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As many as 250 rave fans filled the overflow room at San Francisco City Hall, 3\/22\/11, to voice their opposition to legislation sponsored by Assemblymember Fiona Ma that aims to ban raves in California. Photos by Joana Lima Martins.<\/p><\/div>\n

By William Chadwick<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 25, 2011<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike other youth events and other types of concerts, raves typically do not involve assault. Rave culture discourages aggressiveness. Raves are safer for young people, especially women, than conventional bars and clubs. Chief dangers at raves are heat, humidity, and loud music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andre Korr, Health and Safety Officer of Save The Rave, and member of PLUR Alliance, was quoting directly from the US Department of Justice\u2019s Guide to Local Police Departments on Rave Parties, based on studies in United States, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.<\/p>\n

Save The Rave<\/a> is an organization committed to the production of safe electronic dance music events (EDM) in San Francisco and beyond. On Tuesday night at City Hall, a very large bunch of ravers entered the building, somewhat soberly dressed, in order to voice their concerns and relate their positive experiences of EDM events and culture.<\/p>\n

Public comment afforded many people, young and old, the chance to say how important EDM, rave culture and its values were to them. They spoke of acceptance, hope, and celebration of life. One young woman pleaded, \u201cThis is like my family. If you take this away from me, I don\u2019t know where else to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nic Higuera, a local promoter with Geomagnetic, made an impassioned plea, \u201cGive kids something to look forward to at the weekend other than homework. Please, please don\u2019t take this away from us!\u201d<\/p>\n

People in the North Light Court were giving each other hugs. That\u2019s the kind of people that go to raves. There was lots of positive energy, in \u201cone of the most responsible presentations I\u2019ve seen,\u201d remarked a member of the Entertainment Commission.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, any event that includes electronic dance music, or has \u2018more than three and a half hours of pre-recorded music\u2019 is considered a rave. The ravers that gathered on Tuesday night were there in force to peacefully and cogently reject Assemblywoman Fiona Ma\u2019s proposed initiative to ban EDM events, or raves, from public buildings in California, and therefore San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Liam Shy, a local DJ and one of the organizers of Save The Rave, stressed that the gathering was focused on keeping it positive, constructive, and helpful. According to Shy, Fiona Ma agreed to meet with representatives of Save The Rave, during which Ma agreed that current legislation was extremely flawed, and called for regular stakeholder meetings on the matter in order to come up with best practices.<\/p>\n

Clearly the SFPD are concerned with safety, and they voiced their concerns in Tuesday\u2019s meeting before public comment, but they have also expressed a willingness to work with all parties involved, including both the Youth Commission and the Entertainment Commission. One officer cited the regulations on crowd management training, calling for any event holding more than one-thousand people to have officials trained in crowd management techniques.<\/p>\n

Shy concurred that safety was the foremost issue in this matter, but that there were also other city-related issues when it came to the SFPD and SFFD denying permits and shutting down parties. He suggested there might be a way to work with all organizations involved to ensure the safety of raves, and have them protected from shutdowns and permit refusals at the same time. Shutting down these sorts of events in San Francisco would also greatly harm the \u201cTechno-tourism\u201d scene in SF, so labeled by the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Liam Shy is interviewed by CBS-5.<\/p><\/div>\n

This dovetailed neatly with Supervisor Scott Wiener\u2019s resolution, also Tuesday, calling for such events to be protected in San Francisco. Initial responses from his fellow supervisors were said to be positive, but the motion will not be voted on until next Tuesday at the Supervisor\u2019s Board Meeting.<\/p>\n

Joseph Pred, owner and manager of Mutual Aid Response Services<\/a>, and Chief of Public Safety for Burning Man, has been working in public safety since 1989, and began specializing in raves and \u2018temporary mass gatherings\u2019 in 1993. He has also served on the SF Entertainment Commission, holding the public health seat for two terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Europe,\u201d said Pred, \u2018this is seen as a Public Health issue, but in the USA, it is treated as a Law Enforcement issue. However, we as a community are on the brink of making the transition from a Law Enforcement issue to a Public Health issue\u2026 We should be creating safe alternatives for the youth to gather, rather than driving it into the underground where, likely, it will not be as safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

As to the issue of drugs at such events, anyone could tell you that substance abuse is a wider issue that will not be solved by shutting down these events, and in fact would be compounded by such an action.<\/p>\n

Snihol Chidger, aka DJ Remix King, member of Mendo\u2019s Organized Chaos, a group which is actively promoting and officiating safe rave events, remarked, \u201cKids will always find a way to party, or find a way to rave. I feel that it is the responsibility of the adult community to provide an official way for the youth to be able to have these types of events. If we don\u2019t provide this, they will lose that safety aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

George Davis, 65-year-old grandfather and dance enthusiast, made my favorite remark: \u201cOur youth has a much greater obesity problem than my generation. We\u2019re talking dancing \u2013 burning off 300-600 calories per hour. I don\u2019t think we want to discourage dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shy suggested that the chances of any real legislation against raves would be \u201cunrealistic\u201d, based on the responses, and also \u201cunconstitutional\u201d. He stressed that Save The Rave intended to keep working with the community to keep the issue alive and kicking. Or dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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