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“When Your Home Turns into a Prison”: Former Prisoner Reflects on Life Under Coronavirus Lockdown

Hard Crackers Editors

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Ronald Owens, aka โ€œCornbread,โ€ lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. He spent 13 years in a Massachusetts maximum security prison, where he and Noel Ignatiev met in 1996 as pen pals. They remained close friends ever since. What ...

Silver Lining Time

John Garvey

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I just got off the phone with one of my daughters.ย  Sheโ€™s a math teacher in a public middle school here in New York and has to try to teach her 100 plus sixth and eighth ...

Crisis on top of crisis in Kensington

James Stephens

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During this COVID-19 crisis, probably many of us have had moments where we have thought, โ€œOh, shit, whatโ€™s going to happen when coronavirus spreads to (fill in the blank)? We have worried about those who fill ...

The Death President

John Garvey

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Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln (1864), James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy (1963).ย  An additional fourteen presidents are considered to have been the targets of assassination attempts.ย  Keep ...

The Guessing Game

Mike Morgan

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Every now and so often, we are reminded of how much the inexact art of prediction dominates all facets of American society. The numbers that are crunched by non-humans (computers) find their way into reports and ...

Underlying Conditions

John Garvey

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Weโ€™ve all become used to what doctors and other experts on the cable news shows sayโ€”people with underlying conditionsย are much more vulnerable to the COVID 19 virus and are in much greater danger of becoming seriously ...

Agenda for a New Generation

JF

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The COVID-19 crisis is the most calamitous global event any living person can recall. Millions of cases worldwide have claimed over 150,000 lives as epidemiologists predict far more mayhem before the virus is under control. The ...

An NYC Doctorโ€™s Life During COVID-19

Spencer Merlis

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โ€œIโ€™m not heroic. I was never planning to be.โ€ A 30-something year old New York City doctor gives an account of how COVID-19 has affected her life at work and home. The edited interview took place ...

Angola Prisoners Say: โ€œThis is a war โ€“ and weโ€™re in itโ€

CJ LeBlanc

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CJ LeBlanc is a journalist who writes primarily about issues related to criminal justice in the Deep South and seeks opportunities to amplify marginalized voices. In this short piece, CJ LeBlanc shares with us the communiques ...

On Organizing the Grunts: COVID-19, the Sailors and Some Other World History

Mike Morgan

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I donโ€™t mean to sound old school here.ย  When General Giap, a commander of the Vietnam Peoplesโ€™ Army, wrote in his memoir about the conditions that allowed a victory over the almighty US armed forces in ...
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