Dannish hippies might be expelled from their community.
I find it quite troubling that Critical Mass rides, Reclaim the Streets parties, communities like Christiania, protests, etc. are becoming increasingly vilified and punished. It's also somewhat frustrating because the system that so many dispise is becoming increasingly difficult to escape from.
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| The residents of Copenhagen's famed hippie enclave can be evicted because the Danish state gave them the right to borrow the land - not rent it - in 1989, government lawyers said in a legal review released Wednesday. In 1971, hippies moved into a derelict 18th century navy fort and proclaimed their freewheeling society on 84 acres of state-owned land behind Copenhagen's old ramparts. They dubbed it Christiania and turned it into a flower-power community with psychedelic-painted buildings, where people advocated nudity, free marijuana, no government, no cars and no cops. In 1987, Christiania was recognized as a ``social experiment'' and two years later the then-government allowed the residents to use the land. Since the Liberal-Conservative government took office in 2001, it has promised to end the open sale of hashish at Christiania, clear the former navy barracks-turned-community and erect upscale housing complexes on what it called an attractive real estate. |
