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Monday, April 5, 2010

Activists Take Over The Big Screen in Manchester England

Maybe not the most interesting takeover of all time but a huge takeover nonetheless. 1 Love indeed.


"At 12am April 1st, a group of "hactivists" and concerned public citizens infiltrated and hijacked the largest outdoor led screen in the north of England in Manchester for an April Fools day insurrection. The screen - all 7 stories of it, was subverted to display a different message to the 300,000 commuters that allegedly see the advertisements daily. The intervention stayed for 24 hours costing the fat cats over £30,000 of lost revenues"...The Dead Peasants

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