Ben Morea

activist of

New York City

birth

Benjamin Anthony Morea was born into poverty in Brooklyn, New York City, on October 8, 1941.

death

Ben Morea died on May 2, 2026, after collapsing at his property in Gardner, Colorado, at the age of 84.

founded

Up Against the Wall Motherfucker

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And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth. Mark 1:38 KJV

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The Motherfuckers was formed by political artist Ben Morea.
Interactivist — Ben Morea — Garbage Guerrilla (16beaver.org) In the late 1960s, Ben Morea was the notorious leader of an unsavory Lower East Side anarchist collective called Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker. As a young historian who studies that period, I’d spent almost three years trying to locate him. All the leads I’d followed went nowhere. It was as if Morea had vanished, every bit as thoroughly as a jet contrail.
Later in the decade, he used to strut around St. Marks Place and Second Avenue, longhaired and bearded like any number of hippies, but instead of adorning himself in flowers and beads, he wore a leather jacket, carried a switchblade and peddled manifestos full of cryptic poetry and angry agitprop.

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127466877

Wikipedia

Ben Morea (Wikipedia) Benjamin Anthony Morea (October 8, 1941 – May 2, 2026) was an American painter, anarchist activist, and co-founder of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker. He was a friend of social theorist Murray Bookchin and of radical feminist Valerie Solanas.