Un peu d’histoire sur le mouvement génial « Reclaim the street » pour celles et ceux qui m’ont souvent demandé, puisque je cite ce mouvement assez souvent.
RTS commentary
▻http://web.archive.org/web/20051109121459/http://rts.gn.apc.org/evol.htm
The Evolution of Reclaim the Streets
The direct action group Reclaim the Streets (RTS) has developed widespread recognition over the last few years. From road blockades to street parties, from strikes on oil corporations to organising alongside striking workers, its actions and ideas are attracting more and more people and international attention. Yet the apparent sudden emergence of this group, its penetration of popular alternative culture and its underlying philosophy have rarely been discussed.
RTS was originally formed in London in Autumn 1991, around the dawn of the anti-roads movement. With the battle for Twyford Down rumbling along in the background, a small group of individuals got together to undertake direct action against the motor car. In their own words they were campaigning:
RTS (London) Ideas and stuff
▻http://web.archive.org/web/20051216002229/http://rts.gn.apc.org/ideas.htm
RTS ideology?
Of course a disorganisation doesn’t have a single ideology. Here, though, are some writings from RTS-types which express some of the ideas - and let’s not forget practises - that most of the people involved have some sympathy with.
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Reclaim The Streets ! (Do or Die)
▻http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no6/rts.htm
An article from Do or Die Issue 6. In the paper edition, this article appears on page(s) 1-10.
Reclaim The Streets!
“We are not going to demand anything. We are not going to ask for anything. We are going to take. We are going to occupy.”
The direct action group Reclaim the Streets (RTS) has developed widespread recognition over the last few years. From road blockades to street parties, from strikes on oil corporations to organising alongside striking workers, its actions and ideas are attracting more and more people and international attention. Yet the apparent sudden emergence of this group, its penetration of popular alternative culture and its underlying philosophy have rarely been discussed.
The Evolution of RTS
RTS was originally formed in London in Autumn 1991, around the dawn of the anti-roads movement. With the battle for Twyford Down rumbling along in the background, a small group of individuals got together to take direct action against the motor car. In their own words they were campaigning:
“FOR walking cycling and cheap, or free, public transport, and AGAINST cars, roads and the system that pushes them.”[1]
Their work was small-scale but effective and even back then it had elements of the cheeky, surprise tactics which have moulded RTS’s more recent activities. There was the trashed car on Park Lane symbolising the arrival of Car-mageddon, DIY cycle lanes painted overnight on London streets, disruption of the 1993 Earls Court Motor Show and subvertising actions on car adverts around the city. However the onset of the No M11 Link Road Campaign presented the group with a specific local focus, and RTS was absorbed temporarily into the No M11 campaign in East London.
