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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Infest

May Day, celebrated in South Africa as Worker's Day, originates as a commemoration of the execution of the Haymarket martyrs who were arrested after the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred on May 4, but was the culmination of labor unrest which began on May 1. The date consequently became established as an anarchist and socialist holiday during the 20th century. Infest invited people to a momentary political movement, by taking a synchronised photograph outside parliament at 12 noon. Bizarrely, the Noon Day Gun was not fired.

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