Hippie area left out of Copenhagen guidebook Canadian Press Friday, December 03, 2004
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Pusher Street, a popular but unofficial main drag in Copenhagen's famed hippie enclave, was left out of the latest edition of the city's main guidebook. The sparsely paved street in the Christiania area is known for its hashish trade. In 2000, the Krak publishing house put Pusher Street on its Copenhagen map because "we got so many requests from people," said Krak spokesman Kim Chabert. But in the 2005 guide, which came out in November, the location of the famed enclave is just a blank with the name Christiania across it. Christiania took root in 1971 when dozens of hippies moved into a derelict 18th-century fort behind the capital's old ramparts. The area became a counterculture oasis with psychedelic-coloured buildings, free marijuana, no government, no cars and no police. In the early 1980s, residents, tourists and hashish dealers began openly buying and selling hashish and marijuana from two dozen colourful booths on Pusher Street, which winds through the heart of Christiania. Though illegal, sales were tolerated by police and successive governments until 2001, when the Danish government vowed to end them. Residents eventually tore down the booths because they feared police action. In March the government said Christiania could remain an alternative lifestyle community as long as residents obey the law, pay rent and stop selling drugs. -- King Daevid MacKenzie, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA http://ultimajock.blogspot.com "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Mario Savio - 1964 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com b i s e x u a l =============== a bifem.net publication Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bisexual Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bisexual/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
