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Top 20 of 2020
We entered 2020 with a renewed commitment to the Hard Crackers project. The year has shaped up to be one that none of us could have imagined, not even in our wildest dreams. We’d like to ...
Middle-Class War: A Visit to Staten Island’s Autonomous Zone
Transmission rates are on the rise again in New York City. Hospital beds are filling, the temperature is dropping, and most have accepted a renewed lockdown to be a foregone conclusion. But the talk of the ...
Ho Ho This!
Christmas is here and if you live in America you know this because the bombardment starts on Thanksgiving. The television commercials are a dead giveaway, plus the specially named shopping days, “Black Friday” or “Cyber Monday.” ...
The DOE’s Forgotten Stepchild: NYC’s District 75 Deals with COVID-19
District 75 is a specialized district within the NYC Department of Education. It is a completely segregated school district for special needs students between the ages of 3 and 21 including those dealing with Autism Spectrum ...
COVID in Prison
When COVID-19 hit everybody was watching the news. We all saw the spread, then the deaths that followed. The prison here seemed to be on standby for like two months before we, “the inmates,” were issued ...
Murphy’s Law – A Day in the Life
Murphy’s Law was in full effect for me today (Saturday). Murphy’s Law is not quite Sod’s Law, nor is it exactly Finagle’s Law, although they all capture the same sentiment. The tenet of Murphy’s Law is ...
“The Last Stand of Freedom in America”
“How many of you have an easy life?” the speaker asked the audience. To his dismay a handful of people raised their hands. “Well, okay, I guess some of you have it good, but many of ...
Hard Crackers Editors on WBAI
On this week’s episode of WBAI radio’s Deadline NYC, our editors John Garvey and Mike Morgan sat down with veteran journalist Tom Robbins for a discussion of their early political development and the Hard Crackers project. ...
On the Current Crisis in South Africa
Hard Crackers has reached out to a South African independent social justice publication called New Frame Magazine. New Frame describes itself as such: We are dedicated to a pro-poor, pro-working class focus that aims to report ...
They Lost My COVID Test
Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection. I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing site—consisting ...