HARD CRACKERS

On this week’s episode of WBAI radio’s Deadline NYC, our editors John Garvey and Mike Morgan sat down with veteran journalist Tom Robbins for a discussion of their early political development and the Hard Crackers project. The episode can be heard here. (Note: the Deadline segment begins after the 1:00 mark.) Thanks to Tom and […]

Hard Crackers has reached out to a South African independent social justice publication called New Frame Magazine.  New Frame describes itself as such:  We are dedicated to a pro-poor, pro-working class focus that aims to report faithfully and informatively about the lives and struggles of working class people, the marginalized and unemployed, shack-dwellers and migrants. […]

Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection.  I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing site—consisting of a dozen trailers in what had been an empty lot.  This was right before Thanksgiving and the line […]

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 […]

54-46 was Toots Hibbert’s prison number.  He sang it out loud on the electrifying track 54-46 That’s My Number (1969), one of a crop of tunes that made Toots and the Maytals a household name on the island of Jamaica and soon thereafter in a lot of other places too.  Toots Hibbert, the reggae singer, […]

There have been a number of reviews written about Aaron Sorkin’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 War movement who came to Chicago in 1968 to protest both the Democratic Party’s nomination of “New Deal liberal” […]