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Newsbrief:
Silence
on
Pusherstrasse
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Christiania
Drug
Sellers
Strike
for
Future
of
"Free
City"
3/28/03
Reuters reported Wednesday
that the legendary hash-sellers of Christiania, the Danish "free city"
at a former Copenhagen army base, have gone on strike to protest government
proposals to raze the three decade-old enclave.
"All trade has been stopped
since this morning and we do not know how long this strike will take, maybe
days, maybe months," said Pernilla Hansen of the Christiania Information
Office. "We want to show the government that an open market for soft
drugs is better than forcing people on to the streets where much harder
stuff is sold illegally," she said.
Politicians from the center-right
Liberal Party of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, which has long loathed
the hippies of Christiania and their open soft-drug market, are calling
for the enclave to be demolished and replaced with an "urban renewal" project.
The dealers' strike is not
a first in Christiania. In 1994, after a year of escalating conflict
with police over open hash sales, Christiania vendors went on a five-day
strike because "parliament doesn't have a grip on Danish drug policy,"
according to the official Christiania web site (http://www.christiania.org).
After media and ministerial attention was prompted by the strike, the police
went away.
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Issue #280, 3/28/03
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