Summer Fields

Midsummer and the garden is starting to green, what happened to the Sping? Nevermind. It is time for the summer fields. The time when our peoples naturally migrated to pastures and meeting grounds where they enjoyed the summer in fluid cities of human culture. One remnant of this tradition is the summer festival, now undergoing something of a renaissance in British popular culture.

Could the summer fields be returning? Well, perhaps yes, but always under a fluttering capitalist flag. Tonight I hope to go to Stonehenge Solstice to drum and celebrate the dawning of the longest day. There is no longer a festival at the site, since the government got twitchy at the idea of a free festival unfettered by capitalist exploitation. However, we are now allowed to return to Stonehenge with acoustic instruments and by processing in orderly rows rather than synergistic crowds.

We have to find a way to take back the summer fields for our own purposes, under democratic and self-organising rather than capitalist principles, for people to really enjoy and understand what society can be like when it happens spontaneously and freely under summer sun in beautiful places. See Stonehenge Solstice 2007