Reclaim the Streets was born in the spring of 1995, in an abandoned squatted church in Camden. Liberating anarchyOn a warm summer day in July 1995, Ziggy started her morning at the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) annual conference. In September 1996, around 200 police officers broke up a Reclaim the Streets party in Cambridge, charging the crowd with batons and riot shields. ‘It’s really, really heartbreaking. In 2011, the Occupy movement drew on many of their tactics, creating street camps in financial districts around the world.