Favourites of the road protest camps, street busking and alternative UK festies.
We ARE all the Pixie People and Faery Folk! Links to Pook of Pok (poet/singer/muso with the Spacegoats) – rants, links and songs, and to a separate video not on Pok’s site (Pok with John) Crazy Man Michael and more.
Wikipedia description with useful links to the history of the radical Provos. Street provocateurs (in Dutch ‘provoceren’ – trouble-makers) active in 1965-67 who developed ‘White plans’ for changing Dutch society. Plus a useful link to the Provos in the Dutch-based International Institute of Social History collection.
Danish website. They say of the site: Psychedelia.dk: “Open your mind!”
“Welcome to psychedelia.dk. We are the largest community for rational use of drugs and legalization.”
From 1976 the burst of energy that was punk broke the boring bubble that had become the corporate music arena.
Here’s a Facebook public site that tries to keep the spirit alive.
Rainbow Dreaming
Described as a photo documentary about the area around Byron Bay and Nimbin – home of the original tribes of hippies in OZ. It links to a book of the same name and the Bodhi Farm community and the history of local festivals.
Self-styled Conscious TV and internet hub site.
Lots of controversial material.
Links to their main site and Facebook page.
Reclaim the Seeds. This organisation supplies info and organises events to propagate non-GM seeds. Dutch-based, but plenty that can be read in English.
Reclaim the Streets have had website problems with cyber-hackers, but this should be the current site. They are an activist environmental organisation. Lots of 'events'.
An archive resource on anti-road building and protest tactics. UK-originated, but tips from further afield too. Part of the now defunct archive of ‘eco-action’.
The Autonomous Factory, ROG, which is still fighting against the threats of eviction from the municipality of Ljubljana.
They say: “ROG is a unique place and complex community with over twenty active collectives and spaces. It is meant for the young and other generations, who wish to create, work, experiment and simply be outside of frameworks of bureaucracy and profit.”