One of the most notorious underground newspapers to join UPS and rallied activists, poets, and artists by giving them uncensored voice was the "NOLA Express" in New Orleans. Started by Robert Head and Darlene Fife as part of political protests and extending the "mimeo revolution" by protest and freedom-of-speech poets during the 1960s, "NOLA Express" was also a member of COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers. These two affiliations with organizations that were often at cross purposes made "NOLA Express" one of the most radical and controversial publications of the counterculture movement. Part of the controversy about "NOLA Express" included graphic photographs and illustrations of which many even in today's society would be banned as pornographic.