"Zurich's burning" "Sandstorm in a desert of ice" "Icebergs and countermeasures" "A hot year in a frozen city" "Rudi Dutschke dead" "Winter 1979/80" "Radio 24 has triggered off something inside the people" "If radio hadn't done so, something else would have." "because something was inside." " What's that?" "A clot which had to br eak loose." "Many people pleading for Radio 24 didn't even know it." "But now they have got rid of this clot." "Roger, Roger, Roger..." "Remember:" "Radio 24 is seriously thr eatened!" "We've got 2 governments against us, not 2 peoples!" "'" "For economic reasons only they want to close our radio." "Let's go peacefully and disciplined to the Italian Consulate!" "First, let's hear music once mor e..." "This clot is very important!" "Certain people are still carrying around this clot..." "Winter 1979" "are our demands only a cause of tenants or are they of political natur e?" "We have to force negotiations with the politicians not just with the administr ative machinery!" "City Councillor Dr. Max Koller" "It only depends on the partner's sense of law and order which enables mutual r elations" "But nowadays there are only people who demand!" "We do not want these amoeba-like groups, changing everyday!" "Power to the amoeba!" "Give us houses or we take them!" "On 30th November 1979 the housing contr acts wer e signed." "Self-r edevelopment" "Clauses of the contract: 21/2 years to stay there, instead of rent costs of renovation +++ these being more than the usual rents" "Only tribes will survive" "In ten minutes..." "Schindlergut closed!" "FESTIVAL AT "RED FACTORV" 17l5l80" "Gr eat Rock Festival" "The action group Red Factory got formed at the March Festival." "In a letter to the City Council we pointed out... our fucking situation once mor e." "The City not only refuses to give us the Red Factory, it also takes away the very few lousy meeting points." "The Poly-Technicum refuses the use of their foyer for concerts." "There had been too many people there, they said." "here, according to public vote, a cultur al Centre should be set up." "But the pr emises are let to the Oper a and to business people." "And now they even demand mor e cr edit for their fucking cultur e." "YES to 62 million Swiss fr ancs for our Oper a!" "We plan an action against it in front of the Oper a on 30th May" "We're not music fr eaks." "We mustn't forget the political context." "This means we'll have to fight for our case." "If we live it up, we get cut down." "The City has no need for us as we've alr eady seen, e.g. at the Schindlergut." "On 8th July the ominous vote for the Oper a cr edit... of 60 million fr ancs takes place." "We don't care much about this because we know... our inter ests cannot be realized by votes, only by fights." "On 30th May there's a big rally in front of the Oper a." "Blow-up outside the Oper a 30th May to 1st June 1980" "We want to demonstr ate against the unfair cultur al budget of the City." "Everybody to the rally!" "Zurich's burning NOW!" "Assembly at the Union Hall 4th June 1980" "Demands to the City Council:" "Withdrawal of all charges against all demonstrators" "No CB tear gas, no rubber bullets or wooden projectiles" ""Red Factory" for a cultur al and youth Centre" "By next Sunday the pr emises at" "Limmatstr asse for Zurich's youth" "But we've come here to talk with you." "Mayor" "We're really making an effort..." "Listen!" "The Mayor has some important proposals." "City Councilor" "Our coming down here shouldn't be taken for gr anted..." "As suggested we're always ready to comply with your requests." "Be happy to have such people to talk to!" "I think our party has done a lot for the youth." "We have alr eady fought for a Centre even when I was young." "How can you deny that the City Council has done a lot of... patient and insistent work for the project of a youth Centre!" "I've been waiting for a youth Centre for 12 years now." "A terrible rage is boiling up inside my guts." "So don't get shocked by our reactions." "Tonight: no binding answers, just cheap promises..." "It's you who are responsible for what's gonna happen." "You expect us to wait and wait... for what?" "But I want this youth Centre now, not for my gr andchildr en!" "We want the Red Factory!" "Mor e cr eam for the people!" "Mor e fr eedom, less control!" "Rally to the demanded autonomous youth Centre on 7th June 1980" "Partial success:" "The City has promised us Limmatstr asse." "The pr emises are in very bad condition." "Big investments... are not worthwhile because it'll be demolished in 2 to 3 years." "Off to the Court" "Prisoners out!" "I will pr event such abuse in every possible way." "This is no provocation, just normal procedur e." "Rally at the University" "We don't want to get censur ed and repr essed any longer!" "We join the ethnologists' group project!" "The fight has begun!" "For a fr ee University!" "An autonomous old people's home for the authority." "Prisoners out, Minister of Education in!" "Piff, paff, poff, knock the NZZ off!" "(Newspaper)" "Result of votes:" "Yes to the Oper a" "Zurich's high snobiety says:" ""Thank you for the Oper a."" "Assembly on 14th June 1980" "Assembly on 14th June 1980" "We've got enough reason to cry without the help of your tear gas" "Demands to the City Council:" "a workmen's collective makes a cost estimate for renovation of the autonomous youth Centre to be." "Who's in favour?" "Who's against?" "Everyone's in favour" "After all!" "Rather naked than faked!" "Who's alive anyway?" "Minorities have rights as well" "Open the door!" "Just push, push!" "Turn the law into coleslaw!" "Ultimatum to the local deputies:" "We want to talk with you... 8 minutes later..." "(it shouldn't have been)" "Pigs out!" "Smith, telephone!" "Ask someone else I" " Come on, let's go to our City Hall!" "Social Democr ats Councillors" "Get out of here, quickly!" "Have you ever heard about fr eedom of the pr ess?" "Resign from the party." "What do you think about it, Mrs. Lieberherr?" "I'm a social democr at as well, but that's going too far!" "They're both scared!" "WITHDRAWAL NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS" "Police:" "No, the Limmatquai is being closed!" "Where would you like to go?" "To the Union Hall where we r ented an assembly hall." "On which way?" "Along the Limmatquai." "We have to compromise." "We retr eat and you go your way along the Limmatquai str aight on to the Union Hall." "We plan: a rally" "City Council bans rallies" "Big rally of all the discontented" "This is what happened to me within the last 24 hours:" "My doorbell rings. 2 policemen forced their way into my flat," "they have no search warr ant" "As a pr ecaution the six "wir epullers" arr ested." "I tell them they enter ed my flat illegally" "They arr est me without a warr ant." "They pr event me from contacting my solicitor... by pulling out the plug of the telephone." "They refuse to give me their names." "They tell me not to play tricks and come along." "I lock the door and they take me to a Volkswagen." "A third officer radios through:" "We've got him!" "They arr ested me as well!" "It wasn't that bad though... because I knew: if I'm not out by 2 o'clock, there'll be riots... and that was fun!" "A rally at this point will end" "in violence!" "Let's prove superior to them by cancelling the rally!" "8'000 wir epullers on their way" "to Moscow." "The only answer to a rally-ban is a rally!" "We're only using violence to r esist their violence!" "That's why we defend us when the police attack." "I'm scared of tear gas, let's vote first!" "Even befor e the opening:" "Police inside the youth Centre." "Sneak or even cr awl away, close to the walls!" "The militants go this way, the non-violent that way!" "We won't get split up!" "Enough chatter!" "Let's go and keep together!" "Intercepted:" "Radio Fr ee Watergun" "No agr eement possible, attack with waterguns" "HANS FRICK, CITY COUNCILLOR, HEAD OF POLICE DEPARTMENT" "D OELF TRACHSEL, HEAD OF POLICE SQUAD" "That's no good." "Carry out order, but this immense crowd...!" "Repeat, message unclear!" "There are so many people, you just can't imagine." "Someone said if I let them through, there will be peace." "Wait!" "We're waiting for the police to retr eat in order." "Tr achsel, pull back!" "Squad, retr eat!" "Opening of the Centre: 28th June" "Listen, they don't get it, it's dangerous in here!" "Swiss TV, 2nd July 1980" "Discussion about the play "Antigone" by Jean Anouilh" "About outsiders: interr elations individual - power - government" "Mr. Gilgen, what kind of inter ests are covered up by this policy?" "Now we are talking about things we didn't want to discuss!" "It's our right to talk about anything we want to." "You're not the man to tell us what to do!" "That's a reasonable concept..." "We don't want a tribunal..." "You don't!" "I hope they let you talk..." "Some coleslaw, Mr. Gilgen?" " Oh yes, where's the dr essing?" "Who's in charge of this studio?" "You look like a kindergarden to me." "Tear gas!" "Tear gas!" "Work!" "Work!" "A last effort, a..." "It's useless." "I'll do it myself." "Well, no." "I'll give it a last try..." "Else we interrupt or we cut it." "As you like." "It's up to you!" "Certainly this play and this attitude have to do with politics." "Ladies and Gentlemen, we interrupt the progr amme..." "This has been a depr essing night for all those in sympathy." "Good night everybody!" "Fir eguard!" "I'm only here to put out the fir e." "We're not the police and don't beat up the people either, but, unfortunately, the people r ather beat us up." "We have been tr ained by the City fir e brigade this week." "They really did a good job, not like the City ambulance." "They even made some good fir es and showed us everything, " "So now we can say:" "If there's a fir e we will first call the fir e brigade!" "We've also got to know where the people are to get them out." "Because when they're upstairs and we're told to fuck off it's their own fault when they get toasted." "They did even make fir es in the attic." "When you tell them to stop horsing around with candles on mattr esses, they almost slap in your face!" "I'd get a kick out of working together!" "SUBITO" " Movement's newspaper" "Swiss TV 15th July 1980" "In our opinion the riots are of basic inter est... since other cities are faced with the same unr ests." "We have invited a few people, may I introduce... the repr esentatives of the youth movement:" "Anne and John Smith" "We are pleased that they, too, wer e willing to come." "Let's first talk about the tactics of the police and demonstr ators." "Lots of militant demonstr ators wer e expected, and the police... allow one minute to retr eat befor e they attack... with such neat rubber balls!" "Useless against militant people!" "The only thing worth mentioning:" "they've become 8 gr ams heavier... since the last riot." "Those used in Ulster are much mor e effective!" "They're that long and that big." "They're worthwhile discussing!" "In here I've got a CB gr anade which is said to cause cancer." "I only hope it does!" "It's said to lead to depr essions or similar consequences." "But in fact it's too harmless:" "Napalm would do a better job." "We would like to finish!" "During the riots certain incidents occurr ed... which are now being used against the police:" "For eign kids wer e shelled with tear gas, a lot of people wer e arr ested and beaten up," "police forced their way into people's homes to take them out, journalists wer e pr evented from doing their job." "Compared with what the kids did these blames are ridiculous!" "What we need now is the army!" "Without the army we'll face the revolution tomorrow." "We're in a real mess then!" "That's what I have to say!" "Hydrochloric acid should be used against childr en!" "Having childr en in this city..." "none of us would really want this!" "They should be decimated!" "Mr. Bertschi, the police have been accused of having been... too hard." "No, not hard enough!" "About 250 policemen against 200-300 demonstr ators." "Didn't this oper ation turn on aggr ession?" "No, not at all." "I couldn't finish befor e..." "Rolf Bertschi" " City Indian" "Demolition Limmatstr. 25" "We're living in the Centre again." "But there's music until 3 am." "That means trouble for you when you've got to work the other day." "That's why we came over here, 'cause it's quiet here." "Until midnight we used to stay in the Centre, then we came to sleep over here." "It really was gr eat!" "People from the Centre would join." "There's not enough space there." "We made ourselves at home:" "Cleared out the mess, put in carpets and mattr esses, we always cleaned up and stuff..." "We had a gr eat time." "We wer e about 20 to 30 people." "Okay, it wasn't a hotel, but we could live there." "Now they charge me 200-300 francs because I'm on probation." "We woke up at 8.30 to face about 40 policemen." "They just took us with them." "We even had to whoop to get our br eakfast." "Mattr esses, blankets, cables, everything is still up there!" "They didn't even let us pack our stuff." "Everything got smashed, all our stuff... all gone." "TAKE WHAT YOU NEED" "Our task is to raise alarm in case they come." "Who are "they"?" "I'm not allowed to tell that." "I simply have to pr ess here, wait for 4 seconds, then radio my code to the control office." "It takes them 5-10 min. to arrive." "Why isn't the police on duty here?" "No, we're just from the watch-Co." "It seems the kids are suspicious of uniforms." "Have you ever been on the other side of the fence?" "I've alr eady been inside." "Me, I think, they won't..." "My car's over there." "When I'm going to pass through, nothing will happen for sur e." "I've got 4 childr en myself." "If you can talk to them, there won't be any problems." "But if you insult them, well..." "you know..." "From the first day this Centre's been endanger ed." "What's going on there..." "We've got our sources." "We blockheads." "Tell that to the social democr ats!" "Yes, I'm talking to their pr esident who's so close to the swamp of terrorists' supporters..." "Yeah, he's a g#oddamn terrorist, he is!" "Well, some things happen when those kids are together...!" "They claim that one of their meeting points got closed in order to get a hold of the junkies in one place..." "He's picking# his nose he does!" "His g#lasses look weird!" "...can get them all in one swoop." "A clever move!" "Look there's Frick, the asshole!" "And now they're all in one place." "1st: you can control them easily..." "Yeah, keep them under control!" "2nd:" "We're able to blow them out at last." "And the cr edit..." "O.k., they can have SFr. 40'000 Think how much a bike costs!" "70'000 a day, but in the Oper a they produce something..." "You see?" "That's what I say, too:" "they produce something!" "You've given me dogshit" "The way they've been throwing stones!" "My friend Ernest couldn't pass anymore because they threw so many stones!" "Nowadays anyone is allowed to protest... silly cow!" "They're right." "The kids ought to do something" "I feel shitty, too!" "The way we had to work hard..." "Till we only had this bloody car..." "Exactly, in 1959, when I began working in the factory, you know." "Well, this only happens by" "chance, pure chance!" "Yes, close down the whole bloody shit!" "What do they want to close down now?" "Closing of the Youth Centre 4th September 1980" "I don't like people who don't finish what they once began."