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m1 public meeting reclaim the streets
12PM SATURDAY MARCH 31 2001
Meet at Victoria Square
How often have you been in the middle of a major road ... you look around and there’s lots of people who seem happy to be there; they’re having picnics, dancing to live bands, skateboarding, or just hanging out on couches with friends? You’re standing next to a permaculture garden offering free plants to take home, someone on stilts walks by, and down the road a bit there’s kids playing, people juggling, and frisbees flying. In fact, all around you wherever you look, the street is decorated with colour, it’s alive with rhythms and the sounds of people interacting, and you feel like you’ve stumbled across some crazy carnival in the middle of the city.
Yeah right … it sounds like the stuff of imagination, but it did happen for real on March 25th last year when Adelaide’s first RTS party took over Hindley Street west and it’s going to happen again on March 31st this year. You, and everyone else are invited to be part of the realisation of "a collective
day-dream"!
This year, RTS will once again gather in Victoria Square and move en masse to an unknown destination. Artists for the day include Baterz, Toaster, Sankofa, Home For The Def, Azur, Andrew Bunney and the Trade Union Choir. There’ll be lots of DJs spinning discs including Ollie, Rory, Snrub, and Morph. You can
watch Capoeria demonstrations, listen to poets, check out some street art and discover many other entertainment surprises. An open mike will be set up for people who’d like to bring their own instruments and perform.
Why reclaim our streets?
Our cities are corporatised and beaurocracised, public space is controlled by governments, corporations and city councils, and streets have become the hottest commodity in advertising culture. For one day let’s claim a sense of ownership over public space and re-establish a feeling of community. Come and join in a street party that celebrates temporary liberation
from the established order; that marks the suspension of all hierarchy, rank, privileges, norms and prohibitions. Let’s create some uncommercialised space in Adelaide and assert that we can make our own fun without using any corporate sponsorship or asking the permission of any authority.
Since the early 1990s, RTS parties around the world have been hijacking busy streets, major intersections and even stretches of highway for spontaneous gatherings. In an instant, a crowd of seemingly impromptu partyers transforms a traffic artery into a surrealist playpen! RTS parties have been held in London, Berlin, Helsinki, Toronto, Geneva, Tel Aviv, Birmingham, Dublin, Berkeley, Sydney and many other cities.
So ... let us continue the carnival! Come dance in the streets of sleepy old Adelaide once more. On Saturday, March 31st converge at Victoria Square at 12 noon to move to the secret location where we’re going to create a free family festival of fun, frolicking, funking, and freedom from fast traffic. Pack a
picnic, wear a costume, bring your family and friends and whatever you can think of to transform the everyday street scene; beanbags, carpet, potplants, frisbees, works of art to exhibit, skateboards, kites, a game of twister etc. .... And bring your bodies ready to groovy until the middle of the night!
12PM SUNDAY APRIL 12 2001
Meet on the corner of Rundle Mall and Pulteney Street
seattle, melbourne, prague - frontline footage from the people's movement
11-2PM WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 2001
In the Union Board Room
Films from the people's movement - see the inspiring action from the Battle of Seattle, S11 Melbourne and S26 Prague.
7:30 PM THURSDAY APRIL 5 2001
Cannon Poole Room
Organising meeting for M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
university of south australia m1 meeting
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 5 2001
Meet outside the Women's Room, walk to the Kaf
Organising group for students at the University of South Australia, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 5 2001
5th floor, union building
Organising group for students at Adelaide University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 5 2001
meet at the plaza
Organising group for students at Flinders University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
seattle, melbourne, prague - people's power fighting hard!
3PM SATURDAY APRIL 7 2001
Part of the Global Action Seminar.
Films from the people's movement - see the inspiring action from the Battle of Seattle, S11 Melbourne and S26 Prague.
WEEKEND OF APRIL 7-8 2001
Venue to be advised.
Featuring panels on the history of the anti-corporate movement, issues and perspectives for the movement & workshops on the anti-nuclear movement, genetic engineering, civil disobediance and more.
7:30 PM THURSDAY APRIL 12 2001
Cannon Poole Room
Organising meeting for M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
university of south australia m1 meeting
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 12 2001
Meet outside the Women's Room, walk to the Kaf
Organising group for students at the University of South Australia, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 12 2001
5th floor, union building
Organising group for students at Adelaide University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 12 2001
meet at the plaza
Organising group for students at Flinders University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
rock against corporate tyranny
9PM SUNDAY APRIL 15 2001
Crown & Sceptre Hotel
M1 Benefit Gig. Bands include: Bomb Scare, Toxic Shock, Shadow Flag, Log Jammin, Narcain.
7:30 PM THURSDAY APRIL 19 2001
Cannon Poole Room
Organising meeting for M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
university of south australia m1 meeting
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 19 2001
Meet outside the Women's Room, walk to the Kaf
Organising group for students at the University of South Australia, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 19 2001
5th floor, union building
Organising group for students at Adelaide University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 19 2001
meet at the plaza
Organising group for students at Flinders University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
7:30 PM THURSDAY APRIL 26 2001
Cannon Poole Room
Organising meeting for M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
university of south australia m1 meeting
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 12 2001
Meet outside the Women's Room, walk to the Kaf
Organising group for students at the University of South Australia, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 26 2001
5th floor, union building
Organising group for students at Adelaide University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
1PM THURSDAY APRIL 26 2001
meet at the plaza
Organising group for students at Flinders University, to participate in the M1 global strike against corporate tyranny.
7AM TUESDAY MAY 1 2001
Adelaide Stock Exchange
The M1 Alliance is planning a blockade of the Adelaide Stock Exchange, starting at 7am, with the blockade starting at the Currie Street entrance. At 12:00 we will leave the Santos building for a march to the Unity Rally Against
Corporate Tyranny which is starting at 12:30 in Victoria Square.
global mayday websites hub: mayday2001.org
6:30PM THURSDAY MAY 3 2001
St. Mary Magdalene Mission Hall
Come and share your experiences of M1, hear reports from other cities and discuss future activities.
CHOGM and the anti-globalisation movement
6:30PM THURSDAY MAY 10 2001
St. Mary Magdalene Mission Hall
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will take place in Brisbane from October 6-8. This will give activists an excellent opportunity to mobilise in opposition to the next round of the World Trade Organisation and to demand cancellation of Third World Debt. This meeting will discuss what Adelaide activists can do to publicise and build this next major action against corporate tyranny.
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