Armed Love 3: Black Mask w/ Ben Morea (part 1)

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ben Morea is a founding member of Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, two 1960s revolutionary formations known as the most direct action-oriented wing of the youth revolutionary movement in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Comrades of the Black Panthers, Diggers, Yippies, and SDS, their black bloc tactics and uncompromising solidarity with black and indigenous struggles remains a blueprint of anarchist activity today.

Part 2 of the discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65563424

Armed Love is a series about the revolutionary subculture of the sixties. Episode one was an interview with Peter Coyote, and episode 2 was a discussion of Charles Manson and the Lyman Family.

Joining me for the interview was Matt Peterson of Woodbine.nyc

Correction on #ReadtheGreenBook tour-- the Minneapolis date is May 24, not 23

Song: Jefferson Airplane - We Can be Together

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0:00.0	This is a show about the revolutionary counterculture and movements of the 60s.
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	And the question of the show is basically because people my age and younger
0:19.6	tend to have a very negative or cynical view of the 60s.
0:23.0	They do?
0:24.0	Yeah, they think, because they, you know, they know it from the narratives of their parents.
0:28.0	So they think it was just people who would become yuppies and liberals pretending to be
0:36.4	revolutionary but it was all about flower power and sex drugs and rock and roll
0:41.2	Yeah that's relative and that movement of the 60s. I mean there were some myself included that continued
0:55.8	that didn't just power power out. Exactly and so that's the purpose of this show is although there was a lot of failure and a lot of
1:05.8	cringy stuff. There were also real revolutionary. It was history we ought to know. So that's why I'm really honored to have you on the show.
1:13.2	I'm talking to Ben Maria of Black Mask
1:16.2	and up against the law, motherfickers,
1:18.2	in his Hell's Kitchen apartment.
1:20.9	Thanks for joining us.
1:21.8	How you feeling today?
1:23.0	Thank you, you doing very well. Thanks.
1:25.0	Great. Yeah, well don't we just start off by having you tell us a little bit about the groups that you're in in the 60s and how they came about and what you did.
1:33.7	How far back should I go? Maybe we can start with black mask?
1:38.1	Huh? Black mask pre-gated up against the wall.
1:43.2	All right, so myself and a few friends of mine,
1:48.0	we were what you involved with are arts.
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