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simon blackbourn
@simonblackbourn.net

This, all the other RTS street parties, squatting, anti roads and climate change protests, the free party scene... Feels like a very long ago time of youthful optimism and demand for change that the governments of the time very quickly decided had to be comprehensively stomped on.

Olaf Bayer@olafbayer.bsky.social

30 years ago Reclaim the Streets transformed the M41 in Shepards Bush, London into a party. A life changing day for 20 year old me pasttense.co.uk/2020/07/13/t...

pasttense.co.ukToday in London festive history, 1996: Reclaim the Streets Re-Wild the M41 motorway, Shepherds Bush1996 was proclaimed (by the car industry) “Year of the Car”. Reclaim The Streets turned that into ‘the Year We Squatted a Motorway’. July that year saw RTS mount what was pr…

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