City Hall attendance and in the same week helped a local club get their late night permits.
http://www.sflnc.com

NEW ORLEANS
SITUATION UPDATE
The EMDEF has information about the DEA's latest video which compares raves and nightclubs to "crackhouses."

Meanwhile, back in the UK, the grandmother of Rave Culture, newspapers have been reporting that similar "crackhouse laws" passed through parliament last Friday.  However, it's technically an extension of the Misuse of Drugs Act which has, until now, only empowered police to act where cannabis was being used or sold on the premises.  Logically enough, they've now extended it to include all drugs.
Sorta using the pot laws to bust for other drugs.  Truth is they could have used this law already to bust any promoter/owner on whose premises someone was smoking a joint.  Let's see, that's... every club I've been to in the last year ;)
 
{posted on the Para YOU web site}

YOU 2380

FRI MAY 18      PLANET ANGEL @ IMP GARDENS
Now using THREE rooms of the club.  Art, Dancing, smiles and bouncy sounds. Paint on the giant canvas or chill with the Lego or even do a spot of dancing!
ALSO: literature Alley, the Twinkly Zone, and communal chatting areas.
Imperial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, London, SE5  (Oval tube)  10pm - 6am  £8 before 11, £10 thereafter.
For info on booking a place on the coach from Brighton visit and other info:-
http://www.planetangel.net

YOU 2381

DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT GOES FORTNIGHTLY!
Yes, folks, so great was the last party, with numbers and smiles almost doubling that Fraser has taken the decision to go fortnightly from June 2.  Dates thereafter will be June 16 (Cannabis Carnival), July 7 & 21 etc

J       NEXT DENS OF ENLIGHTENMENT ARE SATURDAY JUNE 2ND & 16TH
J       IMPERIAL GARDENS, 299 Camberwell New Road, London SE5.
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