Search the web
Sign In
New User? Sign Up
mmmreports · MillionMarijuanaMarch previews, reports.
? Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Show off your group to the world. Share a photo of your group with us.

Best of Y! Groups

   Check them out and nominate your group.
Having problems with message search? Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.

Messages

  Messages Help
Advanced
Village Voice. New York's Marijuana March is Annual Rite of Spring.   Message List  
Reply | Forward Message #53 of 199 |
-----------------
 
 

Events
by Sarah Ferguson
New York's Marijuana March is an Annual Rite of Spring
April 27th, 2004 12:10 PM


May Day is jay day.
(photo: Cures Not War)



Cures Not Wars Pot Parade
Saturday at 1 p.m.
Gather at the corner of Houston Street and Broadway
212.677.7180
cures-not-wars.org
Free

Though known as a workers' holiday honoring the right to work less, May Day originated as a pagan festival celebrating the first spring planting (and free sex). So what better day to rally to free the herb? Yippie Dana Beal and his crew of hardcore marijuana crusaders began hosting this annual pot parade in 1973. It's since mushroomed into a global happening in more than 160 cities. Don't expect folks to be tossing out bags of free joints as in the heady days of yore; organizers warn that anyone lighting up may be arrested, as were nine last year and some 300 in 2000. "It's a protest, not a pot fest," says Beal. And thanks to a Giuliani-initiated crackdown, pot revelers can no longer gather in Washington Square. But there's still plenty to get fired up about, not least the feds' ongoing assault on medical-marijuana users. The march begins at 1 p.m. on the corner of Houston and Broadway and proceeds down Broadway to Battery Park for a rally featuring Queens Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, Rockefeller drug laws foe Randy Credico, and Shattered Lives author Mikki Norris, plus music by ex-Misfit Bobby Steele, the David Nelson Band, Stir Fried, and special guests. K-Rock's Liquid Todd and Influx from Brazil will be spinning at the north end of the park for those who just want to chill.

Letter to the Editor   |   E-Mail Story   |      Printer
 
-----end of article-----


------------------


MMM. Million Marijuana March. Hundreds of cities rally worldwide yearly in May!
MMM World Map: http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmm2004map.htm
MMM Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction
1994-2000 Governor George W. Bush legacy: 4.7% of Texas adults
are NOW in jail, in prison, on probation, or on parole! Texas leads the world!
Republicrat USA: Nearly half a million people are behind bars NOW
for non-violent drug law violations. More than Western Europe,
with a larger population, incarcerates for everything!
Please forward.


Do you Yahoo!?
Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs


Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:39 am

tents444
Offline Offline
Send Email Send Email

Forward
Message #53 of 199 |
Expand Messages Author Sort by Date

Google News shortcuts pull up MMM articles in the news media: http://news.google.com/news?q=marijuana+rally and http://news.google.com/news?q=cannabis+rally...
eco man
tents444
Offline Send Email
Apr 29, 2004
11:39 am
Advanced

Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Guidelines - Help