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โ€˜Stick a Fork in Their Ass & Turn โ€˜em Over – Theyโ€™re Done.โ€™

Josh Machlin

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Sorry to be a โ€˜Negative Nellyโ€™ (& co-opt a Lou Reed lyric again), but pull up a stool and let me tell you why the Covid crisis is really just a mirror to a species already ...

Roundtable Discussion II on the Anti-Police Brutality Insurgency

Hard Crackers Editors

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Can a movement be built that relies upon different forms of action without being substantially limited by the political views that perhaps inform the least militant of the protestors?ย  Importantly, young people, frequently including teenagers, have ...

The Shebeen

Mike Morgan

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Hereโ€™s a bit of a lingo lesson.ย  A shebeen, according to Wikipedia, is an illegal establishment (in Ireland, Scotland and South Africa) that specializes in the sale of distilled alcoholic beverages and is typically regarded as ...

Mask down, fists up: a day at work in the library

James Stephens

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Like most workers, I donโ€™t wake up in the morning thinking Iโ€™m going to get swung at while at my job. Iโ€™m a librarian, not a professional boxer or an MMA fighter. But on a Monday ...

Itโ€™s All About Me

Joshua Machlin

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One of these things is not like the other: a marriage collapses – a global pandemic takes hold. Thatโ€™s what I tried to tell myself as I nosed at my overturned life like a furtive lizard ...

โ€œI experienced a lot of violent shit and never once did it cross my mind to call the policeโ€: A conversation with STiCKii and ShaeShae

Hard Crackers Editors

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Having spent the last decade organizing against police violence and for queer youth of color in Springfield, MA, STiCKii and ShaeShae break down their thoughts on the protests against police violence. STiCKii: My dad was black ...

Am I Allowed to Breathe?

Eric King

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Am I allowed to breathe? Is that a punishable offense? Am I allowed to feel Is that a shot? Are my thoughts read like my letters scanned and stored to be used against me later My ...

“So Are White People”: A Discussion of Race, Class, and Police Violence

JS: Last week President Trump was asked about the epidemic of Black people murdered by police in the United States. His response was: โ€œSo are white people. More white people, by the way.โ€ย  TA: I have ...

TGIF

Mike Morgan

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When I was a young teenager, the local Catholic parish, The Church of the Holy Trinity, would sponsor what they called a Friday Night Social. ย This was held at the Norwegian Hall, right across from the ...

CoreCivic Responds to Hard Crackers

Hard Crackers Editors

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Well, well, well, imagine our surprise when we received an email message from Ryan Gustin, the Public Affairs Manager of CoreCivic, the outfit that operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee, in response to an ...
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