The Motherfuckers

The Motherfuckers were a radical countercultural/anarchist group in New York City during the late 1960s, known for provocative public actions such as throwing garbage around Lincoln Center in protest of its gentrification of the Lower East Side.

Claims that use this term

• The Motherfuckers’ trash protest prefigured Lincoln Center’s gentrification of the Lower East Side
• The Motherfuckers’ garbage stunt ignored the Black janitor whom the mess burdened