On January 22, 2004 Rockstarinc arrived in Santiago, Chile to develop some ACCESO Tec products and perform in ACCESO Sessions in Bellavista, Nuñoa, and Valparaiso.

Andrew Muroff, a Canadian-born, U.S.-educated lawyer, is an expert in Commercial Law, and was president of Softquad Inc., a software company which was listed on the NASDAQ and the inventor of XML, a software for legal practice. The American Bar Assocation Journal recently named XML as one of its top ten legal technologies. Andrew leads leads comes the ACCESO Tec program.

With Globguy and the other members of ACCESO Sessions, Rockstarinc offered three musical events in Santiago and Valparaíso. From Clandestino to Labatuta to Muelle Baron, the ACCESO Sessions were a huge success, generating appearances nationally on Radio Zero and an article in El Mercurio. Playing with DJ Fat Pablo and MC Chico Claudio, ACCESO Sessions reached a whole new audience of legal reform advocates for the future.

Pictures of ACCESO Sessions in Valparaiso here

Andrew wrote the following email to his friends, family and colleagues during his week in Chile:

Hola Amigos,

As most of you know, over the past few years I have been helping to develop a non-profit organization in South America that teaches legal reform and build the Rule of Law. Why is this important? Because, basic human rights like the presumption of innocense and the right to an open and fair trial are only now for the first time in history being enjoyed by Latin Americans. The problem is that Latin American governments are implementing these new reforms without any thought to training the local legal communities who must manage them. For instance, 20-year veteran lawyers in most countries have never represented clients in oral trials before, so they know nothing about legal process. Moreover, the public knows very little, if anything, about what legal reform means.


Proyecto ACCESO is teaching them. ACCECO is an acronym for Abogados Creativos Colaborando para Encontrar Soluciones Optimas - or creative lawyers collaborating to find optimal solutions. For the legal community, we have developed highly succesful legal skills training courses for over 5 years. In fact, we have trained over 1,800 prosecutors, public defenders and judges in the region. We have also made significant strides in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. For the public we are using popular culture (such as music, videos, clothing, kids cartoons etc.) to get the word out to the masses that they have rights and now have a legal system that recognizes and protects them.

My contribution to ACCESO is both from a legal training perspective (ie. Intellectual Property rights) and a musical perspective (I write all of the music that supports ACCESO efforts).


In that vein, the "ACCESO Sessions - 2004 tour" began on Friday evening in Santiago, Chile. It is an opportunity for me to combine my passion with my work. The first stop was at Club Clandestino to a packed house of over 70 people in the fashionable part of the city called Bellavista (like College Street in Toronto). I had the great fortune of performing live (en vivo) as "RockStar Inc." with 2 well-known local chilean performers, DJ Fat Pablo and MC Chico Claudio. ACCESO Vision videos about the "Rule of Law" were featured simultaneously on a massive wall screen above the dance floor. We wore ACCESO shirts and hats from our "ACCESO Collection" clothing line, as well. Invited guests included local lawyers and judges, as well as media. The rest of the crowd were young people partying like only Latin Americans know how.



Earlier on Friday, we were interviewed on national rock RadioZero - 97.7 FM about ACCESO and our music (which falls under our "ACCESO Sessions" record label brand) and how we're using it to reach the teens and young adults to teach them about their rights and the law. We have 3 music CDs that are in the process of being released for distribution, all featuring music from ACCESO and the Rule of Law (ie. supporting legal reform). We were also featured in a story in the national newspaper, El Mercurio.

Saturday afternoon we handed out over 1,000 "Promo" cards along the beach in Reñaca, Viña Del Mar to plug the Saturday night show. Viña is a 1-hour drive west of Santiago through the Chilean wine country to the Pacific Ocean. It is a combination of the craziness of Daytona Beach, but with the beauty of Nice, France.


Saturday night's show was at "Muelle (Bar) Baron" on the end of a revitalized pier in Valparaiso (5KM along the beach from Viña Del Mar). The event was both audio and video recorded by our local ACCESO team for later release. Needless to say, the place was again packed and people danced for the entire evening overlooking the city lights, the Ocean and the stars. It was pretty incredible, to say the least.

No one has ever done before what we do. But, those who came totally understand what ACCESO stands for and the word is now spreading fast. For the young people of Chile (which was under military dictatorship only 13 years ago), having a say in the way their lives are run is huge. We are showing them how and why to utilize the laws that their governments have newly enacted. It is groundbreaking work and I am proud to be a part of it as both a lawyer and a musician.


I hope you enjoy the attached pics and I look forward to sharing more stories soon.

Saludos
Drew (RockStar Inc.)