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Call Us If You Stop Breathing

Brandon Gregor

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I work as a freelance editor. I make sure that the answers on multiple choice tests for commercial drivers license exams are in the right order, things like that. This doesnโ€™t pay a living wage. For ...

Listen: I Want To Believe Author A.M. Gittlitz Live in Chicago

Jarrod Shanahan

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On Friday, May 27th, Hard Crackers editor Jarrod Shanahan hosted author and Antifada host A.M. Gittlitz for a lively discussion of the latter’s book I Want To Believe (Pluto Press, 2020) at Pilsen Community Books in ...

How a Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police

John Garvey

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During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smokeย canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street ...

One Million Dollars

Bill Carney

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In February 2011, my Brooklyn-based, French-language rock band, Les Sans Culottes, was asked to perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Chelsea. The band would perform a couple of songs between various improv skits and ...

Welcome to Chicago!

Zhandarka Kurti

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Last summer when I was planning my move to Chicago, a friend who grew up on the West Side of the city gave me some tips about avoiding car break-ins: always lock my car, avoid driving ...

EDDY GET READY, ROCK STEADY!: The Equals, Eddy Grant, and Trump

Mike Morgan

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Most people who are old enough remember the reggae singer Eddy Grant for his popular radio song in 1983 called Electric Avenue.ย ย  Fewer know about his earlier seminal London rock combo, the Equals.ย  Eddy Grant is ...

Finding Ukraine in the US

Maks Bondarenko

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I have not been alive, until now, for an invasion of a country in which I personally know dozens of people. I didnโ€™t work or live in Ukraine as an adult; my relation to it resembles ...

“Fight the Government, Not Your Neighbor”

Cloee Cooper

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Last summer, I went to see my family in northern California, in a small town at the base of the highest peak of the Cascade range just south of the Oregon border. I woke up one ...

No Standing

Tim Bruno

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Put aside justice, stability and security, the little creature comforts that we all deserve, or finally paying your bills without a knot twisting in your stomachโ€”then maybe the greatest pleasure in landing a living wage job ...

The Anniversary

Chris Alexander

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The anniversary.ย  Two years ago, March 16th, 2020, the last time I lived in California. I took these shots on what was the eve before the world shut down. Looking west, the sun was setting over ...