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Let's also be clear, the Love Parade founders had given up on the concept years ago, after mostly brilliant success at spreading the love and peace vibe.
This love parade was sponsored by McFit (health club chain), and its organizers have virtually nothing to do with the original spirit of the beautiful event. Also, bankrupt Duisburg wanted to capitalize on this, without being able to put in place proper planning.
the name remained love parade, but this was the free market version.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Sun Jul 25th, 2010 at 02:19:29 PM EST
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I note that the Love Parade founders gave up after getting ever more obligations that ould have costed money :-)

The Love Parade was started with a trick: it was announced as a political protest march, thus security and cleanup was organised and paid by Berlin. In the last few years however, the political protest trick didn't work, and especially the heaps of rubbish left behind by the partypeople and the protection of parks was a cost factor difficult to meet without sponsors and tickets.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Jul 26th, 2010 at 03:54:33 AM EST
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