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Fight The Power! Party Hard! The Criminal Justice Act is bad news. That's clear. The government wants to make the rest of society as boring as they are! It attacks our freedom to party and protest. There's only one thing left for us to do. Kill this act by partying and protesting! Its up to us, no one else will do it for us. While claiming the C.J.A. is to protect us, its clear that all it does is protect rich landowners, bosses and the state against the few "civil liberties" remaining for us. Most of the Act is concerned with criminalising all direct action and unauthorised demonstrations, particularly against pickets, hunt sabs and road protesters - even hillwalkers. Its main aim is to give the police even more power - the right to stop and search anyone, an end to the right of silence, the introduction of plea bargaining, exclusion zones, "aggravated trespass" and paranoid "anti-terrorist" laws. The only freedom it protects is the freedom of power to do exactly what it wants.... We must recognise the C.J.A. for what it is, a piece of class based legislation for and by the rich and powerful. It was never just about targeting squatters, hunts sabs and ravers. It's a direct attack on all working class people. Liberal protest ain't going to work. Only direct action gets the goods. Why else is the C.J.A. trying to ban it? Remember this is just the latest in a long series of attacks on our class. We need to link up all our struggles and fight to win. By fighting isolated struggles we can be picked off one by one. But by uniting together we can win. Just look at the Poll Tax. Our fight so far has some great features in it. Unofficial mass demos where we took over the streets and made them ours. D.I.Y. gigs, raves and parties which have raised lots of money and awareness for the fight as well as providing many a good night. Excellent pickets and solidarity marches. Over the country a network of mutual aid and support is spreading, a network of angry people who know how to party! We must organise and make all this stronger. By doing this we can make this act unworkable. By mass defiance, direct action and solidarity we can win. So let's party and protest. We don't need boring speeches to tell us what's wrong or what to do. Its OUR lives, OUR liberties. We need to organise ourselves to take the power back. No one else is going to do it. No one else can. The only parties we need are the ones with loud music. The ones we organise ourselves. The ones that play OUR tunes. Let us experience the freedom of protest and party hard until the C.J.A. lies along side the Poll Tax in the dustbin of history. "If I can't dance then its not my revolution" Emma Goldman, anarchist.