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We're Here to Talk About the Family: Discussions with Ben Morea

Red Channels, along with members of Lisbon's Edições Antipáticas and
Madrid's La Felguera Editores have organized a series of discussion
events with Ben Morea--publisher of Black Mask (1966-1968) and member
of Up Against the Wall/Motherfuckers (1968-1969)--in England,
Portugal, and Spain, and taking place from June 17-28.

Active in the art and anarchist communities of New York City's Lower
East Side from 1959-1969, Morea dropped out of public sight for 35
years before resurfacing at New York's 16Beaver space in June 2004 at
an event organized by Eve Hinderer. Things in the world had apparently
gotten too bad, too similar to the conditions of the late-60's--when
Morea was both theorizing and practicing an insurgent form of street
action to challenge all forms of authority--for Ben to not try to
help. Since 2004 Morea has given a number interviews and participated
in a series of public discussions to share his experiences in "The
Family," as he refers to the Motherfuckers, with the hopes that
today's militants might find their story useful.

Last October he took part in an open discussion with Red Channels on
his friend Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto (1967) outside of the
location of the Factory, where Solanas shot Warhol. Morea splits his
time between Colorado and New York, and runs the blog E-Blast:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130734267005897

Friday 17 June 2011 - 6PM
London Action Resource Centre
62 Fieldgate Street
Tower Hamlets, London, E1 1ES
www.londonarc.org

Tuesday 21 June 2011 - 9PM
Da Barbuda
Largo da Severa, 8
1100 Lisbon
www.dabarbuda.blogspot.com

Wednesday 22 June 2011 - 9PM
RDA69
R. Regueirao dos Anjos, 69
1150 Lisbon
www.rda69.wordpress.com

Friday 24 June 2011 - 7PM
Enclave de libros
Calle Relatores, 16
28012 Madrid
www.enclavedelibros.blogspot.com

Tuesday 28 June 2011 - 7:30PM
Casa de la Solidaritat
Vistalegre, 15
08001 Barcelona
www.llibreanarquista.net

For more info please write to motherfuckers[at]redchannels.org

Some recent editions of the collected writings of Black Mask and the
Motherfuckers include: London's Unpopular Books (1993), Melbourne's
Homebrew Press (2007), Madrid's La Felguera Editores (2009), Oakland's
PM Press (2010), and Lisbon's Edições Antipáticas (2011).

Suggested Reading:
--"Ben Morea, Black Mask, and Motherfucker" - Eve Hinderer, 2004:
http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday/archives/001031.php
--"Ben Morea, Garbage Guerrilla" - John McMillian, 2005:
http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/4354
--An Interview with Ben Morea - Iain McIntyre, 2006:
http://libcom.org/history/against-wall-motherfucker-interview-ben-morea
--Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker - Osha Neumann, 2008:
http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100213550

www.antipaticas.blogspot.com
www.dabarbuda.blogspot.com
www.e-blast.squarespace.com
www.enclavedelibros.blogspot.com
www.lafelguera.net
www.llibreanarquista.net
www.londonarc.org
www.rda69.wordpress.com

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--Ø - 2011, 4 minutes, 21 seconds: http://vimeo.com/24199338

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