Rising Up Angry
Rising Up Angry was a radical youth movement organized as a
Weatherman Underground and Revolutionary Youth Movement currents in New Left politics at the end of the 1960s.[1]
Description
They published a monthly newspaper also called Rising Up Angry from 1969 to 1975, describing itself as "a revolutionary organization committed to building a new man, a new woman, and a new world," with the masthead motto "To love we must fight." RUA took their name from the lyrics to the song "
Grease).[2]
Members were mostly working class youths with union ties and socialist leanings who were disappointed with the efforts of perceived elitist and working class-disconnected groups like the Students for a Democratic Society.[3]
Rising Up Angry's newspaper was distributed throughout the Chicago area by volunteers focusing their distribution on high schools, union halls, university campuses; mostly a youth market. It encouraged radical dissent and featured profiles of figures such as
Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and The Wild Bunch, mixing political and cultural commentary with politically oriented cartoons by Aaron Fagen and others, montages, discussions of motorcycles and custom cars, and histories of labor activism and guerrilla warfare.[4]
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy. (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2011).
- ^ Stonegreasers.com Retrieved June 4, 2010.
- ^ Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press by Abe Peck (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985).
- ^ "Rising Up Angry" by Euan Hague. Area Chicago. Retrieved June 4, 2010.
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