Freetown Christiania: A true account of: sex, drugs & anarch ...

Eugene Losse

• 17 oktober 2011
• 9781466124295

Samenvatting:

In 1970 a group of illegal squatters broke into an abandoned military base in the centre of Copenhagen. They found vast swathes of forested land, huge vacant buildings and a small lake. An article appeared in a street magazine suggesting that the vacant land and buildings be used by Copenhagen's homeless and struggling. As a result a massive immigration to the vacant land occurred. People from all sections of society came to create an alternative life based on personal freedom and the rejection of the Danish government's authority. This was the birth of Freetown Christiania.

Twenty-five years later, Eugine is hitch-hiking the freeways of northern Europe. Through a chance encounter he finds himself delivered into Christiania and a world of Anarchy he thought could never exist.

From facing the barrel of a Hell's Angel's shot gun, to Pusher Street's hash market, the collectivisation of the Moonfisher cafe, full frontal nakedness at the Bath House, a street battle between the police and Christiania's Clown Army, a seductive older woman living in the Cosmic Flower; and a sexually descriptive coming of age, through Eugine we get to experience the day to day life of living in Anarchy.