''Rising Up Angry'' was a radical youth movement organized as a

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based in working class communities in Chicago, parallelling but not part of the Weatherman Underground and

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currents in New Left politics at the end of the 1960s.

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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 " Shape of Things to Come" in the 1968 movie ''

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''. The membership of the organization was of local blue-collar youth recruited out of the neighborhood subcultures called by the paper " greasers," a term used at the time to describe disaffected white youths stuck nostalgically in the subculture of the 1950s (''see'' ''

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''). 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

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. 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

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and

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, reviews of the

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and

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, 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."Rising Up Angry"
by Euan Hague. ''Area Chicago''. Retrieved June 4, 2010.

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