Urban commons Anti-globalisation/environmental/anti-war protests Sources Operation Solstice documentary: https://youtu.be/rdztgEB5SlI Reclaim the Streets film: https://archive.org/details/ngv_lo_en_20041101_reclaim_the_streets_the_film Do or Die magazine issues 1-10: https://archive.org/details/DoOrDie08/Do%20Or%20Die%2001/ Sparrows Nest archive: https://archive.org/details/sparrowsnestlibrary?tab=collection Left.overs archive (incl May Day Rooms, Sparrows Nest): https://archive.leftove.rs/
This year at Womad festival, I was privileged to chair a panel of authors from Comma Press’s collection, The Cuckoo Cage. Courttia Newland, Bidisha and Irfan Master read from their short stories about contemporary protest drawn from historical “proto-heroes”: Captain Pouch and
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A quick summary here of the development of public order law in relation to space and protest and the freedom of assembly. Legislation: Highway Act 1835, s72 – used to regulate public processions Metropolitan Police Act 1839 s52 and s54 Town Police
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James Greenhalgh’s book, Reconstructing Modernity: space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities (Manchester UP, 2017) is a thought-provoking account of the development of postwar planning, especially in Manchester and Hull. His main point concerns the continuities between planning in the
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