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  •  | The Horror of Police | MR Online

    “The Monster is Actually the Police”: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann

    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on September 11, 2022 by HC Editor (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) (Posted Sep 20, 2022)

    We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing in the United States.

  •  | Breaking the Law Does Not Always Have to Be Scary | MR Online

    Breaking the law does not always have to be scary

    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on August 14, 2022 by Camille Rudney (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) (Posted Aug 17, 2022)

    There is a benefit into channeling people to get involved in mutual aid and to help people get abortions in states where it is illegal and to get ready to help trans kids get access to healthcare where it becomes illegal.

  •  | Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue | MR Online

    Clinic defense in the era of Operation Rescue

    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on July 28, 2022 by Suzy Subways (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) (Posted Aug 03, 2022)

    In the early ’90s, anarchists and other feminists defended clinics with our bodies and taught each other how to do abortion techniques such as menstrual extraction safely.

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    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on January 1, 2022 by Jonah Raskin (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) (Posted Jan 19, 2022)

    The San Francisco Bay Area loves cooperatives, aka coops, which were invented in 1844 when the Rochdale Pioneers in Lancashire, England banded together to help themselves and their community.

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    Property: Is it theft? Is it freedom or is it both? Merry Christmas!

    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on December 9, 2021 by Jonah Raskin (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life) (Posted Dec 21, 2021)

    Not long after Thanksgiving this year, I went to San Francisco’s Japantown (“Jtown” to locals). Surrounded by commodities for sale and in a high rent district I was reminded of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous remark, “La propriété, c’est le vol!, which is usually translated as “Property is theft.”

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    Bagels, grapes and marijuana: a day in the country

    Originally published: Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life on October 18, 2021 (more by Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life)

    The bagels at Homegrown are some of the best in northern California, in part because the owner, Stuart Teitelbaum, who was born and raised in Manhattan on the Lower East Side, and grew up eating bagels and bialys.

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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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