Reclaim Yer Streeets

They’re everywhere, practically every weekend, and sometimes you can go along and not even know anyone. Outrageous. Even in York, where there was no sound system and the city is almost entirely pedestrianised, several hundred people turned up and danced all day in glorious RTS sunshine. Meanwhile the police, in a remarkable policy switch, voluntarily stepped aside and waved the Greenpeace solar generator van through. A week earlier in Sheffield over 1000 people reclaimed a city centre dual carriageway as a simultaneous Critical Mass bike ride cruised around reclaiming other streets in the vicinity. Whilst madly dancing the reclaimers allowed a nervous policeman to escort out an even more nervous jag driver whose precious guzzler had sat five feet from the sound system for over an hour but was left completely untouched by the anarchist hoardes. Struggling to reclaim the high ground the Sheffield local nonsense paper described the street party as “an aggressive hostile group allowed to hold people to ransom” and decided to focus on an old lady who couldn’t catch her bus home.. Similar anarchic scenes have taken place in Leicester and Finland and, when Tony Blair heads off to Amsterdam for a change of scenery next week, he'll find more of the same madness there too.