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Advertising in the Virus Age
To borrow a phrase from the Madison Avenue ad people โIn these difficult times, itโs reassuring to know that we still have enough of what we need.โย Well, letโs be more truthful here.ย We may have ...
“Enough is Enough!” A Letter from Ramsey Orta
“These DOCCS employees working under the color of law with a badge of authority from the State of New York, knowingly and maliciously engage in criminal activity with state sanctioned impunity from acting Commissioner of DOCCS, ...
Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examinerโs office after I heard Kathy had died.* My cubicle was in a cellar with an open floor plan, shared with other cubicles, and ...
To Our Readers:
We hope that you have been following our steady stream of articles and interviews about life under the COVIDย 19 pandemic.ย We’re planning on continuing to put things up as fast as possible.ย If you have ideas ...
Unsafe At Home: Domestic Violence Amid Covid-19
One of the dark consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown that has not received the attention it deserves is the rise in domestic violence cases with uneven trends at the local, state and national ...
In Plain Sight (if we looked)
For the past couple of months, weโve been seeing news reports and ads that tell us: โWeโre all in this togetherโ and โWeโre strongโ and โWeโll never forget our heroesโ.ย Most of the reports and ads ...
“They Wouldn’t Be Able to Deal With an Outbreak”: A View From Inside an Arizona Women’s Prison
Earlier this month, Andrea Portillo, an inmate at Perryville State Prison in Arizona, shared her experience with postpartum psychosis with Hard Crackers. She tells us what itโs like inside her facility during the pandemic. What is ...
Southern Solidarity: Mutual Aid in New Orleans Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Recently we had a chance to talk with Jasmine from Southern Solidarity, a mutual aid collective distributing food and supplies to the unhoused people of New Orleans. The COVID-19 death rate in the crescent city is ...
Stick-up on Rikers Island
It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with wives, children, friends, and lawyers, the lines all went dead. This was March 22nd. Visits had been suspended a week prior, ...
“When Your Home Turns into a Prison”: Former Prisoner Reflects on Life Under Coronavirus Lockdown
Ronald Owens, aka โCornbread,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 ...