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Free Adrian Rucker
The following is a letter from 25-year-old Adrian Rucker, the young man arrested “in connection” to the June 5th killing of CPD officer Krystal Rivera, with minor grammatical edits. Rivera was shot from behind by her partner, Carlos Baker, a Chicago cop with a lengthy rap sheet of complaints against him, including multiple instances of […]
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High Desert LowDown April 2025: Rise Up We’re Worth It!
An Interview with a Resident from Loma Parda Anyone who lives in Taos knows the housing situation can be brutal: casitas for thousands of dollars a month, sheds with minimal amenities for almost as much, low income housing with poor conditions and authoritarian management practices, Air b&bs popping up and million dollar second homes being […]
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TAKE THE STREETS OR STAY ON THE SIDEWALK?
LESSONS FROM ANTI-ICE PROTESTS IN ORANGE COUNTY Dare to Struggle SoCal has been standing with the masses of mostly young Latinos to protest against the mass deportation machine. Along the way we have gained some lessons on how to intervene in the mass movement. We can’t just ride the wave of mass protest. For over […]
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OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: Bed Bugs at Friendship Service Center! 241 Arch St
Issue #6 March 2025 Due to threats of retaliation against residents by the shelter, we have left out specific details In February we were messaged by numerous residents at 241 Arch Street about bed bugs and that staff weren’t doing anything to address their complaints. Finally after numerous complaints and a group of people allegedly […]
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The Frontlines Issue #2 Feb 2025
Letter from the Editor: Privatization Is on the Doorstep at Riis Houses With an Illegitimate “Resident Vote,” NYCHA Moves on Privatization at Riis By: RANDY, DARE TO STRUGGLE When we talk to NYCHA residents about the government’s attempts to get rid of public housing, we hear a common reply: “They’ve been trying to do that […]
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Resisting ICE Beyond Social Media & “Know Your Rights”
The ugly and brutal mass deportations have begun. ICE agents under Trump have ramped up attacks on immigrants in homes, workplaces, and even schools. While the criminalization of the border and attacks on immigrants have been a bipartisan project, the current wave is unique in its celebration of cruelty and racist pageantry. In NYC, Department […]
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The Frontlines Issue #1 Jan 2025
Issue #1, Jan 2025 Letter from the Editor If you live in public housing, you’re all too familiar with inhumane conditions and ineffective repairs. NYCHA regularly ignores tickets and whenever they do “repairs,” the work is so poorly done that the problem soon returns. This neglect is deliberate—NYCHA lets repairs go unaddressed so they can […]
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OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: “What they did to us destroyed our life. They almost broke us.”
Issue #4 Dec 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative Walter and his wife came to New Britain in July of 2024 with their 4 kids in order to get away from what […]
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OPPRESSION IN THE STREETS: “They Either Want Me in a Mental Facility or Jail”
Issue #3 Dec 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative Repeatedly Brutalized and Stalked by the Pigs Marcin, a disabled homeless man in his 50s, has plenty of lived experienceto justify his distrust […]
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Oppression in the Streets: How New Britain’s shelters treat the Homeless
Issue #2 Nov 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative “Deal with it… do as you’re told…or get the fuck out” Many homeless and formerly homeless people we’ve talked to for the past […]
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