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Breaking the Law Does Not Always Have to Be Scary

Camille Rudney

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Camille Rudney is an activist and a clinical social worker based in Richmond, Virginia. They became involved in abortion struggles after being arrested in 2012 for protesting Virginiaโ€™s restrictive abortion bill that required women seeking abortions ...

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Norah Booth

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Itโ€™s 1976.ย I am 26 and have been experiencing light vaginal bleeding off and on for several weeks. I am married, but getting a divorce. I have no children. I am using the low dose of โ€œThe ...

We Were Keeping the Clinic Doors Open With Our Bodies: Interview with Sunny Chapman

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Sunny Chapman is a longtime activist and artist. In the 1980s and 1990s she participated in abortion clinic defense struggles by escorting women to clinics and videotaping the activities of anti-abortion activists. In this interview, she ...

Redstockings Abortion Speak Out

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This is the fourth post in the Hard Crackers Reproductive Freedom Series. ย The post is an edited transcript of remarks made by women who spoke at the first Abortion Speak Out on March 21, 1969 in ...

Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue

Suzy Subways

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In the early โ€™90s, anarchists and other feminists defended clinics with our bodies and taught each other how to do abortion techniques such as menstrual extraction safely. As the Christian Right bombed hundreds of clinics, killed ...

Who Are the Experts? An archival glimpse at 1969 abortion rights actions

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This is the second posting in Reproductive Freedom: A Series, launched earlier this week by Hard Crackers. In this post, we share a collection of historical materials from the Redstockings Archives for Action. Redstockings was an ...

Launching Reproductive Freedom: A Series

Introduction to Reproductive Freedom: A Series ย A short while ago, Hard Crackers sent an invitation to people who we knew had been active in various reproductive freedom projects over the last fifty years to help us ...

Nothing to Covet: Reflections on Growing Up Near a U.S. Military Base

John Bohn

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In my hometown thirty miles northeast of Detroit, there is a stretch of road that runs along the border of Selfridge Air National Guard Base, one of nearly 500 military bases found in the United States. ...

Rebellion, Routinized

Vivian Kelke

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When the Kenosha verdict dropped in November 2021, the 2020 uprising in my city was still limping along. The actions were led by the same thirty or so people and attended by the same hundredish. The ...

Announcing Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: A Noel Ignatiev Reader

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June 28th marks the release of the new book Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity! We are excited about this book, as it is a collection of writings by Hard Crackers founder and editor Noel ...