Denmark is stepping up efforts to shut down Christiana, the alternative town in the southern part of Copenhagen. Christiana, also called the Freetown or, more officially, the 'social experiment', started in 1970 as a mixture of anarchy and love, endorsing an alternative life based on communal living and freedom (all details on history and self-governement here).

The current Danish governement, a nationalist and often racist, right-wing, EU-skeptic and Bush supporting party, is going ahead with its plan to make room for more revenue-generating constructions in this much sought-after area. It is unfortunate that the frustrated right-wingers fail to understand the importance of Christiana. Christiania has become a self-controlled safe-haven for all the marginality of society as well as a continuous source of inspiration for all forms of art. Without Christiania, Denmark would be negating its social tradition and culture of tolerance, already much under threats by the current government. Copenhagen would become a boring and uniform city at best, displacing the marginality and softdrug trade on everyone's doorstep instead of being beautifully contained in one known area..

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