User:Cassandra Laureano/sandbox

Biography
Cassandra Laureano born in 1935 in Vienna from a wealthy family of Jewish heritage. At the end of 1938, in the nine months before the burst of the WW2, she moved in the UK thanks to the Kindertransport operation, actuated from the British government. Despite the difficulties of the political situation her family, thanks also to their connections soon reached her. After the war during the dramatic situation post to it, she managed to start her studies in the art field but with no lot of successes; mainly from her refusal of institutions but also, as many speculations been done, the female discriminations ongoing during those years were real barriers and a primary reason for rebellious sentiments and actions.

"King Mob" group encounter
The American influence in Europe and the so-called “Golden Age of Capitalism” (1950 - 1969) in the UK, bring her close to left-wing parties. In spite of her family, like the majority of Jewish people during that time, was close to those left-wing idealisms (such Proto-Socialism and Communism ) it was in strongly disagree with their daughter’s choices. Their parents were very religious and they didn’t accept her extremisms to join in anarchist groups as most of Jewish personalities involved in these groups were mostly irreligious or even vehemently anti-religious. In the late ‘60s, she became part of various movements till get to the “King Mob” movement, a most precisely radical group that was t was a cultural mutation of the Situationists and the anarchist group UAW/MF based in London.

Political and Social actions
She has been quite an active member in the organisation and she took place in most of the group actions against galleries and organised battles against local skin-heads and greasers considered by them "the working class avant-garde". Moreover, beyond the organisation of the well-known operation against Selfridges, she participated also to the realization of one of the most known graffiti attributed to the group; the famous sentence:

"Same thing day after day- tube - work - dinner - work - tube - armchair - TV - sleep - tube - work - how much more can you take? - one in ten go mad, one in five cracks up."

Painted along a half-mile section of the wall beside the tube (railway) commuter route into London between Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park tube stations.

Later Years
After the ‘70 the group started to fade. After major events like the Berlin wall fall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the related political crisis in eastern Europe, were enough of reasons of doubt in the left side idealisms that successively in the oncoming 21 century left space to fragmentations of political parties, more moderate and the society moved to a private,consumist, progressist and capitalist system. Not clear how her life kept going after those events and this loss of interest but there are not pieces of information about it and actually it’s unknown where she’s based and even if she’s still alive.

In 2010 a video protest against our nowadays lifestyle has been published on the major social network platforms (Instagram, Facebook and Twitter) but has been banned few hours later has the clip was containing some sex scenes, probably from a porn movie, unauthorised use of major company marks, names and pictures of public profiles on the popular dating app Tinder. It’s unlikely that the developer of the clip was Cassandra, even if she never make any retractions. Conjectures says that someone or a group of people is using her name as a pseudonym and keep publishing such contents and manifestos.

Curiosity
Apparently, the anagram of Cassandra Laureano is Alessandro Caruana an Italian artist based in London that is known a student of The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design (CASS), London Metropolitan University.