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Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why. The union’s daily presence tries to give the city’s most vulnerable immigrant workers a measure of safety and gum up Trump’s deportation machine.

“If I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die protecting my people,” said Jorge, a former day laborer. “I’ve got blood family, but these are my people, too. These are my neighbors.” h/t @hammerandhope.bsky.social

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A Free Black Woman, a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the Battle Over U.S. History How Charlottesville’s memorial landscape can help us understand — and combat — the White House’s violent plans to reshape the nation’s public spaces.

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The Long Aftermath of the Mass Cheating Trial in Atlanta Public Schools In the wake of prison time, school closures, and extraordinary prosecutorial overreach, educators and activists are trying to reclaim their public schools.

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Military Coups and the Struggle for Power in Africa’s Sahel Region A political scientist looks at turmoil in his native Niger, as well as Burkina Faso and Mali.

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This Labor Leader Is Still Organizing After ICE Detention, But From Mexico Alfredo “Lelo” Suarez, a farmworker union organizer from Washington State, decided to return to his family’s village in Guerrero, where he continues the fight across the border.

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Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers? Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

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Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy Federal agents have long harassed immigrants and Black and brown people in cities, but something dangerous is changing behind the scenes.

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Props for Vibe Magazine’s “Props” Column The recurring feature was a bold curatorial endeavor that gave critics of color the freedom to articulate and archive culture on their terms.

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The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.

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We Palestinians Exist Somewhere Between Fear and Faith in the Holy Land Our faith — in Allah, the land, our own strength — is beyond the reach of Israeli settlers and soldiers.

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The Actor André Holland Paves His Own Path Since his breakout role in “Moonlight,” the performer has made compelling moves driven by a desire not only to make meaningful art but also to be seen.

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Zohran Got New Yorkers to Hope. What’s the Plan to Deliver? Organizers who brought him to the verge of victory are looking ahead to the challenges of democratic governance.

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The Reaction to the “Untitled” Video Changed D’Angelo. His Reaction Changed Me. The framework for Black men to be candid about body-based vulnerabilities had many architects. He was one of them.

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Trump Escalates Tyranny in Chicago Having a common enemy sometimes unifies people, whether an unhoused Venezuelan migrant in Bronzeville or a mother in a South Shore apartment.

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Immigration Raids at This Home Depot Got More Aggressive but Less Effective. The LA Tenants Union Knows Why. The union’s daily presence tries to give the city’s most vulnerable immigrant workers a measure of safety and gum up Trump’s deportation machine.

@city.bsky.social
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Our National Nightmare What’s the way out of the terrors of Trumpism?

The eighth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live.

OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE. The reins of government power, technology, and the press tighten and tangle in a few white billionaires’ hands. Where is this American cabal going next, and how deep will it drag us with it?
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Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers? Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

This is good, and everyone should read it, inside or out of New York, because its lessons are going to be relevant for socialist candidates and campaigns in any part of the country.

Written by someone i admire so much, Maya Meredith- her debut in @hammerandhope.bsky.social!!

Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers? Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

Great story from @hammerandhope.bsky.social on how Black organizers noticed gaps in the Zohran campaign's strategy for reaching Black voters—and then set out to do something about it by canvassing in Black neighborhoods, hosting their own outreach events, and more. hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers? Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

NEW ISSUE PREVIEW 🚨Mamdani’s evolving relationship with Black NYers sheds light on a critical question for any left project in the U.S.: How do you build trust with Black voters to earn their support? - Maya Meredith, a leader in the NYC chapter of the @demsocialists.bsky.social @afrosoc.bsky.social

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out

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Solidarity Against Sadism Naomi Klein Chenjerai Kumanyika Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Astra Taylor An Emergency Town Hall Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00 pm ET Sponsored by Haymarket Books and Hammer & Hope

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

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Hammer & Hope Teach-In: The Life and Work of Assata Shakur Please use this form to RSVP! If you have any questions, contact assistant@hammerandhope.org. Location: Gladys Books & Wine | Bed Stuy, 306 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11233 Date: Monday, Oct. 13, T...

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