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Abolitionism


Morbid Curiosity: Reviewing Jarrod Shanahanโ€™s Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help

Tim Bruno

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Iโ€™ve been a fan of Jarrod Shanahanโ€™s work, but only with his new essay collection Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms, published by PM Press, did ...

Unbuild these Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Zhandarka Kurti

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Interview with Silky Shah Silky Shah has been an immigrant justice organizer for over two decades. She is currently the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to abolish immigrant detention in the U.S. ...
An Ordinary White

An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education

Zhandarka Kurti

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Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.

City Time: A Discussion with David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

Richard Hunsinger

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David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahanโ€™s new book City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island (NYU Press, 2025) offers an insightful look into the daily life of one of the most notorious carceral complexes in the ...

From the Vault

Hard Crackers Editors

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The Hard Crackers project is just over five years old.ย  During that time, we have published almost a hundred articles in nine issues of our print journal and posted more than 350 articles on our web ...

Response To John Brown and The Good Lord Bird

Tom Bura

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Note from the Editors:ย  A few weeks ago, we ran an interview with Marty Brown, a descendant of one of John Brownโ€™s children. We had come across Marty via a letter that she wrote to the ...

John Brownโ€”โ€œone of the most clear-sighted and courageous patriots our nation has ever producedโ€

Hard Crackers Editors

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An Interview with Marty Brown Marty Brown is a descendant of Jason Brown, one of John Brownโ€™s children.ย  She lives in Portland, Oregon.ย  We contacted her after we read a letter that she had written to ...

What Does Religion Have to Do with It?

John Garvey

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My question is prompted by the nomination and likely approval of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court and the reactions to that.ย  She is, without question, a conservative.ย  Some ascribe that conservatism to her deeply ...

The Immortal Ten and the Rescue of John Doy

https://jeffersonjayhawkers.com/about/ In July 1859 Kansan James B. Abbott collected a force of 10 men to sweep into Missouri and spring Underground Railroad operator John Doy from jail. An early Lawrence, Kansas Territory, settler and dedicated abolitionist, ...

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CREATIVE PROVOCATION: STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION

Noel Ignatiev

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How do small groups of revolutionaries convince the majority of ordinary people of the need for revolution and persuade them to take the steps necessary to bring it about? It is the central question for every ...

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