Reclaim the Streets and Desires: The RTS Valentine's Day Street Party began at 12 noon at Haight & Stanyan streets on Saturday February 14th. A ship of about 300-400 pirates marched from Golden Gate park and eventually took over the block of Haight & Ashbury and the party was in full swing with a full-on sound system with rotating djs, a pirate marching band, street theater, couches, mattresses, paint splattered on GAP, and an impromptu soccer game in the middle of the street. There was also a breakaway solidarity action that marched to the nearby Safeway.
Announcements: 1 | 2 | 3
Reclaim the Streets is part of a global, decentralized direct action movement. Direct action means that, rather than hoping and waiting for the powers that be to make the world better, one personally sets about the urgent task of reclaiming the streets (and the planet and our lives) from the destructive tyranny of global capitalism.
Retrospectives: East Bay RTS | SF RTS 2000 | SF RTS 2001
Contingents: Baby Bloc | Direct Action to Stop the War
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