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Angela Davis on 60 years of solidarity with Palestinians.
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Hi everyone! We’re excited to introduce Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics & culture, co-created by
@KeeangaYamahtta
&
@JenParker393
. For those who care about the Black freedom struggle – the sign up is liveeeee!
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We are living through a revival of internationalism and another extended moment of mass protest. Even as we tire in the face of exhausting odds, a hulking imperial ship that refuses to acknowledge our power as it trembles, we must persist.
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Our first issue is live!
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“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
Happy Birthday, James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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Hammer & Hope is honored to publish Michelle Alexander in a preview of Issue No. 3.
“When Palestinian children in refugee camps are bombed and killed. When schools and hospitals and entire neighborhoods are laid waste. We must speak.”
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"How do we build solidarity within a culture of individualism, punishment, and accumulation? Drawing connections and showing up is where we should start and return to again and again."
Hammer and Hope Issue No. 2 out now at .
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“The Alabama Communists knew the odds of a socialist revolution in the Black Belt were damn near impossible, but they fought anyway. They understood that victory is never certain but if we don’t fight, we can only lose."
- Robin D. G. Kelley
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We hope this special edition on Palestine provides some measure of the history, politics, and solidarity needed to support any liberation movement in its quest for freedom. Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸
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From Angela Davis: "Of the many expressions of solidarity forwarded to me during my imprisonment...I can still remember how humbled I felt upon receiving a beautiful letter of solidarity signed by Palestinian political prisoners."
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"We see this, at its best, as an effort to develop, educate, organize a new generation of radicalized people.” -
@KeeangaYamahtta
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We needed a space to have conversations about Black radical politics, local struggles, and solidarity across borders, along with art and culture. So we made one. Check out our first issue:
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From our editors' note: "Intense anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and what the Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said described as “Orientalism” has underwritten the West’s perpetual wars, sieges, and onslaughts against the Middle East"
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Hammer & Hope is a new magazine of Black politics and culture with roots in radical political traditions.
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The tens of millions of people who took to the streets in 2020 deserve more spaces to debate how we get the change we want & shape national conversations about Black radical politics, everyday resistance, and solidarity across borders. We want to become their intellectual home.
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From Robin D. G. Kelley "one wonders...why it has taken so long for any country to ask the ICJ to investigate Israel for violating the Genocide Convention."
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From Arundhati Roy: "Today every bomb that is dropped by Israel on the civilian population, every tank, and every bullet has the United States’ name on it."
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We're HIRING!
Hammer & Hope is hiring a MANAGING EDITOR. If you or someone you know seems like a good fit, click the link below to apply asap!
@mvmtjournalism
@WritersofColor
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Please support a cop city activist being attacked by the state!
The RICO charges will not stick, but I still need to pay rent, electricity, & food.
I do not know if my charges have affected my hireability, but this is one of the longest stretches I have been w/out a job.
Please consider a tshirt to help me & the kid
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This project wouldn't be possible without the friendship, support, and scholarship of THEE Robin D.G. Kelley. There is no Hammer and Hope without Hammer and Hoe.
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Along with Hammer & Hope,
@newinquiry
,
@pinkomagazine
, and other institutions have also recently committed to the campaign, which is a boycott of complicit Israeli cultural and academic institutions not a blanket boycott of individuals. Learn more at .
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In our first issue (coming soon), you'll learn how
@KCTenants
shut down eviction court; hear from
@DreamDefenders
on lessons learned from the 2020 protests; read
@MonifaBandele
&
@Lumumbabandele
on the movement to release political prisoners; & more!
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The mag will be free to read online when we launch next year. Questions, comments, or tips? hello
@hammerandhope
.org.
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"You can protest your way to making an issue politically important, but there’s still the question of who decides what the issue’s importance means and what systemic responses are going to fly. That’s the stage when organization matters."
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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We believe information is the raw material for new ideas. Our first issue contains a range of stories that explore ideas that bring us closer to a world we deserve.
Here’s what you can expect:
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“Racial capitalism is best understood as a way racism and capitalism work in history and in the present — and how the world as a whole is formed from a specific area of colonialism built off the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”
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Nearly 80% of the money that Salt Lake City spent on what it called efforts to “restore public safety” & help “individuals seeking supportive services” was actually spent on arresting & jailing people.
And this is happening in cities across the country:
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“Disability, illness, mental illness, madness—accepting them, embracing them, and building a society that supports and allows all of those people, and anyone who identifies as those things, to flourish: that’s liberation.”
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@Hass_Haaretz
From
@dereckapurnell
"Perhaps the question is not whether King would stand on the side of Israelis or Palestinians today, but rather how can we answer these questions in a way that inspires us to act?"
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From Noor Swirki: "It’s a tragedy to be a displaced woman. You don’t have your own privacy. You don’t have your own health routine. You don’t have your own pads, because we have this shortage of pads for our cycle, & we don’t have access for some hygiene."
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“The Alabama Communists knew the odds of a socialist revolution in the Black Belt were damn near impossible, but they fought anyway. They understood that victory is never certain but if we don’t fight, we can only lose.”
- Robin D.G. Kelley
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"We need more than protests and temporary uprisings. We must further develop our organizations into social institutions capable of creating new relations in every domain of our lives here and now."
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"The day after Valentine’s Day, smack dab in the middle of Black History Month, Hammer & Hope offered the Internet a love song to Black people the world over."
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Some amazing ppl on our arts & ideas squad →
@astradisastra
,
@dereckapurnell
,
@JHensonScales
, Jim Plank of
@haymarketbooks
,
@jonkey13
,
@NiaToniTone
,
@OlufemiOTaiwo
,
@orangebegum
& Ryan Walker
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@Hass_Haaretz
"on Oct. 7 when many hundreds of Hamas militants & an unknown number of Palestinian civilians tore down the walls of the largest prison on earth...In the annals of national liberation struggles, this could certainly be seen as an achievement"
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Abolish all jails and prisons.
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“We making history today, baby! We not playing!”
striking and looking fly. we see you, Danny!
Danny was off today. But he came to greet second shift workers at the Toledo Assembly plant dressed to the nines because he wanted to be spiffy for the historic
#StandUp
strike.
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We’ll feature original work by incredible photographers, poets, & artists, including cover art by
@joyyamusangie
and a photograph from
@WEEMSCarrie
!!
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From
@HadasThier
"At least 5,425 protests in support of Palestine took place in every state in the country from Oct 7. to Feb. 29, according to the Crowd Counting Consortium."
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“We must reject the premise that a person should lose their home because they can’t pay for it. Eviction is a tool invented and deployed by the state to protect private interests, namely capital, over public needs....Every eviction is an act of violence”
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From
@estherbrooklyn
"tens of thousands of American Jews have helped unleash a global explosion of protest. The Palestinian American political historian Rashid Khalidi described it to me as "a new phase in an alliance of progressive groups in the U.S.""
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In Florida, students are fighting back against a hostile takeover by conservatives, particularly, Ron Desantis.
Erik Wallenberg talks organizing, Desantis, and educational freedom with Black Student Union Vice President, Devyn Rolls, in Issue No. 2.
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"I can still remember how humbled I felt upon receiving a beautiful letter of solidarity signed by Palestinian political prisoners." -- Angela Davis
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Five college students from Palestine solidarity groups: "When Palestinian workers say, We need everyone to go on a global strike next Monday. Don’t show up to your jobs, disrupt regular business because we are suffering here on the ground, we comply."
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@Hass_Haaretz
@dereckapurnell
From Hala Alyan: "My daughter dreamt of lions and the army came within a week.
Have you seen a city go dead as jade? Our houses grew dust."
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Hammer & Hope stands in solidarity with Palestine and oppressed people everywhere: from Gaza to Haiti, Durban to Bahia, and Kansas City to Atlanta. Follow
@USCPR_
and
@palyouthmvmt
to join the movement!
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From Brazil to South Africa and across the United States, Issue No. 2, takes us throughout parts of the diaspora to discuss Black culture and politics. Check out our table of contents and see what we've been cooking up for you.
Read Issue No. 2 here:
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Our cover art from Issue No. 1 is a collage called “Meeting the Day” by Paula Wilson.
“It aims to visualize Hammer & Hope’s mission to create an intellectual space to debate, cultivate, and spread ideas,” she says.
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From
@4noura
&
@nickikattoura
"Any one way that you capture "being Palestinian" reduces us and takes away our complexity and texture. But at my core, what it means to be Palestinian is disruption."
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When cis women attack trans rights, guess who wins? (Hint: Fascists)
@ChaseStrangio
makes the case for solidarity between cis women and trans folk.
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From
@dcli
"boomer Zionism’s most formidable obstacle has arguably been Black internationalism."
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as new york city experiences the consequences of divestment from public infrastructure and our growing climate crisis, organizers give us hope that things can change.
@OlufemiOTaiwo
@SusanLKang
@TizOnly1
@breadpipeline
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From Michelle Alexander: As James Baldwin wrote to Angela Davis more than 50 years ago when she sat in a jail cell, “For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”
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"Splintering social realities among Black people undermine any assumptions that political solidarity is innate. Nor does a politician’s racial identity give them an ability to solve long-standing economic crises in a skewed social order."
@KeeangaYamahtta
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“We need strategic, disruptive, direct action,” says
@DereckaPurnell
, in conversation with
@KeeangaYamahtta
and
@OlufemiOTaiwo
.
They consider the afterlives of the 2020 uprisings, the criminalization of Black movements & the value of organized resistance.
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"Hammer & Hope takes it as a given that anti-Black discrimination still exists in America and concentrates on what should be done to address it"
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@4noura
@nickikattoura
From
@ZinnEdProject
"the continuation of the present American violence in Vietnam is one of the cruelest acts of an age which is marked by its cruelty."
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A huge thank you to our amazing comrades and colleagues for their work on this issue
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From
@radhikasainath
&
@mozaknab
"The repression has the capacity to backfire miserably, especially on younger generations that have very little to lose in terms of their futures. You’re threatening a population saddled w debt."
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"The most bewildering conundrum of our times is that all over the world people seem to be voting to disempower themselves." -- Arundhati Roy
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“Our ultimate goal isn’t to understand the origins of a term or even its lineage, but to understand the workings of a world we are trying to change.”
@OlufemiOTaiwo
on the meaning of “racial capitalism”
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“None of this is inevitable, not if we organize.”
@KCTenants
on the revolutionary potential of direct action to stop evictions.
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"It’s not a coincidence that the same people in Florida that are attacking Black studies and Black history are also attacking trans rights. We think that the politics of solidarity are incredibly important, and we want the magazine to reflect that."
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"Zionism is the cause that happens to most powerfully unite liberals and the right in open expression of racist warmongering." --
@dcli
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“Racial capitalism offers us a clue: If it is true that racism and capitalism are in a mutually supporting relationship, then we should expect that any potentially effective anti-racist and anti-capitalist struggles will also be mutually supporting.”
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"At work, let’s fight for strong workers’ movements — not only unions — that recognize and build upon the shared interests of a multiracial working class."
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The first issue of Hammer & Hope wouldn’t exist without our team. We are so grateful.
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"Our country has lost its moral compass. The most heinous crimes, the most horrible declarations calling for genocide and ethnic cleansing, are greeted with applause and political reward."
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In our first issue,
@KCTenants
wrote an incredible essay about the work they’ve done and their vision for our future.
check it out:
NEW: National rent control is closer than you think.
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments.
But Greystar, Blackstone, & AvalonBay are spending millions to block it.
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Incredible.
Free them all!
Breaking News: Political Prisoner Ruchell Magee is free after 67 years of wrongful imprisonment. Magee was part of an escape attempt by Jonathan Jackson, to free his brother George Jackson. Free Em All
@BlackPowerMedi1
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“Trans people are all too often posited as a distraction from cis women’s fights for justice. But that counterfactual narrative frame risks ceding power to fascists who exploit our internal divisions to consolidate control over all of our bodies.”
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"Trans people understand what it means to navigate health institutions that pathologize and criminalize before they protect and heal. And because of this, we know first-hand how to self-administer and monitor treatment."
@chasestrangio
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A few pieces from Issue No. 2 to better understand what’s happening in Atlanta and what could be coming to your city.
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"Rather than investigate Tortuguita’s killing or reassess their approach to opponents of Cop City, law enforcement has continued to detain dozens of protesters."
@RashidaTlaib
and
@CoriBush
for
@thenation
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"The streets of our country, which once was a true friend of colonized people, a true friend of Palestine, which once would have seen millions marching, too, are silent today." -- Arundhati Roy
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🚨🚨All eyes on Atlanta. 🚨🚨
Right now righteous comrades have issued the people’s injunction! Bulldozers have been made to stop! CopCityWillNeverBuilt
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Big shout out to our editorial team
@astradisastra
@dereckapurnell
@JenParker393
@KeeangaYamahtta
@OlufemiOTaiwo
@Waldemar1835
@saladfan
for the ideas, connections, pieces, and editing!
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Finally. Welcome home, BG.
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"This is the story of how, in the midst of a pandemic, an organized group of tenants created our own inevitability in Kansas City. Not through magic, but by taking extraordinary risks and by having one another's backs."
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Tonight, we’re at
@greenlightbklyn
for a launch event to celebrate the publication of RADICAL ACTS OF JUSTICE: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration, with author
@j_simonson
in conversation with
@orangebegum
!
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In 2022, an investigation revealed that 91 percent of a Utah state fund, then nearing $10 million, that distributes grants to cities with homeless shelters was spent on law enforcement.
The police are being weaponized against the most vulnerable.
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"I don’t know how old I was when I first picked up “Tar Beach,” but I know it made me feel free. It made the impossible feel tangible, and ordinary life magical."
@niatonitone
on Faith Ringgold and the radical imaginations of children
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"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
NYTimes Editorial Board on Martin Luther King's opposition to the Vietnam War: "The moral issues in Vietnam are less clear-cut than he suggests; the political strategy of uniting the peace movement and the civil rights movement could very well be disastrous for both causes."
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between the incredible organizing happening in Atlanta to
#StopCopCity
and workers across the country organizing + unionizing..we should all be feeling pretty damn inspired.
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Incredible.
Learn more about the Landless Workers’ Movement here,
While the US sends bombs to Israel to kill Palestinians, the Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil is sending two tons of food to Gaza.
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join
@Dreamdefenders
and
@HammerandHope
this saturday after
@socialismconf
for libations and lobster rolls!
beat us there, you don’t want to miss it!
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!!!!! Thank you
@NaomiAKlein
! 🙏🏾 "It has a bold aesthetic – the artwork is tremendous – and a really rigorous intellectual approach. It embraces debate and deep discourse, but it’s very accessible."
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“The splintering social realities among Black people undermine any assumptions that political solidarity is innate. Nor does a politician’s racial identity give them an ability to solve long-standing economic crises in a skewed social order.”
you were in your bag with this one!
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“Victory or defeat will be measured not merely in stopping Cop City but in the volume of of new organizers who stick with organizing.
I believe our copy city will never be built. But if it is, this is how you should fail.”
-
@MariahforAthens
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"When schools and hospitals and entire neighborhoods are laid waste. We must speak. When international law is treated like a naïve suggestion, we must speak."
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In Brazil, the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) is occupying unproductive land and abandoned buildings. Read more about their work and others who are taking land back for their communities from Bahia to Oakland in this roundtable from Issue No. 2.
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Just gonna drop this right here for some nice weekend reading:
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Donate for the forest defenders, for the hundreds of Atlantans who gathered last wknd in the Weelaunee Forest to dance, sing, eat, and be together, for everyone resisting police terror and militarism. For Tortuguita.
#StopCopCity
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Update: we're a little over a month out from dropping our inaugural issue (!!!) so we’re going to wind down on here until then.
Hi everyone! We’re excited to introduce Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics & culture, co-created by
@KeeangaYamahtta
&
@JenParker393
. For those who care about the Black freedom struggle – the sign up is liveeeee!
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"We, lawyers and the public, have to understand that litigation is not the most radical intervention we all can make; it’s just a very specific role for some lawyers to protect what we already have."
@dereckapurnell
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