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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 Vanguard of Nothing?

In 1967, some angry artists went to high mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and unfurled posters in the middle of it. The Archbishop of New York was his asshole named Francis Spellman who was all in on the war. "If the artist can't make anti-war art, then what's good is the artist," he says.

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