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The Karen Effect:ย A Cop Town’s Reckoning with Police Power

Zhandarka Kurti

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Americaโ€™s latest referendum on police power is coming from an unlikely place: Canton, Massachusetts, a mostly white upper middle class and pro-police suburb located just fifteen miles outside of Boston. Jury deliberations began this week in the second murder trial of Karen Read, who is accused of killing her cop boyfriend. For the past three years, the case has divided Canton, with a significant number of residents convinced that Read is being framed by the police and the wealthy local families with ties to them. While the case has all the elements of a true-crime saga, its significance lies in that it is shedding a light on the deepening crisis of police legitimacy among white Americans. In addition, it is also revealing--yet again--the pernicious effects of whiteness, as seen by the inability or unwillingness of Karen Read supporters to connect her fight against a corrupt police and legal system to the current anti-ICE/police uprising.

In Otero

Emilien Bernard

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Emilien Bernard and Pauline Laplace are two alternative free-lance journalists working for the Marseille critical monthly CQFD, which has a substantial French global distribution (about 10, 000 copies) and argues for an anarchist perspective. CQFD means Ce Quโ€™il Faut Dรฉmontrer. The two ...
Since When Has Working Been a Crime

Since When Has Working Been a Crime?

David Ranney

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The Hard Crackers STORE has a new item for saleโ€”โ€œSince when has working been a crimeโ€–a new version of a pamphlet produced and distributed by the Sojourner Truth Organization in 1977 during an earlier wave of ...

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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 ...

A Nation of Immigrants? Erasure, Exclusion and the Power of Rodney Toy’s Art

Jonah Raskin

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A recent art exhibit in San Francisco got me thinking about immigrants and immigration, which has long been a hot topic in the US. I can relate on a personal level. Rodney Toy, 53, the artist ...

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Lest we forget: the coup in Honduras 2009

Tony Equale

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The following post was initially sent as an email message to a group of close friends.ย  The authorย agreed to let us post it on Hard Crackers. Friends, As we read about the visits of Vice President ...

Plunder, Passage, Prison: Three Border Stories

Darien Acero

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Plunder โ€œNo nos toca;โ€ basically, โ€œitโ€™s not our problem.โ€ Thatโ€™s what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztรณn after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huรฉt Gรณmez, a father, ...

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory – Two Short Essays

More Confusion โ€“ No Wonder! By Mike Morgan If there was a board game in which the winner would reveal the official historic and current U.S. position towards most of the Far East peoples and their ...

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A Gory Gift to Trump: A Cruel, Militarized, Expensive, and Decades Old, Bipartisan Border Policy

Ron Leighton

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A review of John Carlos Frey, Sand and Blood: Americaโ€™s Stealth War on the Mexico Border, New York: Bold Type Books, 2019, 243 pages. John Carlos Freyโ€™s Sand and Blood relates the roughly 140-year history of ...

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Another Personโ€™s Shoes

Gifford Hartman

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In 2005 I was hired by a non-profit in San Mateo County to design and teach classes in a combined English as a Second Language and Family Literacy program in the community room of a low-income ...

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