Reclaim the Streets

"Whether we were reclaiming the roads from cars, reclaiming buildings for squatters, reclaiming our voice from the deep dark depths of corporate media, or reclaiming our visual environment from billboards, we were always reclaiming. We want to Reclaim the Streets" (Klein, 2000, p.323)

'It is one of the ironies of our age that now, when the street has become the hottest commodity in advertising culture, street culture itself is under siege' (Klein, 2000 p.311)

'The events take culture jamming's philosophy of reclaiming public space to another level. Rather than filling the space left by commerce with advertising parodies, the RTSers attempt to fill it with an alternative vision of what society might look like in the absence of commercial control' (Klein, 2000 p.313)

(http://www.visiblecity.ca/index.php/interventions/83-reclaim-the-streets,  Christopher Smith)

The reclaim the streets movement is a resistant movement to reclaim public spaces, initially a reaction against car's, however, also a rebellion against corporate media invading the public environment.