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Highways Opening Benefit--Cinco De Mayo Celebration
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Performance commemorates Cinco de Mayo as well as providing commentary on Columbus' role in the decimation and exploitation of native peoples. This photo is of a stage set or installation art for ambiance. On the ground is a ship dated October 12, 1492, and beneath it, a cross. Against the back wall is a picture of a crowd with their hands up, possibly at a third reich rally. Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica. The picture is placed in a boat named "U.S.S. Amnesty". Text on the boat reads, "If you catch an alien, you ought to clean 'em and try 'em yourself.- Hi Ezell." Ezell was the Western Regional Commissioner for the Immigration Naturalization Services under Regan.
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