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From a Tiny Studio Apartment in Chicago

Sam Williams

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I am currently writing from my tiny studio apartment in Chicago that I pay far too much for in rent, listening to the album “Control” by Pedro the Lion, a concept album about a businessman killed ...

Audacity!

Emelina Rosa

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“Audacity, still more audacity, audacity always!” –Georges Danton, French Revolution 1792  “The best defense is disorder.” –The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide The first Battle for Tucson ended in victory for us when the cops trashed our encampment ...

Aux armes! May Day in the Olive Grove

Emelina Rosa

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Students at the University of Arizona in Tucson erected two Gaza Solidarity encampments on April 29 and 30. For more information on the battle for Tucson, see https://livingandfighting.net/ This article is being published in Living & Fighting ...

Berlin as a Community Space vs. Berlin as a Business: A Discussion with Jolene Saint

Jarrod Shanahan

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Late last year, Chicago’s beloved queer nightspot Berlin closed its doors amid a controversial union drive. I was first drawn to this editorial in the Chicago Tribune by a prominent photo of my friend Marten Katze, dismayed to find, however, that this powerful image image was appended to a childish anti-worker screed. I decided to speak with a Berlin union organizer and get the workers’ side of the story. 

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Interview with One Democratic State Initiative

Hard Crackers Editors

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Introduction The One Democratic State Initiative (ODSI) represents a distinctive political position in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. We are reasonably sure that other individuals and perhaps organizations, that we don’t know about, hold ...

How Did I Get Here?, part 3: Iowa City Activism in the 1970s

David Ranney

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The following is the third in a series of three excerpts from David Ranney’s longer piece “Reflections: Well, How Did I Get Here?” After leaving graduate school in 1966, I entered what I have called my ...

How Did I Get Here?, part 2: Rudy

David Ranney

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The following is the second in a series of three excerpts from David Ranney’s longer piece “Reflections: Well, How Did I Get Here?” Prior to going away to college, my interaction with Black people had been ...

How Did I Get Here?, part 1: On My Futile Attempt to Become a High School Athlete

David Ranney

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What follows is an excerpt from a longer piece that explores how a red, white and blue diaper baby, raised by conservative Republican parents in a largely conservative Republican and all white suburb in a conservative ...

Some War Stories – with Don Hamerquist & Janeen Porter

Mike Morgan

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On the Release of A Brilliant Red Thread by Don Hamerquist  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 ...

“Together, We Can Create the World We Want to See”: An Interview with ChatGPT

Hard Crackers Editors

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Recently, an editor at Hard Crackers discovered that many students in his classes were having their homework assignments written for them by an artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT, a piece of software that draws on ...
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