Reclaim The Streets was originally formed by Earth First! in London, England in Autumn 1991 and was born out of anti-road protest camps at places such as Claremont Road and Twyford Down. The idea of street reclaiming soon spread throughout the United Kingdom. The first actions can be seen as specifically anti-car and pro-alternative transport, but over the years the members of the core group changed its focus, realising that it was better to go to the root of the problem as they saw it, namely the capitalist system. Our streets are as full of capitalism as of cars and the pollution of capitalism is much more insidious. Nevertheless, the actions always followed the principle of non-violent direct action.