Over 1000 people marched through Sydney for the last Reclaim the Streets rally in September, protesting the NSW lockout laws and advocating for a rollcall of worthy causes from affordable rent to\u00a0mental health funding.<\/p>\n
Now, Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is making its return, marching once more from Newtown’s Camperdown Memorial Park on Saturday December 12. The RTS team are calling on Sydneysiders to show up and advocate for a more liveable city: “It\u2019s not fair to be locked out of your city by excessive rents and curfews.\u00a0The city is not just an investment portfolio for the super rich, it\u2019s our home too,” RTS write\u00a0on their Facebook event<\/a><\/strong>. “Would you rather a park or a car park?\u00a0A casino or a dancefloor? A community or a ghost town?”<\/p>\n The Reclaim The Streets movement has been celebrating civil disobedience and public partying in Australia since its first Sydney protest in the mid-90s, staging regular \u201cunrehearsed, informal, illegal \u2018guerrilla\u2019 street festivals\u201d on the roads and in the parks and laneways of the city.<\/p>\n ITM called the last Reclaim the Streets rally “part parade, part demonstration and part celebration of nightlife and dance culture,” while RTS’ main instigator Jahnine Skaif said the rally was about giving people the chance to fight back. \u201cSydney\u2019s mood is down to the point where people seem ready to give up,\u201d she told inthemix<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cThis protest was sorely needed and the right thing to do, to lift the spirits and remind our community we have a voice on this issue and so many other causes needing our attention.”<\/p>\n