Reclaim the Streets - Dee ... How I got involved in Reclaim the Streets is rather a long question because I'm 54 and I started being involved in this kind of thing when I was 17, when I first got involved in an offshoot of CND that was called Committee of 100. How did I get involved in that? I suppose I was just a bit of a deviant at school and when somebody told me about nuclear politics I was quite ready to see it as appalling and . . .

South Downs EF! ...
Jon->> I've been involved in Earth First! (EF!) and at the moment June 18th stuff, and the Anarchist Teapot.
Jess->> I've been involved in hunt sabotage, animal rights, that kind of thing for about the past fourteen years, and I try and stay out of all this other stuff but can't help but get involved.
Liz->> I used to be involved with animal rights stuff and ecological direct action in Germany, and I've moved here in the last two years, and am mostly involved with the Anarchist Teapot.
Ozzie->> I'm Ozzie...

Reclaim the Streets - JB ... What do I do and why am I doing it? Well, I've worked with RTS pretty much since its reincarnation which was in '95. I got involved in the M11 campaign, which for me was really the first time I'd ever taken direct action. Because my training and my career was really as an artist, and I was always looking for a place where art had a direct physical function. And I always felt that art had the imagination, but had an absolute failure of social connection and political function. Yet at the same time I felt that politics had that social political connection, but it had a failure of imagination. And so I was searching for this space where the poetic and the imaginative could come together with the political...

The Land Is Ours ...
Tony->> OK, ex-BBC local radio journalist, researcher, reporter and land rights activist.
Brendan->> Ex-truck driver, ex-scaffolder, ex-tug-boatman, ex-business student, sick of Babylon. Saw reports about The Land Is Ours (TLIO) several years ago in The Guardian and thought, "Yes, I'll go and do that." Here I am.
Tony->> Right, for me, first of all it's actually a question of staying sane...

SchNews ...
Jack->> SchNews come out of a group called Justice? formed to fight the Criminal Justice Bill, and squatted a big place called the Courthouse. We were there for about six weeks. During that time, what happened in the Courthouse, it were pretty amazing actually, there was a derelict building and a hundred people spent the weekend getting this building sorted, the roof and the toilets, the whole thing. It was just fucking the most amazing thing I've ever been involved in...