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	Reclaim the Streets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reclaim the Streets often stage non-violent direct action street reclaiming events such as the 'invasion' of a major road, highway or freeway to stage a party.
		Reclaim the Streets is also as a term used to denote this type of political action, regardless of its actual relation to the RTS movement.
		Reclaim the Streets began in London in the 1990s and was born out of anti-road protest camps at places such as Claremont Road and Twyford Down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reclaim_the_streets (721 words)

	Reclaim The Streets! (Do or Die)
		Street Parties I and II were held in rapid succession in the summer of 1995 and there were various actions against the likes of Shell, the Nigerian Embassy and the 1995 Motor Show.
		To 'street party' is to begin reconstructing the geography of everyday life; to re-appropriate the public sphere; to rediscover the streets and attempt to liberate them.
		And to 'reclaim the streets' is to enact the transformation of the former to the latter.
	www.eco-action.org /dod/no6/rts.htm (5165 words)

	TIME'S UP! :: Reclaim the Streets of NYC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Reclaim the Streets is organizing a Carnival Bloc-style protest march and party to meet and greet the World Economic Forum as they come to New York City.
		The second Reclaim the Streets was in April 1999 and was part of the successful movement to prevent the city from auctioning off more than one hundred community gardens.
		Reclaim the Streets is happening all over the world, in Amsterdam, London, Toronto, Prague, Melbourne, and Madrid.
	www.times-up.org /rts.php (820 words)

	Reclaim The Streets on DublinÕs Baggot St.
		After the last Reclaim the Streets when the Gardai attacked party goers, arresting 24 and hospitalising others they were very much on the defensive.
		The streets and the space have to be made available for the people of the city for other uses besides getting to and from work.
		The street was opened to traffic and this morning it was jammed with people driving their cars, hassled and stressed, trying not to be late for their boss.
	struggle.ws /wsm/news/2002/rtsSEPT.html (2379 words)

	Reclaim the Streets - Vikipedio
		Reclaim the Streets (RTS; anglalingve por "Regajnu la Stratojn") estas grupo da homoj, kiuj kolektive kredas je komuneca posedado de publikaj spacoj.
		Dum tio ĉi obstrukcias normajn uzantojn, kiel aŭtistojn kaj bus-uzantojn, la filizofio de Reclaim the Streets konstatas, ke tiuj uzantoj mem estas la obstrukciantoj, kaj ke okupante la stratojn oni liberigas ilin kiel publikaj spacoj.
		Strat-festoj de Reclaim the Streets estas okazintaj tra Eŭropo, Aŭstralio, Nord-Ameriko kaj Afriko.
	eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reclaim_the_Streets (144 words)

	marion hamm \| reclaim the streets!
		The example of the form of action "Reclaim the Streets" that emerged in London in the early 90s shows the close ties between a tactic that has since been successfully employed around the world, and the concrete local circumstances, from which it initially developed.
		Reclaim the Streets actually succeeded in adapting the action form of anti-road protests in a rural environment to the circumstances of the metropolis, transforming the protest against environmental destruction into a protest against "the car" as a symbol of the capitalist disciplining of urban life by connecting to everyday experience in London.
		The use of the term "enclosures" [10] in RTS diction refers to a trauma of original accumulation that is latent in the collective subconscious of the United Kingdom: Beginning in the 16th century, land that was accessible for the "common good" was fenced in for raising sheep, i.e.
	republicart.net /disc/hybridresistance/hamm01_en.htm (1383 words)

	Reclaim the Streets: North London Street Party!
		Although local independent news has lauded Reclaim the Streets in the UK since the original event occurred there, enthusiasts looking to this first RTS event in the USA were wondering nervously whether anyone else knew or cared enough to take the streets for real.
		So it was not Reclaim the Street, but Reclaim the Road event, with 900 bikers, who participated in the biketour (but it is true, that probably 95% of the bikers were not there for blocking the road).
		They started to harass people sitting on the street, and went wild cutting the rainbow web of fabric ropes tied across the streets and stomping balloons in a frenzy that might have be funny if their intent - shut down the street party, keep cop control - had not been so clear.
	www.urban75.com /Action/reclaim10.html (7571 words)

	Reclaim the Streets in Ireland
		Articles on Reclaim the Streets in Ireland and the politics of transport and space
		The first feeling at any Reclaim The Streets is a strange one for someone accustomed to the plodding, predictability of your usual lefty "protest".
		It was expected that this would be the largest Dublin Reclaim the Streets to date.
	struggle.ws /wsm/rts.html (1019 words)

	Conscious Choice: Reclaim the Streets
		The "Reclaim the Streets" movement has finally hit America, the land where for many decades there was nothing in the world we would not do to promote widespread use of the private automobile.
		Eugene, Oregon, which once required that all streets be at least 28 feet wide, now allows some to be as narrow as 20 feet.
		Wellesley, Massachusetts, faced with a plan to widen its congested main street, chose to narrow it instead and expand the sidewalks to encourage walking as a form of transportation.
	www.consciouschoice.com /1999/cc1206/citizen1206.html (700 words)

	Telegraph \| Comment \| Reclaim the streets
		In the space of one week, as was first revealed in these pages, the front walls of every house on one side of his street were twice covered in graffiti.
		That a peaceable, distinguished man in his late sixties cannot walk without fear through London's streets is a terrible indictment on one of the greatest cities in the world.
		As many of those policemen as possible should be on the streets, coming down hard on all crimes, from the graffiti on garden walls to the shooting of their colleagues.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/05/16/dl1603.xml (365 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| The group reclaiming the headlines
		With a burnt-out police van, Euston station closed off and a running battle between police and protesters - Reclaim the Streets is back in the headlines again.
		But while Reclaim the Streets is widely seen as a new organisation, it can trace its roots back to the early 1980s when anarchists first turned their attention to the City of London with the Stop the City and Bash the Rich protests.
		From inner city streets to motorways, RTS became a force to be reckoned with, albeit very difficult to deal with.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/544778.stm (690 words)

	RTS (London) Diary of dastardly deeds
		The Reclaim the Streets idea has grown up and left home.
		Street parties and suchlike often happen without anyone in RTS London hearing about them until afterwards.
		Reclaim the Beach at a Central London beach.
	rts.gn.apc.org /diary.htm (226 words)

	Reclaim The Streets - Indymedia Ireland
		Ireland, along with Critical Mass will be holding a free street party to help highlight the effects that the G8 leaders have on the world, and to help people mobolise to take action and travel to this years G8 Summit at Gleneagles, Scotland on July 6th.
		Same deal as Reclaim the Streets sorta, what with the reclaiming of streets, except it has a real transport focus.
		Reclaim the Streets and Critical Mass are friends.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=69141 (1615 words)

	Common Content: Catalog: Movies : Documentary : Reclaim the streets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Reclaim the streets is a videocollage/installation about commercializing public space and strategies against it.
		On the other side there exists parallel to this a subculture which converts trains, electric installation boxes, walls, traffic signs, busses and vending maschines into a big screen for its anarchical figures (Streetart/Urban Art) to intervene into the predetermined overall picture of the city and to resist the aesthetic staging through the economy.
		Through these parallel running processes, with the aid of signs, codes, architecture and logos the street becomes a place for a symbolic and political dispute.
	www.commoncontent.org /catalog/movies/documentary/3575 (398 words)

	Reclaim the Streets! : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eventually, the group moved towards the street accompanied by the loudest, most obnoxious testosterone infused blast of techno noise i have ever encountered.
		As we hit the streets, we were immediately surrounded by a corral of cops on foot, bike, motorcycle and car.
		So with Reclaim the streets, there were two types of music that I heard played.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=125549&comments=yes (4094 words)

	Untitled Document
		Empty streets are threatening places but a critical mass of pedestrians keeps the streets safer.
		However, the high street stores still represent the end point in an economic system that reduces all life to commodities to be unsustainably reformulated, culled, packaged, marketed and now finally genetically modified.
		Bath has its own radical tradition of campaigning in the streets against injustice and for progressive change, from the banishment of Mosleys fascist flshirts during the 1930s, to the marches of the peace movement, miners, the hated Poll Tax, student loans and road protest.
	www.geocities.com /bathfin (2766 words)

	Reclaim the Streets: How to sort a street party...
		For opening the street - or rather stopping it being re-closed by the traffic - ribbons and scissors are not enough.
		At least a couple of the boys in blue will fail to get the point and nick people - six is generally the minimum to convince their paymasters it was worth all that overtime.
		Of course you found a solicitor who understands about street protests and distributed a bust card with their number, a phone number to collect details of arrestees, and basic advice - the Release bust card is a good basis in the UK.
	www.gn.apc.org /rts/sortit.htm (415 words)

	Reclaim the Streets
		This is a Reclaim the Streets’ party, in the center of the four-lane
		On Saturday, April 2, 2005 a street protest-party stopped traffic while attempting to stop proposed MUNI fare hikes and to promote "increased public control over shared community resources such as the city streets and the public transportation system".
		A. Reclaim the Streets is a direct action tactic.
	home.roaddawgz.org /stories/view_article.html?article_id=cd18e32bee6f63a4144d829df5286621&this_category_id=204 (1023 words)

	Reclaim the Streets - Away With All Cars
		A sincere and zealous protestation against the over-abundance of motorised carriages together with some suggestions towards the elimination of this disgorge in the form of an open letter to all motorists.
		Although sexual harassment on the street is able to cross the boundary between car space and public space.
		Streets would not be deserted, so street crime would become virtually impossible, making trust between diverse individuals and communities a realistic goal rather than empty liberal rhetoric.
	www.eco-action.org /dt/awaycars.html (4651 words)

	Reclaim the Streets ... for What Purpose? (April 24, 2002)
		It has a different purpose, after all: Reclaim The Streets is, essentially, a free-speech fight recast as a street party.
		Police encircled the event with the intent to keep participants from spreading out onto the street, which was the event's main intent.
		The Reclaim The Streets idea is to emphasize that streets are public space, to claim this public space for something other than the flow of commerce, and to validate the First Amendment right to assemble in public spaces, be they parks, plazas, or streets.
	eatthestate.org /06-18/ReclaimStreetsfor.htm (1048 words)

	Telegraph \| Comment \| Let our police reclaim the streets
		But real information is gathered on the streets and it is here that the intelligence gathering must start.
		The debate about whether the police should be armed will continue to rage, but, even if the decision is eventually taken, a major project to arm the police would take years to implement, with major changes to recruitment and training being the starting point.
		A storm is gathering and, if they are to weather it, the police must reclaim the streets.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/15/do1504.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/15/ixnewstop.html (970 words)

	RTS: The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
		It is impossible to drive at more than an average of 20 kmh in the tangled network of streets, avenues, and boulevards that characterise the traditional cities.
		These splintered cities are strung out along empty streets lined with identical developments; and their urban landscape (a desert) says, "These streets are made for driving as quickly as possible from work to home and vice versa.
		At the end of the workday everyone ought to stay at home, and anyone found on the street after nightfall should be considered suspect of plotting evil." In some American cities the act of strolling in the streets at night is grounds for suspicion of a crime.
	www.gn.apc.org /rts/socid.htm (3053 words)

	Reclaim the Streets! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Before you is a street party: a community festival on the [paved over] town square.
		By dancing and playing--turning the pavement into a playground--we are reclaiming the street from the automobile which ruins the street by making it a place to be moved through - not lived in.
		We believe the city and the street should be for people to live, meet others and celebrate creativity and freedom.
	www.videoactivism.org /reclaim2.html (172 words)

	Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities - Cars, Trucks Protest Against Placemaking
		Fearful of losing their long dominance of the streets, millions of autos stage massive park-ins in public spaces around the nation to protest pedestrians and alternative modes of transportation.
		The protesters, who also include pick-up trucks and tractor-trailers, claim that they are the rightful kings of the road and refuse to share street space with pedestrians, bicycles, and other modes of transportation.
		Fearful of losing their dominance on America's streets, millions of autos staged massive park-ins in public spaces around the nation to protest pedestrians and other alternative modes of transportation.
	www.pps.org /info/newsletter/april_first_2005/cars_protest (766 words)

	active-sydney - full event details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RTS Crew Sydney have called a massive mobile street party and dirct Action in the CBD to draw attention to the disasterous planning and implementation of the Cross City Tunnel.
		We believe more roads are not the answer, especially private ones, and we want to see more bicycle infrastructure, investment in long term sustainable transport, and a greater emphasis on public consultation prior to, and inclusion in, the design process.
		Ultimately it is in the streets that power must be dissolved: for the streets are where daily life is administered and eroded, and where power is confronted and fought.
	active.org.au /sydney/calendar/?display=zoom&event=3446 (649 words)

	RECLAIM THE STREETS - CROSS CITY TUNNEL - DIRECT ACTIONS AND STREET PARTY! \| Sydney Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Reclaim the Streets began in The United Kingdom in the 1990's, and has since been adopted by autonomous activist groups the world over.
		It is a tool to regain a sense of community via direct forms of resistance against largely unaccountable Governmental and Corporate structures which attempt to dominate and administer our (potentially!) mundane modern lives.
		By Reclaiming the Streets and holding a massive street party in normally dead space, lonely transitory spaces are re-inscribed as creative and autonomous social spaces where people can play, resist, and express themselves without fear of coercion and prejudice.
	sydney.indymedia.org /node/36116 (1762 words)

	RECLAIM THE STREETS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cars, embodying the symbols of the current dominant global system, have taken over city streets that were previously the domain of people.
		And so we summon a fight; a battle against car culture, its roots, and its impacts; a struggle to reclaim the streets and to take back our lives; a confrontation with hierarchy, authoritarianism, alienation and hypocrisy.
		We are determined to reclaim the public spaces that have been stolen and privatised at the expense of all in order to benefit a few.
	www.csaf.cz /video/reclaim_the_streets_avi_divx/www.ulicelidem.cz/manifesto.html (1112 words)

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