corporate//YOU UPGRADEmag// april 24 2001
The UPGRADEmag is a global edutainment round-up ‘broadcast’ weekly to =[9487]= Trance// New Age// Alternative// Activist folks who have been recommended to the Parallel YOUniversity/ Megatripolis Dance Dept as "showing signs of life".  Since many choose to forward it to their own lists, we estimate 18,900+ recipients. And, because of its less 'specialist' content, it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide, making a total ‘readership’ of, conservatively, 180,000+
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  the UPGRADE's back!  did u miss us?  aw shuddup, fraser, it just got LONGER while u were resting! 
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London
SAT MAY 5       

THE DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT
LAUNCH PARTY

1       THE DANCEFLOOR  enlightening psychedelic trance -
**Pat Hurley** (Megatripolis, Stonka, Vibes, The Warp Experience)  **Mandy Moore** (Point Blank FM, Samsara) **Ultra** (resident)

2  CROW'S NEST CABARETHEATRE   THE SOUTHWARK MYSTERIES, written/directed by John Constable, has been performed in
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and in Southwark Cathedral.
This magic cabaret is hosted by John Crow, ably assisted by pagan poets and trickster troubadours.  ‘Constable’s Mysteries kick serious theological ass!’  QX Mag.
3AM AFTER PARTY           DJ Frankie Dee doses late nite boyz'n girlz with sooper-sophisticated jazz-funk loons & toons
3   PLAYSHOP   Our Neo-Ancient Underground Spiritual Alchemical Sexual Sects & Revolutionary Shamanic Movements of Britain series coincides with the Cannabis Carnival down the road in Brockwell Park so we'll be showing film of the festival and hosting a speaker from the
 Dance Drugs Alliance. + Guru Dave's Enlightenment Intensive Hour etc etc.   3am - open talking mike.

4  TRIBADELICATESSEN - ethnic/ electronic/ futuristic/ancient  Woodstock ambient music zone by Now Age Radio & Pok Star from legendary Glastonbury band The Space Goats) with guests
3AM AFTER PARTY!   Music to Lie Down & Be Counted into Sunday With!

LINK-UPS with Cyber Geoff.      Any questions, ask The Wizard.

Rainbow Lizzy (NAHS cert, Permaculture Design cert) presents vegan enrichments/ buffet & microbiotic funballs.  

THERAPY    Yasmin Perez, ITEC & Liz the Holistic Hippy, IIHHT Diploma in Holistic Therapies with vtct) offer Gestalt, Shiatsu, Chiropractic, Ayurveda, Thai, Vibrational/Singing/Dance Massage, Swedish body massage, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Crystal healing.  Insured.

CLUB DESIGN in external ParaYOU//St Martins College of Art collaboration.

"The only regular intelligent, intimate shamanic little club in the planetary capital of Rave Culture"

INFO  0207-813-9685    WWW.PARALLEL-YOUNIVERSITY.COM

@ IMPerial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, SE5 (Oval tube, Bus 36/185)

SATURDAY MAY 5  11pm-6am   £10/£6.  
AFTER PARTY from 3am: £5.

BUSES from Brockwell Park - 68 & 468
ADVANCE TICKETS FROM Access All Areas/Camden
(also at their stall at the Cannabis Carnival)

YOU 2307                Jim Hightower, an invaluable public citizen, once suggested that politicians be forced to wear the corporate logos of their biggest donors in the fashion of race car drivers so we'd know who they'd sold out to.
Every member of President Bush's Cabinet is a corporate creature.  In fact, the corporations have taken over the US government.  Why hire lobbyists when your CEOs and board members are running the show?
This week we feature some of those now running America:

US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER GALE NORTON (Interior) was formerly with the Mountain States Legal Foundation, an anti-environmental group funded by oil companies.  Prominent member of "property rights" group funded by Boise Cascade, DuPont, and Louisiana Pacific; national chairwoman of the Coalition for Republican Environmental Advocates, funded by the American Forest Paper Association, Amoco, ARCO, the Chemical Manufacturers Association, and Ford Motor Company.

Hey,
How come I got your message[s]?
I don't know a Fraser Clark or anything about the Parallel you .........
I am just a simple farmer holed up with the dreaded F& M in Linconshire counting my losses.
Anyway, you guys seem to be having lots of fun so I may become more interested cause I may have to give up this farming lark.
Farmer H.

YOU 2309        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER ELAINE CHAO (Labor) is an investment banker and corporate director, former vice president of Bank of America, and board member for Northwest Airlines, Dole Foods, Clorox, and Columbia/HCA Health Care.

neat stuff - go//YOU - especially the headlines - Mother Monica - ha! 
It's all from another world - I live in faraway green - curious to see how you're all doing back there in cement city.
Keep it comin' - Rebecca, a Queen of Qwerty

YOU 2310

California
SUN APRIL 29    PROTECT THE SANTA CLARA RIVER BENEFIT
Fundraising event to save the last undamaged river in California, Santa Clara River, now threatened by suburban & farming development.
Towsley Canyon, Towsley Canyon Lodge (Ed Davis Park).  Noon to 4pm.  Hikes, snacks, info & music by Jon Sherman  (661) 263-9624. www.scope.org.

YOU 2311
Berlin
SAT JULY 21     LOVE PARADE DATE CHANGE
The official date of Berlin's LOVE PARADE has been changed to Saturday July 21st.

YOU 2312

THE NEWSREELINFOMAIL
Dear Fraser, I have yet to check out the Den of E, but am planning to on the 5th for pre-birthday celebrations - 'tis my b'day on the 7th.  So c u there, and keep the newsreelinfomail a coming, it's, as I've said b4, my weekly breath of fresh air.
Cheers :o)
Barney

YOU 2313        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER NORMAN MINETA (Transportation) was corporate VP for Lockheed Martin; also former chairman of the House Transportation Committee, where his major contributors were the American Trucking Association, Boeing, General Electric, Greyhound, Lockheed, Northwest Airlines, UPS, Union Pacific, and United Airlines.

London
WED MAY 2               SAN PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Part of a tour organised by WIMSA (Working groups of Indigenous Minorities of Southern Africa)
6-8pm - Viewing of Contemporary Art by the San People of Southern Africa
8-10pm Live acoustic performance by the San Bushmen of Namibia and Botswana, Pops Mohamed (South Africa) and Zena Edwards (London)
The October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, WC1.   £7.50/ £5 concs.  0207 242 7367)

THURS MAY 3 - 10 
SanScape Workshops with children @ the October Gallery.

YOU 2314        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER PAUL O'NEILL (Treasury) was CEO of Alcoa, the aluminum giant, and previously CEO of International Paper Co.; also on the boards of Eastman Kodak and Lucent Technologies.

loved the new club - sorry i didnt get to see you spreading some much needed light in a heavy part of town.
keep up the good work!
scooby.

YOU 2315        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER JOHN ASHCROFT (Attorney General) was sponsor of last year's Senate bill to extend the patent on the super-profitable allergy pill Claritin, owned by the giant pharmaceutical firm Schering-Plough, which gave him $50,000 for his last Senate campaign. He also got $1.7 million from oil, chemical, and paper companies that were grateful for Ashcroft's opposition to funding environmental enforcement, voting for rollback of clean water protections and letting mining companies dump cyanide and other wastes on public land.

San Francisco
TUES MAY 1      DEMONSTRATION POETRY SLAM
featuring the UC-Berkeley slam team, with special guests Herman Berlandt and Ian Moore. Hosted by Kenny Mostern. Co-sponsored by USF Literary Club.
University of San Francisco, McLaren (Conference Center) 250, 8 PM. $5 students, $8 all others.

YOU 2316        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER COLIN POWELL (State): is on the board of America Online, and recipient of $100,000-a-speech to a list of corporations too long to believe.

"You know how dumb the average guy is?  Well, mathematically, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that!"
Bob Dobbs

YOU 2317        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER TOMMY THOMPSON (Health and Human Services) is former governor of Wisconsin whose major contributors were HMOs, hospital chains, nursing homes, clinics, doctors, and insurance companies. Philip Morris gave him $72,000 in campaign contributions.

San Francisco   **PARA YOU RECOMMENDED**
THURS APRIL 26  the bored collective
The Bored Collective is a group of Bay Area musicians, writers, and artists who confess to being…bored.  But because they say they aspire to "transform into vaguely exciting members of society", they've decided to pool together their "tired apathy" every last Thursday to "bore you to tears" with tales about the "only topics a bunch of lazy, drugged out clubbers know about: nightlife and deviance."
So… if your attention span's higher than a crack smoking gerbil's, and you've no hardcore raving plans for the evening, why not join them?
Stories: Foxxee, Sylvia W. Chan, Billee Sharp, Cedar Sigo, Shobhan, Camper English, Johnny Huston, Amanda Nowinski
Music: Jonah Sharp and O.S.T.
Hosted by Holly Roberts.  Visuals by Del Ray
26 Mix, 3024 Mission Street.  9pm-2am.   $5.   415.248.1319

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London
FRI APRIL 27

MILK'N'2 SUGARS @THE END
Milk’n’2 Sugars 6th BIRTHDAY PARTY!
 
THE MAIN ROOM
DJ DISCIPLE  (Catch 22/NYC)
MARSHALL JEFFERSON (Chicago)
ENZO (UK)
MISS JOOLS (MN2S, UK))

THE LOUNGE
THE SLAMMIN BOYS (Manchester - UK)
ALAN CHAMBERLAIN (MN2S, UK)
KENNY CHARLES (MN2S, UK)

THE END, 18 west central street, WC1. £12/£8 concs - £10 before 12am - £5 after 3am.  INFO 0208 767 9925   info@mn2s.com
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Fraser,
Could I just say that the CHINA ONE, AMERICA NIL is such a good article, would you mind if I copied this, and passed it on to others that might be interested?
Keep up the good work!
DJ Johnnyb

YOU 2318

London
FRI APRIL 27    ++ EXTRAVAGANJA * *
Cannabis Festival warm up party.
ROOM 1 live bands
8.30pm prowezz live jazz and blues of a conscious nature
9.15pm headjam loud & lairy punk rock
10.15pm tarantism the all time favourite festival folk fusion band
11pm on DJs - hard house and nu-funk to harder trance and acid techno
seed and dagenham dave (squall crew), gavin chimaera, lunatic fringe (live pa), sublim (chimaera), parker (restless natives), zebedee (restless natives (trancentral).
ROOM 2  clown warfare (live), femi-9 product gurly beatz of a garage and
d&b nature v. kult varying degrees of techno - rdk hifi playing heavyweight
dub & roots.
VJS: mad knitter, saj, paddy paine and many more in both rooms
The telegraph, 228 brixton hill, sw2. 8pm-4am. £5 (tickets available at access all areas)   020 7267 8320    INFO  0207 267 8320.
dancemental@hotmail.com
http://www.accessallareas.org/

YOU 2319        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER ANN VENEMAN (Agriculture) was a lawyer with a firm specializing in representing agribusiness giants and biotech corporations. On board of Calgene Inc., a subsidiary of Monsanto, the first firm to market genetically altered food.

A RECORD SHOP IN YOUR OWN HOME!
Why trudge down to your local vinyl emporium when the joys of record shopping can come directly to your house! Julian, while he waits for his record shop to get set up, has decided to do us all a favour by actually coming round to our houses to sell us toons. He has as many connections as the best independents and a wealth of musical knowledge not normally seen in your common garden record shop reseller. Plus the higher quality of service goes without saying. If you fancy trying him out give him a shout on this address:
juliancoalesce@hotmail.com

YOU 2320
Los Angeles
SAT APRIL 28    VISION - Venice Interactive Salon In Opulent Nonsense
Interactive multimedia event w/ sculpture by Tsion Agai, music by Shannon Michael Terri, Rashid Lanie, Jamie Burr, David Sonnenschein, Richard Grossman & dance w/Heaven Hope, Marci Javril & others.
@ VISION / FLM art studio, 8725 Venice Blvd (between Robertson and La Cienega on the north side).  6-9pm.  (310) 837-7157

YOU 2321

London
TUESDAY MAYDAY  EROS AGAINST GLOBAL CAPITALISM
A surreal, dynamic, and passionate (but non-confrontational) contribution to the Mayday Monopoly Anti Globalization Demo by the Dionysian Underground and others.
Pagan Ritez, Poetry, Politix / Rantz, Tricksters, Blakean Invocations, Circus Performers, Music, Kaos, Sex, Wild Fun in the Spirit of Eros.
Free Space for your Creativity and Random Spontaneity.
Bring Musical Instruments, Giant Dice, Poems, Creative Ideas, and Circus Skills. And don't forget ya water pistols for the erotic 'water sports'.
1pm Eros / Piccadilly Circus May 1st
Optional Exodus to 4pm 'Carnival' at Oxford Circus.

YOU 2322        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER DONALD RUMSFELD (Defense) was formerly CEO of General Instrument Corp. and drug giant G.D. Searle & Co.; also on the boards of Asea Brown Boveri, a huge Swedish engineering firm, and the Rand Corp.; also on the advisory board of Salomon Smith Barney, the Wall street investment firm.

USA
ADOPT A HIGHWAYMAN!
In March the US Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri cannot discriminate against the Ku Klux Klan when it comes to groups that want to participate in the Adopt-A-Highway program.  We should surely all agree that this decision is a victory for free speech and equal protection under the law, right?
However, this time karma has been extremely rapid.  Though the DOT in Missouri can't remove the KKK's Adopt-The-Highway sign, few would
dispute their ability to name the highway itself.
The KKK is now cleaning up a stretch of the newly-christened Rosa Parks
Freeway! 

YOU 2323

GROWERS ARE CARE-GIVERS OFFICIAL
Long term  strategists recognise that the recent historic trial in Sonoma, California, which established that grass growers can qualify as caregivers to large numbers of people, is no victory in an archaic area of California law but has major global ramifications. 

YOU 2324        US CORPORATE CABINET MEMBER GEORGE BUSH (President) - whew!
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