Casino or Creche?

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Effecting massive social change is difficult which is why the Radical Press movement is so impressive. What brought people into the movement differed by individual but by and large, a shared skepticism towards the dominant commercial culture fueled their commitment. Largely interested in personal freedom and happiness, the radical press movement was essentially progressive.

1970s Brighton underwent a surge of development threatening to built a new commercialism over financially-mediocre but socially-significant culture. City planning also underwrote the already established class divisions between neighbourhoods and so underinvested in poor areas and enhanced the wealthy ones. In grassroots publications we see how people took offense to this treatment and led fights against market-driven planning.

Local papers in Brighton had a hand in keeping the Hanover neighbourhood  intact. At one point, developers proposed locating a casino in Queens Park, in the heart of Hanover and walking distance from two primary schools and a pre-school. After a surge of community action, communicated through radical press, the city ensured that a creche (nursery) was established at the park and the casino was moved over by the pier and so grouped with the other adult nightlife attractions.

The impact of radical press is all the more impressive because, as it gave voice to the youth generation, it also put power into a progressive social movement. Local papers didn’t set out to do this strategically, but a movement of local press fans did successfully coordinated a new communications channel. News was passed through a network of distributors who received papers from around the city, country or further afield, and in turn sent papers to local bookshops, cafes, subscribers, as well as (informal) news agents who would hand out copies on the streets where they could engage in conversations. This often led to disparate groups joining together to fight for a common cause, such as keeping a park a playful place for children.

The movement literally put power into people’s hands and the political ‘wins’ are with us today.

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