Up Against the Wall Motherfucker
I was looking for her manifesto on FadedPage- In 1968, they rallied in support of Valerie Solanas, the tormented feminist who shot Andy Warhol.
- 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.
- The 1960s may be one of the most overwritten decades in American history, but the only scholarly treatment the group has ever received was a 2003 Harvard honors thesis.
the middle-class nightmare… an anti-media media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed
Abbie Hoffman- The Motherfuckers was formed by political artist Ben Morea.
- This is a group who once carried piles of stinking, festering trash from the East Village and dumped it on the steps of Lincoln Center.
Up against the wall mother fucker sticker- Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (Wikipedia)
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, often shortened as The Motherfuckers or UAW/MF, was a Dadaist and Situationist anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This “street gang with analysis” was famous for its Lower East Side direct action.
- Up Against the Wall Motherfucker was a 1960s revolutionary art group from New York City.