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CoreCivic Responds to Hard Crackers
Well, well, well, imagine our surprise when we received an email message from Ryan Gustin, the Public Affairs Manager of CoreCivic, the outfit that operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee, in response to an ...
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What is the American Ruling Class Up To?
More importantly, how might we respond?– A Hard Crackers Roundtable Series John: Let me begin with what is probably obvious. The last several weeks have witnessed an extraordinary explosion of protests, of just about every imaginable variety, ...
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What Are White Workers Thinking? An Interview with Timothy Lombardo
Timothy Lombardo is a native of Northeast Philadelphia and the author of Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics. We caught up with him to discuss the post-war dynamics that gave rise to blue-collar conservatism, ...
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“Preserving Our Capacity to Act:” An Interview with Kristian Williams
Hard Crackers: If I understand correctly the argument you’ve made about the efficacy of riots, it’s that they impose, far more effectively than legal limits, that communities can place new limits on police brutality. That seems ...
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Doing Time in Trousdale is a Death Sentence! Tennesseans Speak Out
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility is leading the nation in the number of positive COVID-19 cases, an estimated total of 1,393. Trousdale is a private prison for men in Hartsville, Tennessee, about an hour drive from Nashville. ...
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THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (WITHOUT GUITARS*)
On the Outside Agitators Question Governors, Mayors, Police Chiefs, and many network TV journalists with their security experts are all set on promoting the idea that the uncontainable sectors of the enormous protests that are engulfing ...
The Fire Down Below
The popular saying is “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” It is often used to explain the reasons for a rumor, or to describe another firearm metaphor “the smoking gun” (the hidden truth that will blow the ...
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“An Injury to One is an Injury to All” A Minneapolis Bus Driver on Solidarity with Minneapolis Protesters
Adam is a bus driver in Minneapolis and a member of ATU Local 1005 and Socialist Alternative MN. In the midst of the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, he made the decision to refuse police officers’ request ...
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“Enough is Enough!” A Letter from Ramsey Orta
“These DOCCS employees working under the color of law with a badge of authority from the State of New York, knowingly and maliciously engage in criminal activity with state sanctioned impunity from acting Commissioner of DOCCS, ...
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To Our Readers:
We hope that you have been following our steady stream of articles and interviews about life under the COVID 19 pandemic. We’re planning on continuing to put things up as fast as possible. If you have ideas ...
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