Grassroots support for Ballroom Dancing

Moshe learned that there is a letter out from the IDSF Member STSV stipulating that the Dancers of the STSV Org are banned to dance the WDC-AL Championships in November in Regensdorf.
The letter is apparently signed by Mr. Schaefer:
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http://www.tanzsport.ch/index.jsp?mandant=dancesport&actualMode=Public&page=A&homePage=2&newsid=1999


2010 WDC-AL Open European Championship Standard & Latin
Das offene Turnier "WDC-AL Open European Championship Standard & Latin" am 6. und 7. November 2010 im Mövenpick Hotel Zürich-Regensdorf ist kein von der IDSF oder dem STSV anerkanntes Turnier. Das IDSF Präsidium und der STSV können demzufolge gegen jeden Sportler, Wertungsrichter, Funktionär oder jede Organisation, die Mitglied der IDSF oder des STSV sind und an dieser Veranstaltung teilnehmen, Sanktionen ergreifen.
Der STSV bittet seine Mitglieder dies zur Kenntnis zu nehmen.

Marc Frédéric Schäfer
Mitglied des STSV-Vorstands

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Moshe would like to draw the attention on the following:

http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2010/100909meigs.html?WT.mc_id=ebrief

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, made infamous in March 2003 when he ordered huge trenches dug across Meigs Field in the middle of the night, announced Sept. 7 that he will not seek re-election. Although the airport was closed and turned into a park, AOPA President Craig Fuller has pledged to seek every opportunity to bring back Meigs Field.
“More than seven years have passed since Chicago’s Meigs Field was bulldozed under cover of darkness, but the airport has not been forgotten,” Fuller said. “Grassroots support for Meigs is still alive and many in the aviation community view Mayor Richard Daley’s decision not to run for re-election as a hopeful sign that the field could be restored.
What do we learn from this?

Grassroots support for Ballroom Dancing
It does not matter how hard the STSV (IDSF) will try to ban – the game is already over.

Since we have the most important people of our dance world at the spearhead of the Freedom to Dance Group –and the community is growing everyday- and since the case of the banning, intimidating and threat by the IDSF is an issue at the CID UNESCO it is a matter of time that the IDSF has to come to terms with the existence of the WDC and WDC-AL.

Like one day President Ronald Reagan pledged: Mr. Gorbachev:
"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.

In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin, by the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, Reagan challenged Gorbachev, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as a symbol of Reagan's desire for increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc. We all know what happened!

THE DANCERS HAVE AN INCREASING DESIRE FOR FREEDOM IN OUR BALLROOM DANCE WORLD.

Mr. IDSF: Let everybody dance!

Moshe can only repeat: Mr. Carlos Freitag, tear down this wall of intimidation, banning and discrimination. Stop abusing the dancers. Come back to the Round Table talks and find a common denominator for ALL DANCERS in our Ballroom Dance World. A common denominator that stipulates the Freedom To Dance and is based on the UN-Charta http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Moshe, Chicago 20, 2010

Lieber Moshé

Es ist super, dass du die kleine Schweizer Tanzscene nicht vergisst und uns immer noch unterstützest.

2010 WDC-AL Open European Championship Standard & Latin
"Das offene Turnier "WDC-AL Open European Championship Standard & Latin" am 6. und 7. November 2010 im Mövenpick Hotel Zürich-Regensdorf ist kein von der IDSF oder dem STSV anerkanntes Turnier."
Das ist die freie Meinunungsäusserung des STSV. Das ist ok. Ein leidlich bekanntes Statement übrigens, das man nicht dauernd wiederholen muss.
Aber was danach folgt, lieber Marc, ist harte Diktatur. Dem STSV und dem IDSF sind doch schon länger nicht mehr die Tänzer wichtig, sondern das eigene Image.

Liebe Tänzer, lasst euch nicht einschüchtern. Es handelt sich hier um ein letztes Aufbäumen. Wer am Verlieren ist ,beginnt zu drohen.