Found within a kilometre of the Danish parliament, Freetown Christiania was established in 1971 when a bunch of anarchists and hippies squatted inside a vacant military base.
They set up an independent commune, with its owns rules and flag. There is no leader and decisions are made by consensus at communal meetings. The Danish state eventually accepted Christiania as a radical "social experiment", later giving it legal status.
We want anarchy! Unless it gets too anarchic.Christiania has often been at loggerheads with the authorities, and for a long time it resisted efforts to shut down Pusher Street. But last August residents agreed it must go.
In an extraordinary shift, they collaborated for several months with Copenhagen's Lord Mayor Sophie Haestorp Andersen, Justice Minister Hummelgaard and police over a new plan.
"As a city, we cannot live with [the violence], and the local Christianites have not been able to live with it either, but had been afraid to do something radically about it," said the mayor. "I told them I would back them up. Now we have a plan and we're taking the first step."
I did a Google Street View tour around the place. It needs a good clean up.It doesn't look that bad. However it does strike me as a useless action. They can start dealing on an adjacent street.
Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision to limit all musical, vocal and choreographic compositions to a tempo ranging from 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM) at a meeting Friday, the Russian state new agency TASS reported.
Under Kadyrov’s directive, the region now ensures that Chechen musical and dance creations align with the “Chechen mentality and musical rhythm,” aiming to bring “to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people,” Dadayev added.
We had all this in Britain thirty years ago.
Not the same thing though. I’m pretty sure dance music still featured in the charts & clubs in that time. The legislation was aimed at 'unofficial' raves happening in the countryside attracting big noisy drug-taking crowds in Surrey & the Home Counties etc.We had all this in Britain thirty years ago.
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was passed on November 3, 1994 in the attempt to stamp out rave culture.
Electronic dance music could not be played in public. It was defined as being 'wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats'.
Police could confiscate sound systems and arrest people who might be travelling to a rave.
Worked well. Everyone went back to buying records by Matt Monroe and The New Seekers.
My point was about defining a type of music to ban based on its BPM etc.Not the same thing though. I’m pretty sure dance music still featured in the charts & clubs in that time. The legislation was aimed at 'unofficial' raves happening in the countryside attracting big noisy drug-taking crowds in Surrey & the Home Counties etc.
Different to an outright ban.
Sous les pavés, la plage! ("Under the paving stones, the beach!")How will digging up the street stop the dealers?
And yet my children continued to play the recorder...It was defined as being 'wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats'.
Now that's an instrument!And yet my children continued to play the recorder...
Coincidence dept - recorder is 9ac on the Guardian Prize Crossword.And yet my children continued to play the recorder...
I don’t know if this is genuine or a setup but it made me laugh. From California - black bag shuffles up & down pathway.
Thief pretends to be bag of rubbish to steal package off doorstep
All to steal 2 phone chargers worth £8. There’s a video.
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I'm assuming that's based around Black Bob from the Dandy, a child's comic, from years and years ago. Black Bob being a border collie.
Absolutely fantastic subversion there.Museum worker commits property damage in order to display own art work:
Museum fires employee for hanging up his own artwork
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...11/art-museum-fire-employee-painting-germany/
'Employers love a self-starter — but when a worker with lofty ambitions decided to mount his own piece at an art museum in Munich this year, his efforts were not appreciated by his superiors.
'The technical employee was fired from the Pinakothek der Moderne after he surreptitiously hung his approximately 2-by-4-foot drawing in the institution’s modern art collection in late February, spokesperson Tine Nehler said by email.
'German police are investigating the man for property damage — he drilled holes in the wall to hang the drawing. He said he hoped it would be his “artistic breakthrough,” German media reported.'
Updated information and image of the art work here:
"Early reports failed to mention that the special exhibition in which the picture was hung was all about errors and malfunctions in art, and called Glitch: On the Art of Interference."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...allery-by-an-employee-and-the-story-behind-it
We see the rescued bags with the horse manure outside stables on our rides, adorned with handwritten FREE MANURE labels.
Video needs more Yakety Sax.Vid at link.
Manchester police chase stolen car with 89-year-old passenger still inside.
Greater Manchester Police have released dash cam footage showing its pursuit of a stolen car that had an elderly women still sat in the passenger seat.The 999 call to emergency services was also released. The car's owner sounds noticeably distressed, and tells the call handler that her 89-year-old mother in the car is blind and has dementia.
The woman had left the engine running to keep her mother warm during a cold January, while she went into a shop.
51-year-old David Stephenson, of no fixed abode, has been jailed this week for eight years and six months after being found guilty of kidnap, theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving and driving without a licence.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68807571
The judge will hand down a stiff sentence for that.