The Situationist International Spectacle is a slogan, used by a Paris based group known as Situationists, to describe capitalism, the state, the whole shooting match. A science of situations is to be created, which will borrow elements from psychology, statistics, urbanism and ethics. A four-hour long battle with police occurs after the Cherry Blossom Music Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Rioting starts when police start busting people for possession. It's called a rock concert or something.
Soweto protest starts demonstration against South African educational system.
California assemblyman Philip Wyman proposes a bill in the state legislature requiring record companies to post warning labels on CDs' that contain backward-recorded messages singing the praises of Satan. 700 are busted. First of many massive pro-democracy demonstrations in China. Seventeen activists protesting continued funding of the School of the Americas are arrested for digging a mass grave on Pentagon grounds. Like all really good ideas, Anarchy is pretty simple when you get down to it - human beings are at their very best when they are living free of authority, deciding things among themselves rather than being ordered about.