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Reclaim the city? Reclaim your brains!

Reclaim the city has had another party. This time in the financial centre of Stockholm, Stureplan. Result? Destruction, mayhem and chaos. It looks like the last night at Roskilde minus bands and fun. What's the point?

Making it even more tragic, they seem to be proud of it: http://www.motkraft.net/nyheter/816.

"Kungsgatan drabbades snart av konfrontationer med polismakten, som ogillade den nyvunna urbana allemansrätten. Samtidigt fortsatte övriga festen med dans, öl, fyrverkerier, musik och frivilliga fasadarbeten."

"Festdeltagarna såg sin chans att omforma det snobbiga Stureplan till något annat än vad det var: varor från några olika butiker expropierades och i villervallan gick fönster på några fina kontor sönder."

I would be slightly more understanding if the majority of yesterday's participants made a public apology (and offered to help clean up the mess, how is THAT for activism with the goal to reclaim public areas!) and differentiated themselves from the (hopefully few...) participants that actually created the chaos and threw rocks and bottles at the police. But no. Wallow in it. Feel proud. You reclaimed the streets and walls from the dangerous capitalist pigs!

Geez. You need to reclaim your life. And reclaim your so called "movement" from the hands of the houligans. Really. I guess I am getting old, but 13 year old kids shouldn't be throwing bottles at police officials. Not in Sweden anyways... Some parents need to reclaim their children. Perhaps, after all, the police need to reclaim their right to use tear gas and water cannons. And if that is the outcome of these "parties", a more readily violent police force, what have you accomplished?

If this is the movement Naomi Klein is so proud of, she obviously needs a reality check.

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