#benmorea — Public Fediverse posts
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Autonomies: **Ben Morea in Exarchia**
https://autonomies.org/2026/05/ben-morea-in-exarchia/
From the CrimethInc. collective (13/05/2026) A Eulogy and Paean to Freedom Ben Morea has passed away. Known for his participation in Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the Lower East Side of Manhattan … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **For Ben Morea (1940-2026)**
https://autonomies.org/2026/05/for-ben-morea-1940-2026/
For Ben Morea, a eulogy and a collection of interviews. A Life in Rebellion Ariel Uesseler, May 7th, 2026, Ill Will On Saturday May 2, 2026, our friend and comrade Ben Morea (1941-2026) — animist, artist, and lifelong revolutionary — … Continue reading →
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Every so often you learn about a truly remarkable person because they passed away. I knew very little about #BenMorea partly because the New York anarchist was so elusive. Alas, the leader of the "Back Up Against The Wall, Motherfucker" collective left our world, but his extraordinary life, labour, commitment to his ideals and the fact that badasses like him don't come around too often should be remembered and celebrated. Below are some articles about his incredible exploits. Read them and get inspired ! Rest in Power!
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lain-mcintyre-ben-morea-an-interview
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Dark Nights: **Philadelphia, U$A: Anathema Volume 11 Issue 1**
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/23/philadelphia-ua-anathema-volume-11-issue-1/
Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for reading 8.5×11) Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for printing 11×17) In this issue: What Went Down Ins & Outs Leadership Is It Fascism? Ten Years Of Anti-Gentrification Ben Morea Talk Reportback Anarchist Muay Thai The Moon Is Down Review
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Dark Nights: **Philadelphia, U$A: Anathema Volume 11 Issue 1**
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/23/philadelphia-ua-anathema-volume-11-issue-1/
Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for reading 8.5×11) Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for printing 11×17) In this issue: What Went Down Ins & Outs Leadership Is It Fascism? Ten Years Of Anti-Gentrification Ben Morea Talk Reportback Anarchist Muay Thai The Moon Is Down Review
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Dark Nights: **Philadelphia, U$A: Anathema Volume 11 Issue 1**
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/23/philadelphia-ua-anathema-volume-11-issue-1/
Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for reading 8.5×11) Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for printing 11×17) In this issue: What Went Down Ins & Outs Leadership Is It Fascism? Ten Years Of Anti-Gentrification Ben Morea Talk Reportback Anarchist Muay Thai The Moon Is Down Review
#Library #AnarchistNewspaper #Anathema #BenMorea #BlackMask #Democracy -
Dark Nights: **Philadelphia, U$A: Anathema Volume 11 Issue 1**
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/23/philadelphia-ua-anathema-volume-11-issue-1/
Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for reading 8.5×11) Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for printing 11×17) In this issue: What Went Down Ins & Outs Leadership Is It Fascism? Ten Years Of Anti-Gentrification Ben Morea Talk Reportback Anarchist Muay Thai The Moon Is Down Review
#Library #AnarchistNewspaper #Anathema #BenMorea #BlackMask #Democracy -
Dark Nights: **Philadelphia, U$A: Anathema Volume 11 Issue 1**
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/23/philadelphia-ua-anathema-volume-11-issue-1/
Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for reading 8.5×11) Volume 11 Issue 1 (PDF for printing 11×17) In this issue: What Went Down Ins & Outs Leadership Is It Fascism? Ten Years Of Anti-Gentrification Ben Morea Talk Reportback Anarchist Muay Thai The Moon Is Down Review
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"Even in his heyday, Morea cultivated an air of mystery. In the early 60s, he was an abstract-expressionist painter who signaled his lack of compromising nuances by dressing completely in black. 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. The Motherfuckers described themselves as a kind of politicized street gang, but in the media they were known only as 'a group with a certain unprintable name.' Their general attitude toward the counterculture summons to mind something Patti Smith later said about rock 'n' roll: 'We created it; let's take it over!'
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. ('WE PROPOSE A CULTURAL EXCHANGE,' they declared in an accompanying leaflet: 'garbage for garbage.') In 1968, they rallied in support of Valerie Solanas, the tormented feminist who shot Andy Warhol. A year later, they cut the fences at Woodstock, famously helping to turn it into a free concert for thousands."
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"Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! - Interview with Ben Morea
Morea talks of the 1960s Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! groups and their activities - such as busting into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest, and 'assassinating' a famous poet. He also discusses friendships with various characters, including the late Valerie Solanas - who shot Andy Warhol and wrote the *SCUM Manifesto.*"
https://libcom.org/article/against-wall-motherfucker-interview-ben-morea
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#BenMorea #PanchoVillaSyndrome
"The pages excerpted below pick up the narrative in the early 1970s, at which point Morea and many others have fled New York City to the mountains of New Mexico and Colorado. While recounting his rugged lifestyle and the extraordinary events of these years, which tragically claimed the lives of various friends and even his own brother, Morea introduces one of his most salient political concepts, the 'Pancho Villa Syndrome.' What becomes of revolutionary subjects once their revolutions collapse or are defeated, leaving them to wander in exile? Having risked death to change the world, many will find a return to atomized civilian life unthinkable. What then? The Pancho Villa syndrome is Morea’s term for the deadly undertow that often sets in at such moments, when political ambitions descend into mere banditry and armed struggle gives way to forms of guerilla criminality. Comrades who are 'armed and ready to die,' yet deprived of a transformative horizon to orient themselves, risk turning inwards: 'fixated on their own mythology,' unable to rejoin the flow of everyday life, they burn up their remaining days on Earth in self-destructive rituals of prideful rage, until they eventually expire. Such nihilistic spirals are by no means unique to the American sequence; examples are found in Mexico, Ukraine, Brazil and, notably, Italy. The Pancho Villa syndrome constitutes a perennial danger, to be found anywhere insurgent struggle reaches the threshold of armed conflict with the state. According to Morea, the only hope of circumventing such black holes depends upon a broadening of the revolutionary impetus, which cannot be confined to a narrowly political or materialist perspective. If it is to avoid spinning out into tragic cycles of bloodshed and self-sacrifice, revolutionary struggle must be animated by an idea of happiness that incorporates spiritual components, a vision of our place in nature and the cosmos. While Full Circle initiates this task, it falls to the present generation of fighters to see it through."
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📣 New Episode
Ben Morea is best known as a key figure in the Black Mask group, The Family (popularly known as Up Against The Wall Motherf**ker), and the Armed Love commune movement.
In this interview Ben recounts stories from his life, reflects on some of the challenges facing #anarchists and #revolutionaries of yesterday and today, and shares some thoughts on #animism, indigenous ways of life, conflict, art, and more.
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📣 New Episode
Ben Morea is best known as a key figure in the Black Mask group, The Family (popularly known as Up Against The Wall Motherf**ker), and the Armed Love commune movement.
In this interview Ben recounts stories from his life, reflects on some of the challenges facing #anarchists and #revolutionaries of yesterday and today, and shares some thoughts on #animism, indigenous ways of life, conflict, art, and more.
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📣 New Episode
Ben Morea is best known as a key figure in the Black Mask group, The Family (popularly known as Up Against The Wall Motherf**ker), and the Armed Love commune movement.
In this interview Ben recounts stories from his life, reflects on some of the challenges facing #anarchists and #revolutionaries of yesterday and today, and shares some thoughts on #animism, indigenous ways of life, conflict, art, and more.
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📣 New Episode
Ben Morea is best known as a key figure in the Black Mask group, The Family (popularly known as Up Against The Wall Motherf**ker), and the Armed Love commune movement.
In this interview Ben recounts stories from his life, reflects on some of the challenges facing #anarchists and #revolutionaries of yesterday and today, and shares some thoughts on #animism, indigenous ways of life, conflict, art, and more.
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📣 New Episode
Ben Morea is best known as a key figure in the Black Mask group, The Family (popularly known as Up Against The Wall Motherf**ker), and the Armed Love commune movement.
In this interview Ben recounts stories from his life, reflects on some of the challenges facing #anarchists and #revolutionaries of yesterday and today, and shares some thoughts on #animism, indigenous ways of life, conflict, art, and more.
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Surrealism and anarchism, past and present
Surrealists attempted to unify art, anti-authoritarian resistance, mutual aid, and conscious living
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/13/surrealism-and-anarchism-past-and-present/
#BenMorea #RonSakolsky #surrealism