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

Jarrod Shanahan

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Late last year, Chicagoโ€™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 workersโ€™ side of the story.ย 

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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 donโ€™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 โ€“ with Don Hamerquist & Janeen Porter

Mike Morgan

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

โ€œTogether, We Can Create the World We Want to Seeโ€: 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 ...

Maoโ€™s Children

Avery D'Agostino

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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

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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, ...

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

David Ranney

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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 ...
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