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An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education
Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.
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Dancing for FDR: How My Father Met My Mother (and Vice Versa)
A key drama at the heart of all our personal origin stories is the saga of how our parents met. Iโve known the basics of this piece of my family history as long as I can ...
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Reading Pan-African Revolt
โI mean, weโre talking about the last twenty years. Thatโs most of our lives. Maybe even all of yours!โ Tentative silence. Itโs always hard to gauge how this kind of direct appeal will go over. Then ...
Property: Is it Theft? Is it Freedom or Is it Both? Merry Christmas!
Not long after Thanksgiving this year, I went to San Franciscoโs Japantown (โJtownโ to locals). Surrounded by commodities for sale and in a high rent district I was reminded of Pierre-Joseph Proudhonโs famous remark, โLa propriรฉtรฉ, ...
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From the Vault
The Hard Crackers project is just over five years old.ย During that time, we have published almost a hundred articles in nine issues of our print journal and posted more than 350 articles on our web ...
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Plunder, Passage, Prison: Three Border Stories
Plunder โNo nos toca;โ basically, โitโs not our problem.โ Thatโs what the municipal police officer told community members of Cruztรณn after paramilitaries ambushed a group of land defenders and assassinated Rodrigo Guadalupe Huรฉt Gรณmez, a father, ...
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Fanon, Floyd, and Me
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It is one thing to hold a sign that says โabolish the police;โ it is another to burn the 3rd Precinct down. As a non-Black arrivant Muslim, I was inserted into a field of politics I ...
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Embalming the Haymarket Martyrs
Chicago in the 1880s was a deadly place. In an era before modern medicine or sanitation, the large immigrant populations sustained themselves by working the most dangerous jobs. Workplace accidents were exceedingly common, and death at ...
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Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory – Two Short Essays
More Confusion โ No Wonder! By Mike Morgan If there was a board game in which the winner would reveal the official historic and current U.S. position towards most of the Far East peoples and their ...
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โThe Trial of the Chicago Sevenโ: A Review
There have been a number of reviews written about Aaron Sorkinโs 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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