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| j_spot |
The annual Burning Man festival is in Danger of being shut down this year. well screw the circumstance(read the quote if you care to) most of us dont understand it. BUT SIGN THE PETITION! It may not seem like alot, it may not do anything. But at least we can try.
http://www.petitiononline.com/burn42/petition.html
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Subject: |\|/| Hi friends, Burningman is in a bad spot, please
help with this petition.>
Burning Man needs a bit of help, and it needs it fast, so please
read on.
As you may or may not have heard, the Washoe County Board of
Commissioners have refused Burning Man a permit to use property
they own near Gerlach, from which the event is staged. This staging area is the ranch from which all operations are run, and where all the
gear is stored.
Apparently, if they can't use this land, it will make it nearly
impossible to organize the event. BM has requested that as many people as possible show up at the county meeting on June 10th in Reno to voice their opinions, and that those who can't make it write letters to the Reno Gazette voicing their displeasure.
I figure that a petition wouldn't hurt either, so here's the plan:
We need to get at least 5000 signatures in the next 4 days, so we
really need to move on this. Please go to the petition site at the link below immediately, sign it, and forward this email to as many
sympathetic people as possible. It would probably work best to simply copy and paste this msg into a new email rather then forward so as to avoid getting the text all screwed up, as often happens in forwards.
I'll be informing the BM organizers of the petition in hope that
they also spread the word, and so that they can bring a printout to the meeting.
Again... sorry for the spam, but I figured that this is worth it.
The petition is can be signed here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/burn42/petition.html |
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| Dmatrox |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonsimmonds
wtf? |
just my thoughts
wtf
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| yes wtf indeed |
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| j_spot |
you guys havent ever heard of Burning Man?
well then
burning man is an anual festival that sets up in a desert in Nevada. It is a temporary tent city full of hippies, psy, goa, house trance rock and the like. There are vendors, massive parties, light shows, art exhibits and well...lots of stuff
to top it all off, there is a MASSIVE(ill guess 40 foot tall) man made of wood...and at the end of the weekend, they burn the man down.
hence Burning Man.
I can believe none of you know of this......
oh yea...and the tent city is about 25000 people...25000 think about that.
www.burningman.com |
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| Swamper |
| Too late anyways since this all went down in the afternoon |
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| Thor |
Damn that is ty news.
A friend of mine who passed away last year, Bob Wallace, they guy who helped dancesafe.org financially and also Erowid.org to name a few with his promind foundation; was a big supporter and regular at this fine event.
I have yet to go, but its one of those events that I think everyone should check out once in their life.
I hope this isn't the end for Burning man :( |
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| j_spot |
I realised that...I got the e-mail about 10 minutes before I posted it here....
little late for the meeting on the 10th, but hey, if the petition got an extra 2-3 signatures it was worth it.
I hope to hit up Burning Man and Thailand next summer(thailand is so ing cheap!) but this may change my plans to just Thailand |
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