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Autonomous Spaces
Including free parties, travellers, squatting and festivals (even though not all festivals are particularly 'autonomous') See also Camp For Climate Action, Direct Action

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6th August 2010 | Issue 734 - GRASSROOTS STRUGGLE - Yet another independent festival has been cancelled after a concerted campaign by bureaucrats, nimbys and police. This time it's the Grassroots Feastival, which was a small volunteer-run event due to take place in Cambridgeshire in early September.

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18th June 2010 | Issue 727 - RAVING MADNESS - The UK Teknival over Mayday in Wales was busted by police and gear confiscated in another attack on fre parties and festivals in Britain.

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26th March 2010 | Issue 715 - A TWIST OF FETE - In what is fast becoming a summer tradition, yet another gathering has fallen victim to party-pooping police tactics. Strawberry Fair in Cambridge - the UK’s last free open-air festival - has been cancelled under police pressure.

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27th July 2009 | Issue 685 - THE HIPPY, HIPPY SHAKEDOWN - At the last minute the Big Green Gathering is closed down by the police and local council on a roadblock permit technicality - but as one policeman admitted 'This is political'.

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26th June 2009 | Issue 681 - YOU’RE NICKED SUNSHINE! - At this year's summer solstice celebration at Stonehenge, the Wiltshire police went over the top - literally, by flying an un-manned drone surveillance copter continuously over the crowd.

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11th April 2008 | Issue 628 - MESHO Hits The Streets - A spoof newspaper 'MESHO', about autonomous spaces, squatting and homelessness has been produced for the April 11-12 weekend of Autonomous Spaces around England.

Download MESHO (16 page, tabloid size, 4.5meg, pdf format)

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22nd June 2007 | Issue 593 - As SchNEWS dusts off the wellington boots in preparation to become 'a drop of truth an ocean of mud - and commercial bullshit' at another Glastonbury Festival...

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10th March 2007 | Issue 579 - DANISH PASTING - The eviction of the four storey Ungdomshuset (literally: Youth House) in Copenhagen has sparked three days of rioting and forced the Danish state to close its borders to foreigners coming to join the solidarity struggle.

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10th March 2007 | Issue 579 - Another blatant Danish reference as the Ungdomhuset eviction is depicted in LEGO. Er what else Danish is there?

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1st September 2006 | Issue 558 - RAVE NEW WORLD? - As riot squad crash a free party in Chesterford, Essex over the bank holiday weekend...

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13th January 2006 | Issue 527 - HACKED OFF - A cafe in Broadway Markets, Hackney, which was closed last year to make way for a yuppy development, is squatted and re-opened...

10th May 2002 | Issue 354- FESTIVAL PIED - As Neo-Labour carries on the good work of the Tories to continue the clampdown on festivals in Britiain...