HARD CRACKERS

In previous interviews, we have highlighted the challenges of working during a global pandemic, including the fears and anxieties of ordinary workers. While many have continued to work with little protection, rearranging their lives to accommodate a deadly virus, some workers have decided enough is enough. In April of 2021, an estimated 4 million workers […]

We are reprinting a statement from the group Abahlali baseMojondolo dated July 13, 2021.  Abahlali is a grassroots organization that represents shack dwellers, squatters and poor people in and around the east coast port of eThekwini (Durban) in the province of Kwazulu-Natal.  They have weathered a lot of repression.  Here is their take on the […]

It’s been a bit of a lifesaver, telly wise.  The alternatives, mostly bad news, have been Biden’s bipartisan and useless or harmful this and that, and a collapsed building in Florida…and rotten weather, never rule that out.  Then there is Britney Spears, the latest rich victim of some sort of controlling elder.  Speak to the […]

For all that don’t know, and most outside of the region (Detroit, southeast Michigan and mid-Michigan) don’t know because the national media has had little to no coverage, we were hit really hard by a serious storm this past weekend with mass flooding, power outages and infrastructure destroyed.  It also included some tornadoes throughout mid […]

My friend Bill retired to Bisbee after working in the Detroit steel mills for decades. When I got my copy of Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World, I shared it with Bill. I wanted to see how it resonated with his own experiences, and it did. I told […]

Since the George Floyd Rebellion last summer it has become common practice to paint all police officers in the United States with a single brush. The average American used to believe that most cops were just doing their job, while the media focused on a few bad apples who do not represent the vast majority […]