(One source, who asked to be identified as “Bill” for this story, was part of the Occupy Movement for only its last night in the streets of America. He’d been occupying the […]
Life and Death at The Wall: Homelessness, Poverty, Grief, & Love with Howie and Carmel (Part Two)
(In the second part of their oral history with Hard Times Review, Howie and Carmel continue the story of the past few years of their life together. We discuss loss, grief, suffering, […]
“The Wall”: An Oral History of Homelessness, Poverty, Grief & Love with Howie & Carmel (Part One)
(This week, Howie and Carmel discuss what they endured together over the past few years in an oral history with Hard Times Review. We discuss the loss, grief, stress, suffering, and love […]
Author and Sociologist R.J. Maratea Discusses Lethal Injection and the Future of the Death Penalty: An American History of Institutionalized Racism
(In the final part of an interview on institutionalized racism in mass incarceration and the death penalty, author and sociologist R.J. Maratea discusses the future of the death penalty, the new Supreme […]
Occupy History: Adventures in Rebellion in Life After the Movement
(In a third part of his Occupy History with HTR, Alex Carvalho reflects on the end of Occupy Wall Street, where the Movement and the country went after the eviction of protesters […]
Occupy History: Taking Magic Mountain, with Alex Carvalho
(In another Occupy History with Hard Times Review, Alex Carvalho, a doctor now living with his wife and children in Chicago, reflects on some of his favorite direct actions of Occupy Wall […]
Occupy History: Taking Liberty Square, First Days of the Movement (Part One) with Alex Carvalho
(Alex Carvalho is a doctor living in Chicago. He was 28 when Occupy Wall Street started in New York City in September 2011. He participated almost every day until protesters were violently […]
Author & Sociologist R.J. Maratea Discusses the Supreme Court Ruling in McCleskey V. Kemp: An American History of Institutional Racism (Part Two)
(In the second part of a conversation with Hard Times Review on institutionalized racism in mass incarceration and the death penalty in America’s war against poor people, author and sociologist R.J. Maratea […]
An Occupy History Postscript on Climate Change, with Matthew from @StopMotionsolo: Strike.
(Following an interview in HTR’s Occupy History series earlier this week with photo/video journalist Matthew from @StopMotionsolo, who participated in the occupation of Liberty Square in New York City from the early […]
Author and Sociologist R.J. Maratea Discusses the Life and Death of Warren McCleskey: An American History of Institutional Racism (Part One)
(The ongoing history of the American Prison-Industrial-Complex and capital punishment are not fully told without an understanding of their design and function as State weapons in the war against poor people and […]