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Reclaim the streets

The Reclaim The Streets (RTS) movement began in the mid '90s when British police began to crack down on all-night raves. In her book No Logo, Naomi Klein explains the ravers found common cause with other political subcultures such as squatters facing eviction, New Age travellers whose nomadic lifestyles were being threatened, eco-warriors fighting the paving over of woodland areas and so on. The common thread in these seemingly disparate movements was the fight for the right to uncolonised space: for trees, for homes, for dancing. Basically reclaiming the commons — for the people.

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