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Psychedelia was once a free-flowing radical movement of anti-prohibitionists, ecologists, peace lovers and indigenous elders who wanted to build a new world which was an alternative to the death-drive of consumerism, war and environmental destruction. Psychedelia today has become a “renaissance” of strict and sterile medicalisation, corporate funding and increasing control of the public narrative by elite journalists, who occupy the media space and often dismiss or disparage existing counterculture and psychedelic communities. How do psychedelic peace activists reclaim the space in a time of environmental and geopolitical crisis?
Bio:
Born in 1967, Influenced by 80s rave and 60s psychedelia, Anglo-Italian Londoner Giulio walked out of his job at The Times in 2003 in protest at the invasion of Iraq. He joined the Peace Not War music collective and has been an advocate for the ending of drug prohibition ever since. He spent five years working at The Guardian and nine years in Glastonbury immersed in the UK’s new age counterculture.
Psychedelia was once a free-flowing radical movement of anti-prohibitionists, ecologists, peace lovers and indigenous elders who wanted to build a new world which was an alternative to the death-drive of consumerism, war and environmental destruction. Psychedelia today has become a “renaissance” of strict and sterile medicalisation, corporate funding and increasing control of the public narrative by elite journalists, who occupy the media space and often dismiss or disparage existing counterculture and psychedelic communities. How do psychedelic peace activists reclaim the space in a time of environmental and geopolitical crisis?
Bio:
Born in 1967, Influenced by 80s rave and 60s psychedelia, Anglo-Italian Londoner Giulio walked out of his job at The Times in 2003 in protest at the invasion of Iraq. He joined the Peace Not War music collective and has been an advocate for the ending of drug prohibition ever since. He spent five years working at The Guardian and nine years in Glastonbury immersed in the UK’s new age counterculture.
