The Danish right wing government, which a part from taking part in the war in Iraq, promoting Europe’s most discriminatory and racist laws and numerous social cut-downs, has now launched a campaign of low-intensity warfare against the free-town of Christiania in the city of Copenhagen. Starting with last years high-intensity prohibitionist campaign against the cannabis market of the free-town, the government has now begun the second faze of the war: the law L205.
The L205 bill is being debated in the Danish parliament at the moment. The government is counting on it passing with the help of Dansk Folkeparti, the Danish extreme nationalist party. It is constructed to be a sly makeover from the achieved collective governing and self-management of Christiania, to a cultural mainstreaming and selling off homes at market value.
But the social & political networks of Copenhagen rebel and organize against the renewed attacks on not only the free-town, but on fundamental rights of freedom and community. On MayDay a parade of more than 7000 people hit the streets of Copenhagen demanding the right to self-organising, diversity & community. The MayDay parade proved the re-intensifying of the networking of people from all parts of the Copenhagen area. They have joined together with people of Christiania in the Defend Christiania initiative which at this moment continues the mobilisations and the extension of democracy and self-government in all of Copenhagen towards a manifestation on May 22 heading towards the Danish parliament which is to take its final decision on the L205 in those days.
Read the callout of a group of Copenhagen disobedient activists forming part of the Defend Christiania initiative
Visit the Defend Christiania initiative which is a new initiative of users and inhabitants of Christiania, determined to defend the free-town.
The streets of Copenhagen have started changing their names into "pusher street". The fact shows that the government’s prohibitionist politics don’t stop people from enjoying the herb, but instead spreads the market into every corner of the city, mixing the sale of cannabis with harder drugs. "Legalisation and the right to auto-cultivation is the way ahead" the streets seem to say. "Pusher Street" was the old cannabis market of Christiania, evicted by the police a few months ago.
Visit the official site of Christiania- christiania.org
Learn more about the history of Christiania and the continuing struggles in the defense of the free-town and have a guided tour in the area.
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