Archives for June 2021

Since the George Floyd Rebellion last summer it has become common practice to paint all police officers in the United States with a single brush. The average American used to believe that most cops were just doing their job, while the media focused on a few bad apples who do not represent the vast majority […]

I’m writing to you to ask for your solidarity and for you to join a gas bill strike, withholding a part of your National Grid gas bill and refusing to pay to be poisoned. National Grid, the gas company for most downstate New Yorkers, has been building a pipeline in North Brooklyn that will bring […]

We are happy to announce that we are resuming with our regular printed issues. Our summer issue invites our readers to return to the tumultuous changes of 2020 that continue to shape our present. Below is the editorial statement and a table of contents of the new issue.   The year 2020 gave us a […]

The following post was initially sent as an email message to a group of close friends.  The author agreed to let us post it on Hard Crackers. Friends, As we read about the visits of Vice President Harris to Central America attempting to stem the tide of immigrants fleeing north to escape the poverty, corruption and […]

Plunder “No nos toca;” basically, “it’s not our problem.” That’s what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztón after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huét Gómez, a father, husband, son, and friend of many. Cruztón is a small community in Los Altos of Chiapas in southeastern Mexico […]

Once when I was a kid, my father took me to a Memorial Day Parade in Manhattan.  I had no idea why he decided to do so.  I remember feeling uncomfortable during the parade and wondered if he was trying to tell me something. He had been in the Navy during the Second World War […]