by Noel Ignatiev A 1983 film, WarGames, opens with an American pilot in the cockpit getting an order to launch a missile strike in retaliation for a Soviet attack on the U.S. Instead of carrying out the order, he refuses. We soon learn that there has been no Soviet missile attack, and that the report […]
Tenants in Huntsville, Alabama
Responses from a “Look Out For One Another” list post in Huntsville, Alabama, where a tenant posted pix of rotten conditions such as exposed wires at a nearby apartment complex: “Everyone who has ever lived there should start callling the health department and the city and make complaints. Don’t let them get away with how […]
The Autonomous Unemployed in the Netherlands
by Curtis Price In the late 1980s, the Netherlands, like many European countries, was faced with long-term unemployment. Concern arose among Dutch policy makers that changing conditions were creating a U.S. style “underclass”: a mass of permanently unemployed dependent on state benefits, no longer able to re-integrate into the labor market, and forming pockets […]
ERUPTIONS AT MASSART
By Noel Ignatiev The following is the individual work of the writer (who happens to be the editor of Hard Crackers); it has not been submitted for approval to the editorial board and does not necessarily represent the views of the other editors. The Massachusetts College of Art and Design is currently undergoing turmoil, highlighted […]
Something Lost? Something Gained?
by John Garvey The New York Times recently published a profile of Saul Chandler, a seventy-year old man who now spends most of his time on a boat docked at City Island, a small sliver of land off the east coast of the Bronx. Apparently, he’s a bit of a local legend on an island […]
An excerpt from ‘If He Hollers Let Him Go,’ by Chester Himes, 1945
posted by James Murray “…but as far as the problem of the Negro industrial worker is concerned, I feel that it is not so much racial as it is the problem of the masses. As soon as the masses, including all our minority groups have achieved economic security, racial problems will reach a solution […]