Up Against the Wall Motherfucker

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Ben Morea

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Up against the wall mother fucker sticker
I was looking for her manifesto on FadedPage
Interactivist — Ben Morea — Garbage Guerrilla (16beaver.org)
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.
In 1968, they rallied in support of Valerie Solanas, the tormented feminist who shot Andy Warhol.
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
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker was a 1960s revolutionary art group from New York City.
The Motherfuckers was formed by political artist Ben Morea.

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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.