Word: morea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOCIETY was too much for Ben Morea, so he ran away from home in New York when he was 17. For the complexities of living among people by their rules, he substituted living alone on the Lower East Side, making his own rules...
Nine years after he ran away from the rules and the problems, Ben Morea finds himself one of the leaders of a community, the street hip community. And when he talks about his people's problems, he sounds more like the leader of an impoverished third world nation than like the anarchist he claims...
...There's an overuse of drugs in the street hip community," Morea says, speaking about the 200 or so hippies who have taken to the streets of Boston, the kids who do not go to a home at night, who keep alive through panhandling, drug-pushing, or petty thievery. "When you sleep in the street under lights, and you can't fall asleep, you speed...
...Morea reaches out a hand as if asking for help and says, "Some of these kids won't live a few more years. We need some space to work things...
Lebensraum could be the political cry of the street hips. When he was in New York, Morea and his Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers literally battled the police for control of the Lower East Side. This summer he moved to Boston, where the street hip community has been engaged in a hassle over sleeping rights on the Boston Common. After receiving many complaints from Charles St. merchants and residents, White slapped a curfew on the Common. Night after night, there were dozens of arrests. Some nights, there was violence. One of those nights, Morea got embroiled in a massive street...