Hard Crackers - Chronicles of Everyday Life
Online journal committed to documenting and examining the everyday life of the working class.| Hard Crackers
Online journal committed to documenting and examining the everyday life of the working class.| Hard Crackers
It’s a quiet afternoon at work, but I’m worn out from not sleeping well and decide to head home early. The regional rail is all messed up right now, so I take two subways and then walk a few blocks to…| Hard Crackers
We came together on a playing field beside a derelict Olympic size open air swimming pool built by the local miners. We are in the small mining town of Breza, about half an hour’s drive from the…| Hard Crackers
Hard Crackers reached out to NDLON after we had read, in a New York Times article, about the organization’s involvement in the protests after the death of Roberto Carlos Montoya, a day laborer who had…| Hard Crackers
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| Hard Crackers
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Act, which ironically was passed on July 4th, will provide billions of dollars in funding to ramp up the federal government’s wide-ranging military-style campaign against…| Hard Crackers
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 hasn’t 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.| Hard Crackers
This article by Dave Ranney was originally published 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…| Hard Crackers
Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.| Hard Crackers
This article was written in the days immediately following June 6th. The author was not able to participate in the street movement due to geographical distance from Los Angeles. ConquestIn August of 1846, US troops under Stephen Kearney occupied Santa Fe without firing a shot. In January of 1847, a combined force of Hispano and| Hard Crackers
A key drama at the heart of all our personal origin stories is the saga of how our parents met. I’ve known the basics of this piece of my family history as long as I can remember. My mom and dad met, so the story went, when they were paired as dance partners performing in| Hard Crackers
What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha.| Hard Crackers
