In my hometown thirty miles northeast of Detroit, there is a stretch of road that runs along the border of Selfridge Air National Guard Base, one of nearly 500 military bases found in the United States. Just past the fence on the base side of the road is a landing strip, and if you drove […]
Rebellion, Routinized
When the Kenosha verdict dropped in November 2021, the 2020 uprising in my city was still limping along. The actions were led by the same thirty or so people and attended by the same hundredish. The call to protest the verdict was shared widely on social media but the animating rage of summer 2020 had […]
Announcing Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: A Noel Ignatiev Reader
June 28th marks the release of the new book Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity! We are excited about this book, as it is a collection of writings by Hard Crackers founder and editor Noel Ignatiev. It spans essays from the mid sixties to his very last essay which he finished in October 2019, […]
Call Us If You Stop Breathing
I work as a freelance editor. I make sure that the answers on multiple choice tests for commercial drivers license exams are in the right order, things like that. This doesn’t pay a living wage. For the past several years, half my income has come from money the federal government allocated for dealing with the […]
Listen: I Want To Believe Author A.M. Gittlitz Live in Chicago
On Friday, May 27th, Hard Crackers editor Jarrod Shanahan hosted author and Antifada host A.M. Gittlitz for a lively discussion of the latter’s book I Want To Believe (Pluto Press, 2020) at Pilsen Community Books in Chicago, as part of Gittlitz’s #READTHEGREENBOOK Tour. I Want To Believe is a poetic exploration of the life and […]
How a Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police
During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smoke canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He then fired 33 shots from an automatic handgun at passengers. (According to one […]