Hammer City
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Hammer City is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between July 05, 2021 and September 11, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Hammer City, a city with ‘Jobs, housing, food, healthcare, no cops, no rent, no Coronavirus, and no white people.’ The plan is to locate it in Colorado”; “Black Hammer’s … attempt to build a ‘Hammer City’ in Colorado”; “the scam/fiasco/insane-idea of Hammer City, a planned black nationalist city in the Rocky Mountains”. It most often appears alongside Prospera, Charter Cities Institute, Honduras.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: July 05, 2021
- Last seen: September 11, 2023
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- Prospera (4 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (3 shared issues)
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- Honduras (3 shared issues)
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- Mark Lutter (3 shared issues)
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- Prospera (3 shared issues)
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- ZEDE (3 shared issues)
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- BBC (2 shared issues)
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- Black Hammer (2 shared issues)
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- CCI (2 shared issues)
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- Ciudad Morazan (2 shared issues)
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- Colorado (2 shared issues)
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- Florida (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
What are they going to do with this money? One of their projects is Hammer City, a city with “Jobs, housing, food, healthcare, no cops, no rent, no Coronavirus, and no white people.” The plan is to locate it in Colorado and pay for it with crowdfunding (so far they have $90,000 of their $500,000 goal). Here are some pictures of how it could look:
Inline links: locate it in Colorado, crowdfunding
And here’s its proposed constitution, which is big on denunciations of things but short of details on how anything will actually be governed - the closest I can find is “the council and residents of Hammer City will establish a method for elections”.
_ In my last links roundup, I mentioned Black Hammer’s extremely dubious attempt to build a “Hammer City” in Colorado. Commenter “Wizzy” provides an update: in the most predictable thing that has ever happened, no property purchase was ever completed, the local sheriff told them they were trespassing, they left peacefully, and that was the end of that.
Inline links: told them they were trespassing
Shorts 1: I previously mentioned the scam/fiasco/insane-idea of Hammer City, a planned black nationalist city in the Rocky Mountains. I knew it had failed, but I didn’t know exactly how. Now Colorado Sun has investigated. The proximal reason it failed was because the black nationalists started moving their paramilitary onto the land before they had officially bought it, the owner called the cops, and the cops removed them. The Hammer City team has not given back any of the $112,000 which they raised from extremely credulous donors (without using NFTs, even!) 2: The Charter Cities Institute continues doing the long-term ground-level work necessary to create long-term well-grounded charter cities which will be much too boring and responsible for me to write silly profiles of. Some of their most recent work has been with the Africa Next 50 Cities Coalition, which “convenes and mobilizes key stakeholders who are dedicated to harnessing Africa’s rapid urbanization for human prosperity”. 3: Also, CCI founder Mark Lutter has left the organization to start a charter city of his own, no public details yet. CCI will be looking for a new executive director. 4: Speaking of Disney, they’ve been building on their model city expertise and magical storybook branding by creating planned communities around the US - Story Living By Disney, starting with Rancho Mirage California. Realistically it just looks like a very nice planned community, but this planned community comes with the option to have people make fun of you forever for living in a Disney community as an adult. Predictions for this month: Prospera is still substantially a functioning ZEDE in 2025: 70%
Chris D’Angelo (blog) on Hammer City (featured in the first Model City Monday post):
Inline links: blog, featured in the first Model City Monday post
A belated update from our friends in The Black Hammer Party bodes poorly for the prospects of Hammer City. Apparently their leaders were arrested and are facing charges for “kidnapping, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit a felony, and taking part in street gang activity,” and one of them for sexual assault.
Wildly, they also are under fire from the Justice Department for spreading Russian propaganda in exchange for payments from a Russian influencer, who has since been arrested by the FBI and was allegedly bankrolling Hammer City.