Since the George Floyd Rebellion last summer it has become common practice to paint all police officers in the United States with a single brush. The average American used to believe that most cops were just doing their job, while the media focused on a few bad apples who do not represent the vast majority […]
An Appeal for Solidarity to Hard Crackers Readers
I’m writing to you to ask for your solidarity and for you to join a gas bill strike, withholding a part of your National Grid gas bill and refusing to pay to be poisoned. National Grid, the gas company for most downstate New Yorkers, has been building a pipeline in North Brooklyn that will bring […]
Death of an Anarchist
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 the poetry, aesthetics, innovation, and politics beating in the amphetamine-fueled heart of punk. The World/Inferno Friendship Society was notorious […]
Friday the 1312: A Review of “Body Cam”
It’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 server, Pops, keeps his back turned to Ganning while a black woman behind the counter shoots him dirty looks. […]
Fanon, Floyd, and Me
It is one thing to hold a sign that says “abolish the police;” it is another to burn the 3rd Precinct down. As a non-Black arrivant Muslim, I was inserted into a field of politics I had no preparation for. Neither settler nor slave to make sense of what I was. No Malcolm to shape […]
Embalming the Haymarket Martyrs
Chicago in the 1880s was a deadly place. In an era before modern medicine or sanitation, the large immigrant populations sustained themselves by working the most dangerous jobs. Workplace accidents were exceedingly common, and death at work a regular possibility. People started work young; wages were pitifully low, and hours brutally long. In no small […]