Camden High Street, 14 May 1995. The first major RTS street party action took over a busy London street and closed it to motor-traffic for an afternoon. Around 500 people took over the street. There was free food served from tables in the middle of the road, and music played from a bicycle-powered sound system. A climbing frame was placed in the middle of a crossroad junction and children were able to play on it. The action met on the high street in the afternoon and left from the Rainbow Centre, a squatted Church in Kentish Town. Upper Street, Islington, 23 July 1995. Three thousand people party at another busy traffic junction. Banners are stretched between lampposts, with messages such as ‘STREET NOW OPEN’ and ‘CAR FREE’. There is a sound system as well as a live band that uses a bus stop as a stage. Kids play in a hastily constructed sandpit. Birmingham, 6 August 1995. Organised with a handful of people around 200 people turn up for family afternoon with live band playing from the back of a truck. To prevent police using riot tactics to clear the street at the end, a procession with music and dancing headed off down the road to a pub. Brighton, 14 February 1996. Protest publicised in part by Justice? & SchNEWS closes a section of the North Laine area of Brighton. A bouncy castle is erected in a crossing and traffic is stopped for most of the afternoon. M41 Motorway, Shepherd's Bush, London. 13 July 1996. After a cat-and-mouse game with the police, 6,000 protestors take over part of the elevated motorway. Many sound-systems play, one of which is carried on a truck that was parked on the hard shoulder. Hidden underneath dancers walking on stilts and wearing huge, wire-supported dresses, environmental activists drill holes in the tarmac and plant trees. The party continued into the next morning. Pershore Road, Birmingham, 17 August 1996 Mill Road, Cambridge, Saturday 14 September 1996 Reclaim the Future, Liverpool, Saturday 28 September 1996 Cowley Road, Oxford Thursday 31 October 1996 - Afternoon and evening party which began when sound systems on lorries stopped traffic using Cowley Road between around Divinity Road and Rectory Road Trafalgar Square, 12 April 1997. The 'Never Mind The Ballots' protest against the forthcoming general election. A march with the sacked Liverpool dockers started at Kennington Park and ended up at Trafalgar Square in the centre of London. Brixton Road, Brixton and High Road, Seven Sisters, 6 June 1998. Two street reclamations in one day, with an estimated 5,000 people at each party. Grassmarket, Edinburgh, 11 August 1997 Bank Underground station, London, 13 July 1998. To show support for London Underground workers striking resisting privatisation, activists shut down the Central line by climbing on a train in the morning rush-hour and unfurled a larger banner at the station entrance. Global Street Party! Birmingham Bullring, 16th May 1998 Toxic Planet at 173 Upper Street, London (opposite Islington Town Hall), 4–11 October 1998. Tube party, 1 May 1999. Carnival Against Capital: 18 June 1999. A global day of action. In London the financial district is targeted. The LIFFE building is stormed. Seattle Solidarity Action, Euston Station, London. 30 November 1999. The World Trade Organization was meeting in Seattle and met with concerted protest. No Blood For Oil. 3 February 2000. A solidarity action in support of the U'wa people of Colombia. Guerilla Gardening. 1 May 2000. An expressly non-violent gardening action at Parliament Square. Action to mark the introduction of the Terrorism Act. 19 February 2001. Bye Bye Planet. 19 April 2001. An action at the Natural History Museum protested at the perceived greenwash and corporate rebranding of BP by subverting an exhibition about climate change which was sponsored by BP. Business Class Tube launched. 5 June 2001. 50 trains receive stickers announcing a new Cattle Class. Free shop at a May Day event. 1 May 2002 Reclaim the Future. 11–22 September 2002. Street party against arms trade. 10 September 2003.
Camden High Street, 14 May 1995. The first major RTS street party action took over a busy London street and closed it to motor-traffic for an afternoon. Around 500 people took over the street. There was free food served from tables in the middle of the road, and music played from a bicycle-powered sound system. A climbing frame was placed in the middle of a crossroad junction and children were able to play on it. The action met on the high street in the afternoon and left from the Rainbow Centre, a squatted Church in Kentish Town. Upper Street, Islington, 23 July 19.95. Three thousand people party at another busy traffic junction. Banners are stretched between lampposts, with messages such as ‘STREET NOW OPEN’ and ‘CAR FREE’. There is a sound system as well as a live band that uses a bus stop as a stage. Kids play in a hastily constructed sandpit. Birmingham, 6 August 1995. Organised with a handful of people around 200 people turn up for family afternoon with live band playing from the back of a truck. To prevent police using riot tactics to clear the street at the end, a procession with music and dancing headed off down the road to a pub. Brighton, 14 February 1996. Protest publicised in part by Justice? & SchNEWS closes a section of the North Laine area of Brighton. A bouncy castle is erected in a crossing and traffic is stopped for most of the afternoon. M41 Motorway, Shepherd's Bush, London. 13 July 1996. After a cat-and-mouse game with the police, 6,000 protestors take over part of the elevated motorway. Many sound-systems play, one of which is carried on a truck that was parked on the hard shoulder. Hidden underneath dancers walking on stilts and wearing huge, wire-supported dresses, environmental activists drill holes in the tarmac and plant trees. The party continued into the next morning. Pershore Road, Birmingham, 17 August 1996 Mill Road, Cambridge, Saturday 14 September 1996 Reclaim the Future, Liverpool, Saturday 28 September 1996 Cowley Road, Oxford Thursday 31 October 1996 - Afternoon and evening party which began when sound systems on lorries stopped traffic using Cowley Road between around Divinity Road and Rectory Road Trafalgar Square, 12 April 1997. The 'Never Mind The Ballots' protest against the forthcoming general election. A march with the sacked Liverpool dockers started at Kennington Park and ended up at Trafalgar Square in the centre of London. Brixton Road, Brixton and High Road, Seven Sisters, 6 June 1998. Two street reclamations in one day, with an estimated 5,000 people at each party. Grassmarket, Edinburgh, 11 August 1997 Bank Underground station, London, 13 July 1998. To show support for London Underground workers striking resisting privatisation, activists shut down the Central line by climbing on a train in the morning rush-hour and unfurled a larger banner at the station entrance. Global Street Party! Birmingham Bullring, 16th May 1998 Toxic Planet at 173 Upper Street, London (opposite Islington Town Hall), 4–11 October 1998. Tube party, 1 May 1999. Carnival Against Capital: 18 June 1999. A global day of action. In London the financial district is targeted. The LIFFE building is stormed. Seattle Solidarity Action, Euston Station, London. 30 November 1999. The World Trade Organization was meeting in Seattle and met with concerted protest. No Blood For Oil. 3 February 2000. A solidarity action in support of the U'wa people of Colombia. Guerilla Gardening. 1 May 2000. An expressly non-violent gardening action at Parliament Square. Action to mark the introduction of the Terrorism Act. 19 February 2001. Bye Bye Planet 19 April 2001. An action at the Natural History Museum protested at the perceived greenwash and corporate rebranding of BP by subverting an exhibition about climate change which was sponsored by BP. Business Class Tube launched. 5 June 2001. 50 trains receive stickers announcing a new Cattle Class. Free shop at a May Day event. 1 May 2002 Reclaim the Future. 11–22 September 2002. Street party against arms trade. 10 September 2003.