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Protest & Resistance


Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal

Jarrod Shanahan

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This piece was originally published on November 29, 2020 and is one of a series of Trump-related articles we're republishing. On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trump’s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry “Stop the Steal!” The “steal” in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party theft of the November presidential election, chronicled in a convoluted conspiracy theory that one conservative federal judge recently compared to “Frankenstein’s Monster,” as it is “haphazardly stitched together.”

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 ...

Treason to Zionism is Loyalty to Humanity

John Garvey

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In this essay, I’m going to argue that the continuing opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza should be centrally grounded in a determined opposition to the whole Zionist project. No sympathies for any variant of Zionism ...

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 ...

Why I burned the Mediatheque…

Heitor O'Dwyer de Macedo

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Introduction On June 27, 2023, 17 year old Nahel Merzouk was driving a car in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, when two motorcycle cops stopped him. One of the passengers said that an officer threatened Nahel, ...

Abortion Struggles Beyond Voting: Women’s Liberation, Reproductive Care, and Dual Power

Spencer Beswick

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At recent pro-choice demonstrations, we have been told that the only way to protect abortion is to vote for Democrats in November. Yet the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade under a Democratic president, house, and ...

Demand What You Really Want! An Interview with Jenny Brown

Hard Crackers Editors

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Jenny Brown is an organizer with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the ...

We Were Keeping the Clinic Doors Open With Our Bodies: Interview with Sunny Chapman

Hard Crackers Editors

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Sunny Chapman is a longtime activist and artist. In the 1980s and 1990s she participated in abortion clinic defense struggles by escorting women to clinics and videotaping the activities of anti-abortion activists. In this interview, she ...