Painted Ladies A Street Party is in full swing. Music, laughter and song have replaced the roar of engines.
Road rage becomes road rave, as tarmac grey is smothered by the living colour of a festival.
Everywhere, extraordinary people have continually asserted not only the need to liberate the commons but the ability to think and organise for themselves. F or the city, the streets are the commons, but in the hands of industry and power brokers the streets have become mere conduits for commerce and consumption - the economic hero of which is, of course, the car. A symbol and a symptom of the social and ecological nightmare that state and capitalism create, the car which promises individual freedom ends up guaranteeing noise, destruction and pollution for all. Their interpretation our reality. In this sense the streets are the alternative and subversive form of the mass media.