Without incidents neither unhappy people, 2001 finished with the first Reclaim the Streets in Montevideo.
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Taking advantage the Day of the Innocent, a coordinator of activists fixes December 28 to celebrate the end of the capitalism. Taking like base the idea of Reclaim the streets that spread globally through the PGA, the first anticapitalism ilegal street party was made in Uruguay.

Past the noon the Ituzaingó street, next to the main square "Matriz", was occupied with a varied range of activities and proposals.
With a environment of banners and informative panels, with different topics, as, the genetic food, the education, the infantile work, the use of the bicycle, the land, the poverty (war against the poverty and not against the poor) they intersected the street with bicycles, plants and a small orchard.

The festival day began with very varied music and free food, fruits and organic vegetables, breads, cheeses and a salad of fruits that help to bear the intense sun who shone during all the day.

The celebration stood out by the varied thing: candombe, tango, dances, guitars and songs, games, juggling, marionettes, street theater. That they animated to young people, adults and several children who concurred during Reclaim the Streets.

The police presence, was not intense, they controlled the situation, but they allowed to occupy the street during 8 hours that the activity lasted, neither they were very lucky, to just as its comrades of Intendance, in finding an organizer for make responsible of the situation, since to the being an open action, all were invited and there were not identifiable heads.

Some individualized groups converged with their proposals, as Izquierda Revolucionaria, a political group that took a big anti-capitalism missile, and they distributed flyers against the Bush's war and against the capitalism.
Others that participated actively were the 'Union of Street Artists' who adorned the street party, with marionettes, theater and guitars.
The group "Pulsarte", participe with a movil literary coffe, where different works could be read to own election.

During the day the community radio of the neighborhood 'Contonia FM' made a special transmission
with reason of this action.

The class open of tango got interactuar with occasional pedestrians who animated to dance in the street.
Concluded the party, the dance took more life with a vent that gave had finished the activity.

Indymedia made a great photographic covering, so soon we will publish pictures with more details in some of the local places in spanish of the network. www.indymedia.org

Other press had some presence, the state channel 'Tveo' filmed the activity, some radios made interviews and it had the covering of several community radios from montevideo.