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Middle of the Road

Mike Morgan

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โ€œThe middle of the road is no private cul-de-sac I canโ€™t get from the cab to the curb Without some little jerk on my backโ€ Middle of the Road – The Pretenders During the Ariel Sharon ...

Today We Mourn

Abahlali baseMjondolo

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Hard Crackers is pleased to publish this recent message from Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa.ย  The message was released on the anniversary of the Soweto Revolt in 1976.ย  We thought it would ...

“Preserving Our Capacity to Act:” An Interview with Kristian Williams

Hard Crackers Editors

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Hard Crackers:ย  If I understand correctly the argument you’ve made about the efficacy of riots, it’s that they impose, far more effectively than legal limits, that communities can place new limits on police brutality. That seems ...

โ€œAn Injury to One is an Injury to Allโ€ A Minneapolis Bus Driver on Solidarity with Minneapolis Protestersย 

Hard Crackers Editors

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Adam is a bus driver in Minneapolis and a member of ATU Local 1005 and Socialist Alternative MN. In the midst of the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, he made the decision to refuse police officersโ€™ request ...

Southern Solidarity: Mutual Aid in New Orleans Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Hard Crackers Editors

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Recently we had a chance to talk with Jasmine from Southern Solidarity, a mutual aid collective distributing food and supplies to the unhoused people of New Orleans. The COVID-19 death rate in the crescent city is ...

Stick-up on Rikers Island

David Campbell

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It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with wives, children, friends, and lawyers, the lines all went dead. This was March 22nd. Visits had been suspended a week prior, ...

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Agenda for a New Generation

JF

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The COVID-19 crisis is the most calamitous global event any living person can recall. Millions of cases worldwide have claimed over 150,000 lives as epidemiologists predict far more mayhem before the virus is under control. The ...

On Organizing the Grunts: COVID-19, the Sailors and Some Other World History

Mike Morgan

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I donโ€™t mean to sound old school here.ย  When General Giap, a commander of the Vietnam Peoplesโ€™ Army, wrote in his memoir about the conditions that allowed a victory over the almighty US armed forces in ...

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โ€œYouโ€™re Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Overโ€: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union

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HC: Tell us what you do for work.ย  Iโ€™m a fast food worker. I work mostly the grill at a fast food place at the Portland Airport–a company called Burgerville. I also do a shit ton ...

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Interview with Matt Peterson of Woodbine

John Garvey

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ย  ย  ย What is Woodbine? Woodbine is a common, autonomous, experimental space in Ridgewood, Queens, opened up by a group of friends in the beginning of 2014. The idea behind it was to open up an ...

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