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6000 at Rosario, Argentina MMM, May 8, 2004.       #853018 - Mon May 10 2004 09:59 AM

I corrected some spelling errors below. ----Forwarded message begins--- From: "SILVIA" <sinchaur@...> To: "eco man" <tents444@...>, psmith@..., "Dana Beal" <dana@...> Subject: MMM in Rosario Argentina Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 15:16:57 -0300 ARGENTINA - FESTIVAL AGAINST INTOLERANCE - MMM More than 6,000 at Rosario MMM Festival against Intolerance. The Festival was organized by the Argentinean Harm Reduction Association ARDA in the framework of its National Depenalization Campaign of Possession of Drugs for Personal Use. 11 groups played music in a big concert from 3 P.M to midnight, representatives of ARDA as well as the National Deputy Eduardo Garcia -author of the Project of Law for Depenalization presented on last november- and a representative of the network of drug users RADDUD spoke at the event. A booth of ARDA disseminated the "Marihuana Harm Reduction Handbook", other information materials and condoms. The slogans of the Campaign were around the Municipal Theatre Humberto de Nito at Urquiza Park: "Just say No to the War against Drug users", "Cure, not war", "In Argentina the drug law is more harmful than the drugs". This has been the only manifestation this year that the mayor of Buenos Aires city forbade the Buenos Aires Festival. ----end of English part of forwarded message----- ----------------- --------------------

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Press article roughly translated by Google.
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I dont' speak Spanish. If anybody can translate this article below better, please do so, and paste it into a message in this thread. I will keep your version, and delete this rough translation below. But please do it today, because the forum software only allows me to edit or delete this message for about a day.

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El Ciudadano article of May 9, 2004. Link is for original
Spanish version.
http://elciudadano.net/09-05-2004/ciudad/rock.php

"AGAINST THE INTOLERANCIA". One maratón of local and
national groups in the Municipal Amphitheatre

To pure rock with the slogan to legalize the marijuana

About 4 thousand young people participated in a festival
that supports the derogation of the law that penalizes the
personal use


[Photo caption] The bands and the public under a same motto:
"Endurance the legalization". Photo: Juan Jose Garcia

Around 4 thousand young people they participated yesterday
in a maratónica day of rock in the Amphitheatre Humberto de
Nito, under slogans "Against the intolerancia" and "Cures,
not war", in direct reference to the proposal on the
legalization of the drug possession for personal use and the
investigation on the marijuana in the scientific scope for
therapeutic use. The festival started to 15,30 and the night
extended until entrance, with the participation of but a
dozen of local and national bands. In addition, Eduardo
counted on the presence of the national deputy Diaz, who
promotes the modification of the effective law on the
narcotic possession, "that has made a damage greater than
the same drug in the scope of the social thing", according
to expressed the legislator. On the other hand, the
Association of Reduction of Damages of Argentina (ARDA) gave
to the assistants a manual on the effects, contraindications
and precautions that must take those that consumes marijuana
and also made a gratuitous distribution of prophylactics.

With the popular green symbol of the plant of cannabis in
the scene, multiplied in thousands of flags, rowers, pins
and until in corporal tattoos, a multitude - composed in its
majority by twentyish it danced to the rate of reggae and
the rock & roll, from the beginning of afternoon of sun
until the cold night fell on the Urquiza park. In spite of
the superiority of the symbol of the marijuana, the effluvia
of the porros were less evident that the boxes of tetrabriks
of wine and that the ingestions of beers. But also there
were some who only were punished with powerful ones you kill
with churros, but of that they are not smoked.

"I come because I like music, not even I smoke tobacco",
said young carefree one, that admitted that it does not like
"drugged people" although it limited that "each one is owner
to do what wants while not joda to the others". "Endurance
the legalization", shouted a boy who took a stamp of Bob
Marley in his rower, the icon of rastafaris jamaiquinos
which they sang loas mystical "to the smoke that cheers".
The festive and calm climate lowered by an overwhelmed
amphitheatre and won the environs of the park.

The deputy Diaz, a Cordovan of 49 years and who has been
occupying a bank in the national Congress for two years by
the socialism, very satisfied with the call, emphasized that
its proposal is not based on being in favor of the drug
consumption, but in the statistics on which it has caused a
legislation "it lasts" that it has been prevailing for 14
years in Argentina.

"About 323 thousand young people who did not commit any
crime were stopped and process in these years. The 95
percent of them never had entered a police station and a 50
percent who worked, lost their positions ", emphasized and I
add ': "the law is punishing the victims of the business of
the drug".

Like proposal, it maintained that "the way is to take ahead
an active policy to discourage the consumption but of a
different form and in addition, to respect the
noninterference of the State in the private acts".

The project of modification of the law is in parliamentary
state and the legislator of the socialist party confio ': "I
have the hope of which in June it is discussed in
commission". In spite of its optimism, it recognized that
"it is not a easy subject, because today the drug also
comprises of the delinquency, just like the alcohol. A very
important pending debate for the society exists, since
esteem that are three million consumers in the country ",
was indicated.

On the other hand, Silvia Inchaurraga, director of the
Training center Advanced in Drogadependencia and Sida,
explained that the initiative is framed in a campaign at
international level that includes/understands to 400 cities
of 44 countries, that although are focused to the marijuana
and the investigation of its therapeutic uses aims at the
legalization of all drugs. "It is necessary to install the
debate also within the framework of the health system to
resist from the State the damages of the consumption",
considered Inchaurraga.

The plantita, "leit motiv" that sells

The recital counted on the presence of bands like the Hands
of Fillipi, Karamelo Santo and the premises Rosary Smowing,
Divinos and Abrepuertas, among others, although the most
hoped they were the Vandals. In this frame they did not lack
the article salesmen that take like leit motiv famous yuyo
green, that with a fine stem unfolds hojitas with hand saw
edges, and whose figure was printed in rowers, table cloths,
articles as toallones or carpets of bath and until in the
form of the slippers. "Mirá, a diver marijuana user", said a
surprised young person that it approached one of the
positions. But at the same time it watched towards the
flanks like persecuted. It faces parked a moving body of the
police. It lowered the Vista with certain pudor and soon
express in the multitude was lost.

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Another press article roughly translated by Google.
http://www.google.com/language_tools

I dont' speak Spanish. If anybody can translate this article below better, please do so, and paste it into a message in this thread. I will keep your version, and delete this rough translation below. But please do it today, because the forum software only allows me to edit or delete this message for about a day.

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La Capital article of May 9, 2004. Link is for original
Spanish version.
http://www.lacapital.com.ar/2004/05/09/ciudad/noticia_98530.shtml

A ten of rock bands marched past by the scene of the Urquiza
park

A full amphitheatre by the legalization of the marijuana
consumption

Rosario was added to the Festival against the Intolerancia


[Photo caption] The public, in his great young majority, used the excuse music to raise his reclamation.

"Cures, not war". The slogan settled yesterday until
entrance the night in the Amphitheatre Humberto de Nito,
where hundreds of young people were added to the Festival
against the Intolerancia. The event is simultaneously
carried out in 348 cities of 48 countries with the slogan to
legalize the possession of marijuana for the personal
consumption, to stop the arrests by the consumption of the
cannabis and to defend the scientific research of its
therapeutic uses. The rosarino act was the unique one that
was celebrated in the country after the past 2 of May the
one of Federal Capital was suspended and reunited to a ten
of rock bands that pronounced against the "persecution" the
drug users.

The accomplishment of the festival changed the appearance
that habitually offers the Urquiza park late of Saturday
with sun. Entered the 15, groups of pibes with rowers of
Attack 77, Network Hot Chili Peppers and other bands of
rock, rastas, rare aritos and hairdos they approached the
amphitheatre to participate in the act organized by the
Association of Reduction of Damages of Argentina (It burns).

This is the third time that in Rosario is made the Festival
against the Intolerancia, that in the world is celebrated
from 1998 all the first weeks of May. In their local
version, by the scene of the amphitheatre the bands Nitro
220, Smowing Rosary, the Vandals, Scraps, Abrepuertas and
the ones in charge to close the event marched past among
others: Karamelo Santo and the Hands of Filippi.

The election of the place - the Amphitheatre Humberto de
Nito- was not accidental. "What we want is to contribute to
the debate on the drug policy, for that reason we looked for
a recreational space and a concurred day and schedule",
explained the president of Burns, Silvia Inchaurraga. And
music was an excuse.

Juan Pablo (22) arrived there until happening afternoon,
being with friends and to say "well hard" that "we lived in
a society mask". So that '? "Because one represses to those
who consume drugs and he admires himself to those who sell
them because they are rich and famous".


More effective, right and human The entrance to the festival
was flanked by stand of Burns where the petitionary one
could be signed to support the project of law for the
legalization of the possession for personal consumption
presented/displayed by the national deputy Eduardo Garci'a.
"By more effective, righter and more human drug a policy",
it at heart said a great hung black poster of stand.

"We considered that the official policy on the subject has
been a failure - also explained Inchaurraga -, since in all
this time it has not only increased the consumption, but its
problems associate: the death by overdose, the social
exclusion and AIDS ".

A single data serves to illustrate this position and it
already became a battle pony of those who fights by the
legalization of the consumption. "In all the country, the 90
percent of the causes by drugs begins in the possession of
substances for the personal consumption", indicated the
president of Burns. The conclusion is almost obvious: "one
persecutes the consumer, not to the dealer".

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