Interview with Palmira Figueroa of National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON)
Hard Crackers reached out to NDLON after we had read, in a New York Times article, about the organizationโs involvement in the protests after the death of Roberto Carlos Montoya, a day laborer who had been waiting for work outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles. We interviewed Palmira Figueroa who is NDLONโs Communications Director. …
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Unbuild these Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
Interview with Silky Shah Silky Shah has been an immigrant justice organizer for over two decades. She is currently the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to abolish immigrant detention in the U.S. We met up recently in Chicago at the annual Socialism Conference. We were both on a panel with other …
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Flashpoints and Righteous Struggle: A Call for Submissions
Trumpโs One Big Beautiful Act, which ironically was passedย on July 4th, will provide billionsย of dollars in funding to ramp up the federal governmentโs wide-ranging military-style campaign against unarmed civilians across the country. Prior to the billโs passage, masked and armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were already raiding workplaces, ambushing individuals going …
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What Gets Passed Down
This piece tells a story of rural Southern Missouri through the forms of knowledge inherited when the state offers nothing: no direction, no infrastructure, no recognition. The author is from Douglas County, where his family still hunts and welds and buries its dead. Electricity came late. Broadband still hasnโt come at all. Seth comes from the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, a tribe erased not just by settler removal but by federal recognition itself.
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Since When Has Working Been a Crime?
This article by Dave Ranney was originally publishedย in Hard Crackers on February 4th. It is even more timely now. In the months since, Trump’s immigration police forces have stepped up their targeting of undocumented workers in workplaces. It is essential that we focus our efforts on building a broad working-class resistance to all attacks on workers, includingย those that are undocumented
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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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From the Archives
More from the Vault: A Brief Encounter with Orlando Pirates
The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here. ย I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, filming an elderly former soccer star kicking a ball with kids on a scrubby recreation ground, and if somebody …
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Indigenous Peoplesโ Day โ Isandlwana, The Mother of All Battles
This particular written project got percolating in my head when one of my co-editors, John Garvey, told me this. ย John recently asked his granddaughter whether she had Columbus Day off from school. ย She corrected him,ย โGrandpa itโs Indigenous Peoplesโ Day.โย ย Now that the script has been adjusted to fit the current politically self-righteous …
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