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How A Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police

May 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

[originally published in Hard Crackers] John Garvey — May 22, 2022 During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smoke canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He then fired 33 shots from […]

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A Matter of Life and Death: Winning the Fight for Vaccines

May 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

John Garvey — February 7, 2022 [Originally published in Hard Crackers}. It seems increasingly likely that a real end to the COVID pandemic will require all but universal vaccination.[1] There are three challenges that need to be met: The development of much more effective strategies to work with those individuals who continue to hesitate about getting vaccinated. The […]

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War is hell! Peace is better?

September 29, 2021 Leave a Comment

If we want to stop the war, we’ll have to end the peace! As probably just about everyone here today knows, everyday life in peacetime is deadly for people all over the world.  Many people die but many more survive for living deaths — lives without hopes or dreams. There’s a connection between the deaths […]

Filed Under: Race Traitor, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2003 War on Iraq

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About

I have been a political activist for more than fifty years.  Soon after college, I began driving a taxi in New York City and became an active member of the Taxi Rank and File Coalition.  That experience profoundly shaped my views and I remain friends with many of my taxi comrades.

In 1978, I stopped driving and entered into education work–which I then did for more than thirty years–almost all of it at the City University of New York.  That also profoundly shaped my views.

At the same time, I continued my political activities–most importantly as an editor of Race Traitor, an editor of Insurgent Notes and part of the editorial group of Hard Crackers.

The writings collected here reflect all those experiences.  My intention is to regularly post new things that I’ve written.

However you found your way here, I hope that you find something of value.  I would really like hearing from you about your thoughts and reactions. Write me here.

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