“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 you clearly don’t.” His voice could be barely heard and the audience shouted at him to speak into the […]
Archives for December 2020
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. The episode can be heard here. (Note: the Deadline segment begins after the 1:00 mark.) Thanks to Tom and […]
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 faithfully and informatively about the lives and struggles of working class people, the marginalized and unemployed, shack-dwellers and migrants. […]
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 of a dozen trailers in what had been an empty lot. This was right before Thanksgiving and the line […]