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Part One: Up Against the Wall: New York City's Armed Love Movement

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Motherfuckers

The history of these people is incredibly hard to pin down. They left behind a lot of like, maybe a craft flyer or shit. Ocean Newman wrote a memoir called Against the Wall Motherfucker and notes for next time. In 1967, I became a founding member of an anarchist street gang called up against the wall mother fuckers. We saw ourselves as urban gorillas swimming in the countercultural sea of freaks and dropouts.

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