The sixth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. 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. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. hammerandhope.org

The Trump administration is repurposing antiracism into a grenade and lobbing it at the remnants of the welfare state. But regular people are providing the varied, creative, noncooperative opposition to the neo-fascist administrative takeover that we need. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

"The promise of Altadena explains why so many families held on to their property or passed it on to their children and grandchildren. They never intended to renovate and flip their houses for a profit in order to move to a better neighborhood." Robin D. G. Kelley hammerandhope.org/article/los-...

We 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. Their responses, some written before Trump’s inauguration, offer ideas for where we go from here. hammerandhope.org/forums/georg...

"I’ve always had Gaza and Palestine in my mind, and it’s always been a struggle I see as the last kind of stronghold of 500 years of European colonialism." hammerandhope.org/article/momo...

"The authentic storytelling of One of Them Days has become a rarity in today’s Hollywood landscape...the potency of bespoke Black stories is wearing off." hammerandhope.org/article/holl...

"We must not forget the sacrifices of the everyday people behind momentous demonstrations and movements." hammerandhope.org/article/gera...

"What began in 2022 as an ad hoc group of fewer than two dozen union members has grown into an org of hundreds of active members, a network of 15,000+ workers, and a developing infrastructure to organize and train leaders within every federal union in the country" hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

"As quintessentially American and idiosyncratic as Trump’s affect may appear, we have seen his likes before in Italy in the form of the late Silvio Berlusconi, another sexually incontinent predator and corporate, opportunist bigot with implausible hair" hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

"we need to share knowledge through creative inquiry, celebrate the experiences of people impacted by the issues we want to organize around, and speak in language they understand and relate to" hammerandhope.org/article/tik-...

"'I need to direct something that touches me and something that helps me understand black roots in Cuba and Cuban history.'" hammerandhope.org/article/cuba...

"'We have a movement very focused on aesthetics. Why? Because the Black population is totally massacred...So what is the resource that is within the reach of any Black person? It’s their own body! In this context, culture becomes essential.'" hammerandhope.org/article/beyo...

"'People asking about climate are like, What do we do? Actually, the answer is to be more human. We have to understand that the climate movement’s strength comes from being a moral and a human movement, not exclusively one that is about science and technology. '" hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

"'We don’t care about this act because it’s not in our favor. It might favor Ramaphosa, because he’s a businessman. Maybe he’s making another plan to expand his businesses.'" hammerandhope.org/article/musk...

from Forever in the glade and unendingly so the animal choir sings my grandfather to Forever. // Forever is the sound of a seed opening and so opens his body, my grandfather given back from hammerandhope.org/article/soun...

“The struggle for me,” Sbicca told me, “isn’t necessarily how do we achieve food sovereignty within the prison, but rather, how do we get rid of prisons so that we can have food sovereignty?” hammerandhope.org/article/food...