Category Archive for:

Organizing


Maoโ€™s Children

Avery D'Agostino

|

Editor’s note: A long, long time ago, strange groups populated a lot of the left wing in the US. This is a fictional story about one of them. Avery has previously written a piece of short ...

An Appeal for Solidarity to Hard Crackers Readers

Margot Spindelman

|

Iโ€™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, ...

CATEGORY:

โ€œThe Trial of the Chicago Sevenโ€: A Review

David Ranney

|

There have been a number of reviews written about Aaron Sorkinโ€™s film The Trial of the Chicago Seven (available on Netflix). The film is a fictional account of the trial of leaders of the anti Vietnam ...

โ€˜No Condescending Saviors:’ A Personal Tribute to Noel Ignatiev

Gary Fields

|

Hard Crackers founding editor Noel Ignatiev died a year ago today. In his memory, we are running in full this tribute written by a longtime comrade and friend of his. We also plan to publish a ...

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

Hard Crackers Editors

|

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 ...

Direction

Mike Morgan

|

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth, The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south โ€œSubstituteโ€ by The Who (1966) Most thinking people on the side of ...

“Weโ€™ve been thinking about a world without policing, a world where we can actually surviveโ€: A conversation with Stickii and Shae Shae

Hard Crackers Editors

|

In Part I of this conversation, we heard from Stickii and Shae Shae about their experiences with police growing up in Springfield, MA and what got them into the streets protesting from a young age. Now, ...

Roundtable Discussion II on the Anti-Police Brutality Insurgency

Hard Crackers Editors

|

Can a movement be built that relies upon different forms of action without being substantially limited by the political views that perhaps inform the least militant of the protestors?ย  Importantly, young people, frequently including teenagers, have ...

โ€œI experienced a lot of violent shit and never once did it cross my mind to call the policeโ€: A conversation with STiCKii and ShaeShae

Hard Crackers Editors

|

Having spent the last decade organizing against police violence and for queer youth of color in Springfield, MA, STiCKii and ShaeShae break down their thoughts on the protests against police violence. STiCKii: My dad was black ...

Evictions = Death

Zhandarka Kurti

|

Yesterday morning, two masked protestors dropped a banner from the roof of the New Orleans First City Court. It read: โ€œEvictions = Deathโ€ Locking arms and banging on pots and pans, protestors blocked people, some of ...