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The New age travellers or Peace Convoy were a group of people who often espoused New age and/or hippie beliefs, and who travelled between music festivals and fairs in the United Kingdom in order to live in a community with others who hold similar beliefs. Their transport and homes consisted of vans, lorries, buses and caravans converted into mobile homes. They also make use of improvised tents, tipis and yurts. New age travellers were largely a product of 1980s and early 1990s Britain[citation needed], but a small number continue to travel in the country today, and cultural groupings with similar composition have also manifested themselves in other countries, such as New Zealand. New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ...
Singer of a modern Hippie movement in Russia The hippie subculture was a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread around the world. ...
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Background
The movement originated in the free festivals of the 1970s such as the Windsor Park Free Festival, the early Glastonbury Festivals, Elephant Fayres, and the huge Stonehenge free festivals in Great Britain. Free festivals are music, arts or cultural festivals for which no admission is charged. ...
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ...
The Elephant Fayre was held in the stately home of Perry Eliot, St Germans, Cornwall, from 1981-86. ...
Dancing inside the stones, 1984 free festival. ...
Later events included the Castlemorton Common Festival, a huge free and illegal event which attracted widespread media coverage and prompted government action. Some legal festivals, such as WOMAD, continue to be held in a variety of countries, including the UK. The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long festival held in the Bristol area, in 1992. ...
World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) is a festival started in England in 1982. ...
The Peace Convoy In the 1980s United Kingdom, the New Age Travellers' mobile homes - generally old vans, trucks and buses (including double deckers) - were driven in convoys. This provided a certain protection from unwelcome attention from the police, who often preferred to let the convoy pass through unhindered in situations when an individual vehicle would have been a target.
The movement had faced significant opposition by the British government and mainstream media since the mid 1980s, epitomised by the authorities' attempts to prevent camps at Stonehenge, and the resultant Battle of the Beanfield, in 1985 - the largest mass civil arrest in English history. The Battle of the Beanfield, however was not the end of the convoy, and they continued for some time further until a final conflict was provoked by the government at Stoney Cross in the run up to the following year's solstice. The convoy's vehicles had previously not been impounded by the authorities, as they were also their dwellings, and to do so would at the time have been seen as a breach of human rights. At Stoney Cross the police impounded vehicles on a large scale, in a high-profile effort to put an end to the convoy and to again prevent it from reaching Stonehenge for the solstice. Many members of the convoy continued their journey on foot and eventually reached Stonehenge. Despite what some saw as a moral victory, the legal landscape had been changed to the extent that it was no longer possible for the convoy to function. For other uses, see Stonehenge (disambiguation). ...
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New age travellers and the free festival movement The clash of lifestyles culminated in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994 making trespass a criminal act, largely aimed at this group, and also traditional traveller groups like English Gypsies and Irish Travellers. In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Criminal Justice Acts is a generic name for those acts of parliament that shape law and order in the country. ...
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Irish Travellers are a nomadic or itinerant people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. ...
International manifestations
New Zealand -
Main article: New Zealand’s Housetruckers of the 1970s In New Zealand there are fleets of unique handcrafted mobile-homes or Housetrucker rigs that are a permanent lifestyle to groups of families who travel together from city to city, and who assemble most weekends in different parks to hold craft markets from where they sell their wares. Small Cottage industry and handicraft is essentially the revenue earner for these gypsy peoples. Most mobile-homes are constructed from the chassis upwards using predominantly cheap recycled materials. There are two main groups who traverse the nation selling their wares and trinkets, Gypsy faire and Gypsy travellers. Housetrucks at the Nambassa 5 day festival 1981. ...
Housetrucks at the Nambassa 5 day festival 1981. ...
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The use of the term has expanded, and is used to refer to any event which allows a large number of people to lalalawork part time. ...
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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | Many people see the Castlemorton Common Festival in 1992, a week-long festival that attracted up to 30,000 travellers and ravers, as a significant turning point for New Age Travellers in Britain as it directly resulted in the government granting new powers to police and local authorities under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 to prevent such events in the future. The Criminal Justice Act included sections against disruptive trespass, squatting and unauthorised camping which made life increasingly difficult for travellers, and many left Britain for Ireland and Europe, particularly Spain. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long festival held in the Bristol area, in 1992. ...
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 was an act of parliament brought into law by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
However, thousands of people still travel in Britain[citation needed]. They are now normally known simply as Travellers, or very occasionally, New Travellers[citation needed]. Few, if any, travellers live on the local authority sites reserved for Gypsies and Irish Travellers (although many travellers would qualify for Gypsy status under the current law), so instead stay on unauthorised sites throughout the countryside, particularly in Wales and the south-west of England, and in urban areas. London is home to a large number of traveller sites in places such as disused factory or warehouse yards, and there is often a crossover between travellers and squatters, with travellers parking up in yards attached to squatted buildings. Typical traveller sites might have anywhere from 5 to 30 vehicles on them, including trailers and caravans as well as buses, vans and horse boxes converted to live in. Although most travellers in Britain are British, there are also large numbers of European travellers in the UK. Languages Romani, languages of native region Religions Christianity, Islam Related ethnic groups South Asians (Desi) The Roma (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom) or Romanies are an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world. ...
Irish Travellers are a nomadic or itinerant people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. ...
To squat is to occupy an unoccupied or abandoned space or building that the individual does not own, rent, or otherwise have permission to use. ...
As these unauthorised sites are evicted and travellers moved on frequently, accessing basic services such as health and dental care, refuse collection, benefits, and education for children can be problematic. Many traveller families home school their children. Homeschooling (also called home education) is the education of children at home and in the community, in contrast to education in an institution such as a public or parochial school. ...
Although travellers have only taken to the road since the 1960s, many traveller families are now in their third or fourth generation. Despite widespread popular assumptions about travellers being dole scroungers living on state handouts, many do seasonal or temporary work, on farms and building sites or in factories and pubs for example. Others work as self-employed mechanics, electricians and plumbers, or make money through selling scrap, or running stalls at markets and car boot sales. Festivals during the summer also present many opportunities for travellers to make money through offering entertainment, services and goods to festival goers. A high level of mutual aid, the sharing of childcare and vehicle maintenance and "skipping" (collecting food from local supermarket skips) within communities allow travellers to live on very low incomes.
The Traveller and Free Party scenes are often closely linked, and many travellers run or are involved with the sound systems that put on raves and squat parties. A free party is a party free from the restrictions of the legal club scene. ...
See also A Rainbow brother waiting in line to fill his water containers at the 2002 Family Gathering in Michigan The Rainbow Family of Living Light is an international loose affiliation of individuals who have a common goal of trying to achieve peace and love on Earth. ...
Housetrucks at the Nambassa 5 day festival 1981. ...
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Bibliography and films - Pierre Carles, Volem rien foutre al païs, (co-directed with Christophe Coello et Stéphane Goxe), 2006 (a French film documentary about various ways of living on very low income, in much the same mood of travellers.)
Pierre Carles (April 2, 1962) is a French documentarist, who has often been compared to Michael Moore for his use of the documentary form to denounce mainstream media, which he accuses of having conflicts of interest . ...
The anti-work ethic states that labor tends to cause unhappiness, therefore, the quantity of labor ought to be lessened. ...
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