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Issue #8 available for order now

Hard Crackers Editors

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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 ...

Lest we forget: the coup in Honduras 2009

Tony Equale

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The following post was initially sent as an email message to a group of close friends.ย  The authorย agreed to let us post it on Hard Crackers. Friends, As we read about the visits of Vice President ...

Plunder, Passage, Prison: Three Border Stories

Darien Acero

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Plunder โ€œNo nos toca;โ€ basically, โ€œitโ€™s not our problem.โ€ Thatโ€™s what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztรณn after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huรฉt Gรณmez, a father, ...

After Memorial Day

John Garvey

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Once when I was a kid, my father took me to a Memorial Day Parade in Manhattan.ย  I had no idea why he decided to do so.ย  I remember feeling uncomfortable during the parade and wondered ...

A Walk Down the Street in Seattle

Aaron Ducat

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Located on the corner of 128th St and Aurora Avenue are a Vietnamese noodle house, a Chick-filโ€™A, a used car lot, and a construction supply company that doubles as a used car lot, the latter presumably ...

Varkie (Piglet)

Mike Morgan

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Varkie hailed from Kuruman, in the arid Great Karoo on the Ghaap Plateau.ย  Before he was drafted into the army, Varkie was hired by the South African Railways (SAR), the government owned institution that ensured employment ...

Death of an Anarchist

A.M. Gittlitz

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On May 13 Peter Ventantonio, better known as Jack Terricloth, frontman of the World/Inferno Friendship Society, passed away at the age of 50. Few others in the history of the genre so seamlessly and sincerely combined ...

Remembering Bobby Sands on the 40th Anniversary of His Death

Christian Alexander

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May 5th marked 40 years since Bobby Sands (Roibeรกrd ร“ Seachnasaigh) was murdered by the British State. Sands was a Volunteer within the Provisional IRA and once he was imprisoned became the officer commanding for the ...

Friday the 1312: A Review of “Body Cam”

Jarrod Shanahan

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Itโ€™s a dark and stormy night in Swinton, Louisiana. Officer Kevin Ganning shakes off the rain as he enters a dingy diner ensconced in the ambience of gritty cop noir. He is not welcomed. The black ...

Fanon, Floyd, and Me

Shemon

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It is one thing to hold a sign that says โ€œabolish the police;โ€ it is another to burn the 3rd Precinct down. As a non-Black arrivant Muslim, I was inserted into a field of politics I ...