*Wow, a Situationist event with an actual surviving Situationist in it!
Also some ticked-off rioters. Culture class, urban precariate, gentrification, bourgeois law, you got a crash-course in modern leftie rhetoric here. That and a few Molotovs through the police station, you got yourself a party.
Link: Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net.
"Ungdomshuset was evicted on 1 March by cops using helicopters and other excessive strong arm tactics. This was followed by demonstrations, rioting, mass arrests and the demolition of Ungdomshuset. By the time I arrived in Copenhagen on 13 March the movement of resistance appeared to have been at least temporarily broken. The government had declared a state of emergency in the Nørrebro and Christiania districts of Copenhagen, and among other things the cops could stop and search you without having to give a reason for the harassment. Quite a few people told me they'd been beaten up by the pigs. There were also reports of right-wingers running amok while the police turned a blind eye to their activities; allowing them to trash bicycle shops and make burning barricades from looted library books, so that these senseless acts of fascist violence would be blamed on the left and thus weaken support for the struggle against the gentrification of inner city working class neighbourhoods....
