Thank you! ❤️ @sevier.io

Movement media is a key tool to fight fascism. In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️ mailchi.mp/truthout.org...

read @nanjala.bsky.social's @hammerandhope.bsky.social article here: hammerandhope.org/article/keny...

"Every single person who has died during these cycles of actions and reprisals — around 140 people in large protests –– has been killed by the police." - @nanjala.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social

Rachel’s piece in @hammerandhope.bsky.social is a great start: hammerandhope.org/article/fasc... (2/6)

I would like to make another pitch that you support @hammerandhope.bsky.social by donating and becoming a member. They provide ESSENTIAL analysis to help us better understand the moment we are in. I am a donor/member: hammerandhope.org/membership

Thanks to the nudge from @prisonculture.bsky.social, I am now a supporting member of @hammerandhope.bsky.social. Won't you join me in furthering their (and our) work to make a better world? hammerandhope.org/membership

Excited to read [email protected] wrote about this excellent @hammerandhope.bsky.social article in the NYT, amplifying its message from @itsmccarthy.bsky.social and folks are spontaneously telling me about both. hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

During the Great Depression, these 7 Black wet nurses staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination. This is what a labor movement looks like. #LaborDay @hammerandhope.bsky.social

In the latest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social, we interviewed some of the figures behind this campaign and asked them about the media strategy they're using here: clearly one to watch for people trying to make sense of politics in 21st century information environments

Thank you so much @triplingual.bsky.social!

"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.

Love to see that @jamellebouie.net engaged with my @hammerandhope.bsky.social essay on class, identity, black politics, labor and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in depth today at the @nytimes.com. I’m a bit blown away. Shared below as a thread:

I only read genuine leftist publications like @financialtimes.com and @hammerandhope.bsky.social

Please read our amazing interview with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social where I share brilliant, earth-shattering, once-in-a-generation comms insights like the following:

Great article on class, labor, and race in the US, and the way forward, by Michael McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

Another crucial issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social Currently reading: hammerandhope.org/article/gaza...

2 style points (thread) are excellent, important, and oh how I wish they would be adopted by every US media outlet. Please read the article as well, both for the info about Kenya and for a fascinating look at generation and memory.

The great Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

"As institutions have been taken over by the right, few places that we can count on as a sanctuary for democracies remain. We think unions are such a sanctuary and, alongside local organizations, can offer hope when we are under attack." @hammerandhope.bsky.social

"The state of the country is dismal. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues...But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge." the newest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out now hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Some thoughts from me on youth in revolt in Kenya for @hammerandhope.bsky.social. hammerandhope.org/article/keny...

Just a great long read from @hammerandhope.bsky.social about Bobby Carter, the genius behind the scenes at NPR Tiny Desk: hammerandhope.org/article/t-pa...

How can the left harness the power of creativity to break out of the political bubble? We talked to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social about DREAM's history, strategy, and using hatred for good. hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Great piece in a great publication. And congratulations to @keeanga.bsky.social, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and the entire team of @hammerandhope.bsky.social. Really admire what you've built in such a short time!

So much I want to read and so little time!

Aww yeah. That new fire just dropped!

No one ever asks nonfiction writers about style so I just wanted to share 2 style points, and to thank @hammerandhope.bsky.social for an editorial process that absolutely got it. Writing is always collaborative even with one name on the byline and editors are great. hammerandhope.org/article/kenya-

First new article of the year is in @hammerandhope.bsky.social, examining the solidarity work happening between Venezuelan migrants and long term Black residents at Concord Missionary Baptist Church in Woodlawn, Chicago. Hope is so hard to come by, and I wanted to share where I'm finding mine.

Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):

🚨The Seventh Issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues. The damage here is connected to damage elsewhere. But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

There is no "white genocide" in South Africa. Instead, poor and working class Black people are the ones being screwed over by both white supremacists and the Black elites in the African National Congress, contrary to the lies Trump and Musk peddle. hammerandhope.org/article/musk...

"Building an autonomous shack dwellers movement that integrates social, political, racial, and gender struggles has triggered what Mohapi calls a “politics of blood.” In addition to the assassinations & evictions, the movement has been impacted by unlawful police raids, detentions, & death threats."

"Despite extensive media coverage of the new law, the views of the rural working class, especially its Black majority, have received little attention. In February and April 2025, Hammer & Hope discussed this issue with...aco-founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo..." hammerandhope.org/article/musk...

Despite extensive media coverage of the resettlement of Afrikaners & South Africa's land reform law, the views of the rural working class, especially its Black majority, have received little attention. hammerandhope.org/article/musk...

since we're here - here's our interview with Taal at @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/momo...

"The takeover of university and college buildings gives us a glimpse of what we must do to transform these spaces into something other than infrastructures for more displacement, more capital accumulation, and more climate catastrophe." hammerandhope.org/article/stud...

"It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring the judges who demand due process." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

"One problem the climate movement has is that it’s led by a lot of people who are most motivated by climate, who have space in their lives so climate becomes a foreground problem...for a lot of people it’s in the background. The way they understand climate is very material: air, water, soil, food"

"The only threat to our safety I can recall was the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Living in an unincorporated area, we fell under the county’s jurisdiction, and every Black and brown teenager knew the sheriff don’t play." Robin D. G. Kelley on growing up in Altadena

"And the conversations became technical. The biggest, the most emotional debate in climate over the IRA was over permitting reform...How’s an everyday person getting tapped into that?" - Rhiana Gunn-Wright for @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

May Day reading. Follow and subscribe to this wonderful magazine.

“When we center U.S. imperialism as the primary contradiction, the destruction or the removal or the lessening of the U.S.’s ability to act imperialistically is a net positive for the colonized world.“ -Momodou Taal / @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/momo...

Ms Pointer is a national treasurer, honored to have held space with her. A committed activist, she was framed up alongside Martin Sostre, the prison labor organizer and human rights fighter. We need to amplify her call: exoneration while she’s still with us. Now!

"Between Fires in Los Angeles and Fascism in America" by Robin D.G. Kelley. "Altadena’s vision of regeneration is the antidote to the political conflagration that threatens us all." Brilliant and moving piece, rich with history. Read @hammerandhope.bsky.social! hammerandhope.org/article/los-...

"Hammer & Hope asked Black organizers, academics, and writers to consider the state of Black politics five years after the 2020 uprisings and with the re-election of Donald Trump." this roundtable forms part of today's new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/forums/georg...

The latest issue of Hammer & Hope is out! Check it out!!

“Feeding yourself is protection, but it’s also declaring sovereignty. And in a prison geography, declaring sovereignty is declaring war.” Nylah Iqbal Muhammad on the struggle for food sovereignty while incarcerated in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/food...