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  Berlin Love Parade
Self-funding is a key requirement of the Love Parade's existence ever since the German government won a court ruling against the organisers about who should pay for security and the clean-up (can't say that we blame the government on that one!).
The Love Parade organisers were unable to come to an agreement with the powers that be in Berlin, and so began the search for another city to host the event.
If love parade is about tolerance then the nation against nation fighting on all of these comments doesn't need to happen, we are supposed to be tolerant towards each other remember that is the whole point.
www.berlin-life.com /berlin/berlin-love-parade   (3538 words)

  
  Love parade
Love parade is a popular one-weekend techno festival taking place in Berlin's Tiergarten[?] Park every summer since 1989.
Usually the younger cops are doing their service on love parade weekend and after all there haven't been any major incidents in its over twelve years of history - if you don't count the high drug use and people passing out for several reasons.
Love parade may be a dinosaur and together with Mayday, Nature One and few others the left over of a rave culture that marked the beginning of the era of modern Techno music.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Loveparade.html   (898 words)

  
 Achtung, Baby! Love Parade 2003 - Insider
Attending the Love Parade in Berlin, Germany this coming July 13, 2003, could be an effective way to increase your IDQ (International Diversity Quotient).
Love Parades will be held on various dates in Newcastle in the UK, Cape Town in South Africa and Tel Aviv in Israel.
The original Love Parade was first hosted in 1989 in Berlin with 150 attendees and later received some city funding for floats.
media.www.whartonjournal.com /media/storage/paper201/news/2003/04/07/Insider/Achtung.Baby.Love.Parade.2003-409650.shtml   (419 words)

  
 love parade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Die Love Parade, auch Loveparade, ist seit ihrer Gründung eine der größten Tanzveranstaltung der Welt.
Die erste Love Parade war eigentlich eine politische Demonstration, bei der nur sehr wenige Menschen anwesend waren.
Seit 2001 gilt die Love Parade nicht mehr als politische Demonstration, was zur Folge hat, dass die Veranstalter für die Sicherheit und die Reinigung nun selbst verantwortlich sind und somit auch selbst aufkommen müssen.
www.beepworld.de /memberdateien/members/handytone/h/handy/love-parade.html   (220 words)

  
 Love Parade Demise Is Test for Techno | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 21.04.2005
Berlin's giant annual street party, the Love Parade, was cancelled for the second year in a row when sponsorship fell flat.
There were also repeated arguments about ancillary costs: The Love Parade was officially registered as a political demonstration, which required the city to pick up the tab for street cleaning after the partiers had all gone home.
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: A kiss at the 2003 Love Parade in BerlinThe party was cancelled for the first time last year, and was replaced by a demonstration of some 7,500 fans who assembled to demand the Love Parade be reinstated.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1559702,00.html   (842 words)

  
 Berlin falls out of love with the Love Parade | Reuters
BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters Life!) - The organiser of Berlin's Love Parade vowed on Wednesday to move the giant street party to another city after the German capital failed to grant it a permit for this summer.
In a city with close to 20 percent unemployment, festivals with the attraction power of the Love Parade provide a welcome boon to hotels, restaurants and clubs.
The parade, which began in 1989 as a small "demonstration for peace" with just 200 people, was stripped of its "political demonstration" status in 2001, meaning the city would no longer cover the cost of cleaning up after the revelers.
www.reuters.com /article/gc08/idUSL2133648620070221   (596 words)

  
 Love Parade
The parade hasn't begun yet, and still you know for sure that this year it will be bigger, crazier and trippier.
The police standpoint was this: "Our experience from the past showed us that the Love Parade is absolutely deprived of any collective or politically relevant statement." In other words, the Love Parade is nothing but a loud techno party disturbing the public peace of the municipality.
Senator Dieter Heckelman on the Love Parade: "The opinion of the Senate is that the Love Parade creates a very good picture of Berlin as a modern city, open-minded towards the young and happy to receive all the tourists that the event attracts.
www.hyperreal.org /raves/spirit/politics/Love_Parade95-Berlin.html   (1589 words)

  
 Love Parade
The increasingly international flavour of the parade may have been further reflected in the fact that this appears to be the first year that the Love Parade has not grown.
The Fuck Parade is a protest against the commercialisation that has in part been responsible for the toning down of the Love Parade's musical image.
The Love Parade is happy to be what it is. It has brought the music of Motte's "current club culture" to the streets of the world.
www.furious.com /perfect/loveparade.html   (1450 words)

  
 Love Parade on 43 Places
The love parade used to be great not because there were so many people in one place, but because all these people were partying.
Love Parade is the largest techno gathering in the world.Held in downtown Berlin, the parade features dozens of floats, each with its own soundsystem.
Love Parade is a massive celebration of techno, the re-unification of Berlin, and all things wacky, tacky, and wild.A million and half people brought together for a day.
www.43places.com /visit/Love-Parade-Berlin-Germany/275432   (590 words)

  
 gomideast.com - Love Parade Tel Aviv - 2005
Tel Aviv will have its eighth love parade in a row this October, with even love parade founding city Berlin backing out this year due to scheduling problems.
If anywhere needs a thing called a "love parade" it is the country of Israel.
People dance around, hug and kiss each other, and display feelings of "love, love, love." There is a strong gay contingent to the parade, and Israel is slowly making strides in its support of the Gay community.
www.gomideast.com /news/prev/oct05/oct3/love.htm   (342 words)

  
 Wired News: Raining on Berlin's Love Parade
The Association for the Protection of the Tiergarten -- which opposes the Love Parade on the grounds that the noise and littering it produces are unacceptably extreme -- got there first.
To say that the Love Parade's organizers -- and many fans -- were stunned by the denial of a permit would be a considerable understatement.
But mostly the Love Parade provides a setting for people to mill around, dance, drink and do drugs -- and practice their social skills.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,42936,00.html   (825 words)

  
 Music, beer and peace for all as Berlin Love Parade returns
In 1999, 1.5 million paraders packed out central Berlin for 24 hours of dancing and kindness among strangers but in recent years the shine wore off as revellers complained that it had become an increasingly commercial event.
Love Parade veteran Henrik Schrage, a bar owner from Osnabrueck also in western Germany, said it was the eighth year he had come to Berlin for the street party but something was missing.
The love fest was due to carry on through the night until 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) on Sunday.
www.breitbart.com /news/2006/07/15/060715172659.jl1j62tn.html   (691 words)

  
 Love Parade v. Peace March
Love Parade had better music and dancing, had a more energetic tone, and generally interacted more with bystanders.
Love paraders shook their booties at the crowd.
Yet whatever its shortcomings, the Love Parade was the more lively event, and represented a far greater challenge to the status quo than the peace march.
www.reclaimingquarterly.org /web/love05/love05-1.html   (1228 words)

  
 Love Parade on TweeNet
In addition to the Tweenet list, there was also the Love Parade 18-song tape compilation "Past Crimes" (1989-1991) consisting of those songs listed plus other tape compilation tracks and demos.
Love Parade is more uncut technically dishing out excellent jingle-twang fare.
Similarly, the Pure 7" and the Love Parade 7"s/flexis are hard to come by.
www.twee.net /bands/loveparade.html   (432 words)

  
 RZ-Online: Love Parade
Die Love Parade trete aber für ein tolerantes und respektvolles Miteinander ein.
Der Innensenat hatte Ende Mai entschieden, die Love Parade nicht mehr als Demonstration zuzulassen.
Zur Love Parade werden auch in diesem Jahr rund eine Million Raver erwartet.
www.rhein-zeitung.de /on/01/06/15/topnews/love.html?a   (261 words)

  
 2002 German Love Parade
The 2002 Love Parade in Berlin, Germany is an event which goes back to 1987, when an artist known as Dr. Motte put some sound on a truck to celebrate his birthday and drove through the streets of Berlin with a couple of good friends.
The main parade takes place on the Saturday of the parade weekend and starts at 14h00 where the floats start moving along the street from one end to the other.
At 23h40 Dr Motte presented the 2002 Love Parade Hymn and drew the parade to a close at 00h00.
www.mio.co.za /article.php?cat=sound_stage&id=90   (774 words)

  
 The Love Parade - Jews for Jesus
We had come to the annual "love parade." The crowd seemed to be in a state of shock, yet I could see many onlookers being seduced by the very scantily clad dancers as the trucks stopped for endless time spans on the shores of Jaffa.
They were looking for love, all of them, and in all the wrong places.
A love parade they wanted, a love parade we gave them indeed, full of truth, grace and mercy.
www.jewsforjesus.org /publications/newsletter/2005_02/loveparade   (878 words)

  
 LOVE PARADE | BERLIN 2006
Love Parade will provide clubs with trucks for free so everyone will have an equal opportunity to be represented, regardless of how much money they have.
Love Parade 2006 is dedicated to a new internationalization and communication concept.
Our target is to have a higher quality Love Parade, because every member of the club culture is able to be a part of the Love Parade, independently of their financial power.
www.cityevents.tv /news_detail.php?id_news=36   (1570 words)

  
 Love Parade Part 2: The Review - PopMatters Concert Review
The Love Parade proceeds down the Strasse den 17.
Love Guards loiter behind a few of the logo-plastered floats.
The Love Parade's website says 1.2 million, and promises the Love Parade will be back next year.
www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/l/love-parade-2006-2.shtml   (841 words)

  
 Love Parade Videos
In "I Don't Love Your Lyrics", MC Artificial disses the lyrics in My Chemical Romance's hit song "I Don't Love You", using the "special...
Everybody loves a parade and on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish - Especially on St Catherine St in Montreal Canada.
A compilation of pictures from the Albanian Parade which took place on Saturday 23 june, 2007 as part of the International Immigrants Parade....
www.metacafe.com /tags/love_parade   (261 words)

  
 CNN.com - Berlin Love Parade defies doubters - Jul. 12, 2003
Under this year's motto "Love Rules," the parade culminated at the city's landmark Victory Column, close to the Brandenburg Gate, with programs running late into the night from top deejays such as Felix Da Housecat, Pete Tong and Love Parade founder Dr. Motte.
Begun in 1989 as a small procession of 150 ravers protesting for the right to party in a city still divided by the Berlin Wall, the parade mushroomed after German reunification the next year into a Berlin institution and a massive draw for partyers as well as tourists.
In an effort backed by the German Red Cross, part of the proceeds from Love Parade souvenirs will help fund the construction of two rehabilitation centers in Iraq for civilians hurt by mines and in recent fighting.
cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/07/12/germany.loveparade/index.html   (450 words)

  
 Pilot Guides.com: Loved up: Berlin's Love Parade
Founded in 1989 by Dr. Motte, the parade was started as a 'House Music Demonstration' an alternative to leaflets and pamphlets in the bid to achieve unification and the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
A decade on, the parade attracts nearly 1.5 million ravers to the streets of Berlin who come from all over the world to join the party.
Recent criticisms of the Parade have been over its decline in numbers (since and all time high in 1999) and over the huge levels of pollution both in noise and detritus caused by the parade.
www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/europe/germany/love_parade.php   (368 words)

  
 Salt Lake City Weekly - Love a Parade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Though tamer, larger, and far more kid-friendly than it used to be, the parade still manages some mild poking at the predominant culture, most of which principally views this parade as one giant cup of coffee and avoids it.
For instance, thanks to the parade, Salt Lake City Mayor Ross “Rocky” Anderson and I are once again on speaking terms.
Besides, a parade in May when the temperature is warm but not unbearably hot, with a cool cerveza, would be cool.
www.slweekly.com /article.cfm/loveaparade   (1415 words)

  
 Berlin's cash-strapped Love Parade cancelled, German News, Germany, Expatica
The Love Parade lost its status as a demonstration in 2001, leading to enormous increases in the costs of staging the event, which remained free for the hundreds of thousands of ravers who attended.
This, coupled with the poor economic climate, meant that it was no longer possible to organise the Love Parade in such a way that the costs could be covered, said the organisers.
However the Love Parade continues to be one of Germany's export successes, with Love Parades taking place this year in Tel Aviv, Acapulco, San Francisco and Santiago de Chile, among other cities.
www.expatica.com /actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=19401   (372 words)

  
 BBC News | MUSIC | UK Love Parade festival axed
This year's UK Love Parade dance festival has been cancelled amid fears over the safety of staging the event.
Love Parade may be dead on the streets of Newcastle but we will make every effort to keep its spirit alive on our airwaves and in local clubs and arenas
The annual British event was inspired by the Berlin Love Parade, which has become a legendary techno event since first being held in 1989.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/1439192.stm   (421 words)

  
 Love Parade genopstår - dr.dk/Nyheder/Kultur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Til sommer genopstår freds- og kærlighedsfesten, Love Parade efter to års lukning.
Love Parade så lyset første gang 1989, da tyske DJ Motte kaldte tekno-scenen sammen til demonstration for fred, venskab og kærlighed.
Love Parade har desuden skabt ringe i vandet og nu findes der Love Pardes i en række storbyer verden over.
www.dr.dk /Nyheder/Kultur/2006/02/23/160904.htm?rss=true   (192 words)

  
 Love Parade article
Love Parade is the largest techno gathering in the world.
Love Parade is a massive celebration of techno, the re-unification of Berlin, and all things wacky, tacky, and wild.
Berlin's Love Parade is touted as the world's biggest dance party.
www.2camels.com /love-parade.php   (756 words)

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