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RECLAIM THE STREETS AMSTERDAM
Action Days April 2008 Amsterdam - 10.04.2008 10:22
During the ACTION DAYS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACES which will take place from 11th to 13th of April in Amsterdam there will be a RECLAIM THE STREETS invading the streets of Amsterdam.
It will start on Saturday 12th at 15:00 in the city centre.
The exact meetingpoint will be announced, so check indymedia, our webpage or call the infoline for updates.
infoline: 0619650959
dazed and confused tourists, robotic workaholics on their way to the office and shopaholics maxing out their card in record time….
This is the way that we see on the streets of this city. Our movement while we are in public spaces is always controlled (by police, by security cameras…). being in a public space has to always be justified in some way, having to explain what your role in the flow of the capitalist machine is. Unless of course you belong to one of the marketed capitalist identities.
People are being taught to only imagine the streets and not to live the streets. This is because the idea that most people have of alternative street life is given by distorted and sensationalized mainstream media.
This fear is very fast resulting in the separation of people based on class, gender and skin colour. As an end result rich people have more right to walk the streets than homeless people. women are taught to fear walking the streets alone at night. Non whites are more suspected when they walk through certain neighbourhoods. These imposed separations are trying to give certain individuals more right of being on public spaces. this makes everyone else who is not useful to the capitalist flow feel uncomfortable and never truly belonging in a public space.
There is no escape in this maze from the constant sensory bombardment of capitalism, which tries to convince us to work, buy and shut up. On every street we only see the messages of consumer marketing and prepakaged culture. we dont have the right to even have any input on what the street can look like. If you dont have the money to buy space, your expression will be criminalized and oppressed.
have the streets become nothing but a space for easing the flow of the economy? This is not our vision of what a public space should be. The streets should be the place where spontaneous encounters and situations can appear and develop, where no one is threatned with having to justify why they are there, just because for their appearence or social status. With reclaim the streets we are taking back the right to be seen and heard in a public space as we confront the current situation of capitalist domination. The streets are to be used for cultural and political expression that goes beyond how any billboard tells us to live our lives. We claim our space and reject the control, surveillance and opression that is put upon us by authorities. we want to feel free on the streets doing what ever we want, without being given the identity of a criminal just because we are breaking their boring law and order or stepping out of the line.
RECLAIM THE STREETS!!!!!
RECLAIM YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!
 Website: http://spaceinvaders.cryptodrunks.net
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| supplements | | Vertrekplaats - starting point | NN - 11.04.2008 19:21
De Reclaim vertrekt vanaf het nieuwe pand bij het Rijksmuseum.
The Reclaim will start at the new squat at the Rijksmuseum.
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