Pics from European Alternative Resistance Sound System Parade Demo
system no border | 17.04.2006 16:58 | Culture | Free Spaces | Repression | World
The demo was against the repression against free parties, festivals and squats - and in particular last summer's brutal attack by czech riot police against the Czechtek tekno festival.
Up to 3000 people attended the demo, including some from the uk.
EAR Sound System Parade
Free Parties Against Police Brutality
...through the streets...
Sound System Truck with Czechtek Anti-repression Campaign Banner
on the march...
You might stop the Party, But you can't stop the Future
Now then, now then...
Quite.
"Musik of Freedom"
System Street
...doof doof doof...
FuckParade Freedom of Movement Banner
http://www.n.cz/~wolf/foto/ http://board.shebaka.org/album_cat.php?cat_id=7 Free 4 Euroalternatives website: United Against Police Repression
http://www.free4euroalternatives.org Earlier Indymedia Postings:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/04/338314.html
system no border
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17.04.2006 17:48
http://kozzza.album.cz/freetekdemo-strasbourg-kozza/ http://070.freetekno.nl/pictures/EAR-Straatsburg-15-04-06 Czech TV news report:
http://www.ct24.cz/vysilani/?id=105354 Meanwhile back in blighty, over this bank holiday weekend two major multi-rig parties went off... One in S Wales, the other near Peterborough.
The free party scene here in the uk has been inceasingly under attack since last year, when the authorities switched tactics and started using the fairly recently amended Public Entertainments License (PEL) legislation against parties. It used to be that the police had a hard job to prove who was an organiser of any given party, but thanks to the changes, almost anyone who brings or drives PA speakers or electronic musical equipment, records, lights (ie 'infrastucture') etc to the site can be classed as an organiser.
The aggressive use of this amended PEL law last year saw an increased number of seizures of sound systems at parties, more arrests, and importanly more prosecutions and pending prosecutions against members of sound system crews. Many have responded by keeping the information about their parties off the web, encouraging people not to publish photos of parties, and during the winter some have opted to hold members only parties.
The uk has a long history of the persecution of free festivals and parties, this is the latest chapter.
The nanny/contrl-freak-state seems to increase its reach every week, clamping down further and further both on unlicensed fun and civil liberties. That said, week in week out, free parties kick off all over the country every weekend.
Here comes the summer...
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