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Hard Crackers

Against the Middle

June 22, 2021 No Comments

This article was published as one of two stories about Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl Ad. The other was written by Mike Morgan. There’s a chapel in KansasStanding on the exact center of the lower forty-eight.It never closes.All are more than welcomeTo come meet here, in the middle.It’s no secret the

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O Brooklyn, My Brooklyn

June 22, 2021 No Comments

This article was just published in Hard Crackers #8 (Summer 2021) with a companion article by Mike Morgan. I once heard that 1 out of  every 12 people in the United States had been born in Brooklyn.  I am one of those.  I am at the terrible disadvantage of writing

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After Memorial Day

June 22, 2021 No Comments

Once when I was a kid, my father took me to a Memorial Day Parade in Manhattan.  I had no idea why he decided to do so.  I remember feeling uncomfortable during the parade and wondered if he was trying to tell me something.  He had been in the Navy

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It’s up to us not to heed the call-up

June 22, 2021 No Comments

This article was written as a companion piece to an article by Mike Morgan under the shared title of “Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory.“ In 1980, the great English punk band, The Clash, recorded a powerful anti-war song titled “The Call-up.”  While the call-up initially refers to the drafting

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Vaccine Miseries

June 22, 2021 No Comments

This article was originally published in January of 2021. It all seemed so very hopeful when the cable channels were breathlessly reporting on the initial shipments of the Pfizer vaccine in the middle of December.  Remember the reports of the big UPS and FedEx trucks pulling away from the Pfizer

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They Lost My COVID Test

June 22, 2021 No Comments

This article was originally published in December of 2020. Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection.  I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing site—consisting of a dozen trailers in

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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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