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Lessons from Rosemarie: My 25 years in Brooklyn

Theodore Hamm

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โ€œKeep going down Atlantic, then hang a left at Bedford,โ€ advised the lot attendant, a white guy in his 60s, as my pal Patrick and I dropped off a U-Haul truck at the corner of Flatbush ...

Some War Stories โ€“ with Don Hamerquist & Janeen Porter

Mike Morgan

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On the Release of A Brilliant Red Thread by Don Hamerquist ย 06/21/23, Presentation at Brooklyn Book Event It has been my privilege to know and work with Don Hamerquist and his partner Janeen Porter for a ...

The Words They Heard at The Word is Change

John Garvey

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June 21, 2023. On Wednesday last week, we held our long-anticipated discussion of Don Hamerquistโ€™s A Brilliant Red Thread at our favorite bookstore in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The featured speakers were: Luis Brennan, the editor of ...

Upcoming Event: Discussion of A Brilliant Red Threadโ€“ย Revolutionary Writings ofย Don Hamerquist.ย 

Hard Crackers Editors

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We are excited to host aย presentation andย discussion about the recentlyย released book entitledย A Brilliant Red Thread โ€“ย Revolutionary Writings ofย Don Hamerquist.ย  WHERE IS IT: The Word is Change Book Store 368 Tompkins Avenue (at Putnam) Brooklyn, NY www.thewordischange.com ...

5 Seconds

Darien Belemu

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5 seconds give or take. Thatโ€™s all that is required for Alec Baldwin to disrupt your life. It was a normal day. I had stepped inside the corporate pharmacy to purchase a feminine hygiene product for ...

Let the Blood Moon Shine

Gus Breslauer

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Review of When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile Twelve Books, 2022, $15.99 – 320 pages Over a decade ago, I came across a fascinating story about whom Vice News had dubbed the โ€œMormon ...
A Brilliant Red Thread , Don Hamerquist

A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings From Don Hamerquist (Available for Order)

Hard Crackers Editors

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Don Hamerquist has been a revolutionary activist since the late 1950s. Over the course of more than sixty years, Don has been a working-class militant, a leader of organizations, an important strategic thinker, a considerate comrade ...

Bye Bye Metrocard — A Eulogy to New Yorkโ€™s Golden Ticket

A.M. Gittlitz

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Part of living in New York is accepting the brutality of rapid change with a cynical shrug as all you love and depend on vanish to make way for something almost certainly worse. Over the past ...

The Last Bailout

Brad Archer

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It was Samโ€™s last day with Bail Out Oklahoma, and he felt both relieved and somber walking down the corridor leading to C7 the final time. Ralph the Roach, the long dead and desiccated unofficial mascot ...

Hymns and Arias โ€“ Rugby in Wales

The Left Hook

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โ€œRugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.โ€ Richard Burton – Welsh actor Thereโ€™s this old gag. Elvis Presley, James Brown and Tom Jones go fishing together in a small ...