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Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers (Gang)

LC control no.n 2008050800
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Corporate name headingUp Against the Wall Motherfuckers (Gang)
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Variant(s)Motherfuckers (Gang)
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (Gang)
UAWMF
See alsoPredecessor: Black Mask (Group of artists)
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Beginning date1968
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityAnarchism and art
Found inUp against the wall motherf**ker, c2008: ecip galley (Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, commonly known as Motherfuckers; an anarchist street gang)
Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, 2011: t.p. (Black Mask) p. 4 of cover (founded in New York City in the mid-1960s by self-educated ghetto kid and painter Ben Morea; nourished ideas and inspiration of Dada and the Surrealists with the anarchism of the Durruti Column from the Spanish Revolution; the group intervened in the art, politics, and culture of their times; by 1968 it dissolved into "The Family", popularly known as Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers)
Up against the real, 2023: CIP page 5, etc. (Black Mask, art activism group, started in New York City in late 1966, mutated into Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (UAWMF) in 1968, a dadaist anarchist affinity group)