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“Everyone Agrees”

John Garvey

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When a politician, TV anchor or newspaper opinion writer starts out by saying that โ€œEveryone agreesโ€, I think itโ€™s time to pay attention.ย  There are not too many instances where everybody agreesโ€”except about something thatโ€™s really ...

The Forward Pass โ€“ An International Recollection on Professional Sport Protest from the Bottom Up

The Left Hook

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The national insurgency against police brutality and murders has finally infiltrated the elevated ether of professional sports in America, quite spectacularly too.ย  It is both surprising and not so at the same time. ย I want to ...

COVID, protest, and now fire: Portland at a tipping point

Peter Little

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The past four months in Portland have felt like nature doling out warning slaps, demonstrating the fragility of all of our systems. In the midst of years of far right groups mobilizing and marching in the ...

Dispatches from our new Angry Red Planet

Christian Alexander

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First, Iโ€™m thinking of all my friends and comrades out here on theย West Coast โ€“ with all the fires everywhere. Iโ€™m hoping folks can stay safe, whether itโ€™s just trying to get by, or being part ...

In the Eye of the Storm: A Report from Kenosha

Fran, JF and Lane

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What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. ย -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha. Police roadblocks along I-94 ...

New Developments at Hard Crackers

Hard Crackers Editors

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We are pleased to announce that three new people have joined the Hard Crackers Editorial Group.ย  They are Chris Alexander, Justine Johnson and Steve Lorenz.ย  We are confident that their participation will allow us to do ...

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 ...
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