Reclaim the Streets

thumb|Reclaim the Streets banner Reclaim the Streets also known as RTS, are a collective with a shared ideal of community ownership of public spaces. Quotes Direct action enables people to develop a new sense of self-confidence and an awareness of their individual and collective power. Direct action is founded on the idea that people can develop the ability for self-rule only through practice, and proposes that all persons directly decide the important issues facing them. Direct action is not just a tactic, it is individuals asserting their ability to control their own lives and to participate in social life without the need for mediation or control by bureaucrats or professional politicians. Direct action encompasses a whole range of activities, from organising coops to engaging in resistance to authority. Direct action places moral commitment above positive law. Direct action is not a last resort when other methods have failed, but the preferred way of doing things. In a leaflet distributed in July 1996. Quoted in Fominaya Cristina Flesher Social Movements in a Globalized World Red Globe Press 978-1-352-00935-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=PmXTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 External links Reclaim The Streets (London) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2snn3XDbLg&lc=UgjU3VRcQmbnYHgCoAEC Reclaim the Streets - The Film (reloaded) Today the word on the street is 'Occupy'. This is how we used to do it in the 90's... - Documentary about RTS Car Busters Magazine is published four times a year by the World Carfree Network Reclaim the Streets - 7 March 1999, Sydney urban75 - Reclaim The Streets reports and photos - RTS articles, 1996 onwards Category:Social movements Category:Protests in Europe Category:International organizations Category:Festivals Category:Anarchist organizations Category:Environmentalism Category:England Category:Nonviolence