“In May 1968, the Situationist-inspired Paris riots set off ‘a chain reaction of refusal’ against consumer capitalism. First students, then workers, then professors, nurses, doctors, bus drivers and a piecemeal league of artists, anarchists, and Enrages took to the streets, erected barricades, fought with police, occupied offices, factories, dockyards, railway depots, theaters and university campuses, sang songs, issued manifestos, sprayed slogans like ‘Live Without Dead Time’ and ‘Down with the Spectacular-Commodity Culture’ all over Paris, and challenged the established order of their time in the most visceral way. The breadth of the dissent was remarkable. ‘Art students demanded the realization of art; music students called for “wild and ephemeral music”; footballers kicked out managers with the slogan “football to the football players”; gravediggers occupied cemeteries; doctors, nurses, and the interns at a psychiatric hospital organized in solidarity with the inmates.’ For a few weeks, millions of people who had worked their whole lives in offices and factories broke from their daily routines and… lived.”  Culture Jam/Kalle Lasn