Why Reclaim the Streets? By the Disorganised Collective

Because the streets are ours! Because we can! Because direct action does bring satisfaction -- it gives us a taste of working together, making decisions ourselves, and it's inspirational and it spreads like wildfire! Because Car Culture sucks. Cars are destroying our lives and the planet, and they isolate all of us, especially youth, the disabled and the elderly. And they're expensive and they smell bad, too.

Because streets and pavements are more than just ways to get where you are going, they are gathering points and destinations. Life used to be lived in the streets, not just in cars, living rooms, and cubicles.

Because stepping off the pavement - into the streets - brings us together, and allows us to challenge the dehumanization of our lives and the sterile world that accompanies it. A street party is a liberated zone, where we can practice life as we'd like it to be - full of colour, community, pleasure and mutual aid. Because dancing is good for you.

Because the Church and the State have tried to suppress our dancing (and our bodies, our sexuality, our freedom..) for hundreds of years and we're still resisting and reclaiming what was lost. Because the streets are as full of capitalism as of cars and the pollution of capitalism is much more insidious. Because they want to keep you indoors.

Reclaim the Streets is a decentralized direct action network which uses street parties to take back public space -- the street -- from cars, corporations and the police state, and to return it to the public for socializing, bicycling, art, food, dancing, music, dissent, dialogue, community and creativity.

Reclaim the Streets first started in England in 1991 to protest the building of new roads through both urban and rural areas. It was revived in 1995 and has since spread to the U.S., Australia and other parts of Europe. Recently, Reclaim the Streets has been active in the Global Days of Action, and has helped add colour, music, and ecstatic exuberance to demonstrations all over!

Coming Up - Reclaim The Streets - Saturday 26th June

MEET IN PEARSON PARK AT MIDDAY (12:00pm) Reclaim the Streets is about people and communities. Re-asserting that the streets belong to us! The world belongs to us!! Lots of fun to be had... Music... Dancing... Activities for the kids... Face painting... Road chalking... etc...

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